1
00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,840
Speaker 1: Today on the David Rutherford Show, The Birth of Faith

2
00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:08,000
Speaker 1: and how ideas emerge and transfer into our entire belief systems.

3
00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:23,639
Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Instructor Rutherford Old rut here on my

4
00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:30,960
Speaker 1: annual Christmas show, and I want to coming down to

5
00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,199
Speaker 1: the wire at the end of every year. In this

6
00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,479
Speaker 1: show in particular, you know, I spend a lot of

7
00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,600
Speaker 1: time trying to figure out how to interlace the sensation

8
00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,680
Speaker 1: of what's taking place in the country and where I live,

9
00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,960
Speaker 1: in my life, with my children, with my friends, on

10
00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,000
Speaker 1: the show, what I do for a living, and I

11
00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,120
Speaker 1: try and allow all of the confluence of that consternation

12
00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,160
Speaker 1: of my my perpetual debate which is taking place in

13
00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:16,200
Speaker 1: my mind to naturally unfold this idea. And you know,

14
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,840
Speaker 1: it kind of really started. I had an incredible opportunity.

15
00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,240
Speaker 1: There's a woman who's acted as a therapist for me

16
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,399
Speaker 1: for a long time, and it's not it is some

17
00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,119
Speaker 1: emotional therapy, but she she does therapy on my body.

18
00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,760
Speaker 1: She's a physical therapist, a seuse, but she's a healer

19
00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,280
Speaker 1: and and so recently I had the incredible opportunity she

20
00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,840
Speaker 1: came over the house, and you know she is you know,

21
00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,920
Speaker 1: she has limited or has really reduced the amount of

22
00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,560
Speaker 1: work she does. But she was in town, knew I

23
00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:46,520
Speaker 1: needed work. We used to do a lot of work

24
00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,440
Speaker 1: together when I for ten years after I got out

25
00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,040
Speaker 1: of the military and came over and so we sat

26
00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,919
Speaker 1: down on our table, and I was on that table

27
00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,200
Speaker 1: for almost two and a half hours, and in that discussion,

28
00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,920
Speaker 1: and we have an hour discussion leading up. That's our

29
00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:07,120
Speaker 1: primer for doing deep tissue work, as this philosophical and

30
00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:11,919
Speaker 1: theological analysis of of of a bunch of things. And

31
00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,600
Speaker 1: we started to talk about, you know, dropping the seeds

32
00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,000
Speaker 1: of not only our faith, but the seeds of love

33
00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,360
Speaker 1: for other people, the seeds of motivation, seeds of strength,

34
00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,840
Speaker 1: seeds of courage, seeds of duty. Told her about this

35
00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,680
Speaker 1: great conversation I had had with my great friend Dan Luna,

36
00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:39,120
Speaker 1: doctor Dan Luna, Team six buddy of mine, who is

37
00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,200
Speaker 1: you know, really talked. We had this great talk recently

38
00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,040
Speaker 1: about the idea of duty for a man and what

39
00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,880
Speaker 1: that means. And it's not so much about the profound

40
00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,840
Speaker 1: nature of your own meaning or your own motivation, but

41
00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,359
Speaker 1: more importantly the duty you have to the people that

42
00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,680
Speaker 1: depend on you. Right, that was his his idea of

43
00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,640
Speaker 1: what the seed, the most critical seed is one of

44
00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,760
Speaker 1: the most critical seeds for not rising to the occasion,

45
00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:13,240
Speaker 1: but more in line of cultivating an idea, right, cultivating

46
00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,600
Speaker 1: a frame of reference, a philosophical thought uh and ideology,

47
00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,800
Speaker 1: and allowing that seed to enter into your soul and

48
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:30,640
Speaker 1: germinate and begin to grow. And I think, what Christmas

49
00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,400
Speaker 1: if you get rid of the extemporaneous materialism of of

50
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,880
Speaker 1: of Christmas, which I think you know, I think most

51
00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:45,520
Speaker 1: people have a moment or two during these holidays where

52
00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,800
Speaker 1: they pause for a second and they go, Wow, this

53
00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,680
Speaker 1: is much deeper than you know, getting my latest flat

54
00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,560
Speaker 1: screen TV or my paddle board or whatever it is

55
00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,480
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for new player, Chuck Te's whatever your your

56
00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:01,720
Speaker 1: your goals are for your your gifts this year. But

57
00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,040
Speaker 1: it's it's that moment of like, all right, what's this

58
00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 1: all mean? And what is the thing that is driving

59
00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:16,400
Speaker 1: me forward to have the courage first, the motivation to

60
00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,320
Speaker 1: take another step forward, to wake up every day and

61
00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,200
Speaker 1: check out my opposable thumbs and take a deep breath

62
00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:31,680
Speaker 1: and march forth once more unto the breach. And I

63
00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,440
Speaker 1: think the idea of that the core of the motivation

64
00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,880
Speaker 1: stems from what your faith is involved in, right, And

65
00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, obviously at Christmas it's a deeply religious connotation

66
00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:51,480
Speaker 1: of the birth of Jesus Christ and what that did

67
00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,720
Speaker 1: for billions of people since that moment, you know, two

68
00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,839
Speaker 1: out twenty one hundred and twenty five years ago, soon

69
00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:05,440
Speaker 1: to be twenty six years ago, that that that the

70
00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:10,800
Speaker 1: living Messiah emerged out of Bethlehem. But before I get

71
00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,080
Speaker 1: into that, I first want to just spend a little

72
00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,440
Speaker 1: bit of time on how the birth of faith can

73
00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,039
Speaker 1: take place in our lives generally, because if you go

74
00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:27,040
Speaker 1: before Christ, you know, five thousand, ten thousand Syrians, Marians,

75
00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,920
Speaker 1: if you go twenty thousand, right, ancient Abrahamic Abrahamic stories

76
00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:37,200
Speaker 1: or stories that we don't even know, ancient cultures, fifty thousand,

77
00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,400
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. Hell, there was a Chinese Chinese archaeologist

78
00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,320
Speaker 1: said they found a Homo Sapien skull that was dated

79
00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,799
Speaker 1: a million years old. So how was faith being birthed

80
00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,960
Speaker 1: during those times? And I think, you know it's people

81
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,120
Speaker 1: want to say, Oh, it's the birth of faith emerged

82
00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,680
Speaker 1: when you didn't get eaten, or the elem mins didn't

83
00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,200
Speaker 1: destroy you, or you bonded with another tribe or clan

84
00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,080
Speaker 1: in order to survive another attacking bond or or you know,

85
00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,880
Speaker 1: clan that was trying to take you out, or savages

86
00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,640
Speaker 1: or you know, whatever was out there waiting for you

87
00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,960
Speaker 1: in the dark, right in the the estimation of chaos,

88
00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,320
Speaker 1: that was his and that has always been all around us.

89
00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,440
Speaker 1: So what takes place around that fire, right, What takes

90
00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,359
Speaker 1: place in that cave or in that that hide, or

91
00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,400
Speaker 1: in that domicile that you hack out of the earth.

92
00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,520
Speaker 1: You know what takes place in those moments? And I

93
00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,680
Speaker 1: think you know, all human beings, you know, regardless of

94
00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,880
Speaker 1: us living now or us living thousands and thousands or

95
00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,440
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago, you know

96
00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:56,200
Speaker 1: what takes place is the birth of these these ideas

97
00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:04,400
Speaker 1: or these behaviors, or these uh series of exchanges, or

98
00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:08,440
Speaker 1: the game that is played, or the selfless selflessness or

99
00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:13,840
Speaker 1: the sacrifice or all these components kind of percolate into

100
00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,280
Speaker 1: these moments where someone or something or someone most likely

101
00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:27,760
Speaker 1: and in those moments begins to explain or articulate or

102
00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:36,240
Speaker 1: to pontificate about these things that guide us, right, you know.

103
00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:42,400
Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson describes it as as the observable behavioral patterning,

104
00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,640
Speaker 1: the observable and iterable behavioral patterns that take place over

105
00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,120
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of years. Right, and after a particular

106
00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,440
Speaker 1: group or species group within our species groups around they

107
00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:03,560
Speaker 1: see these things, they begin to formulate a construct of

108
00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,760
Speaker 1: what they believe to be true, what they have faith in, right,

109
00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:13,480
Speaker 1: whether they're you know, I know that if I choose

110
00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,360
Speaker 1: this person, then my seed will continue. Right, and then

111
00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,800
Speaker 1: how does it continue in some relevant manner within the

112
00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,640
Speaker 1: clanner tribe? Well, if they become strong, if they learn

113
00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,400
Speaker 1: to farm, if they learn to sacrifice, if they can hunt,

114
00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,079
Speaker 1: if they can fight, if they are good at the

115
00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:41,200
Speaker 1: game of selfless participation, then all of a sudden, I

116
00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,200
Speaker 1: start to see this take place over and over. Well,

117
00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,920
Speaker 1: as a leader or elder of the tribe or a

118
00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,440
Speaker 1: warrior of the tribe. Then all of a sudden, they

119
00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:56,199
Speaker 1: start telling these stories, and these stories emerge, and they

120
00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:02,800
Speaker 1: emerge in a way where they seem to quantify the

121
00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,160
Speaker 1: things that give us meaning or the things that enable

122
00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,280
Speaker 1: us to survive collectively or to thrive. Also, because it's

123
00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,680
Speaker 1: not just about survival, right, It's not just about making

124
00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:19,040
Speaker 1: it through each day. Although that was certainly, and is

125
00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,280
Speaker 1: a massive part of it. For many people, every day

126
00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,199
Speaker 1: is day to day around the world right now. Think

127
00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,480
Speaker 1: about you know, the soldiers that are in the trenches

128
00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,520
Speaker 1: in Ukraine right now, or you know, think about the

129
00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,800
Speaker 1: children that are being trafficked and abused all over the

130
00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,839
Speaker 1: world right now, right every day is a day they

131
00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:44,120
Speaker 1: have to find or have a rebirth of faith that

132
00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:50,000
Speaker 1: sparks motivation to survive. Or even young men in America

133
00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,840
Speaker 1: right now. I had two unbelievable conversations this morning, both

134
00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:59,679
Speaker 1: with really exceptional young men that are putting forth the

135
00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,920
Speaker 1: same question to me, like how do I know what

136
00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,200
Speaker 1: direction to follow? Like how do I know what I

137
00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,439
Speaker 1: want to become in my life? You know? And as

138
00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,880
Speaker 1: a person that has spent an exorbitant amount of time

139
00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,800
Speaker 1: contemplating these things and contemplating my faith and contemplating, you know,

140
00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:25,480
Speaker 1: my life experience in several rebirths throughout my adult life,

141
00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,959
Speaker 1: I think I have a tendency to offer some type

142
00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:37,240
Speaker 1: of rational explanation for how this transpires. And so today

143
00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,800
Speaker 1: again what I wanted to really drill down on for

144
00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:46,000
Speaker 1: all of you is that this time specifically is about

145
00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:53,640
Speaker 1: a birth of a specific faith, right Now, what I

146
00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:59,280
Speaker 1: find utterly fascinating about this particular story, in this particular

147
00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:05,320
Speaker 1: birth of of Jesus Christ, was that, you know, if

148
00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:09,320
Speaker 1: you look at the historical context of the Bible, maybe

149
00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,920
Speaker 1: not the historical but but the certainly the prophecy of

150
00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:18,160
Speaker 1: the Bible for hundreds, if not thousands of years prior

151
00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,840
Speaker 1: to Jesus Christ being born, there was a bunch of prophecies.

152
00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,760
Speaker 1: In fact, Jordy, when you look that up for me,

153
00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,640
Speaker 1: how many prophecies of christ birth took place in the

154
00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:34,679
Speaker 1: Old Testament? Yep. So you know, as I go and

155
00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:39,080
Speaker 1: reflect in my Bible last night and this morning, you know,

156
00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:45,840
Speaker 1: you think about, all right, you know, the build up

157
00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:49,079
Speaker 1: of this particular birth, and what does it say, JORDI,

158
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,280
Speaker 1: all right, So there's not.

159
00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,680
Speaker 2: A universally agreed upon number, but there are at least

160
00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,679
Speaker 2: eight very direct explicit prophecies and forty to six messianic

161
00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:06,000
Speaker 2: properties overall that Jesus fulfills major ones. Where Isaiah seven fourteen,

162
00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,719
Speaker 2: the version shall conceive and bear's son born in Bethlehem

163
00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,840
Speaker 2: Micah five two, but you, Bethlehem, out of you shall

164
00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,160
Speaker 2: come forth for me one who is to be ruler

165
00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,280
Speaker 2: in Israel, and then the big one. Let me scroll down.

166
00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,760
Speaker 2: If they have Isaiah.

167
00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,600
Speaker 1: Oh they don't have it.

168
00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,880
Speaker 2: That's crazy, was it Isaiah fifty two fifty three?

169
00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:25,120
Speaker 1: Four?

170
00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,040
Speaker 2: Somewhere in there where it's like, basically, they just he

171
00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,040
Speaker 2: just describes Jesus Christ and pull it up.

172
00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,760
Speaker 1: Pull it up and read it. Read it for us,

173
00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,479
Speaker 1: because this is relevant. You have to understand the relevance

174
00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 1: of this, and because what I'm trying to lay out

175
00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:44,800
Speaker 1: for you is that the birth of an idea, right,

176
00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,640
Speaker 1: the birth of something you believe in that can shape

177
00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:53,160
Speaker 1: and guide pretty much every principle that you adhere to

178
00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,079
Speaker 1: in life. Think about the magnitude of what that does

179
00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:04,840
Speaker 1: for what the consistency of a group? Right? Nope, these

180
00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,520
Speaker 1: these are the way we're going to do it. These

181
00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,360
Speaker 1: are the laws we're gonna here do. This is what

182
00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,280
Speaker 1: we're going to do because this shapes our behaviors in

183
00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:16,160
Speaker 1: a way that doesn't descend into our devolve into mass

184
00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:22,400
Speaker 1: chaos and killing and butchering and savagery. Right, did you

185
00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,040
Speaker 1: bring it up? Did you find it? Yes?

186
00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,160
Speaker 2: Isaiah fifty three. This is a highly debated verse between

187
00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,560
Speaker 2: the Jewish and Christian religions. But Isaiah fifty three written

188
00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:36,320
Speaker 2: about seven hundred years before Jesus describes a single innocent

189
00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:41,559
Speaker 2: man who dies as a substitutionary sacrifice for others. He

190
00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,240
Speaker 2: was despised and rejected by men, A man of sorrows

191
00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,319
Speaker 2: and acquainted with grief. Surely he has borne our griefs

192
00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,840
Speaker 2: and carried our sorrows. He was pierced for our transgressions,

193
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,079
Speaker 2: he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought

194
00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:58,400
Speaker 2: us peace was upon him. And by his wounds we

195
00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,800
Speaker 2: are healed. And so it goes on.

196
00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,240
Speaker 1: That's pretty powerful, and that happens seven hundred years prior

197
00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:13,240
Speaker 1: to Christ being born and evolving into my Messiah. And

198
00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:17,040
Speaker 1: I think Jeordi's as well too, absolutely, And so my

199
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,920
Speaker 1: point I'm trying to make is that there are ideas

200
00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:27,640
Speaker 1: that develop right in the fertile soil of your heart

201
00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,200
Speaker 1: and of your soul for long, long periods of time,

202
00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:37,840
Speaker 1: and so as as what is the component that transpires

203
00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,160
Speaker 1: that creates this birth, this new life, Because I mean,

204
00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,360
Speaker 1: that's what birth is, right, The essence of our entire

205
00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,680
Speaker 1: existence is the continued birth of new life, right, birth

206
00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,000
Speaker 1: of new trees, birth of new nature, birth of new species,

207
00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:56,080
Speaker 1: birth of new fish, birth of new cows, birth of

208
00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:58,920
Speaker 1: new chickens, birth all the things that we need as

209
00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:03,280
Speaker 1: a sustenance survive. It continues to happen. That's the cycle.

210
00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,120
Speaker 1: And then with us what else. We continue to have children,

211
00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,480
Speaker 1: and you know, those children move into a place where

212
00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:15,600
Speaker 1: they what they birth into adults. Right, they metamorphosize from

213
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,480
Speaker 1: you know, child children and that need consummate protection to

214
00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:25,440
Speaker 1: becoming independent and then moving out and facilitating their own

215
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:31,400
Speaker 1: growth and their own participation in whatever things they believe

216
00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,800
Speaker 1: in or have faith in. And so this process is

217
00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,680
Speaker 1: perpetual in nature. You can argue that it's it's infinite

218
00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,840
Speaker 1: in nature, as many people theorize that, you know, the

219
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,520
Speaker 1: there is no beginning or no end to the infinites

220
00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,360
Speaker 1: of the universe. It's perpetually dying and living and being reborn,

221
00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:56,320
Speaker 1: much like the perpetual nature of if you're blessed enough

222
00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,800
Speaker 1: to have the cycle of recreation. Right, Jordan, beautiful wife

223
00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,760
Speaker 1: just had their first child, thereby stepping into a long

224
00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,440
Speaker 1: legacy of births that have been taking place in his family. Right,

225
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:17,240
Speaker 1: I have four daughters. Right again, you know, I'm constantly,

226
00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,480
Speaker 1: you know, begging them to each to have six to

227
00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:25,000
Speaker 1: eight children. I'm hoping, you know, Trump passes some law

228
00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,200
Speaker 1: that says, all right, after four children, there the rest

229
00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,480
Speaker 1: are tax free, you know, until they're making in their

230
00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:33,600
Speaker 1: own living. But I'm not gonna hold my breath. But

231
00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,720
Speaker 1: the point I'm trying to say is that that's the continuation,

232
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,800
Speaker 1: that's that that that birth of faith and the faith

233
00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,920
Speaker 1: is that there's something worth living for, there's something worth

234
00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,400
Speaker 1: committing to having children, you know, the idea of children

235
00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,440
Speaker 1: and then children coming into your life and then doing

236
00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,680
Speaker 1: whatever you need to do to grow those children into

237
00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:05,679
Speaker 1: people that can then model or emulate the hundreds of

238
00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,879
Speaker 1: thousands of iterable behaviors millions billions of iterable behaviors that

239
00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,200
Speaker 1: have taken place across the time and history. And so

240
00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,639
Speaker 1: when I take a step back and go, what are

241
00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,400
Speaker 1: the most fundamental ideas of birth and rebirth that take

242
00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:24,600
Speaker 1: place every single day? For me? First and foremost, you know,

243
00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,280
Speaker 1: it's gratitude. Right, I wake up and I'm grateful that

244
00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,880
Speaker 1: I'm still alive. You know, I think the most notorious

245
00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,200
Speaker 1: or famous thing that I answer people when they go, hey, Rod,

246
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,320
Speaker 1: how you doing, My answer is pretty much the same.

247
00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,160
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. I'm above dirt, right, and not that

248
00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,920
Speaker 1: being dead, because my faith proves me if I die

249
00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,520
Speaker 1: and I'm a Christian and I repent for my sins,

250
00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,560
Speaker 1: that I'll have eternal life. But that's another birth of

251
00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,320
Speaker 1: an idea. But let me just focus on, you know,

252
00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,879
Speaker 1: the status quo of living itself now, you know, from

253
00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:07,359
Speaker 1: that infancy of gratitude, then I move into the next phase,

254
00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:13,119
Speaker 1: which is, all right, how am I going to earn

255
00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,840
Speaker 1: my place in this life? Right? What is the motivation

256
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,160
Speaker 1: that's going to drive me forward? And for me, first

257
00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,679
Speaker 1: and foremost is my faith right and to try and

258
00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:27,760
Speaker 1: live an apostolic life if you will, or to live

259
00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,399
Speaker 1: a life imbued by the message of Christ. And God

260
00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,439
Speaker 1: knows I have failed that many, many, many times, and

261
00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,000
Speaker 1: luckily I've repented, try to repent regularly for it. But

262
00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,399
Speaker 1: that's the rebirth that takes the birth that takes place

263
00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,920
Speaker 1: every day. And then what else is reborn every day?

264
00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,679
Speaker 1: My faith in my children, my spouse, my beautiful wife.

265
00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,560
Speaker 1: I have to rebirth that faith in my wife in

266
00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,879
Speaker 1: her commitment to my commitment to her, so then that

267
00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,800
Speaker 1: she feels the rebirth in me every day, and then

268
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:05,919
Speaker 1: is reborn in the face she has in me with

269
00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,840
Speaker 1: my children, four teenage daughters. You want to talk about

270
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:13,840
Speaker 1: a struggle for rebirth. Every day trying to convince them

271
00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,880
Speaker 1: that my faith in them is eternal, but every day

272
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 1: trying to show active, a living and active faith in them,

273
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,120
Speaker 1: right through what through my dedication to them, my protection

274
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:34,640
Speaker 1: of them, my representing a strong male role model for them,

275
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:40,679
Speaker 1: to teach them, to guide them, to shepherd them, to

276
00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:46,119
Speaker 1: inspire them to seek out the beauty of developing and

277
00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,280
Speaker 1: birthing their own ideology, their own faith, what they believe in.

278
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,280
Speaker 1: So all of that has taken place every day in

279
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,119
Speaker 1: our lives, no matter what, even if you have a

280
00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,360
Speaker 1: shitty ass day right and you're like this sucks, I'm

281
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,800
Speaker 1: calling up in my under my covers, I'm not getting

282
00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,119
Speaker 1: out of bed, I'm gonna eat twenty five gummies, I'm

283
00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,359
Speaker 1: gonna drink or I'm gonna get higher whatever, even if

284
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,160
Speaker 1: you don't, even if I'm just gonna just isolate, ignore,

285
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:17,440
Speaker 1: and not engage in the process that allows for rebirth.

286
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 1: Every day, I'm gonna bury myself. I'm gonna bury my thoughts.

287
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:27,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, get under the soil again. Now,

288
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: in certain occasions, if you are lost. There's there's a

289
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: benefit to that. I I don't think it's healthy long term,

290
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 1: but certainly to check yourself and to sit in that quiet,

291
00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,400
Speaker 1: in that darkness, to contemplate a rebirth of sorts every day,

292
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 1: to emerge back with a courageous posture if you will.

293
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 1: I think, you know, sometimes taking a step back and

294
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:56,800
Speaker 1: evaluating is good. To let the breadth of seeds that

295
00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: have been given you right since you were a child, right,

296
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,760
Speaker 1: the ultimate seed of life, the seed of influence, the

297
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: seed of life experience, the seed of friendship, the seed

298
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:12,240
Speaker 1: of relationships, the seed of your own faith as well too,

299
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: And so that that birth is critical for us now.

300
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 1: I believe the greatest seats are attained through a courageous

301
00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 1: will to sacrifice for others, just like what you know,

302
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: the story of Christ himself. I think that's that's the rebirth.

303
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 1: That's the birth and the rebirth right, and that's that's

304
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:44,520
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of this these stories. That's that's the benchmark,

305
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 1: that's the reset point that we always come back to.

306
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:55,959
Speaker 1: Right and now, obviously, when this story took place, you know,

307
00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: twenty one hundred years ago, you got to imagine the

308
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,880
Speaker 1: context of what was taking place with Rome's control of Jerusalem, right,

309
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 1: the flailing Egyptian empires, right, the growth of all these

310
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: other place what was taking place in China or other

311
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: parts in the world. Well, really you know this, this this,

312
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 1: you know, female virgin, as the story goes, right, is

313
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: impregnated miraculously through through through a Messianic influence of God,

314
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: the pure woman, and and the next thing, you know,

315
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: we're We're in this masterfully written Gospel of Matthew. Right,

316
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:56,439
Speaker 1: and it really his as it was synthesized when I

317
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,199
Speaker 1: put it in for groc it was this is what

318
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 1: it says. Right. The metaphor oracle and theological focus is

319
00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: Matthew emphasizes Jesus as the fulfillment of Jewish prophecy and

320
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: the Messianic king. From David's line, the stories draws parallels

321
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: to Moses flight to Egypt, Herod the Pharaoh betraying Jesus

322
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 1: as the new liberator of Israel. The magi represent the

323
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: gentile recognition of this kingship, while the virgin birth underscores

324
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: divine intervention in Jesus's sinless nature as your savior. All right,

325
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:35,520
Speaker 1: So this birth of the idea, right, this birth of Christ. Right,

326
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: what does that idea represent for all of us? First,

327
00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: it's the purity of this this being right that had

328
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:50,680
Speaker 1: a lineage of the prophecy, right, that all of a sudden, like, hey,

329
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: you're going to be the vessel for the living God.

330
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:59,640
Speaker 1: Now imagine you're I would assume she was teenage girl, right,

331
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: maybe eighteen seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old, something like that.

332
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: You know, all of a sudden, these angels, she has

333
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: these visions. Guess what, We're gonna pregnate you. Who yeah, Now,

334
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden she's pregnant. Yeah yeah, yeah, who yah,

335
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: you know you're pregnant. And now Joseph, her hubby, is like,

336
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: what the hell's going on here? How's this happened? And

337
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: she's like, you gotta trust me, you gotta trust this

338
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:34,919
Speaker 1: idea from the very get go as the idea was born,

339
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: which kind of freaked her out, I would imagine, and

340
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 1: then she's like accepts it, and then all of a

341
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: sudden she's pregnant, and now she shares with Joseph, just

342
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: a man who loves her. Hey, by the way, I

343
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: got pregnant by some these angel things, and I'm gonna

344
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: have you know the Messiah like wait, like what wait,

345
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: what are you talking? Wait? What? Yeah? And now all

346
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 1: of a sudden that seed is planted in him. Does

347
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: how does that seed grow inside of him? It's through

348
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: what his faith in her right, And that's how it works.

349
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: Like you put your faith and what the people you

350
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: care about are telling you. Honestly, you still have to

351
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: go through the walk of it, like he had to

352
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: watch all of a sudden belly grow. Then people are like, Oh,

353
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: you're having a baby. That's great. He's thinking, well, I

354
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: hope the kid looks like me, you know, hoping she's

355
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,439
Speaker 1: not lying to me. Is this going to affect me

356
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: and my standing? Am I going to be able to

357
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 1: you know, literally find work or have a farm or

358
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: take care of my family? I don't even know what

359
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: does this mean? Mess I I don't you know. And

360
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: so he's having to birth all of these new ideas

361
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: based on this blind faith and his wife.

362
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: Mary, to his credit, he supports her fully. He did

363
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: like fully embraces it. I'm sure he went through all

364
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 2: the emotions that a man would go through, obviously, and

365
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 2: how did he respond well? Fully protected her actually right

366
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 2: from all of the public opinion of I'm sure what

367
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 2: she faced.

368
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: Well, and it must have been. I mean, you know,

369
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: people have you know, twenty five abortions and they're celebrated

370
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 1: as heroes. Right, That's not the way it was back then.

371
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: It was you know, antiquity, and there was very distinct

372
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: guidelines and structures that mandated social exchanges and social normal

373
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 1: norms and rules and laws, religious laws and Roman laws,

374
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: like the governance was. There was not a lot of

375
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: great tolerance that you know, we assume today. It was

376
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: a big problem, big major yeah. And so all of

377
00:26:56,080 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: a sudden it happens, right, and you know, so I

378
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: think as I went to the next and you know,

379
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: only two of the fundamental four gospels talk about the birth,

380
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: and the other is Luke. And so this is what

381
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: it said for Luke. Luke II likes humility, inclusivity, and

382
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: universal salvation, the lowly setting, the manger, the shepherds as

383
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: first witnesses, you know, and I love that story of

384
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: them being out in the fields and the angels approven.

385
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, go in here and witness this, and

386
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: they're like, uh okay. You know, meanwhile they're like, what

387
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: did I just witness? What did I just see? You.

388
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: I just felt this holy spirit. Now I'm going to

389
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: go in this manger and I'm going to watch this

390
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: impoverish these peasants and this woman have this child that

391
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: is like got this angels around Like I mean, you're

392
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: like again, you're you're having to have faith in this

393
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: experience that this new idea is emerging from you. And

394
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: it's not like being like this is dumb, this is stupid.

395
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm out. It's like, Okay, I'll take another step with this,

396
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: and I'll take another step, and I'll take another step,

397
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: and with each step you're taking what's happening right, just

398
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: as in Luke, it's you know, Mary is the central

399
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: role and songs that emphasize joy and reversal of power,

400
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: you know, rich versus the poor, the mighty versus the

401
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: humble right, and Jesus as the savior for all nations,

402
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: right Jews and Gentiles alike, for Muslims, for atheist agnostics,

403
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: like this is the birth of the person that is

404
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: going to provide you with the true seed of faith

405
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: that exists within this faith in each other in a

406
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: willingness to be forgiven right led by our savior in

407
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: this child, Jesus Christ. And the virgin birth of both

408
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: birth affirms divine origin amid everyday human circumstances. Now, you know,

409
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: modern day, you know, someone pops up like, oh, I

410
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: didn't have sex and I'm gonna have this baby. People

411
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: are gonna be like, you're full of shit, lie detector test,

412
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: pregnancy tests, DNA test, you know, and chastise and thrown away,

413
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: and and so they what we we I think there's

414
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: faith has almost become a commodity of sorts, and I've

415
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: been seeing a lot of that lately online, people utilizing

416
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: their faith as a as a way to magnify loyalty tests,

417
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: or to magnify their transactional abilities online, or to validate

418
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: their stance of of of influence or prestige. Or it's

419
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: like an accessory.

420
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 2: Yes, it's like an access for you where which is

421
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 2: ironic because they're trying to signal that I'm in this

422
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 2: tribe and you're not in that tribe. Right, the whole

423
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 2: thing that you just said was the idea of No,

424
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna flip the idea of the tribes of the

425
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: Jews and the Gentiles.

426
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: And the Romans whatever on his head. That's the idea.

427
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: Everything that's and that's the thing, that's what people struggle with,

428
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: is this grand idea right of and you know, equality

429
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: is not even remotely big enough of a word to

430
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: describe this right. This is this is this is what

431
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: is it? It's it's You're connected to an energy that exists

432
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: within the infinites of the universe, which is God, made

433
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: in the image of God, made in the image of God. Right,

434
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: and there's a reason for for for that. As one

435
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: of the defining characteristics of the Book of Genesis, right,

436
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: one of those first five books, is that we were

437
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: made in the image of God, and that connects us

438
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: to the sovereignty of this birth, the birth of this idea.

439
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: It makes it feasible for us to comprehend and to

440
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: act upon, to live out our duty to our faith.

441
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: And so as you look at these the early stories

442
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: of Mary and what took place, and now all of

443
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: a sudden it was set in motion, right, this idea

444
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: was set in motion. And I think that's the magnificent

445
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: aspect of this idea. This, the birth of this faith, right,

446
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: the birth of Jesus was set in force. I mean,

447
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: you could argue that the prophecy set in motion the

448
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: legacy which made the prophecy come true with with Mary

449
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: herself and then the birth. But then he still had

450
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: to become the Messiah, right, it was just the baby. Yes,

451
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: he possessed the divine presence internally, the seed of the

452
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: Holy Spirit was in him, but he still had to

453
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: walk the proverbial walk of being the Savior. And I

454
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: think that's the thing that Christmas represents for all of us,

455
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: is it represents this birth of the idea. Like if

456
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: you stop for a moment and you contemplate what all

457
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: of this means and what we're actually talking about, which

458
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: was our freedom right? And that's what the core of

459
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: this idea is. Jesus Christ represents freedom, the ultimate freedom,

460
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: if you will, right, because the ultimate freedom is to

461
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: be absolved of what of death itself, And so the

462
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: idea of putting your faith in Christ, it absolves you

463
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: of death because if you believe, and belief is relative

464
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: to action and duty, as both my friend Maggie and

465
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: Dan said, right, then those ideas have to Germany. They

466
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: have to take hold internally in your soul. And what

467
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: allows you to do that it allows that your faith

468
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: that these ideas will provide you with this long term

469
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: estimation or sensation of freedom even into the afterlife, which

470
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: God only knows what our meaning and purpose will become

471
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: after that, should we choose this path, this faith, this

472
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: idea to constantly be reborn in us every day. And

473
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,479
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that I'm starting to believe

474
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: that Christmas truly represents. It's this reset for us every year. Yes,

475
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: Easter has a component of that, but I thing h Easter,

476
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: what Easter is is for me is at least is

477
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: to be humbled in the magnificence of Christ's death and

478
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: rebirth or in his his emerging from the tomb like

479
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: that shatters any concept of idea that I could ever

480
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: conjure in my own time or own mind, in my

481
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: own way. It frees me from the limited nature of

482
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: my intellectual or emotional abilities. Right, it's the it's me

483
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: and my soul becoming unbounded or unbonded or unchained from

484
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: the limitations that I have as a human being. Right,

485
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: and I put my faith into this, this my God,

486
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 1: my Christ, right for all of the things that enable

487
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: me to be reborn every single day in this idea

488
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: of freedom and of being free of sin. And then

489
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: more importantly, the ability to recognize the crucial importance of

490
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: me and my sacrifice for those I love right. And

491
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: that's why the whole concept of love your neighbor as

492
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: you love yourself is the most revolutionary idea that was

493
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: ever born, or at least that we've seen so far

494
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: in human history. I think now there's a Don't get

495
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm not naive. I realize there's a level

496
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: of history that has been forgotten, buried, or raised however

497
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: you want to look at it. But what I know

498
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: is existent in my life, and the thing that has

499
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,479
Speaker 1: allowed me to be reborn again and again and again

500
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: in the midst of my comprehensive and endless sin is

501
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: this idea of Jesus Christ and his birth. So saying

502
00:35:53,640 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 1: all that to say this, you know, this is an

503
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: old idea. I mean, I mean relative terms. You know,

504
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: two thousand years isn't tremendously old, But it is because

505
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: it's an idea that requires to be reborn every day

506
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: as you awake from the slumber of your subconsciousness and

507
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: you move into this realm of conscious thought, action, behavior, emotion, spirituality, sacrifice, integrity, malevolence, evil, savagery,

508
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: whatever choice you're gonna make You're having to be reborn

509
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: in these ideas that you have faith in every single day,

510
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: and the one that seems to work the best that

511
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: keeps all of those other things not at bay, because

512
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't think they can be kept at bay. I

513
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: think it's there's a a continuity of of of good

514
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: and evil and order and chaos, and uh, you know

515
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: light and dark. That's that's infinite, like like the universe,

516
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: or like the omnipresence of God is in Christ. But

517
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: this one's different because you know, Christ was a tangible

518
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: figure in human history that lived, that died, and that

519
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: was reborn. If you struggle with the reborn part and

520
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: having faith in that, what I highly recommend is Tucker

521
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: Carlson did a beautiful show with a gentleman who's one

522
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: of the world's leading experts on the Shroud of Turn.

523
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: And if you watch that show, there are the scientific

524
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: reality of that cloth is. If you're struggling with whether

525
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: or not Christ existed, that that's a good one to

526
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: start with. Another one is the case for Christ by

527
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: least Drobulshawan always has him on every Christmas Great conversations there.

528
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: But really it all comes down to is is are

529
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: you going to take care of the infant, the infancy

530
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: of these ideas in you every morning, to to put

531
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 1: your your a sacrificial focus on building this faith in you,

532
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: like growing this faith in you, allowing it to mature,

533
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:37,240
Speaker 1: allowing it to gain strength, allowing it to run independently

534
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: of these other earthly ideas, whether it's your political affiliations,

535
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: or it's your your materialistic or it's some type of

536
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: philosophical ideation or whatever it is. But to to protect

537
00:38:53,400 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: this infancy of Christ, the child uh Christ, the man

538
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: who fell from grace and was sacrificed for your sins

539
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: and mine, and and the deity that rose from the

540
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: dead to present us with eternal access to to God,

541
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: our Father and in the infinites of of the universe. Man,

542
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: that that's hard core. It's like you're birthing a child

543
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: every day. I mean, I would imagine, and I think

544
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: it is. You know, birthing a child is much easier.

545
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 1: That's why you see so many children abandoned or sold

546
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: into slavery or mutilated or treated poorly. Is just because

547
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: there's so many people that that can't recognize the power

548
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: of that seed. Well, the one thing I believe you

549
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: can start by getting there and being able to translate

550
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: that that that rebirth, or that that strength of the

551
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: child of your faith into a strong, mature, virile I

552
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,319
Speaker 1: idea that can govern you in a in a way

553
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:07,320
Speaker 1: that grants you salvation. What is it. It's nurturing and

554
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: allowing the birth of the idea of Christ to enter

555
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: into you at any time you need it, anytime you

556
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: don't need it. To just be actively present, right, to

557
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: be a living thing in how you represent your own

558
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: self as it relates to the collective nature of your family,

559
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: your community, and whatever those communities look like, your society

560
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: as a whole. I think over the next you know,

561
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: the next few years, this revival in this faith that

562
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: we have in Christ is going to grow. I think

563
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: it's going to go through a lot of manifestations. I

564
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: think we're going to have to be patient with the

565
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: evolution of that transactional nature of what we're seeing in uh,

566
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: the commodity of your faith or what you call it, Jordie,

567
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: you said it, you said it was the Uh it's

568
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,919
Speaker 1: an accessory, an accessory of faith. You're there, Yeah, It's

569
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 1: like it's like you're you know, you're you know, tied

570
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, cord around your thing, or it's your you know,

571
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: your your Gucci slippers, or it's you know, your you know,

572
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: whatever car you think is cool. Like it's the accessory.

573
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: But but remember you're using an accessory for status, right,

574
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: You're you're nurturing your faith to find salvation and that

575
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: salvation takes place, and how you you you share that

576
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: seed with other people. That's a component of this responsibility

577
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: about the birth of faith, Like it's on you to

578
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: be willing to share your faith with somebody around you,

579
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: even if they may not have or have experienced that

580
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: seed or that birth themselves. Like that's really the only

581
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: thing that what oh hey, Seuss asked you know, his

582
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: apostles to do. Like he didn't say, go couldn't go

583
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: wage war like Muhammad did. You know, he didn't say

584
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, you know, he didn't fortify his position on

585
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: particular laws or sacrifices or whatever it was. But what

586
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: he did said is, hey, go tell everybody, just go

587
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: plant the seeds or drop the seeds. Be the sower

588
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: of the good news, which is there is an eternal,

589
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: infinite God that produced his child for you know, for

590
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: influence or to help plant the major seed of this

591
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: particular faith that you can reach salvation by sacrifice, right,

592
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:58,319
Speaker 1: and and so that's it, that's that's all you gotta do.

593
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: The challenge And we're seeing this at a profound level,

594
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: and we have seen it from day one, is that

595
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: there is a contingency of people that are perpetually trying

596
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: to attack that in trying to destroy this faith, this idea,

597
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: whether it's in Nigeria and Christians being persecuted there, it's

598
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: in Sudan, it's in Niger, it's in the Middle East,

599
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: it's in Ukraine, it's in Israel, it's in South America,

600
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: wherever in America, I mean, certainly Christians that are under

601
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: attack and have been under attack in America for quite

602
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: a while now. Now it hasn't totally gotten volid. There

603
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: are violent examples, but you know, there's a there's I believe,

604
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: a distinct measurement to reduce the impact of the Christian

605
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: population of not only America, but of the world itself.

606
00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: Why Because what it represents is it represents the complete

607
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: opposite of what it means to be to utilize the

608
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: accessory of your faith as a dominant controlling factor of

609
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: other people. Now, Don't get me wrong, there are a

610
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: profound amount of those Christians out there that are trying

611
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: to wield that faith as a way to pollute or

612
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 1: to infect the core idea of what Jesus Christ the

613
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: Child was brought into this world to do was to

614
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 1: be a birthing point for your redemption, to be a

615
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: birthing point for your desire to sacrifice for others, a

616
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: birthing point for your ability to believe that salvation is

617
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: possible by renouncing in and confessing to your sins to

618
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: Christ Almighty. I just what I'm trying to focus on

619
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: over this holiday break, and it's been obviously a whirlwind

620
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: year for me in many different ways, shapes and forms.

621
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: I think the greatest blessing I've had this year is

622
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get on this microphone again and to

623
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: work with Jordy and to work together and my wife

624
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: and other friends who have supported me, from Buck Sexton

625
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: and Sean Ryan to a lot of other people who've

626
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: gotten behind me and what I try and do on

627
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: the microphone, and that is a profound blessing. Obviously, the

628
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: content that we cover is very challenging in many occasions

629
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: and very dark and very manipulative, and very not that

630
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be manipulative in your thoughts, but I'm

631
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: trying to birth ideas in you. That's what I'm trying

632
00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: to do. I'm trying to live up to what the

633
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: I witnessed as the Apostles do, which is to spread

634
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: a message to get you to think about what's taking

635
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: place in the world, to be able to reset yourself

636
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: into a fundamental faith that you know is against evil,

637
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: is against darkness, is against savagery, is against materialism or

638
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: whatever ism is trying to conform you to this power

639
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: structure broker instead of being sovereign to Christ Almighty, and

640
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: your main mission in life is to spread those seeds

641
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: of love and faith and temperance and patience and to

642
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: do what Christ wanted us to do. And so you

643
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: know I've been able to do that. Now we're going

644
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: to have a great end of the year year and

645
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: review show coming up next week or the week after

646
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: I think it's next week, and we'll discuss all the

647
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: kind of finer points to life and what's taking place.

648
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: But this show and my Christmas show, I just really

649
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: the main thing I want you to understand is that

650
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: every day that you have above dirt which is upon you,

651
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: to make sure that the dirt inside your soul is fertile, right,

652
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: because that's what it is. That's where the birth of

653
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: this idea takes place. It takes place in the fertility

654
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: of your own heart, the fertility of your own soul,

655
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: your own mind, and your willingness to look at the

656
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: expansiveness the infinite number of ideas that you can allow

657
00:47:53,880 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: to emerge in you, to influence you and to inspire you.

658
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of choices, But what I'm

659
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: asking of you is that you just contemplate this idea

660
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: and allow yourself to have that fertility and open heart

661
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: and open mind as to the power of what Christ

662
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: is and what who Christ was, and the story of

663
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: Christ's birth. What it represents into in terms of human existence,

664
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: what has emerged as Christianity has emerged and swept around

665
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: the world in many different ways. What it represents for

666
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: you right now and the unstable world that we exist in.

667
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: What it represents in your relationships and the people you

668
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: care and love most that you need to sacrifice for

669
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: for your children, for your parents, for your best friends,

670
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: those relationships and more importantly, what it represents for you,

671
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: as as as the foundation of what you believe in

672
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: and how that belief transpires into how you act right No,

673
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: and all of the different limbs that emerge from this

674
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: core faith in Christ. And then from those limbs emerges

675
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: what the leaves that protect us, in the flower that

676
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: rejuvenates us, that starts the circle of life again, all

677
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 1: of those metaphors of this faith that can grow out

678
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: of you if you just open your heart and you

679
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: give it this this what you give it, this focused

680
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: effort to allow those seeds to grow inside of you.

681
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: And that's what I believe the birth of faith is about.

682
00:49:51,760 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: In Christmas. God bless all of you. God bless Hugh

683
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: Jordy and your family. I love you, buddy, God bless

684
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: all the people who listen. I can't thank you enough. Uh,

685
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: It's it's such it's such an overwhelming blessing. I just

686
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: want to let you know I'll be hosting the Clay

687
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: and Buck National News Show on Friday from noon to three.

688
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: You'll be able to find me wherever Clay and Bucks

689
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: Show is listed on those radio stations. I want to

690
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: thank all the people I work with. I want to

691
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: thank my closest friends. I want to thank my parents,

692
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: my brother and James. I want to thank Johna's family

693
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: for their support. I want to thank my children, my

694
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: beautiful children. I want to most specially thank my wife

695
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: Johnna for her influence and faith in me and allowing

696
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: to help me be reborn every day. But again, the

697
00:50:53,440 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: most important gratitude I have is I want to thank

698
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ for his eternal presence in my heart and

699
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,879
Speaker 1: in my life, and for the guidance and for most

700
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 1: importantly the forgiveness that He gives me every day in

701
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: my pathway till to salvation. So one of the people

702
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: that has been most profoundly inspiring and planning the seed

703
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,799
Speaker 1: for me was the apostle Paul. And so I want

704
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: to leave you with this passage from Ephesians three sixteen

705
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: through nineteen, and the hope that it might turn the

706
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: soil in your heart and to allow those seeds to

707
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: sink deeply in your soul. I pray that out of

708
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: his glorious riches, he may strengthen you with power through

709
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: His spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may

710
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that

711
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: you being rooted and established in love, may have power,

712
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 1: together with all the Lord Holy people, to grasp how

713
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: wide and long, and high and deep is the love

714
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge,

715
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: that you may be filled to the measure of all

716
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: the fullness of God. All right, God bless you. Merry Christmas,

717
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: Love y'all. Oh yeah,