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Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB128_TIM NIEMEYER: History Echoes Bitcoin
"You know, the phrase Bitcoin fixes this, I really think it incentivizes this because what you're talking about is incentive, take these incentives away. What is there to do? Free societies lead to an increased quality of life for that very reason. Controlled societies lead to a decreased quality of life for that very reason. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Welcome back into the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast. This week, Josh and myself dance sit down with Tim Niemeyer. Tim is the co -host of the Lincoln Land Bitcoin Meetup in Springfield, Illinois. He has a background in technology. He was a U .S. Air Force avionics technician. His degree is in psychology and his day job is as an elementary school teacher. He also loves history and he just authored a book titled History Echoes Bitcoin. Those of us who have spent any time studying Bitcoin recognize that it's like a sprawling, gorgeous cave. One small entrance leads to larger and larger chambers, each one blowing your mind more than the one before. What you thought was just some bizarre and useless internet money morphs into a species altering idea that could foundationally improve human cooperation. During this chat and in his book, Tim does a marvelous job leading us into the Bitcoin cave and exploring how Bitcoin's design and incentives mirror a variety of powerful and recurring patterns throughout history. Bitcoin's a big idea and history illuminates why. Speaking of history, one thing it teaches us is that too much trust in other human beings can leave you exploited and broke. We recommend that you keep at least a portion of your net worth in an asset you can fully control. And when it comes to Bitcoin, that requires you embark on self custody. We both use the cold card and there's a reason why this device has stood the test of time and is used by a large percentage of hardcore Bitcoiners. It's because it fucking works. It's reliable, ultra secure, easy enough to use, but still gives you room to grow if your technical aptitude and appetite increases. You can use code BCB that's BCB for a delectable discount on the cold card or visit the cold card link down in the notes for discounts on a bunch of their products, including the block locks. Couple of other quick shout outs and codes if they're helpful for you. If you do plan to attend Bitcoin Amsterdam coming up quick here in early October or Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville next July, take 10 % off your tickets with code BCB. These ticks aren't getting any cheaper, ladies and gents, so jump on it if you do plan to attend. Also open enrollment is upon us. If you have healthcare needs or healthcare bills and want to save money while supporting people rather than large insurance companies, check out crowd health at join crowd health .com and use code blue. That's code blue for a big discount on a three month trial period. Lastly, do us a huge favor folks. Can you just sit back, relax and strap in for a cosmic and occasionally comical romp with Tim Niemeyer. Tim, welcome to the show, man. You wrote the book History Echoes Bitcoin and I'm reading this book and I love history and obviously we love Bitcoin. So it's a great book and it reminds me, and I think you should take this as a high compliment. I don't know if you guys, either of you guys have read this book called Lessons of History by Will Durant. It's a short, it's very similar to yours and it's like short essays on different topics. This book is phenomenal and the fact that your book reminded me of it is I think high praise and if anyone hasn't read either of these books, you should read them both. Thank you very much. Thank you for helping me by the way. Appreciate that. Yeah, we're delighted to have you. It's a fun, interesting, very important angle. This kind of book and this theme that we're going to explore today really peels back the magnitude of Bitcoin. Like there's probably a newcomer or two out there listening that's like, I thought this was just some stupid quickly passing fad of fake internet money. And this is the kind of book that's saying, no, this whole decentralized protocol thing we call Bitcoin, it's hitting on some of the deepest, most powerful and important threads that date back through the history of our species. I mean, even if Bitcoin doesn't work, I think we learn a lot from Bitcoin. Obviously the three of us think Bitcoin is going to work, but my takeaway from reading this book is just a healthy reminder when I finished it. Bitcoin is a really, really big fucking idea. Absolutely. I mean, from what you're saying, it makes me think of the phrase in Bitcoin zoom out. So many in Bitcoin, we tend to hyper focus on the little things on the details of the code or whatever, the 21 million, this that, but when you zoom out far enough, you see how all of these ideas, all of the properties that are expressed in Bitcoin, they've been with us kind of throughout history. We've been wanting to be free of asking for permission or being censored or whatever. When you zoom out far enough, you're forced for the trees kind of thing. You're able to see how this all kind of comes together. 100%. Before we go too deep, let's rewind for a second. Who the hell are you? What do you do? You kind of have a little bit of an interesting story. We've never had anyone on here that's teaching music to kindergartners, Josh. So, Tim, who are you? Introduce yourself. I'm Tim Niemeyer. I'm from central Illinois. I grew up around here. My father was a farmer. I did a few years on that and I was thinking either do I want to be a farmer my whole life or do I want to see the world? So I ended up going in the Air Force, spent a couple of years in Japan, traveled around a little bit. And then after tour of service, I decided to go to college, got into psychology, got into elementary educating.
Rollye James
Fresh "Lincoln" from Rollye James
"The 600 and 900 blocks of west armadage. The 1400 string block of of west Hubbard robberies and targeting the 1400 several block restaurants of North along Halsted. No Lincoln one was hurt. Avenue early this morning. morning CPD at says left coast thieves food and juice broke on through the 2800 a window and block rifled of a Lincoln. cash drawer just Cilantro before 2 and taco and grill on North Orchard and the Daily Grill on North Lincoln were also hit. Police As say a in getaway each instance car. four male suspects were The White involved House says and a used government a black shutdown Kia will affect sedan the lives of many Americans. that a shutdown would Here's a cut major nutrition example. assistance Secretary of for Agriculture nearly seven Tom million Vilsack mothers is and children warning of a little noise in this firstOTM. Thewhite House You know, said loans for farmers and housing loans for rural families before October could also first. be impacted. House Republicans, Congress needs however, to have pass remained legislation sharply divided to fund on the government measures to keep the government open. A look at the forecast from the WGN Chicago A much better chance of rain tomorrow. A 70 % chance of showers, maybe thunderstorms. How high is 72 on Understorm and Wednesday. a high Still of 70. a high chance of rain Right now 60 it's 70 % of both O chance 'Hare and of Midway. showers again, 67 maybe a along the lakefront. I'm Steve Roxton, WGN News. Next News when it happens next scheduled news at midnight. Do you need a voice video and messaging app with capabilities that grow need to add with new your business? users with their Vonage existing does phone that. numbers. You Get a can single even app add for local all your phone meetings numbers and from communications different markets. and the Integrate flexibility with leading to CRMs, set up a virtual assistant, and access up to 50 premium calling features globally. It's everything you need to handle want. your September business communications is hunger today action month and and tomorrow. I'm doing my part See what to else help Vonage the community can by do for volunteering you at at Vonage our local food industry. Donations, whether they're food, funds, or even just your time, help the millions of children facing hunger in Feeding America, the US. consider volunteering, When people are fed, donating, futures or are advocating nourished. so everyone This hunger can action be a part month, of hunger. the Boost movement to join end Join Mobile Feeding brings the you movement back at to school feedingamerica with the hottest .org unlimited slash plan hunger available. action month. A plan that saves you up to 50 percent compared to cricket and metro unlimited plans. Get a single line for $25 per month with
The Dan Bongino Show
Mark Levin: Democrats Project Their History Onto the Republican Party
"Because first of all everything they're talking about is a result of the Democrat Party or it's slavery the Republican Party's first elected president was an abolitionist his name was Abraham Lincoln the Republican Party never re -segregated the military or the bureaucracy that's what the Democrats did the Republican Party supported anti -lynching laws FDR refused to sign one in 1940 the Republican Party wasn't standing in the door houses of little schools the little black kids couldn't go to school with little white kids and I could go on and on and on so what do the Democrats do? They try to project their history onto the Republican Party listen how stupid this is they call this the southern strategy that Nixon and Reagan engaged in one of my favorite topics by the way Mark go ahead yeah crazy so all of a sudden racists, bigots, and segregationists Democrats in the south they decide to become Republicans why because the Republican Party now represents this attitude now the Republican Party has never represented that position so look at these people jump to the party that fought their ancestors in the Civil War and that have never ever supported this ideology it's a lie you know it's never happened so that like the premise of the book and I think it's very very important is the Democrat Party hates America since its founding that is the founding the Democrat Party it's never supported Americanism it has hated the declaration since Woodrow Wilson and before it hates the Constitution because there are barriers set up to limit who them to limit them and so while they wave around the Constitution and advance their radical left agenda they attacked the Bill of Rights whether it's the First Amendment the 2nd 4th 5th the 10th they attack the Electoral College they attack individualism and the protection of the individual they attack attack
Rollye James
Fresh update on "lincoln" discussed on Rollye James
"I can just tell you right now. I'm not gonna know this. It was Charlie Chaplin's first talking movie Yeah, I mean, I know the name Wow, of the movie and well, I knew I who fear you that might he only was because in it. this name Well, is so then I out won't there. know any trivia The name about of the that dictator particular was movie. Oh, Heinkel. But I love it. Yeah, exactly. So, and then all the horrors and of the concentration he later camps. regretted doing And when the movie he because did the of movie, he was not the persecution as Heinkel. aware. Okay. Now, you know. And so, Now yeah, I know. what a mess it was. All right. We'll But yes, talk adenoid next week. Hinkel. I hope so. Okay. Bye. Okay. All right. So yeah, adenoid. Yeah. Well, it could be wouldn't wouldn't totally surprise me. try. That's for sure. Oh, So now we have to I'm look for just original fine. Star I'll try Trek the trivia straggler and I can first. do that. So Mark, how's it going By tonight? all Oh, means. I'll Is the aggravating is the aggravating thing either burping or farting in Sirs, you guys have yeah. Oh, come up with suddenly I'm saying, you know, As I say, this isn't so after aggravating here, after after hearing all. all of the answers You know, I mean, comparatively. So, okay. Yeah, Okay. I did. And you know, we're very well there. Well, the other not that thing, either. of course, is stubbing their toe. I mean, let's face it. This only happens to 71 % of all people. I would think stubbing your toe has to happen to everybody has nothing. to be right No. through. Yeah, just Well, has no, to be everybody true. sneezes. I don't know how you to avoid that. No. Okay, here we go. Oh, yes, of course. How In the does Trelane episode, refer The to, Squire of I don't even know how to spell it. I don't even know how to pronounce this. Uhura. Uhura. Yeah. Uhura. 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Are you ready? yeah. He He says a newbie in prize. Yes, I did know that. Yes, I knew Oh, you. boy, I knew you that did. that that actor must have had fun playing that Yeah, part. He really gets to yeah, ham it up. the squire. Yeah. Oh, Ah, a newbie in prize. All right. Yes, a newbie in prize. There you have it. Yes. Good. And that, Good deal. by the way, Thanks. you can hear Appreciate the call. that And we'll talk quote to you next. on So YouTube. So There are several clips that of course of I not only reason I sure know that why, is I'm seeing but the there answers there in are. front of me. Otherwise, I'd So be that utterly 59 useless % at all of of the this. players knew that, So we have another bumper stumper coming up. It fits right within our theme, the one you're never going to guess, but you will guess the next bumper artist. I Monday do believe night trivia. I think So if it's it's Friday a gift. night, please don't That's call. right. But A gift if from it's heaven. Monday night, In the meantime, please trundle over it is Monday to your phone night right trivia, now. not Friday R -O -L -L -Y 888 -E. -5593 We have our -876 straggler. 71 % 8888 of Americans claim this aggravating R thing has happened to them. And by comparison, I guess it's not aggravating at all. But when it happens to you, and it is what is personal, the would that absolute be? it limit, would happen you know, something And so to you. about that's something, And you our might take no it fess personally, question. up you you say, But do. you can Oh, have your own not category, again. So pick a category as you know. and Yes. we'll And pick sky a So question is coming up right here on WGN radio. Thanks for watching. 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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 09-07-2023 14:00
"My sense is yes, and something else I see is that I know a lot of people in Gen Z who, if they were asked in a public opinion poll, do you think you approve the job Joe Biden is doing? They would say no from a left perspective, but when it comes to election day, they will go in and they will vote the Democratic Party from top to bottom. All right. Lincoln, great to have you. Don't be a stranger. Lincoln Mitchell, and of course, Bloomberg Politics contributor Rick Davis. And some big thoughts this hour. We've got a long way to go. So hour two of Sound On starts right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Now from our nation's capital, this is Bloomberg Sound On. We're talking about red and blue division within states. How busy is Donald Trump's legal team going to be? Is the economy stupid? Is that actually what will decide this race? Bloomberg Sound On. Politics, policy, and perspective from D .C.'s top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaylee Lines on Bloomberg Radio. Coach Tommy Tuberville digs in. Welcome to hour two of Sound On as the senator from Alabama rejects calls to drop his block on Pentagon promotions in protest of the military's abortion policy. We're going to be joined in just a moment by retired Marine Corps General Arnold Pinero who has very strong feelings about this as we bring Kaylee Lines back into the conversation for the first time in a couple of weeks here on the radio and on YouTube. Later on this hour, Mike Doerning, Bloomberg News deputy congressional editor, shut down politics and the future for...
Mark Levin
Fresh "Lincoln" from Mark Levin
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Mark Levin
The Hill: Pressley Fires Back on Ramaswamy’s Comments
"It is deeply offensive and it is dangerous, said. she It's not that long ago that we were besieged by images of white supremacists carrying tiki torches in Charlottesville. It's not that long ago that a white supremacist mob seized the Capitol, waving Confederate flags and erecting nooses on the west lawn of the Capitol. Ramaswamy doubled Donald Trump's remarks toward Presley on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, claiming that this assessment of her comments should spark an an open and honest discussion. He said we all agree the Klan was an awful organization that is a stain toxic in our national history, so given that, we can start from the point of agreement. Now that allows us to say, well, who actually sounds more like that organization today that people are for calling more racial discrimination on the basis of skin color, he said. In her response, she who black, was oh really, said she remains focused on pursuing racial justice in the US. And it goes on. Abraham Kindy, Director of the Center for Anti -Racist Research at Boston University, and a leading advocate for critical race theory, and I want to read from my book on page five, and he has written that quote, to say that there is widespread racial inequity caused by widespread racism, which makes the United States racist, isn't an opinion, isn't a partisan position, isn't a doctrine, isn't a left -wing construct, isn't anti -white, and isn't anti -American, it's a fact. And I write, CRT in fact scholars and activists dismiss all the societal efforts, economic programs, laws, court rulings, the even Civil War and the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant,
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "lincoln" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Side this woman was walking home with her boyfriend after a concert at the salt shed ways to be it was going extremely quickly westbound and they ended up going into the wrong lane and i knew exactly what was going to happen she she talked to abc seven that robbery was in the six hundred block of west armatage avenue after eleven pm three other armed robbery robberies involving a white SUV happened between eleven and eleven forty last night targets were people just walking down the sidewalk cpd have also issued an alert to students on the polls lincoln park campus after they were at least two attacks on students late saturday night and early sunday morning this concern to paul students spoke to abc seven definitely need like more of a police presence and i think we have to acknowledge the fact that crime is occurring within our city and south the side was not spared also at least seven armed robberies in the south deering neighborhood took place between four twenty a m and five thirty a m on saturday in uh... those cases police are looking for five suspects were seen in a silver twenty sixteen hunday and a black nineteen kia suv neighbors of midway airport worried about a mob of drag racers and the dozens of people that line the street to watch them on saturday night they say drag racers come to fiftieth and cicero many weekend nights this resident nearby in the garfield ridge neighborhood spoke to a b c seven who's a mob of people out here those cars the honking the noise s and and i called nine one one last year the chicago city council beefed up the law banning drag racing allowing the city to seize the driver's car if they're caught chicago police said they also received calls about the similar activity at intersections nearby a tentative deal between union writers and hollywood studios it needs to be approved by the wga board before the strike is officially over bcs cana whitworth is in los angeles with the latest los angeles mayor karen bass weighing in saying now we must focus on getting the entertainment industry and all of the businesses that rely on it back on their feet it is a weekend of marathon negotiations so right now there is this tentative deal for a three year agreement it still has to be approved by the guild while this whole thing isn't over just yet the marketing is suspended immediately this uh... does not impact the actor strike which is still going a defiant new jersey senator bob menendez democrat uh... today holding his first news conference following his criminal indictment it is alleged that menendez except accepted gifts including a luxury car golden hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash in exchange for using his influence to bolster u s assistance to egypt and to benefit three new jersey businessmen the senate democrat is facing calls to resign menendez citing actions he says he's made over the years calling out egypt on the human rights and other issues here's menendez throughout my time in congress i have remained steadfast on the side of civil society and human rights defenders in and everywhere else in the world his wife was also included in the indictment wls newstime twelve oh five southbound
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 141: Wartime Interlude
"Abraham Lincoln was a brilliant president, yet his life situation meant he rarely attended a physical schoolhouse. Self -study, a supportive stepmother, and a bit of help from mentor Graham set him on the path to success. You're probably not living in a log cabin on the frontier, but if your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or otherwise needs to study from home or on the road, empower your child to reach their full potential with K -12 powered schools. K -12 is an accredited, tuition -free, online public school for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum, one adaptable to individual learning styles. Students learn at their own pace, in their own place, from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to K12 .com slash HTDS today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12, dot com slash HTDS. K12 dot com slash HTDS.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 141: Wartime Interlude
"Abraham Lincoln was a brilliant president, yet his life situation meant he rarely attended a physical schoolhouse. Self -study, a supportive stepmother, and a bit of help from mentor Graham set him on the path to success. You're probably not living in a log cabin on the frontier, but if your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or otherwise needs to study from home or on the road, empower your child to reach their full potential with K -12 powered schools. K -12 is an accredited, tuition -free, online public school for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum, one adaptable to individual learning styles. Students learn at their own pace, in their own place, from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to K12 .com slash HTDS today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12, dot com slash HTDS. K12 dot com slash HTDS.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 08-27-2023 07:00
"Investment Advisors. Switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. On the Bloomberg Terminal. I'm Tim Stenebeck. Did you buy that 30 million dollar car? I did not. Alright, just checking. I'm Carol Masler. Have a good and safe weekend everyone. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Three U .S. Marines have been killed in a crash during a training exercise in northern Australia. Defense officials say 23 Marines were on board the Osprey aircraft when it happened early today on Melville Island north of Darwin. Three died in the crash. Five others were taken to Royal Darwin Hospital in serious condition. A statement from the Marines says recovery efforts are ongoing. The cause of the crash is under investigation. The gunman who killed three black people at a store in Jacksonville, Florida was seen at a historically black university just minutes before the shooting. Jim Forbes has more. Authorities say the gunman who opened fire at a Dollar General store early Saturday afternoon had posted a racist manifesto online and was targeting black people. Officials at Edward Waters University say the gunman was seen on campus just before the shooting and was turned away after refusing to identify himself. I'm Jim Forbes. Former President Donald Trump's campaign says it's raised $7 million since his mugshot was released. A campaign official saying Saturday they've made nearly $20 million since Trump was indicted and arraigned in Washington. They say $7 million of that was raised in the three days after Trump was processed in an Atlanta jail and his mugshot taken. Thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 08-26-2023 18:00
"Throughout the state, and it's considered to be part of the state's constitutional fabric and framework. And it's fascinating because when you talk with people, they will say that it's sort of like a force of nature. There's not really anything you can do to get rid of it. And so it's just working through it as best as you can to get more judges on the bench. Thanks, Alex. That's Alex Ebert, Bloomberg Law's senior correspondent. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Thousands are taking part in a weekend rally at the Lincoln Memorial to mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic march on Washington. Martin Luther King III and the Reverend Al Sharpton are among the keynote speakers taking part in the march and rally. On Monday, President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with civil rights leaders and members of the King family at the White House, and Biden will deliver remarks to commemorate the anniversary. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ordered flags lowered to halfstaff today at the U .S. Capitol. Julie Ryan reports. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, McCarthy said he directed the move to honor the 13 brave American heroes who died tragically during the U .S. withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago. Republicans have strongly criticized President Biden's handling of the sudden U .S. exit as the Taliban seized control of the country in 2021. I'm Julie Ryan. Just one of former President Donald Trump's 18 co -defendants in the Georgia election interference case is being jailed. That story from Jim Forbes. Harrison Floyd was denied bond Friday after being considered a flight risk. Floyd is charged with racketeering, conspiracy and influencing a witness. He turned himself in Thursday before.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 08-26-2023 16:00
"With experienced senior hires, you know, as we, you know, if there's turnover, we don't have somebody on a bench ready to go to move into a bigger seat as well. Or if we're trying to build that new capabilities like we've done in the past, really impressive. Here's the full conversation on the latest edition of the Masters in Business podcast. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Plus listen anytime on the Bloomberg Business App and bloomberg .com broadcasting 24 hours a day at bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Thousands are gathered on the National Mall in Washington DC to mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. historic march on the Capitol Martin Luther King the third and the Reverend Al Sharpton are among the speakers taking part in today's rally at the Lincoln Memorial. On Monday, President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with civil rights leaders and members of the king family at the White House. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is speaking out after a shooting that injured seven people this morning during a parade treasured community event has been disrupted by acts of violence from those who had nothing to do with the event. And there's no absolutely no excuse. The shooting happened around 745am during the juver parade, which is part of the city's Caribbean American Carnival. Police say the victims were taken to local hospitals with non life threatening injuries and two people are under arrest. Officials say the rest of today's events will go on as scheduled for the 50th anniversary of the celebration. A shooting at a high school football game in Choctaw, Oklahoma has left one person dead and three others injured. Choctaw police chief Kelly Marshall says it happened during the third quarter of a game and a large crowd witnessed what happened. We have a huge amount of people to talk to anybody.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 08-26-2023 15:00
"Rigs, yes. But we can always learn and put them on safety rails. That's Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking with Bloomberg's Emily Chang in the latest episode of The Circuit. Watch the show every Thursday at 10 p .m. on Bloomberg Television and download the podcast wherever you download. That does it for this episode of Bloomberg Best. I'm Ed Baxter. Stay with us. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Legendary The Price is Right game show host Bob Barker is dead at age 99. The longtime television host and animal rights activist passed away this morning at his home in Los Angeles. He ended each episode of The Price is Right with what became his most famous catchphrase. Help control the pet population. Have your pets fed or neutered. Goodbye everybody. Barker received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for daytime television in 1999. Civil rights leaders are marking the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic march on Washington. Martin Luther King III called it a continuation of his father's fight for civil rights and not just a commemoration of the event. We're coming together to say we must create the climate for America to move forward in a forward direction, not a backward direction. Organizers say an estimated 75 ,000 people are taking part in today's rally at the Lincoln Memorial. On Monday, President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with civil rights leaders and members of the King family at the White House. Police in Boston say at least seven people were shot this morning during a parade, which is part of the city's Caribbean Carnival. Authorities say the victims were taken to local hospitals with non -life -threatening injuries.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Sparks Flew At The First Republican Debate In Milwaukee
"Cable news, noisy, boring, out of touch. That's why Salem News Channel is different. We keep you in the know. Streaming 24 -7 for free. Home to the greatest collection of conservative voices like Dennis Prager, Jay Sekulow, Mike Gallagher, and more. Salem News Channel is unfiltered and unapologetic. Watch anytime on any screen at snc .tv and local now, channel 525. This is your source for breaking news and what to make of it all. This is the Mike Gallagher Show. The destiny and fate of an individual has been tied directly to the fate of the nation. General Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and now Donald Trump. I just felt it would be more appropriate not to do the debate. I'm going to have all these people screaming at me, shouting questions at me, and I'm saying, why am I doing it? We saw the death of Ron DeSantis' campaign tonight. Now, from the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BIG CRYPTO NEWS! COINBASE CIRCLE USDC, SEC GARY GENSLER GEMINI RIPPLE XRP & CRYPTO REGULATIONS
"Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got some very big news today between Coinbase and Circle. So Coinbase acquires a stake in stable coin operator Circle and USDC adds six new blockchains. The center consortium jointly managed by Circle and Coinbase is being shut down and Circle is bringing issuance and governance of the USD stable coin in -house. So this is a big move, but it actually doesn't surprise me because we've seen Coinbase embrace USDC. They offer some APY, staking, yield, or whatever you want to call it, interest on USDC. I personally do that through Coinbase, so I'm earning some really great returns there. So big partnership, and I think this is a move to combat Tether. I think Circle being the largest stable coin in the United States, it's regulated. They use US treasuries as part of their reserves and Coinbase being the largest crypto exchange in the US that's regulated in public. It makes sense for them to come together and really make a push here for a global dominance, so to speak. And we got a lot of competition playing out in market. That's great, right? And it's also a move, I think, to combat PayPal's new stable coin, because as you can imagine, PayPal has huge branding, huge reach outside of crypto, and they have millions of customers. So Circle, I think, needed to make this move to go up against Tether and PayPal. And here's what the folks at Coinbase tweeted out. Today, Coinbase and Circle announced a few updates to USDC. Stable coins will be a key component of a new financial or a new updated financial system, and we look forward to helping unlock additional utilities and growing the USDC ecosystem. Expanding networks, USDC will be launching on six new blockchains for native support. Coinbase has taken an equity stake in Circle to continue our alignment and investment in long -term success of stable coins and specifically USDC. We have streamlined operations in governance with Circle having full responsibility and accountability for USDC as an issuer. For Coinbase customers, there will be no changes to the USDC on Coinbase, and Coinbase will continue to support USDC across all platforms with all the same benefits you enjoyed today, including gas -free transfers and rewards. So big update, my friends, and once again, this is a strategic move by Circle to combat Tether, which is the largest stable coin in the world, and PayPal's new stable coin. And as you can imagine, there's other players that are going to be entering the stable coin wars, and we're going to see possibly Amazon, possibly Google, we'll see. It would really make sense for Amazon to have a stable coin given the amount of customers they have. They have an e -commerce platforms where people transact. They have a prime membership subscription, and they could easily create something called a prime coin that's a stable coin base, and boy, would that go a far way. That will give a lot of these stable coins a run for their money, but I love it. This is what we want to see, competition in the market, and that's usually really good for users and customers, so great big strategic move here by the folks at Circle and Coinbase. Now quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold. Uphold is a great crypto exchange that I've used since 2018. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on Uphold. If you'd like to learn more about this platform, please visit the link in the description. Well, folks, Gemini is looking to dismiss the SEC lawsuit claims accusations are flawed. The exchanges lawyers argued that the SEC hasn't provided key details about alleged securities such as sale date or parties involved making its case a week against Gemini. Of course, what can we expect from scumbag regulator Gary Gensler? They continue their same old nonsense. They're not giving any specifics. They're not giving any clarity. It's just a bunch of ambiguity. It's a bunch of gotcha type of moves, right? They'll ask you to come in. Oh, come on in. Don't worry about anything. They'll grab a bunch of information about you, and they don't meet with you in good faith, and then they'll stab you in the back, right? Even Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong mentioned about this. He tweeted out the SEC has been acting shady about a year and a half ago, and I think it's going to kill these crypto startups so that his Wall Street banking buddies can come in and take over the market. We see many of them are filing for Bitcoin spot ETFs. They're launching their own crypto exchange, right? Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Citadel launched their own crypto exchange called EDX Markets. So it's pretty clear what's happening. Attorney John Deaton weighed in on this, and it's pretty long his thoughts, but it's really good. He said SEC lawyers like Jorge Tenreiro and SEC enforcement director have learned nothing from the Ripple case. Their arrogance is mind blowing. In the Gemini reply, Cameron and Tyler state the fact that the SEC cannot decide what is the security at issue only underscores the weakness of its position. It also violates fundamental fairness and the requirement of fair notice. In other words, the SEC makes up new arguments disregarding any previous argument in made early in the case that my friends sums up the SEC and its approach to litigating crypto assets. As we learned in the Ripple case, the SEC is 100 % transactional in its arguments, always shifting its theory or position. And he goes on to highlight how, you know, they are hypocrites on regarding the bill him in speech. Remember, they tried to have it both ways. And Judge Sarah Nemper and a judge said this about them, that they lack faithful allegiance to the law. It's pathetic what the SEC has become. They're rotten at their core, and it needs to be revamped, disbanded, whatever it is. Congressman Warren Davidson had a good idea by getting rid of the chairman's seat, having a board and have an executive director instead. And, you know, the it will be much better that way because you have these corrupt bureaucrats like Gary Gensler coming in and you have political agendas when they're not supposed to. It's pretty insane what's happening. So here's the thing, though, my friends, the courts are the balance of power here. What we're seeing, as you know, as we saw in the RIPPLE lawsuit, the judges are not putting up with the bullshit from the SEC because they don't have time for that. They follow the law. And, you know, they are, for the most part, siding with the crypto companies. We saw even in the Coinbase lawsuit, the judge was also throwing out comments like, what is a security and what is not? You haven't provided any guidance. You're just saying, hey, they sell unregistered securities, give an example. But of course, they won't do that. And of course, with the Ethereum situation, they can't even mention Ethereum because Bill Hinman, we know he was bribed essentially to give Ethereum a free pass. And I hope he sees the hands of justice coming after him. But, you know, we'll see what happens. And Jay Clayton as well. Now, Ron Hemmen of the Blockchain Association, who's a frequent guest on the podcast, he gave an update here regarding crypto regulation and what we can expect. So he said this week in Congress and crypto, two weeks until Congress is back in D .C. And they have a large number of issues to tackle when they return, including crypto. Earlier this month, Representative Mike Flood hosted his fintech flyover with experts and policymakers. Here's what we learned. The first ever fintech flyover was in Lincoln, Nebraska, and was a very substantive crypto policy summit. A full day of panels from experts such as Tiong Wei, if I'm saying that right. She's partner and head of regulatory policy at Bain Capital Crypto. Dan Nunez of Crypto .com. Jared Favel of Circle.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Kevin McCullough
"Folks, welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. Now, here's your line jumping host, Eric Mataxas. Folks, welcome to Hour Two. We've got Kevin McCullough coming up. You know him as Vodstradamus. But we continue our conversation with the great Roger Stone. Roger, you are a veteran of 13 national presidential campaigns over the years. It's amazing to me. You've seen it all. But I know you've never seen anything like this, which leads me to to ask you. Well, I'll first say I believe we're in an existential crisis for the soul of this nation, and this nation is the bellwether nation on planet Earth. We have held the torch of liberty high. It's been challenged a number of times. We are in one of those moments where if we do not prevail in restoring this nation, I think it's over, generally speaking. It's the end times and it's here comes the antichrist. So I'm not kidding. There are a lot of Christians who already think we're already there. Why bother fighting? I think that's despicable. But when I see people so -called Christians like Mike Pence furthering these narratives about January 6th, it is it's deeply sickening to me that people like Mike Pence or Bill Barr would go along with this establishment narrative that a bunch of Trump supporters wanted to overthrow the government. It is so preposterous, but you have high level figures going along with it. Do you think the truth will come out about January six? So much of it already has, but it hasn't been covered on Fox News. Only Tucker has had the guts. What do you think? No, in fact, as I understand it, Fox News specifically censored those very meaningful comments by the Capitol Hill police chief, in which he himself says the whole thing was a setup. To me, that's news and newsworthy. But I think it's important people understand that there is a an establishment media cabal. First of all, it's bipartisan. It's the two party duopoly, the elites of both parties, whose only interest is in money, power and getting reelected. And they are in bed with the major mainstream media. The jackals, I call them. And they continually push a completely fraudulent narrative about virtually everything, whether it's vaccinations, whether it's January 6th, whether it's the result of the 2020 election. Once they decide on a narrative, regardless of how absurd that narrative may be, you really have to search to find the truth. That's why programs like this one are so extraordinarily important. Look, Eric, I read your book, Letter to the American Church. It's a terrific book. It inspired me. I think you're absolutely right. This is the last beacon of freedom. This is the last of hope for freedom in the world. And there are globalists, those who favor one world government who would like to move us to the new world order, who would like to snuff it out. Now, when you say that, like I do, like you do, like it's like, say, my friend General Michael Flynn does. Oh, you're a bigot. You're a racist. You're a white supremacist. You're a hater. No, they are the haters. They are the haters. It is. It's the oldest trick in the book. It comes out right out of Alinsky's rules for radicals. Always accuse your opponent of that, which you yourself are actually doing. Oh, no, this is. And again, I always think of young people, they they have no context for this. But if you've been around for a little while, you realize we have never seen anything like this. We when when people compare things, for example, the Watergate, what a joke. Watergate is a kid, you know, sticking gum under the desk compared to a kid bringing a gun to school and shooting his classmate in the face. What we're dealing with right now is is so beyond Watergate, so beyond anything we have ever seen in this country. And I think part of the problem, Roger, is that it's tough for people to process. People can't turn that corner and realize that we're in a moment that is is unprecedented. We want to all believe that we can just go back to the way it was a couple of years ago somehow to being ignorant and everything's fine. And, you know, we it takes something and I and I think what you said, I mean, with the deep state overplaying its hand, with the forces of evil, the globalists overplaying their hands so dramatically because Donald Trump so unhinges them that more and more people are thinking, wait a minute. What what did he say? What did she say? Something is it's a new day, basically. And so I think we're in a battle to wake up those who may be awakened. And of course, my letter to the American church book, to my mind, it ought to be the church should be out in front of this. And there have been tremendous numbers of utterly gutless. Cowardly leaders in the church who don't who don't want to talk about this stuff, who want to somehow be above the fray, as though you could be above the fray if slavery was on the dock. And you can say, well, I can't mention that you should vote for Lincoln. I don't want to take a position on slavery. That's kind of where we are. It doesn't make any sense. No, I think it's exactly true. Those who who launched the most vicious attacks on me and General Flynn and Eric Trump and others who have taken part in the reawaken America tour events around the country come from Protestant ministers who won't criticize the trans agenda, who don't want to get involved in politics. They're the ones who unleash the most vicious personal attacks on us. No, we are not Christian nationalists. We're Christians. We believe in Jesus Christ. We're nationalists. We love our country and believe it is based on Christian principles, says in our money in God we trust. No, they still haven't been able to get that off there, have they? Although God knows they're certainly going to try.
The Eric Metaxas Show
America Is No Accident With Michael Medved
"To God, I think, for anyone to seriously read American history, and I majored in American history at the time. It's a purposeful universe. America is a purposeful country, and not as a reward for our goodness, but because we have been chosen as an instrument. It's what Abraham Lincoln says, I write in the book about Lincoln speaking to the state legislature in Trenton, New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia, that Lincoln described America as the almost chosen people. And not chosen for special privilege, but chosen for special responsibility. That was one of my questions. You know, what does it mean to be chosen when we talk about Israel being chosen? It doesn't mean you win a prize. It means you've been given a burden, a tremendous responsibility. And it seems inescapable when one reads your book that America has been chosen, like it or not. I've written about this myself in a couple of books, but it comes with tremendous responsibility. But I wrote a book called If You Can Keep It where I mention a few of these miraculous things, which make it seem unavoidable that America is, you know, chosen by God for his purposes in history. But when I read your book, I just couldn't believe how many other stories, extraordinary stories, you had discovered.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Former V.P. Mike Pence on Putin's threat to Poland and Biden's interference in Israeli politics
"Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale, hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, to listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at hughforhillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt, joined by former Vice President Mike Pence. Mr. Vice President, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. Hey, good to be with you, Hugh. Thanks for having me on. Well, I want everyone to go to mikepence2024 .com if they want to support you, if they want to learn about the campaign. We'll come back to the campaign in a second. But I'm not mistaken, Mr. Vice President, you and the former president are the only two people running for office who have ever received the daily brief, who understand, had all the clearances you could. So I want to ask you three national security questions this morning, beginning with the threat that Vladimir Putin made in the company of Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, that any attack on Belarus would be an attack on Russia. And then the Belarusian leader made the claim that the Wagner people in Belarus are wanting to go to Warsaw. What would be the obligation of the United States in the event that Wagner, Belarus, or Russian troops attacked Poland? Well, there's no question what the obligation would be under Article 5 of the NATO treaty. And that would be required to support Poland, we'd be required to be involved militarily. It's one of the reasons why I've said many times, I mean, Joe Biden has done a terrible job explaining what our interest is in Ukraine. He keeps giving these gauzy speeches about democracy. And for all the world, it sounds like another campaign speech and our interest there. And the reason why we should continue on an increasing basis to give the Ukrainian military what they need to repel the Russian invasion is because we never want to see the day that the Russian military, whether it's a Wagner group in Belarus or otherwise, crosses the border of a NATO country where our troops would be required to fight. I mean, that's how you get peace through strength, is by living out the Reagan doctrine, which always said, if you're willing to fight the communists on your grounds with your soldiers, we'll give you what you need to fight them there. So we don't have to fight them. And yet there are too many voices in our party that are sounding the retreat. They're willing to let Putin keep the land grab that he's made in Eastern Ukraine, willing to make promises. I heard my former running mate has announced over the weekend that he's willing to promise that Ukraine will never be in NATO. Look, in my opinion, the only thing Putin will understand is strength and providing those courageous fighters in Ukraine what they need to to repel the Russian invasion is the fastest way to security and preventing the day that American forces are actually required to go into battle in Europe again. What do you think Lukashenko and Putin are doing here? The Telegraph calls it a setup for a false flag operation or is it just mind games? Yeah, look, I would hardly ever counsel Hugh Hewitt on foreign policy, but you and I both know the only thing you can know for sure about anything coming out of Russia is you don't know for sure. Okay, well said. Nothing is as it seems. When you find out that after Ferguson does this supposed coup against Putin, now we found out in the last week that they apparently met a couple days later and had a conversation and the whole thing could have just been a put -up job for Putin to flush out his enemies in his own government. I wouldn't have put it past him. I do like what was once said by another presidential candidate. He said he looked into Putin's eyes and he didn't see his soul. He saw KGB. That's who you're dealing with and so nothing is as it seems in the acolyte state of Belarus that I just wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him and that's why we just need to stay strong in this effort and continue to demand that the Biden administration stop dragging their feet on providing arms in Ukraine, which they've been doing for the last year and a half. Give those people what they need. They can win this war and secure the peace of Europe and the security of our country. Now Vivek Ramaswamy, who you'll be sharing a stage with on Friday at the Iowa GOP Lincoln and with all the other candidates are going to have their speeches in Iowa, Vivek was throwing shade on NATO this weekend on Fox News Sunday. Meanwhile, the US and 13 allies were holding a record -setting military exercise in Australia. It seems to me that this might be a time for us to expand our alliances, Mr. Vice President, not sever them. Well, we'll be strengthening our alliances. The last thing that we ought to do is try and secure peace in Ukraine by rewarding Vladimir Putin's naked and brutal invasion into that country by giving him the land and giving him promises never to have Ukraine be a part of NATO. Look, and this has everything to do with the wider world, Hugh. I mean, there's no question in my mind that if we end up capitulating to Putin's aggression, that will only embolden President Xi in his military ambitions in the Asia Pacific. And I just think this is one of those moments where we learned hard lessons in the first half of the 20th century where America, we thought we could hang back. We thought we could hang back within our borders and watch as the world became more unstable and unfurled. And we learned hard lessons than having to come into the fight, both in World War I and especially in World War II. And we won those fights for freedom, but we've secured the peace now for three quarters of because a century we've been willing to stand strong. We've been willing to be the arsenal of democracy. And if I'm president of the United States, I promise you we're going to live out that commitment of being leaders of the free world. And let me also say, I had a sporting debate on stage about a week or so with a former Fox News host that got some play on the Internet. I just don't think we have to choose between solving problems here at home, which is the economy that's failing, the border crisis, the crisis in energy, the crime wave in our cities. I don't think we have to choose between solving problems here at home and being the leader of the free world. We can do both. And anybody who says we can't has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth. Now, Mr. Vice President, third, I'm playing rapid fire national security, but a lot happened this weekend. Right now they are voting in the Israeli Knesset on the reform of the Israeli Supreme Court. Got nothing to do with America. It's an internal Israeli domestic issue. Yesterday, President Biden told Israel to stop, slow down and not do that. And Tom Friedman, one of the most extraordinary columns ever in The New York Times, telling the president to address the dear President Biden that the October 1973 intervention by Richard Nixon to save Israel is what he's facing right now. He has to save Israel by getting by involved speaking the truth. What do you make of the intervention of an American president into the internal domestic politics and policy and judiciary of an ally? Look, I said many times and I was at Christians United for Israel a week ago, Hugh, and I was honored to receive some recognition there, Defender of Israel Award. I was humbled by that. Look, I was a part of the most pro -Israel administration in American history, I always would say. And I will tell you, if I'm president of the United States, if the world knows nothing else, the world will know this. America stands with Israel. And this preoccupation of Democrats, which literally goes back decades of trying to micromanage what's happening in the domestic politics in Israel, is wrongheaded. And it undermines a clear message to one of the most dangerous parts of the world of our commitment to our most cherished ally. I reject it categorically. I'm a great admirer of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He's absolutely determined to see this this court reform through. And I think we ought to let Israel be Israel, let them sort these things out domestically. And our position should just be to always give them what they need to defend themselves, by themselves, and to make it clear in the region, in the world, that America stands with Israel. Period paragraph.
Mark Levin
Today, Democrats Do Not Believe in Frederick Douglass or MLK Jr.
"Invalidate a mandating law racial segregation on train cars. He said our Constitution's colorblind. Excuse me. The law regards man as man. It takes no account of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. This brief for the plaintiffs and landmark Brown versus Board of Education Thurgood Marshall argued distinctions based upon race or color alone are the epitome of arbitrariness and capriciousness constitutionally impermissive under our system of government. He said three score and seven years after came to the most resounding statement of all when the Reverend Martin Luther King under Jr. the shadow stood of Abraham Lincoln and immortalized the moral vision of the civil rights movement by declaring I have a dream that my four little children one day live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their not be judged excuse me where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. The Democrat Party believes in none of this. Today, civil rights Marxism again as I call it preaches and demands the opposite. For example, Kennedy has declared the only remedy to racist discrimination is anti racist discrimination. They're going after Asians. Did Asians own slaves in America in the 1840s and 50s? I don't believe so. How ridiculous. The only remedy to present discrimination, he says, is future discrimination. These are the Marxists. That's the demand for equity. The movement has come up with a new term colorblindness. for condemning You want to hear this one? Colorblind racism. Did you know that's a new phrase? Now, when you get the Party Democrat hates
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Ben Domenech Comments on Mitch McConnell's Contributions to SCOTUS
"Want to run down some individual names and organizations I want to start with the key The key determinant of this decision yesterday is a fellow from Kentucky by the name of Mitch McConnell And I know that there's some who love to hate on on Cocaine Mitch not me we would not be here today We would not be back to a pre -row and pre Bakke world of individual liberty without the senior senator and the Republican leader all praised a Mitch McConnell As Lincoln said of Jefferson because he made it happen agree or disagree No, I agree with that, but I also think that you know Mitch Mitch is part of this. He's a key part of this absolutely But I also think that just the the effort that was used From the Federalist Society from the just a Judicial Crisis Network from so many other individuals as you know That that spanned so much time and and involved so many different people who were brave enough to go through the gauntlet of these judicial nominations Processes, you know Mitch Mitch needed a team to be able to call up. Let's put it that way I'm just saying most recently had he not held open the vacancy for Scalia none of this would have happened
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Julio Rosas Exposes Bad Actors at Trump Arraignment in Miami
"There's a lot of, you know, terrific journalists on the ground, like senior writer for town hall, Julia Rosas, who joined us from Miami to share what the scene was like outside the Miami federal courthouse where president Trump was arraigned. Julio, you've done such a great job in your reporting over the years of sort of infiltrating some of these bad faith actors. In fact, a week or two ago outside Disney world in Orlando, there were a group of people that were carrying Nazi swastikas and, uh, supposedly being as DeSantis supporters. But you know, that's something that you've had your eye on in terms of watching for people who pretend to be representing one side or the other, but ultimately Julio, we find out they're, they're not, they're not, you know, these are, these are bad actors. These are people almost play acting a role to try to smear the side that they oppose. Yeah. I mean, there's history to that, right? We have a whole, uh, Charlottesville, Lincoln project, potentially campaigns during the governor election up in Virginia. Uh, so it's, it's interesting, right? Because there is a reason why they like to hide their faces. And it's either because they truly are Nazis and they want to make sure they don't get found out, uh, in their, in their regular life, or they are people who aren't and are just doing that to make the other side look bad. So, I mean, politics is a very dirty game, especially when it comes to, uh, politicians that are as polarizing as someone like, uh, governor Ron DeSantis and obviously here with, uh, former president Donald Trump. So we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens if any arrests were made and see if there's any identity identity that goes along with it. So that's why, uh, there is concern. I mean, I, it's, it's not, it's not unheard of for things to get crazy,
Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"lincoln" Discussed on Lincoln Park Church of Christ Sermons
"Been washed. You've been sanctified. You've been justified in the name of meaning. In the authority of who jesus christ in the spirit of god brethren verse eleven. Says you were. That means change. As because of changed hasn't happened. They'd still be drunkards of adulterers former. Gators swindlers those who have been those who are in. Christ have been what they've been washed. Meaning baptism they've been sanctified meaning. What set apart from the world. God has said. I have a new standard in the bible. Study this morning if you were here. You heard in luke chapter six. Where jesus but i say to you when jesus says but i say to you. He's getting ready to lay down the law. You might wanna listen. He says but i say to you and then i think about what's happening here. They were washed baptism. They were sanctified set apart by the word of god and changed lives and they were justified by the blood of christ meaning made right in the sight of god. If you are truly in christ and living faithfully for the will of god there change must be evidenced in your life. Otherwise you know who you're like. You're like matthew chapter seven. You're like those christians who have gone before us who have already died and christians in the future who are going to die and they're going to go to the lord and the lord say hey. Did we do all these wonderful things. We perform all these. We glorify your name perform miracles. And he's going to say. I don't even know who you are. You who practice lawlessness. Those are people who thought they were in christ but they weren't living for christ they were still living for themselves. Jesus wasn't the lord of their lives. They were still the lord of their lives and so we look at the scriptures to follow up on that. I look at the next passage. I corinthians six nineteen and twenty. Do you not know that. Your body is the temple of the holy spirit. The temple of the holy spirit who is in you whom you have from god and that you are not your own master server relationship pay attention in verse twenty four you have been bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body. We know that the paul also said his scripture that now one of us lives for himself now one of his dies for himself so whether we live or whether we die we die for. We live for the lord. What does that mean. We're no longer live for ourselves and our own desires. We live for the kingdom of god when a person gives us life to craze has no longer list for his own flesh desires for his own thought processes but brethren but we have to live for the glory of god in the furtherance of his kingdom. We must understand that. The gospel matters because we live and ascend filled world. Amen and god doesn't desire that any of his creation pairs. We must understand that. The gospel matters everywhere to all people. I know because we read martin matthew twenty eight we look at mark sixteen and it says go into what all the old again and do what preached the gospel. How can you preach the gospel if you don't know what the gospel in why it matters and preach the gospel. He who has believed has been baptized. They're not mutually exclusive. They're one in the same. You have to believe and be baptized member. I talked about biblical faith. All the time it's a threefold process believe trost obedience you can't have biblical faith with all three working in harmony together so you look at the scriptures here this morning and we know that god wants the gospel to go out to all the world. How do i know that. Because jesus was talking to nicodemus john chapter three and you look at the passage of scripture behind me that so many people know that. So many people quote it's on signs at sporting events. All over the place and john three sixteen seven jesus in the conversation with nicodemus about baptism about being born again says this. For god's love the world nicodemus. He gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shown that perish but have eternal life. Why for god did not send his son in the world to judge the world. But god sent his son in the world that they may have salvation that they may be saved through him rather than through the preaching in the teaching of the gospel. Lives are transformed. The power unto salvation is in no other name in the power unto salvation resides in the gospel of jesus christ his death his burial his resurrection. So we look at the scripture this morning and we know that we must hear the message. We know that we have to believe the message. We know we must confess. Jesus repented of sin be baptized. But we're most people forget after that point it's like marriage and i do. It's the beginning of the marriage. That's when the real work begins. We gotta learn how to love one another. We gotta learn how to deal with each other. Idiosyncrasies we got to learn how to deal with all the little things that that we have to learn because we shouldn't have been living together before answer. Hopefully now that. We're in christ and we're married now. I have to learn how to love. You have to learn how to live with you. I have to learn how to put up with you right. There's a lot of a lot of layers and when you get married in everything's going to be happy happy happy. Go lucky right. And there's a lot of smile and smirking by the married couples in here this morning. Because you know it's a challenge in the beginning so what's the point as a christian when you first become a christian got adds to the kingdom after your baptism you must learn to them live and love faithfully consistently as a christian. That's why i said be careful how you live your life may the only bible somebody ever reads trusting in god brothers and sisters. It changes all for the better. Because all of the laws and all of the provision that god had put in place is for our benefit to bring us back into relationship with a loving god and father and so when we look at this. I asked the question here this morning knowing these things this morning. If you're off a child of god do you wanna put on christ in baptism. And if you don't like what's holding you up. Did you know that your life has an expiration date knows that expiration date is not us. Listen to what it says here. When i asked a question you have put on christ and baptism. Listen to what paul said to the people of carinthia. In second corinthians chapter six verse to he said the acceptable time. I listened to you on the day of salvation. I helped you but notice what he says. But now is the acceptable time. Now is the day of salvation. So what is the point. Brothers sisters as i close this lesson now. The gospel matters it matters because it is the story of the death. Burial resurrection of jesus. Christ it matters. Because it is the power of god unto salvation. It matters because it addresses. Everyone's relationship with god were all centers in need of a savior. We've all fallen short of the glory of god in that. We are called to be saved through jesus through his sacrifice. That's why it is the power of guidance ovation. The gospel matters. Because if there's not a single place and not a single person on this planet who doesn't need the gospel matters because it changes people.
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"Our country and learn about all the rising percentages of depression, suicide, sin, crime, volatility in society, towards people who think differently than you, it becomes very clear, very quickly what the world needs and his name is Jesus. But it begins and ends. Not only in the word of God, but it begins and ends with you. Every single one of us hear this morning have a role to play. Every single one of us in this building this morning are integral to the furtherance of the congregation here at Lincoln park, but more than that, the universal kingdom of God. We all have to do our parts. And it starts with stepping out in faith. By sharing the word of God and by living out your faith and doing some of the things that I set forth as an example here this morning. Brothers and sisters as disciples of Christ we must all take the living word of God out into the world because God has said, go. And share. And teach and preach. And so I leave you with this this morning. When's the last time you've went? And you shared and you taught, when's the last Bible study you've had? When's the last time you sat down with the family member or a friend and had a Bible study? I know that most of the time people are going to say no. But that's why living your life as a Christian is so very important. But when's the last time you made an offer, I know many people will say no, but when's the last offer you made? With a family member, a friend or a coworker. I'm not talking about going out and talking to strangers. People you know. Ask yourself that question. Along with the last time I had somebody in my home with the express purpose to build a stronger bond with those individuals. Because brethren, that's where it begins. We are the living representatives of Jesus Christ. And he needs us to go into the world. He's done his part. Now it's time for us to do our part. Are you willing to stand up, share your faith in lip sacrificially for the kingdom of God? If you're hearing this message this morning, brethren, there's a challenge that has been set forth. And I pray to God that each of us accept that challenge. Because our eternal destination hangs in the balance. We will all stand before Christ Jesus. It tells us, and second Corinthians chapter 5 verse ten. And it says we will give an account of our lives. What do you want that account to read? You get to decide what Jesus sees. Brother, sisters, if you hear this morning and you need the prayers of the church, you can come forward this morning. We'll pray for you. It will help you in any way that we can. You may be may have been away from the church for a time. And you wish to be restored because you know you haven't been living for God. We know you haven't been living the Christian lifestyle and you want to make today the day that I start moving forward. You can come forward this morning and do that. We'll pray for you. And you may have not been a child of God. Yeah, you may have not come to Christchurch. You may not have been washed in the blood of the lamb. Well, you have an opportunity to be baptized this morning. For the forgiveness of your sins to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and God himself will answer to the kingdom as we come in as we stand and sing..
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"We could call one another. You can call somebody and just take a few moments to say, hey, listen, I don't have a lot of time to talk man, but I just want to let you know brother that the lord puts you on my heart today. I want you to know that, hey, I hope you're having a good week. If I could do anything for you, please let me know. I'm gonna be praying for this week. I hope you have a good week, brother. I gotta get back to work, but I just want to let you know I was thinking about you. I guarantee you, if you did something like that. And same Matt's having a bad day. Just for a second, you're going to put a smile on that man's face. Even if it's just for a second, brother and we need to take more opportunities to send out letters to send out cards to make phone calls. It's a do all that we can to encourage each other. Sometimes the best way to encourage others is just by listening. Like listening to somebody, not always even offering device advice. If there's one thing I learned about marriage, many times my wife doesn't want me to solve all of her problems. She just wants me to listen to her problems, which is difficult for me, because I like to solve problems. But I learned that over the years, that sometimes it's better to listen and not offer the advice. They just sometimes want to vent. And sometimes we're in the same boat as well. Brother, that's an opportunity we have. We have brethren, like the bone family, and others who've lost loved ones recently. Guess what's coming up around the corner? Holidays. You know when it's the most difficult time anniversaries of the death, birthdays, holidays. Wouldn't it be great if people glide with their way to encourage them by knowing that somebody's suffering because the loss of a loved one that they just lost and invite them into your home for the holidays? Say, listen, I know you're hurting. But I also want you to know that you're not alone. And that I'm here for you. And then I want you to share in this meal with my family. And maybe they'll come maybe they won't. But what is the point? The point is that was offered, and they're going to remember that it was offered. Rather, there are so many ways that we can encourage one another if only will think about it as the scriptures teach. I get the hebrews three and 13. And it says but encourage each and other or to encourage each other every day and to help each other so none of you will become hardened because of because sin has tricked you. Rather and encouragement is to be a daily thing. I remember one Sunday morning and I'm gonna have to shut this down because I got so much more, but I'm already out of time practically. But I remember one Sunday morning. You guys have heard me say that if I'm leading singing, we're at the bottom of the barrel. It's just a fact, right? Some of us have abilities that others don't. That wasn't one of the gifts I received from my heavenly father. I was at sunset when I first came to the lord church and I was over there and we were joking around with some of our brothers and sisters at Christ's friends after service about how bad I sing and I mess up the words all the time. It's on the screen and I mess up the words, still mess it up. And this one elderly lady, I'll overheard our conversation. And she's so sweetie, I just want you to know you keep saying it. Because I guarantee you, if you keep saying, you're gonna get better. And I remember that. It's stuck with me. Literally a year went by. And I was sitting in the pew one Sunday morning like you guys are today and we were just got done singing to him and I'm not Christy with my elbows. I'm getting better. She looked me square in the eyes and says he'll never gonna happen. Obviously, encouragement isn't one of her strong suits. And so what is the point, brethren? The point tells me and I'm just gonna look at a couple more passages. We'll shut this down a little bit earlier. In progress, 12 to 25, it tells me on the screen behind me that worry ways a person down, but it encouraging word does what? Cheers up a person. I encouraging word cheers up a person. Listen to this, that was written by king Solomon. And king Salomon and Roberts ten and 18 through 21, he said, he who conceals hatred and has lying lips. And he who spreads slander is a fool. When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable. But he who restrains his lips as wise, the tongue of the righteous is like a choice silver. The hearts of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of understanding. Brothers and sisters, that came from the wisest man of his time. And that the tongue of the righteous is like a choice silver. A choice silver that's always looking for individuals that they can encourage that they can lift up because we're to love one another. Serve one another. Forgive one another. Brothers and sisters encouragement is something that is a great and a powerful gift. We need to wake up every morning and we need to be determined to do one thing. It can be a phone call, it can be a letter. It could be a card. It can be picking somebody up for a doctor's appointment. It could be whatever it is. Think of ways. That's what the scripture says. We need to think of ways that we can encourage one another to be purposeful in our encouragement. Rather and instead of focusing on all the negativity of the 24 hour news cycle, we need to focus in on God his word and his great many wonderful promises. If you do that and you add love forgiveness and encouragements, sacrificial love agape type of love into your faith and into your daily lives, I guarantee you, you're going to be like a bright light in a sick and dying world. Rather and it's time to stand up. It's time to get out of these pews here in a few minutes. We're going to go out into the mission field of the world. And I want you to ask yourself, what can you do today? To make a difference. What can you do today to put a smile on somebody else's face? You may be sitting here this morning, and you may be one of the ones that are discouraged. You may be struggling in a marriage struggling in life, struggling with your kids struggling with your finances, struggling in your faith. I don't know what it is you're struggling with, but what I do know is we have a room full of brothers and sisters in Christ, who are here today and have come together with the express purpose of worshiping God, but to further than that to also encourage and love one another. We are a family here at Lincoln park. And as a family, we are to lift one another up. So if you're hurting, you can come forward today. The elders will come forward. You could speak with them. You could talk with them. They'll meet with you and they'll set up a plan to help you in whatever way it is we can. But you may be sitting here this morning and you're not a child of God. And you have all this regrets and you feel dirty because of the scent in your lives. Rather, you can get rid of that. You're this morning. You can have your sins washed away by going down into the waters of baptism and you can be raised back up out of the water as a new creation, your sins washed away. You receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And God himself will add you to the kingdom. Come forward if that is your desire, as we stand and sing the song of invitation..
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"Put the phone away and talk. And so that's something that we're seeing that it's becoming more and more of a problem in society. And so there's too many people that are experiencing let down and discouragement. And they don't feel like they can have somebody that can turn to. You can't get that same effect on social media. As you can in the flesh, there's nothing that can replace a hug from somebody who loves you. And cares about you. There's nothing that can replace that listening ear when you got something going on in your life and you need that person. You need that one person that you can talk to. Not on a private message that I send you on Facebook, but now on a one on one basis. And so brother and proverb 17 and 22 tells us a joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. And why is that such a crucial passage of scripture? Because when we become discouraged, there will be times when our spirit starts to dry up. Our spirit starts to dry up and there will be times when our strength is gone. We don't feel physically or emotionally or spiritually as strong as we once did. And what usually happens when that happens, we start to withdraw ourselves from one another. We start to withdraw from worship. We start through withdrawal from fellowships and Bible studies. We start to seclude ourselves in our homes. We start to cancel plans that we once enjoyed. Why? Because depression is setting in. And because I start to feel sorry for myself. And I start to allow all this constant stream of thoughts to be fueled by negativity instead of positivity. And so brother and when we look at this here this morning, once in a while, I'll sit down and I'll meet with various individuals and if you've been an elder or a minister for any length of time, you do counseling from time to time. Individually as well as Mary's and couple counseling. And sometimes after I'm done, I'll sit there for a few minutes. Sometimes I'll pray, sometimes I'll just take a few breaths. And I'm usually left astonished at the amount of hertz that people are dealing with in their lives. But they're not reaching out generally to others whom they have a good personal connection with for advice. Because too often, the advice they get is worldly advice. And not godly advice. And so brother and we think about this. All around us in our communities are various peoples. Various people who are dealing with marriage troubles. Marriages are falling apart. Finances are a mess. They're worried about their jobs. They're worried about their kids. They're worried about the sin in their lives. They have regrets huge regrets from things they've done in the past. Their health isn't when it used to be. Their life, the life that they live in our lives that we live have a way of wearing us down. And when we become discouraged, when we become disappointed and depressed, what do we usually do? We seclude ourselves. That's exactly what Satan wants you to do. Say it and want you to think that nobody cares. He wants you to think that you're not as important. He wants you to think that you're kind of like the oddball out now, and he wants you to start to pull away from the church. He wants you to start to pull away from family members. Start to pull away from various friends. Rather, and when we start complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves, Satan begins to win. Because our faith begins to suffer. And when our faith begins to suffer, well, then we start to find excuses about why we can't make it to worship. Why we can't make it the Bible study. Why we can't make it to church fellowship opportunities. And why we stop actually fellowship being with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Satan begins to win if he could get you to seclude yourself off from the brethren. It's sad when that happens, brother, because that's when we need each other the most. God calls us to be a unified body of believers. And that seclusion is should be the last thing that ever happens. We should never be secluding ourselves from one another. Instead of secluding ourselves, we need to come to God. We need to rely on his strength and we need to rely on the strength of the saints that are sitting in this pew here this morning. And so when you're struggling here at Lincoln park, don't seclude yourself off. Don't start to miss and forsake worship service and Bible study and fellowship opportunities. We probably had a dozen people, maybe 12, 15 people had showed up at the Kaggle berry farms yesterday. We had a great time the ones who showed up. And if you weren't there, you could have had a great time too if you were there. Brother and so I encourage you to take advantage of it as many of those type of opportunities as you can. I know sometimes life gets in a way and you can't attend every event, but you should try your best to attend as many of the fellowship opportunities as you can. And so when we look at this, remember what Jesus said why is it so very important that we and that we show the love to one another that we encourage one another that we lift up one another? Because Jesus said in John chapter 13 of her 35, he says your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. And so brother and were to be a bright light in the world a world of darkness and sin and of depression and rising suicidal rates, people need to see that there's something different about us here at Lincoln park. There's something different about the way we carry ourselves. The joy that we have, even in difficult moments, knowing that even though when we lose a loved one, that we could take joy and comfort knowing that they're in Paradise that they went on to receive the reward, selfishly, yes, we want to hold on to them. And we want their for as long as we can. But they're now in a place that we all desire to get to. And so we can find the level of comfort in that, even though we're still sad. And so brother and we think of the word of God, we think of how we need to love one another and times of difficulty and the times of joy. We need to cry at each other's shoulders and lift each other up. We need to be willing to laugh with each other and to do all that life all that happens in life. Together as a unified body, constantly encouraging one another because that will show the world that we're Jesus's disciples. It makes me think of what the apostle Paul had to say. The way that we could show our love for Christ is by loving others without reservation. And first, thessalonians in chapter 5 and adverse 11, it tells us that we are to encourage one another. Encourage one another and build each other up just as they were already doing. But he gives us as a reminder. Some of us do a great job of building each other up and encouraging one another. I mentioned what Randy does for me every Wednesday and Sunday. Every time I preach a lesson, every time I do a Bible study, he always has a word of encouragement. It makes me think of calcium, who's gone out to his reward when I was an Allen park. A wonderful brother in Christ. That man encouraged me and encouraged me and encouraged me constantly. And what a joy he was to my life. Because there are days where there were days where I didn't feel like I did my best. I didn't feel like I presented the message to the best of my ability. Then maybe I could have done more at times. And yet he finds ways to lift you up into encourage you when he was on this earth. And why do we do that? So others can know that we are the disciples of Christ. And so brother and I makes me think of a Jesus had to say.
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"All right, just doesn't sound the same as what it normally is. So Jim is gonna turn me up a little bit. If you look on the screen behind me, this morning's lesson is gonna go into new direction. We've done a series of sermons over the last couple months, looking at first and second Peter. And why those letters were written why they're important, but now I want us to look at something else here this morning. You think we live in a time when we might need a little extra encouragement? You think there's some frustration in society? Do you think there's some problems in life? Is anybody tired of the pandemic? Right, we're tired of the pandemic. Life is difficult, life is busy. Our careers are hobbies, our children. I mean, we run ourselves ragged and I want us to really stop and consider for a little bit about encouragement. I want us to really look at the art of encouragement. I tell you what, here at Lincoln park, I think we do a pretty darn good job when it comes to encouragement. We have lots of us within this auditorium who like to like to encourage. I've said before, I said, Randy's got almost like my burnaby. You know why I say that? Every Sunday and every Wednesday, even now that I'm down a Tennessee and I do my lesson and I summed it up here for you guys. I still get a text from him on most Wednesdays, encourage me about the lesson. And it'll always make sure he comes up to me afterwards and gives me some form of encouragement about the lesson. And every time I see him, he's trying to offer encouragement. And I love that because really, isn't that really what the Bible calls us to do? How can we become that unified body of believers that family a believers if we're not always looking for ways to grow in the area of encouragement? And although we do a good job here at Lincoln park, we can always be better, right? And there's some of us that probably do some more encouraging than well, probably others. And so that's what I want us to concentrate on here this morning. I want us to think of encouragements. And I'm sorry that Jim used a slide that replicates and kind of really looks like me this morning. I didn't ask him to do that. But I wanted it to be an encouragement for you all to know that you chew. Can look like that if you just put a little time in the gym. So while we look at this, like this life have a way of kind of just bringing us down, right? Life has a way of weariness down. And when we become discouraged what usually is one of the some of the first things that happen when we become discouraged, what's one of the first things I usually have. And what do you think, Russ? Faith? Face starts to kind of wander a little bit, but don't we also start to start complaining a little bit? Anybody here ever complain? Anybody here have some difficult days and you start to complain? Well, that is usually something that starts to happen. We start to feel sorry for ourselves. Has anybody during the pandemic? Kind of followed yourself complaining and feeling sorry for yourselves? Has anybody who watches the regular news, whether a local or national news, do you start to kind of complain and feel sorry for yourself? It starts to feel sorry for this nation. And so brother and we need to know that complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves is something that's really inherent in humanity. But it doesn't have to be. Because there's this little stream of thoughts that go through your head all the time. And psychologists in them they'll call it self talk. And you get to determine that little stream of thoughts as I'm speaking right now. There are some of you that have a stream of thoughts that are going through your mind, some of them may be focused on encouragement, some of it might be focused on something else completely that has nothing to do with this worship service. But there's always thoughts going through our mind. You get to determine if they're positive or negative. You get to determine what you're doing with that little stream of thoughts that's constantly going through your mind. And so in today's world, it appears that everyone is becoming more and more connected. Well, you think about it, most people have smartphones. Most kids nowadays have smartphones. And it would appear that through social media and all the various platforms that were more connected than at any other time in human history. What's the problem with that? We're becoming more and more disconnected, personally. In the flesh, personal relationships. One on one fellowship time. Why? Because I got 700 Facebook friends. Even though I haven't seen probably 678 of them in 25 years, I got 700 Facebook friends. Even though I have no idea what's going on in their lives, I have 700 some Facebook friends. I really don't. But I'm sure there are people out there that do. What's my point? I don't care how many Facebook friends you have. If you're not interacting on a one on one, face to face in the person and the flesh relationships and interaction with people. While we are more connected at this point in time from a technological standpoint at any other time in our history of the world, we are dealing with higher levels of depression and higher levels of suicide than at any other time. Well, how could that be? We got all these social media things that people love my posts and they think my posters are funny and they think they're so great and I have all these social media friends and I have this great social media following. And yet, I'm suffering with depression. And suicidal thoughts. Well, how can that be? Brethren has God designed us to be separate and apart from one another or did God intend for us to become to spend time together. The God desire for children to leave their mothers or fathers and for sons, find a wife, it's a cleave to their wife and become one flesh, both in mind, body and spirit. When God created mankind on the 6th day, and then we know in genesis chapter two, when God created man, he said, it is not good for man to be alone. When you want to punish somebody in the judicial system in the system, where do they put the criminals when they really want to punish them? It's solitary confinement. Why? Because we know as human beings we're designed got designed us in order to be in fellowship with one another. So the worst thing you could do to a criminal is to separate them from the masses. And to make him be in an area that he's by himself. Why? Because what usually sets starts to set in regrets and depression and all these other things that go along with it. So as I said earlier today. I don't care how many Facebook friends that somebody has. It will never make up for the lack of personal in the flesh relationships with individuals. And brother, and that's something that we need to really fully consider. Because we're made with the desire to connect with people on a personal level. Don't people feel good about themselves when they feel like they belong? I mean, those doesn't it feel good after, and then I know sometimes we don't always want to break up our routine break up our schedule and schedule some fellowship time or go visit somebody. But how many times, even though you really didn't want to do it, but after you did it, you felt so much better. Like, man, I'm glad I went out of my way and I went and met with so and so because I actually, I actually enjoyed it. I felt good about it. And so we have to remember rather than that, while we are connected more from a technological standpoint, we're less connected personally and one on one basis than at any other time in our history. Young kids are having trouble because they have a hard time knowing how to talk with one another nowadays. I can't tell you every time you go to a restaurant every time you're out in public, you'll see a family of 5 sitting around the table and they're all on their phones, doing this. They're not even talking. They're not even enjoying the people that are literally right there in their presence. I had a friend who used to come by once in a while. And so some of the Christian fellowships over my house. And he would always be playing words with Friends. Anybody play words with Friends? And he would be playing words with Friends while we're all setting their talking. I said, why don't you use your words with your Friends? I mean, we're literally sitting three feet from one another and you're playing a game on your phone..
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"Morning everybody is great to be back here in lincoln park. I missed you guys are last week. You guys had a great week. I heard that there's a lot of people. There was a lot of fun to be had raised a lot of money To get a well going and so that's fantastic and it's not like i think i heard somebody say it's not a closed door so we could still continue to give in and regularly to that great. 'cause i'm trying to think because i feel like it's like a karaoke sunday with tyler up at the table this morning and so i wanna hit a couple of these things for tyler because he mentioned shock and awe in the family and the scary movies and so. That's why. I often recommend that we watch the movie the passion of the christ. So i'm ed in so i wanna know. Passion of the christ is passionate christ. Why do you feel. It's a great movie. That should be washed. Well at least a couple of times a year and i've heard people say but i don't like to watch it because it makes me feel all squirmy and i just don't like to see that's the polling. It's difficult to see..
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"I don't know if i could have a better introduction. Thank you matt now. The pressure's on. I wanna share with you this morning. The theme for walker water this year. And then we're gonna take that from talking about walk into. I think a thing that we can all relate to we. We talk about the word change. That's a scary word for some of us change but before we get into this morning for those of you like what in the world has walked for water. Well if you haven't been here for the last twelve years that your new than this being the thirteenth walk for water. Maybe this will help understand so last year and this year we've gone with the theme chains the cycle and you'll have shirts in some of your wearing the shirts and on the back or four icons and that is what to look at those real quick because when you wear the shirt you blast questions. I don't want to be like. Oh i don't know where to shirt comfortable. There's four logos on their done. What you like. The first one is the need for those who struggle to have water hunt daily basis that little person silhouette with the bucket turned over. Just a daily struggle that those around the world go through the don't have access easy access to clean. Water the icon is it comes down to the little of point you to two little silhouettes walking and that's what we're doing today. That's what you all have done for thirteen years including today. The nikon breezy around that water dropped with a nice little squiggly lines and that represents clean water. Which is why we walk for water. And then my favorite is. They're choreographing in the church of christ but the celebration the dancing that takes place at the will but also when we rejoice. So maybe this afternoon. When you're walking you get done. Walk in your four miles. You might still have energy to celebrate the fact that you're making a difference but ultimately that is and i've countless times when i've been to haiti in other places and i've seen someone at a will when the water pumps for the first time or if it's been repaired and flows again i've witnessed cure joy in that kind of celebration and then the aero. Obviously the cycle is changed. Now that cycle that we're talking about is a cycle that they get up every morning every afternoon. They'd take their journey that get dirty water. They get sick in the cycle starts over and over but with you all everyone else helping to change the cycle the cycle is broken and subtly. Thus who here this morning obviously here for common purpose we give the credit to god. And that's where the arrow points up. So that is what your shirt icon means and that is what we'll be doing today but i wanted to show you this for those of you have not worked lie. We walk could you imagine that is your water source. There's a lot of words that can be described but difficult insane dangerous but guess what's in there something. We need for life water. That looks yummy. I mentioned this class this morning. Kind of we kinda laughed. Because i know you guys experienced rainy and dry season but around the world. There's literally rainy and dry season. That is a riverbed in dry season. It'll continue. The water will continue to go down that a river bid many in the rainy season. Where you see brown is full of water is a river bid so the struggle is real but last year we worked together but we were still together and i just wanted to share a couple of memories last year. Madness had this deal still detention pitcher. But you all still found a way to walk for water in various locations. It looks like you walk in december tennessee. With all the geared murray. I don't know i. I usually look like that in october. When i come up for the ball and you guys are short. So i don't know must have been miller chillier and there you go just a flashback to show you it helps you remember the fine even though we're apart you still made that difference and that is what you walk for my favorite pitcher. We don't usually get that high quality photos back but in ghana there was a professional photographer taking pictures at some well. So so that is why we walked for water in the theme is change the cycle and this morning though. We're going to go down a different kind of theme with that. We're gonna talk about changing the cycle in our lives. I'm just gonna leave that up to the rest of the time you can see that in the background. But let me ask you this. When jesus came to this earth. Why did he come. You may very well say. He came to change the cycle in the gospel of john throughout the gospels. We read many accounts where we encountered jesus going into a situation and bringing chains do not specifically in john chapter five. Where we're gonna go to our story this morning to look if you want to go ahead and flip there. John chapter five but right there the chapter before john chapter four jesus encounters woman at the well bring change to her life change to that community then a chapter eight. Is you go on down. You see another counter where jesus brings change with. The woman caught in adultery when jesus encounters us change must take place when jesus encounters us. We have to ask. Are we willing to change. Now i'm gonna tell you this do do you like to change. Do you like change. No i want you to know and don't raise. Your hand confessed this morning but how many of you did not like the fact that some of your parking spots were blocked off. That is frustrating. Who is blocked. My how many of you come into church on a sunday morning. You look at somebody in your seat. I've sat there for twenty years. That's my seat. I don't change by sitting on the left side of the preacher looks different. We do not like change. So when we encounter jesus did he asked us to change our cycle. It's tough john chapter five. Let's go ahead and flip in our bibles they're fitting at a guy who works for an organization that his job is to talk about. Water would take you to the scene of water. John chapter five. We're gotta read versus through nine. Then we're going to focus on one part of the story now. There is in jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool. An aramaic called bethesda which has five five ruth colonnades in these lay a multitude of invalids. Why lane in paralyzed. One man was there who had been invoked. Kim it for thirty eight years when jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time. He said to him. Do you want to be heal. The sick man answered him sir. I have no one to put me into the end of the pool when the water is stirred up and while i'm going going another steps down before me. Jesus said to him.
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"He's like grandpa guide. Boys will be boys. It's okay brother and it's not okay. If god punish the angels cast them out of out of out of heaven. What do you think he's going to do to us here. On earth if god destroyed the ancient world except for except for eight individuals. What do you think is going to do to us. If god destroyed sodom because of the great perverse sexual immorality. That was taking place along with other sins. What do you think is going to do to us. Who refuse to repentance. Rather we need to understand that sin does not set demand free sin keeps us in bondage. Have you ever known anybody that. Struggles with drugs or alcohol. You ever met anybody or know somebody who struggles pornography violence greed covetousness selfishness sexual immorality anybody who struggles with any of those things. Do they feel set free or do they feel like they're in bondage to their sin. I want you to look at this last passage of scripture as we get ready to close this lesson down. Thank you jim. When we look at this last passage of scripture it sets it sets it sets the tone for this lesson. And i want you to see because if you've ever had a dog and you've seen your dog do this. Then it's a vivid image what it says that you're like if you reject the word of god you turn away from god and you go back to living a life of sin. Second peter chapter two we end with twenty first twenty three twenty two for after they have a after..
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"Falem the son of your who loved the wages of unrighteousness but he received a rebuke from his own transgression for immu donkey. Speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of of this once. Prophet and peter compares false teachings when you look at those two verses. He compares those false teachings to the profit who is enticed by. What by money you allow greed and covetousness to overtake him so much so that he looked to destroy the people of god in the old testament and it was bayless greed rather than that overcame him on another occasion and he died a miserable death. It tells us in number shafter thirty one but then you looked at versus seventeenth nineteen as we get closer to the end of this lesson and in verses seventeen through nineteen notice what it says now these are springs without water and miss driven by a storm for whom the blackness of darkness have been reserved for speaking out arrogant words vanity they enticed by flesh desires by sensuality. Those who barely escaped from the ones who live in error promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption for by what a man is overcome by this. He is enslaved. You look at versus seventeen through. Nineteen and peter explains what some of the false teachers were doing at the time of his writing. They were telling..
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"Don't pronounce judgment onto anybody's eternal destination. But i absolutely can judge the fruit in your life. You got good fruit. Are you producing good fruit or bad fruit. And if you're produce bad fruit. I can judge that bad fruit. Who gives me that authority. God because he tells us that we're the judge with righteous judgment. Judge what judge the fruit that comes from your life whether well then or not so well. God says when you stand before judgment. You're going to give an account whether good or whether bad based on the deeds in your life based on the life that you lived in the things that you did and then you get the verses twelve or fourteen and he tells us but these things brethren like unreasoning animals but these like unreasonable animals born creatures of instinct to be captured and killed reviling where they have. No knowledge will end. The destruction of those creatures also be destroyed. He's talking about the false teachers suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They counted a pleasure to party in the daytime. And they are stains and blemishes the lady in their deceptions as they party with you having is fall of adultery they never cease from sin enticing unstable souls having a heart trade and greed accursed children. You look ed versus twelve through fourteen. There and peter is telling us that these people are not confused..
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"We're having a good weekend. We should have. We should have some happy overeating spurt phase in here. Some big victories yesterday. So i don't know if the lions will make it a clean sweep probably nots. If you've ever watched the lions if you know anything about the history of the detroit lions. We don't win a lot of football games. But that's okay that's okay. That's why we come together today before lines games in order to encourage one another so we're not just standing there just you know just depressed in In as we go throughout the rest of our day. I don't know if you guys noticed but the balls in the air isn't it. I think it's supposed to be eighty today. And i was looking at the weather as i was getting off the plane yesterday. And i think Wednesday supposed be like fifty nine or something. And so i think fall is officially here is so it's going to be getting chilly it so we're going to have to start getting those soups go in. We should probably have like a potluck soon right where we could do a chili cook off if we ever done a chili cook off here. Well you haven't done in a two and a half years. I've been here. So i'm just saying like a chili cook off. I could go for chili. Some just saying so let. Let's open our bibles this morning as we continue on and our series of second peter. We're going to be a second. Peter chapter two second peter. I'm sorry yeah chapter two. We're gonna get started at the beginning of this chapter if you remember The last couple of weeks as we started to go throughout the second. Peter in the series of sermons and we looked at the inspiration of god..
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"She was laughing. But everybody's laughing. I'm so embarrassed. And you know what what it rustu. I'm gonna pull tom's here the next time we stood up. We went to sit down and tom landed up on the floor. My best friend and everybody laughed. And i laughed and i can even remember what room this took place in the flag. Shirts is just vivid in my mind and sister watson looked at me and said russ vengeance is suite isn't it and it was for about ten seconds on never forget that i love sister watson. She taught me a lesson. She didn't scream at me or yell at me or take me to my parents. I'll never forget her. And i'll never forget that. Say vengeance sweet. We have to think about our actions. Jesus did not retaliate. I should not have retaliate. But it sure was sweet for a minute but later on i was ashamed. I'd never shared this with my parents. I probably should have. But i didn't. I'm sharing with you this morning. But jesus didn't retaliate and we don't need to retali- because of the lord knows what he's when he suffered he made no threats whereas twenty-three he lifted himself up and spoke from the clock cross. He spoke about the people he spoke about what he was going through spoke to his father. He spoke to the thief on the cross but he never talked about his suffering. He didn't scream out his suffering. He didn't threaten people from the cross because he knew what was going to happen. You know one of the things that amazes me the most is if you go into the old testament read about the relationship between king saw and david david was in the court. He was playing this harp and what did saw do he picked up a spear that's right lewis and he threw it at david didn't he. He missed him. And do you know what david did nothing. Nothing somebody said nothing. He didn't throw the spear back. And i thought isn't that a great example for us christians. Don't throw the spear back. Don't get upset and you have that about. Jesus we've gotta hurry. We're almost done here. It steady and trust himself to him who judges justly. That's exactly what we're talking about a twenty three verse twenty three we have to entrust ourselves. God he's going to take care of it on the judgment day. Don't forget that that's what jesus did. He said i'm going to let god. I'm gonna let my father take care of this on the judgment day. I don't have to be god. I don't have to be a judge and in verse twenty three. Jesus entrusted himself to him who judges justly. That's powerful. If jesus can trust god to take care of him then maybe we should. Don't you think i just love that. Verse what peter saying. Christians give up the right to get even. That's what it comes down to chuck you have to give in. Don't give in to try to take engines. That's the one guy. I know he take vengeance right. We have to give that right up. Because god will take care of it. He's going to act on our behalf. That's what faces all about. If you really have faith in god doing it taking care of business. That's what faith is all about. The world says someone's gotta pay. We're going to pay back. We're going to take vengeance. I'm gonna get even. That's not what christian should do. That's what the world says. That's not what we need to say. No one gets away with anything. Put that down on that outline. Nobody gets away with anything with that in the back there and remember god's gonna take care of it. He's going to take care of his time is coming. His action is coming and when we have faith enough to realize that will entrust to him. He's going to do it. That'll make us feel so much. Better fact enrollments. Chapter twelve verse. Fourteen says i will repay. Who do you think you are trying to pay people back. Those are words for russ in second grade. I should said that. Let the lord take care of these things. I don't think the lord cares about that. Cherubini pulled out from under me. He has more important things on his mind. Don't you so let's trust. Let's let him do it. Let's let him repay for us unforgiving and this is what happens. Unforgiving hinders our prayers are singing. Our lord's supper are giving our worship. Our marriage our life our children everything is affected because of this and not only that but it makes our life miserable when you have to repay somebody for something it takes a lot of planning and we have to get back at them and we have to get angry and we have to make things happen and try to organize our lives so we can repay them. That makes her whole life miserable. That's why i wanted to think about this as we close. I want you to think about what the lord did because this is. What's.
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"We're trying to figure out what we're supposed to do how we're supposed to do it. What's pleasing to got everything begins and ends in scripture. Never should we here. But i think but i feel but when you have these conversations you often hear but i think but i feel and people try to allow to get to to be what drives them and yet we know that scripture in scripture alone is what drives us if you're here this morning and you're hearing this message and you're not a child of god and that is your desire. Here this morning brethren yuka come forward. You could come forward to be baptized for the remission of your sins. You come forward to receive the gift of the holy spirit guide and chapter two hundred forty seven will add you to the kingdom of price edge to the church. You have that opportunity if you've been thinking about it for awhile. What's hindering you what's holding you back. There's something hindering you something holding you back. You need to speak with me. You need to speak with one of our shepherds elders and we can help. Walk you through that answer any concerns you may have. You may be here this morning and you're just hurting. You're struggling. You're having a tough time. You could come forward this morning. We'll pray for you and we'll pray for you and help the put a plan in place for you to get through to get over. What whatever it is an struggling with if you here this morning you've been away from the church for any length of time brethren. You can be restored to the church here this morning. Become an active part of the membership here lincoln park so if that is you this morning come forward as we stand to sing the song vegetation..
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"Everybody everybody every weekend joy and that's Enjoying that nice warm hot weather. I know some of us like it more than others. And i'm not huge fan of it but you learn to deal with the right and that's why like you said you know i'm surprised there's not a shrine outside the carrier facility or you know we all take advantage of it as we gather here together today to worship the lord and spirits truth. I just want to understand that. This is such an important letter that peter had roads. It's an important letter because when you think about second peter last week we look at chapter one and we made. We made mention of the the idea that you're either growing spiracy. You're dying spirits. So that was the crux of last week's lesson. Amen and then. I think about what steve said this morning. I thought you said in a sermon. And i said you know he was talking about lights that god came to in the beginning in the beginning and he created the light. It was a physical light but then he sent it to the world another form of a and that was a spiritual lights right and so when you think about the spiritual light the light that gives light to all mankind that lights up our pass. It makes our crooked straight. We know that it comes from jesus himself in second. Peter is is a letter that peter had wrote to the first century seitz who were going through difficult times very difficult times in the middle of persecution from the roman government being persecuted by their own families as they turned away from jews. The different judaism. They turned away from those who converted from paganism so they were being just really just attacked from all sides and so when you look at second peter he writes this letter to encourage them to remind them why they have hope why they can have a hope and why they should understand how important it is that. We continue to grow spiritually to grow in influence. The lives of others through arc through our conduct through our words to our behaviors. It's all things. So as i said last week. Either growing spiritually. Or we're dying spiritually. And i mentioned briefly last week when you look at christianity it really truly is what they would call. I guess a fluid experience and because we're it's a fluid experience because we're we're developing towards a goal. Last week i spoke of a process. Amen and in the process there's various steps a steps that that you look to achieve a desired outcome and as we go through the process of our faith as we i hear the word and after we hear the word we determine if we believe we confess jesus as our lord and savior were baptized for the remission of our says god adds to the king them. But that's just the beginning. That's like at the marriage ceremony. When i say i do you still got the rest of your lives to grow to get used to each other and to a form that bonds to become that one flesh So when we think about our christian faith it truly is a process a series of steps to a desired outcome and what is that desired outcome to answer the heavenly realm to spend eternity with the father in heaven. But along the way. We're stuck here on this rock. We're what we're supposed to do. We continue to teach it encourage and love and sacrifice and do all. The god has asked us to do so in these very difficult times at these first century. Christians found themselves in. He writes this letter of encouragement. He once again. He reminds them that. If gross stops spiritual gross stops what do we see. Regression begins to set in. Our faith begins to die. Our spirit life begins to die. And so peter encouraged them last week in the beginning of the lesson at the beginning of chapter one as we look at those first ten verses he encouraged them he said you need to add to your faith moral excellence. It's immoral excellent knowledge into knowledge. Self control self control perseverance. Perseverance godliness brotherly kindness. And love if we're going to continue to grow in the lord. God adds to the kingdom rather than that is how we do it and as we do those things. He concludes that the person who is practicing things another benefit. That will show that. You're growing in the dice. Spiritually is that you'll have a greater knowledge of god you'll have a greater knowledge of gad. You'll have you'll grow in your confidence that they hope to go to heaven. When i die. I was the first. I thinks chapter five in verse. Thirteen or seventeen. I'm writing these things so you can know that you go to heaven. We hope to go to heaven. We don't say man. I hope guys that a good mood that day. He's not in the mood. I mean so. He'll let me know we can know that. We're gonna go to heaven and peter writing these things to these early saints who are suffering severe persecution imprisonment death beating sacrifice. And he's writing to them to know that heaven will be their home that jesus had gone on to prepare a place and that you could trust in the promises why because we have the holy spirit of god who has guided us as the early men who had penned the scriptures for over a period of sixteen hundred years forty individuals that were directed by the holy spirit of god. He didn't want he directed them as to what to say what to do. And so we have. The word of god that is god breathed inspired in order to direct our faith so that we as we go through the process of our faith step by step with the desired outcome of heaven. We know that we could trust the things that have been brought to us. And so peter now turns his attention as we get to chapter twelve or chapter twelve verse. Twelve of chapter one. He starts Change the direction of his mindset and he really starts to look at the inspiration of god and the process that ultimately leads to heaven begins with faith. Where do you attain faith. Well romans ten and seventeen says faith comes from hearing hearing from the word of god this all begins. That's where it is so when you think of faith when you think about how to deal with all the problems of life and like we were talking about bible study this morning it begins and ends in scripture when jesus was intimidation began and ended in sure and when we are tempted when peers are peer groups. Tried to get us to do things that we know not to be right. What is god have to say. What is the bible. Have to say this got address. These things as you as you're either growing or dying it will all begin ended scripture so brethren says the word of god is the source of our faith. The apostle peter wants to reassure these christians that they can be confidents on the basis of their faith and they could be confident basis of growth. So let's get started. Open your bibles second. Peter chapter one. I'll have some of it on the screen behind jim. I'm going to need another remote here. fleas The little battery lights flashing in. So i do have this one up there right now. Also second peter chapter one as you look at verse twelve through fourteen notice what it says therefore will always be ready to remind you of these things even though you already know them have been established in the truth which is presented which which is President with you. I consider it right as long as i am in this earthly dwelling to stir you up by the way of reminder knowing that it is knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent as also our lord. Jesus christ has made no into me and so when you look at a second. Peter chapter one in verse twelve or fourteen. Peter confirms that what he has been taught in what he has taught them. These are new ideas..
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"Then is to continue in these things to persevere in these things right regardless of what life happen or what happens in life regardless of what the medical diagnosis is regardless of. What the financial situation is regardless of of how the marriage is going regardless of how your children are acting out you persevere in the faith in the transformation process that has been taking place you see. Because we're either growing spiritually over dying spiritually. And so brethren we continue to look at this and we understand that many christians in the past the present and the future. They're all going to learn about faith and how important faith is and they're happy to get rid of sins that destroyed many of their lives to begin with. They love to learn about god. But there's a problem. It's kind of like the parable of the sewers. Some of them are seeds gonna fall along the roadside or on the rocky soil. And it's going to bring fruit but then it's gonna pass away quickly because there's no depth of roots and so we understand that there are too many christians who are going to accept the good things of christianity but when things get hard when life gets hard they're going to walk away from the church they're going to walk away from the leaker park congregation potentially enjoying one of these megachurches or join one of these denominational churches who offer a better experience. But don't offer truth and don't offer accountability brethren. We need to understand that. We're always going to be accountable to the word of god and so when adversity persecution pain inconvenience come in this life and they are coming if they haven't done so already. We need to understand that. Many christians will give up. Follow away but that's why we have to stick to the plan. We have to understand who we are. In christ that our faith is a process a process of steps that are supposed to build upon one another in order for the building up of all christians for the maturing of christians so they in the times of adversity we may persevere and there's a fifth pair in those verses and that fifth pairs about perseverance godliness. And when you look at this brethren the point here is the transformation process to become a new self and that new self that new creation should be evident to all that come in contact with you but only those who develop those various qualities and christian context. We'll see the attributes appearing in their lives for you wives who have a husband. Who's new to the faith. Can you see the changes that are happening for you husbands. Who might have a new might have a wife. Who's new to the faith. Can you see the changes that are happening for you. newer families who are babes at christ. But your children are growing in christ. Can you see the changes that are happening. Can you see how they're changing from worldliness to godliness. And so brethren it's similar to this illustration that i found and it's it's an in regards to like a spiritual liftoff right. It's similar to a plane taking off on runway when a plane taking off on runway. The first thing it has to do is taxi and then it finds its runway and then it starts to move but it's still on the ground that hasn't had lift off yet. They asserted speed however the wheels begins to leave the ground and then the plane enters into the atmosphere and you have left off in many ways as christians as we begin our walk with christ. We're pretty much like that plane that we are starting to get some information not to kind of get us moving. But faith isn't real has reached a point where you're gonna have spiritual liftoff because that comes with time that comes with maturity and your. It's so we need to keep growing and maturing and transforming our lives in that christian process and that faith process to the point to where we get spiritual liftoff and then when you get spiritual liftoff you're going to hopefully start to have family members and friends recognize the changes that are taking place in your various lives brother. We understand that godliness means become more like god and less like natural man. Do you understand that godliness. Righteousness means becoming more like god and less like natural man who is worldly in worldly centered and so so to belong to the church you have to have a transformation otherwise if you're still just taxiing on the ground you still blowing more to the world than you do to the church because in order to become as you grow and you mature in your faith received that spiritual liftoff. It's going to take effort on your parts. It's going to take efforts to get spiritual liftoff. And i just realized man. I must be really worried. Because i'm only like halfway through and there's like two minutes left in the hour so we're gonna shut this down being that it's a series of servants or second peter because i got a ways to go and i don't want anybody starting not off. Even though paul got the preached midnight what a great benefit. That must've been right. Just keep on going. Keep on truckin. But we're gonna shut it down because it's already. It's almost that time. And i know we shouldn't be looking at a clock here in the church but we know we have to keep a timely and so if there's anybody that's here today and you need the prayers of the church let us know all we can pray for you. If you're struggling in your faith journey. Did you know we have shepherds in this congregation. Men who would love to sit down with you and talk with you about what struggles you may have in your fate that can help open up the scriptures to give you a deeper more committed faith brethren. Come forward this morning if you're struggling. Let us know what you're struggling with. Open a plan in place and we'll help you to get through those struggles. Because i'm here to tell you if you're struggling and your faith you're not alone. Most christians are struggling in their faith. Whether like the minute or not. Most of them aren't willing to ask for help though. So if you need the help and you want to help don't don't put it off another day. Ask for help. And if you're here today and you need the prayers of the church For for whatever other reason please let us know. And if you're here today and you're not a child of god but that's your desire and you wish to be baptized for the remission of your sins. You wish to come forward to receive the gift of the holy spirit. Come forward and be baptized as we stand to sing the song visitation..
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"In our sunday morning bible studies. It's because that's how we're going to be judged we're going to be judged by the new testament. God has said the times of ignorance over and he is sent his sons dying on the cross. He's given us the complete revelation he tells us how the story ends. We know that jesus has already has the victory. The question is do we want to tag along and be included in that victory if we do then with jesus comes with his winnowing fork in the threshing floor to separate the wheat from the shaft. We have to ask ourselves. Do you want to be the wheats or the chef. Because the sheriff is going to be going into the birds up. So we understand in verse. Three god has given us granted to us all that we need through the complete revelation of god and he tells us as we go on here through the true knowledge of jesus who called us by his own glory and excellence for by these. He has granted to us as his precious and magnificent promises. So that by them you may become partake of the divine nature. Having escaped the corruption. That is in the world by lust. You look at verse four and it says he has granted to us his precious his magnificent promises brother. You guys have heard me talking about faith before amen. And you've heard me give you the definition of faith and i've often said faith real biblical faith is is threefold. You have to come to the word of god. You have to fake from hearing hearing from the word god romans sense seventeen right but it doesn't end there. You have to hear the word to determine if you believe it so it starts with hearing that it started with trusting and then it starts and then it ends with obedience you have to trust in those great magnificent promises that he's talking about right here in verse four so verse three is telling us we look at these and we break these verses down verse. Three is telling us that humans can know god only by the degree that god has revealed himself to us his revealed himself to humanity in. Why do i say that well did. God give the profits when they came the whole story or did he give them little little tidbits of information. He gave them tidbits of revelation a prophecy to pass onto the jews. And so that we can look back to see when prophecy will be fulfilled. Its so we know that now. We have the complete revelation of god. We know how the story is. We know how the story began. We know that jesus is the seed line. Jesus is the one that was gonna come from the seed line from the tribal judah of the family of david and for what purpose the save mankind from their sins and this was a plan that was put in place since before. The foundation of the world is so for god so free humans we can only know god to the extent that he had revealed himself. For example we can know the goddess creative. We can know that he's powerful. We can know that he's wise just by looking at creation but we can't know through creation is that god doesn't reveal recreation doesn't reveal what god thinks creation doesn't reveal with god wants for man creation doesn't reveal what the future will be with the spiritual world will be like it's a we're limited in what we can know from creation. We could see that there is a guy through creation that there is a designer because there's designed in nature but that's about the limit of what we can know in order for us to know more about god. He has to reveal himself to mankind. And we have that revelation through jesus christ through the holy spirit who jesus said he was going to send john chapters fourteen in john chapter sixteen for what purpose so that he could. The holy spirit would remind. The early disciples the early apostles everything that got ever sudden. Did everything that jesus ever saw and everything that he ever did. And so the knowledge of these things is only available to the point or the extended god reveals it. Well what did it say in verse theory. You go back and you look at it. And what did the same verse three seeing that his divine power has what granted to us everything that we need that pertains to life ansa godliness. Brethren all the information that humanity needs to live a good and godly life to be found acceptable in the eyes of jesus christ in the day of judgement is contained in the new testament. So when i ask you the question why is it important that we study out the new testament because it all begins and ends there because we're new testament christian so we don't follow the law because we don't we didn't live under the old law and the old law wasn't for us it was only for the jews and so you look at this information and as we continue on brother at true knowledge gives us access true knowledge of god and his revelation gives us access to godliness. It gives us access to spiritual living a spiritual life and that's why we said earlier that there needs to be a transformation that is taking place as you read as you study the word of god and he's you become more knowledgeable in the word of god you make sure you transform your life in versus five through eleven. Peter is going to describe as we continue on. He's going to describe what man's part is knowing. God he's also going to describe how this affects our life and how it's going to affect our salvation. So peters going to explain that growth is a process. Well what is the process. A process as a series of steps that build upon one another amen. It's it's a series of steps that build upon one another should there notch chew. We not see a growth. Transformation it a transformation be taking place in the lives of every child of god. Let's continue on now as we look at versus five through seven. His second peter one five or seven. Notice what it says now for this. Very reason. also apply diligence. All diligence in your faith supply moral excellence and in your moral excellence knowledge and in your knowledge self control your self control perseverance and your perseverance brotherly kindness or godliness your godliness brotherly kindness and then you brotherly kindness love. Peter tells us at the process of knowing god begins with what diligence it begins with diligence effort commitments resolved resolving commitments or want to the process to the process of transforming our lives to become the type of man and woman that god is desired us to be to become righteous in holy in his sight. That is the transformation process that we're not. We're not viewed as.