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Sept. 21, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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Scriptures And Wallstreet: Big Tech and Brics Failing w/ Rev. Carlos Cortez Sr.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Man, I miss you guys.
I was out this past week.
I was enjoying a father and son trip with my son Nathaniel, 11 years old.
And just had to unplug a little bit.
I'll share some pictures if you stay along.
Also today, I have my father in the studio today.
He is going to share some scriptures as you guys have heard me talk about my dad.
My dad is a former military drill sergeant and a pastor.
He's still a minister.
He'll close us out today.
I'm honored to have him come to the studio and share what's on his heart.
I don't know if it's going to be about what I'm talking today, but my father has been a huge example in my life.
It's important gentlemen and women to have a masculine role in your home and one that honors faith, family, fitness, and finance.
Unfortunately, once you turn on the TV, they want to feminize the men.
Pretty much every show, every commercial you watch, the man is either fat, lazy, or a coward.
And with this woke movement of these women, that we don't need a man.
We don't need this.
We don't need that.
The feminists...
I mean, just look at the movie Barbie.
That's what this is all about.
So I had lunch with my father today, and we're discussing that.
How Satan just wants to destroy the man.
Because if you can destroy the man, you destroy the home.
And Satan's agenda is to kill, devour, and destroy.
So if you can knock out the priesthood, you've knocked out generations.
Satan's in it for the short game, but he's okay with the long game.
Hey, so I want to talk about Fed now.
Check out this chart, man.
Wow!
So, Bitcoin has surpassed Visa in settled transactions.
People are not trusting the banks.
I cannot stress this enough.
I don't even trust the banks, right?
So, if you haven't already...
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Schedule your consultation at CortezWM.com or give us a call at 813-448-3446.
We want to help you.
We have private insured account solutions that we can help you be anti-Fed now.
Obviously, credit unions are going to put you in a better spot than these woke banks.
As you guys know, they're debanking people like crazy.
The technology is...
The technology is not in your favor.
You need technology.
You need the AI to fight against what's going on.
Which leads me to some things you need to be asking your advisor right now.
If you're not with us, you need to be asking your advisor, what are you doing to protect my money from FedNow?
And how safe is my money?
How safe is my money from this FedNow takeover?
What are you doing with the artificial intelligence takeover?
Are you using it to protect me?
Or am I exposed?
These are some questions you need to be asking your current advisor.
Because, unfortunately, we are implementing...
Unfortunately, many of you don't even have these answers or their advisors don't have these answers, in my opinion, in my experience.
Let me say my disclaimer here.
I am a licensed financial advisor.
Everything I talk about on this podcast is not investment advice.
This podcast should be used for educational purposes.
If you like financial advice, give us a call at 813-448-3446.
So, Mr.
and Mrs.
Advisor, how are you using AI to protect my money?
What are you doing?
Would ChatGBT take over you as an advisor?
Is it being used against me?
Is it...
What's it doing?
You need to be asking these questions more than ever.
Guys, it is scary, man, what's going on right now.
So if you look at the San Diego Chargers, they put fans, AI robots, AI robots in the stands.
Just so they can make artificial noise.
Just so they can have presence.
It's here.
The transhuman agenda is here, guys.
It's real as heck right now, man.
We got a lot going on.
We got a lot going on.
As you guys know, the topics I generally talk about...
Or what my conversations have been for the league.
And we've gotten calls on people moving.
They can't afford.
They can't afford where they're at.
New York is moving to Florida.
California is moving to Texas.
The Texans are complaining that these people do not fit culturally.
We have a immigration crisis.
Now the mayor of New York is wakening up and all of a sudden they're all about borders now.
They're all about borders.
We have an immigration crisis right now.
Trump just came out and said that if or when he gets elected, he is going to have a massive historic deportation campaign like you would have never seen.
At first, I'm like, yeah, yeah, take those guys out.
Take those guys out.
Put them back in their country.
At first, that's my initial reaction, right?
Like, we need walls.
We need to get these freaking people out.
But then I started thinking about that.
Wait a second.
There's a lot of lazy ass people in this country.
There's a lot of lazy ass people in this country.
Just go to any hotel, restaurant, bar...
Fly the airlines.
There's a massive labor shortage.
The only people that are working are the immigrants.
So we've got to be extremely careful Because if there's 15 million illegals and a third of them, or 90% of them, are doing the acculturation process, which is getting jobs that don't require an education or speaking a language, such as construction, house cleaning, cooking, those industries will be wiped out.
And I don't know about you, but I like my steaks and chicken wings.
And I like going to nice hotels with my family here and there.
We got to think of it.
We got to be very strategic about it.
We want the good immigrants.
We want people to come to our country legally.
We're not saying no.
We just don't want...
You know, these people crossing...
And they're not just Mexicans or Central Americans.
They're coming from the southern border from all over.
They're crossing the Rio Grande from all sorts of countries.
And we're getting their problem.
And now the U.S. stupid government, stupid face, is paying them $2,200 per individual.
And now you have individuals claiming and lying and lying that they got all these kids.
And they're traveling with their husbands and their spouses.
And they're acting like they're not married, and so they're individuals, so they too can get $2,200.
It's not per family, it's per individual.
So not only are we losing money and paying these illegals to come over here, we're losing jobs, we're losing spots in schools.
As you guys know, my son did not make the hockey academy that we've been training for.
Now we're training.
We're in a developmental program so that he can make it in December.
We're going to try out in December.
Hopefully he makes it.
Athletically, he didn't make it.
And academically, he didn't make it.
So guess what?
I told him that's a gift.
It's a gift that someone told you no.
Now you have a goal to achieve.
You have a goal to work on.
And freaking A, I'm going to help you.
I'm going to get you the best instructors.
I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure that you learn, that you're disciplined in this craft, in academics, and in ice hockey so that you can make it.
Because God has called us to be leaders.
Because we are more than conquerors.
And the spirit of fear is the devil.
The spirit of fear and weakness is Satan.
And I don't want that curse on my family.
I don't want that stupid mindset.
We need to be strong, guys.
We need to remember that America is all that in a bag of chips.
Even with this Luciferian in the office, even with the FedNow's tracking our money, even with the vaccine, they're trying to vaccinate us to death.
Even if there's a communistic undertone in the Constitution that they're trying to make it in the Constitution, we are still America.
So this is why the core, I'm not 100% sold out to gold and precious metals and silver.
To me, in my opinion, it's run for the hills money.
It's not an investment.
It's run for the hills money.
Look, I have it too.
I just bought it from a guy I like I trust, which is Cornerstone.
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Again, it's 888-747-3309.
They're a great sponsor of the program.
Let them know that I sent you.
And they can put Bible scriptures on your precious metals.
And they're not going to charge you over 20% like some of these knuckleheads are doing right now.
So give them a call.
In my opinion, they can pretty much match or beat anyone's price.
Have it shipped to your door.
And look, it's run for the hills money.
You don't want to put all your money.
You don't want to put your whole entire IRA. You need to be diversified.
And more than ever with this private...
I'm sorry, with the FedNow program, they're going to try to trace you.
So my message today...
I really don't even have a topic.
My message today is do not comply.
Do not comply.
They're going to try to make you weak, man.
They're going to put holograms in the air.
They're going to say alien invasions.
They're going to vaccinate you.
They're going to scare you with the volatility index, the VIX, the markets.
They're going to say that the BRICS are going to destroy America.
I'm here to tell you that is false.
Do not believe that the BRICS are going to take over America.
You got Brazil.
Okay, so let's play this out.
BRICS, yeah, they're gonna buy their own gold back and Russia's going to create their own currency.
Russia is in shambles.
Chinese, they don't even have a pot to piss in right now, dude.
They're in such a massive depression.
Their number one company, Everglade, can't even pay their bills.
They did not pump money in the market.
They did not pump money in the economy.
During the pandemic of COVID. So guess what?
Their economy is struggling.
Their imports are down.
Their new constructions are at a complete halt.
They're manipulating their dollar.
They're back to the old ways.
And guess what?
They don't have capitalism to get them out of this world.
Poverty.
They don't have capitalism.
They have communism and manipulation, which is not going to work at a global scale.
So they're going to get their ass kicked right now.
In the next year, two years, you're going to see massive devastations coming out of China.
Their interest rates are off the hook.
The inflation has surged.
Pretty soon, everything won't be made in China.
Wouldn't that be a blessing?
I'm tired of hearing about the BRICS, man.
Oh, the Brazil, Russia, India, China, Saudi.
Oh, they're going to control the whole world.
You know why they're recruiting?
Because even with all these countries coming together, they still can't even compete with America.
They can't do it.
I mean, look at our GDP. Look at our volume.
Look at our oil independence.
Stupid face gave the business back to Russia.
Gave it to China.
We have to stay strong.
I'm telling you, as long as we got the Second Amendment, we're the only country with the Second Amendment.
We got to fight against tyranny.
We, the people, elected tyranny.
These people, we're the ones that give them power.
Yes, they stole the election.
Yes, they rigged it.
Believe what you want to believe.
The facts are there.
But the spirit of American blood, the spirit of God will always prevail.
Righteousness will always prevail.
Guys cannot lose hope.
It doesn't look good for America right now.
I get it.
But this is where you press on.
And you become vigilant on your discipline to the loyalty, to the cross, to the loyalty of this country, and to the loyalty of your family.
So China is struggling.
If you look, I mean, just look right now.
The White House has told a U.S. ambassador, do not post anything about China on social media.
It's a freaking wreck over there.
It's a freaking wreck over there.
And we want to disassociate ourselves from failures as America, especially on social media.
And China, they want to lie about their success.
They want to...
I have these turkeys in my neighborhood, and they're like a blowfish.
You know, they just show their feathers, and if you take all their feathers, they're just a little, little bird.
That's what China is.
It's like they huff and puff and blah, blah, blah, and they're like this little squeaky little country that can't do anything.
They don't even have enough jets like what we do.
They don't have the carriers.
They don't have the money.
They don't have anything close to what we have, guys.
But yet, the media portrays them as this massive giant, this massive thing.
No, man.
They're all sold out to China because China's been paying them, right?
Guess who also is struggling?
Russia.
Russia's struggling too.
So you got two of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Brazil doesn't even want to get in a hissy fit with America.
They know that if they go full-blown into this BRICS union, this BRICS currency, that they're going to piss off America.
And Brazil is no place to piss us off.
They don't have...
What's their plan B? Russia, India, and China?
And India has already pulled out saying they're not going to advise the dollar.
They don't want a BRIC currency.
India has already pulled out.
They don't want to be in bed with the Chinese Shanghai Corporation.
That's already a fact.
So there's qualms.
There's problems going into BRICS country.
It's not going to work.
The road incentive map is at a complete halt.
Yes, they were trying to get together and build this massive trillions and trillions of dollars worth of logistics, like their own version of the Panama Canal, to connect all these countries.
It's not a complete halt.
It's not working.
As a matter of fact, the US dollar is used in every SWIFT payment system that even Joe Biden himself Or whoever his puppet master is.
Zorro's or Obama.
I think it's ultimately Zorro's.
They're putting 25 billion dollars into the world systems.
Like the world currencies.
Like the international banks.
It is so convenient for the rest of the world to use in dollar that to literally start a whole new currency would take Trillions of dollars to implement.
I don't see it happening, guys.
And I know this is anti what you've been hearing.
But hear me out, guys.
I don't like Biden.
I believe in the blood of Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.
I've been in this industry my whole life.
This is all I've done.
I'm in the cut.
I mean, just every day.
I hear your phone calls.
I hear the messages.
I hear the podcasts.
I hear all these other podcasters, and they all promote gold because they're getting paid millions of dollars.
But I'm here to tell you, the BRICS is not going to work.
If anything is going to work, it's going to be a digital dollar.
It will be a digital asset.
And I don't think it's going to come from the BRICS. I do believe we will have a one world currency.
I just don't think it's going to be the BRICS. There's too much...
There's too much...
What do you call it?
Chiefs and not enough Indians.
And that whole union.
You really think Putin and Xi can get along?
And then throw in Brazil?
Who's afraid to turn their back on America?
You join the BRICS, you're turning your back on America.
A lot of those people need America as an ally, not an adversary or enemy.
It's not going to work.
It's not going to work.
The systems are too convenient.
It's too convenient right now.
On a massive scale.
Yes, there are some countries that won't take the dollar.
But when other people...
When other people visit their country and they have dollars, they convert it using a World Bank that uses the dollar.
So, tell me how you're going to get rid of it.
And show me what the plan is.
And I'll wait with popcorn.
Do you really think we can buy groceries with this?
Do you really think this is portable?
Can we just...
Bite off a piece of it and give it to somebody.
Yeah, we could.
What's the value of it?
What are you getting back?
Doesn't make any sense.
I know there's some states that are using precious metals to pay their bills.
I know, but they're still having a hard time on how they're able to process that.
We've got to be realistic, guys.
And we've got to understand that we can't just simply...
Invest with our feelings, as hard as that is, we gotta have evidence.
We gotta have facts.
We just got to understand that us conservatives, God-fearing patriots, we can get triggered.
We can get triggered and make stupid decisions with our money.
And then the price of this, and the price of this, we buy, thinking it's a safe investment.
When...
It's traded on the Chicago Board of Exchange, manipulated by the same people we're trying to avoid.
Because if you look at the Chicago Board of Exchange, look at the people who are owning it.
It's the dumbest thing I've heard, man.
Look, I'm not saying not to buy it.
I'm just saying you have to diversify.
I own it.
But own a percentage.
Own a percentage that you're okay with.
Losing and using it for a run of the hills money because the dollar with all this brick stuff, my notes are here, with all this brick news, I'm telling you it's not going to work and I'm not the only one that's thinking this.
You can just look it up.
Here's one article of many.
A brick's not going to work.
And these are economists.
These are world economists.
So it's not my opinion.
It's an opinion that's growing a lot of traction.
And it's pro-American.
Yes, I'm biased.
Forgive me.
I love my country.
Forgive me.
I don't want to see my country fail.
Forgive me.
I'm not weak-minded.
I would not falter.
I would not conform.
And that's what my message is today.
Do not conform to the vaccine.
Do not conform to them controlling where you're going to eat your food.
Do not conform to them selling your home.
Do not conform on where you got to put your kids at.
Do not conform in face-diping your children.
Do not conform with them medically abolishing our freedoms.
To hit you up with the jab.
And for those of you that didn't take the jab, they're going to financially jab you.
And what that means is they're going to try to control where you're shopping.
If your bank is on the FedNow program, all you got to do is go to FedNow approved banks to see if your bank is on there.
They are tracking, tracing, and controlling the heck out of you, baby.
This is why I'm a big fan of taking a good portion of your retirement that you're okay protecting and only having access to 10% a year, locking it up in a PIA, a private insured account.
This is what we specialize in.
This is why you want to go with God, country, and family-like companies that are born here in America that will protect your principal as long as you're okay with having access to 10% a year.
Through the strength of the A-rated insurance company or B-plus rated insurance company, they're going to guarantee your money virtually no risk to you.
That way you have a retirement.
You take your money 5% to 6% out a year.
Your money conservatively doubles inside of 10 years.
Optimistically, like 10% of the time, it could quadruple inside of 10 years.
It is not a securities product.
It's an insurance contract.
And I want you to give us a call if this resonates with you.
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Do not be in a stock market by the end of this year.
We will have either a massive fall off in the market with this real estate problem that we have endured because of rising interest rates.
By the way, Jerome Stinkin Powell said he's going to keep interest rates the way it is right now.
We're going to have a soft landing.
Soft landing.
Because I've been paid to say that.
Everything's calm, cool, collective.
How do you notice anytime you hear Janet yelling and you hear Powell, they're always...
Real chill.
Like, Social Security's going bankrupt.
And even Ben Bernanke back in the days when he was on pretty much trial, and they were drilling him during the banks, the TARP and the tax, the Oxford Relief Program.
They were just drilling.
He was absolutely, like, just calm.
Even though he was getting pounded in the face with all these, the whole world was hating him at the time.
He was basically the modern day, the financial Fauci at the time.
So, yeah.
Also, Fauci, $11 million.
Congrats, Fauci.
$11 million, his net worth is, right, as soon as he steps down.
Wonder where that came from, right?
We're in some times, my friend.
They're going to try to scare you with this alien invasion.
They're going to try to shake your faith.
They're going to try to manipulate you.
And they're going to implement the social credit score.
I'm telling you guys.
They're going to implement the social credit score.
So be on the lookout for that.
Be on the lookout for where the fear is showing up.
And how you react to the fear.
So what if there's aliens?
They're fallen demons, guys.
If they are real.
I don't know if they're using the technology, the hologram technology, to say, yeah, there's UFOs.
Look at the UFOs in the sky, and it's crazy technology.
I can see the government doing that.
And that's okay.
You can call me a tinfoil hat for the regulators that are watching and other advisors and other peers of mine.
Oh, this guy's a tinfoil hat.
He's a conspiracy theorist.
Okay, so what?
So what?
I'm just a common sense guy, man.
I mean, it's that simple.
And I don't want you guys to fall victim to all the stuff that's going on.
Because at the end of the day, everybody is after your money.
They're after your money because that's how they control, track, and trace you is through your money.
So we know that they're going to implement a social credit score.
They already have palm readings in Whole Foods where you can buy.
You can connect your Apple Pay to the markings on your palm.
You can do all this stuff now.
You have a blockchain.
You have AI that's running rampant right now.
You have the alien invasion.
You have blue light technology.
You have smart cities.
You have cryptocurrencies now being used more than Visa.
Dude, that is massive.
You know what's going to be used more?
It's actually going to hit the ACH. So, cryptocurrencies will actually start being used more than ACH soon.
That's next.
I mean, I showed you the chart here.
This is no BS, my friend.
I'm telling you, this isn't worth your whole IRA. Everything is going more digital, not precious metals.
Sorry, Cornerstone.
You know, I love you.
And I know there are a lot of great people in the truth movement promoting precious metals.
But the returns aren't there.
The digital currency space is where everything is going.
And you guys know that.
It's easier to track, trace, and control.
They can't track, trace, and control here.
And that's why I do like this.
But it's not worth your whole retirement, guys.
So be very careful.
Please give us a call.
If you purchase, if you have a gold IRA, give us a call.
We have some solutions for you because I want to make sure that you are not overpaying when you do sell your precious metals because one day you're gonna have to sell it and I don't want you paying 20% so if that's you give us a call 813-448-3446 we can try to get your fees back or get you out of that predatorial contract if that's you give us a call we want to help you I just wanted to say There's
been a lot of calls about 401ks.
Carl, what to do with my 401k?
I'm still working there.
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Also, I can't stress enough.
There's a lot of unknowns right now.
What are you doing to protect your money from a market crash?
If you're just in a brokerage and you're setting it, forget it.
You are doomed, my friend.
The volatility index is creeping up again.
It's quiet.
September is always the quietest month of the year before the October blues hit.
Get your stuff ready, guys.
Get your stuff ready.
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That's all it is.
Just learn what your options are.
Just learn what your options are out there because many of you don't even know what the options are because your advisor or your place of work or your place of business doesn't offer it because they're sold out to one thing and that's the market.
They want you in the market.
You pull income from market.
You protect yourself by diversifying the market.
My question is when do you ever get out of the market?
When you're 85 years old?
After you lost 35% and now you gotta wait 5-7 years to make your money back?
That doesn't make sense anymore.
There wasn't AI technology during Warren Buffet days, so buying old doesn't work, my man.
Maybe dollar cost averaging into the technology specter does work, but you need to be extremely smart on that.
There's leveraged ETFs that give you two or three times the S&P 500.
You can buy when they're low and sell when they're high and completely do that on a dollar cost averaging.
There's so many ways that we can teach you and show you and protect you.
But more importantly, I am concerned for those of you that have all this money in the bank Maybe you sold your home and you're just chilling with your funds in the bank.
You're exposed, man.
You're like...
I mean, you're a sitting duck.
You're a sitting duck with gator-infested water.
Don't be that.
There are solutions.
Even if you open up a treasury account with us, you're out of the banking system and you're still making 4% to 6% on average.
As the interest rates rise, you're...
You're taking advantage of these higher interest rates.
And you're not being exposed to the bank.
I don't know which bank is going to go belly up.
Look at the KRE stock right now.
The regionals are still going down.
They're down 30% year by year.
It's terrible.
Every time they raise interest rates, banks just go belly up because they're being exposed.
They're losing money every time you withdraw.
And we need banks to be profitable.
Heck, 40% of the average bank makes the revenues from commercial real estate.
And I already said it already that there's $400 billion maturing by the end of this year.
In five, six months, you're going to see...
What the heck we're going to do?
And the federal government knows this.
People aren't just going to re-up and refinance.
There are going to be a lot of properties that are vacant.
Lots of them.
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So yeah, my message today is don't comply.
The bricks aren't going to make it.
I know that's completely anti what you think.
And that's okay.
Because I'm not doing this to cater to your feelings.
I'm doing this to call out the truth.
And I don't think the bricks are going to make it.
And so that's my message today.
Hope you guys enjoy this podcast.
We're kind of quiet right now.
Because the markets aren't really...
The VIX is low and so the market isn't losing money.
But I'm going to start doing some more market analysts.
I'm actually flying out to Louisville, Kentucky.
See my friend Joe pretty soon.
I'm either going to start my own index or I'm going to manage my own portfolios for you guys.
But I want some more training when it comes to that.
Anyways, I'm going to hand it over to my father.
Tell him to keep it under 10 minutes.
He is a preacher, but he is going to close this out with some scriptures.
Love you guys, and without further ado, here's my dad.
Forgot to mention, before my father comes on real quick and shares a scripture, I wanted to share some pictures.
So I wanted to get uncomfortable and I took my son Nathaniel to a father and son camping trip and here are some pictures.
We got really uncomfortable.
We actually got in an ice bath.
If you guys haven't done that, it's pretty tough.
And it was a great bonding experience.
But we were able to connect.
We were able to have a little bit of worship service under the bonfire with 40 different men and their sons.
It was an amazing experience.
Highly recommend spending time with your kids.
Go camping.
Teach them how it is to survive outside the comfort of the home with no fault Wi-Fi, with no comfy mattresses.
Just tend it up and live like the old times.
I highly recommend it.
It was such an awesome experience.
Anyways, I just wanted to share some photos of my trip to Dallas.
And it just was amazing.
We also had the opportunity to forge some knives.
Out of railroad spikes.
We made knives out of railroad spikes with the surveillance and the mentorship of a true blacksmith.
Never knew how...
How biblical blacksmiths were.
I mean, if you look at the breastplate of righteousness, the sword, right?
The belt, the helmet, like we're supposed to put the armor of God on.
And the deep theology behind the metal and iron sharp and orange is such a huge biblical concept in principle.
Pretty amazing.
So we learned a lot about that this time.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy my father and God bless you guys.
Good evening, everyone.
My name is Carlos Cortez Sr.
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to share some thoughts about our Christianity.
The word is proud.
It's not a word that I would really use.
But I may say I'm very blessed.
The way the Lord has blessed my son and the things he has achieved and the impact that he's making in the lives of many through not just his business but through the mission that the Lord has called them to serve others.
And I'm very happy and very content of what the Lord has really blessed my child with.
Tonight I just want to Speak about our Christianity and share with you all some thoughts about the changing world that we'll live in.
In the world we are now living in is one of the eras.
I'm 70 years old and I have lived 77 decades The worst decade that changed the world dramatically was the 60s.
The 60s decade where everything started.
Drugs, sex, the election of the responsibility of the fathers and mothers and so forth to where we're at.
In basically a moral chaos in our world.
And it is difficult to say about a Christian nation we are.
So I want to share some things that will bring us back to the scripture.
That will bring us back to something that doesn't change.
And something that we can hold on to.
And be completely sure that we are holding on to something that will never change and that will benefit us eternally at the end of our journey on this earth.
So there in our world we are experiencing all kinds of changes from the economical perspective, the social perspective, the moral perspective, And even in the weather changes at a global magnitude.
And this is troublesome.
I don't want to get into the eschatology of things, but the Lord spoke about these times.
And for us Christians, it's not really a surprise.
It's just a fulfillment of His Word and the things that were about to happen in the times.
So the changes that are occurring are global.
And it appears that the longer we'll live, the more changes we'll experience.
And it is soothing to know that the Word of God will never change.
So changes in the economical aspect, changes even in the society.
Behavioral changes.
One of the things that is affecting the world now is mental hygiene.
It's the disorder of the mind.
Never seen so much at this magnitude in the 70 years that I've been alive.
But it's a change.
And we also need to deal with that.
Our world is in a constant transition.
But nonetheless, the Word of God never changes.
It is a good thing for us to hold on to the Word of God and remain firm and stand tall as Christians in this world.
The Word of God will never change.
Matthew 24 and verse 35 says, Heaven and earth will pass away.
But the word, but my words, will never pass away.
The Lord is telling us that chaos can be around us, but if we hold on to the word of God, we will be as firm as the rocks in the ocean and as the rocks in the hills, waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for us.
Also in John, it is interesting that the Lord Jesus saw these changes coming in the future, and he prayed a prayer for his disciples that is very interesting.
And I may paraphrase this a little bit, but the Gospel of John, where John wrote it, goes like this, I pray that you don't take these out of the world, but that you will protect them from the evil one.
What is the evil one?
The evil one, if we can identify it as a A word that identifies things like the metaphor or even an illustration or a comparison.
The evil one is everything that is happening in our midst.
Everything that is happening in our world.
From any aspects of change, this is affecting the whole world.
And as Christians, we must stand fast On his word.
So the Lord prayed for them.
And it is interesting that he said, don't take him out of the world.
Why is that?
Because we still have to live in this world.
We still have to navigate the waters of change.
We still have to row in the waters that are contaminated with everything that is happening in our midst.
But we must continue in this.
But we will not be part of it.
We will not conform to the world.
Just like Paul speaks to us in Romans chapter 12, says, Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So the thing is that as we are experiencing, as we go through changes, We must change our minds.
We must be transformed and understand not to change our minds and to adhere to things or to conform to things, but to change our minds in the way that many other people are being transformed or redirected in their way.
But to renew our minds with the things of God as we face all these changes.
Now, the Lord also gave us some direction.
And in John 17, 15, I said, He gives us...
Pretty much an advice not to change.
But later on, we can deduct from what he said, the evil one.
What is the evil one?
The evil one, as I mentioned, is the things that are happening in our days, in our time today.
So, the Lord, when he says protect us from the evil one, To protect us from the evil one, the Lord left us three things.
And I want to compare this.
I'm an old military guy, so I'm familiar with the compass and the atmos and the directions and all that stuff that has to do with land navigation.
So I want to use some of those terms to understand what Jesus is telling us here.
So to protect us from the evil one, he left us two things.
A compass, which is the word of God, and anasmus, which is a direction, a sure way, comprised of three elements that will lead us to eternal life.
The way, the truth, and the life.
The way is Christ.
The Lord says there is no other way but Jesus.
Then the truth is the word of God.
There is no other truth but the word of God.
The word of God is eternal.
The word of God is not relative.
The Word of God is the solid Word of God.
So, the truth is the Word of God.
The life is our reward.
So, as we navigate in this world, we have these two things that will hold us and keep us on course.
The Word of God, the compass.
The way, which is Jesus.
Jesus Christ.
And our reward at the end of our journey is our eternal life.
Let us adhere to the word of God.
Follow the lead and stay on course.
Our reward awaits us at the end of our journey.
May God bless you all.
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