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Carrie loves your
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Thank you, Carrie.
Is Carrie trying to make up for something?
I feel like she's trying to
make up for something.
No.
Are you sure?
No.
Karina is horrible.
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I'm talking between Jesus and Signal.
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The Republican Central
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It's the second part of
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endorsements from the Republican Party,
Orange County Republican Party.
And there's so much shenanigans,
even in our own party.
Oh, yeah.
We have a complete rhino by
the name of Marilyn Anderson.
Oh, she's still registered Republican?
I guess so.
She is full on Democrat,
liberal lunatic who should
not even be allowed in the room.
And yet she's trying to get
an endorsement from the Republican party.
She is totally sold out to
the teacher's union.
The teacher's union is a arm
of the democratic party.
Yeah.
How can you be supported by
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then go in there and get the, the, the,
the, uh,
endorsement of the Republican party.
Yeah.
And yet they are entertaining it.
Wow.
It is crazy.
So I don't quite understand
what we do to ourselves as
conservative people.
Is there another party that we can join?
And then.
Thanks, Corrine.
Please don't get him started.
We're reading from A.W.
Tozer for the Christian leader.
June 17.
The title is just
discharging our obligation.
Ephesians 5,
8 through 10 is the reference here.
And it says, walk as children of light.
For the fruit of the spirit
is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth.
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Now that portion of the
fruit and the spirit is all
in parentheses.
So if I were to read that
without the parentheses, it says,
walk as children of light,
proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
I have to be faithful to
what I know to be true.
So I must tell you that if
you will not worship God
seven days a week,
you do not worship him on one day a week.
Okay.
Too many of us try to
discharge our obligations
to God Almighty in one day.
Usually one trip to church.
Yes.
Sometimes nobly.
We can make it two trips to church,
but it's all in the same
day when we have nothing else to do.
And that's supposed to be worship.
I grant you, sir,
that it can be true worship
provided that on Monday and
Tuesday and the other days of days,
you also experience the
blessing of true worship.
I do not say that you must
be at church all the time.
How could you be?
You can worship God at your
desk on an elevated train
or driving in traffic.
You can worship God washing
dishes or ironing clothes.
You can worship God in
whatever is legitimate and
right and good.
So that's all right.
We can go to church and worship.
But if we go to church and worship one day,
it is not true worship
unless it is followed by
continuing worship in the
days that follow.
Father,
I pray that you might give me a
sense of your presence
wherever I am in whatever I'm doing.
Direct my heart to worship
you throughout the day.
Amen.
So this,
I think it's important to carry
over the discussion.
And we don't have to belabor the point,
but worship isn't just singing songs.
Worship is our acts of
reverence to the Lord,
whether it's in prayer, conversation,
listening to worship music,
or what have you.
It's being in some kind of reverential,
like awe-inspiring relationship with God.
So put that to one side.
Tozer is saying...
You have to talk to God more
than just on Sunday.
I think that's absolutely true.
Yes.
Right?
For sure.
I don't think that's controversial.
So Corinne was asking us to say it again.
So basically what Toja was
saying is if you only
worship one day and not seven days,
then you're not even
worshiping that one day, basically.
He made it a little more
dramatic in the sense that
if you will not worship God
seven days a week,
you do not worship him one day a week.
Basically meaning like your
worship is shallow or
non-existent because you
don't do it often enough.
That'd be like being married
and spending time with your
spouse for an hour and a
half on Saturday.
Yes.
Spending part of that time
looking for parking in
front of the house.
Right.
And yelling at your kids to
get in the car or out of
the car or back into the car.
Yeah.
How can you build a
relationship in an hour and
a half once a week?
Exactly.
So you can't expect to do
the same thing with God.
Absolutely.
And Carrie says more people
went to church until the
late 50s because everything was closed.
Exactly.
Now it's only Chick-fil-A.
Chris, that's worship.
Toggling.
Stop toggling.
No toggling right now.
We're spending time in devotion.
Wait a minute.
Just earlier she says, okay,
I'm all yours.
I know.
Is that what she does with God,
do you think?
Yeah.
I'm all yours.
Except until the new signal
message comes in.
That's signal.
So what we're talking about
is the signal is an app.
It's kind of like, uh,
is it secret messenger?
What's the other one that
people like to use?
WhatsApp.
I've never, I've never used that.
Um, but, um, it's like that,
but it's a group of people
like-minded in our group of
like-minded parents in the, in the,
in the school, in the, uh,
school district.
So that's what Karina is talking about.
There's a lot happening in
that app right now.
I just looked and there was
like 400 messages.
Um, Lisa Hernandez is on, you know,
you know who Lisa Hernandez is?
Hi, Carrie.
Hi, Corrine.
Hi, Kelly.
And hi, Kate from down under.
Hey, Kate.
And Jan.
Jan and French.
Jan and Jim, usually.
Jan and French.
Jan and Jim are usually on together.
So hopefully he is there.
I like it when Jan comes on
because I know there at
least is another man somewhere within the
The sound of my voice.
Oh, Eddie's next to Carrie, too.
Oh, okay.
And Eddie, too.
Yeah.
Nice.
I don't know where Kareem's husband is.
He may not be interested.
Yeah.
Lisa, John may be around.
He might be.
Happy Father's Day.
Thank you.
It was a very nice Father's Day.
I got to spend it with Hetia
and my daughter and my step,
not my stepmom, my mother-in-law.
Yes.
My stepmom.
That's so funny.
My mother-in-law.
Yes.
We went to a very nice place.
Your mom has a huge credit
card bill this month.
Yeah.
Thanks to Father's Day.
It was actually a little
funny because the
restaurant is so ridiculously expensive.
We came out and the parking
valet guy is an Armenian-Iranian,
so we always speak Farsi to him.
He looks so, so sweet to my mom.
And he's like, yeah,
some guy just came out of
here huffing and puffing
and complaining about how
expensive it was and the
food wasn't that good.
And so he asked me, he's like,
can I ask you, like,
how much is expensive, you know?
And so I told him and he
almost passed out.
He was like...
what?
That's a really expensive car payment.
He's like, wait, that's a lot of money.
And I was like, yeah,
it is a lot of money.
It really like,
I can imagine I'm selling into like,
I can imagine somebody
brings a date in here thinking, okay,
I'm going to take her to a
nice dinner and then sees the cost.
It was like, like wants to leave,
but is on a date and has no
way of doing or with a wife and kids.
And you're just like,
I can't get up now and
humiliate all of us on father's day.
I'm just stuck here paying this bill.
I don't understand,
but why would you go to a
restaurant and not know ahead of time?
Look on their website.
You can't see their prices.
Really?
You're in Beverly Hills near Rodeo Drive.
Yeah,
you have to go in the restaurant and
ask for a menu.
No,
but you should already know you're in
Beverly Hills.
Oh.
West Hollywood, technically.
It's right after the sign.
But yeah.
I mean, you should be able to guesstimate.
If I was gonna go to get a
meal for a date and I
didn't wanna spend a lot of money,
I just wouldn't go to Beverly Hills.
I would go to Norwalk or Bellflower.
Kate is in 38 below.
What?
The Celsius.
Yeah, what is that?
She's God's frozen chosen girl today.
Sorry.
What is that in American?
What's that in English?
About 30 degrees.
No, really?
Interesting.
So, okay.
Back to this idea of light.
So in reading the...
scripture yes in enduring
word in particular it seems
to be that it's dealing a
lot with um being in
darkness so the scripture
itself has to do with being
in darkness and light
versus light versus light
and the darkness that is
spoken in ephesians is um
sexual immorality it seems
like impure greedy a couple
of sins are listed
Would not,
so I want to now come back to
the devotional because I
didn't see that in the devotional.
Is the darkness or the not
spending time with God a
form of darkness?
You're not spending time in his light?
Like why did he refer to these scriptures?
I guess, well, I mean, yes,
I guess you could say by analogy,
if you're only seeing God once a week,
what are you doing on all
those other hours?
So by default,
he's basically saying you're
probably engaged in some kind of sin.
Which is a funny assumption to make,
but he's probably correct.
Because if God only gets an
hour and a half or two hours in a 24-hour,
seven-day-a-week week,
there's probably some sexual immorality,
impurity,
and greed happening on the other hours.
You know what's funny,
now that I'm thinking back?
Like I'd listen to worship
music even back then,
not as much as I do now.
Yeah, because it beats good.
But yeah,
and it just keeps you reminded of
who God is and that you
should be worshiping him
and all that kind of stuff, of course.
But I would do that as long
as I was like either with
the kids or just doing some dog training,
doing something where I
didn't have sinful thoughts.
But the moment...
I would open a beer or pour
myself a glass of whiskey, country.
I'll tell you, or jazz or any, I mean,
anything else other than worship music.
I said, well,
I can't listen to worship
music while I'm drinking.
And, and even back in, you know,
I couldn't do it while I
was like doing anything, you know,
any shenanigans.
Yeah.
But can I share something
with the audience?
Sure, why not?
But for you and I,
this is all going to come together.
You better have a good way of saying it.
This is going to come together.
But with you and I,
we have a relationship with God.
Yes.
We have it individually and
we have it as a marriage.
Yes.
And so we can play worship
music when we are...
Wrestling.
Well, and you know why?
Because intimacy is a
commandment of the Lord.
And actually,
I was just listening to
Driscoll and his wife put
out a podcast today about
the sexless marriage and
how it's actually forbidden in the Bible.
Because under 1 Corinthians 12 or 16,
He's saying when the God
commands that you basically
don't have full rights over your body,
that your partner has rights over it,
and that you shouldn't be
abstinent unless you both agree.
And then you should quickly
come back together as soon
as possible so that the
devil does not get a foothold.
So it's actually part of
God's commandments in order
to preserve the sanctity of
marriage and prevent sexual immorality.
You can fight off the devil by having sex?
Yes.
Literally.
I could pull that picture.
All right.
Next time.
How do you like that, folks?
Next time I need to.
You're right.
Like, hey, wait a minute.
We got to fight off the devil here.
Where are you going?
Yes.
That's what you're supposed
to tell your spouse.
We're fighting the devil.
Come over here, lady.
The devil's going to be on the run.
Devil on the run.
How funny is that, Schnugs?
Don't you love that?
Yes.
I'm going to try to see if I can.
Carrie says, yep, Hedy is correct.
See that?
Carrie, do you remember?
Is it 12?
Is it 12 or 16?
What's Karine mean here?
She says, Karine says...
I'm not giving up my own bed.
Maybe we can meet somewhere.
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
What is that all about?
16 carry things.
16.
Okay.
Yeah.
Intelligibility and worship.
And the reason that Paul went through it,
there's so much.
so many rules and
regulations and
clarifications in the first
and second Corinthians is
because the Corinthians
were pretty naughty.
Apparently, you know,
they were just a little bit
wild and Paul had to come back and be,
and tell them, listen,
this is how we put things right.
And I'm sorry.
It's not able to find scripture.
Maybe somebody will find it.
But that's why that, that,
level of instruction is in
first and second Corinthians.
Lisa loved it.
Yay.
Nice.
Oh, she was sleeping with her husband.
Sleeping.
So nobody talked about sleeping.
Nobody said you had to sleep
with your husband.
You're supposed to have sex
with your husband.
Sleep is a whole other issue.
Lucille Ball and Ricky
Ricardo slept in two separate beds.
Yes.
And actually,
when you see any of those old Bridgerton,
you know, the classic English shows,
they never slept in the same bed.
They had their own bedrooms.
Yeah.
With their slaves in there.
were not in the bedroom oh
no nope that's a roman they
had uh quarters of their
own oh we haven't read the
scripture yet intimacy is a
command yes not sleeping
yeah who said anything about sleeping
Just the obligation to do
what you got to do.
I'll send you Driscoll from
today and him and his wife.
They were hysterical.
um carrie reminds us that in
the 70s they called sex
sleeping together yes well
I mean that's what we we
make that joke too but we
we exactly we all still do
but we were just making a
joke to kareem that nobody
said anything about
sleeping oh all right okay
the description
Oh, Lord,
for once you were full of darkness,
but now you have the light from the Lord.
So live as people of the
light for this light within
you produces only what is
good and right and true.
Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.
Take no part in the
worthless deeds of evil and darkness.
Instead, expose them.
It is shameful even to talk
about the things that
ungodly people do in secret,
but their evil intentions
will be exposed when the
light shines on them,
for the light makes everything visible.
This is why it is said, Awake, O sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.
So I think it's a really
interesting play on the word light.
So basically,
the light we have is from the
Lord so that
basically the illumination
referring to kind of
holiness and righteousness as light,
like making the analogy of light,
but also that this light,
this holiness only produces what is good,
right, and true.
So if you're producing anything else,
it is not the result of that light.
A common example is couples
sometimes go to a pastor and they say,
we believe that God wants us to be happy.
and doesn't want us to, you know,
wants us to divorce.
And inevitably the pastor,
especially any of the ones
that we know of, they've said, I'm sorry,
I don't know who,
what God you're speaking of,
but our God is not
interested in your happiness.
Like God's not going to tell
you to get divorced for your happiness.
Like that's not the way this works.
So it is interesting.
It is important to know that
our evil and immoral and
impure thoughts come from
either the devil or flesh
or what was the third?
Lust?
The enemy?
our third power of some sort
there's a third it's it's
either ourselves or or
we'll make we would say um
a demonic inspiration which
is separate from satan our
minds oh suddenly having a
skipped brain stumped me on
that one too oh helen found
it helen hey helen
Helen, 1 Corinthians 7, 5,
concerning marriage.
I just looked it up.
I may have missed someone else bring it up,
but I noticed the location in the Bible.
Thank you.
1 Corinthians 7.
Okay.
And then Kari confirms.
Here we go.
Kari.
OK, since sexual immorality is occurring.
So this is what he was
trying to solve in the church in Corinth.
Right.
The sexual immorality.
So he says each man should
have sexual relations
because of the sexual
immorality that's occurring.
Each man should have sexual
relations with his own wife,
each woman with her own husband.
You'd think that would have been obvious,
but apparently it wasn't.
You'd have to tell them.
It's no more obvious today either,
apparently.
The husband should fulfill
his marital duty to his
wife and likewise the wife
to her husband.
The wife does not have
authority over her own body,
but yields it to her husband.
And in the same way,
the husband doesn't have
authority over his own body
and yields it to his wife.
Do not deprive each other
except perhaps by mutual
consent and only for a time
so that you may devote
yourselves in prayer.
So basically the only time
you can be exempt is
because you both are fasting and prayer.
Then come together again so
that Satan will not tempt
you because of your lack of self-control.
Are you exempt during
fasting because you don't
have the energy?
No,
sometimes people are just devoting
themselves to the Lord.
So to be focusing.
Right.
The idea of fasting is so
that you can get closer to
God through your hunger pangs.
Right.
So getting jiggy with it.
Distract.
Can you see that happening?
Thank you for that, Helen.
Thank you.
So Kate says, oh, this is nice.
Intimacy is a privilege.
The image of the vine and
the branch in John 15 is a
very good picture of intimacy.
Apart from him, we can do nothing.
Intimacy is not head knowledge,
but a heart experience and understanding,
sharing and belonging.
That is beautiful, Kate.
It's awesome.
Thank you.
So glad when Kate comes on.
Where you been, Kate?
Other than freezing, looking for blankets.
You been on the hunt for...
She wasn't getting the notices.
Oh.
Carrie, I know,
her thingy notification's
working and Corrine's is working,
but Kate's not.
Says you're welcome.
Thank you.
So Kate might have been out
hunting for kangaroo pelts
for the big freeze that was coming.
Oh.
I've got to tell you, there's a couple of,
on a separate but related note,
Pastor Jack put out a new
podcast on demons today.
And I was telling Andy, I was like,
I love how measured and
balanced and just awesome Pastor Jack is.
Because, first of all,
he cured me of my whole
being the elect thing.
the fight against the
Armenians and Calvinism,
five-point Calvinism.
just by his explanation of
free will in the Bible.
It was just amazing.
But again, with this demon stuff,
he's like, listen,
no offense to my charismatic friends,
no offense to the Pentecostals.
I believe in the gifts.
So I'm sorry,
my cessationist friends are
probably mad at me now too.
But the gifts still exist.
God doesn't need to be
limited in that way.
The Holy Spirit disperses them.
But you shouldn't be
obsessed with one gift or another.
There is nothing...
Nothing should overtake the word.
In other words,
we should be knowledgeable
and steeped in the word,
and then miracles follow.
I was like, Pastor,
get it right on the head.
No need to fight with anybody.
No need to die on that hill.
There's no hill to die on.
Miracles still exist.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today,
and tomorrow.
But, yeah, I mean...
We break up families with this stuff.
Yeah,
it's an interesting thing because I
don't know if I've shared it on the show,
but you and I talked about
it some time ago about back
in some time ago,
my ex-wife was pregnant.
Her uncle and aunt were
bigwigs in the Mormon faith.
He was an elder of some sort.
I'm not sure exactly what that means.
A bishop or something.
Yeah, he was really high, apparently.
But he wanted to come over
to our house to put oils on her stomach.
Because, you know,
she also confesses to be a Calvinist.
Does that come from Mormonism,
do you know?
Do they also believe they're chosen?
They're elect?
Special?
Anybody know about Mormonism?
It's possible.
Okay.
As soon as I was told that
he was going to be coming
over along with a cousin
who was also pretty high up
in the church with their
oils and doing some shenanigans.
I don't know.
Is that what they did?
I don't know.
I don't remember.
I was so upset that I didn't
hold my ground as the man of the house.
In my mind, I was saying no.
I said, this doesn't seem right.
to allow them to come into our house.
Did you know that
instinctively because they
were Mormons or you just
didn't believe in prayer?
No, I believe in prayer,
but I didn't want the Mormon.
So it was clear in your head.
They were different.
Yes.
Cause I have friends are Mormons.
I want to be careful.
I, I, you know, I, it's not our religion.
I mean, but it's, it's, it's, it's,
is it antithetical?
What's that word?
Antithetical?
Antithetical to what we believe.
Yeah.
Yes.
I just wanted to,
I just wanted to use a
really big word and I was
hoping I was going to use it correctly.
But it's, it's not what,
it's not in line with our beliefs.
Yes.
And there is this kind of
moment where I think my, where my,
I don't even want to say my
heart softened, but where I thought, well,
it's family.
They want to do this.
They're doing it from their
love for their family member.
And that's the only thing
that caused me to say yes.
But I wanted to take it back so badly.
And then when it was happening, I was like,
we shouldn't have done this.
So again,
in the instructions that Paul
gives in Corinthians,
I will not be able to say
off the top of my head the chapter, but
He also says of all of the
restrictions on food, he adds in there,
though,
that we should not eat food that
we know for a fact is
dedicated to an idol,
nor should we engage in idol worship.
So even though the law was
fulfilled by Christ,
he goes through a series of, you know,
whether it's alcohol,
also about eating pork and
unclean animals.
That even if it's permissible,
doesn't mean it's advisable
if it causes a brother to stumble.
But specifically in
reference to idol worship,
he says we should not engage in it,
nor should we eat the meat
that we know for a fact is
dedicated to an idol.
Hindu, Buddhist, whatever it may be.
So I think if you extrapolate from there.
I can understand why that
would be difficult,
why the Holy Spirit would be like, nope,
not doing this.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Because you're engaging
almost in a form passively,
but you're engaging in some
form of idol worship,
which is the reason why
we're not supposed to do yoga.
Yeah.
I was actually going to bring that up.
What do people think about
going to a wedding of like
a Hindu wedding and they're
doing a whole ceremony and they're,
I mean,
I think most people would say that
would be okay, but.
I remembered one other additional thing.
I'm trying to remember which baby it was.
I can't remember if it was Bo or Rhett.
It was one of the two.
They had a spot on their heart.
You know how they do that
and then they scare you for
several months saying that your child.
Sorry, I had it too.
It has a hole in my heart.
Yeah.
And it closes.
Yeah, they're going to die.
They could die.
They could have Down syndrome.
They could come out with two heads.
I mean, they're all this stuff.
And then I'd ask them, well,
what are the chances?
They go, well,
it's like one in like 10,000.
I said, so why are you doing this to us?
Because they didn't want to say.
They didn't tell you.
Wait,
is he still in the time in which you
can abort the baby?
Yes.
They were encouraging us to abort him,
too.
See?
And I go, no, how could I do that?
No.
And you look at him,
he ended up so perfect.
I know.
And then,
but that's the reason why the
uncle wanted to come over,
because of the stress we
were going through of that knowledge.
Making that decision.
Yeah.
There was no decision.
It was just that we knew.
And then it was a little bit
stressful to him.
But there was no abortion even.
You were Christian enough to know that?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I've always been.
I was raised Catholic, too.
Right.
So that's never been an option.
Yoga, Kareem.
Yes.
Expressly, if not indirectly,
not a good idea as a Christian.
It's just because simply this.
It's idol worship because it
is a religious practice.
It's a spiritual practice.
It's a physical activity
that grows out of a spiritual practice.
That's why there's a mantra to be recited.
That's why they're called
sun salutations downward on
their positions that are
meant to be a form of worship.
So by engaging in them,
you are engaged in idol worship.
Very simple.
Yeah.
But I do a stretch that is
essentially the downward dog.
Is that okay?
Everybody comes up with the same thing.
Everybody says the same thing.
What if the teacher's not a Buddhist?
But am I stretching?
No, just all by myself,
I do a downward dog.
It's not a downward dog.
You've got your hands and
feet on the floor.
In a position that somebody
else named the downward dog,
which you're just
stretching with your button here.
Because when I'm doing my downward dog,
that's usually when you
turn on the Christian music.
If it doesn't feel right,
then you're going against
your core values and it may be wrong.
Our walk is uniquely between you and God.
Oh, that's great.
Same as a Reiki massage.
Yes.
What if I don't call them?
So in other words,
are you talking about
stretching in your house?
Everybody,
this always turns into a discussion.
It's like the alcohol discussion.
What about two drinks?
What if I drink and I don't get drunk?
because I don't get drunk I
just have a bunch of drinks
but I don't get drunk it's
like everybody's like
where's the bar uh lisa yes
this is this is a sweet
spot for lisa mantras are a
form of worship and the
movements that decide are
designed to imitate the god
you are worshiping thank
you lisa I was at a loss
between needs yoga what
corinne says she needs yoga
You can go to the stretching lab.
Go to the stretching lab.
Take a stretch class.
Just take a stretch class.
Yeah.
Just don't go.
Don't get in line with your chakra.
What's it called?
Chakras.
Yeah.
Don't worry about your chakras.
Yes.
Stretching isn't yoga.
You can do dynamic stretching.
Yes.
Absolutely.
I think that's why the
stretch lab started because
none of the Christians
would go to yoga anymore.
I didn't think about that.
Yeah.
That's a thought.
Look at you.
Or Pilates.
Corinne, you can do Pilates.
There's no religious
connotations to Pilates either.
New age, new thought, Eastern mysticism,
trying it on from God.
Oh,
we got this really interesting email
from a lady who was saying,
I had this neighbor who
Sorry, Corrine's cracking up.
No, you too.
What else?
All sinful items out of your life,
Corrine.
Okay, so I get this call from this lady.
I get an email from a lady
saying we had this neighbor
that were Muslim and they
kept talking about their religion.
And she says,
and I kept quiet and they
would ask me to look it up
and to research it and
watch this YouTube video and blah, blah,
blah, repeatedly over and over.
And she says, and so I did it.
Now, mind you, it's an email,
so I'm not able to respond.
We're going to have a call
and we'll talk about it.
But she says,
and then they moved away and
asked us to come visit.
She's like, and I'm really uncomfortable.
And I and it's the exact
kind of situation where I feel like.
everybody else other than
the Christian feels they
can impose their junk onto us.
And we're supposed to be the
ones that stay quiet.
Right.
You know?
And so I want to hopefully
empower her to be like, you know what,
this is what I believe.
And so if, you know, if you,
if you still want to be in a relationship,
just understand, this is what I believe.
Jesus is Lord.
Every knee will bow.
Every tongue will confess.
You know what I mean?
Um,
But people, we've gotten in this situation,
whether it's yoga or whatever, or Islam,
where they're teaching
Islam in school and they're
forcing our kids that you
have to write a book report on it.
You have to practice the prayers.
We're all going to fast
today to see what it's like.
It's like, what are you talking about?
Why are you imposing?
Why isn't that a separation
of church and state?
Why isn't that violating
religious freedom?
But when I want to defend myself,
I'm violating religious freedoms.
A hundred percent.
Okay.
Just making sure we both had our moment.
There you go.
Kate says, talking about dogs, Andy,
I've been watching heaps of
army and police dogs lately.
Love these movies of late.
What are the movies?
Well, they're, she may,
they may just be coming to Australia,
but I don't know.
Uh, but there are a couple of the ones, uh,
there's the one that the
female dog handler that was in Iraq, uh,
remember that story I think
oh she ended up coming home
and the dog didn't come
with her and she had to
fight for the dog I think
to come back to the united
states with her there was
that one okay and then
there was another one that
we went and oh you know the
one we saw that's not army
that we really liked was that king
Oh, what's his face?
King something.
The guy was running in a... Marky Mark.
Mark Wahlberg, right?
Mark Wahlberg, yes.
He was in a competition.
It was one of those Iron Man
type of things.
Yes, and his dog kept appearing.
It was the cutest movie ever.
And it's a true story.
Absolutely true story.
They showed pictures that coincided.
It's, you know,
they may have taken a couple pictures
liberties liberties but it
looked like it was pretty
close to being uh pretty
close to true the true
story that was awesome of
course I cried but um I
don't know what it is about
the police and and military
ones it's hard for me to
watch those police dog
movies because I know so
much and I can't watch a
movie without relaxing oh is it yes
exactly how I feel I just
want to watch and entertain
but I'm so busy thinking
about what it was that they
used the dog for and could
he do that and then I think
about how they trained the
dog to do it on the movie
and I can't relax and watch
the movie it drives me
crazy that's exactly me
watching the children
Is this in the Bible?
I don't remember this being in the Bible.
Who's his character?
They didn't say that.
You know,
now it's hard for me to watch The
Chosen with you.
I like watching The Chosen,
but it can be difficult
because as soon as a scene comes up, I go,
that's not in the Bible.
And now I can hear your
wheels turning and then you
like rolling on your side.
I can't believe that they, and I,
that Dallas guy.
Yeah.
I get so frustrated.
Arthur, yeah.
That's the name of the movie.
Is it King Arthur?
Yeah, it's King Arthur.
Is it?
I think it's something like that.
Arthur the King, King Arthur.
So, uh-oh.
Carrie says she talked to a
Christian lady who says she
meditates and calls it prayer.
I asked her to define what she's doing,
and it is not prayer.
Yes, there it is right there.
Lisa says,
because the devil's in the details.
Hmm.
Corinne, you're so sweet.
Give me a list of the don'ts.
You know, sometimes it takes a lifetime.
And besides,
you don't want to know them
all up front because do we
have a version of ignorance is bliss?
Once you do know you are responsible,
so it's better not to know
them all at once.
I've had this discussion, Corinne,
and I may come back to it
one of these days,
but that is one of the
things that keeps most men
from being Christians is the
the idea of all the things
that you can't do.
But I'm telling you,
once you give up those
things that you thought you
couldn't give up, you go,
why didn't I give those up sooner?
It is definitely a thing,
but I'm telling you,
I fought it for far too many decades.
To give some of the things
up that I thought were just
going to be like, I can't do that.
And I got a suggestion for
you because this is the way
it worked for me.
I'll give yoga as an example
because it was during COVID
or before COVID, right before COVID,
that I got really back into
yoga because my back hurt.
And my Christian friends
were telling me you shouldn't do yoga.
And I was like, let me see.
And I literally went in there praying,
Lord, just, you know,
make it clear to me.
Let me know what you want.
I mean, we have the Holy Spirit in you.
You don't need to,
you don't need to listen to anybody else.
You have a Bible and you have the Lord.
So you just pray about it.
Ask God to reveal it to you.
And I didn't take one yoga
session where I literally
heard the Lord say, get out.
You know, and I was like, well,
there's my answer.
And I just picked up my mat.
That was the last time I did
it in a yoga class.
Like a paralyzed man.
You picked up your mat and walked out.
And that's really the best
thing about being filled
with the spirit is just
keep asking and you'll get your answer.
Did you tell the story of
Jason when he was saying
that he needed a sign?
Yes.
And did you tell the story on here?
I don't think so.
Can you share that?
Yes.
So one of our friends is on dating apps.
He's single.
And he's just...
very,
very sold out for Jesus and wants a
godly woman and has been
bombarded with everything but that.
And so now he's on a
Christian dating site.
His friend was telling him
how successful he's been.
And so he's praying
fervently every time he
matches with somebody just
to see that it's something
that the Lord is pleased with.
And so he said one lady,
he said he wrote down this
whole list of I don't drink.
I don't go to clubs.
I don't party.
I'm Christian.
I go to church twice a week.
And then the lady responds with, well,
does it matter if I'm not?
And he said he literally,
so he's praying before each
of these conversations that
God would give him a sign.
Like, Lord, please show me, please show me,
please show me.
So he got incredibly nauseous,
like literally wanting to vomit.
And when she wrote that back.
And so then he was like, wow,
that's so weird.
And then he just texts her
again and she responds and
he gets really nauseous again.
And he's like, oh God.
Wait a minute.
Something's wrong.
He's like,
and then it suddenly occurred to him.
This might be a sign.
He's like, wait a minute.
I just asked God for a sign
that maybe this may really
actually be a sign.
And then stop talking or
like unmatched her and like
literally felt fine and
went and ate a cheeseburger.
It was literally just so dramatic.
And I said,
that's the power that you have
within you.
Pastor Jack was saying the
other day on Sunday, on Wednesday,
he's like,
the problem is most people
won't wait for the response.
He says, wait on the Lord.
Heaven help me.
It's this podcast he put out.
Who was it?
Jack.
Oh.
But you ask for God's help,
but you don't wait for the answer.
Because if you wait for the answer,
he will answer you.
So don't take my word for it, Corrine.
Ask God.
Yeah.
Spend time with him.
Yes.
It will become very clear.
David needs to stop smoking.
Yes, absolutely.
That's a hard one.
It's a miracle.
Oh, no.
COVID's gone nuts here in New Zealand.
They're once again opening
up COVID wards and masks are back.
The sixth booster.
I mean, really.
Anything you need six of.
Don't make us get shut down.
This is so crazy.
I don't think you could pull
that off here.
The little dwarf was just on
Capitol Hill saying he made
the whole thing up.
There was no science on any
of the things happening.
And yet here is New Zealand
right back at it, even though.
So that's the worst.
All right.
Do you have anything else, Schnugs,
that we should?
I don't know.
Should we talk about Candace
and her weird conspiracy theory?
Yeah, I was going to bring up Chosen also,
but we did slightly,
but we can save that for later.
Well,
they're back at it with a few extra
scenes that are not biblical.
Yes.
Per se.
But I think I just want to
ask if anybody has heard the argument.
And I don't know where I heard this.
I don't know if it was from Dallas or not.
But they had said that there
are some things that are in
scriptures that weren't
included in the Bible.
And some of the other
scriptures that were found
that whoever would, you know.
whoever found the scriptures,
that some of the things
that they're using may be
from those types of things that are not.
In other words,
reliable literature like
the Book of Enoch or some
other kind of secondary sources.
I don't believe that that's the case.
Like in the last episode,
I think it was episode four
or is it episode five?
I can't remember.
two, three, four, five, uh, where the, uh,
Jesus and, uh, the, uh,
disciples are walking, uh, to Jerusalem,
I believe, or somewhere.
And, uh,
The Roman, you know,
a pack of Romans approached them.
They're all carrying their
shields and their helmets
and that kind of stuff.
And they said, you know,
they tell the disciples and
Jesus to put down all of
their stuff and order them
to carry their equipment for them,
their shields and their
helmets and that kind of stuff.
And then they walk a mile
and then they reach that mile.
And Jesus decides, you know,
we'll carry them another mile.
And then the Romans felt bad.
And so they were moved by Jesus' kindness.
And that's not in the Bible.
Nope.
I love that look when you
get on your face like, what the heck?
I just don't know.
How do you make up that kind of story?
This is a fairy tale.
It's like making up a
screenplay in any other show.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Imagine this.
Yes.
How about this?
Somebody says, Andy,
your life is really cool.
I want to start making a
show based on your life.
And in the beginning of the show, it says,
all these events are true.
This movie is based on a true life story.
And there's a scene in there
where you're young.
You're a young cop.
And you go and you steal a
bunch of the marijuana from the bus.
Yeah.
And then decide differently
and then put it back?
No, no.
What?
No, you steal the marijuana.
That's ridiculous.
I watch the show and I say to you, Andy,
you stole marijuana when
you were a young cop?
No.
And you'd say to me, exactly.
So is Jesus up there saying,
why would you say this about me?
I didn't do that.
I didn't wear a Roman hat.
I didn't trek Roman gear up
a hill for a mile.
I'm asking one simple thing.
If you saw a show made about
your life of you stealing marijuana,
would you be so much more
harsh than a simple story
of him wearing Roman gear?
Yeah, I guess you're right.
It'd be like if they said in
my story that I thought
about cross-dressing for a
period of time.
Oh, I was going to do that one.
Yeah, I didn't want to go that far.
That you had a same-sex
relationship in your 20s
when you were drunk.
It's just offensive.
You would be screaming bloody murder.
You'd be like, I'm suing.
You put my name on a
likeness that has nothing to do with me.
Kareem's like, I'm getting your point now.
So I'm just saying you guys can watch it.
It's entertainment.
The only thing that bothers
me is it's claiming to be
my Lord Jesus Christ.
I looked at this picture on
his phone and I was like,
why is Jesus wearing a Roman hat?
And he's like, oh, I don't know.
It's something about the episode.
And the leader explains to me, he's like,
oh,
because they take all this Roman stuff
up there.
I was like, they put a Roman hat on Jesus.
But see, Lisa, this is where Lisa and I,
you know, have this similar thought.
So what?
It's an example.
It's a show.
It's an illustration.
But that's what I'm saying.
It's the same thing as if
they said about Andy,
it's a show based on his life.
They could have made a cop
show based on his life.
So if they suddenly show him stealing,
everybody's going to think to themselves,
did Andy steal when he was a cop at 25?
That would become the story, though.
That would become my life
story was that I once stole.
Marijuana, yes.
I could even take, it was like $200.
You literally would be
sitting there for the next five seasons,
even if every other season was good,
you'd be sitting there for
five seasons going,
why did they have me stealing marijuana?
It's just a small embellishment.
It's just a small, I mean,
it's just to make it a
little more interesting.
You can't be so straight-laced.
That's boring.
Yeah.
Corrine says,
I think most logical adults
realize that everything
isn't true in the show.
That's not the point.
The point is, what does the Lord say?
Does it glorify the Lord to
put a Roman soldier's helmet on his head?
Hmm.
and say it's not true it's
just a movie why don't why
don't you just put him in a
dress and have him you know
dance the hula it's just a
movie I mean at what point
is it blasphemous is my
question like the whole the
whole episode four where they were um
Mourning the death of the girl.
There was one part I
remember I got really upset
about something that they
made him do that he wasn't sympathetic.
Oh,
her father came and started cursing at
him.
Yeah, the father came,
supposedly started cursing at Jesus.
And caused like a literally
like an all out fight.
And then one of the other
apostles was going to go
fight him for doing all that.
I mean, it was just.
I don't know.
Sorry, I get really worked up.
OK, OK, I get it.
We have these discussions
all the time since I think.
And this is what Carrie says.
It's the same thing I say.
The problem is many people
think it's accurate because
they have no Bible knowledge.
Hence the analogy to Andy.
People don't know you.
They see an image on TV and they're like,
wow, he stole.
And you're like, no, I never stole.
But the movie said he stole.
But that was a movie.
It was fake.
You spend the rest of your
life talking about that.
That becomes a story forever.
She says, oh,
Corey says she's never going
to watch it again.
I still watch it.
Yeah, Andy loves it.
I take out the parts.
I look at it.
Yeah, he says,
Jesus is going to a fancy
dress party with the 12 lads.
Yeah, exactly.
I kind of enjoy being able
to pick out what is
biblical and what is not.
I actually like that.
That's part of the fun.
That's part of the fun for me.
and understanding that there
is that embellishment.
Lisa's point is,
Lisa's got an interesting take on this.
Jesus put himself in low
esteem when he died for us.
i love it too hence why lisa
it's hey it's all good
there's no black and white
it is a very it's it's
almost like democrats and
republicans the chosen is a
divisive issue and again
it's one of those things
it's almost like the uh uh
the prosperity pastors,
at least that's what I look at,
is that there are people
that are coming to Jesus
because of the show.
Even if it's a little,
you're absolutely right.
And people come to Jesus.
There's a little falsehood in there.
It's true.
It's sprinkled with a little nonsense.
But I think that even though
you don't like Dallas, oh my gosh,
you've never met anybody
that doesn't like this man.
I don't mind him at all.
But
I think if you watch his
discussions that are before
and after the show, that he does say,
he does admit that,
that those are not found in
the bible right okay so
just is that a consolation
for you if they would say
that after the show no but
I'm glad that he does that
because if people are
watching and then they
watch his his discussion on
it exactly what happened
with russia russia russia
later you have such good
arguments later right
because later they come up
with a oh whoops don't see
it was actually fake
Does that take away what they did to him?
Does that take away what
everybody thinks about?
No,
it's already been the damage has
already been done.
It's done.
Oh, that was that was a good one.
That was a really good one.
The computer is real.
And they told you that it
was Russian disinformation.
for a year yeah two years
they told us he became
president because of the
lie and now they're so what
oh yeah no it actually
wasn't oh you're bringing
up such old news yeah but
it caused the worst
president in our oh my gosh
that was a good argument
you may have me on this one
sorry that was bugs her too yeah
Yeah, I like Dallas.
Kate says she stopped
watching it when they took
it to theaters.
It changed from believers
and financial supporters,
but it became a money spinner.
Not going to watch anymore.
It costs money to put those
things together.
I'd see that there has to be money raised.
I hear what you're saying.
And I get angel film
productions like The Sound
of Freedom and all the
other great movies they put out.
Awesome.
But stop monetizing my Jesus.
They're no longer.
And dressing him in weird clothes.
I mean, before you know it,
he's going to be gay.
God forbid.
They're no longer part of Angel.
Oh, no, they're not?
Oh, so who owns Angel?
Remember that lawsuit
they've been in for a while?
No, I don't know.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They now have the chosen app.
They're no longer on Angel.
Oh, I like the Angel people.
No wonder.
See,
I thought the Angel thing was a good gig.
I thought he could take credit for that,
but no.
They didn't like the game Dallas either.
They got rid of him.
Laughing at Jesus.
Well, I'm not laughing at Jesus.
I'm laughing at the
at the shenanigans yeah this
discussion hmm I vote no lisa
Lisa loves it.
Karine's going to watch it again.
Don't believe her when she
says she's not going to watch it anymore.
You know what?
It's just like the yoga.
Nobody should do anything
because somebody else said so.
Then we got Candace Owens
who thinks that the prime
minister of France, if that's what he is,
I can't remember if he's
president or prime minister,
is married to a man.
Trans.
A trans man.
Brigitte Macron.
And Candace Owens feels
pretty strongly about this.
Candace said to Newsweek
magazine she will stake her
career that Bridgette
McCone is a trans man.
Wow.
So wild.
The story without the trans man is wild.
Right, because she's 27 years older.
She was his drama teacher.
When he was 15.
15.
He was 15.
They married when he was 17.
And she was 44.
We know somebody that was doing that.
They weren't a teacher though.
Are you referring to me?
No.
Well, mine was close to that.
I was 25 years.
What?
Yeah.
No.
Was that more recent?
Never mind.
Oh, yeah.
So do you think Jesus cried?
It's actually the shortest
verse in the Bible.
Jesus wept.
Yes.
Carrie,
I don't know what you're saying no to.
We are in the last days.
Truth becomes lies and lies become truth.
Yes.
Absolutely.
He's a cookie.
OK, bedtime.
I think Macron.
Bye, Karim.
So he's a cookie,
meaning he's a creep or he's just weird.
Eddie just asked me about Macron's wife.
He thought she was a guy.
See?
Yeah,
listen to Candace Owens on her new show.
She apparently talks about a lot.
Yeah, she's just she literally she does.
She did a whole show on it
and she literally swears.
She's absolutely convinced.
Macron is in a macaroon.
Oh, now I got it.
Took me a while.
I'm a little slow on the uptake.
Yeah, she did.
I got it.
I was able to.
Yes.
To decipher.
All right.
Anything else?
Yeah,
we'll go into Candice a little bit
deeper once we know a
little bit more about it.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, nobody's taken up that cause.
Not Tucker, not Bongino, not Crowder.
Nobody wants to touch that
thing with a tinfoil pole.
You would have thought I
would have known something about this.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Even Ben Shapiro is like, good riddance.
Now we don't have to deal
with this tinfoil hat stuff
she's coming up with.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's really interesting.
Kate says it's, it's over down yonder too,
that his wife's a dude.
Really?
Looks like a lady.
I was telling Andy,
see if she transitioned before the drama,
being a dark drama teacher
and he's a little boy and
he's not famous.
He's just in a school and
they fall in love for
whatever bizarre reason.
Uh,
The fact that she's
transitioned or that he's
trans doesn't matter to
these two obscure people
that nobody cares about.
At that time.
It only becomes significant
because this little boy ends up.
So it's just, you know,
it wasn't like some grand
scheme if it happened back then.
It's just that now it just seems weird.
And I guess they were trying
to cover it up if it in fact is true.
I don't know.
Because at some point you
think he'd find out.
I mean,
I told him it was like maybe she was like,
oh, my skin is saggy.
I don't want the lights on.
Yeah, but OK,
we don't need to get into any
more detail.
But the.
Yeah.
All right, then.
Any prayer requests that you
saw during this?
Yes, I did.
I wrote them all down.
Yes.
All right.
We have David to stop smoking.
Keats and John and Lisa got
in a car accident.
Mom broke her hip.
How did I miss that?
I don't know.
Sorry about that.
I missed that.
Okay.
Lord,
may we be people that always honor you.
May we offer ourselves as a
living sacrifice, Lord.
Thank you for the blood.
Thank you for the blood that
runs through our veins and
makes us whole and gives us
wisdom and discernment, Lord.
Lead us to all truth.
Teach us your ways.
Be the light unto our path.
Show us the way and say, here is the path.
Now walk in it.
Lord, in such difficult times,
there's no way of knowing
truth from falsehood except
with your wisdom, Lord.
So speak to each and every
one of our hearts.
Draw those who do not yet
know you closer to you and
those who are just
beginning their walk with you, Lord.
May they continue to walk
with you and learn your
ways and cherish the time
that they spend with you and worship,
Lord.
We also ask for your
blessings and healing to be
upon John and Lisa,
recovering from the car accident, Lord,
and Lisa's mom recovering from
from her hip injury, Lord,
restore them to wholeness,
make their bodies in alignment,
bless their continued recovery,
give the doctors discernment, Lord,
for what is best,
help them to do what's
right for their bodies and their healing,
Lord, with your guidance, with your love,
with your protection.
We ask for a miracle, Lord.
You are the way maker and
the miracle worker, Lord,
for David to stop smoking, Kate's son.
For all of those suffering from addictions,
Lord,
we break those chains off of each
and every one of us.
Break the generational
curses in the name of Jesus.
In the name of Jesus,
give us healing and restoration.
That comes from a sound mind,
a sound heart,
and ties and curses and
strongholds that are broken
in the name of Jesus, Lord.
Thank you for your love and
your protection over our
lives and our families, Lord.
We love you.
We honor you.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
All right, my friends.
Thank you for your engagement.
That was awesome.
Yes, thank you.
We love when you guys are so talkative.
All right.
We love you.
God bless.
Take care.