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Welcome to another Just Informed Talk Radio show.
I'm your host, Craig James, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's good to be back in studio with all of you good people today.
A lot to cover.
We're going to get into some of the bigger stories from over the weekend and beyond.
Of course, the biggest story so far, it seems, is the announcement of a new appointment by the Trump administration.
This one...
You guys out there are going to be excited about it.
One of our favorite hosts here on 1360KHNC and a great guy all around, it seems.
Dan Bongino has been officially named Deputy Director of the FBI. So he will be working alongside Kash Patel as his right-hand man.
Running the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
And to all our law enforcement brothers and sisters out there, and to everybody else listening, that's got to feel pretty good.
It's good to have...
Good people running the show once again.
And this may be a small step in restoring faith in an institution that has lost all credibility almost over the last several years.
And it's going to take a while to rebuild that credibility, to be quite frank.
The stain that has been left on the reputation of the FBI writ large is...
Is nearly impossible to clean up, but this is a good step in the right direction.
That's what I will say.
And, you know, perhaps, hopefully, with any luck, the FBI will once again return to the business of investigating actual criminals.
That would be, I mean, just in and of itself, an accomplishment.
To shift away from the politicization and the weaponization, that would be really something else.
I would be very excited for it to happen.
And to be quite frank, you know, there are no perfect people here, right?
Everybody's got their flaws and things that, you know, some people like these people, some people.
We all have flaws, right, of course.
I do believe that between Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the head, that seventh floor at the FBI is about to have a rude awakening.
I mean, some of the things that have been said over the past several years by people like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, if they even enact half of the things they've said, it will be a radical shift.
Now, if they truly fulfill...
their promise and and do the things they've claimed that they want to see done over the last several years then this could be a major turning point for that institution the FBI at large and I don't know what the future holds only God knows that but I can tell you at this point that it does seem as though we're moving in the right direction And good on Trump for making these appointments.
I could not have thought of better people to fill those positions myself.
If you gave me a magic wand, as Obama likes to say, and I could appoint whoever I wanted, there's a high probability I would have landed on these same two individuals for the director and deputy director positions because they have made it all but too clear.
For a long time now, how corrupt these institutions are, but moreoverly, how much needs to be done, and they've given us step-by-step sort of tutorials on what needs to be done and how it needs to be done and how it should be implemented.
And that, to me, folks, is what we have to look forward to over the next several years, assuming they can maintain their positions and do their jobs effectively.
That being said, do I think that everything's just going to magically get better and everything's going to just turn around instantly?
No.
I mean, it's going to take time.
There's still a lot of rot.
Waste, fraud, and abuse and other corrupt things happening within our government, including these law enforcement agencies.
And I think this should send a message to everybody out there, though.
If you're in one of the FBI satellite offices right now, and you're, you know, one of these people, a part of the DEI initiatives, the people who like the woke ideology, the people who signed off on the persecution of political, you know, opponents.
You should be very concerned.
Okay?
You should be very, very concerned.
Because like I was saying for the last several years, wait until the shoe's on the other foot.
I remember when I first was saying that years ago, and it felt so far away.
I was like, the political tides will turn eventually, and the shoe will be on the other foot, and you're not going to like what happens.
And yet, here we are, inevitably, we have come to a point where the shoe has been placed on the other foot, and now they're going to feel the full force of the law.
And look, in a way, our opponents are quite fortunate that our position is law and order, and rule of law.
Because they, obviously, over the last several years, have disregarded that, weaponized it, tried to, you know, manipulate the laws as they are to fit their political purposes.
And, of course, this is going to be one of those blame game, he said, she said, you know, they accuse us of doing what they're doing.
Mark my words, it's already started, it's going to continue.
The fake news media is going to hysterically go on air every night, every time something big happens, every time some new investigation is open, every time some new search warrant is issued, every time some new arrest warrant is issued, and an indictment is given by a grand jury, and Joy Reid, well, actually not Joy Reid, because she got canceled.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, things are getting good.
But, you know, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, who may be the same person, we're not sure about that, and others, Wolf Blitzer and all the rest, will breathlessly go on air and tell us in time and again that, well, the politicization and the weaponization of the disformin, that's where it gets exhausting, but that's the intent.
Never forget.
The reason they accuse you of what they themselves are doing is because it's meant to create a state of exhaustion within the persecuted individual, and that is how they get away with it time and again, because it essentially dissuades the populace from taking action against it to stop it.
Right?
Because you think, I'm just exhausted.
I just want this to stop.
It's a war of attrition.
They wear you down.
You can only take so much.
So you sit there and you're like, you know...
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And in the sense that we both believe we're right.
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And this creates an exhaustion, and we fight each other, and that keeps us busy with one another, and then we wear each other out.
And meanwhile, of course, they step in and just take full advantage of us.
So, it'll be an interesting time ahead, but we're going to get into that and more.
Stay tuned.
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We're all through.
We're all through.
And look, we're talking about Dan Bongino being appointed deputy director of the FBI. He's going to be working at the right hand of Kash Patel, and they're both going to be working at the behest of Donald Trump.
And I can see big things, you know, coming down the line, particularly in this arena, because look, like I said before, the shoe's finally on the other foot.
Now, For the left, again, it's fortunate that we are the party of law and order, and we are not seeking to weaponize the institutions of law enforcement, the agencies of law enforcement, against our political opponents.
However, unfortunately for them, again, mostly the opponents of Trump, but moreoverly this movement toward making America great again.
There will be law and order.
It will not be a lawless regime acting, you know, in its own self-preserving interest.
It will be most, it will be entirely, hopefully, a series of institutions working within the constitutionally ordered law that will be enforced equally.
Not in a two-tiered justice system where it's rules for thee and not for me.
It will be the law is the law of the land and that's the final straw.
That's the final part.
Final say.
And I can't wait for it, to be quite honest.
I'm very much in excitement waiting for the future.
Now, there are people who...
The one thing I see on social media...
Because trust me, you know what's crazy, and I don't mean to go into a side tangent here, but I've got to be quite honest.
If I didn't do this, if I didn't do this show, if I didn't do this podcast, if I didn't do this sort of daily show, one of the things that if I ever do retire or switch careers, whatever, you know, who knows what the future holds.
One of the things I look forward to the most is deleting all my social media accounts, deleting all the social media apps, and never going on them again.
Not because I don't want to be informed, not because I don't want to be a part of this, but because there are certain things that you see time and again that become exhausting.
I'll give you an example.
For some people, it will never be enough, right?
Because they have unreasonable expectations.
And I know for some of you out there who have those unreasonable expectations, you'll say, you know, that's crazy.
Shut up.
We have to do it.
We have to go to the full extreme and do these things or else it'll all come back.
But as a person who has lived long enough to have seen sort of both sides of the coin over and over again, I'm not the oldest person, but I'm getting there to where I've seen a lot, you know?
And I kind of am starting to understand that the older I get, at least, the more I'm starting to understand that our system is created this way intentionally.
And I know it's not perfect, but there is no perfect system.
You know, some people, again, it will never be enough for them because they want this total control.
Right?
And, look, as much as I would agree that this country should be a Christian nation, and this country should be run in such a way, that's just, at this moment in time, it's not a reasonable expectation, and that's just the reality we live in.
I'm not saying it's not, I'm not saying I wouldn't want that.
Because I would.
I would genuinely want, as I've said before, and I'll say a thousand times again into the future, I'm a Christian, first, who also happens to be a nationalist, in the sense that, as a Christian, if we are going to endeavor to help others, it is impossible to help others if we are incapable of helping ourselves.
So nationalism comes in...
To mean, to me, specifically, excuse me, that we must get our house in order and get our affairs in order, otherwise we'll never be able to help anyone in a way that's meaningful or substantial.
Case in point, when your government is being run by corrupt...
Corporations and this sort of oligarchy.
The funniest thing is when they go, Trump's an oligarch and Elon Musk is an oligarch.
And you're like, okay, should we go talk to the CEOs of Pfizer and the CEOs of BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street, etc.?
But anyway, it's...
One of those things where we find ourselves in a very precarious position, to put it mildly, it's a delicate, balanced act we have to run here.
And I do believe that oligarchies aside, our country is run in a very particular way that it really does speak to Where we've been heading and now the direction is shifting and we're going in a different one and I think the perspective I've learned to take over time is that our system is flawed and imperfect but it works at least in a way and
I kind of forgot where I was going with that but it doesn't matter.
The point is that everything I've seen over the years has shown me that there are people who It will never be enough.
No matter what you do, you could give them everything they want, and then they will find something to complain about.
And those people just exist.
I'm not one of those people because, you know, I feel as though I'm more pragmatically oriented toward understanding that there will be ebbs and flows.
There will be, you know, a sort of transitional phase where one side's ahead and the other's a little behind and the other side's ahead and the other's a little behind.
But if it gets too far out of balance, that's when bad things happen.
So right now, people...
I'm freaking out on the left, and I think what they're trying to do, to be quite honest, is sell a narrative that things have become so out of control that extreme measures are necessary.
I think that's where we're heading right now, particularly as I read the tea leaves.
It's being sold by the people who are in control, who lost control.
They're basically saying to their audiences, you know, violence is the answer, you know, this is by any means necessary, and they're building up toward what we saw previously.
Now, they've been undercut severely, mind you, because if you look at, for instance, what happened during Trump's first term, it really did take them about three years to build up Enough support through sort of mass formation psychosis and other large group PSYOP type psychological warfare operations
to get their paramilitary forces like Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Riled up enough and weaponized enough and organized enough to go to the streets of major cities and put on these marches and stage what, of course, we've pointed out had been staged in many other countries.
These sort of extortion mob, rent-a-riot coup operations, like what we saw with the Maidan.
Revolution there in Ukraine, which was all a CIA-funded overthrow of the pro-Russian, democratically elected government there.
Because the U.S. interests were not served by a government running Ukraine that was favorable toward Russia as opposed to the United States.
Because Ukraine is such a critical inflex point and economic and geopolitical for the United States and Europe, in its war of attrition against Russia, we had to intervene and overthrow the Yakunovych.
Because he was making too many inroads with Russia diplomatically, and that was problematic for the interests of the EU and the United States and NATO. So we had a Maidan revolution where there was a bunch of protests on the government,
and then they had these snipers set up, and they started opening fire into a crowd, and that led to a mass, and they basically said the snipers were pro-Russian.
And here comes Zelensky saying, you know, we need to reform government.
And he played a president on television.
And it was a massive psyop and a very heavily calculated operation planned and whatnot to overthrow that government.
And then they did the same thing in 2019 for the whole Trump term, really.
First one.
They built up the forces to pull it off.
And then.
They unleashed Antifa.
The George Floyd incident gets blown up by the fake news media and they unleash Black Lives Matter.
Black Lives Matter funnels all of their money into Act Blue, which is a political funding organization for the left-wing politics.
The scenes were set up by the media and portrayed to the public with, you know...
Public officials and politicians and police kneeling and submitting and the messaging was put through all of the, through everything.
Do you remember there was a point where you couldn't turn on a sporting event without being completely overwhelmed by this racist messaging of, you know...
Black Lives Matter, and it takes all of us, and so on and so forth.
Racism is the biggest problem, and they would kneel for the anthem, and just all of that.
That was all textbook CIA coup stuff.
It's been laid out in...
Excruciating detail by people like Mike Benz and others.
People like Mike Benz, who used to be a State Department official who worked for Trump.
And he comes out and says, look, this is like textbook what we do in foreign countries.
We did it here.
But it took him a while to get it going.
And then the icing on the cake was the COVID pandemic, which helped steal the election because you had radical people.
Who are unchecked, who are doing a lot of untoward things, and it really set the stage for it all, right?
So that's the recap.
But Trump's come in, and I think he spent the last four years identifying all of the vulnerabilities, all of the weak points which were exploited against him, right?
And in doing so, Essentially, what he was able to do was create a situation where now they are strapped for funds.
They are strapped for cash.
The NGOs aren't getting the unlimited funding from the U.S. federal government because USAID has been decommissioned.
Department of Education is being decommissioned.
The congressional budget...
Doge is being restricted through executive action, which is legal.
Doge is not just about limiting waste, fraud, and abuse, which is its mission outwardly, but its truest mission, I believe, is to cut funding from this unelected bureaucracy,
which has gone rogue and out of control, turning Turning tactics against the American people that were meant to be used abroad for foreign diplomacy,
which is just another euphemism for us overthrowing countries to get them to play ball so that the fiat currency doesn't collapse that we use here in America, the dollar.
And I think Mike Benz is right.
I mean, you can't throw the baby out of the bathwater.
I've been saying it forever, too.
We benefit from the intervention of USAID and foreign nations when they do a lot of these things because it does create...
If you give a country $100 billion in aid, well, guess what?
They have $100 billion that they have to use in the market.
And that keeps the money flowing through the system.
So, it's a double-edged sword.
But, we have other stories.
I mean, I want to kind of go further on this, but I also want to know some other stories.
Stay tuned.
Let us know what you think.
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Welcome back to Just Form Talk Radio.
I'm your host, Craig James.
And we're going to keep going here.
But I do want to take a minute.
I guess we've got a caller calling in.
Caller, let's bring him on.
Caller, are you on there?
What do you got for us?
Yeah, good morning, Blake from Arizona.
I was listening to last Monday's show, and we were talking about the state of the government, whatever.
But it's interesting, in my opinion, about how close we are to a monarchy because you have the Speaker of the House and the majority of the Senate, and basically they're allowed to bring any bill up on the floor.
You have two people that are basically generating bills or not generating bills about we the people.
And for me...
The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose.
And I think that they've encountered severe resistance from what they were trying to do.
And good for MAGA, make America great again.
And not really the Republicans doing this last election cycle.
The Republicans are running around and said, oh, we did, oh, we didn't.
Well, I disagree with you.
I think it's good-hearted, make-America-first people that are...
They're doing it.
So it's a start.
It's a progress, like Fabian communists, you know, incrementally.
And how many decades have we put up with those people?
And now Trump is just pulling the rug out from under them, and it's all going away, hopefully, for a long, long time.
And that's it.
Thanks for taking my call, Craig.
Good morning, sir.
Yeah, good morning.
You know, a couple things.
First of all, I'd say, you know, to your point, you're 100% right.
We did this in spite of Republican efforts.
Like there were the institutional effort to keep Trump from getting even on the ballot in certain states was so pronounced and apparent.
And the ineffectiveness of Republicans over the last several years during the Biden administration.
I mean, we really pulled pulled off a miracle in spite of them, A.
And B, I think that you're 100 percent right in your your description of the Senate and what they've done and what they do.
House the Speaker of the House, et cetera.
And the power.
Power really is vested in that, but I would say that this is why they're losing their minds, because people have become complacent to living under this rule that you described, where it's like, oh, well, Congress is going to take care of all of us and our laws, and that's really where the power should be vested.
But in reality, the reason we have three branches is literally to be a check and balance on one another.
Which is why it's so funny to me that as Trump continues to exercise his executive authority in a more forceful manner than ever has been seen before, it really is the ultimate check and balance against the unrestricted governance that's come out of Congress, where they're signing these congressional budgets that...
Put us in debt for the rest of our lives and our children's lives.
So what Trump's doing with those, as one example, is like the least you would expect for one of the three government branches to check and balance one another.
I think this is why people who are even of moderate intelligence, Can see clearly that this is a good way to balance our government and the powers that exist within it.
What do you think?
Yeah, again, I've said it before, but I'm not really concerned about AI as I am concerned about natural stupidity.
And I hope, really?
Yeah, I know.
I hope that people are finally waking up.
I know you guys got it going on in Colorado, and it's like in your guys' face down here.
They just hide it in Arizona.
I mean, we've got a big problem down here, especially in Maricopa County.
But anyway, incrementally is the way that it's happened in the past, and now Trump is just like, he's tipping the table over and throwing it down.
And it's just wonderful.
And in the mainstream media, if anybody pays attention to those people anymore, just lose their minds over what's going on.
And as Ron Paul says, you know, it's happening.
And wouldn't it be great if Trump and Elon Musk invited Ron Paul to go through Knox with the gold reserves and every four Knox down there?
I would just love to see that.
I would love it, too.
You know, it's kind of hilarious because I think it was Senator Ron Johnson or Chuck Grassley.
I think it was Chuck Grassley.
I think he's one of the oldest members of Congress now.
And it was absolutely hilarious.
He was like, I saw him go to social media the other day.
He's like, the Fort Knox has been audited.
It was audited by myself as a junior, you know, I think, representative or senator in 1974. I was like, Oh, yeah, because I'm sure the last 55 years they haven't decided to move any gold or do anything nefarious with that.
So we should just take your word and trust the audit from 50 years ago, right?
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
It's a wonderful thing.
Well, I think it's March the 14th that Congress is going to have to decide if they're going to kick the can down the road with the continuing.
Yeah, it's in March.
I think it's the 14th, I think.
Don't quote me on that.
I know it's March.
I don't know the day.
I think it's the 14th, actually.
But have a great show.
I hope you had a great weekend, and I'll be listening to you.
All right.
Thanks, brother.
We appreciate it.
God bless.
God bless you guys.
Yep.
So, you know, to keep going, we have another caller.
If they want to hang on through the break, we'll bring them on after.
Actually, you know what?
Why not?
Bring them on.
Hey, caller, you're on the air.
What do you got?
Morning, Craig.
Good morning.
Here's the spiritual side.
Tim from Colorado, you know, born again Christian.
Amen.
The level of corruption, man, is just mind-boggling.
And, you know, we're seeing the big...
I just guess I wanted to get your take on, you know, what the Bible says about...
You know, corruption and spiritual warfare, and we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, you know, powers and principalities.
What is your take on the spiritual fix for all this, you know, other than trying to bring people to Christ?
Well, I think you just...
I think of it this way.
Christ is centrally important in all of this.
There's no besides bringing everybody to Christ.
It's bringing everybody to Christ.
That is the answer to your question.
But I think I understand what you're asking sort of otherwise, which is, you know, what do we do kind of as Christians to counter this in the way that we're taught?
But I think the other central part that you may be not accounting for is faith.
Okay?
It talks so much throughout the Bible about, How when the people have faith in the Lord, He delivers them, right?
It's not faith in government.
It's not faith in Trump.
It's not faith in the people around you.
And you know why?
Because when you read, for instance, throughout Psalms, it talks regularly about the traps that they lay for us, they themselves will fall into.
It's a combination of faith and trust in the Lord and knowing that all of these things that they set before us as a way to make us stumble and fall and to fail, they will then themselves be entrapped in eventually.
And if you have that faith, especially in the midst of the turmoil and the chaos and the hardship, that faith is not only going to deliver you, but it's going to deliver you to things beyond what you can even imagine.
Does that answer your question?
Yeah, absolutely.
We've got to go to a break, but thank you for that question.
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Welcome back to Swarm Talk Radio.
I'm your host, Craig James, and I'm really thankful that we're getting some callers.
It looks like we've got some more.
I guess we'll just go to the callers because, look, I have said it before.
I'll say it again.
When you guys call in, you make this show 10,000 times better than I can do it.
So let's go back over to Tim.
Tim, you got cut off by the break, but...
I tried to answer your question as best I could just to get your quick response on that.
I absolutely agree with you, Craig, 100%.
I mean, I think Christians are starting.
I just heard that on a previous show this morning.
Christians are starting to stand up.
I think seeing Trump do what he's doing and others doing what they're doing.
I hope that encourages Christians to stand up.
It's just, you know, when you've been awake like I have for, you know, since 2000 or pre-2000, you know, you know this stuff, this corruption, the elites, whatever you want to call them, has gone back, you know, since the 50s or prior to the 50s.
And they've tried to take over every institution and change, you know, laws.
Ordinances and everything else.
And I know God's got it.
I understand that.
I guess we just get to...
We're on a kind of need-to-know basis.
But I love your answer, Faith.
Yeah, I think it's...
Look, one of the devil's greatest...
Our achievements is to get us to believe that God's not at work in everything that's all around us.
And I think that's what we have to combat as Christians every day, because we are imperfect.
We're going to fall short.
We're not going to have every answer every time.
But, like we said, it's faith.
It is literally, that is...
That's why faith is mentioned so many times throughout Scripture.
It's so integral to us as humans.
If we have it and trust in the Lord, He will deliver us and He will get us where we need it.
And I know for myself, speaking entirely for myself, when I give my faith to God, I get everything I need.
I never, you know, it may not be everything I want, right?
I may not be like, here's a wish list and God's just checking them off every day.
Like, here you go, Greg, here you go.
But...
I'm fulfilled spiritually.
I have peace.
I have solace.
I'm content.
And when I feel discontented and I feel like it's not, everything's going out of balance, it's probably because I've stopped putting my full faith in Him and I have to readjust and realign myself.
And as soon as I do that, it's like it takes back over and I'm okay again.
Yeah, that's all I got, man.
Amen, brother.
Thank you for that question.
Any final thought?
No.
Great word.
Love your show.
Sorry, I keep calling in all the time, but, man, it's awesome.
I told you.
Everyone out there, you guys call in.
It makes this show better, and that's why I really love it.
So thank you.
God bless you, brother.
And we'll talk to you on another one, all right?
Sounds good.
Thanks, Greg.
All right.
God bless.
All right, well, we had another caller, but they probably dropped off because they were probably going to add something or they got busy and tied up.
Maybe they couldn't do it, but that's okay.
That's okay, because how did we get here?
Well, we got here because we were talking about Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino being nominated as the deputy director of the FBI is going to be huge, is going to be huge.
And one of the reasons it'll be pretty big is because of this.
This is something Dan Bongino said not too long ago about what should happen to the individuals who signed off on the politicization.
I can never say that word of the FBI.
Listen to this.
Nobody was held accountable.
Well, obviously-- Yeah, I mean, I was passionate about it for a reason.
How many freaking times are we going to let the FBI interfere in an election?
I mean, this is supposed to be a constitutional republic.
I'm not crazy, right?
Like, this is supposed to be a representative democracy.
Banana Republic.
We're beyond a banana Republic.
We're into, like, tin-pot dictator third-world stuff.
This is embarrassing.
At least Pravda didn't pretend to be anything but state apparatchiks.
The FBI. And listen, I've been with you for a while.
I work with a lot of decent guys.
I'm done with the rank-and-file stuff, too.
I'm done with it.
If you took part in this, anyone who took part in this, anyone, I don't care who you are, an analyst or an upper-level manager.
The next president who comes in office, they should schedule F as many people as they can in the federal government and fire every single person involved in this.
Everyone!
The receptionist in the FBI office who took a call on this should be fired.
We are not a third world republic, supposedly.
Sean, the difference between us and Kim Jong-un, right, is that we investigate crimes and then we look for people.
We don't investigate people and then look for crimes.
I love it.
I think Boncino's hitting the nail on the head there.
And everybody at the FBI should be worried if you were involved in the Trump, Russia hoax, collusion stuff, really, honestly.
All right.
One more caller.
I apologize because we had you on, but it looks like you dropped it.
But you're back.
So, caller, what do you got?
Hey, this is Eric, the trucker.
My good friend, Eric.
I don't even like calling myself a trucker.
Yes.
You know, I'm not a trucker.
I'm just trucking in order to get to my homestead and raise my animals again.
That's all I'm doing.
God bless you, man.
That's awesome.
That's my heart and passion right there.
I mean, my kids, my family, we love that stuff.
I can tell you really do love your family.
You sound like you really love them, and I am thankful for that.
That's awesome.
I wanted to touch on the whole wiping the cartels off the face of the earth, which I'm not against that at all.
But I don't think people realize how hard that is and how much money they have and how that money...
It oozes its way like slime into every aspect all over.
International banking, politicians, both in Mexico and in America.
Like, people don't realize how hard that is.
And I know firsthand, as I told you, I was raised in South San Diego.
I associated myself with the former Tijuana cartel.
I had associations, strong associations, and I don't deny that.
So I saw when the CIA... They wanted to partner up with the AFO and the Adriano Felix, and they told them, no, what happened?
They got wiped off.
Chapo and Mayo, they took that partnership, okay?
Mayo put Chapo as a face because he wanted him to, you know.
Basically, Chapo had the connections with the Koch out of Colombia and Bolivia, and the planes, and the little runways, and Mayo just had the hitters.
He had all the gunmen, okay?
Eric, can you hold that thought and we'll bring you back after the break?
I'd love to hear this.
This is very interesting.
Okay.
And I'm sure our audience wants to hear it too because this is fascinating.
Stay tuned, folks.
We're hitting a break right now.
We're going to come back with Eric.
I want to get this full rundown on the cartels, sort of whatever he can give us.
Stay tuned.
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Welcome back to Just Form Talk Radio.
I'm your host, Craig James.
And I just want to get Eric back on here.
Eric, you were telling us about the Trump said, you know, wipe cartels off the face of the earth.
You said this is going to be difficult.
You're kind of explaining what was going on there, what you understand about it.
Share that, but keep in mind we have a short segment here because we're in the last segment before the top of the hour break.
Okay, I'll just summarize.
I saw the AFO go down.
My insider told me before it happened, they flip-flopped.
They flip-flopped, right?
All the capos, basically, flip-flopped on the bigger ones, okay?
Like the Plaza Bosses flip-flopped on the main brothers, right?
Because it's the Adiano family, right?
So, the sisters did not sit well with that.
They ended up funding the Jalisco New Generation.
Okay, they're the ones that got, they funded, they put the money to start them up.
Now, here's what you guys don't realize.
They are ran by American Delta Force, a SEAL team, and a Ranger.
Maybe, I think, two SEAL teams and a Ranger.
American.
I mean, it makes sense because, just to briefly interrupt, It reminds me sort of what we did with the Taliban in Afghanistan during the war with Russia, and then that kind of backfired on us after the fact.
It's a similar, seemingly, situation if you go back to, like, Iran-Contra, Noriega, and the drug running, and then the funding of, you know, the cocaine cowboys and, you know, what they did with crack and all of that as a way to fund black budget stuff, etc., etc.
It seems like all the stuff that we did with the cartels is now coming to bite us in the backside right now.
Yeah, but what you guys have been realizing is they are also in Canada.
They teamed up with Indian gangs in Canada.
And there is so much coming.
They don't have to come to the southern border.
They'll bring it right through Canada.
And Canada is an open border.
That's why Trump has been so...
And I want him to stay like that.
But here's the thing.
If you're telling the Canadian government or you're telling the Mexican government what you're doing, then you might as well be telling the cartel.
You're basically just, oh, we're going to do this.
Be ready for it.
Yeah, I think I understand 100% what you're saying.
I guess I would say if you're just saying, hey, we're coming after you, that is not necessarily being like, we're going to hit you right here at this time and this place.
So it's a little different.
They know that they're there with planes.
The government in Mexico is completely corrupt.
Because where do you think most of their funding comes from?
I understand what you're saying.
I think that...
It'll be a lot like what we saw with ISIS, because if you know, like, ISIS was basically a manufactured creation of, you know, British, Israeli, U.S. intelligence.
And then Trump came in and was like, this needs to end, and then ISIS just went away.
I think, now, I don't know if it'll be as successful.
I don't know if they went away.
I think they kind of just, I don't know if ISIS went away.
They were wiped out to a large degree, but there were certainly still people around in it.
Now, I think it may be something similar with the cartels since we've had such an integral, like, we know where they all are because we've been paying them to do our dirty work, right?
So, we know where all the capos and all these people are, so it shouldn't be too hard to take a lot of those guys out.
Now, will there be a lot of disaffected people who go rogue and other factions that pop up?
Probably, but perhaps it'll be, like, similar to ISIS where a large portion of it will be...
Wiped out, but there'll still be factions that are very powerful that we just don't really, that aren't as prevalent toward affecting America, but more in their region effective.
I don't know, Eric.
That's where you're wrong.
That's where you're wrong.
I could be very wrong, but we've got to go to a break.
We've got to go to a break.
And when we come back, Eric, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to call in tomorrow if you want, and we'll keep going on this, all right?
Thanks, and we'll be back.
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We're going to go into our, you know, as usual on Mondays in the second hour, we play a sermon.
Today's no different.
Pastor Dean Miller, Front Range Baptist Church in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Before we do it, though, Henry texted in.
Our friend from God's feeding station said, the other piece of the answer to Tim's question is obedience and out of reverent fear of God and the understanding of what sin does to our relationship to God.
Think of David and Saul.
Saul wants David dead and David has Saul's life in his hands twice, but out of obedience to God, David does not act and trust God and God's timing for deliverance and ascension to the throne of Israel.
Amen.
Thank you for adding that on to my answer because that is a critical part of it as well.
Obedience out of reverent fear of God.
I think that's a great explanation of it.
All right, let's go right over to Pastor Dean Miller and his sermon titled, The Church of Jesus Christ.
Listen to this.
This is the final sermon out of Colossians from Pastor Miller.
Open your Bibles today to Colossians chapter 4 as we come to this final passage in this passage of Scripture.
And I want to preach a message this morning as we tie it all together on the church of Jesus Christ.
The church of Jesus Christ.
Look at it.
Colossians chapter 4, verse number 15. Last week we went through these lists of names and we saw the stuff the church is made out of.
But I want you to see this morning in chapter 4, verse 15. Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea.
That was a city just not far from Colossae.
It was a tri-city area.
Hierapolis, Colossae, Laodicea.
And Paul told the Colossian church, hey, salute these brethren that are over in Laodicea.
And Nymphus and the church which is in his house.
Nymphus is appropriately named.
His name means bridegroom.
And he was the pastor of the church at Laodicea.
And then verse 16. And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
And say to Archippus, take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfill it.
The salutation, now this end of the letter, Paul said, I wrote by my own hand.
Remember my bonds.
Grace be with you.
amen as we come to the end of this book Paul ties it all together he started remember this back in chapter 1 he started by telling us who Jesus was That Jesus is the head of the church.
He is the one in all things to have the preeminence.
Listen, listen to me.
The church of Jesus Christ is to be his church.
It's all about him.
And so Paul was telling this church, now listen, church of Colossae.
When you get this letter, you read it over, make sure that you send it over and let the church of Laodicea read it.
And I've written them a letter and I want you to get the letter from Laodicea and I want you to read it.
Now, some people have had a problem with that and said, well, how come we don't have the church of Laodicea's letter?
Well, because the Lord didn't want us to have it.
We're not missing anything from the Bible.
Paul wrote several letters to the church of Corinth.
We only have two of them because those are the only two that were inspired by God as scripture to write.
And so we're not missing any revelation.
We're not missing anything from the Bible.
But here's the point.
The point was, is that Paul was saying to them, look, God has a message for the church at Colossae.
And it's the same message for the church at Laodicea.
God's got a message for the church at Laodicea that needs to be said in the church of Colossae.
And notice what Paul didn't do.
Paul did not tie those two churches together as though they were one denominational church.
The church of Laodicea was its own church.
The church of Colossae was its own church.
Just like the church at Philadelphia.
Just like the church at Ephesus.
Just like the church at Philippi.
Just like the church at Smyrna.
Just like the church at Thyatira.
Just like the church at Antioch.
Just like the church at Jerusalem.
And you need to understand that there's a biblical doctrine about the church.
And we need a reset.
And a reminder of what the church is and what the church is to do.
And we need to reset on that.
And that's what Paul was tying this letter up by saying, remember who Jesus is, that he's the head of the church.
It's his.
He's to be preeminent.
He's in you, through you, and he is.
It's all to be about Christ.
And it's to be that way at the church at Laodicea.
It's to be that way at the church at Colossae.
It's to be that way at the church at Fort Collins.
Right here at Front Range.
And I want you to understand.
Now think about this.
When we think about Jesus Christ and His work, what did Jesus do?
Well, if we were to ask the question, what did Jesus do?
Well, He died, He was buried, and He rose again from the dead.
Isn't that wonderful?
Aren't you glad that Jesus died for your sins?
Aren't you glad that he was buried to carry him away?
Aren't you thankful that he rose again from the dead to give you newness of life and to give you eternal life?
Aren't you glad for that?
Amen!
And now, that was the work that Jesus did.
And when he finished that work, he said, it is finished.
Right?
He didn't have to die anymore.
He's already paid the debt.
Paid in full.
It's done.
Amen.
But aren't you glad Jesus didn't say, I am finished?
He said, it is finished.
So that's his password.
You know why?
He's not done.
He still has the work to do.
Listen, he's got to come get us.
He told us, he said, I'm going away to prepare a place.
And if I go, I'm going to come and get you.
That where I am, there you may be also.
And he said, and then I'm going to get you.
And then I'm going to spend some time with you.
And the world's going to go through a lot of trouble.
And then I'm going to bring you back and we're going to rule over all of it.
For a thousand years.
His coming kingdom is still His work in the future.
That's His past work.
That's His future work.
But what is Jesus doing right now?
What's He doing right now?
Well, the Bible says He's seated at the right hand of God.
Alright, we're coming back.
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Flesh and blood did not reveal that unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And upon this rock, now he wasn't speaking about Peter.
Peter's name meant stone.
He said, upon this rock of...
The revelation of Jesus Christ being the Son of God on that rock.
Listen.
Thou art Peter, the son of Jonah.
I am Christ, the Son of God.
And upon this rock, I will build my church.
And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
So what is Jesus doing today?
He's building His church.
What else is Jesus doing today?
He is praying for His church.
The Bible says that He ever lives to make intercession for us.
Hey, did you think about that?
That Jesus prayed for you today?
Sometimes you think no one cares.
The Lord prayed for you today.
He's praying for you.
Not only that, He's preparing for you.
Everything that Jesus is doing today, He is doing for His church.
Now, I want you to understand something.
Let me tell you what the church is not.
Never in the Bible will you ever see the church being referred to as a building where we meet.
Now we've let that slip into our culture.
We've let that slip into our thinking.
Hey, I've got to run over to the church.
Hey, where are you going?
I'm going to the church.
We're on a walk and we say, man, look at that beautiful church.
And we're talking about a building.
The church is not brick and mortar.
The church is people.
Look around right here.
This is the church.
We just happen to meet in this building.
But this is the church.
Now let me tell you something about the church.
The church is not a building.
The church is a body.
It's a body.
Now, let me just help you understand something.
There are some people that talk about the invisible church.
The invisible church.
Well, there's no such thing.
It's not invisible.
The Lord sees it.
Okay?
In His mind, He is building His church.
Okay?
Well, who is that?
Listen, who is the church?
Acts chapter 2, verse 41. I read it at every baptism here.
In fact, I want you to do something.
Go over to the book of Acts real quick.
Acts chapter 2. Now, the receiving of the word, that's being saved.
After they got saved, they got baptized.
They showed the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ in baptism.
They got saved, they got baptized.
Acts chapter 2, look at verse 41. Then they that gladly received His word were baptized.
Now watch this.
And the same day, the same day they got saved, the same day they got baptized, there were added unto them about 3,000 souls.
Now everybody look up here for just a minute.
Who were the them?
Who's the them?
Who were these 3,000 added to?
The church.
There was a church there.
That Jesus started with his apostles in that early church.
There's 120 of them in the church.
They had 120 members.
Jesus told them, I'm going away, but when I go away, I'm going to pray that the Father will send the Holy Spirit.
When the Holy Spirit comes, He's going to endu you with power.
Then, you're going to go everywhere preaching the gospel, and you're going to evangelize the world.
But you stay right there in Jerusalem, and you get to praying together, and you be there until we send the Holy Spirit.
Okay.
So then the Lord took away.
And when the Lord went away, the church got together to pray.
And they prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed, and all of a sudden, on the day of Pentecost, here comes the Holy Spirit.
Ties them all together into one body.
And oh my goodness, they came out of that room, they started preaching the word of God.
People heard them in other languages, preaching the word of God.
It was a sign that was given that day.
And listen, people started getting saved.
And the church grew in one day from 120 to 3,120.
Hey ladies, aren't you glad you didn't have to watch the nursery that week?
Park the cars.
Could you imagine being a parking lot attendant back then?
All those camels and donkeys?
It wasn't oil spills that you were cleaning up in the parking lot.
I mean, there had 3,000 added to them.
Now, who was added?
Who were members of the church?
Those that were saved, those that were scripturally baptized.
They were born again, and then they were baptized by the Holy Spirit into that body.
And they were baptized in water as a declaration of that, as a sign of that, and they were added to the church.
The word church is the Greek word ekklesia.
It's kind of fun to say.
Let's all say that together.
The Greek word of the word church is the word ekklesia.
Some people say it ekklesia, but I say it ekklesia, and we shall say it the way I say it.
So it's ecclesia.
What does it mean?
It means a called out assembly.
What do you mean called out?
Called out from what?
Called out from sin.
Remember when Jesus called you out of your sin so he could save you and set you free?
Remember that?
Remember when he found you as a sinner?
And He confronted you in that sin, and He saved you from it.
Amen?
Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.
So we were called out from sin.
Not only that, we were called out from the world.
We're no longer of this world.
We're to come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing.
We're not of this world.
We are now, listen, we're called out from sin.
We're called out from the world.
But we're called out to gather and assemble with one another with Christ.
Listen.
The church is a called-out assembly.
Now, in the early days of the church, it was only meant for the New Testament church of Jesus Christ.
But that word grew in the culture.
And the word ekklesia in those days eventually meant any kind of gathering.
Even later in the book of Acts, when they had that big riot in Ephesus, that was called the church.
People were like, hey, you want to go to the gathering?
I heard we're throwing stones at somebody today.
Yeah!
And the world is always gathered.
They always gather for all kinds of reasons.
People come out and they gather together for all kinds of reasons.
But there's only one kind of group that comes out and gathers with Jesus.
And that's His church.
That's His gathering.
By the way, in the early days of the church, the only way that you knew somebody was a believer was that they had the Holy Spirit in them and you had the Holy Spirit in you and they gathered with the church.
Listen, in the New Testament, if somebody said they were a believer, but they never gathered with the church, they weren't a believer.
John wrote about that one time.
So they went out from us.
They don't gather with us anymore because they're not of us.
They went out from us because they weren't of us.
They weren't saved.
Listen, going to church doesn't make you saved, but if you're saved, you're going to be, you've got something in you.
Listen, if you're saved, the Holy Spirit lives in you.
How many of you know that?
If you're saved, the Holy Spirit lives in you.
And he's like an electromagnet.
Because the Holy Spirit has one purpose, and that's to glorify Christ.
And so when the church gathers together with Christ, and the Holy Spirit's in you, you're going to have a pool.
You want to get there.
You want to gather.
You want to glorify Jesus.
You want to be with, hey, listen, you want to be with your people, your tribe.
Okay, now listen, listen, listen, listen.
This is why I'm preaching this today.
Because what Paul was teaching this church of Colossae was that they needed to understand their identity.
And their identity was they were the church of Colossae.
They were the church of Jesus Christ at Colossae.
There was a church of Jesus Christ at Laodicea.
There was a church of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem.
There was a church of Jesus Christ in Antioch.
Now listen, this was not a denominational thing because none of those churches had power over the other churches.
You know who had the power of the church of Colossae?
Jesus did.
Because they were a body.
Now listen, I told you earlier, people talk about the invisible church.
And people love to believe that because then there's no accountability.
Listen, if you have an invisible church, you have an invisible pastor.
And you can be invisible in that church.
You know, people say, well, I go to the big church.
I attend the big church.
Oh, what church is that?
Oh, you know, the invisible church.
Well, listen, there's no such thing.
Jesus sees His church.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
Jesus met with His church today in Africa.
He met with His church in the Philippines.
Now, they're all going to bed because it's 15 hours ahead.
Remember that when I'm over there.
Pastor, I'm praying for you at your beautiful leisure at 9 in the morning.
When I'm sound asleep.
Alright, now listen.
Jesus met with them already.
They're all going to bed.
They met with the Lord today.
He met with his church in the Philippines.
He met with his church in Africa, in all those nations.
He's met with his church in Australia.
He's meeting with his church in Fort Collins right now.
Now listen, he sees his church.
He knows his church.
He knows, but listen, watch this.
But he has made it in such a way where the church is not invisible universal.
The church is visible local.
And it is to be a body locally assembled.
When you get saved, the Lord didn't save you so that you could just sit at home and watch online.
Some preacher preach.
That's not church.
I'm glad that people get to watch online.
I'm glad that we have this ministry.
I'm glad that it's available when people need it when they're sick and they can't come.
Or they've got widows that are homebound or whatever.
I'm glad that it's there.
But it's not the same there as it is here.
There's something about gathering with God's people.
God did not call you to be an isolationist or a lone ranger.
You need the church.
And some people say, well, I got hurt in the church.
And I'm sorry for that.
It should not happen in the church.
And I'll tell you why.
Watch this carefully.
Look at Acts chapter 2. They were added to them in the church.
Look at this church.
Look at what this church is.
It wasn't a building.
What were they gathered to?
They were called out from their sin.
They were called out from the world.
They were called out into a gathering together around the Lord.
And look what happened in verse number 42. After they were added, now 3,120 of them, they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine.
Okay, what does the church do?
The church gathers together.
What does it do when it gets together?
It teaches the doctrine of Christ.
Somebody opens the word and preaches it.
Somebody opens the word and teaches it.
Teaching happens.
Preaching happens.
And the word of God is taught so that everybody understands what Jesus believes.
By the way, that's the commission of the church.
Go into all the world, preach the gospel, baptize those who get saved, and then teach them.
So at a church, what should happen at a church?
The word of God should be preached and taught.
Doctrine is our...
That's our unity.
That we believe the Word of God.
Listen, this church doesn't believe what I think.
This church, I believe what this Bible says.
This Bible is my authority, and it's your authority.
We are to get in the Word of God.
That's why when they gathered together, they got into the Word of God.
Everybody understand that?
Shake your head if you got that.
Notice what else they did.
Then they fellowshiped.
They fellowshiped.
Now what does that mean?
It means exactly what the English word says.
It's two English words put together.
Fellows in the same ship.
That's what we are.
When we gather together, we're fellows in the same ship.
We're all in Christ.
And by the way, when you put fellows in the same ship, you better be rowing together.
Because if you ain't rowing, you ain't going.
And if everybody's rowing their own way, The church is just the old ship of Zion zigzagging everywhere.
So we have a head.
His name is Jesus.
And he says to all the fellows in the ship, hey, everybody get together.
Unify each other.
Get together.
Row together.
Eat together.
Pray together.
Love together.
Encourage each other.
Row on when someone starts getting tired.
Row on.
Row on.
Cheer them on.
Let's edify.
Hey, if someone stops rowing, rebuke, exhort.
With all long-suffering, come on.
We've got to get this ship across the way.
We've got to move.
We got people to reach.
We got souls to reach with the gospel.
We got things to accomplish for Christ.
Christ has called us to go.
Let's row.
They were in fellowship together.
Let me ask you, who are you in fellowship with in the church?
How's your fellowship with the church?
Fine.
You got to get in fellowship.
Get in the doctrine.
Get in the fellowship.
All right.
Now look at what else they did.
Man, what a church.
They continued steadfastly, verse 42, in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread.
And they ate together.
Sometimes the breaking of bread in the early church was referring to their communion.
When they came together to observe the Lord's Supper.
Sometimes that was called the breaking of bread.
But we also know that they did that.
They did the breaking of bread.
They had the Lord's Supper in remembrance of Christ.
But notice what else they did.
They had breaking of bread in prayers.
They prayed together.
And look at verse 46. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple.
And breaking bread from house to house.
This is where they went and ate together.
Thank God for that.
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Hey, listen.
Eat together.
Fellowship together.
From house to house.
Breaking bread.
And they did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.
Praising God.
Can you imagine being...
Hey, can you imagine that in a church?
Alright, watch this.
We're all called out.
We're all saved.
We're all baptized.
We gather together.
We get taught the Word of God.
We're getting grounded in His Word.
We're getting instructed in how to live for Christ.
That's important.
That's first.
And we fellowship together.
We have a commonality.
We have a common goal to move along with Christ, listening to His leadership, listening to His Word.
We're in this fellowship together.
We have a commonality.
And we do that by remembering the Lord's Supper and praying together.
Bearing each other's burdens, praying with one another, praying for one another.
And then we get to a place where, listen, we start praising God together.
We fellowship.
We go to each other's house.
We eat together.
And we have gladness.
And we have singleness of heart.
I mean, we have a unity about us.
We have a commonality about us.
We have a strength about us.
We have a gladness about us.
And what does that do?
That spills over.
And the Lord adds daily to that church such as should be saved.
Listen, you get a church doing this, and people are going to want to be a part of it.
Every human has a longing for belonging.
That's why they'll wear funny hats and go protest in Washington, D.C. They want to be a part of a cause.
People will hold signs and picket and scream and holler.
And listen, listen to me, listen to me.
The Lord Jesus wants us to be our identity.
Look, I am an American.
I'm for the Constitution.
You've heard me preach on it.
I'm going to support any movement politically that is going to give us liberty and freedom to preach the Word of God that will leave us alone to live a quiet and peaceable life.
But listen to me.
Look at me.
You know what my identity is?
I am a citizen of another country.
I am under the banner of another king.
I have a Lord that is not...
Republican or Democrat.
I have a Lord who is the Savior.
The Lord Jesus.
I sail under His banner.
Are you with me today?
And all of that vitriol and confusion and fighting cannot make its way into the church where we have division.
No!
They were not meeting together with gossip.
They were meeting together with gladness.
They were not meeting together with division.
They were meeting together with singleness of heart.
They had one focus.
It was Jesus.
It was the gospel.
It was one another.
They were meeting together.
Listen, this was a happy church.
It was a persecuted church, but boy, they were happy because they were called out and they were assembled.
Amen?
Don't you want to belong to a church like that?
I think we do.
I think we're there.
We've got a long way to go, but we're getting there.
I'm still a growing Christian.
How many of you are still a growing Christian?
Okay, good.
Alright.
I want to be that.
I want to be a part of that.
This is the body of Christ.
And it's to be expressed locally.
Listen, listen.
You can't fulfill.
Watch this.
Look at me.
You cannot fulfill the 52 commands.
52 commands that Jesus gave that are what I call the one another commands.
Love one another.
Forgive one another.
Pray for one another.
Everybody with me on that?
Watch this.
You cannot fulfill the 52 one another commands if you're not together.
So, what did Jesus do?
He died for us.
What is He going to do?
He's going to come back with us and ruin rain.
What's He doing right now?
He's building His church.
What does the church look like?
Right here.
It's not invisible.
It's local.
It's visible.
Every church in the New Testament was a local church.
Every church in the New Testament was a visible church.
Everybody hearing me today?
Every church was a church that was to fulfill these commands of the Lord.
And they were to reach their community for Christ.
They were to get the gospel out.
They were to love one another and encourage one another and exhort one another and pray for one another.
They were to be members one of another.
And so today, church, as a church family, we need to be following the biblical model of being what the New Testament church is as a body.
That's what Paul was telling them.
Hey, Church of Laodicea needs to get this letter.
And remember the headship of Christ, the preeminence of Christ.
And that He's all in all and through you all.
And that we need to be in lockstep and walking with Him in harmony with Him.
That Christ needs to be in us.
We all need to be together as a church doing the Lord's bidding.
He's the head of the church.
And by the way, Church of Colossae, don't listen to all this false teaching.
Get yourself under the headship of Christ.
Listen to the Holy Spirit.
Walk in the Word of God.
Take this letter, the Word of God, and read it in the church.
And be reminded that you are the church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let's not get caught off in all kinds of factions and divisions and separations and arrogances.
No, no, no.
Let's all walk together in gladness and harmony and singleness of heart and unity.
That's what Paul told the church of Ephesus.
He said, endeavoring to keep the spirit of unity and the bond of peace.
And let's move this thing along as the body of Christ.
Now think about this for a minute.
Why does he call it a body?
Why does he call it a body?
Okay, well look up here.
Today you're looking at my body.
You're not looking at me.
You're looking at my body.
I'm in this body peeping out looking at you.
One of these days I'm going to check out of this body.
And you may come by my funeral and you're going to see me like this.
And you're going to see these eyes, these nose, these ears, this hair, these hands.
But they're not going to do anything because I'm not in the body.
You're not looking at me.
You're looking at the body.
Now watch this.
Okay, so why does God call us a body?
Because a body has a purpose.
Watch this.
You know what the purpose of the body is?
The purpose of the body is to make the person known.
If you saw me in the store, you would look over there and you could see me walking away and say, hey, there's a pastor.
You would know me by my walk or my white hair.
Or maybe I call you on the phone and you don't have caller ID and you hear my voice.
And the way that my vocal cords are, you would recognize my voice.
Everything about my body makes me known to you.
Everything that you know about me, you know through my body.
A body makes somebody known.
Everybody with me on that?
So, what's the purpose of this body then?
To make who known?
To make Jesus known.
Whose body is it?
It's to make him known, okay?
So what's the purpose of this body?
To make Jesus...
Hey!
When people look at us, do they see Jesus?
Does this body make Jesus known?
That's the question.
That's what Paul's encouraging these churches.
Then he said, not only that, are you a body to make the person known?
But the body also has another purpose, and that's to serve the head.
Alright, now watch this.
I'm going to tell my right hand, extend out and spread.
Okay, now my hand did that at the bidding of my head.
Now the hand doesn't just operate independently of the head.
This hand doesn't just serve my head independently.
Like, I didn't wake up this morning and this hand went, I'm going to brush your teeth.
I would have been like, brush your teeth.
I would have been freaking out.
If this hand would have just been, like, you know, like if my foot would have just said, I'm going to carry you around today, alright?
Let's go.
No, no, no.
These members of this body are not just all independent things that choose to serve the head.
No, no.
They're all connected at the control of the head.
When I say move the hand, it moves the hand.
When I say move the foot, it moves the foot.
Now watch this.
The purpose of this body is to serve the pleasure of the head.
We're to serve Christ.
You know how my hand helps serve my body?
It helps tie this shoe.
It helps brush these teeth.
It helps comb this hair.
All the members of my body help the body be able to do what the head wants the body to do.
Look, I don't know exactly what the pancreas does, but if my pancreas wasn't pancreasing today, I wouldn't be here today.
But the pancreas has got a pancreas so that I can get along, and that's got to do its job.
Everybody with me on that?
Okay, so, wait a minute.
Are you making Christ known?
And how are you serving in the body?
The body has another purpose, and that body only can operate in the energy of the spirit of that body.
I told you a minute ago, when my spirit checks out, my body's not going to operate anymore.
Well, this body can only operate at the spirit of Christ in it.
So this body needs to be energized by the Spirit of Christ so it can do the service of Christ.
Why?
So it can glorify and make known the person of Christ.
That's what the church is to do.
That's what you're to do.
That's what I'm to do.
And by the way, most people in the church would say, you know, yeah, I believe that.
But the church is number five down on my list of priorities.
I'll get there as long as work doesn't interfere.
I'll get there as long as I don't have anything else to do if the kids don't have a ball game.
And then we get to a place where our kids have to ask us sometimes, are we going to church?
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Run on for a long time.
Run on for a long time.
Sooner or later, God, I'll put you down.
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We're going right back to Pastor Dean Miller.
Now listen, if they have to ask, I never had to ask my dad.
Well, he was the pastor, so we were there.
But even on vacation, I never asked my dad, are we going to church?
Listen, on vacation, we were going to church.
One time, we were out in the middle of the boondocks.
We went to a church, and I don't know what happened, but they didn't have service that night.
So we sat in the car and listened to my dad preach.
And he took an offering.
And he knew how much money we had because he gave it to us.
He said, you owe the Lord a tithe on that.
Then he took my brother out to the river, baptized him.
No, he didn't.
But listen, we had church in the car.
Now listen, if our kids have to, everyone come to us and say, are we going to church?
We got a problem.
Because what our kids are asking is, are we going to the building?
Do we have time to go to the building today?
And what they need to understand is that we're not going to the church.
We are the church.
And we're going to go gather with our body.
And we're needful in the body.
And we need to fellowship with the body.
And praise with the body.
And make Christ known in the body.
And serve Christ in the body.
And we need to make sure that we're serving in the spirit of God.
In the body.
So that Christ is glorified.
Everybody hearing me today?
That's what Paul is teaching the church of Colossae.
See, it's the Hebrews 10, 24. Let us provoke one another unto love and unto good works.
Now when I read that and I study that, that kind of bothers me because the Bible says let us, speaking of the church, provoke one another.
Now there's the one another.
You've got to be together to do this.
But the word provoke there means to irritate.
And when you really read it all the way out and you kind of figure out what it means, it's what a cowboy does on a horse.
He puts the spurs into the horse so that he's provoking and causing a minor irritation to get the horse to perform at its fullest power.
So the Bible says to us, let us provoke one another or let us spur each other on to love and to good works.
Hey listen, it might be, sometimes it kind of is irritating if you miss Sunday school and somebody calls you and they're like, hey I missed you.
And there were several of you that came in today, and I know, weather's cold, you're older, maybe you were sick, and there were some of you that I said, hey, I've missed you the last couple of weeks.
I wasn't saying that to condemn you.
I was saying that to encourage that I was glad you're here.
Now, if that irritated you, then take that as a provoking.
I'm spurring you on to love and good works.
The church is to do that.
We're to spur each other on.
We're to encourage you.
Iron sharpening iron.
We're to encourage each other.
And there's what he said.
He said, let us provoke one another to love and good works.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.
Don't forsake the gathering, as the manner of some is.
Some people were getting out of the habit of going into the gathering.
They're like, well, I'm a believer.
I'll just, you know, I'll catch up on the news about what's going on at the church.
No, no, no, no.
Nothing's going on at the church.
You are the church.
And you're not gathering with the church.
And the writer of Hebrews said you need to be gathering with the church.
And so much the more as we see the day approaching.
As the coming of Christ and the lukewarmness and the falling away of the age and the apathy of the age and the apostasy of the age, so much the more we need to gather with the believer.
Listen, we need one another more now than ever.
I need you.
I need you.
Listen, when I'm away and I'm not at church with you, there's something missing in me.
And you know what it is?
You.
You're missing.
I need to be encouraged by you.
I need to be edified by you.
I need you to...
Listen, we need the church.
How many of you know that you need the church today?
How many of you know that you need one another?
You need someone to love you.
You need someone to put their arm around you and say, I missed you today.
I missed you last week.
How are you doing?
How are things going?
Can we help you with anything?
Can I pray for anything?
Listen, if you have somebody doing that for you, they're not judging you.
We're not to be judging people.
I've been keeping track of how much you've been missing lately.
And we're not doing that.
We're not walking and saying, okay, now, listen, is everybody dressed right when they're coming in here?
No, listen, look at me.
You see this jacket right here?
I was walking through Kohl's yesterday with my wife.
And this thing was on sale.
And they had it marked down to like $30.
And she took her to the register and she had a coupon off for 50% off of clearance items.
It was $15.
She said, look what I got you.
I said, a horse blanket.
That's nice.
No, it's beautiful.
I like it.
Don't you like it?
How many of you like it?
Now listen, you ain't got to wear this.
You don't have to wear that.
You don't have to wear a horse blanket to church.
I'm wearing it because I want to spur you on.
Now, here's what I'm saying today.
Listen to me, church.
Listen, listen.
Listen, if you've got somebody that's encouraging you to be more and to do more and to live with a greater love for Christ, that's a good thing.
They might even irritate you sometimes.
You ever been around a spiritual person that was always like, how's your Bible reading going?
Who are you?
the Holy Spirit this happened to me two weeks ago I had a busy morning.
You ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong?
And I normally have a quiet time with the Lord.
I enjoy my coffee and my time in the Bible, my time with the Lord.
I love that.
But I didn't have it that day.
Things went way awry.
And I rushed up here.
I was late to the office.
I walked in.
I'm in the office.
And I was getting some stuff done.
And I had to walk over to the Harmony building for a minute.
I was walking across the courtyard.
And I ran into one of our church members.
And he said, hey, preacher, how are you doing this morning?
And I did what we all do.
I lied.
I said, oh, it's going great.
How are you doing?
It was not going great.
I said, oh, great.
How are you doing today?
He said, good.
He said, Hey, let me tell you what I got out of my Bible this morning.
I read something in my life.
I want to tell you about it.
And inside me, I'm like, I don't care what you read in your Bible this morning.
And then I realized where this conversation was going.
And he shared with me something he got.
And he said, what did the Lord teach you this morning?
And I went, you know, it was very similar to what he taught you.
It was right along the same lines.
I'm learning it right now.
You know, it just kind of irritated me.
The day that I didn't read my Bible that morning before I got up, he was asking me, what did you read today?
Who are you?
The Bible police.
He was in my window well, looking in, seeing if I was reading my Bible that morning.
Hey, listen to me.
But thank God for a friend like that.
I needed that.
I came over here, got something done, went back to my study.
I grabbed my Bible.
I said, Lord, I didn't spend time with you today, and I need to spend time with you.
He encouraged me to love in good works.
Now, he irritated me at first, but it was a spurring on.
That's what the church is to do.
How many of you know we need that?
How many of you know we need that?
I'll close with this.
We are the body, church.
We're the body.
As the body, we need one another.
People are broken today.
People are hurting today.
People need to know they can walk into a place that's going to love them and teach them the Word of God.
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When I was broken at the bottom, I found you're my healer and redeemer, Jesus.
That's who you are.
You brought me blessings out of a tragedy.
You turned my old song into a symphony.
And with your spirit living inside of me, I'm a new creation.
I'm a new creation.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
But it was until I stumbled and made my mistakes.
Then I could know in my soul how amazing was grace.
Welcome back to Just Form Talk Radio.
We're going to finish up Pastor Dean Miller and his sermon.
I am never going to back up from preaching truth.
There was a movement that went through our country many years ago.
Some of you might have heard about this.
There was a movement that went through our country in American churches, and it was called the Seeker Sensitive Movement.
Seeker Sensitive Movement.
How many of you ever heard of that, Seeker Sensitive Movement?
What that was was this.
It was a new way of thinking for churches.
That, you know, if people come in here and they're seeking to know the Lord, they're not going to understand what we do.
So we need to kind of make things in the church more comfortable for people who don't understand who Jesus is.
Maybe we sing a little bit too much about blood.
Maybe they don't really understand some of the things that we're saying.
They don't really speak our language.
So we've got to make the church more palatable.
For people who don't know the Lord.
Well, let me tell you, as well-meaning as that was, it was a destruction to the church.
Because what we stopped doing is we stopped teaching truth in the name of love.
Let me just give you a really quick tidbit and then we'll close.
Love without truth is hypocrisy.
If you tell me that you love me but you won't tell me the truth, that's hypocrisy.
Love without truth is hypocrisy.
But truth without love is harshness.
If I just tell you the truth but I don't love you, it's just harsh.
People don't care what you know until they know that you care.
Jesus told us to speak the truth in love.
If somebody were to come in our church and they don't understand what we're singing and they don't understand what we're doing, that's okay.
We're going to love them and we're going to help them to get to know Jesus.
Once they get to know Jesus, they're going to understand why we sing about blood.
And they're going to like it, just like we like it.
You ever thought about that?
I mean, think about an unsaved person.
Why are they singing about somebody hanging on a cross, bleeding?
And they're happy about that.
Kind of a place that I walk into.
Have you ever thought about that?
But that doesn't mean that we have to dumb the church down for that.
What we need to do is we need to bring them to an understanding of who Jesus is.
And when they understand that that person that was hanging on that cross, bleeding, was caring for your sins and dying for your sins, you'll be singing with your hands up too.
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
That's a wonderful thing.
They say, man, what in the world?
Why do they put people in water and dunk them down?
That's weird.
It is kind of crazy, isn't it?
That we fill up this tank with water, and I stand in here, and then I talk to people, and then I bury them in water, and then they go out.
Why do we do that?
Well, once you understand that Jesus died and was buried and rose again, and you understand what that means for salvation, man, we love that.
Then when they see that, the first time they saw it, they go, what are they doing?
Then they get saved and they're like, I want to do that.
And listen, why?
They understand.
No, no, watch this church.
We're going to love people where they are.
But we're going to tell people who Jesus is.
And we're going to speak the truth.
Everybody hear me?
Okay.
And this is what Paul was reminding them of.
Because if you lose sight of that, you become the church of Laodicea.
The reason why Paul said, make sure this gets read in the Church of the Laodiceans, and it's interesting that Paul, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, years and years before John wrote the book of Revelation.
All right.
That's it.
But I want to thank you all for tuning in today.
We'll be back tomorrow, same time, same place, God willing.
That again, Pastor Dean Miller, Front Range Baptist Church in Fort Collins.
You're welcome to attend services Sundays, 9.30 and 11 a.m.
But that's it for me.
We again will see you tomorrow.
Thanks to the callers.
Thanks to the texters.
Thanks to all you guys out there listening.
We'll start it up all over again tomorrow.
So until then, I'm your host, Craig James.
We'll see you on the next one.
Godspeed and God bless each and every one of you patriots.
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