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Sept. 2, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Turning Point for God - September 1st, Hour 2
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Sean Hannity has a well-deserved day off today.
So I am Rose.
I've been here many times before, and I always love, love, love sharing this time with you, Sean's audience.
You guys are great.
You really are.
And I always like to bring a little bit of the spiritual in when I do this show because it's so important, I think, particularly after you heard what the last guest had to say about transhumanism and how it's taking power away from God, essentially.
And it really is against his plan for creation.
So I invited Dr. David Jeremiah to join me today.
He's the founder of the multimedia broadcast ministry turning point for God.
And I just, Dr. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining me today.
I appreciate that.
I'm honored to be with you.
I am a big fan.
I try to catch your broadcast every day.
If I don't, I go online to get it.
I have so many of your books, and I just appreciate your consistency throughout the years and that you've always stood strong and you've never wavered.
And I appreciate that about you.
Well, thank you very much.
It's very kind.
Thanks.
I saw you when you were here in Pittsburgh, and you do have something coming up in October.
We'll talk about that coming up.
One of the first things I talked about on the show today, Dr. Jeremiah, was the founding fathers.
And we talked about how our freedom was bestowed upon us by God.
It is not given to us by man because if man is responsible for giving us our freedom, then man can certainly take that freedom away.
And we have seen that all throughout history.
And I just wanted to touch on a little bit because we are celebrating next week the beginning of the very first convention of the Continental Congress 249 years ago.
And I thought I'd like to get some of your thoughts on freedom and what our founding fathers represented oh, so many years ago.
Well, you know, the Bible has a very succinct statement about freedom.
It says, you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.
I think the thing that is so discouraging to most of us who have watched this is there is no truth.
Truth has been shot in the head and nobody speaks the truth.
In fact, it is a very visual thing where people can stand in front of a video that shows what they have done and actually deny they have done it with a smile and go on.
Oh, God, that's so true, though.
Isn't that a fact?
And I've always said this, if you know the truth, you know where to go.
But if you don't know how the truth is, you're lost.
And I think that kind of sort of succinctly describes where so many people feel like today they've lost their center because everybody's afraid to speak the truth.
And even people who do what I do have become very cautious because you used to be able to speak the truth and people would say, well, that's your truth.
It's not my truth.
And they'd go on.
But now, if you say something they don't view as their truth, they don't come after what you say.
They come after you.
Well, that's a really good point.
And you can see where particularly Christianity is involved.
You have to be so careful.
And yet you are speaking, you are speaking the truth.
And you are, listen, you're up against a lot of attacks.
And that's the thing.
I think whether you're speaking about Christianity, you're speaking about God, whether you're speaking about our country and the freedoms and how we're at risk of losing those freedoms, all of those things can be considered inflammatory at times.
They really can right now.
Well, yeah, we're on the radio and on television in Canada.
And as you know, Canada has really strict hate laws.
So we actually have to have a department that listens and watches everything we do through Canadian eyes and ears.
No.
No, so that we don't accidentally say something that is viewed as a hate statement.
If you do it, you're off the air the next day.
You're done.
This is unbelievable.
I cannot believe where we are today.
You know, but it's not a surprise.
It shouldn't be a surprise, should it be?
When we talk about Dr. Jeremiah, I know you are so well versed in so many things.
And when I hear these things about, we talked about AI and how it's really trying to take the place of God, honestly, you know, it's just creating men and creating ideas and creating sermons like they did in Germany.
Or even right now, too, we're looking at things like Amazon One is allowing people to use their palm to make a payment.
CEOs of certain companies want to be able to scan our irises in order to conduct commerce.
This is very interesting times that we're living in, is it not?
Yeah, we just came back from Europe.
My wife and I just celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary.
And when we came back into this country, I was shocked.
You don't even need a passport.
Everything is visual.
You walk up and look in this little thing.
They read your eyes.
And if you're okay, you come in.
You don't need a passport.
First it's ever happened.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, people who travel abroad will say, oh, yeah, they know that.
But I kept trying to get my passport out.
And they say, you don't need your passport.
Just look in here and we'll know if you're the right person or not.
And, you know, the things that are happening today, I guess we had to put a circle around them and put everything in the same circle.
Socialism has become almost a certainty for us if we don't have some kind of a major revolution or turnaround.
I believe this next election, as I've heard you guys talking about it, is going to make is going to decide where we go as a nation and whether or not we have a chance to continue living the life that we believe has been given to us by God.
And it's so crucial.
And that's why I was trying to share during my monologue today.
It's because that socialism is so predominant and we really are on a very slippery slope right now.
Because this election, you were so right, will determine so much.
I think this is our last and final call to preserve the republic.
Well, you know, there's so many ways to prove that.
And I'll just say this.
When you look at our government and how it was set up and why it was set up to protect us with the three different branches, and then you realize that one branch of the government has now turned in, not has turned into a weapon.
And the weapon is being used to destroy people that don't agree with them.
If that's allowed to continue, there is no way we can survive as a republic.
No, there isn't because, and socialism is so oppressive.
And it's as though right now, Dr. Jeremiah, we are replacing what then was the divine right of kings with the divine right of bureaucrats.
That's basically what we're doing right now.
We're just making a trade here.
It's almost similar, but we're giving up just as much because these tyrannical governments and dictatorships that come out of socialism brought nothing to enhance the human condition, absolutely nothing.
It's just those of us who love freedom, who have raised the baseline of human existence beyond anything that's ever been conceived before.
And I'm just so afraid that we are going to lose that.
And we need to be very, very diligent right now.
Absolutely.
I told people I wrote a book about some of this.
And I said, if you want to know what socialism, just read the story of the guy who founded it and the awful life this man lived and what a terrible person he was and what happened to his family.
And you will see a picture of what he believed in and where it's going to take us if we allow it to eke its way into our lives.
And I gave a whole sermon on this at a major college address.
And the students sat in rapt attention, but I also realized that many of them already had their foot in the door with some of this stuff.
So it is a frightening time.
It really is.
You know, one of the things that I get your newsletters too, and I was reading a discussion that you had about handling impossible days.
And really, quite frankly, we've been talking about impossible days.
I mean, we are living in a time like none other in the history of the world.
I honestly believe that.
And it comes with a whole lot of challenges.
And when we consider, you know, how much AI are we going to engage in?
How much are we going to allow our very uniqueness be exchanged for products or services like Amazon One wanting a palm payment?
And eventually, we're not going to even have the choice.
Eventually, it's not going to be an option.
It's going to be a mandate.
You've got to put your palm down or let us see your iris.
So when we look at all of this and we talk about impossible days, because sometimes all of this just seems so impossible.
What is your solution to this?
How could you encourage those in the audience that have concerns and rightly so?
Well, while the world is changing so rapidly, it's hard to watch it.
If you serve God, you serve a God who does not change.
He's immutable.
His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
And I think more than ever before, we have to focus our attention on God's truth and God's word.
And he will give us the wisdom that we need.
I don't think God will never leave us without an answer.
If we focus our attention on, if we look to him, if we don't get caught up in, okay, here's what the other side's doing in the political regime, let's do something on our side.
No, let's find out where God is in this whole thing, and let's be godly people.
In the midst of all of this, we have to be who we are.
I'm getting ready to do a series of messages on the seven IMs of John.
And I wrote this little thing down, and this is what I said.
I am who I am because of I am.
God is the I am, and because of him, I can be who I am no matter what's going on.
And maybe one of the things we should remember is that the Bible was written to a world under the rule of Rome, which was far worse than anything we are facing.
And yet Christians stood strong.
They lived their faith and God was honored.
And we've had it pretty easy in this country over the years.
And I think as Christians, we're going to have to stand up and be counted.
I think you're right about that.
And I'm so glad you brought up Rome.
You're absolutely right.
I hadn't thought about that.
Oh, wow.
I love that.
Thank you so much for your encouragement.
Thank you for what you do every single day and bringing truth.
And there is an event that you've got, October 6th and 7th.
It's in North Charleston.
All you have to do is go to davidjeremiah.org, davidjeremiah.org.
You'll see all about that event.
I'm going.
I'm going to go.
I can't wait to go, in fact.
But thank you for your encouraging words today, Dr. Jeremiah.
All right.
Thank you very much.
Take care.
God bless.
All right, we have so much more coming up.
I want to share a story that goes along the lines of what Dr. Jeremiah just spoke about, about trusting God.
And I have a really unique story to tell you that's coming up next.
You know, it's interesting to hear that Dr. Jeremiah shared that he has to be concerned about attacks over what he says, because even though what he says, and I believe, is the truth, because it comes from the word of God, that he has to be, you know, careful.
I'm not saying that he is because he pretty much speaks the truth without any reservation from everything I've heard.
But the fact that while he's in other countries, particularly Canada, they have to go through and make sure that he's not saying anything offensive, unbelievable, right?
That's just unbelievable.
And it's so sad that we are at that time.
And, you know, when you talked about how important it is to just really trust God and recognize that he is the I am.
And I, you know, I wanted to mention the last time I was on here was last month, and we had a guest on to talk about dementia.
And the reason I did is because for the last three years, I was helping to care for my father who had dementia.
And he has since passed away since the last time I was on here last month and today.
And I do want to dedicate this to him because he would listen, even with his dementia, we would have someone there turn it on for him so he could hear me.
And he was a true conservative, as was my mother who died 40 some years ago, God bless her.
But one of the things that I learned through this ordeal was to trust God.
And there were a couple of times that I felt that God was showing me exactly what I needed to do.
And I did it.
And afterwards, it proved to be what was needed to be done.
It was a long ordeal.
Sometime I'll go into more detail maybe later today in the show.
But the bottom line is this.
There was one really big thing that I had to be taken care of for my dad.
And I felt that God told me, this is what you need to do.
Go do it.
It wasn't something I felt like doing.
And I did it.
And then afterwards, after it was accomplished, and it took a month to get through everything that needed to be done.
But once it was accomplished, I had gone to a CPAC actually convention.
And I was at the Hyatt Hotel in Florida.
And there, when you get older, you have to go to the ladies.
You have to go to the bathroom all the time.
Okay, at night, right?
You got to get up in the middle of the night and it's dark.
Well, at the Hyatt, they had these lights to come on.
The moment that your foot touches the floor, the carpet, lights illuminate the floor so that you can find your way.
And it made me really think about that scripture.
And I felt like God was saying to me, listen, you took that first step in faith.
You just took that step.
And then just like this light in the hotel room, I lit your path.
And as you know, there is a scripture in Psalms that said, your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.
And that is precisely what he did for me.
And he just showed it to me in such a profound way by relating it to that light that came on on the floor the minute my foot hit the floor.
He's going to do that for all of us, for every one of us.
I'm going to try to get a phone call in real quick.
Rosa, we've got a Rose and a Rosa, but Rosa from Chicago was waiting longer.
Rosa, how are you?
Good.
How are you, Rose?
Thank you for taking my call.
Absolutely.
My questions are in regard to Joe Allen.
I'm a fan of his.
And, you know, I wish he was there so he could possibly maybe respond or maybe you have some answers to my question.
So my question is, you remember the judge ruling in Montana this month where these teenagers, you know, teenagers won the ruling.
You know, he ruled for them for, do you recall that ruling?
No, I mean, you'll have to remind me which one it is.
I have less than a minute, though, with you.
About a minute.
Monday.
Okay, sided with young environmentalist activists who said state agencies were violating their constitutional rights to a clean and beautiful, healthy environment by permitting fossil fuel development without considering its effect on climate.
So he ruled in their favor.
And I'm just wondering what this judge rule and some other teenagers, because it's high time that these other teenagers rise and talk about what's going to happen with AI taking their future jobs.
So they're going to go to universities, colleges.
You're so right.
Rosa, Rosa makes a great point.
We're already seeing jobs taken away by AI already.
I'll talk about some of that coming up.
Thank you, Rosa from Chicago.
I appreciate that.
All right, stay with us.
We've got John Solomon, I think, is coming up next just to tell us about his interview with Donald Trump.
And some were saying, oh, that wasn't Donald Trump.
That was AI.
Well, we're going to get the story straight here coming up next.
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All right, my name is Rose.
I'm sitting in for Hannity today.
It's a well-deserved day off.
And listen, I did mention my platforms before.
I'll mention them again because a lot of times when I've done this show, I get a lot of requests for the monologue that I do.
And so I usually put those up on my podcast platforms.
Now I'm on Spotify, Apple, but also on Rumble.
And when I was saying earlier to subscribe, and a lot of you have subscribed to my website, which is great, but also go to rumble.com.
It's RoseUnplugged, OneWord, Rose Unplugged, No Spaces.
And would you subscribe there, please?
And also like, because when you subscribe, then you get a notification that I have a new podcast that's been uploaded.
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You know, Rosa had called in, and I want to get to Rose, but she mentioned how teenagers will be losing their jobs, their future, to AI.
And we've heard about journalists being replaced.
We've heard that, I mean, some of the most ridiculous things.
And once they've been replaced, they do it.
AI does a terrible job.
One company let go of all their employees because they wanted to unionize and brought AI in to answer calls for a eating disorder hotline.
Can you believe this?
And what happened was AI was actually encouraging them in their eating disorder so they had to get rid of AI and hire people back.
I mean, it just gets a little ridiculous, doesn't it?
Rose is calling from California.
Rose, what's going on?
How are you doing?
Hi.
Oh, I'm a little bit cool.
I am a former 30-year language school teacher.
My question is, has or will AI take over the teaching profession?
Well, why not, Rose?
Why not?
Why, you know, think about this.
And let me tell you the story.
And we talked about this last month when I was on before.
In Germany, there was, I think it was back in the spring, there was this huge convention of like 200 different churches or something that were meeting in Germany.
And it was Episcopalian, I believe.
That's the faith that it was, Episcopalian faith.
They're all coming together.
First time ever, they had an AI, it was an avatar, deliver the sermon.
It was AI generated, the sermon.
People walked out and said, well, I mean, I didn't show any emotion.
It's not a person.
It can't show any emotion.
The other thing it can't do is be led by the Holy Spirit.
I want a sermon that was inspired by God.
I want a sermon from someone who has lived life and can say, hey, I've been where you are, and I can tell you how I made it through that difficulty or that situation.
AI has not been through where you are, can't help you walk through that, is not inspired by God.
And yet, here we had the very first, and it's not the last, I am certain, Rose, of an AI-delivered sermon.
So why not?
Why not have AI deliver the teaching remarks every day?
Why not, Rose?
They're definitely wanting to replace God.
That's the bottom line.
Oh, yeah, they are.
Oh, yeah.
They want to take the power from God.
It's going against his plan for creation.
There's this whole, you know, it's arrogance and it's misguided.
And it's just, it's very concerning.
Very concerning, Rose.
Yeah.
Good point.
That was a good question.
Thank you so much for that call.
I appreciate that.
Also, Stephen is calling from Pennsylvania.
Hey, Stephen.
Good afternoon, Rose.
How are you?
Good.
You're doing a heck of a job.
I actually wish that Sean would take vacation more often.
No, we love Sean.
I love Sean.
He's the best.
You know, I've known him for 20-some years.
He's awesome.
But anyway, you wanted to talk about AI as well.
Enjoy your show.
Thank you, honey.
Thanks.
As far as AI goes, it's absolutely amazing and wonderful what it can do as far as chugging through infinite numbers of permutations to help cure cancer and stuff.
It's great.
Yeah, I mean, I agree.
I don't think anyone will deny that there are some good purposes.
But I think, Stephen, when we start thinking about just how far it can go and AI itself, having been asked questions, was it Sophia or one of those robots that said, yeah, you should be very afraid of what we can do or, you know, humanity should be very concerned.
There are just, I think at some point, there's no controlling it, hon. I think there's no controlling it.
Now, I'm not a scientist, but just what I've read and already one of the godfathers of AI has expressed concern and fear over what could become, what AI could actually do.
And it thinks faster than we can think.
And yes, Stephen, yes, there are some great things that intelligence can help us with, artificial intelligence.
Overall, I'm still going to remain a little fearful of what we're looking at down the road, I think.
But I agree with you.
There are some good points.
Have you ever seen the movie The Terminator?
Yeah, I have, actually.
It can go either way.
It depends on who's programming it.
Yeah, but then you're going to have to really be confident in those people programming in it.
And can I ask you a question?
Are you?
Can we be?
No.
No.
Like, let's put it this way.
Nitwit said that the Inflation Reduction Act would reduce inflation.
He couldn't even get basic Econ 101 straight.
Are you supposed to believe that this guy could rein in artificial intelligence?
No.
No, he can't.
Although maybe if we were the country right now, we're run by artificial intelligence.
It might be a little better than what we're seeing happening right now.
Anyway, Stephen, you're fun.
Thank you for the call.
Thanks for calling in.
Well, you know, I'd love to go to futurism.com.
They've got all these really amazing stories there, particularly about AI.
But one woman, you know, there's all these stories about women creating AI boyfriends.
And then one woman in particular created one and then she said, it was too clingy and irritating.
I felt like I was taking care of a Tamagotchi.
You guys remember what a Tamagotchi was?
So, I mean, like, because it's not real.
This is this is not real.
And here's my concern when we talk about this.
You know, we have already through the pandemic and, you know, particularly because of the pandemic, we have created a young generation, a younger generation who has not learned to interact properly, who's not socializing.
Everything is done by the phone.
They won't even pick up the phone and talk to you.
You've got to text them.
And they're isolated very much.
And they have been, and they continue to be as long as they are plugged in to some sort of device.
I just don't see that improving the life of young people at all when we continue to rely on AI as a, what?
Some of these people as a boyfriend, if you can believe that.
But he was clingy and irritating.
It's, it's, he's not, it's not a he, okay?
It's not real.
And you just, and it's so sad to me, too, uh, for, oh, God, it's just, I'm sad.
I'm sad for the younger generation, I think.
And as they continue to grow and a new other new generation behind them, and this is all they're going to know, we are creating this like just isolated society where we're not out there socializing, where everything and anything that you could possibly need or want could be gotten through artificial intelligence.
Essentially, that's what we're doing.
Jim is calling from Missouri.
Apparently, this is a pretty hot topic.
Jim, how are you?
Great.
Thank you.
Fascinating subject.
It's everywhere and as it should be.
And thank you for dealing with it.
And remember, you can't say AI without saying artificial.
And I think it's fascinating that already it has come out that these programs begin to improvise.
If they don't have the right answer, they'll make something up.
And they've been caught doing it.
And only it's worse than that.
They'll start hallucinating left on their own very long and amongst other things.
So, yeah, they're artificial and machine, and yet they're also all too human.
Yeah, it really is.
I mean, gosh, what they can do with those robots.
And it's just, it's amazing.
And it is astounding.
But at the same time, too, we are really trying to be godlike.
We want to create.
We are creating life, essentially.
That's what we're trying to do.
We want to be now the creators.
And I think that's what a lot of us have concerns about as well.
But thank you, Jim, for that phone call.
I appreciate it.
You know, one of the other things I wanted to talk about, and I'm going to mention it here on this side of the break.
And when we come back, I'll take your phone calls on it.
But a friend of mine said that they were in a whole food store the other day and that they had the option to use their palm to pay for their groceries.
And I didn't even know that was happening.
But apparently, this is absolutely true.
Amazon One is using Amazon Web Services Palm recognition as identification for payment, for your loyalty membership numbers.
And they are doing this at over 400 locations all across the country.
And they expect they reached a critical milestone with more than 3 million people using it already.
And Whole Food Market stores are going all in on this.
And they expect that by the end of this year, they should have all 500 plus Whole Food Market locations in the United States offering this Amazon One for payment and prime membership benefits.
Now, and I say, okay, well, right now, that's just an option.
You can still go over, you know, the old-fashioned way and have somebody like put your food on the belt and then they ring it up and all that.
But at what point will it no longer be an option, but be the only way you can pay for something using your palm?
I mean, that is your, that is the very essence of who you are.
That is you in every way, shape, or form.
And it just, it makes me crazy that people are either, and you'll get stories.
People are saying, oh, this is so great.
I don't have to, you know, tap my phone on the checkout screen or I don't have to dig in my wallet for my credit card.
Oh, my God.
So you can't take 30 seconds out of your life at that grocery store and pull out your wallet to pay for that or tap your phone on there.
That's just too much for you.
So this is so much more convenient.
Just lean your palm up against that.
And then that's all you need to do.
That is who you are.
That is your essence.
It's your very being.
How is that okay with you?
It's not okay with me.
And my biggest concern is that we won't have that option.
I remember a story back in 2018.
No lie, look it up.
Thousands of Swedes, I don't even know where they are with all of this right now, but I remember they were inserting little microchips under their forefinger, under their skin.
It was very, very tiny.
It looked like just one grain of rice.
And they were designed to speed up their daily routines, right?
To make their lives more convenient.
Because again, God forbid, you should go into your purse and dig out your wallet.
This is astounding to me.
And people lined up to get it because now they can just go into a sports arena and just press their little finger on the screen and they can send their contact information and that, that, that, that, that.
Oh, my God.
And then people say, well, it's safer because if you lose your credit card or someone steals your credit card, if they do or you lose it, just call the company.
They will stop everything right away.
And if you didn't get there fast enough, you can usually say, hey, I didn't make that charge and they'll take it off.
This is a lie.
Oh, it's more convenient.
It's just easier.
That's a lie.
And then the CEO of WorldCoin, Alex Blania or something like that.
Anyway, he wants people to scan their irises so that he can have a global system of authentication.
There you go.
I didn't even know.
Did you travel recently?
I want to know from any of you to Europe?
Because I was planning on going to Italy soon.
Did you really scan your iris?
That's what they want to do.
They want all of you to scan your irises so you can have this.
They can have a global system to authenticate who you are, who you are.
Does this not scare anyone else out there?
Because it frightens me.
It really does.
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