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WTOP 24 Hour News
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"Tampa needs to win to keep the season going after the Rangers win last night three other games today Blue Jays twins Minnesota up 1 -0 Milwaukee got the win on the road in Arizona yesterday 1 there -0 in Philadelphia 1 -0 lead over the Marlins Orioles not home till Saturday game one will be begin at 1 o 'clock The birds have announced so no issue with the Billy Joel concert M &T Bank Stadium across the street 1 p .m. the For American League division series beginning in Baltimore on Saturday so 1 first o 'clock pitch commanders bears tomorrow night John Dodson Curtis Samuel will be active good news dealing with lingering injuries Chris Rodriguez the running back questionable he missed last week with the illness Washington has won three straight Thursday night games including last year in Chicago they'll wear the alternate all black uniforms tomorrow night in front of a sold out crowd at FedEx feel the 2030 World Cup will be played in Europe Africa and South America the first time it will be played in more than one continent and will begin the tournament the tournament will begin with the 100th birthday celebration in Uruguay so that should be pretty fun still got some but time that's the announcement this week's Military Bowl D .C. touchdown club high school football player of the week is Moray quarterback Roman Jensen threw for 445 yards and five touchdowns and ran for two others in the school 64 -28 win over Wheeling West Virginia Central Catholic be sure to visit wtob .com to read more about Roman let's see highlights from the game player of the week brought to you by Main Street Bank George Wallace wtob sports okay thank you
Mark Levin
Part 3: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"Voted for McCarthy Michael Cloud Texas 27 voted for McCarthy Burgess Owens Utah 4th voted for McCarthy Bob Good Virginia 6th voted against McCarthy Ben Cline Virginia 6th voted for McCarthy Morgan Griffith Virginia 9th voted for McCarthy Alex Tony West Virginia 2nd voted for McCarthy Tom Tiffany Wisconsin 7th voted for McCarthy Harriet Hegeman who replaced Liz Cheney Wyoming at large voted for McCarthy she replaced Liz Cheney who urged Mr. Buck one of the 8th to vote against McCarthy I just went through the list of the freedom caucus. I guess they're all neo -cons, rhinos, sellouts, big government leftists too. Now these people are conservatives who understand everything that's at stake now. The existential threats all around us. Where do you think Hakeem Jeffries is today? Think he's having a party? Now the one question Matt Gaetz has not been asked is when is the last time he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries is or there any of the surrogates or any of the others in the Democrat party? Because it's interesting, Hakeem Jeffries puts out a note this morning and tells all the Democrats to vote against McCarthy when he said it was a party. I wasn't born yesterday. I didn't fall off the two. You're intelligent people. You're wise people. You know what the hell is going on too.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "west virginia" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Games today and tonight Texas tries to eliminate Tampa Bay Minnesota meets Toronto Twins with the shot to advance Arizona can end Milwaukee's year while Philadelphia took game one last night against Miami. NFL commanders host Chicago tomorrow evening. Quarterback Sam Howell pleased bounce with his back game against Philadelphia cause for confidence tomorrow night. Washington has won three straight Thursday tonight games averaging over 27 points in those victories college football the NCAA votes to the transfer portal window from 60 to 45 days meanwhile the Virginia Tech lies in a revitalization of their ground game. Coach Brent Pry pleased to see Basial Tooten rush for 109 yards and the Hokies win over Pitt last Saturday. He's another guy honestly that can only get better and better. He's a big part of our offense and I think he you know the play making ability he has I think we're starting to see that we're starting to benefit from that and he's got to be a big big piece of of what we do defensively for us to be successful. Tech visits unbeaten Florida State Saturday this week's Military Bowl DC Touchdown Club High School Football Player of the Week is Marae quarterback Roman Jensen. He completed 19 of 24 passes for yards 445 and five touchdowns while rushing for two more scores in the schools 64 -28 win over Wheeling West Virginia Central Catholic. Be sure to visit WTOP .com to read more about Roman and see highlights from the game. The Player of the Week is brought to you by Main Street Bank. Dave Preston WTOP Sports. you Thank sir. Coming up new developments in the race for the next House Speaker. It's 1156. Money News brought to you by Compassion International. Drought, war and rising food prices have devastated families in poverty. $50 provides a food kit to feed a family for a month. Just text the word radio to 97646. Finding great candidates to hire can be like, well, trying to find a needle in a haystack, but not with a scooter. It's powerful technology actively finds and invites qualified candidates to apply to your job. So while
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from The Jets in Despair, a Wide-Open AFC East, and the Big UFC-WWE Merger With Sean Fennessey, Ben Solak, and Nick Khan
"Coming up, how is the jet season already over? Plus Nick Khan, next. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by FanDuel. The sports calendar is packed. There's no better place to get on in the action than FanDuel. We have so many sports to bet on, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA Tour, a little tennis coming up later, safe, secure, easy to use app. FanDuel has exclusive offers, boosts, and more all month long. And when you win, you'll get paid fast. Lots of ways to play. Spread money line over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during any game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game and the same game parlay. Try out same game parlay plus as well. Download the FanDuel app today to start making every moment more. You must be 21 plus in select states. Gambling prompt, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit fanDuel .com slash RG in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, or Virginia. 1 -800 -NEXTSTEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 Arizona, 888 -789 -7777 or visit ccpg .org slash CHAT in Connecticut, 809 with it in Indiana, 800 -522 -4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp .com in Kansas, 877 -770 -STOP in Louisiana, 800 -327 -5050 or visit mahalpline .org slash problemgambling in Massachusetts, visit mdgamblinghelp .org in Maryland, 877 -8 -HOPE -NY or text HOPE -NY in New York, 800 -522 -4700 Wyoming or 1800gamber .net in West Virginia. This episode is brought to you by CarMax. Patriots promised me they'd win the Super Bowl. That'd be pretty legendary. When CarMax offers an unrivaled 30 -day money back guarantee up to 1 ,500 miles, well, that's legendary too. CarMax never wants you to settle on a car. They want you to love your next car. That's why every car from CarMax has upfront pricing and an unbeatable love it or return it. 30 -day money back guarantee up to 1 ,500 miles. Shop at Nationwide Inventory on your terms. That's car buying reimagined. Start shopping now to find a car you'll love at carmax .com. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network where I put up a new rewatchables on Monday night. It is an all -time one for us. We did Black Cat, Me and Chris Ryan, Michael Mann movie. We were running out of Michael Mann movies. We don't care. We love this movie. We're probably in the minority. I also went on the big picture with Sean Fennesey. They did a Denzel Washington movie draft and I was on there with Sean and Amanda Dobbins and Chris Ryan and Van Lathan. That was really fun. I got over competitive. I'm sorry. I apologize to everybody in the room. Coming up on this podcast, well, the Jets, that happened. We're gonna talk about what happens now at the AFC East with Benjamin Solak. We're gonna bring in our guy, Sean Fennesey, diehard Jets fan to walk through his emotions the last 12 hours. And then last but not least, Nick Khan, who was running WWE, but today they merged with UFC. And we're gonna talk about that merger, what it means, what it means for the business, what's Vince McMahon's role in the whole thing. And then we're gonna talk a lot of sports media stuff as well. ESPN versus Charter, what the NBA rights are gonna be. So this is an action -packed podcast. Dare I say it's a TKO for you, the listener. Let's bring in Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this on Tuesday morning, we got the words that Aaron Rodgers, out for the year, torn Achilles, Sean Fennesey, who I've worked with for 11 plus years at this point, diehard Jets Mets fan, Knicks, been a rough ride, rocky road. After Rodgers went down five minutes into the game, you just tweeted goodbye and it didn't respond to texts. We didn't know. I was saying it was like, Marcuson's gone. There is no Marcuson. It's like, Sean's gone. There is no Sean. How are we feeling today? Thanks for having me on the show, Bill. Really kind of you to have me on. I feel justified in all of my melodramatic curse talk. I'm sure I feel similar to how you felt in 2002, 2003, you know, with the socks and feeling anxiety. I feel bad. I feel even worse, actually, because they won for a variety of reasons. But we got a chance to see, like, this is a really cool, fun, exciting team. And they, I don't know if they were Super Bowl bound, but it's easy to imagine a world in which they could have been Super Bowl bound. So yeah, I feel I feel very bad. Very bad. Well, I think the revelation from last night was that Breese looked like 95 percent of where he was last year, which I was not expecting. He was a weird fantasy football guy. It was people like, when's he going to be 100 percent, is it going to happen? So the fact that he looked like that almost made the Rogers thing worse as the game was going on, if it was even possible to feel worse about it, because it's like, oh, this guy is like a guy again. Yeah, even at the very beginning of the game, it's stupid to nitpick the first four play calls. But I was like, wow, they're really throwing a lot coming out of this game. I thought the whole point of this season was to actually use the running game to power Rogers. Obviously, the injury is a freak injury. Nothing could have prevented it. He's an older player. That O -line is obviously problematic, but it was painful actually watching Breese play so well because that could have been really the focal point of the offense. And then Aaron Rodgers just needed to be competent and then this would have been a really competitive team. So it's like I'm legitimately depressed about it. On the other hand, I tell you what I really don't like about it.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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"Is up from third down to penalties the commander's corner is on the sports page at wtop .com nhl preseason capitals defeat boston 5 -4 in overtime on a goal by as they wind up getting a goal in OT next up they take on columbus tomorrow this week's military bowl dc touchdown club high school football player of the week is marae quarterback roman roman completed nineteen of twenty four passes for four hundred forty five yards and five touchdowns he rushed for two scores in the school's sixty four twenty eight win over wheeling west virginia central catholic be sure to visit wtop to read read about the game and uh... more about roman and see highlights from that game to player of the week is brought to you by main street bank they've pressed in w t l p sports and coming up after traffic and weather what's happening here with the national superman that they strike out new york this is greg o 'connell with new tannix many things in life are best when they're built to last the technology that's best when it's built to adapt a hybrid multi -cloud environment should transform your operations by virtualizing application workloads across data centers public clouds and edge networks and enable you to run those workloads where and when you choose are you struggling with the constraints of it that was or is built to last we'd like to invite to you learn more about how new tannix is delivering the flexibility to run any application where and when you want tannix new delivers the industry's leading hybrid multi -cloud platform that enables organizations to build IT infrastructure to adapt and because we know seeing is believing you can take a no obligation test drive at newtannix .com slash wtop drive again that's a free test drive at newtannix .com slash wtop drive you you may think you just don't have enough room in your house for everything you need maybe you're even thinking don't about do that moving there's well much more room in your home than you know hi it's chris core let closet in america maximize every inch of your existing space with their custom closets garage organizers laundry and mud rooms and home offices designed specifically for your home and your needs and remember closet america is not some big impersonal national chain they're local all their work done is in their factory in the dc area and for this month they're having their biggest sale of the year thirty percent off plus free installation i'd like to tell my friends that what closet america does is perform magic in your home you can find out all the details on closet america's incredible space saving designs at closet america dot com get organized for the holidays during their biggest sale of the year closet america everything in its place perfectly exogen thermometers are a choice top of medical professionals at highly ranked hospitals across the u s accuracy matters so make exogen chosen the thermometer for your home and family
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Niners and Cowboys Party, Tyreek Runs Amok, Six-Man Booths, Four-Box Bliss, and Parent Corner With Cousin Sal and Jimmy Kimmel
"Coming up, me, Sal, Sunday night, we're back. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by FanDuel. The sports calendar is packed. There's no better place to get on in the action than FanDuel. So many sports to bet on, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA Tour, a little tennis coming up later. Safe, secure, easy to use app. FanDuel has exclusive offers, boosts, and more all month long. And when you win, you'll get paid fast. Lots of ways to play. Spread money line over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during any game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game and the same game parlay. Try out same game parlay plus as well. Download the FanDuel app today to start making every moment more. You must be 21 plus in select states. Gantley prom call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit fanDuel .com slash RG in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, or Virginia. 1 -800 -Next Step or text Next Step to 53342 Arizona, 888 -789 -7777 or visit ccpg .org slash chat in Connecticut, 809 with it in Indiana, 800 -522 -4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp .com in Kansas, 877 -770 -STOP in Louisiana, 800 -327 -5050 or visit MAhelpline .org slash Problem Gambling in Massachusetts. Visit MDGamblingHelp .org in Maryland, 877 -8 -HOPE -NY or text HOPE -NY in New York, 800 -522 -4700 Wyoming or 1800 -GAMBLER .net in West Virginia. This episode is brought to you by Jersey Mike's Subs. Jersey Mike's uses only the highest quality meats and cheeses piled high with fresh produce. You know what I get at Jersey Mike's? I like the Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak. Here's what it has. Frank's Red Hot Sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, white American cheese, and blue cheese dressing. I am a double cheese guy with my subs. I want things dripping all over the place. I also like the big hoon of cheesesteak, grilled onions, peppers, mushrooms, jalapenos, and extra white American cheese. Don't get a lot of awesome cheesesteak situations out here in California. So those are two of my favorites. Just place your order through the app. Their app is great. You can order ahead and pick it up, have it delivered. You can even earn free subs. I've seen it happen. Jersey Mike's, a sub above. Download the app now. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where I hope you're listening to all of our NFL podcasts, Ringer NFL Show, Ryan Rosillo, the Ringer Gambling Show, the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, Against All Odds with Cousin Sal. That's back. We have the local pods in Boston and New York and Philly and Chicago. So we are killing it. Killing it on the website as well, TheRinger .com. Check that out. Benjamin Solak's premiering a new Sunday Night column, by the way, that we're excited about. So you can check that out on TheRinger .com. I have a new rewatchables coming on Monday night. It is the all time one for us.
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"News look now at the top stories we're working on at WTOP hundreds workers of healthcare in our area expected to go on strike this morning five people were shot and wounded last night on the campus of Morgan State University classes are canceled today and President Biden is announcing another nine billion dollars in federal student loan debt forgiveness keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead traffic and weather on the 8th see in the early going Rita Kessler fills us in on traffic out with the good news right now northbound Baltimore Washington Parkway near Powder Mill Road they managed to clear that crash out of the travel of the roadway now you're still in delays from the Beltway but your lanes should be completely open southbound had the rubbernecking delay before 197 headed past the scene with the lanes open if you're on the Beltway outer loop top side delays from 95 around toward Georgia Avenue southbound 270 slows passing 85 through Urbana past 109 and then again approaching and passing 118 in Germantown after that it looks to good the lane divide onto either loop of the Beltway now in the district inbound New York Avenue near West Virginia Montana there had been some kind of sign whether a construction sign or a traffic sign reported to be in the center of the roadway Georgia Avenue at New Hampshire Avenue was some fire department activity in Virginia the new problem northbound 395 before Washington Boulevard the crash on the left side with delays back near King Street and northbound 95 delays are starting to ease just a bit out of Dumfries headed into Dale City looks like that crash may be out of the roadway but then once you cross the Occoquan you're solid through Lorton into Newington first you'll hit the crash before 644 Franconia Road along the left side then closer to the beltway split another wreck on the left side McKesson delivers medical supplies to government agencies through the federal supply schedules visit mms mms .mckesson .com slash government for details that's mms .mckesson .com slash government I'm Rita Kessler WTOP traffic seven news first alert meteorologist Brian Van de Graaff has been talking about a little bit of fog out there this yeah morning in fact John looking right now some of the thickest spots out in Cumberland, Maryland out through Allegheny
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A highlight from The Necessity of God's Word (Part 2)
"Do you understand the magnitude and significance of the effort that we are part of when we engage in taking the Gospel to unbelievers? Find out much more on today's edition of Encounter God's Truth. We go back to Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia to hear the closing portion of a lesson on The Necessity of God's Word and our series on biblical apologetics. I'm Wayne Shepard and our Bible teacher is Dr. John Whitcomb. We've been learning together from this classic series on apologetics and today's program brings us to the finish. As fall approaches and so many head back to school, how appropriate it is that we focus on the energy that scripture has to impact our hearts and minds with God's eternal truth. As Dr. Whitcomb demonstrates, it's more formidable than the greatest human intellect and even more powerful than seeing a miracle. Let's go back to Appalachian Bible College now and hear the conclusion of this message, The Necessity of God's Word. We begin by reviewing 2 Corinthians chapter 2. Who is sufficient for these things? My friends, we're in an infinite operation here that determines the eternal destiny of human beings in heaven or hell. Who's sufficient for these things? For we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. Now friends, we can just begin to realize the magnitude of God's plan here in form of a little chart. I hope this will be of some help to you as it has to me from time to time. Over here we have symbolized the unbeliever with a darkened heart that doesn't have cleansing and purifying and forgiveness and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the unbeliever. And notice that he is surrounded by an impenetrable barrier to any outside finite pressure. It's called his sinful nature. And over here we've tried to depict the believer whose heart has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit based on the merits of Jesus Christ. And the believer may fall into the serious temptation of trying to win the unbeliever on a horizontal basis, namely just provide Christian evidences to penetrate that heart through logic and philosophy and history and science. And by the way, all these arguments that we've talked about through archaeology and history and logic, I mean there are hundreds and hundreds of evidences that show that the Bible has got to be supernatural in origin. But the amazing thing we discover is that no matter how powerful the arguments are in the realm of creation and prophecy and so forth, they cannot penetrate that heart. They cannot get through to that heart. Well then what's the answer? What's the approach? God says you have... Now this is very illogical from a human standpoint. God says you have to approach the unbeliever through the third heaven. You have to go this way, through prayer, faith and obedience in relation to God on the basis of Hebrews 4 -12, the word of God, not my word or your word. The word of God is living, powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even to the dividing center of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and neither is any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom he have to... God knows that person infinitely. He knows what can reach that person, namely his precious word alone. That's one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn. Well all the things, Lord, that I've learned about how we know the Bible is true, why can't I use those arguments, those evidences? Well friends, let's stop and think for a moment. As the word of God penetrates into that unbeliever, something of infinite power has reached his heart. Now just think of the evidences Jesus If provided. you think our evidences can be effective, and they can be, and that's a whole subject of its own, think of the evidences Jesus himself gave. Stupendous sign miracles, hundreds of them. In fact, someone has suggested that every sick, crippled, leprous person in Israel, by the time Jesus' ministry was finished, was healed. Thousands of people, it says that over and over, year after year, thousands of people can heal them all, heal them all. And I say, well Lord, I should think that the whole nation then would have turned to him. Why, on one occasion, friends with a boy's lunch, he fed 5 ,000 men plus their families with food left over. And they said, they all agreed, this is John 6, let's make him king. I mean, anyone who can feed everybody for nothing supernaturally is our candidate for king. Then he began telling them about himself and who he was and that they had to believe in him on the basis of his substitutionary atoning death. And guess what happened at the end of chapter 6? They all left him. You say, that's absurd. Haven't they seen sign miracles? Yes. Miracles like the like of which had never been seen before in the history of the world? Yes. And Jesus turned to the twelve and said, are you going to believe me too? And one of them finally spoke up, of course, Peter, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Right. That's the difference. But even one of them was a doubter, Thomas, and another one was demon possessed, namely Judas. That helps me to understand what the miracles were for. Why Jesus, friends, said, an evil, adulterous nation demands signs and no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah, namely, as he was three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. In other words, his bodily resurrection is his final proof to the whole human race of who he is. The sign miracles, may I say it this way, were almost totally ineffective and worthless to convert anybody ever in Israel. That wasn't their function. It was simply to do what? To attract attention to himself as the God appointed Messiah and King of Israel so that they could then hear his message and then their response to the message would determine their eternal destiny. This is an awesome thing to think about. Now, I almost hate to read this chapter. With fear and trembling, I ask you to turn to Luke 16. This is absolutely awesome. The rich man in Hades. Luke 16, beginning with verse 19. There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Would you kindly agree with me he was in desperate condition. He had nothing of this world's goods. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. That means the place of blessing, the place of the faithful in what at that time was called paradise, the upper Sheol Hades where believers went when they died. And the rich man also died and was buried and in hell or Hades, the lower Sheol Hades, he lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom in close fellowship with him. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. That is the situation now of every unbeliever who's ever died. I just, I'm staggered by this. And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and besides all this between us and you there's a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, Lazarus can't get to you, sorry, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence and other you can't come here either. And then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that rich man in Hades and torment said to Abraham, Father, that thou would ascend into my brother's house. I have a plan. I want you to reach my living brothers by sign miracles. Now this would impress some people today because we are harassed in every direction by people who are committed to sign miracle ministries to change the hearts of people by spectacular things that they can see. Now watch the response of God through Abraham. I have five brethren that he may testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment. In other words, would you please send Lazarus, the beggar, back to the realm of the living because my five brothers often came to my mansion and saw this beggar by the door and they'd recognize him when they see him. Please send him back to the realm of the living. And I mean, think of this as an evangelistic program. He could go from house to house, knock on the doors of my brothers and say, I am back from the dead. I saw your dead brother in Hades in torment. Do you think that would get their attention? How do you like that for a sign miracle Look ministry? at God's response through Abraham. Abraham saith unto him, they have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They have the Bible. They have the Old Testament scripture. They have the infallible and errant self -authenticating word of God. In other words, that's what they need is Now, this is why he was where he was. Listen to how he despises God's word. Do you catch this? He said, nay, Father Abraham. In other words, who cares about the Bible? Old wives fabled stories for children maybe, but not for my brothers. You don't understand, sir, they're intellectuals. They're scientists. They don't accept stories supposedly from God. They want to see something that's empirical, tangible, self -evident and thus convincing. Nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. That's what they need, a sign miracle. Hmm. And here's how it ends, folks. And he said unto him, Abraham said to the rich man, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. Really? Well, that's what happened when Jesus arose from the dead. The whole story of the book of Acts is that in spite of the fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled his promise, he said, you destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it again. And he did and rose from the dead. And the apostles preached the resurrection of Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees hated the message and threatened and tormented God's servants for mentioning resurrection, even of Jesus. Oh yes, friends, even if one rises from the dead, they will not repent. You know what Jesus did for his friend Lazarus one day in Bethany? He raised him from the dead. Lazarus, come forth. I'm very impressed by what happened, aren't you? Immediately, the corpse stood at the entrance of the tomb and he said, loose him and let him go. He's fine. He's alive. Probably felt better than he had in his previous life. He didn't have to be dragged out half dead for recuperation. Don't you think all the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees would have just swamped the whole, I mean, that settles it. We believe. Read what happened next. The enemies of Jesus got together and made a decision. Just for that, we're going to kill Lazarus and Jesus. Hmm, that doesn't sound intelligent. Well, that's the problem because the mind of man, which is an aspect of the soul, heart, spirit of man in his sinfulness, his darkness cannot function intelligently. Only the spirit of God can bring us reason to see God's realities as they really are. And I say, well, Lord, I just didn't know it was this bad. I just desperately need your help then to accomplish what is otherwise impossible. Help me to preach the word faithfully, clearly, completely, without compromise, graciously, patiently, in season, out of season, love people, whether they receive me, accept me, appreciate me or not, because the word of God has infinite power. I don't. He has it. He alone has it. Now, friends, there is a way in which Christian evidences can be used. I just want to be very careful here not to disparage the things that God has given us in the way of evidences. Let's take a look. The low value of Christian evidences, among other methods, shall by this all men, unsaved men who lack spiritual discernment to understand scripture, by this, Jesus said, shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another, John 13, 35. So the ultimate models for mutual Christian love in a godless world must be the Christian home and the local church. Now, think carefully of that statement, Jesus, that's the greatest of Christian evidences. When you go forth to a mission field, whether it's New Zealand or wherever, something you can do under God is undeniable and irresistible. And here it is. Demonstrate to the people to whom God sends you that you know what Christian love is in your relationship, husband and wife and parents and children and children to parents and hopefully other Christians and a little tiny microcosm of the Holy Spirit called a local church that God will plant there and the godless surrounding population sooner or later will have to see something they have never seen before and can't explain and can't duplicate. Christian love. Why, there are all kinds of evidences, friends, that are helpful, like maybe, you know, medical missions, helping people physically, that'll get their attention. Maybe hospitality, maybe English language courses in China or wherever, people almost do anything to learn English and you get them there and you demonstrate, you know, the things that they're interested in and show friendship. But you see, Jesus said, the greatest evidence we have that will really get people's attention is Christian love, one for another in the home and in a local church that God will plant here and there around the world. You see, friends, Jesus never said miracles will do the trick. He said to the apostles, you remember in John 14, the miracles that I've done you'll do also. And they did, they raised the dead, I mean Peter and Paul, I mean amazing sign miracles they did in the early church, book of Acts. But do you know what else he said, friends? Greater works than these shall you do because I go to my Father. And what are the greater works? Preaching the gospel, which when believed brings eternal life instantly. But the sign miracles Jesus performed never saved anybody. Did you know that? They were spectacular, they were undeniable. But every person Jesus healed got sick again anyway and died, every one of them. He didn't permanently solve anybody's problem physically. He fed 5 ,000 the next day they were all hungry again. Didn't solve their hunger problem. But Jesus said, because I'm going to my Father in heaven and send the Holy Spirit and create the church and grant unto you the scriptures, you will have the capacity under God to mastermind this book and make it known to people and you'll see greater works. I mean Peter the apostle, folks, preached one sermon and 3 ,000 men were saved in one day and saved forever. Vastly greater miracle than healing the sick and walking on water, which Peter also did. Don't try that, by the way, unless Jesus does to you what he did to him, namely says come. Don't try that. I have been fascinated, obsessed I guess is the word, with the mentality today that you have to have intellectual brilliance and you have to have spectacular miracles to attract anybody and to have any credibility as a member, as a representative of God. I've done a little booklet in fact that's out there and maybe have helped you. Does God want Christians to perform miracles today? No. In fact, you know what would happen? It'd be a regression. It'd be a step, giant step backwards because we'd be going back to the lower foundation of the church in the apostolic era before the superstructure was built on a completed scripture. In those days it was a unique way for God to give the apostles opportunity to attract attention, but now friends we have something they didn't have, the completed Bible. God says you master this book and sooner or later one way or another you follow my guidelines and instruction and you mastermind the basics of evangelism and church planning and missions and witness and you will have infinite power from above through this book that pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. And I say Lord, I desperately need your help. This book friend is so powerful that even when you preach it without love it'll change people forever. Did you know that? Paul tells us in Philippians 1 there are other people here in Rome that are offended by my being here and they don't like me and they don't appreciate me but they are preaching the truth and I will rejoice in it and I will continue to rejoice because even without love which is often the way we preach like on a radio station you never even see the people or hand out a tract and you see the people disappear you never see them again. Even under those situations the word of God has infinite power. Let me tell you a man who preached the word without love, Jonah. He hated every minute of his ministry. He said God why didn't you destroy these people? That wasn't a loving approach to missions. But you know what he did? He preached the word and the whole city repented and Jesus said it wasn't fakie either. He said Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah and will rise up in the last generation and condemn this generation. I mean he must have preached more than just judgment. He must have said something about God. It's my opinion. The whole city repented even though he hated every one of them in Nineveh. But that's why God says preach the truth as we were reminded this morning. Preach the truth in love and you'll have even more effect. Yes, but whatever you do folks, hold on, preach the truth. That's the point. That's the power, the truth and hopefully it's done in love and graciously and prayerfully and patiently but whatever you do and whatever your motive and whatever the circumstances, preach the word. And I say thank you Lord, that settles it. I think I'll be a Bible believing Christian and a Bible believing teacher and I want to honor Jesus Christ and the blessed Holy Spirit who presented this book to us because that's an irresistible force. Even in a world dominated by what? Satan, millions of demons, billions of depraved people and even mice in nature. God says watch me. I have a special weapon, an instrument I'm putting into your hand and your mind and heart. Watch what I can do almost in spite of you for my glory through my word. Father in heaven, I just stand amazed at how you operate. Everything sooner or later will be for your glory or it will disappear. Help me to examine there for my own ministry. The church could be raptured to heaven and I and all of us will be confronted by the Lord Jesus with eyes like a flame of fire searching us, examining us to see whether we really have done the work of God in a godly way, in obedience, in faithfulness for his glory. Help me to be ready at any moment to give an account to you dear Father because that's why you sent me not to gain glory for myself or any of us as teachers and proclaimers of the truth but to glorify the Savior apart from whom we're lost forever and the blessed Holy Spirit who gave us this precious book. May ABC father stand brightly in a darkening world as a true reflector of the light of Jesus Christ until he comes I pray in his glorious name for his sake. Amen. If God's word has made an impact on you today we'd love to hear about it. Just leave us a comment at facebook .com slash Whitcomb Ministries where there's always something to encourage you. You can also find lots more on the subject of apologetics at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb. Find that page from our website WhitcombMinistries .org. You're listening to Encounter God's Truth from Whitcomb Ministries and we're grateful for the opportunity to emphasize week after week that God's word is true from the beginning to the end offering timeless truths for changing times. I'd like to close with a reading from Psalm 103. Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all his benefits who forgives all your iniquity who heals all your diseases who redeems your life from the pit who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. For everyone here at Encounter God's Truth I'm Wayne Shepherd praying for the Lord to fill this week ahead with much meaning and many blessings. Thanks for listening.
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Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from The God Of A Way
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Let's praise the name of Jesus together. Come on. Lift up every voice to the great I am. If you know God is great and greatly to be praised, come on, lift your voice right now. That's it. That's it. A great God deserves a great praise. Let's give him a great praise. That's an okay praise, but he's not an okay God. Let's give a great God a great praise. Open your mouth and give him praise. If he walks you through, give him praise. If he's been good to you, give him praise. If he kept you, if he blessed you, if he led you, if he fed you, if he's been by your side, give him a great praise. A great I am. Let's lift up one more shout. Come on, corporately. Let's lift up one more shout. For the King is among us. It is such a powerful thing to call him the Great I Am. It means there is nothing you need in your life right now that he cannot provide. Nothing. We have come together today to worship his great name all over the world. We're joining now as a global church family. Let's welcome our eFam all over the world right now. Where are you joining from? Put it in the chat and let me know. Turn to your neighbor and tell them where you came from today to come to church. Do that in the room too. Tell them, I drove four miles. This gas is expensive. I'm checking on YouTube. Y 'all stay standing. God is going to speak a word to us today. Do you believe that? Do you believe it? This is fun to do every once in a while just to put it in perspective. I just told them in the chat, let us know where you're joining from. If you don't believe this is a global ministry, listen to some of this. South Africa? West Virginia? Well, those are different. Don't you feel sorry for me I have to preach a message that applies to South Africa and West Virginia? Thank God that the Word of God can travel through time zones, accents, backgrounds. All right. Slow down. Slow down. Slow down. How do you make it stop? I can't stop it. I'm trying to put my thumb on it. It won't stop. God is unstoppable. Phoenix, Arizona. Alabama. Dubai. Buffalo. Brazil? Did you say Brazil or Rock Hill? Welcome, Brazil. I was watching some UFC this morning getting ready for church. I recorded it so I could get a good night's sleep, then I played it so the Lord would fire me up to fight his battles when I was praying this morning. It was a good one too. Barbados, Uganda. If you would have told me… I'm just trying to put this in context. Just 20 years ago, one day you'll be preaching, and you'll be standing a few miles from your home looking in the camera, touching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world. I would have said, no way, but God, who is amazing and incredible and superfluous. You know how we call people extra, but we mean it like we're kind of putting them down. We're like, man, she's kind of extra. God is extra in a good way. He does exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we can ask or imagine, and he has made a way for me. In fact, that's what I want to preach to you about today. I'm going to go to Isaiah 43, 16 through 19. Holly was trying to do a spoiler, but I wouldn't let her. She said, are you giving us another installment in this series, this God of series? We talked about how God is the Great I Am. We spend the rest of our lives filling in the blank, because when God told Moses his name, he said, My name is Yahweh, which is I Am. That's what the name means.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Necessity of God's Word (Part 1)
"Welcome Encounter to God's Truth, a weekly half hour of Bible teaching from Whitcomb Ministries and Dr. John Whitcomb. I'm Wayne Shepard and we'll be going back to Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia today to hear more from our series on biblical apologetics. We're going to begin the final lesson in our study. It's called The Necessity of God's Word. In this program we'll see that we have a power source that's readily available, which allows us, as mere finite human beings, to have victory and influence in the spiritual realm, even though we're opposed by all the enemies of God and His gospel, both human and demonic, as well as our own sin natures. What is the power source that can give us this victory? It's nothing hidden or mysterious, but something that's readily available to each one of us. It's God's Word, which is infinitely sufficient to meet our need, and as we teach every week here and encounter God's truth, it's true from the beginning to the end. If you've missed any of the earlier messages in this series, remember, you can always review them again in our library at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb. But right now, we join the students and faculty assembled at Appalachian Bible College with this important message on The Necessity of God's Word. Dr. Anderson and friends, it has been a joyful privilege to be back again at ABC and to share from God's precious, infallible, and errant Word, His perspectives on our personal life, testimony, and witness in ministry. I trust you've already begun to grasp just a little bit in our previous three messages that God's infallible Word is absolutely essential for effective witness to Him, no matter what the opposition may be. In fact, God tells us very clearly that the opposition to His Word, as far as we're concerned, from our perspective, is infinite. To Him, Satan, demons, depraved people are infinitesimal in contrast to His sovereignty and His glory in heaven. But as far as you and I are concerned, it is a hopeless obstacle to effective witness for Christ the Lord. If we depend upon ourselves. Now, we have already seen something of the amazing opposition, haven't we? The problems that make our ministry and our testimony hopeless in terms of converting anybody, of seeing anybody saved, namely, the fact of human depravity in 1 Corinthians and Romans and Psalms, all through the Scriptures, in fact, from Genesis to Revelation. And we understand what human depravity means, not that everyone is as bad as they can be, or that some people don't do some good things. Jesus talked about those and Paul, too, who are relatively good people. For a good man, some would even dare to die, we read. But as far as attaining God's standards, minimal standards of acceptance into His presence, we're sinful. hopelessly Now, friends, on top of all that and because of that, we have God's revelation concerning the function of Satan to help sinful people do their sinning more effectively. Isn't that an amazing comprehension that God has given us of His function? Yes, if people want to be helped by Satan to be more effective to oppose God, He's available. But the situation isn't hopeless for believers. If we humble ourselves beneath the mighty hand of God, we can then rebuke the devil and he will what? Flee from us, just as Michael the Archangel discovered, remember, in contending over the body of Moses. Satan is awesome in his power as far as you and I are concerned. In his vast army of hundreds of millions of demons, how can a mere finite human being possibly cope with such opposition? And, of course, in addition to our sin nature and the sin nature of the unbeliever and Satan and his armies of demons, we realize, friends, that only God's precious Word can help us see victory. The Word of God, Hebrews 4 -12, the Word of God is quick, that's alive, living and powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even the dividing center of soul and spirit, is a discern of the thoughts and intents of the heart, neither is there any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do. However awesome the opposition may be according to God's plan. God's Word is infinitely sufficient to accomplish what you and I and all our brilliance or experience or maturity or self -esteem could never, ever achieve in turning people from sin to righteousness, from Satan to God. Well, think of 2 Timothy 4 -2, in the light of this, preach the Word, Paul says. How often? In season and out of season. In other words, whether people appreciate it or whether they don't appreciate it is totally irrelevant. Continue preaching the Word. And sometimes it may take years to see an effect. I remember vividly the awesome choice I had when I first came to know Christ as my Savior at Princeton University in that dormitory room in February of 1943. I was an only child, my mother and dad were not believers. How could I help them? It took 30 long years, dear friends, of prayer and hopefully a careful, patient witness of the grace of God and the sufficiency of Jesus to see my Father finally, when he came to live with us after my mother died, to respond to the Gospel. Years and years and years, but God is in no hurry. You don't rush things and compromise the message in order to have immediate results. No, no. God, as for God, his ways are perfect and he wants his Word honored. Now, let's consider 2 Timothy 2, 23. I'm always fascinated by this statement. How does a true servant of the Lord function in the light of this situation we have just outlined? The servant of the Lord must not strive. Don't pressure people. Don't manipulate people. We often wonder, don't we, sometimes in great evangelistic campaigns we hear about and have seen and perhaps even attended occasionally. It's almost as if it's impossible not to go forward when the invitation is given. In fact, some evangelists sadly pressure people, manipulate people and embarrass people who don't stand up and come forward to make a public decision. And of course, we are not criticizing making public decisions. We're so thrilled at what we saw God do last night here. And I say, thank you, Lord, for that. But the tendency, the temptation is to pressure people into making a decision which later they regret and it's even harder than ever then to win these people to the Lord if they have a sense that they have been pressured or manipulated. Watch these words. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men after capable of teaching, patient. Don't be pushy. Don't pressure people because it's not finite pressure, it's infinite pressure from the Holy Spirit that's going to bring the transformation. And by the way, when God does it, it lasts forever. When I do it, it never lasts. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, who is their worst enemy themselves? Not you. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, God has to change the heart. God has to change the mind. The heart and mind is God's special realm of operation, see, to the acknowledging of the truth, the truth about God, Christ, sin, salvation, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil. Here's his function, you see, his snare, his trap, who are taken captive by him at his will. Now, the whole scenario is presented in this brief passage that I've just read. And I say, Lord, that's an amazing outline for Christian ministry and the dynamics of how people are going to be convicted of sin and born again. God will do the work as we patiently, humbly, graciously, but clearly present his plan of salvation to lost people around us. Now, let's consider then 2 Corinthians 2 .16. A born again Christian has an enormous influence if he walks with God in a godless world. How do you like this statement? Let's begin with verse 14. Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. Some of the things we've had to look at in the Bible have maybe created a sense of depression and defeat. Lord, if people are that bad and I'm that bad, and Satan is that powerful and demons are that plentiful, then how can we ever do anything for you? Well, thanks be unto God, said Paul, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. We're on the victory side, dear friends, there's a battle going on. And maketh manifest the savor or the fragrance of his knowledge by us in every place. As we were reminded by our Dr. Herbster, may your face attract attention and create a question, why are you so joyful? Why are you, you're different. Do you attract attention that way to the fact that God has changed your life and your heart and your mind and your direction and goal? Listen, listen. And maketh manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place. As you give out a gospel tract, do it with a smile. Maybe gain attention by saying something gracious or something encouraging that may open up an opportunity to build step by step into someone's heart by the Holy Spirit. For we are unto God a sweet savor or a fragrance of Christ in them that are saved and in them that perish. To the one we are the savor or fragrance of death unto death, and to the other the savor of life unto life. And I like this question, don't you, even from the Apostle Paul. Who is sufficient for these things? My friends, we're in an infinite operation here that determines the eternal destiny of human beings in heaven or hell. Who's sufficient for these things? For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ. Now friends, we can just begin to realize the magnitude of God's plan here in form of a little chart. I hope this will be of some help to you as it has to me from time to time. Over here we have symbolized the unbeliever with a darkened heart that doesn't have cleansing and purifying and forgiveness and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, the unbeliever. And notice that he is surrounded by an impenetrable barrier to any outside finite pressure. It's called his sinful nature. And over here we've tried to depict the believer whose heart has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit based on the merits of Jesus Christ. And the believer may fall into the serious temptation of trying to win the unbeliever on a horizontal basis. Namely, just provide Christian evidences to penetrate that heart through logic and philosophy and history and science. And by the way, all these arguments that we've talked about through archaeology and history and logic, I mean there are hundreds and hundreds of evidences that show that the Bible has got to be supernatural in origin. But the amazing thing we discover is that no matter how powerful the arguments are in the realm of creation and prophecy and so forth, they cannot penetrate that heart. They cannot get through to that heart. Well then, what's the answer? What's the approach? God says you have... Now this is very illogical from a human standpoint. God says you have to approach the unbeliever through the third heaven. You have to go this way. Through prayer, faith and obedience in relation to God on the basis of Hebrews 4 -12. The word of God, not my word or your word. The word of God is living, powerful, sharper than a two -edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and neither is any creature that is not naked and open before the eyes of him with whom he have to... God knows that person infinitely. He knows what can reach that person, namely his precious word alone. That's one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to learn. Well all the things, Lord, that I've learned about how we know the Bible is true, why can't I use those arguments, those evidences? Well friends, let's stop and think for a moment. As the word of God penetrates into that unbeliever, something of infinite power has reached his heart. Now just think of the evidences Jesus provided. If you think our evidences can be effective, and they can be, and that's a whole subject of its own, think of the evidences Jesus himself gave. Stupendous sign miracles, hundreds of them. In fact, someone has suggested that every sick, crippled, leprous person in Israel by the time Jesus' ministry was finished was healed. Thousands of people, it says that over and over, year after year, thousands of people can heal them all, heal them all, heal them all. And I say, well Lord, I should think that the whole nation then would have turned to him. Why, on one occasion, friends with a boy's lunch, he fed 5 ,000 men plus their families with food left over. And they said, they all agreed, this is John 6, let's make him king. I mean, anyone who can feed everybody for nothing supernaturally is our candidate for king. Then he began telling them about himself and who he was and that they had to believe in him on the basis of his substitutionary atoning death. And guess what happened at the end of chapter 6? They all left him. You say, that's ridiculous, that's absurd. Hadn't they seen sign miracles? Yes. Miracles like the like of which had never been seen before in the history of the world? Yes. And Jesus turned to the twelve and said, are you going to leave me too? And one of them finally spoke up, of course, Peter. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. Right. That's the difference. But even one of them was a doubter, Thomas, and another one was demon possessed, namely Judas. That left ten out of thousands by the end of that day. And I say, Lord, that helps me to understand what the miracles were for. Why, Jesus, friends, said, an evil adulterous nation demands signs and no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet Jonah, namely, as he was three days and nights in the belly of the great fish, so the son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. In other words, his bodily resurrection is his final proof to the whole human race of who he is. The sign miracles, may I say it this way, were almost totally ineffective and worthless to convert anybody ever in Israel. That wasn't their function. It was simply to do what? To attract attention to himself as the God appointed Messiah and King of Israel so that they could then hear his message and then their response to the message would determine their eternal destiny. This is an awesome thing to think about. Now, I almost hate to read this chapter. With fear and trembling, I ask you to turn to Luke 16. This is absolutely awesome. The rich man in Hades. Luke 16, beginning with verse 19. There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Would you kindly agree with me? He was in desperate condition. He had nothing of this world's goods. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. That means the place of blessing, the place of the faithful in what at that time was called paradise. The upper Sheol Hades where believers went when they died. And the rich man also died and was buried and in hell or Hades, the lower Sheol Hades, he lifted up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom in close fellowship with him. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame. That is the situation now of every unbeliever who's ever died. I just, I'm staggered by this. And Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and besides all this between us and you there's a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, Lazarus can't get to you, sorry, neither can they pass to us that they that would come from thence, and other you can't come here either. And then he said, I pray thee therefore, Father, that rich man in Hades and torments said to Abraham, Father, that thou would ascend into my brother's house. I have a plan. I want you to reach my living brothers by sign miracles. Now this would impress some people today because we are harassed in every direction by people who are committed to sign miracle ministries. To the change hearts of people by spectacular things that they can see. Now watch the response of God through Abraham. I have five brethren that he may testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment. In other words, would you please send Lazarus, the beggar, back to the realm of the living because my five brothers often came to my mansion and saw this beggar by the door and they would recognize him when they see him. Please send him back to the realm of the living. And I mean, think of this as an evangelistic program. He could go from house to house, knock on the doors of my brothers and say, I am back from the dead. I saw your dead brother in Hades in torment. Do you think that would get their attention? How do you like that for a sign miracle ministry? Look at God's response through Abraham. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them. They have the Bible. They have the Old Testament scripture. They have the infallible, inerrant, self -authenticating word of God. In other words, that's what they need is the Bible. The truth inscripturated by the Holy Spirit. But he said, now this is why he was where he was. Listen to how he despises God's word. Do you catch this? He said, Nay, Father Abraham. In other words, who cares about the Bible? Old wives' fables, stories for children maybe, but not for my brothers. You don't understand, sir, they're intellectuals. They're scientists. They don't accept stories supposedly from God. They want to see something that's empirical, tangible, self -evident and thus convincing. Nay, Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. That's what they need, a sign miracle. And here's how it ends, folks. And he said unto him, Abraham said to the rich man, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Really? Well, that's what happened when Jesus arose from the dead. The whole story of the book of Acts is that in spite of the fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled his promise, he said, You destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it again. And he did and rose from the dead. And the apostles preached the resurrection of Jesus and the scribes and the Pharisees hated the message and threatened and tormented God's servants for mentioning resurrection even of Jesus. Oh yes, friends, even if one rises from the dead, they will not repent. You know what Jesus did for his friend Lazarus one day in Bethany? He raised him from the dead. Lazarus, come forth. I'm very impressed by what happened, aren't you? Immediately the corpse stood at the entrance of the tomb and he said, Loose him and let him go. He's fine. He's alive. Probably felt better than he had in his previous life. He didn't have to be dragged out half dead for recuperation. Don't you think all the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees would have just swamped the whole? I mean, that settles it. We believe. Read what happened next. The enemies of Jesus got together and made a decision. Just for that, we're going to kill Lazarus and Jesus. That doesn't sound intelligent. Well, that's the problem because the mind of man, which is an aspect of the soul, heart, spirit of man in his sinfulness, his darkness, cannot function intelligently. Only the Spirit of God can bring us reason to see God's realities as they really are. But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing to one, a fragrance from death to death, to the other, a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? For we are not like so many peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God in the sight of God, we speak Christ. On the basis of these words from the Apostle Paul, Dr. John Whitcomb has been teaching us about biblical apologetics on this edition of Encounter God's Truth. Please keep in touch with us at Facebook .com slash Whitcomb Ministries, and you can find that link easily at WhitcombMinistries .org. I'm Wayne Shepard, praying for God to use His word in your life today. Thank you for joining us.
The Dan Bongino Show
Oliver Anthony Reacts to Overwhelming Support of Viral Song
"Short but it's worth you hearing this is just just a regular working -class West Virginia guy and I don't know him I've never met him I know nothing about him his asked never met him I need again I just learned his real name is Christopher so here he is he says it's been been difficult as I browse through the 50 ,000 messages and emails in the last week the stories that have been shared a brutally honest picture suicide addiction unemployment anxiety depression hopelessness the list goes Oliver says I'm sitting in such a weird place in my life right now I never wanted to be a full -time musician much less sit atop of the iTunes charts Draven from radio WV and I film these songs on my land with the hope that it may hit couple hundred thousand views I still don't quite believe what's it going on since we uploaded it it's just really strange to me perhaps he says people in the music industry give me blank stares when I brush off eight million dollar offers I don't want six tour buses 15 tractor trailers or a jet I don't want to play stadium shows I don't want to be in the spotlight I wrote the music I wrote because I was suffering with mental health and depression these songs have connected with millions of people on such a deep level because they're being sung by someone feeling the words in the very moment they were being sung no editing no agent no BS he says just some idiot his style of music we should have never gotten away from in the first place he says here's a introduction here's what I really am my legal name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford my grandfather was Oliver Anthony and Oliver Anthony music is a dedication not only to him but the 1930s Appalachia he was born and raised dirt floors seven kids hard times at this point I'll gladly go by Oliver because everybody knows me as such but my friends and family
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Necessity of God's Power (Part 2)
"How do you respond when unbelievers aren't enthusiastic about your witness for the gospel of Jesus Christ? How should we handle such opposition? Can a common Christian be expected to explain the gospel to someone who is more knowledgeable in worldly things? Dr. John Whitcomb has been teaching the Bible and apologetics for many decades, and he utilizes that experience to answer those questions today on Encounter God's Truth. I'm your host, Wayne Shepard, and we're in the middle of a sermon entitled The Necessity of God's Power as we continue a series on biblical apologetics. It was recorded live at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia, and Whitcomb Ministries thanks them for allowing us to bring you these messages. Today's lesson is vitally important in helping us learn how to share our faith with those who disagree and resist the message of God's grace. It goes into detail regarding the power source that influences unbelievers, namely Satan and his demons, and how they relate to history and prophecy. Please stay with us now and track with us in your own Bible if you can as Dr. Whitcomb deals with these significant issues. We open with a short review from last time looking at Isaiah chapter 64. And we all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away and there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirs up himself to take hold of thee for thou has hid thy face from us and has consumed us because of our iniquities. Now this is Isaiah, probably the greatest Old Testament writing prophet, you see, whose sin nature was judicially purged away in that confrontation with God in chapter 6, one of the most amazing encounters with the living God ever recorded. And it's Isaiah who says, we, our iniquities, not somebody else's. You all know Jeremiah 17 9, the heart of man is what? Deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Like God said of the human race before the flood, and by the way, God makes it clear, he didn't wipe out the human race except for one family for no real legitimate reason. God looked down upon the human race and saw that the iniquity of man was great and that every thought of the intent of his heart was only evil continually. I'll give you my opinion on that. No human being, even with a fallen, sinful, depraved nature, can be that bad, that consistently without demonic help. I think the whole pre -flood world was not only depraved but demonized. That every thought of the intent of their heart was always evil. Always. Hmm. And so God, of course, I mean, my problem with the Genesis flood is not that God wiped out the human race, but that he waited hundreds of years for people to repent through the preaching of Noah because God is long suffering, not what? Willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And Noah preached and proclaimed and warned and appealed, pled with people, come into the ark, there's a flood coming. And people laughed and laughed. And Jesus said, in those days, men were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage, all of which is fine, except that's all they live for. Just feeding and multiplying and animals can do that too. And God did not do what? He didn't create human beings in his image and likeness do nothing more than animals do. They had no thought for him, no response to his word, no interest whatever. And therefore, it said they understood not until Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. You say, isn't that a little bit extreme? Did you know that many Christians are offended by the Genesis flood account? Maybe one billion people. You mean only one family was saved. Isn't that an overkill? You know what's really amazing? I mean, I'm trying to be biblical. Would you pray for me? The amazing thing that anybody was saved. You say, well, Noah and his family were perfect. Oh, you know better. There were eight sin natures in the ark, which after the flood what proliferated and became what total blasphemers in the Tower of Babel project and later, of course, crucified Jesus and someday the Antichrist will be also a descendant of that family. And we say, Lord, help me to see things from your perspective. The fact that you even put up with the human race at all is an astounding thing in scripture in the light of what we are. And by the way, that's why God will never send another flood because Genesis 8 21 says that God said, never again will I destroy the earth as I have done because man is what? Is wicked from his youth up. You say, well, that sounds like a good reason to have a global flood every 100 years. No, a thousand floods, a million, would never modify our sin nature. And so God said that was once and enough to demonstrate who's in the next flood till the fire comes at the end of the world. The fire flood. Well, friends, here we are. This is our problem. And I say, Lord, we have a sin problem. Even the natural man, however nice, receives not the things of the Spirit of God. They're foolishness him neither can you know them. They're spiritually discerned or praised. Romans 8 7, even while we were sinners or enemies, Christ died for us. Psalm 14, the fool says in his heart, what? There's no God. Romans 5 8 and so forth. I mean, these passages, friends, totally destroy any little thought we may have had that we can be persuasive in changing people's minds about God and his word. Okay. Oh, but we have another problem. Not only sin, but who? Satan. Oh my. Whenever you talk to an unsaved person, the Bible tells you this for you're talking to at least two persons, one of whom's invisible and maybe more. And that invisible one is Satan, who's the God of this world. And, you know, the Bible makes it so clear that Satan has, you know, enormous power. Turn to Ephesians six. Would you please listen to this? We learned in Ephesians chapter two that people walk according to the prince of the power of the air, who is the spirit that now worketh and the children of disobedience. Look at Ephesians six, verse 11. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. By the way, he has all kinds of names. Satan, devil, the prince, the God of this world, the prince of the power of the air. Listen to this. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, against mere human beings. Oh, you see, that's rationalistic apologetics. I have better arguments than you have about God and the Bible. I, when you lose, you're now converted. I have heard of, I have attended a couple creation evolution debates. And my friend Henry Morris and now the recently retired Duane Gish, I mean, these men are fantastic debaters. And they have won every debate. There have been hundreds of them in great major universities around the world, hundreds of them. I feel sorry for an evolutionist who is going to debate Henry Morris or Duane Gish or these other men in the creation science movement who have memorized hundreds and hundreds of arguments. They know better than the evolutionist does what his argument is going to be and how to answer them. They've never lost a man outwitted them. He did, he talked and talked and talked and never let them have a chance to answer. So he won. See, and most of them know they're going to be defeated and end up doing what? Using ad hominem arguments insulting the creationist, you see, because they can't answer his arguments, his evidences. They're overwhelming. They're undeniable. But let me ask a question. How many of the evolutionists who are defeated say, look, that's it. I unconditionally surrender now to Jesus. Where's the nearest church? No. In fact, it's almost like they're hardened even more in their hatred against the God of the Bible, the God of creation. That's very mysterious. Okay. I'm not saying that a creation argument can't be used of God, as we shall see, God willing tonight, to help people at least pay attention to some of the things you might have to say. And the best creation science debate scenario, in my opinion, is when you walk out the door of the auditorium after the debate's over with and somebody gives you a gospel of John or a Bible tract or an invitation to a Bible study and you say, well, let me hear more. And you might use some of that wisely, you see, as a serpent, harmlessly like a dove, to get people within the sound of the what? Of the gospel. But the debate won't convert people. You sort of knew that, didn't you? It's hard for me to realize it, but dear friends, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, against mere debaters, against mere evolutionists, against mere atheists, but against what? Principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand an evil day, and having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the what? The fiery darts of the wicked or the evil one. 2 Corinthians 4 -3, if our gospel behead, if people can't see it, appreciate it, love the Savior you're telling about, is because what? The God of this world has blinded them. They may not see the Christ who's the light of the world. They can't see. I mean, Jesus talked, you know, in Matthew 13 about going forth sowing the seed. And you say, well, now wait a minute here. There's something unfair about this statement Jesus made because he said after the seed is sown, Satan comes and takes the seed away. My, it falls on hardened soil, irresponsible, irresponsive soil, and he takes it away. He blinds people. You say, well, that's not fair. That's a serious problem in the Bible. But men are responsible. It's like Pharaoh. Did God harden his heart? Did he harden his own heart? You see, there's a mysterious interaction. If you don't want the truth, you'll be further blinded. If you resist the word of God, Satan comes in and makes it even harder for you, and even harder, and even harder. And in rare cases in the lifetime of Jesus, and I think in the coming tribulation, people will be so hardened, they'll actually say of antichrist miracles, they are from God, and they will take his mark on forehand and right hand, and they're doomed before they die. They've committed the unpardonable sin. Some could do that when Jesus was here. When they saw his miracles, they said what? They're from Satan. They blaspheme the Holy Spirit, who confirmed the identity of their Messiah with sign miracles. This is awesome, friends. Now, I think the only unpardonable sin in the church age is you just keep rejecting the gospel. Until, and it's never too late, until when? Until you're dead. Then it's over. You're done forever. God says don't underestimate your enemy. Don't think you can manipulate him. You handle him. Outsmart him. No, no. Why, the greatest angel in the righteous angelic universe is Michael. He's the archangel. That means, number one, he's tops of righteous angels. And he was appointed by God on one occasion to protect the body of Moses in a distant remote region of the Dead Sea. Nobody ever saw him die. God buried him. And Satan came along to desecrate that body. Now, can you imagine the scenario here, friends? This is the night of the book of Jude, chapter 9, verse 9. Let me imagine the interchange, okay? Satan comes and says to Michael, step aside. I'm taking that body. I hated Moses for 40 years, and I'm going to destroy and desecrate the body. In the Old Testament times and in many parts of the world today, the way you're buried tells a lot about who you are. Did you know that? The body is precious to God. I mean, it's not essential. He can raise you from the dead without your body being visible. That's another issue. But Michael said, in effect, no, you can't. I mean, I was appointed by God just because he knew you would show up. You can't touch this body. And Satan says, well, you don't know who I am, do you? Did you know Satan is higher than Michael? Satan is the greatest creature in the universe. Read about him in Ezekiel 28. Oh, friends, Michael finally gave up arguing with a superior being. And he used presuppositional apologetics. Listen to this one. The Lord rebuke you, and that ended it. In other words, I can't handle you, but I know somebody who can. And I'm going to turn you over to my God. Goodbye. That's you. That is I. Lord, I can't handle this person. I need your divine help. I'm facing something vastly superior to any of my intellectual capacities to manipulate people. Help me to depend on you. You know what that is? That's an apologetic with power and passion. If you're going to have any effect on people, if you're going to be dynamic, irresistible, if you're going to win people to Jesus Christ forever and ever, you better be locked into a power system that is greater than yourself. Thank you, Lord. Now, friends, let's just take a little interlude here and look at the history of Satan, shall we? Satan's stages of downfall. You know, he had a great start. He was the anointing cherub that covered the presence of God. He was perfect in beauty. But then he had an evil thought, just one thought. I want to be like the Most High. And instantly, out he went. It didn't drag on with courts of appeal for months and years, trust me. And Jesus saw it happen. He said, I beheld Satan like lightning fall from heaven. It was instantaneous. Now, that's perfect justice. Human governments can't handle that. Watch how Jesus does it. Out he went, folks. That was his moral and spiritual fall, and perhaps 200 million demons fell with him. Jesus calls fallen angels demons. And then what happened? He experienced a second fall at the Genesis flood. Now, this is not well known, and this is based on some inferences. Okay. We read in 2 Peter and Jude that the angels that kept not their first estate, but went after strange flesh, those specially wicked ones, are now confined in chains and pits of darkness until the judgment of the great day. Who were they? Those are the ones at the time of the flood who, according to Genesis 6, you remember, took women and the sons of God, are who angels went after women, and God confined them at the Genesis flood forever to the place of judgment. I mean, they have no further access to human beings. And when Jesus the Lord showed up 2 ,000 years ago, do you know what the other demons said to him who had not been cast down into the Tartarus pit? They said, we know who you are, you son of the abbess, the pit. They still have access, I mean, millions of demons, but others are gone. They're gone. Now, friends, here was the final blow. Jesus said, now is the prince of this world cast out, and here's Genesis 3 15, and he will crush the serpent's head. And that was Calvary's cross. Maybe Satan was suspicious with suspicion that something bad would happen to himself, and he told Peter to tell Jesus what, don't go to Jerusalem and die. And Jesus said to Peter, get thee behind me, Satan. You say, well, if he was crushed at Calvary, then how come he's a roaring lion roaming around the world seeking whom he may devour? This is a deep mystery. I mean, did you know the Bible's full of difficult topics? He was judicially destroyed, but not actually. He is doomed legally, see, but God gave him an extension of activity during the church age to test the saints. See, that's very hard. I mean, just like Job chapter one, where Satan came to God and said, and God said, have you seen my servant Job? And Satan, I mean, this is so awful, I hate to quote it. And Satan said to God, oh, look, you've hedged him about, look at all the things you've done for him. You just take away those things and he'll curse you to your face. Ouch. You know what I would do if I were writing the book of Job? I'd say, God would say to him, look, I don't like you anymore. Kindly vanish forever. Now, why is Satan still here? Okay, the mystery of iniquity. Now, folks, Michael himself will have revenge on Satan someday in the middle of the seventh week of Daniel. He and his armies of righteous angels will be allowed by God to defeat Satan and his armies and cast them out of the third heaven where he has access. See, right now, Revelation 12 says Satan has access to the third heaven to do what? To accuse the brethren night and day. And he's right there now accusing you and me of all kinds of things for which we deserve an eternal hell. And the only answer Jesus can give him or needs to give him is what? Well, you're right, sir, he is really not a perfect person. And we only take perfect persons up here. But I died for him and I took his sin on myself and transferred my righteous to him goodbye. Now, you know, that's Zechariah chapter three, Joshua the high priest was filthy and Satan was there accusing him. And God said to him, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. Out of here. And clothed him, you see, in fresh clean garments representing what you and I wear in the sight of a holy God by virtue of his merits through his blood. Well, that's not the end for Satan. He's cast down knowing his time is short and he has three and a half more years on this planet to empower the antichrist, his human masterpiece, number two and who's the person in the Trinity of evil? And who's the second person? The antichrist, the beast. And the third person is who? The false prophet who performs miracles and transforms the statue of the antichrist into a living being that will kill people who won't bow before it. Talk about satanic miracles like the ones you know that Pharaoh's henchmen did in the court of Egypt to oppose Moses and Aaron. And what were their names? Janus and Jambres. Hmm. Wow. Satan will have enormous power for the final three and a half years. That's why it is called the great tribulation, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, those three and a half final years. And Satan will almost take over the world. Jesus said, unless those days are shortened, no flesh will survive. Say, thank you, Lord. I am a part of your bride and your body and you're not going to allow me to suffer the wrath of man or the wrath of Satan or the wrath of God in that awful period of time. Thank you for the pre -tribulation rapture. I heard three saying amen. Think of it, friends. We're going to be gone before this happens. Then comes what? The second coming of Christ, the Armageddon encounter and Satan and all his demons and the antichrist and the false prophet are cast down into the pit, the obeses. And there they will remain for a thousand years. But the amazing, amazing thing is that after a thousand years, Satan is going to be released again for a little time to test the nations who have been basking under the blessing of a perfect government, perfect economy, perfect environment for a thousand years. But many children are born, billions of people are born into the kingdom who've never really made a personal choice. And just like God had to do for Adam and Eve, he'll say, I'm going to give you a very, very credible choice alternative to me. And back comes Satan and enormous masses of people follow him like sand of the sea from multitude. And finally what? Fire comes from heaven and devours them all and consumes planet earth and the moon, the other eight planets, their moons, the sun, all the other stars and galaxies and the heavens and earth flee away from him who sits upon the throne. There'll be no place found for them. And Satan and the demons and those who never believed Jesus are consigned forever and ever to the lake of fire. And those who love Jesus and made a choice for him. Yes, even in the presence of satanic alternatives will be in God's heaven forever and ever. And I say, Lord, I just need help here. These are enormous things that are going on that I can't even see with my unaided eye. But through your precious word, these things come to light and you give me understanding that I need to be effective for you and patient and gracious and loving and prayerful, knowing that apart from you, I can do a thing. Help me, I pray in Jesus name. Amen. Do you have questions about what you're hearing in this series of biblical apologetics? Please share your thoughts with us at facebook .com slash Whitcomb ministries, and we'll try to respond and make use of your questions and comments. You can pass this message along to anyone at sermonaudio .com slash Whitcomb and point them to many additional resources at Whitcombministries .org. I want to read a portion of Psalm 107 to you before we depart. Until next time, I'm Wayne Shepard. Thanks for listening to encounter God's truth, where we teach every week that God's word is true from the beginning to the end.
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A highlight from The Necessity of God's Power (Part 1)
"God's Word has infinite power, and God's Word is true from the beginning to the end. And today on Encounter God's Truth, Bible teacher Dr. John Whitcomb presents part one of a message called The Necessity of God's Power. The Bible clearly explains that every person possesses a sin nature that renders us totally depraved. This desperate condition requires God's perfect ability in order to make it possible for anyone to believe the Gospel and be saved. This can never be accomplished by our feeble attempts to manipulate or trick people into accepting the Gospel. In this lesson, Dr. Whitcomb unfolds the place that arguments and evidences for the Christian faith should have and are witnessed in light of both the total depravity of man and the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. If you have your Bible, you'll want to follow and listen carefully as we turn to a number of different passages in both the Old and New Testaments. I'm your host, Wayne Shepard, inviting you to go with me now inside the auditorium at Appalachian Bible College in Mount Hope, West Virginia, for this installment in our series Biblical Apologetics. Here's Dr. Whitcomb. And friends, I greet you once again in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and what a name that is. Through Him, the whole universe was created, including the angels at the dawn of earth history. And through Him, the whole world is sustained, upheld, and directed. He's the Lord of history. Through His precious blood, we have been redeemed, confirmed by His bodily resurrection from the dead, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and He is coming again, perhaps today, to catch His bride away, to meet Him in the air. Are we ready? And He will come and establish His kingdom upon the earth. He will be the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is not only the Alpha, He is the Omega, the beginning and the end. And what a name, well known in the third heaven, the name we must know to approach God the Father. Now friends, we are faced in this world with an impossible commission. The Lord Jesus said, make disciples of all nations. And then He added some more impossible things. These disciples are to openly publicly identify with the three persons of the triune Godhead, the second person being Jesus of Nazareth. Now for a Jew, that would be an impossible commitment. You mean that mere man who died on a cross? How could he be the second person of a triune Godhead? And so we're to be baptized into the name of the Father and into the name of the Son and into the name of the Holy Spirit. And we are to teach people to observe all things whatsoever He has commanded us. You say that is impossible, impossible. In a godless world, a selfish world, a satanically dominated world, a sinful world, and therefore He guarantees it will work. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. And without Him, we can do nothing. And that's our purpose these days together, dear friends, yesterday. And I trust as well tonight. How do we accomplish the impossible task? Certainly not by shriveling it down and minimizing it so it's manageable by finite minds like ours. No, no. We don't compromise anything. Jesus said you're to teach them all things whatsoever I have commanded you. You say, well, Lord, there's so many things in here that I don't even understand that are so difficult. And God says, well, dear child, that's right. I have recorded things that are really impossible for you to fully fathom. And God is ultimately incomprehensible by finite minds. And we'll never know Him exhaustively, but thank God through the Holy Spirit and the Word of God we can know Him sufficiently and increasingly in the process of sanctification as we grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and His wonderful, wonderful work and His ministry through the Holy Spirit on our behalf from day to day. Now, friends, we have seen already, I trust, that every effort to make people believe fails. And there are enormous movements today among Christians, even born -again Christians, not just nominal Christians, such as dominate, I'm sorry to say, the intelligent design movement, for example, that are using rationalistic methods to reach depraved hearts and minds. And I have to always say to people who ask about this term depravity, depraved hearts and minds, what does that really mean? Well, friends, from God's perspective, and that is the way the whole Bible is written from Genesis to Revelation, from God's perspective, the human mind is so poisoned and distorted through sin that no matter how nice we become through, hopefully, positive environmental influence of families and culture and society, like in our beloved nation of America, we are incapable totally of making ourselves acceptable to a thrice holy God. And that's the whole point of these passages that, frankly, in the Bible seems so shocking to me, at least. Listen to this one, Job 15, verse 14. What is man that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints. And I believe that reference probably is to angelic beings, righteous angels, primarily. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Even the third heaven is contaminated, as we shall see, for a special reason. Almost unbelievable. How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water? Now we had a huge aquarium in our home, huge by personal standards, under a beautiful window where the sun would frequently come in and just inflame those goldfish in there. six And our children just loved watching those goldfish slither through that water, and we often asked ourselves the question, do those fish know that they're wet? What do you think? Well first question, are they wet? Do they know they're wet? Why not? They're immersed in that medium to such an extent they don't even know they're in it. That's the point. And a fish discovers, if we can put it that way, how wet he is when you take him out of the water and he flounders around desperately longing for his normal, natural environment. And that's God's shocking picture, you see, of us and our sin nature. We're so immersed in a sinful world, Satan's world, with people of the world and possessed as we are of a sin nature that we're really not even shocked, we're not even aware of it, we're not even offended by it, we're not even depressed by it. We just sort of drink iniquity like water and it's just a normal way of living. And when God takes us out of that through regeneration, increasingly through sanctification, we become more and more sensitized to what sin really is so that you can read what the apostle Paul said, which I read with amazement. And I think maybe he's really not serious when he said, I am the chief of what? Sinners. You see, this is ridiculous. I mean, you're just playing games with words, sir. Chief of sinners. Why, you're an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and you've been gifted, you know, with prophetic messages and capacities to listen to and communicate the will and mind of God uniquely and you're an apostle. And what do you mean you're the chief of sinners? That is a genuine mark of self -awareness through the Holy Spirit's illumination. Now, of course, friends, we can become totally defeated and depressed if we look at this from just one perspective. We must do like the apostle Paul, while admitting he was the chief of sinners and not worthy to be an apostle and the least of all the saints, et cetera, et cetera, nevertheless, he knew that in Christ, he had infinite power. And that's the perfect balance. Never depending on ourselves or anything in ourselves, but only and totally and exclusively on him. Would you turn with me to Ephesians chapter two? Look at verse one. And you hath he quickened, or made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Dead. And I say, well, Lord, isn't that somewhat of an exaggeration? Keep reading. Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world. Now, this is a definitive statement of all people who are unsaved. According to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, and that is disobedient people, among whom also we all had our conversation, our manner of life in times past, in what? Watch it now. In the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. And we're by nature the children of wrath. That is, we are under the wrath of God, apart from Christ, even as others. And you say, well, Lord, that's serious. Well, friends, turn over to Ephesians 4 and look at how the Spirit of God brought to the pen of the Apostle Paul words that even more emphatically clarify what total depravity is. Ephesians chapter 4, let's begin with verse 17. Having this I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk. Now, walk, you understand, means just a manner of life, just your whole course of life, your day -by -day routines. In the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart, who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. You say, well, Lord, that must be a description of radical sinners. Is that a picture of every person who is not born again? And friends, here we have to be careful. Careful. You don't look at a person, a loving person, a lovely person, apparently an honest person of good reputation and start applying verses like this directly to that person. You don't look at a newborn baby and say to the mother, this is a total sinner. Careful in this. But the Bible says drastic things, even about children, that only the blood of Jesus can solve. Psalm 51, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and sin did what? Did my mother conceive me? That doesn't mean she was a specially sinful person or that becoming a mother is a sinful act. It means I have an infinitely deep problem that cannot be traced back to something I did when I was younger, a teenager or something. No, I was sinful. I had a sin nature I inherited from my mother and father who inherited their sin nature from their parents. And by the way, let me just give a side point on this. The reason Jesus had no sin nature is not because Mary was sinless, but because the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and controlled that aspect of her mother's nature. He inherited her nature and through her, you see, a connection with the human race, especially back to David, the king. But he did not inherit her sin nature. By the way, if she had no sin nature, then how could she have been born from a sinless mother who was born from sinless mother? This is total absurdity. You see, a stupendous miracle occurred at the conception of Jesus. He is the only baby ever born sinless in the history of the world or ever will be. You say, sir, these are very disparaging things to say about beautiful babies. Well, friends, that's why, of course, we know that every baby that's conceived is not created by God, but what? Procreated through sinful parents back to Adam who sinned. In Adam, we all sinned, Romans 5 -12. This is a very difficult Bible teaching to fathom. But I believe, as many of us do, that by a special work of God's grace, and this has problems with it, too, that I can't fathom, that unborn babies that are aborted or newborn babies or children earlier than the age of accountability, whatever that might be, are provided for by Christ who says, they behold the face of my father, of their angels in heaven. I mean, there's something about this that is very mysterious. David said about his baby that God killed, the first baby from Bathsheba, you remember. I will go to him. He cannot come to me, but I'll go to him. And that has to mean heaven. I'm going to see my baby. Now, friends, unless we think deeply about this, you see, we're hopeless in terms of being a witness to anybody and leading anybody to the Lord. If we allow for one moment the thought to cross our mind that people aren't quite as bad as the Bible seems to say they are, and therefore I can manipulate them and I can illuminate them by my brilliance and my superior knowledge and understanding, and I can outwit them and outsmart them, and they will have to be, what, converted through me. You say, well, I'd never think that. But there are thousands of Christian leaders, friends, who operate on that basis today. It's called rationalistic apologetics. It's a horrible sounding word, isn't it? But here's what the Bible says, that that mind that you're going to change by better arguments, by intellectual proofs of the truth of the Bible and Christianity and arguments even for wonderful, obvious truths like the bodily resurrection of Jesus, will fall on total dead rock. No response if it is your word and your opinion and your theories and your arguments and your evidences that are being used.
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A highlight from Hugh talks "Filthy Rich Politicians" with Matt Lewis
"Welcome America back using a song from the boss because it's quoted in this brand new book. Matt Lewis, filthy rich politicians. Matt Lewis joins us now. Good morning, Matt. How are you? Hey Hugh, I'm doing amazing. Good to see you. Good to see you. It's been a long time. First time I met Matt was in 2008 at the Texas Republican State Convention. I don't know if you remember back that far, Matt, but you're that old. I do, you took us out to dinner and paid. I remember that really well. All right, well, Matt, this is a fine book. Congratulations. I want to begin though. Thank you very much. And Hugh, I was a young staffer at townhall .com at the time. And that's why you paid. your I appreciate mentorship of young conservatives. I try, I try. And this is a very good book. We agree on about 75%. We disagree on some and we'll get to that. But I want to start with, you know, you wrote the best article or book on grifting by PACs, by super PACs. And you know, one of the things Jack Smith is investigating is illegal fundraising by the Donald Trump stay in office effort. Do you find it unusual that the first person to get prosecuted for that is the former president? Oh, I think it's, you know, I think it's one of those things where the nail that stands up gets hammered down. What's the old proverb about that? You know, I think it's a combination of factors, but Donald Trump has put himself in the line of fire, so to speak, legally. So not - I'm just so disturbed by that because based on your first book, I don't think I've ever received an honest fundraising appeal. I mean, you, especially the ones that came up during the Tea Party movement, didn't you write that original story on the Tea Party movement with just a giant grift? Yeah, no, I wrote, so I wrote an op -ed for the Wall Street Journal about this. And part of it ended up also being in my book as well, my old book, Too Dump to Fail. But yeah, this was a real problem. In fact, there were candidates running, I'm sorry, candidates who weren't even running for office, had no plans to run for office, and someone would start a super PAC like Draft Condi Rice, and somebody would raise millions of dollars, and most of it would go in their own pocket. I it's think scam PACs was the term - That's your term, scam PACs. And I appreciate that, and I tell everyone about it all the time. Never give a dollar to a PAC, never. It's lining the pockets of a crooked person. So Matt, let's get to filthy rich politicians. First of all, I did not know you grew up in Maryland. I did not know you had moved to West Virginia. So are you gonna support Jim Justice or Joe Manchin in the Senate race, Matt Lewis? What do you live with? I'm for Jim Justice mainly because he has this amazing bulldog named Baby Dog. And I literally live in a state when during the COVID pandemic, in order to get West Virginians vaccinated, which by the way, Jim Justice was a leading governor early on pushing vaccinations, in order to get West Virginians vaccinated, we had a lottery where Baby Dog would pick the winner and you could win a gun or a truck. And so based on that alone, Jim Justice has earned my vote. Well, Baby Dog has been on this show. And Baby Dog, I don't know how old Baby Dog is, or if it's like the Georgia Bulldog and it's like Baby Dog 4, but Baby Dog is a heck of a campaign operator. Let's start with a name of a book I've never seen before. Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty. This is a big book in your life. I wrote an advice book once called In But Not Of. Is this book still, you're the one you recommend, Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty. Does it still work? It's been decades, I assume, since you read it. Absolutely. So it's by a guy named Harvey McKay. And he was, believe it or not, in the envelope business, as I recall. I think he had another book called Pushing the Envelope. He had another book called How to Swim with the Sharks and Not Get Eaten. And he literally wrote this book, it's called Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty, the only networking book you'll ever need. And me coming from a very rural background, the son of a prison guard, my dad was a correctional officer in Hagerstown, Maryland for 30 years. I honestly had no idea the concept of networking. I mean, even the concept of like, let's make friends with people and when you have a book that comes out, maybe you email them and they'll have you on the radio show. Like the way that the world works for 99 % of successful people, I literally had no concept of that. No one ever taught me, no one ever taught me like, literally set me down and had a conversation with me about it and I also never observed it in practice. And so at the age of 25 or 26, I read this book and it actually changed my life. And it still works? You think it would still work today? Absolutely. Oh, absolutely. I mean, because this is based on relationships. Remember in Jerry Maguire, his mentor, is it Dickey, whatever, says to you, the key to this business is personal relationships. You can't sell anybody if you don't love everybody. Like that will work forever. It doesn't matter if there's technology or no technology. And by the way, this is not a manipulative thing. That's the thing I loved about this book is that Harvey McKay was not advising, let's manipulate people. It was about building relationships and friendships with people that are reciprocal and mutually beneficial and I'm a fan. Yeah, there are three kinds of friendship according to Aristotle. The first, the friendship of utility. There's nothing wrong with it. It doesn't bring pleasure. The second kind of friendship or wisdom, the third kind of friendship, but it is necessary. So I'm glad to plug that book. Now on money, your general theory is Tug McGraw quote. I like it, I love it, I want more of it. I am with you too, but the best way to do that is to work three jobs for 50 years. You're not gonna get rich quick in America. You have to work three jobs for 50 years and you'll be comfortable. You have got nothing against money. I want to be clear at the beginning of that. You're not an anti -capitalist. That's exactly right and I tried to go out of my way to really stress that. My wife is a Republican political fundraiser for conservative candidates and I'm somebody who's here hawking a book desperately, trying to get people to go to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books -A -Million, wherever fine books are sold and buy filthy rich politicians. So I am a capitalist, I am a entrepreneurial, I love America and I want to become filthy rich. But I also, I will say, Hugh, I don't think money's the root of all evil. I do think the love of money is the root of all evil. So obviously we have to keep things in perspective and not become greedy. And honestly, I think that's the problem with our politicians is that a lot of them, they're disordered. Their priority is not we the people, it's actually cashing in. That to me is the problem. And you make a good argument that a number of people are driven by that. Let's start with our common area of most agreement. I believe with you and you make a good case, stock trading, active stock trading by members of Congress should be illegal. You make that argument at length, Nancy Pelosi is exhibit number one, but there are a lot of offenders. Why do you think that? I agree with you, I can parrot your argument, but you make your argument. Why should stock trading be illegal by members of Congress? Well, first let me say, I don't wanna take credit for this development, but just today, this morning, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Senators Josh Hawley and Kirsten Gillibrand are about to propose a law that would do exactly what I'm calling for, which is banning members of Congress and their families from betting on stock market. And the reason for this, Hugh, is a couple reasons. Number one, it really looks like several prominent members of Congress are engaging in insider trading. In other words, and I can go chapter and verse on this if you want, but we don't have to get too in the weeds, but very clearly, if you look in the book, it looks like members, prominent members of Congress are using inside information that they have from their jobs in Congress to make money to profit on the stock market. And also, I think even more disturbing, during times of crisis or great change, they're using their information to mitigate the losses, to dump stock before something bad happens. They have information you and I as citizens do not have. So I think whether they're really, whether they're engaging in insider trading or whether it just looks like it, either way, it is eroding trust in liberal democracy, in our institutions, and in our lawmakers. Yeah, if we go back to the market crisis of 2008, my dear friend, John Campbell, one of the most ethical men I know, a car dealer, by the way, who came to Congress with a lot of money told me, because Matt has some harsh words for car dealers where I disagree with him, but we'll come back to that, but John is very, very ethical. I've gone to church with him forever. I know him very, very well, and he's a good car dealer and an honest man. He's out of the business now. But he told me about a briefing he got during the financial crisis. He didn't trade stocks. He would never do that. But if you had been in that briefing, you would have dumped every financial stock, and apparently some people did. They should go to jail, but that's not technically insider information. Right, so first of all, it hasn't even been illegal for Congress to engage in inside trading until 2012. That's when Congress passed the Stock Act, and now it is illegal for them to do it. However, I guess my argument is, and I go back to Martha Stewart, you know? I mean, what would you do if someone called you up, let's say someone called me up and said, hey, Matt, you know that stock that you've got your entire retirement in right now? They're gonna announce tomorrow that that super drug doesn't really work. So just a heads up. Tomorrow it's gonna come out that that drug that you've invested your entire life savings in is not effective, and it's hurting people, actually. What would I do? You'd kinda be a fool if you didn't dump the stock, right? You'd be an idiot. And so I think just as the normal course of work of a member of Congress, you're going to be privy to information that average members, average citizens do not have. And so the best way, and it's impossible to police this, how do we know for certain whether Senator Richard Burr knew COVID was going to be so bad because he's the chairman of the Intel Committee, or maybe he just reads a lot of newspapers and follows the story more closely than most Americans. It's impossible to sort of parse things like that. So the simplest way to solve this problem is to ban members of Congress from trading in the stock market. You can still own mutual funds. And Matt Lewis and I are gonna continue talking about this, but banning stock trading by Congress and their family, their spouse, not their kids, their spouse is absolutely essential to the integrity of the United States. Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back with Matt Lewis. The book is Filthy Rich Politicians. Matt knows the Luntz Law, which is to say the title of the book seven times in every interview, but we're gonna say it more than that. Filthy Rich Politicians. Stay tuned.
AP News Radio
West Virginia's Huggins agrees to $1M pay cut, 3-game suspension for homophobic slur
"Bob huggins has agreed to a three game suspension a $1 million salary reduction and sensitivity training for using a homophobic slur during a radio interview the university announced Wednesday. West Virginia university president Gordon gee and athletic director ren baker said in a joint statement that the university has, quote, made it explicitly clear to coach huggins that any incidents of similar derogatory and offensive language will result in immediate termination. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
The Dan Bongino Show
Report: Biden Expected to Announce Reelection Bid
"Apparently according to multiple sources from the Democrats I'm these are my sources These are people in the Democrats are saying or their sources to be clear What do you think I'm like sitting in a Democrat focus group Dan come on in No these people don't talk to me at all I'm just telling you what other Democrats are openly reporting Joe Biden is planning to announce a reelection effort tomorrow Tuesday or sometime this week which I think is so obscenely stupid I don't even know what he's thinking It's not even just an age at you It's a competence issue It's an agenda issue He is so far alienated Be centrist wing and granted it's an increasingly small population of Democrat party but it is there They no mistake I mean Joe Manchin still wins in West Virginia despite the fact that Trump won there by double digits So let's not pretend they're not out there They may not be as big a number as they were during the Clinton era but in the Democrat leadership council but they're still there But he is so alienated them with everything from paying off your neighbor's student loans to this new push to racially gerrymander your neighborhood to this pushing of transgender ideology and having these influencers at The White House He is so alienated people I'm not sure he can ever kind of pull back the magnet towards the center there I don't think he can do that
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: Hopes of Moving From Michigan to Tennessee for Retirement
"Hi, Todd. It's an honor to speak to you. Well, thank you. I have, you're welcome. I've lived in Michigan all my life 66 years. And it seems to be getting bluer and bluer. And I live in Wayne county, which is probably one of the most corrupt counties in Michigan. And I'm just begging my husband. He's going to retire and maybe three years to move south. And I can hardly wait. Now, Sunday, have you picked out any particular state? I mean, I live in Tennessee. I can vouch for the volunteer state. We're pretty good people down here. Yes, sir. I love the volunteers. At this point, Todd, I moved to north Ohio. It's so bad. But I do want to go more self than that. And I would love to move to Tennessee. I'd like to get a couple acres and do some farming. Well, I think that look, I think that's an excellent idea, and you know Sunday it's when you look at what's happening with China, buying up all of the farmland, we had somebody on the show yesterday talking briefly about that, and the fact that we could find ourselves in a shooting war with the Chinese very soon. I think that's a pretty smart thing to find yourself some property, start planting some crops and try to be a self sufficient as you can possibly be and get away from those big urban areas. Yes, sir, my people, my mother and father came from West Virginia. My mother's side, the coal miners, my dad's side was more white collar. But I absolutely loved the south, the people in it, and I agree with Howard. I don't want them moving down there and bring their politics with them. That's no good, but I would love to move to Tennessee.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Rep. Ben Cline: AM Radio Still Has Its Place in This Country
"One of the concerns I have in addition to being a radio host I actually own a radio station, a kwa, the new stock station at Memphis, and one of the things that concerns me you have some of these car manufacturers that announcing they're doing away with a.m. radio, and I know there is a big push on Capitol Hill to save a.m. radio, which is vitally important, not just getting news and information out, but also during emergencies, the emergency alert system tied into a.m. radio. Well, I'll admit I haven't listened to it in a while, but we have a very rural district. I'm in the western part of Virginia along the west, Virginia border and you can get down in some hollows pretty quick where the only station you're going to get is going to be an a.m. station. So I think that it definitely has its listening audience. And while it may not be as powerful as the other forms of radio, it's still got a place in many parts of the country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"west virginia" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"We now have the attorney general of West Virginia, mister Morrissey with us who to discuss the Supreme Court recent decision. It's just hard to even grasp. Mister Morrissey, welcome back to the program. I know you might have some big announcements soon. That's not why you're here though. Tell us about the Supreme Court's decision. It's really something. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. So Charlie, first of all, thank you for having me back on. I know a couple of weeks ago we talked about this very basic concept that biologically men are different than women. And the West Virginia legislature, I think in a smart move, drafted a law, I think it was constitutional, was permissible, and they said that biological males should not participate in women's sports. We went through an entire process where the district court first slapped an injunction against the law, but Charlie went to work with submitted all these documents. We have an evidentiary record second to none. And we won. We wanted the district court level. Then we went to the Court of Appeals, the fourth circuit. They reversed. They said that there should be an injunction in place. So we thought, let's go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's take it to the high court. The U.S. Supreme Court though, unfortunately, in a procedural setback last week, not going to lift the injunction. So there's obviously an injunction now against the West Virginia law. I think that defies common sense and basic fairness, but I will say this to you, Charlie. This was a decision on a procedural ground. I think we're going to win on the merits. I'm going to keep fighting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey Is Fighting to Protect Girls' Sports
"We now have the attorney general of West Virginia, mister Morrissey with us who to discuss the Supreme Court recent decision. It's just hard to even grasp. Mister Morrissey, welcome back to the program. I know you might have some big announcements soon. That's not why you're here though. Tell us about the Supreme Court's decision. It's really something. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. So Charlie, first of all, thank you for having me back on. I know a couple of weeks ago we talked about this very basic concept that biologically men are different than women. And the West Virginia legislature, I think in a smart move, drafted a law, I think it was constitutional, was permissible, and they said that biological males should not participate in women's sports. We went through an entire process where the district court first slapped an injunction against the law, but Charlie went to work with submitted all these documents. We have an evidentiary record second to none. And we won. We wanted the district court level. Then we went to the Court of Appeals, the fourth circuit. They reversed. They said that there should be an injunction in place. So we thought, let's go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's take it to the high court. The U.S. Supreme Court though, unfortunately, in a procedural setback last week, not going to lift the injunction. So there's obviously an injunction now against the West Virginia law. I think that defies common sense and basic fairness, but I will say this to you, Charlie. This was a decision on a procedural ground. I think we're going to win on the merits. I'm going to keep fighting.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Detransitioner Oli London Tells Us About His New Book
"Tell our audience about your book. Okay, so my book is basically detailing everything that's going on right now with woke culture with gender ideology and I explore what is behind this recent trend that is pushing thousands of young people to transition. I look at how these clinics, these lobby groups are operating, how different schools are trying to indoctrinate people using drag story hours and classes on pronouns and changing gender and how, you know, we have Hollywood. We have TikTok. We have popular culture, shows like RuPaul, how all of these are taking effect and changing and indoctrinating huge numbers of young people, Generation Z so I look at all those issues and I look at how can parents regain their rights, how can women get their rights back because we saw just the other day Riley gaines was attacked. So in my whole book covers all of these issues and you know how we can come together as a society to fix this current system that is causing so much harm for kids and so much harm to women.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dylan Mulvaney: Face of Corporate America? With Oli London
"Through this. Other element, which I think is important. So your tweet here, because there's so much in your tweet, which I think is great. It pushes millions via the Human Rights Campaign, obviously receives money from George Soros. So TikTok promotes Dylan's videos heavily. So tell us about that. So Dylan Mulvaney has got over 10 million TikTok followers. And every single one of his videos gets millions and millions, some of them tens of millions of views. And that's no coincidence Charlie. We've seen since TikTok came about in 2018, suddenly gender ideology is everywhere. Suddenly kids in the classroom now want to transition. So TikTok has a huge responsibility with this. And the fact that TikTok pushes Dylan is not only China trying to destroy American society trying to destroy the family unit, but this is also brands look at Dylan's views and they don't have morals. No, Nike clearly don't have morals bud like clearly don't have moles. They will literally hire anyone if they can tap into that market and right now for brands for advertising TikTok is the biggest market you have a big return on investment if you advertise with influencers on there. So, you know, these companies, they see Dylan being successful. They don't care what message they'll and sends. They don't care that Dylan mocks with me. But that's the question. I don't mean to cut you off, I am sorry. We're just short on time. But is it working? Are they gaining customers because of this? That's my, I'm curious. And I don't know, because I'm just in the permanent state of curiosity of the country I live in because I obviously live in a bubble where I think this stuff is insane. And I think it's wrong and it's evil and it's perverted and it's just terrible. But are they losing customers? Are they gaining market value? I know that the stocks have gone down a little bit and some of these companies, but they've seen the regain it rather quickly. Is this a 6 outside of all the ideology? Is this actually a profitable strategy? Has it been proven to be one? I mean, we saw Bud Light the other day last $2 from their stocks and basically Bud Light have not responded since April 1st, they haven't posted on social media because I think they weren't expecting that backlash.
Game of Crimes
"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"As far as statues are limitations. Well, unless it's like murder or something, I think by this time most of these things have expired. I mean, unless you guys got a perpetual statute of limitations. Yeah, that's true. There's no statute of limitations on felony. Any felony? Yeah, any felony. It goes on forever and ever and ever. I didn't know that. Wow. Note to self quit going to Charles town. Okay. You going to Charleston or Charles town? Did you know Charles towns up by harpers ferry? So we're in the north west corner of loudoun county. So we've been over to actually charlestown was one of the places we thought about moving to. We've been looking at our final move where we're going to go. So love Harper's ferry area up there. Charlestown. They've got the racism slots up there now. So that area is growing and there's a couple of communities over there with new homes that look like really nice. But it's cold and they get snow. So there's no reason to go there. Man, I'm used to cold and snow. It's true. But the other thing too, Murph would never let me live it down if I moved to by God West Virginia. So I'm going to have to rethink that. Maybe I'll just move on to the line and not over. I'm not real sure we'd give you citizenship in West Virginia Morgan. Well, you'd have to apply. We'd have to get permission. And you know that. Well, okay guys, if I did, I would double the states like you instantly by moving across the line. So there you go. You want to mow down. Maybe not that. Maybe the number of teeth. You might qualify for that. And I have two eyebrows, too. I don't know if you noticed that too. Man, I should say that being from Kansas, man, come on. And Tom, so I mean, we're wrapping this up now, and I just want to say this, the story that everybody just heard from you is while we invited you to be on here. I'm honored, I'm proud to have you on here. I was the same with Jeff. You guys are the first two west virginians we've had on the podcast. I love it. There's so many heroic stories that come out of West Virginia, but you're such a humble guy, just like Jeff was we were having a full team with him as well. But that speaks to your credibility, your integrity, and having been, you know, went to high school and college in west virgin I'm not native West Virginia. I'm from originally from Tennessee, but I've
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"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Run at four and a half years. And what years were you the colonel? I started in January of 93, and I think it was 90 7 or 98 that I left. And I went to a private law firm at that point. So did you leave because of a change in governor or was that about enough time for you? Well, both before I took the position, I had one more year to go because I could add my military time. I had to go one more year before I'd actually vest in my retirement. So I figured I could last a year before I got fired. So I went in there and I knew the governor, it was his second term. We have two term limit policy here in West Virginia. So I knew he'd be leaving and it's customary winning governor leaves that when he comes in, he sets up his own people and state police has always, you know, that's always a high profile position to take. So I knew I'd be leaving when the next governor came in anyway, but I had already invested in my retirement, so it kind of all worked out. Nice. So what kind of coach? At the same time that you were selected as a superintendent, you were also appointed as the first deputy secretary of what they now call the West Virginia cabinet Department of Homeland Security, right? Your responsibilities were just mounting and mounting a mountain here. It's not as easy as just carrying a title. Yeah, that's true. You know, in the second, the second time I came in the state government is when it really got complicated because I came into form at that time governor Joe Manchin now U.S. senator Joe Manchin called me up and wanted me to start our intelligence unit or fusion center. So I started that and then when Jeff took over his cabinet secretary, he asked me to come in and it's definitely a cabinet secretary, but then he also signed me to be his chief general counsel. Oh yeah, and he also assigned me to be the governor's Homeland Security adviser and eventually also the acting director of the emergency management department. And did you also have to go out and get pizza on a regular basis too on top? I had to wash his car. I don't know. So many things. You know, Jeff Jeff just said, Jeff, by the way, Jeff said you missed a few spots. He's going to bring it by later and just have you touch it up for him.
Game of Crimes
"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Said, I'll give you the money for your application. To take the LSAT, law school admission test. And he said, if you don't get accepted, you don't owe me anything. But if you get accepted, he said, you have to pay me back. And so, you know, I thought, you know, what I have to lose. So I went ahead and took it. And, you know, eventually got accepted into law school. So that's why I'm pretty sure that guy. I'm pretty sure that guy was Gary Willis. I'm trying to find I'm having a hard time here. Wow, so you lost a bet. But so you were the first person in the West Virginia state police to go to law school. Yeah, since then, we've had a number of people, but yeah, but I mean, here you are, here's a guy who refuses to write tickets, you know, would rather work you see. And now you're a lawyer. You must have been one popular guy. You know, actually, you know, here's what I did. I went to the superintendent of the state police at the time. I'm not going to mention his name. But he's retired FBI agent and I said, look, I've got an opportunity to go to law school. But I said, I can't go to law school. Without a job. We're one family income. I've got a young son. I said, I can't do it without a salary. And I said, and he said, well, what do you propose? You know, I said, how about letting me go to law school? On my off hours, you know, I'll go out and I'll work the interstate. I'll do whatever you need me to do. And don't worry about study time. I'll find study time on vacation weekends, whatever I need to do. And so he said, well, I don't know. I'll have to think about that. So I went ahead and went the first year. And so after the first year, I went back to him and I said, okay, I've done it for a year, and you see my activity sheets. You've seen what I've been able to do here, but I can't do that for another two years. I can't do it. I can't do that and work at the same time. And so he said, well, he said, I've thought about this. And I think you're just a little too progressive for the state police. Which floored me. I mean, are you not supposed to be progressive? So I actually quit law school. That was like an 84. Well, I got to know one of the attorneys up there real well that literally wrote the book on criminal law in West Virginia. I mean, literally, everybody refers to frankly rules on evidence of criminal law. And I got to know him real well, really good guy who was defense attorney. I had a couple of cases against him. And he treated me like gold. He really did. And so he called me up about a year. After I left, and he said, look, we're starting, it was two years later. He called me up and he said, we're starting a new program. It's a part time program.
Game of Crimes
"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"A lot of those things came out of the 80s and 90s, but by the time you put this case together, what federal agencies had been working regularly with you to put this case together. It was you, IRS, who else? Yeah, almost exclusively the IRS. IRS was, you know, like I said, we're the ones that actually began to work together on it. And what I was able to do was I was able to take my undercover operations and tailor them to what was needed to shore up the federal crimes that IRS had information on, but they didn't have, they didn't have tape recordings or they didn't have they had a nickname. There was a guy from Hawaii that the only thing they had was a nickname. And the only way you will find stuff out like that was to have somebody on the inside. So that's where I came in, was I was able to not only give them that information, but give them associates of those people so that then they could go back and begin to look at their files. And that's how it grew so large was because the U.S. attorney's office actually set up an office just for us to store all the stuff in to meet to store all the tapes in because we had hundreds and hundreds of tapes. Of course, with phone records we had tax records and then as the grand jury started before we actually made the arrest, we pulled some people in that we thought could give us information that would, even if they went back to gallon and told them about, it didn't look like it would be related to him. It might be related to some of the people that he worked around, but they were key points that we couldn't figure out. And the federal system has the best grand jury thing going. I mean, you don't hardly see that at all in state. When I was a state prosecutor, I tried to get that rolling here in West Virginia, but never got it up and running, but federal grand jury is a powerful powerful thing. I mean, they tell you, they can tell you, we're going to put wiretap on. And for a federal agent to go do that or state agent to go do that, it takes mounds and mounds of paperwork and you have to try everything else. Imaginable before you can actually go do that. But the grand jury can say, hey, go do that. We want to hear this.
Game of Crimes
"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"I mean, and that's one of the reasons I think captain trooper called me up there was because every time he turned around and heard about breaking an entering, someone getting ripped off was something drugs, anything else I kept coming back to this one name. So that's it was basically see if you can get on the inside of your organization and see if we can get enough information for the feds to be involved with. So that we can take this guy out of the picture for a while. So very viable target and probably one of the main targets in that part of the state, if not the entire state of West Virginia and probably the surrounding area as well, right? Oh, I remember I remember listening to the radio station on the morning that we made all the arrest and remember that it was cold. It was in February. You know, I remember the announcer saying, you know, the temperature outside is 32° except for and he named a small town in clarksburg. He said where the temperature is well over a hundred there right now. And he said, the only gallows that are left in clarksburg right now are Ernest and Julio. So. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, this guy's obviously like target number one. So how long did you work that before, like you said before it started becoming apparent? This has got to be a bigger effort. It can't just be the state police, like you said, it's got to be the feds. Kind of walk us through that progression, how long it took you to work that up to get start getting additional involvement. Okay. Well, after I worked on for one, we knew that we couldn't take it locally. Number one, they didn't want to do it locally because in West Virginia we have counting prosecutors. Those change.
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"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"He came over and got in a car and I remember it was hard to carry on a conversation because he was using both hands to hold up the headliner on the car. But I can also imagine somebody calling 9-1-1. Somebody calling 9-1-1. I think some guys being rob, the one guy's driving the other guy's got his hands in the air. You know, and anyway, but you know what? Nobody would ever suspect you of being a trooper because a trooper wouldn't let their car get in that kind of hell no. And you know, that's it. That's it. I mean, I used to do, you know, I had a baby seat in the back. I mean, you know, you do all that stuff that at that time you think was probably the right thing to do, but so you get this, you get this totally undercover car. I mean, congrats to because you know that these guys probably got the connections to check you out. Yeah, and they did. Actually, one night, and I'm going to jump ahead a little bit, but one night while I'm actually inside a place they called the taxi stand, which is where he ran all of his operations. While I'm in there, one of his guys comes out and writes down my inspection sticker number and looks at the tag and writes down the little number on the sticker on the tab and I know this because the only surveillance I had was Ricky Brown, who was on top of a parking building right across the river and with telephoto lens. He could see this guy coming out. He thought the guy was putting a bomb in my car. So, you know, he's watching it real close, but he said, then he saw that the guy was just writing down all this information. And within hours, after that happened, West Virginia state police run or they have everything like any kind of license check that somebody runs on a computer goes through what's called a weapons terminal, which is audited by the West Virginia state police. They're like the gatekeeper for this system. So we were able to monitor if my number ever showed up on a check. And within a matter of hours, both inspection sticker, my license plate number and the number of the little decal showed up as being ran by the clarksburg city police on who did this belong to, and so yeah, I mean, all that came back was while I'm really glad I did that because I was in a I was in a pretty bad situation at that time I was actually on the inside of the tax cap saying having suffered with
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"I mean, your heart just goes out when you see about how they manipulated, especially people in the coal industry, the ones that would get these injuries. I just get pissed off when I think about how these people take advantage of them, the Sackler family. Are these people should burn in hell for what they did? Totally agree, totally agree. In fact, I really, really like that show because of how, I mean, they name names, like you said, the families that started that. I was assigned about 8 years ago. I was assigned to be one of the attorneys from the state to go against the pharmaceutical companies here in West Virginia. We were one of the very first states to actually go after the pharmaceutical distributors. Everybody else was going after the pharmacist. And the people that actually made it, but we went after the distributors, the people that were the middle man, so to speak. I'm sorry, there's my neighbor's cutting grass. If that's interfering, I'll walk into the other room, sorry about that. I don't even hear it. Don't worry. I can edit a lot of stuff out except Murph. I edit Murph out on a regular basis too. Did you shoot him? I sounded like a gunshot. One of the doors here on my porch so that maybe maybe a box some of the noise out of here. But hey, we did that with Murph's partner. He was Murph and his partner were involved in a shooting and we tried to reschedule Kevin a couple times, finally said like, screw it, man. We're just doing it, you know, whatever. So our folks out there understand that sometimes the conditions are optimal, but yeah, so like I said, so kind of taking that back. What were the big types of drugs that you were dealing with back then? What does it marijuana cocaine? What else was happening that you guys were focusing on? Yeah, at that time, probably the peels were a big thing, but bikers were the big things. So I want to call crack today was crystal or what we had back in those days that the bikers were bringing in was crystal and crystal meth. And that became a big thing. And LSD had come in from the West Coast. And it was kind of curious to see things happen on the West Coast. And then you see them develop on the east coast and then we'd get them. So we were always like three or four or 5 years behind what we would see on the West Coast. So it was kind of easy to predict, kill OxyContin came along. And then we were kind of the battleground for OxyContin, but at that time, crystal meth and cocaine began to surface. And then for some reason, not only you guys probably too young for this, but quaaludes became a giant ward 7 14 quaaludes. Oh my golly, we took down a couple of laps that thanks for that concomitant, but yes, we do remember.
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"Was about, I don't know, four times the size of a cell phone. And I had taped my ankle with West Virginia evidence tape. That was my back. So if I got killed, hopefully the tape would still be in good enough condition where they could go back and see what happened. And every Monday I had to call the office to tell them I was still alive and what I'd worked on. So for an entire week, I'd be by myself, you know, with a pocket forward federal dope money, out trying to buy drugs. And like I said, it was so bad. I remember one of the first dope deals I went on. I'm actually driving the car and there's two guys sitting in the back seat, and one in the front seat, and the guys on the back seat, I hear one of them tell the other one. Hey, give me a shotgun. Now, you know, I had no idea what that I didn't know what they meant. For those listeners that don't know what a shotgun is, that came about back in nom where the troops were smoking dope and you take the end of shotgun, you break it open and you blow the smoke from one in the shotgun over to your buddy that's sitting in another foxhole and you blow the smoke right into his mouth so that you wouldn't lose anything. So that's what a shotgun was, but in my eyes the shotgun was these guys are getting ready to blow the back of my head off. I'm sitting here. So I'm trying to reach for my gun, which is down in my boot. My socks wrapped around the boot, and I'm trying to get that out while these guys are talking about shotgun, and I finally look in rearview mirror, and I see what they're doing. I think, oh, that's what a shotgun is. So that's how I learned how to work narcotics. Now, it's not a comfortable surprise you didn't accidentally pull out your tape recorder because you had both of them on the ankle and hand them a tape recorder with West Virginia state police evidence state Veronica. Freeze. Nobody move. Very possibly could have happened. At any time. At any time. Oh my God. So when did you start hitting your stride? When did you start finally figure in this out and what did it take for you to figure out, because we've talked to several ATF folks, DEA folks, people who worked undercover in ATF, used to have a fantastic UC course. And they would, I mean, you would really get trained in the techniques and the things you had to do.
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"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"And she said, you're the only one in the world. I think that I've ever heard that can do that. So I worked for them for about 6 months before I got accepted into the state police academy. Wow. Was that in the Charleston or the Fairmont area where would you have to go for that? Yeah, actually, it was went down to places like buck cannon, which is very heavily, a lot of gas fields down there. So yeah, we work in West End buckham in places like that. The northern part of the state. Yeah, that's pretty cool schlumberger. I've got a friend of mine who's done some work with those guys. I mean, huge, I mean, some of these huge companies oil and gas though is just huge, a friend of mine, former FBI agent, one of the big fraud cases he did was when they were building up the hugoton gas fields and they had all this construction equipment in. The budgets on those things were so big, it was easy to steal pickup trucks. You know, just get them from through fraud and hide them. They had like 15 pickup trucks, you know, big diesel trucks and stuff missing that nobody could account for, but it took so long to find them because these things, like you say, are big dollar. But hey, back to the back to regularly scheduled podcast. Let's talk about West Virginia state police. What was your application process like for that? What did you do? How long did it take? How long was your academy? Give us a few of the details there. Yeah, the West Virginia state police academy is, and it goes up and down a week at a time, depending on what the flavor of the training is. But it's 6 months long. And I applied, and it's so different today than what it was back then. Back then, I think there were 30, I think 3600 applicants for the state police at that time. And they only chose 35. To actually go through the academy. So there's absolutely no way I'll go at that time. I still had my .6 great average from college. I had, you know, I didn't have any supporters for I didn't know any politicians. I didn't know other than my dad was the only police officer that could have really vouched for me. So, you know, and I was sitting taking tests with people that were sheriff's deputy sheriffs, DNR officers, things like that. So I never really thought that I'd get in, but someone messed up and I got in and went through their 6 months of training. And when I left that, like I said, my duty station was in the southern part of the state down in the co camps of West Virginia.
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"But probably we flew in and out of and I am trying to think of some of the places that I wouldn't be violating anything to talk about, but we did fly into Cambodia from time to time. We flew, we had other flights. A lot of people don't realize, but back in those days, there were other fronts that we had in South Africa in Australia, even that we would have to fly in and out of that and you have to realize I was like at the bottom of the totem pole on this flight crew. So there's a lot of times we flew places that I had no idea where we were flying. And once we landed, I had no idea why we were there. We actually flew into Taiwan and when we flew in there while we flew out to iwakuni, Japan and while we were in the air, the government changed hands. In Taiwan. And we didn't know that. They had been taken over by the Chinese. And we didn't know that until we tried to land and we couldn't get anyone to speak English. Over the radio, which is every airport in the world has to have an English speaking person there, and so when we finally got someone there, they announced that they had changed hands in that we were not allowed to land. We had already flown past what's called bingo fuel, meaning. Yeah, you don't make it back. So there wasn't any place for us to go, but to land. So we landed in tainan and stayed there for three days before they allowed us to leave. And we wouldn't allow them on board our aircraft. I mean, we have Chinese nationals there that in our aircraft had crypto as high as security devices on it as you could get. So yeah, again, you know, for the 1819 year old that thought, my bud's going to be buried right here to end of the runway. No one from West Virginia is called come over here to say to me. That's probably where I'm going to yeah, that was interesting. I was a little pucker factor there, wasn't it? Especially for a young man. Absolutely it was. Hey, do you remember that incident with the Chinese were I'm not sure it was the P through, I think it was something similar, but I think it was a pilot's name was Shane Osborne, but remember when that Chinese aircraft got so close, they clipped the nose cone and they had the land actually in China and one of the things they were doing before the Chinese boarded as they were taken hatchets and everything because you guys obviously had to have procedures to bust up your crypto in your cards and your hardware and stuff.
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"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"I think I had an a, I had an a and gymnastics or swimming. I forget what it was I had. And the rest time I just didn't go to. So, you know, that was right at the height of the Vietnam War and I thought, you know, maybe I should do something else other than try to go to college. So, you know, I went into the military. It like my dad and my dad had been in the navy. I went into the navy and got involved with special projects within the navy. And did that for four years. And it got out and drove a concrete truck until my application got accepted by the state police and went in the state police. Well, when you said you joined the navy, I thought you said you joined the military. I'm sorry, I'm confused. I'll take those for a little while. You know, because I just need to. But hey, by the way, I'm making a command decision. Steve, you started doing this, and I think we're going to do this here. I had no idea when we started this about your backstory. So we're going to dedicate this episode to patrolman Robert Lee Kirk Fairmont police program in West Virginia into watch Friday, August 8th, 1958. So there's no higher honor than to be on with somebody who's the child or spouse of a surviving fallen officer. So, sure, so I've got friends on the wall. I know Murph does. I know you do. It's a place of honor. So we just wanted to before we get too far and too funny into this. I just wanted to kind of bring us back and say, hey, let's not forget, never forget, never forget the following. Very good point. God bless him, God bless your family, Tom. Thanks. I appreciate that. Okay, now back to dogging on you in the navy. So are your stuff over? No, but seriously, before you gloss over too much of the navy stuff, did you go anywhere international were you O conus as they say or were you just cones during that time? No, I actually, when I got involved with this special projects, I flew on board an aircraft called a piece where you were Ryan, which was a sub hunter. Yeah, actually that's what we did. And the one I was on was a prototype.
Game of Crimes
"west virginia" Discussed on Game of Crimes
"Citizens in the area if they believe the culprit should have used red or if it looks good to Charlene. Anyone with the information on this incident is asked to contact the Louisa police department. There's not a lot that goes on in Louisa. I'll tell you. Well, apparently. Hot thing down there. So I love that song Billy bob loves Charlene. Jeez. He and John Deere green. Anyway, all right. I think that brings an end to the reading today. All right. And all of those things. But what's actually a good setup too because the next guy we got is a kind of a hillbilly, but I'll tell you what he's a hillbilly with a hell of a story. And by the way, Steve, I'm getting tired of the guests that you invite into our show that sandbag us. Jeff sandy sandbagged us. Well, it's Tom Kirk. Yeah, these guys, they don't toot their own horns. You know, there's old saying if you've got a two chin on horn, it's not worth tooting. So they're not coming on the show bragging about the things that they've done. You know, it's kind of an endearing quality to have nowadays where hell if you show up for a ball game, you get a trophy to take home with you. And everybody takes a selfie of themselves and how many likes did I get in stuff? These guys, and let me tell you, when you hear this episode, and you hear what he did in the navy. He tried to gloss over, yeah, then I did four years in the military that wow, wow, wow, wow, roll back a little bit. That one wasn't bras. Yeah, by the way, too, the other surprise you're going to hear, how seriously they take speeding in the state of West Virginia. The finale, Steve, when they were going to, they make the arrest and it involves the helicopter. You got to listen for that. I'm telling you. You better obey the law and watch Virginia. But I'm telling you, what a fun episode this was because, like you said, Steve, humble guy. But he rose up from the ranks. Like you. He had a very low GPA when he first started school the first time. 6. I was a Rhodes scholar compared to that. At 1.9. And Madison Sperry's, remember from her episode, D is for diploma. But this is a guy who persisted, worked his way up. One of his first calls he got, you're going to hear about to go into a triple homicide, never had worked a homicide scene before, never seen dead bodies. So right out of the academy, you know, as he's working the road, plus then he works, goes into undercover, does a lot of narcotics, but it's not the narcotics that really is the frame for this story. It's his undercover work and working with Jeff sandy actually from our previous episode on this case too. So Steve, I mean, I think, again, you nailed these guys.
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"west virginia" Discussed on KOMO
"This vaccine rollout. And what they're doing right? It's what you don't see at this West Virginia convention center that is remarkable. No long lines. The and the registering was very, very simple. No frustrated citizens. Yeah, I've been looking forward to it. No sign saying come back when shots are available. So you would say the big difference in why it's been so successful here is just that. Very early planning for rollout way stead of health commands on March 13th of 2020 before we even had our first case. Yes, they started planning nearly a year ago. West Virginia, by most measures has had a vaccine rollout far more successful than the rest of the country. Doctor Sherry Young runs the local health department here in Charleston. He tried to make this a process where there's one central location for the vaccinations get his many people immunized as we can, and then we're going to redevelop our plans so that we can downsize and get into our smaller communities. The need for the vaccine in West Virginia is particularly urgent. The population here is among the oldest and most chronically ill. In the nation. One key factor the logistic capabilities of the National Guard. When the precious files arrived in ST the Guard, distributes them to five hubs. Within hours. They're sent to local drugstores and health clinics in each of the 55 counties. How big a difference is the guard made tremendous. That's the logistics is their thing. Use what you have you, Tom, You need something done. You tell the time you want it done. Give it to get done. But this average is 250 were once on site. Every part of the process from the check in to the shots to the 15 minute. Wait afterwards is constantly monitored. We can track every half hour or hour. It's the speed of which removing people through it allows me to shift shift my sectors so I could give people lunch breaks or just simply a.
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"West Virginia. I 81 North bound. The serious quest was new. The inward exit Exit five for exit for Route 51 Last report. Nothing was getting by their north bound. Joke only wtlv traffic. And now the storm team for meteorologists, Lauren Rick it what a beautiful day it has turned out to be. Temperatures are going to continue to rise to right around 50 degrees are average temperature for this time of year's in the low forties. To doing pretty good today. As the sun goes down after five o'clock look to yourself Western sky and the low portions of it. You're gonna be able to see Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury and a circle just about five degrees apart. That'll be about 30 to 45 minutes after about 5 P.m., and then we go through tomorrow. More clouds and sunshine temperatures mid forties and Sprinkle or two south of D. C possible Tuesday Wednesday Thursday back to sunny skies temperatures around 50. Friday. We stay around 50. A frontal system will approach the area. We could have a few showers on Friday. Right now I'm keeping it dry, but we will have some more clowns in temperatures around 50 On Friday. I'm storm team for meteorologist Lauren Records checking area temperatures. It's 50 and Stafford 47 in Upper Marlboro and 47 in Centerville at 3 30. This'll is w t o p your resource for today's top news, traffic and weather always connected and constantly updated. W T o p. Never miss a moment. Tell you t O p s top news is brought to you by van Meter homes. Find a home That's right for you at van Meter homes, calm. Good afternoon. I'm Sandy Coz l and a gavel is our producer Coming up. Democrats are ready to move ahead with impeachment against President Trump. According to online chatter, some of the people connected.
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"Residents that are really hopeful. I'm thankful that they get this opportunity. Well, it certainly is. You'll have to let us know if they're any reactions or any downsides of this whole thing. But thanks for joining us on a m Tampa Bay. No, thank you so much for having me. Rest of Ask West Executive Directorate Woodlands Village, Zak writing. It's an exciting time, Jack. It's a nerve wracking time for a lot of people to see what this vaccine does so in the next six months to a year going to be trying times, but hopefully we're at the end of it. Yep. And I'm waiting for the vaccine. Set up by the way we're talking about the best more cities for keeping your New year's resolutions. The worst is Gulf Coast Gulf port. Mississippi, and next worst is Huntington, West Virginia. And next is Shreveport, Louisiana. But I just want to know how I have no idea. They have no idea how they make it up. Tampa comes in 26th. I'm convinced they draw things out of a hat like they just throw a bunch of names and I've got to tell me you got all these things happening possibly know that just gave me an idea. Katie. We should start doing that. We should just say, like, make up a ridiculous subject, line a topic and then just start grabbing city's number one city in America. Topeka, Kansas. ST Peter's number, 37, by the way, most brown eyed people live in. Yeah, that'd be a good green eyes. The most people with green eyes live in this city. I like that idea. It's 16 after eight and we go to the newsroom and Chris treatment. President Trump is maintaining he won Georgia and wants officials to find the votes that prove he did, Trump said In a taped phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Wrappings Burger he needed to find nearly 12,000 votes in the state, where President elect Joe Biden was declared the winner. Ravan's Burger asserted the election was accurate. Pastor's dead after a shooting at a church in East Texas Police believe the suspects the same person that eluded capture during a chase over the weekend. The pastor at Star Ville Methodist Church reportedly found the suspect hiding in the church bathroom Sunday morning, pulled out his own gun and asked him to leave. He disarmed the pastor and shot him before being arrested. Investigators say the Nashville bomber mailed packages to some friends before the Christmas Day blast. Warner blew himself up inside an RV packed full of explosives early on Christmas morning. You're in 18 T switching hub 40 buildings in downtown Nashville were.