Nov. 2, 2022 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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| We are the digital soldiers. | |
| We are the digital soldiers. | |
| We will bring the light to this field of fight. | |
| Hi, welcome to another episode of Just Informed News. | |
| I'm your host, Craig. | |
| Thanks for joining me. | |
| I hope you guys are ready. | |
| We have a lot to cover here today. | |
| It's going to be a big episode. | |
| We're talking about this latest breaking story, London preparing for major blackouts. | |
| Now, are they going to be a part of an attack against them and retribution from Russia? | |
| We're going to look at the possibility of that. | |
| Or is it just related to, you know, energy cutouts and the energy climate change crisis? | |
| Who knows? | |
| We'll see what they end up selling it as, or will it be a false flag attack staged by the globalists to start the next global conflict? | |
| We're going to get into all those possibilities. | |
| Plus, we're going to talk about a bunch of other news stories, escalations in North Korea coming to a head. | |
| We have missiles being launched as basically Russia is being accused of taking shipments of weapons from North Korea, and that that's all going under the table here on the black market. | |
| We're going to talk about that. | |
| Plus, we're going to get into some interesting news stories, just a few more updates on the Paul Pelosi saga. | |
| The fake news has gone and done exactly what they thought they would. | |
| They ran with this story. | |
| They're going to take it and use it as much as they can in the run-up to the midterm election to politicize this attack by a lunatic who probably, let's just be honest, was involved in some nefarious activity with Paul Pelosi. | |
| Let's just be honest here, most likely. | |
| But they're going to keep going with the fake news narrative that is being spun, helpfully being spun, by the establishment. | |
| They're not releasing any information. | |
| Just like in Jeffrey Epstein's cell, the cameras seem to be off. | |
| So I'm sure that's just a coincidence. | |
| Nobody was monitoring the cameras, you know? | |
| What are you going to do? | |
| We're going to get into that plus a bunch of other news stories, including the normalization of anti-white racism and why it's just become so mainstream that it's impossible to ignore and why that is so dangerous for our society at large. | |
| And a bunch of other news stories that you're going to want to hear that mark my words. | |
| They're not going to tell you about this stuff in the fake news ever. | |
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| So... | |
| With that being said, let's just jump into the first news story. | |
| story we have a lot of news to get through here today uk testing blackout emergency plan per the guardian the exercise is intended to assess how the country copes with outages for up to a week really british government war gamed well if they war game it you know it's coming emergency plans to cope with energy blackouts lasting up to seven days in the event of a national power outage and | |
| The Guardian reported on Tuesday the stress testing comes amid growing fears over energy security this winter. | |
| Oh yeah, energy security. | |
| According to documents marked official, sensitive, and seen by the outlet, in a reasonable worst-case scenario, all sectors, including transport, food, water supply, communications, and energy, could be severely disrupted for up to a week. | |
| If the country experiences blackouts, the priority will be to get food, water, and shelter to the young and elderly, as well as those with caring responsibilities. | |
| Yeah, screw the people who aren't young or elderly. | |
| Sheesh. | |
| The report indicated that a cross-government blueprint was first drawn up in 2021 to improve planning and resilience. | |
| Yes, they just happened to draw up the plans before the war even started in Ukraine. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And resilience in the event of a major technical fault on the grid. | |
| This is unrelated, of course, unrelated, to the energy outlooks published by the National Grid Operator for this winter. | |
| So... | |
| They're saying it's unrelated to the possible blackouts that they were predicting for the winter based on energy scarcity. | |
| It's unrelated. | |
| So that means this is most likely related to what they believe may be becoming some sort of retaliatory attack from Russia. | |
| Now... | |
| Is this going to be a retaliatory attack from Russia for the sabotage, the subterfuge, which has been alleged by Russia from the UK and their military forces on the Nord Stream pipeline, which we know from reports coming out of Russia, the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin saying that the attack was in fact... | |
| Done by the British on the Nord Stream pipeline at the behest of the US and NATO. We're going to talk about what that is. | |
| So is it going to be that? | |
| Is that what it's going to be? | |
| I mean, that has to be the question. | |
| And let's just read a few more interesting notes about this story here. | |
| It says, however, the government insiders reportedly admitted that the plan dubbed program Yarrow had taken on new urgency at the time of a worsening energy crisis. | |
| The government doesn't want any publicity on Yarrow as they don't want it to be seen as linked to Ukraine energy supply and the cost of living, one of the sources told The Guardian, adding, but we need to think about how we can help people in advance that the fact that they're talking about it now means it's a real concern that it could happen. | |
| According to Ed Miliband, the Shadow Climate Secretary, all governments do contingency planning for worst-case scenarios. | |
| Da-da-da-da-da. | |
| Yeah, so... | |
| It's saying, Program Yaro prepares for a situation where power is unavailable without any pre-warning. | |
| Think about that. | |
| Does an entire country, let's just say London's a major city, tens of millions of people, I believe, at least 10 million or more, if you have a city that large... | |
| What does it sound more like if power becomes unavailable immediately without pre-warning to all premises without backup generators during winter? | |
| That's what they say in the report. | |
| Does that sound like an energy crisis, a scarcity of energy, or does it sound like a coordinated attack? | |
| Sounds like an attack. | |
| It envisages that 60% of electricity demand will be met between day 2 and day 7 when households and businesses will be given intermittent access to a rationed supply. | |
| So let me ask you this, guys. | |
| What's the story going to be? | |
| Are they going to blame Ukraine? | |
| Well, it doesn't sound like they want to if they don't have to because they're going to say they're going to look for a bad man, the boogeyman. | |
| Somebody's got to be blamed for this. | |
| And Will it be Russia acting in retaliation against what was done to them in their Nord Stream pipeline? | |
| Could it be some major grid attack by them, some sabotage, some cyber attack on the grid that knocks it out, and they're preparing for that? | |
| Or here's another likely scenario. | |
| Somebody on social media pointed this out to me. | |
| Thank you to the person who did that. | |
| If they're watching... | |
| over on True Social, when I posted this show right before I went live, they pointed out very astutely, I might add, that there's a high probability that this could just be a false flag, which brings in the Great Reset, brings in the climate chaos, brings in the dependency, the rationing of energy, brings in the dependency, the rationing of energy, like they're saying here, where you're going to have intermittent access to a rationed supply of energy, which is exactly what they want. | |
| It gives them more control. | |
| If they want a command control authoritarian dictatorship, how do they get it? | |
| They have the boogeyman Russia. | |
| They staged a false flag in their own country. | |
| They knock out the power grid. | |
| They turn around and tell you that it was Russia's fault. | |
| We're at war with Russia. | |
| You have to sacrifice for your country. | |
| And bada boom, bada bang, they have control of when you can turn your lights on. | |
| Now, I'm not saying that any of this is going to happen. | |
| I'm saying that this is what they're preparing for, which means if they're preparing for it, it's probably likely something they believe could happen. | |
| And if they believe it could happen, then... | |
| Who knows? | |
| But let me tell you this, guys. | |
| There is good news. | |
| There is good news. | |
| Joe Biden's got the answer. | |
| He's got the cure. | |
| If you guys didn't understand, if your power goes out, what are you going to do? | |
| If they ask you, what are you going to do if your power goes out? | |
| Okay? | |
| Let me ask you this. | |
| What are you going to do? | |
| Well, Joe Biden's got the answer. | |
| Let's watch. | |
| And by the way, in your home, you know, the batteries that we have now, and they're getting more and more sophisticated. | |
| You know, a lightning storm takes out all the electricity in the house. | |
| Guess what? | |
| You can plug your car into the house and make it light up. | |
| You think I'm joking. | |
| It's a little simplistic, but literally you can. | |
| Literally you can. | |
| Oh, this summer... | |
| It really is kind of exciting. | |
| I get rid of it. | |
| What are you worried about? | |
| You can just plug your electric car into your house and then it'll power it. | |
| Well, of course, until your electric car runs out of battery and then I don't know what you're going to do because your house is not going to have power. | |
| So how are you going to charge your car? | |
| It doesn't matter. | |
| You don't think that far ahead into the future, okay? | |
| Just remember, focus on right now. | |
| What feels good right now? | |
| It feels good to have a cool car that powers your house for a couple hours when the power gets knocked out. | |
| You know, and if you're one of the houses that they don't get to for seven days, you know, just have a few extra blankets on hand. | |
| It can't be that cold. | |
| It won't be that bad. | |
| Trust me. | |
| Mark my words. | |
| It's not going to be that bad. | |
| According to Joe Biden, you'll just plug your truck in your house and you'll be just fine. | |
| Just fine. | |
| So in other news, let's talk about this right here. | |
| U.S. accusing North Korea of hiding large munitions shipments to Russia. | |
| This is a big story that's coming out here. | |
| United States once again accusing North Korea of secretly helping the Russian war effort in Ukraine. | |
| At a moment, there's been international condemnation of Iranian drones being used against Ukrainian cities in September, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. | |
| Has publicly denied that it intended to provide ammunition to the Russians, National Security Council official John Kirby told CNN. However, our information indicates that the DPRK is covertly supplying Russia's war in Ukraine with a significant number of artillery shells while obfuscating the real destination of the armed shipments by trying to make it appear as though they are being sent to countries in the Middle East or North Africa. | |
| Okay, so let's just go through the levels of absurdity in this whole story, right? | |
| So now they're saying that North Korea is secretly sending missiles and weapons to Russia to use in Ukraine using the false pretense that they're sending them to North Africa and the Middle East, which would be okay. | |
| It's okay if you send it to kill Middle Easterners and to kill North Africans. | |
| That's okay because we want destabilization there. | |
| But if you send it to those pesky Russians to fight Ukrainians who are being armed by the U.S. and NATO, now you've crossed the line, my friend. | |
| Now you've crossed the line. | |
| That is where we draw the line. | |
| The line's drawn just like Obama. | |
| The line's been crossed. | |
| A line in the sand. | |
| That's what they want us to believe. | |
| It's just absurd. | |
| And where else do you think they're going to get their weapons from here? | |
| That that's happening. | |
| The U.S. is holding one of its largest military drills to date in the South Korean waters right off the coast of North Korea. | |
| And this was a major, major exercise that has been joint with many different forces, the military, U.S. military, the Korean forces, other Asian Pacific militaries that are aligned in the alliances. | |
| Apparently, the provocation against North Korea is coming, and it's only a matter of time. | |
| They're provoking a war in Iran. | |
| They're provoking a war in North Korea. | |
| These are all the things I remember back in the day. | |
| I'm old enough to remember back when we were doing the Q post, when they were originally coming out and being posted. | |
| And everything that we were being told is what they're doing now. | |
| They said, if Trump had won, we'd be at war with Iran. | |
| If Trump had won, we'd be at war with North Korea. | |
| If Trump hadn't won, we would be at war with all these countries because that was Barack Obama's plan. | |
| Hillary was going to finish the job. | |
| They destabilized North Africa with the destruction of Libya and basically opening the floodgates of that migrant crisis that is happening. | |
| The African exodus into southern and central and northern Europe. | |
| And that all happened by design. | |
| Hillary Clinton, her words exactly, we came, we saw, he died! | |
| Ha ha ha ha! | |
| I can play the clip. | |
| It's pretty dark. | |
| But if you take that on top of the fact that they were planning to destabilize the global system by starting wars in North Korea and starting wars in Iran, that's what we covered yesterday, the attack that's imminent. | |
| They say within 48 hours, and this was reporting from, what, 12 hours ago, they say within 48 hours there's going to be a major offensive attack from Iran on Iraq and Saudi Arabia. | |
| Well, guess what that does? | |
| That's going to bring the U.S. military back in the Middle East, which is right where we want them as we're drawing down troops, not where we want them, where the military-industrial complex wants them, the globalist deep state unit party wants them. | |
| And where else do we want troops? | |
| Well, of course we want them engaged in another battle in North Korea. | |
| To shut down that pesky dictator Kim Jong-un with those nukes that he just magically got while Barack Obama was president, but then somehow they blamed Trump for that. | |
| Yeah, so it's only going to get worse from here, guys, as apparently North Korea has responded by launching a number of missiles into the ocean just off the coast of South Korea. | |
| 23 short-range missiles fired to the east and west of the peninsula on Wednesday, basically signaling that if they keep these exercises up, then North Koreans stand ready to go to war. | |
| And on top of all of that, speaking of war, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo gets served for allegedly spying on Julian Assange. | |
| Here is the video. | |
| Yeah, it's some like meet and greet where it's like you get to shake Mike Pompeo's hand. | |
| He gets served by New York attorney Richard Roth or process server. | |
| I'm not sure if that was the attorney Richard Roth, but a process server served Mike Pompeo with these... | |
| Basically, documents from Spanish court documents which talk about violations of U.S. constitutional rights against Julian Assange, etc., etc. | |
| This is crazy. | |
| I just thought I'd update you on that story as it was breaking right when I went on air. | |
| Bolsonaro, according to the mainstream media, now there's a lot of conflicting reports on this, but this is what the fake news is saying. | |
| They're saying that he has conceded. | |
| The election's over and he will respect the result. | |
| And again, it's the Guardian. | |
| Fake news a lot of the time here. | |
| It's over. | |
| Jair Bolsonaro reportedly accepts defeat in Brazil election now. | |
| Just like in the US election, a lot of people are claiming wild things. | |
| The internet is afoot, is abuzz with all of the conspiracy theories. | |
| Now, I'm not saying they're not true or not real, but it's interesting how similar the theories going around the internet right now are to the ones that were coming out right after Trump basically had the election stolen from him. | |
| They're saying that the military is in control. | |
| They're saying that Bolsonaro, even though he conceded defeat, he didn't concede it to Lula, the guy he was running against. | |
| They're saying that the military has taken over. | |
| The same things that we were being told and are still being told to this day about Trump and what happened in 2020 is what is happening here in Brazil. | |
| But what's happening in Brazil, more interestingly though, is that the people are pissed. | |
| And if you thought January 6th was crazy, Which, you know, wasn't even really that bad, in my opinion. | |
| You've got to see what's happening in Brazil. | |
| I mean, protests are almost an understatement to what's happening there. | |
| Massive, massive unrest and upheaval against the regime that's trying to steal power there. | |
| The voter, the whole statistical anomaly of the way the votes came in is mind-blowing. | |
| How it came in at an exact, you know, almost fixed algorithm, algorithmic move for how the votes went from Bolsonaro was in a huge lead and then he slowly lost to Lula after Lula was weighed down and then slowly won. | |
| It was almost like it was fixed. | |
| Well, maybe it was. | |
| And that's what's happening there. | |
| Not much more to update other than the fake news is telling us he's conceded, which remember they told us that Trump conceded and everything else. | |
| And I still don't think Trump's conceded at this point. | |
| Trump said that it was stolen. | |
| He didn't lose. | |
| He won. | |
| He's saying he won the election. | |
| So I've never heard a real concession from him. | |
| Joe Biden, in my opinion, is an illegitimate, corrupt, treasonous traitor who they tell us is the president, but he's not. | |
| And for all the people in Brazil, God bless you. | |
| I hope that you'll get through this just as well as we have, which is we're doing our best up here in America right now in the U.S. Another question that's really on everybody's mind right now is they're saying this, but I don't know if there's any truth to it. | |
| They're saying now, reporting on thehill.com, is the 25th Amendment removal in Joe Biden's future? | |
| Oh, they're saying this again, right? | |
| They've been saying this for how many years now, that they're going to remove him via the 25th Amendment? | |
| Not too sure about it, though he is planning to give a speech tonight where he's going to be talking about the threat of election deniers and political violence. | |
| Joe Biden's going to speak at a DNC fundraiser in Washington D.C. Wednesday evening on the threat of election deniers and political violence. | |
| Oh, you mean like from your side, you know, from 2016 through 2020? | |
| According to an announcement by the Democrats and comments by White House officials, the theme is a reprise of the Dark Brandon speech Biden gave in Philadelphia in September. | |
| 7 p.m. | |
| Eastern speech is scheduled for Democrat fundraiser held at the Columbus Club and Union Station. | |
| So... | |
| What are they saying is going to be said here? | |
| Joe Biden's apparently planning to put unlawful and unethical political pressure on the FBI and DOJ in tonight's 7 p.m. | |
| address. | |
| This is according to Ali Alexander over on Twitter. | |
| He's saying that amid undecided breaking for Republicans, his screed will target election integrity activists and organizations. | |
| He wants post-term election arrests of observers and wants Merrick Garland to bend the law to make arrests within leadership like that of Stop the Steal. | |
| So, I mean, look, if the military's in control, please do something. | |
| People go, oh, you're just crazy. | |
| You don't understand. | |
| They're doing all this in secret, and they can't. | |
| No, it's okay. | |
| But do something, because these people are criminals, and they're criminalizing free speech in America, and they're attacking us, and we could use a little help here. | |
| We're going up against an incredibly large system. | |
| Although we outnumber them in just number, they have more power than us because they control the institutions. | |
| They are the deep state. | |
| They are the unit party. | |
| They are the globalist factions who run the corporations, who run the big tech companies that censor us, who run the fake news that lies about us. | |
| We need a little help here. | |
| So if the military is in some secret clandestine war stance behind and we can't know, blah, blah, blah, let's do something about it now because these people have lost their minds, they're criminals, and they're posing not only a threat to half the country that is not for totalitarian fascism as they're trying to impose, but they're also a threat to this entire nation and anybody who wants to remain free. | |
| I mean, but that's just me, so... | |
| I'm just a crazy conspiracy theorist, right? | |
| So let's see all the lies that they're putting forth now. | |
| Let's listen to our girdle, low IQ, White House press secretary, the second dumbest person in the White House after Joe Biden, Kareem Jean-Pierre. | |
| Let's watch. | |
| We've seen mega-maga Republican officials who don't believe in the rule of law. | |
| They refuse to accept the results of free and fair elections, and they fan the flames of political violence through what they praise and what they refuse to condemn. | |
| It remains important for the President to state strongly and unequivocally that violence has no place in our democracy. | |
| I would have loved this kind of rhetoric to come from any Democrat, you know, from 2016 to 2020, but I guess that's just wishful thinking at this point because when BLM burns down cities, it's okay. | |
| It's peaceful, fiery, but peaceful when they hold precincts hostage and murder people, commit violent hate crimes, you know, attack innocent protesters, violently beat people in the street because of the color of their skin, do all of these things. | |
| That's okay, but cream jump here. | |
| When Paul Pelosi's drug dealer slash gay hooker beats him up because he won't pay his bill, I don't know if that's what happened. | |
| It's allegedly, let's just be honest. | |
| Well, we're political violence. | |
| We're going to get everybody on top of this. | |
| QAnon conspiracy theories. | |
| They're a dangerous society. | |
| It's like, what are you talking about? | |
| The only danger to society are these treasonous traitors who have holed up in the White House and are pretending to run this country via the coup that was enacted against Trump and the deep state power brokers in the Uniparty, rhinos and Democrats alike, who hate America and look at it as their personal rhinos and Democrats alike, who hate America and look at it as And they extort the American taxpayer for every penny we have so they can enrich themselves and sell us out to the highest bidder abroad. | |
| And if you don't believe me, go look up the Hillary Clinton Foundation emails. | |
| Look at the hacked emails from the DNC servers. | |
| Go look up what happened with the Clinton Foundation, the donations, the pay-for-play, the quid pro quo, you know, between Joe Biden. | |
| Go look up Hunter Biden's laptop. | |
| And if you can look up any of those things, read through all of the information that's contained within there, and then tell me that we're the threat to democracy, you are a joke, you're a liar, and you are a coward because you refuse to face the truth, which is that our country is being run by a criminal regime. | |
| A criminal regime. | |
| Criminals. | |
| Not to mention the crimes against children and humanity and the COVID hoax and everything else. | |
| I could sit here and do a show for hours on end and go through each and every one of these crimes being committed against us. | |
| But we're just supposed to sit back and take it, right? | |
| That's what we do, right? | |
| But we don't have to. | |
| But look at how weak they are, too. | |
| And look at who they appeal to. | |
| They appeal to the lowest common denominator. | |
| They appeal to the weak. | |
| They appeal to people who cower under deaths. | |
| And you go, Craig, what are you talking about? | |
| What do you mean cower under deaths? | |
| Watch this. | |
| It's Monday night, and here's what's happened. | |
| Me. | |
| Me. | |
| What are you doing under my desk? | |
| Well, under the desk is kind of my thing. | |
| I mean... | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| You can stay for now, but when it comes time to voting, you're going to have to get up because you've got climate change legislation on the ballot, you've got gun safety, and if we can elect more pro-choice members of Congress, we can reinstitute Roe v. | |
| Wade as the law of the land. | |
| So you can't stay here. | |
| You're going to have to take a little bit of time to vote. | |
| It's now about time to say that I voted for McCain in 2008. | |
| As long as you voted. | |
| Go to IWillVote.com and I will see you at the polls. | |
| Oh! | |
| So clever. | |
| So cute. | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| Yeah, I can't wait. | |
| Alright, and a few other stories I want to touch on here. | |
| David Hogg imploding! | |
| Because Elon Musk has said that the blue checks are going to have to pay their way. | |
| David Hogg insisting Twitter should be paying us! | |
| Gun control activist David Hogg fired back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk over his plan to charge Blue Chex users a $8 fee per month to retain their status as verified accounts. | |
| You're not paying David Hogg to stay on Twitter? | |
| What's wrong with you? | |
| Uh, said no one ever. | |
| No, the fact of the matter is, I have come to the full and total conclusion at this point that Elon Musk is, as I've suspected the whole time and I've been very clear about, a bad actor, not a good actor. | |
| This is not going to end well for anybody involved. | |
| I am on Twitter right now trying to at least red pill as many people as I can before it turns back into the nightmarishly Orwellian hellscape that it was when it was being full ran by the liberals, but Elon Musk is not good. | |
| I mean, the guy for Halloween dressed up as the champion of Satan. | |
| Literally. | |
| I did this in yesterday's show. | |
| He wore a leather-clad armor with a impression. | |
| It was done up with the head of Baphomet and an upside-down cross. | |
| And he thinks that's funny. | |
| It's just cute and clever, right? | |
| It's not like he's the Antichrist. | |
| Well, he wishes he was the Antichrist, it looks like. | |
| But on top of that, he's a transhumanist. | |
| He's a globalist. | |
| He's in very close with the Chinese communists. | |
| He admires the Chinese communist social controls like their WeChat, which is essentially the government monitors and controls everything you do through one app that you don't have any choice whether or not you use because you do your banking through it. | |
| You do your social media through it. | |
| You do everything through it. | |
| And he's a big advocate for that, as well as hooking you up to the neural link that will then augment your reality because God's creation isn't good enough. | |
| He has to change it and alter it because that's going to make you happier. | |
| That's what Elon Musk brings to the table, guys. | |
| So, for all the good stuff he's doing, they've said a lot about, I don't think he's the Antichrist. | |
| I think that people say that. | |
| I don't know. | |
| But I think that he is somebody that everybody knows and everybody likes. | |
| And he is openly wearing, you know, Baphomet and upside-down crosses in public. | |
| And he is talking about enhancing your brain with chips. | |
| And doing a mark on you so that you can buy and sell, right? | |
| Because that's what WeChat is. | |
| So I don't know, but I'd say this. | |
| We need to be aware. | |
| We need to be aware. | |
| So for all the good he does, that's how the... | |
| And if you read the Bible, I mean, the Antichrist is somebody the whole world's going to love, and only few people are going to be able to see him for what he is or who he is. | |
| So, like this story, White House deletes absurd tweet after CNN and Twitter slapped fact checks on it. | |
| They put a fact check on this stupid tweet from the White House. | |
| We were saying seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden's leadership. | |
| And then they're like, by the way, they have to raise the Social Security checks because inflation is to the roof. | |
| And that was an act signed into law by President Nixon in 1972. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Huh. | |
| And this is the other thing that's really, you know, you think he's the champion of free speech, Elon Musk. | |
| I got a little bit of news for you here. | |
| I'm not sure on that one. | |
| It says Elon Musk's new far-left Twitter moderation counsel is drawing criticism, including Yoel Roth, who called Trump a Nazi and racist tangerine. | |
| Yeah. | |
| No big deal here. | |
| They're very much on board with the people he's bringing in are the heads of the ADL. I think his name is Joseph Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, bringing all these leftists, the NAACP, the Rhino-Bush Center on board. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| They're bringing all of the same totalitarian, authoritarian, fascist censors who censored the internet prior. | |
| He's bringing them all back to just do it all over again. | |
| And they're going to rebrand it as, oh, look, Twitter's free now, except you're not allowed here because your speech isn't welcome. | |
| Oh, you can't have your account back. | |
| And they've already come out today saying that your accounts aren't going to be coming back for those who were deleted until after the election. | |
| If they come back at all. | |
| So we'll see how that goes. | |
| I'm curious to see if my account will be reinstated. | |
| And I will use their platform because I will go into where they are to preach the gospel and share God's grace to bring as many people out of that evil as I can. | |
| And if they don't know, if they don't hear, then how are they going to know? | |
| That's why we have to go to these places and flood them and make them know that Jesus is king and that they can't lie to us anymore. | |
| We know the truth. | |
| We have the truth. | |
| That's my opinion on it. | |
| Let's see. | |
| And the final hilarious thing here. | |
| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over on Twitter, of course. | |
| LMAO had a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that free speech is actually $8 a month per subscription plan. | |
| I mean, do I need to? | |
| I will. | |
| One of the lowest IQ people on Twitter, let's just be fair and kind here, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at least one of the lowest IQs in Congress, which that's a heavy field to compete in for lowest IQ over there. | |
| We have people like Maxine Waters still working. | |
| But this is her attempt at chastising Elon Musk for charging for a subscription plan to Twitter so she can have a checkmark. | |
| They're all just flipping out because they saw their checkmarks as a status, a social status symbol. | |
| It was there better than you. | |
| I'm a part of the blue check mafia. | |
| I'm a Twitterati elite. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Interesting, interesting thing. | |
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| And today we are doing our God's Graces Greater segment where we're going deeper into chapter 6 of the Gospel of Mark. | |
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| So let's get into some other news here. | |
| Let's update you on what's happening with Nancy Pelosi. | |
| This is a story worth covering. | |
| So just like Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. Capitol Police officers weren't watching live home security cameras when Paul Pelosi was attacked. | |
| Well, of course they weren't. | |
| Why would they watch when, you know, he asked them not to watch because it's his gay hooker slash drug dealer, possibly, allegedly, I don't know. | |
| I'm just saying that's what people are saying online, so who knows? | |
| Yeah, why would they be watching that? | |
| I mean, U.S. Capitol Police had cameras outside the home of U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | |
| They were not monitored at the time of the break-in, according to ABC News. | |
| You know, just like Jeffrey Epstein's cell wasn't being monitored when he was murdered by, you know, Deep State goons. | |
| I mean, Deep State assassins. | |
| I mean, by himself, by himself with a bed sheet. | |
| Sorry, I don't know what happened there. | |
| It's almost like I was telling the truth for a second. | |
| There we go. | |
| And the mystery is continuing, though. | |
| The FBI, San Fran police, and San Fran DA won't confirm whether a third person opened the door at Pelosi's home. | |
| Well, who was this mystical, magical third person? | |
| Maybe that was the drug dealer or the gay hooker. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know. | |
| See? | |
| There's still a lot to be answered here in this crazy times we live in. | |
| Yeah, so, you know, we'll see how that goes. | |
| And this is an exclusive over on the Daily Mail. | |
| If a glass smashed, an alarm went off, Nancy Pelosi's former neighbor questions why invasion triggered no warning as she recalls fleets of SUVs at the Manchester 24-7, window alarms, and even her computer scrambled by Speaker Pelosi's devices. | |
| Marjorie Campbell was Pelosi's neighbor for 10 years in San Francisco. | |
| She tells Daily Mail she remembers a fleet of black SUVs surrounding the Speaker's mansion 24-7. | |
| She also recalls her computers getting scrambled by alleged security measures to protect the nation's number three. | |
| Everybody in the neighborhood had alarms on our windows. | |
| The former neighbor said, if a glass smashed, an alarm went off! | |
| Wait, that only is if the alarm... | |
| Listen, that's only, first of all, if the alarm's on, which it probably wasn't, because they were letting this person in. | |
| It seems, I don't know that, but it seems that way. | |
| And two, especially the alarm wouldn't be on if you're smashing the glass from the inside to make it appear as though there was a break-in so that you have a plausible story from which you can pivot your deniability to say, you don't know who this David DePape is, this... | |
| You know, nudist from the Castro District who is a Black Lives Matter supporting, you know, lefty. | |
| QAnon conspiracy theorists, though. | |
| You don't know, you know. | |
| He was just smashing windows, you know. | |
| What are we doing? | |
| But this is probably the most telling thing of all. | |
| The San Francisco state senator who promotes drag shows and sex with minors says he's very familiar and has long been aware of the David DePape, the attacker of Paul Pelosi. | |
| Yes, you know him. | |
| Scott Wiener, the Democratic state senator from the San Francisco district in California, he has come out. | |
| You know, an advocate for sex with underage minors because he's not a pedophile. | |
| That's just... | |
| If he changes the law, then he's not a pedophile, right? | |
| That's his logic, at least. | |
| These people are sick. | |
| And he's very well-known, David DePape. | |
| He's known him for a long time, guys. | |
| And it seems like people are reporting online, too, that this David DePape was known also by... | |
| Ed Buck, the famous, infamous, let's say, Democrat donor who was, I believe, brought up on trial and sentenced for killing gay hookers in his house with drugs. | |
| Fact check me on that if I'm off there. | |
| But this is the story. | |
| Let's get into some other news here. | |
| A powerful ad going up in New York State exposes Democrat plan to mandate COVID vaccines for all children. | |
| Let's just watch. | |
| Mommy? | |
| I want to get it. | |
| Mommy, I'm not sick! | |
| Mommy, please! | |
| I'm scared! | |
| I'm sorry, baby. | |
| I wish I had a choice. | |
| CDC is recommending the COVID-19 vaccine for all school children. | |
| If Democrat Kathy Hochul gets elected as governor of New York, you may no longer have a say in your child's health. | |
| On November 8th, vote for parental rights. | |
| Vote Republican. | |
| Paid for by American Liberty Fund. | |
| I mean, that ad says it all, guys. | |
| We got to get the truth out to these people. | |
| Look, unrelated, anecdotal on my end here, but I was recently in the doctor's office, you know, for some stuff I'm getting taken care of. | |
| And out here in California, I can tell you this, the mask Nazism hasn't ended. | |
| The people are brainwashed. | |
| I'm sitting in this doctor's office, just anecdotally speaking, though. | |
| Everyone except myself is wearing a mask because I refuse to wear a mask. | |
| And luckily, the way that the law has been changed here, they can't force you to do it anymore. | |
| Not that they really could before, but they tried to. | |
| But it's amazing. | |
| I'm sitting in the waiting room. | |
| Every person in the waiting room has a mask on. | |
| Every person is coughing. | |
| And you can hear the wheezing and the coughing. | |
| And this isn't like... | |
| Let's just say this wasn't... | |
| a place where you would expect that necessarily, although it could be at any doctor's office, but anecdotally speaking, I'm the only one sitting there without a mask on. | |
| And I'm looking at these people and I'm just thinking to myself in my mind, how many of these people have the vaccine? | |
| How many of these people are now immunocompromised from it? | |
| How many of these people are suffering? | |
| They look like they're suffering. | |
| It's like they're afraid. | |
| They've been conditioned. | |
| It's baffling. | |
| It's baffling and then you see it firsthand and You know, I'm sitting there like, well, I think my immune system's fine. | |
| It should be strong enough to handle anything, and I'm not scared of it. | |
| And these people are just living in fear, paranoia, and they've been taught to do it. | |
| And then you see stories like this, and you just go, wow. | |
| Julia Powell, the person who wished death on the unvaccinated, died suddenly. | |
| She says here in a tweet, this is the person who wrote the book, Julie and Julia. | |
| She's like a cook author about Julia Childs. | |
| She did that book. | |
| She said, I would argue that COVID does kill some of the right people. | |
| The anti-vaxxers, massacres are dying in legions. | |
| But yes, it's a real shame about Kavanaugh. | |
| And then she died. | |
| And that was in October 2021, a year ago. | |
| And a year later, here she is dying suddenly. | |
| And, you know, this was her last post, October 25th, 2022. | |
| She says, Now, this is what I think. | |
| Let's be honest. | |
| I don't wish death on any of these people. | |
| I want to help people. | |
| If I'm telling you what I believe to be the truth about all of this, I'm only doing it because I genuinely want to help you. | |
| But I don't want to force you to do some things that you don't want to do. | |
| And if you don't want to do what I think you should do, I don't wish for you to die. | |
| That's what we're up against, though. | |
| These same people who come out and write articles saying, we need to just forget about it. | |
| We need just a pandemic amnesty. | |
| We just didn't know what we were talking about. | |
| It's like, yeah, but except I was the one saying during this whole thing, I just don't want to be forced to do things against my will medically. | |
| I want to have a conversation with my doctor. | |
| I don't want to take experimental vaccines that I'm not aware of. | |
| I don't want to muzzle myself and cause myself to have issues breathing and everything else for something that literally, having had COVID, is not... | |
| It wasn't that big of a deal. | |
| It was like getting the cold or the common cold or the flu. | |
| And they're like, you're going to kill grandma. | |
| I hope you die. | |
| And, you know, we hope your family suffers. | |
| And you're like, wait, what? | |
| I don't understand. | |
| You're the same people who want me to let you murder babies in the womb because you say it's your body and your choice, yet when I tell you I don't want to put experimental vaccines in my body, you say it's not my body, it's your choice, and you hope I die and that my family suffers for it. | |
| And... | |
| I'm not saying that it's karma because even that I think, you know, I don't take pleasure in this. | |
| I actually am sad. | |
| I actually feel terrible for these people. | |
| I feel like the people, I have family members, close family members who I told adamantly everything I knew and I said, please don't take the vaccine and they did and they suffered. | |
| They had major reactions. | |
| They had adverse reactions. | |
| They got very sick from the vaccine. | |
| And not with COVID, but with other things that were byproducts of the vaccine. | |
| And they tell me to this day, they wish they had never taken the vaccine and they wish they had listened to me. | |
| And I don't tell them, oh, I wish you would have died. | |
| No, I say, I'm so sorry. | |
| I wish I would have been more adamant. | |
| I wish I would have done more to try to tell you the truth about all of this. | |
| I just don't understand how we live in a world where this is how it's come to. | |
| And they do it all by design. | |
| David Icke told us what they were going to do back in 1997. | |
| Watch this clip. | |
| New viruses in laboratories that were resistant to drugs that they were going to use that to cull the population that they were going to use vaccinations to cull the population and also that they were going to change the way that healthcare treated old people so that more and more old people died and didn't go long into into life because from there What | |
| we're looking at now, very clearly, is this attempt to play that card of mass global immunization. | |
| With an excuse of this manufactured virus to get access to the bodies, the body computer systems, as I would say, of almost everyone on the planet. | |
| And they're not doing that because they want to protect people from anything. | |
| Crikey! | |
| The force that's saying be vaccinated is the force that created the virus which they're saying be vaccinated against. | |
| They're doing this to get access to the global population for very, very malevolent reasons. | |
| And what people need to realize is that these families do not come from the same perspective of life and respect that we do. | |
| They see humans like cattle. | |
| Nothing more than cattle, and most humans see cattle. | |
| They therefore have no empathy With the consequences for the human population of their actions. | |
| So if people say, they'd never do that mate. | |
| No, no. | |
| You'd never do that. | |
| They do it all the time. | |
| And that's what I've tried to tell people from day one. | |
| It doesn't come from a place of, oh, I told you so, and I'm ha ha ha, look at you suffer. | |
| It's like, no, I'm just, I'm honestly, this is the stuff I've been researching. | |
| This is what I've been hearing. | |
| This is what I've been hearing way before COVID even existed, that they were going to do all of this, and then they do it. | |
| And as it's happening, I'm telling everybody, don't. | |
| Fall for it. | |
| It's a scam. | |
| It's a trick. | |
| They're trying to manipulate you. | |
| They're gonna do some harm to you. | |
| And it's because they don't think of the world like he says. | |
| They don't think of humanity the way we do. | |
| They don't genuinely care for others. | |
| They don't genuinely, like, we don't want to hurt others. | |
| We don't want to wish harm on others. | |
| We genuinely love and care for people. | |
| The people that do this kind of stuff, they're sociopaths. | |
| They're maniacal liars. | |
| They are twisted individuals who are satanically driven, who have a disdain for life or an indifference toward it at minimum. | |
| And that indifference allows them to do heinous things. | |
| And we have to be aware of that. | |
| So this is a great skit, though, that kind of sums it all up. | |
| Watch this. | |
| Yeah, it turns out, yeah, it turns out that this was all a lie. | |
| Yep. | |
| I was really just kind of hoping we could put all this behind us and move on. | |
| Is that like, is that an apology? | |
| Because it doesn't really sound like one. | |
| I know that I called you a grandma killer, but I really just wanted what was best for you. | |
| I actually couldn't visit my grandma in the hospital or even attend her funeral. | |
| But my heart was in the right place. | |
| I also lost my business and my job. | |
| I had good intentions. | |
| And my kids' social, mental, and physical development was also hurt. | |
| Listen, we just didn't know. | |
| I knew. | |
| Lots of people knew. | |
| But you refused to listen. | |
| Instead, you called us names and wished death upon us. | |
| Let's just call a truce, okay? | |
| But according to your hat, you care about social justice. | |
| What does that have to do with anything? | |
| Why don't you care about justice here? | |
| I don't hear you demanding apologies or reparations. | |
| Because that would have to come from me, and we just need to move on. | |
| So you don't believe in accountability for systemic injustices when you're the one guilty? | |
| Can't we just build back and move forward? | |
| I don't want to build back a system that allowed this to occur. | |
| Don't you want peace? | |
| I found this sign on the ground. | |
| maybe you recognize it I mean it's a little bit dark but it's true so It's not very far off from the truth about everything here. | |
| We have still the shills, especially the corporate shills, telling us how great China is. | |
| Bizarre interview with Shanghai. | |
| Somebody who was in Shanghai when the Disney lockdowns occurred that I talked about in yesterday's video where they locked down the entire Disneyland in Shanghai. | |
| Because of one case of COVID and forced every person in the park to take a COVID test to have a zero COVID outcome as far as the policy in China goes. | |
| And of course you have Jim Cramer going on a bizarre rant in his pro-China lockdown, COVID lockdown and pro-vaccine rant, which is just strange. | |
| Watch this. | |
| Also, the other benefit for President Xi of having all these COVID controls is that you are very, very easily able to track people. | |
| And that's another big benefit for this regime. | |
| Right. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The power of the state, there's no doubt. | |
| Eunice, thank you for that. | |
| We mentioned before we went to Eunice some of the video that came out of Shanghai Disney, Jim, where they had to suspend operations to comply with the prevention measures, but literally kept people in the park until they came back with a negative test. | |
| Just astounding. | |
| Was it three tests over 24 hours or something? | |
| Yeah, well, because you get it. | |
| I mean, look, I had a PCR test with someone at 10, and they gave it to me by 5, so I don't think that's wrong. | |
| I'll just go back over. | |
| I mean, I think chief propagandists, you know, I call that person a dissembler, so to speak. | |
| But, I mean, they need it. | |
| They have a narrative, which just says basically you can conquer... | |
| COVID by just being locked down. | |
| And this has to change the narrative to being, you know what's even better? | |
| Our homegrown mRNA, which I am told is simply that they managed to get the intellectual property, stole it, which is good. | |
| When I say good, because it's better to have mRNA than not. | |
| Let's just say they appropriated it. | |
| And they've got to deal with it. | |
| What do you do if you told people the way to beat this is no vaccine, and now you have a vaccine. | |
| So I think what you need is a propagandist. | |
| Outside of the state infrastructure. | |
| Exactly. | |
| To start moving political opinions. | |
| But I think when we think of propaganda, we think about other regimes that we didn't really appreciate. | |
| You're mighty silent. | |
| I am silent. | |
| I'm just thinking about those poor people stuck at Disney, Shanghai Disney for... | |
| I mean, it's the worst places to be stuck with stealth. | |
| These people are sick, man. | |
| You see those greedy, greedy, greedy people that don't care about human life. | |
| These are the same people I was saying. | |
| They're indifferent. | |
| And this is the same people that David Icke was just talking about. | |
| They're indifferent. | |
| They don't care how many people. | |
| They look at these people as cattle. | |
| Jesus, you know, they're a good policy, you know. | |
| They didn't conquer it. | |
| They just need mRNA vaccines that they can steal and then shoot up in their people and then, you know, they'll win. | |
| It's like, oh, Jim, these people are sick, man. | |
| We have Hillary Clinton coming out and saying that Pelosi attack was part of racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, which has been embraced by conservatives. | |
| And, of course, Kanye West is called an anti-Semite. | |
| But now his lawyer is even telling him that he'll lose his children, custody of his children, if he keeps up the anti-Semitic rhetoric, where he talks about his own lawyer, who's, of course, Bob Cohen, who would have thought, telling him that if he kept up the anti-Semitic rhetoric, that he's going to lose his children. | |
| That's exactly where we're at today. | |
| You don't have free speech. | |
| And as we have Goodwill in Southern California declaring that you cannot take and or sell easy Kanye West items. | |
| Interesting. | |
| And just look at some of the racism that's happening here. | |
| Now, I want you to watch this video, then we're going to watch another video, then we're going to talk about it. | |
| So watch this. | |
| Stephen A. Smith telling us how he's oppressed and how he's underpaid. | |
| Because, and telling us, and not just us, the whole world that listens to this guy, which a lot of people do, and a lot of you out there who watch sports know exactly what I'm talking about, how many people listen to this man. | |
| And this is how you have a racist society, people. | |
| People like Stephen A. Smith, one of the biggest racists out there. | |
| Listen to him talk. | |
| We are still black in this country. | |
| We don't trust this country in terms of meritocracy always. | |
| We know the bottom line is that just like women are underpaid compared to male counterparts, blacks are underpaid compared to white counterparts. | |
| And so when you look at it from that perspective, and of course, people look at me, I'm not talking about me, even though I got news for you. | |
| I am underpaid compared to some people on television. | |
| And what they get paid, but that's a subject for another day. | |
| I ain't apologizing for that to a damn soul. | |
| I am underpaid. | |
| Having said all of that, it ain't about me. | |
| Yeah, so the guy who gets $12 million a year to basically, you know, talk trash on TV about sports players and do nothing to contribute to the betterment of society other than complain about sports, things that don't matter at all, He gets $12 million, but he's severely underpaid because of the color of his skin. | |
| And yeah, that's just totally normal. | |
| But this campaign ad is being ran as we speak now in Georgia. | |
| And I think it summarizes where we're at as a society. | |
| Watch this. | |
| When did racism against white people become okay? | |
| Joe Biden put white people last in line for COVID relief funds. | |
| Kamala Harris said disaster aid should go to non-white citizens first. | |
| Liberal politicians block access to medicine based on skin color. | |
| Progressive corporations, airlines, universities all openly discriminate against white Americans. | |
| Racism is always wrong. | |
| The left's anti-white bigotry must stop. | |
| We are all entitled to equal treatment under law. | |
| America First Legal paid for this ad. | |
| I mean, what happened to all men are created equally? | |
| What happened to, like, a colorblind society where you're not judged on the color of your skin rather than the content of your character? | |
| What happened to that society? | |
| It's just been, like, thrown out into the garbage heap of history, and now it's been replaced by this new racist system of American... | |
| And they say there's American apartheid. | |
| Well, if there was any kind of American apartheid, it's the apartheid of... | |
| Every white person is being categorically and systematically targeted by this racist regime of psychotic lunatics who hate people based on the color of their skin, and then they claim it's all because they were underprivileged, and it's like these are the most privileged people in the world. | |
| Did you see Stephen A. Smith just tell us how underprivileged she is? | |
| He makes $12 million a year! | |
| You ever hear LeBron James on Twitter tell us how underprivileged she is? | |
| He makes $50 billion, I don't know about how much he makes, but $50 million or more a year, probably, and $20 million at least, and then endorsements, who knows how many millions of dollars he's making. | |
| These people are liars, and they've been conditioned by society to have this grievance-victimhood complex, and then they project that back onto everybody, and then they just accept, they expect you to just sit back and go, oh yeah, that's totally normal. | |
| That's totally normal. | |
| So with that being said, let's go ahead and just do our God's Graces Greater segment. | |
| We're going to get into here today, which is talking about You know, King Herod and what he was doing at the time to John the Baptist. | |
| And this is going to be in Mark 6, verse 14. | |
| And we're going to read all the way up to verse 29. | |
| And let's read about John the Baptist, how he was beheaded, why he was beheaded, and what we can learn from this story. | |
| That is written about here in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 6, verse 14. | |
| We're going to read from there to verse 29. | |
| Let's go ahead and read it. | |
| It says, | |
| For Herod himself had given orders to arrest John and to chain him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. | |
| John had been telling Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. | |
| So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. | |
| But she could not, because Herod was in awe of John in protecting him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. | |
| When Herod heard him, he would be very disturbed, yet would hear him gladly. | |
| Now an opportune time came on his birthday when Herod gave a banquet for his nobles, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee. | |
| When Herodias' own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. | |
| The king said to the girl, ask me whatever you want and I'll give it to you. | |
| So he swore oaths to her, whatever you ask me, I will give it to you up to half my kingdom. | |
| Then she went out and said to her mother, what should I ask for? | |
| John the Baptist's head, she said. | |
| Immediately she hurried to the king and said, I want you to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter right now. | |
| Though the king was deeply distressed because of his oaths and the guests, he did not want to refuse her. | |
| The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John's head. | |
| So he went and beheaded him in prison, brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl. | |
| Then the girl gave it to her mother. | |
| When his disciples heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb. | |
| Wow. | |
| Wow. | |
| So there's a lot we can learn in this recounting of the beheading of John the Baptist here. | |
| And what are we meant to learn from it? | |
| Well, we're meant to learn a few things. | |
| Obviously, it's a story of how not to lead your life. | |
| Obviously, it's a story of King Herod falling to the whims of peer pressure and not doing what is righteous and doing the thing that would have been the action of integrity. | |
| He took the dark path here. | |
| He took the wrong road. | |
| First, it talks about how King Herod was scared. | |
| Why was he scared? | |
| He was scared because he had ordered the execution of John the Baptist, as we heard in the latter part of the story. | |
| but he was scared because people were saying that there was a new prophet, somebody who they said was a very powerful man who had supernatural powers, and they said that he was like Elijah, and others said he was like a prophet, one of the old. | |
| And others had told Herod that Jesus was like the reincarnation of John the Baptist, that John the Baptist had been raised from the dead and that he had given his power to Jesus. | |
| Now, this made Herod fearful. | |
| Well, why was Herod fearful? | |
| Because he knew he did the wrong thing. | |
| Why did he know that? | |
| How do we know that? | |
| Well, in this story that goes on after, it tells us about the fact that John the Baptist was a revered, righteous man. | |
| He was a holy man who King Herod even himself saw as a righteous, holy man. | |
| And when he took court with King Herod, when John the Baptist went to take court with King Herod, he told King Herod to his face that him having his brother's wife was a crime against God. | |
| It was unlawful because it was against Moses's law. | |
| And he told him this to the point where it infuriated Herodias, who was King Herod's former brother or King Herod's brother's wife. | |
| Right. | |
| And to the point where she begged and, you know, encouraged and told King Herod that that he needed to imprison John the Baptist. | |
| So then, in this lustful, you would imagine, and, you know, immoral act that happens when King Herod's brother's wife's daughter, so his niece, dances and Which we can only imagine that this was some sort of sexual, lustful dance that she was performing for these men. | |
| That she dances for the court, and in his own impetuous nature, his lustful nature, he says, I'll give you anything you want. | |
| Just tell me what it is, up to half my kingdom. | |
| He says he would give to the daughter of the wife who he stole from his brother, whom was his niece at the time. | |
| She goes to her mother and her mother, still hating John the Baptist, tells her to ask for John the Baptist's head on a platter. | |
| Now this is the part where it really becomes interesting. | |
| King Herod was deeply distressed. | |
| Because he made oaths to this woman in front of his guests, and because he didn't want to lose face, and because he didn't want to be seen as whatever, he was capitulating to the peer pressure of the time, right? | |
| He decided to go through doing something he knew was wrong in beheading John the Baptist and giving his head on a platter to this young girl who presented it to her mother. | |
| Now, what do we learn about this? | |
| What should we learn about this? | |
| Why are we being told this story? | |
| Why is this being given to us here in the Gospel of Mark? | |
| Well, it's there to show us how not to act in life. | |
| We know what's right in our lives. | |
| We know if we're making a good decision or a bad decision. | |
| And a lot of times, we can be influenced by not only our own lustful desires, not only our own desire for greed or our own desire for power or whatever it is, right? | |
| But that we can also be influenced by the people around us, right? | |
| The peer pressure. | |
| And you guys know exactly what that's like. | |
| I'm sure a lot of you out there right now have made decisions, recently even, and they've been influenced by people that you know don't have your best interests at heart. | |
| But not only that, but you know that those people don't have the interest in even looking at what God's will is. | |
| Now, whether that's something inside yourself that is letting yourself be taken captive by a thought, a lustful thought, or an addiction that you have, or it's something that your friends are peer-pressuring you into treating others badly, or into being somebody you don't want to be, or living a life that you don't want to live. | |
| Whatever that is, you know what it is. | |
| You know it's wrong. | |
| You know God would tell you not to do it, that Jesus, if you could sit down and talk to him, would say, you know that this is a sin and you should not do it. | |
| But then you do it because you're being driven by the things of this world. | |
| You're being driven by the pressure of those around you. | |
| Don't let that be you. | |
| Don't be like King Herod. | |
| Learn from his example here in this story and be better. | |
| Be above it. | |
| I know it's not easy. | |
| I know we're going to sin. | |
| And I'm not saying that you're going to be perfect from here on out if you just be perfect. | |
| That's not what I'm saying. | |
| I'm saying learn from the story that we read here. | |
| Do not be pressured by the people around you into doing what you know is wrong. | |
| Do not be pressured by your own lustful desires or your own desires for greed and selfishness to do the thing that is wrong. | |
| Overcome it. | |
| And how do you overcome it? | |
| You overcome it by doing the opposite of what King Herod did. | |
| You listen to your intuition. | |
| You listen to God. | |
| You go to Jesus and God in prayer, and you ask them for the strength to overcome what you're facing. | |
| And I know that you can overcome it with Jesus and God in your heart and the Holy Spirit guiding you. | |
| You can overcome it. | |
| You will overcome it. | |
| But remember, you have to make the effort. | |
| It's not just going to do itself. | |
| It's the lustful thoughts, the greedy thoughts, the selfish thoughts, the peer pressure all around you. | |
| It's not just going to disappear. | |
| Because you want it to, because you wish it would, it's going to take you making an effort. | |
| You're going to have to go to God and ask Him to intervene in your life and help you. | |
| And you're going to have to have the willpower and the strength and courage to do it. | |
| But that doesn't mean you can't go to God and say, God, please give me the courage and strength to do this, this task that's set before me, this impossible task that I feel like I can't overcome on my own. | |
| Come help me, Lord. | |
| And you can do it. | |
| Because you don't want to fall into the same trap that Herod did. | |
| Doing what you know is wrong. | |
| Even though you want to do what is right. | |
| Don't fall into that trap, that temptation. | |
| And that's where I'm going to leave it. | |
| And then we're going to say a prayer and then we'll wrap it up. | |
| Lord and Heavenly Father, please, God, be with us all. | |
| Just please, Lord, when we face things in this world that we feel tempted by, whether it's our own selfishness, our own greed, our own lust, or it's the pressure from outside, the company we keep, whether it's our family or friends, our classmates or coworkers, Lord, I pray that you'll give us strength to overcome it, Lord, and do the right thing. | |
| I know it's not easy, but nothing worth having is. | |
| And the only true thing that's worth having, Lord, is you in our hearts so we can help others, so we can be the men and women that you need in this world, Lord, so that then we can be who we need to be for ourselves and for others. | |
| Lord, I pray for all of us. | |
| Not just myself. | |
| I pray that we have and find through you the strength, the courage, the wisdom, the discernment, the ability to do the right thing. | |
| Because we know you'll bless us richly, Lord, when we make good decisions for you based on your scripture, based on your teachings. | |
| Lord, help us overcome the sin, the temptation, the evil that is all around us, Lord, and help us rise above it with you in our hearts so we can help others find that same power in themselves so that we can ultimately, Lord, come together and be with you in heaven someday. | |
| As we give such great thanks for everything you've given us, Lord. | |
| Every blessing, every gift, every second, every breath. | |
| And most of all, Lord, we thank you for our eternal salvation. | |
| In Jesus' name. | |
| Amen. | |
| Alright. | |
| So, here we are. | |
| We are going to go ahead and wrap it up. | |
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