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Host Introduces Human Dignity, Divine Design, And Wisdom’s Beginning
He let me work in DC, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley. And he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke and God said, let there be light. Because we believe. We speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. There's kind of a theme of, the first, segment here today, and it's a theme of all sorts of, dehumanization. I don't know that it's the normal, sort of interpretation of dehumanization. And so let's begin where it all begins, with, God's thoughts on humans. he created us in his image, male and female. He created us and he loves us. And to make 1m. To make human beings his image bearer, that's a big deal. And we would be wise to remember that. We would also be wise to remember that the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom. Why the beginning? Why do you think that the Fear of the Lord is not wisdom. I think you have to have fruits or to observe someone's fruits to know if they have wisdom. I mean, they could have knowledge. Lots of ways to have knowledge, book knowledge. But does that equal wisdom? I would contend that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Because it's one thing to fear and respect and love the Lord, and it's another thing then to put that in action.
Human Freedom And Speech Reflect God’s Love And Invite Misuse
So dehumanization. When we dehumanize people, we are delegitimizing God's design. We are denigrating it. And there's lots of ways that it's getting done. And let's examine a little bit further. God's love for humankind. And, as his image bearers, there's a lot of ways he could have created us. One of the things he could have done is made us silent. Because if we were silent, then we couldn't curse him with our tongues. James tells us that the tongue is a flame. It's the very world of inequity. It sets on fire the course of our lives and is set on fire by hell. It is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body. And he could have made us silent. We couldn't then curse him with our tongues. If we cursed him with our minds, no one else could hear it. Therefore we couldn't infect them, with our, disrespect for God. But he gave us a voice and he gave us the freedom to use that voice or the liberty, freedom within constraints. He could have given us minds that could imagine all sorts of things, except, for disobeying God. You know, there was a time, way, way back in the day where I heard my little girl once say to a friend of hers who was over, she said they were talking about trying to get away with something. And my daughter said, oh, no, no, my dad knows everything. Oh, were it so God does. And yet he, gives us this liberty to use words sometimes to share thoughts that go against Him. He gives us a mind where we can imagine all sorts of scenarios in which we just get away with something. Or maybe we lawyer our way through the Bible. Well, God said, love thy neighbor. But then again, Jesus never lived in an apartment building with the upstairs neighbors who clip and clop across the floor at 2 o' clock in the morning. So if we take this just a little bit further then and back to God's wisdom and the fear of the Lord being the beginning of wisdom, what then is the super intelligence, I would regard the super intelligence as that which has always existed and always will exist, that who didn't need us, but wanted us because he loved us before he made us and loved us afterwards. So God almighty. So when we dehumanize, we are also not just delegitimizing God's concern, God's love, God's design for us, we're also doing a little bit of fakery, fake Godism. So this is sort of a long path down to a destination before we get to segment two. And I'm going to start here. This guy is a, Silicon Valley denizen. He is a key advisor to President Trump, in regards artificial intelligence, which is not intelligent and it's certainly not superintelligent.
AI Regulation Could Enable Surveillance, Censorship, And Dehumanization
David Sacks predicted that Democrats would use AI legislation to create a surveillance state.
David Sacks So it's 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don't think you have to speculate too much to understand where it's going. I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that's turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean that's ultimately the end state. How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that the regulators give their notes on it. You can't get a model release unless you address their concerns. And, and their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID I mean, how quickly we forget all of this. They're going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI and it's going to be infinitely more powerful.
Todd Herman So they're going to go God style up and punish us for thoughts and words for which God doesn't punish us. He doesn't punish us for questioning power. He punishes us for sinning against him. And it's not even punishment, it's natural result. God says, you don't want me, you don't want to abide with me. I'm certainly not going to force you. That is your choice. You can continue in that way and there' destination if you continue in that plan and I love you and I'd rather have you not do that. But that's not what government intends to do. Government intends surveillance and control because government cannot stand this vacuum where they could control, but they're not yet doing it. And Republicans are a tiny bit better on this front. A tiny bit. And it's dehumanizing. And it's going to be machines eventually that make these decisions. For instance, Microsoft has filed a patent, ah, filed for a patent for an AI system that rewrites what people say during live streams. It does it in real time, and it in fact changes their lip movements so that viewers would be hard pressed to know that something had been changed. Now they're saying this is to, stop someone from cursing, or if they curse, you wouldn't know, or misspeaking or maybe from spreading disinformation. Now, wouldn't that be tidy to take that AI layer across all of social media so anyone speaking live time would be prevented from saying an untruth or rather misinformation. Disinformation. Wouldn't it be even better if that was done at the software operating system level? I mean, you have freedom of speech, you can speak into your camera, but what comes out won't be what you said. Good thing. They would, you know, never do that. Right. It would be dehumanizing. Keep in mind that there are technology companies who have disappeared. People's own writing. During the Cove Psyop. There were people who were writing papers about the COVID psyop and were writing reviews of research and experiments, and boom, they were gone. Entire bodies of work deleted. Why? They were disinformation or mal information, which is correct information, but inconveniently correct. That's one layer of dehumanization. And it involves technology. There's another. And the people who are pushing for AI controls and speech controls are using this second level of dehumanization as an excuse to have the first.
Online Sextortion Exploits Boys And Prompts A Faith-Based Response
Tim Tebow has a warning for, parents of boys who play sports.
Todd Herman We know the enemy is going after boys that play sports because they assume they have a platform in their school and a reputation, catfishing them, pretending to be a pretty young girl and sending them an explicit photo. And then, you know, the boys responding, believing that it's a young girl. And then once they, they send that back, they're saying, we got you now. And unfortunately, dozens and dozens of boys have now committed suicide because of it. And often within the first two hours because they don't know what to do. And they feel so ashamed. This is a huge growing issue. And actually the start of that Trend, it was more about pedophilia and the pleasure side of it. But it's actually grown to become more of the goal of individuals trying to lure a groom to gain money and truly sextort them in extortion way.
Todd Herman Now that's, done with tech. The communications between the, predators and the boys is done with tech. So you'll have people in power saying, yes, yes, yes, but give us control and we'll make sure that never happens. But it never seems to go that way because laws and regulations depend upon people participating in that. Because this presupposes that the people who are running networks like this don't have their own AIs. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What if we went back to the very beginning, to our, boys and said, God wants you to be humble. God wants you to protect weaker than you. God looks at us for how we treat the least of these. So if you, son, ever receive such a text message on technology and whether or not it's from actually a young girl, your response is immediately to delete such a sexual message or image. And if you must, write back and say, I don't participate in that, and I pray that you will pray about what you're doing and God loves you, and then block, and if they're a young person, go to a parent. Why don't we take the fear of the Lord and begin to have the wisdom to have our kids fear the Lord, which will in fact prevent more of this than technology ever will.
Prison Placement And Parental Rights Become Examples Of Dehumanization
Dehumanizing was the, theme, wasn't it? A federal jury has awarded about $150,000 to a woman who was forced to share a cell with a male sex offender, in a so called women's prison in the separate country of Washington. I remember talking to a, minister, a woman who ministered in prisons about this exact woman. Mazzie Clark, sued after, officials housed her with a man named Christopher Williams, who was a 6 foot 4 inch, convicted sex offender. And the state ignored her complaints of harassment and assault. In fact, as I recall the conversation with this minister, Mozzie was punished for speaking out. There's no men in here. What are you talking about? Your cellmate is a so called trans woman, not a man. You're lying to prison officials. Dehumanizing, delegitimizing God's design, taking the image bearers of God and making them smaller and so doing risking the wrath of God from that same separate country of Washington. There was an initiative that would, warn Parents of something. Here's how it read on the ballot, which is written by the, Attorney general's office there. A completely captured office. This initiative measures concerns, parental rights relating to their children in public school. The measure would repeal amendments to a statute listing certain rights of parents and guardians of public school children and reenact the law as it was originally enacted by the initiative to the Legislature 2081. Should this measure be enacted into law. What did that just say? Oh, here's what it actually did. It put back in place a rule that said if your kids were taking wrong sex hormones, hormones getting wrong sex surgeries, having abortions, changing their names and their supposed sex and or taking psychotropic drugs from a doctor, you had to be told that's what the initiative was asking. But the dehumanizing power brokers and fake gods of Washington state couldn't let parents actually know that. Therefore, the initiative failed. We'll come back under the apple's view.
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Russell Brand Allegations Raise Questions About Evidence And Politics
Welcome back to a Disciples view. I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower of babbling in a personal note. next, segment, we're called to be in this world and not of it. And we concentrate heavily on that. in the second segment, and I was just remembering an email I got from a brother who listens to the show and dang it, I did not mark this and I meant to respond to it today because it begins a discussion and I'd like to treat it as a bookend to a discussion about Russell Brand and I assume you know who Russell Brand is. I didn't know much about Russell Brand and I'm not trying to be rude. I had simply he'd slipped my mind and at some time ago I thought he was a very talented, funny actor. I was unaware of what his personal life was like. I guess I could have guessed entertainment and Hollywood even entertainment in Britain being very similar. It's a pretty debauched society. And so I want to get into these sexual assault charges against Bran that I do not want to get in any kind of detail other than to say he lived in a debauched way, he had no problem using women for his pleasure. And the 20 year old charges from these women, I have no idea what's true and what's not true. I don't believe the judge and the jury do. the participants probably do for sure. Ah, 20 years ago apparently he was involved in some sexual activity with some women. Completely debauched outside of God's plan. And they said yes to some things and no to some other things. And the contention is that Russell Brand kept going doing the things they didn't want done. and that was then ruled to be sexual assault. And I'm not trying to make this less bad. I'm trying to reflect upon this in terms of evidentiary weight and the evidentiary weight lacks in that there's no DNA evidence, there's no contemporaneous reporting. There's the interesting timing that Russell Brand contends to be a Christian, wrote a book about Christianity, speaks somewhat well sometimes about the faith. I have no idea if he's truly Christian or not. Good news is you and I don't have to know. And it also came at a time where Russell Brand had created a very successful online presence where he has the pharmaceutical industrial state, mass migration in the uk, the refusal of the UK to prosecute gangs of Muslim men who have sexually assaulted and trafficked up to maybe a quarter million girls. Just flat refusal to do that. He became a noted and effective critic of the state. Lastly, these women had not gone to the police, their prerogative. they apparently didn't do anything about this until the media got in touch with them and said hey, we've heard some things, want to talk about it? Then suddenly the UK that had a completely ignored the grooming and sexual assault and trafficking gangs suddenly became deeply interested in protecting women from sexual assault that happened 20 years ago.
A Personal Story Offers A Framework For Testing Spiritual Guidance
So I want to bookend this a little bit because I Think this is the primary concern I have about the Russell Brand mystery is how do Christian men respond. And I'll find this message. I promise I'll do a better job on emails this weekend. I'm going to set aside two hours and answer email from listeners. a brother wrote to me about a personal note I shared. And I was talking about hearing God's voice. And at one point God had said to me, I see you hurting. And I was, I was crying. I was in real pain and, pain in many ways of my own making. It's often the case. And I was on my knees and I wasn't praying for help for me. And I heard in my mind, I see you hurting. And I stopped. And the thing is, I didn't know what to pray. So the Holy Spirit had led me to pray the Lord's Prayer. Our Father art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I see you hurting. And I stopped and I looked around and I, looked up at a cross my wife has in our bedroom. And then I went back to pray. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. I see you hurting. And I stopped and I looked up and I felt instantly better because it had been seen. And then I heard God say, this is where you will hear my voice. And from that I took to mean on my knees, expressing honest emotion. And the brother asked me, I don't disbelieve that you heard God's voice. How did you know? Well, the fruits, patience, kindness, seeking to serve rather than be served. The peace that transcended all understanding. Suddenly I was at peace. The fact that what God said is consistent with what God has said. He said it to Philip. I saw you under the tree. The God who sees, that's biblical. That's from the story of Abram's, servant who had, they had the child that was against God's plan. And I see you hurting. I see you, said the God who sees. So I want to bookend that with an examination of how Christian men should respond to this Russell Brand event where he is now facing 10 or more years in prison, for these sexual assault charges on these 20 year old charges. And the evidence is very lacking. I'm not here to say he didn't do it. So let's begin here.
Brand’s Public Christianity Contrasts With His Past And Leaves Uncertainty
This is Russell Brand encouraging Christians to preach Jesus and not compromise.
Speaker E Yeah. What would you say to pastors who are scared to like speak out, who are trying to walk the line because they don't want to offend either side
Russell Brand There's a revival happening. This isn't the time to be frightened. This is the time to no longer deny his holiness and his greatness. So, not only is Jesus Christ real, the devil is real. And the devil has his hands on the levers of power. And we must be mindful of that. Technology changes the world real fast. There is an attempt to assert centralization when it's clear that decentralization is possible. Maximum sovereignty for the individual. We are made in his likeness. The human faces his hallmark and his signature. We must honor and revere and love one another, but we must reflect, refute, and repudiate evil wherever we find it. And the culture is steeped in it. Be bold from the pulpit. Be bold among your congregation. That's what I'd say to the pulpits, to the pastors, even though in this instance it is hypothetical. I really got into it for a minute.
Todd Herman he did get into it. And let's remember that Russell Brand is an actor and a performer. And to my eyes, a super skilled actor and performer. To my eyes, I'm, no talent agent. He was speaking at a TP USA event. Now, see, here's part of the mystery. This was after he had come out as a converted Christian, and he talked about facing baptism. And I recorded a, YouTube video, one of the few that actually did well for us on that platform that seems to just hate us. And I simply responded and said, please, Russell. Hey, welcome to the family. Praise God you're here, B. Please don't expect all your troubles to be over. And I was unaware of the sexual assault charges he was facing, but he wasn't then. Maybe that's what drove him to Christ. And maybe he heard God's voice like I did. I see you hurting. Or maybe he heard the devil's voice. Hey, time to build your army. They're coming after you. Why don't you cozy up to the conservative right? They seem to like you. Because you're talking about the pharmaceutical, industrial state and immigration. Why don't you go get some friends and raise some money with a book and get some powerful people on your side. So which is it? How do we know? Judging by his fruits, he's now a married man. Judge him by his fruits. He now speaks against the world in which he used to live. The debauched world of Hollywood. And speaking of that, speaking of that, this is from back in the day. Russell Brand, acting. He played a fictional, debauched rock star named Aldous Snow. And Aldous Snow lived a lifestyle very Similar to a lifestyle Russell Brand was living. So here's Russell Brand singing the song. This is the title of the song. I Am Jesus. In his character of Aldous Snow.
Jeff Chamblee I am Jesus welcome to the church of me True
Todd Herman believers Take a walk across the sea I've come to feed the fish Heal the world.
Todd Herman If you heard the lyrics, that. That I am Jesus effectively put your home and, hope at me Walk across the sea with me I've come to feed the fish. Ha, ha, ha. Because it was a comedy. I've come to feed the fish. So he played a debauched rock star, and was that typecasting? But that was back in the day. Maybe Russell Brand heard God's voice and God said, russell, I see you debauching Russell. I see you abusing my creation. Russell, I have better plans for you. Russell, come with me. Maybe he heard the devil's voice.
Christian Men Should Pray, Examine Fruits, And Reflect On Themselves
How does a biblically rebellious man respond to this? Maybe not at all. Maybe it's not our lane. But it is our lane because it's in the world. And people of the world are making something of this, and young people are talking about it. And I know that in my youth groups, boys have asked me, todd, what do you make of Russell Brand? Biblically rebellious men need to be able to respond to this. So I've been praying about, how do you respond to this? I think you try to take into account who Russell Brand is. Now. This is Russell Brand confessing to engaging in the practice of prostituting women.
Russell Brand I've paid for sex before. I've slept with. I will not say I've slept with prostitutes because I would not denigrate those women with that term. I prostituted them. I participated in sin. I objectified them. So keen to worship at false orders that I allowed myself and other people to be denied. Denigrated. I desecrated his code. Ah. The one word that hit me so hard in Corinthians, when Paul says to them, did you not know that your body is a temple? It's a. Did you not know that gets me. Did you not know that your body is a temple? Did no one tell you that it's sacred, that you are beautiful? You can't have known, otherwise you wouldn't live like that. You can't have known that you are loved. So loved that he would do that for you. He did that for us. Let's not carry on doing the stuff that you got nailed up there for. Did you not know that your body is a temple?
Todd Herman Again, it sounds so good and he's such a good actor in my mind. But, but, but, but wait, wait. The Apostle Paul was an effective pursuer of Christians. He was an effective killer of Christians. He had a crisp mind for the law. He. He could memorize scripture and explain it to others. And he was fearless. And God came and Jesus met him on the road to Damascus. I am Jesus, whom you are crucifying. What were the fruits of the change of Paul? Well, the ministries, the writing being shipwrecked for Jesus, held captive for Jesus beaten nearly to death for Jesus willfully going to have his life taken for Jesus, all he needed to say with Caesar, you are equal to Christ. And he wouldn't. So what do we make of this with Russell Brand that Jesus knows? Jesus already knows. Is Russell Brand sincere in his faith? Jesus knows. What's our job? Pray for Russell Brand and the women. Pray for the UK judges who suddenly have an interest in protecting girls from rape, that they'll carry that interest out in the better enforcement of the law. And then, and then, and then look at ourselves. Because when the boys asked me, what do you make of Russell Brand? I give them this answer, I don't know. I know Jesus knows. What are the fruits? What can we observe? But let's turn this around. Why are you asking him me about him? What do I make of your faith walk? M. Where have we fallen short? How do we know we're following God's word? Biblically rebellious men know God will never argue with himself. God will never deny his own word. God will never send you down a path that would deny you the ability to abide with him. God will never applaud us, acting in a way that defies biblical love, that defies the fruits of the spirit, or invites the poisoned fruits of the flesh. How do we know it's God's voice in all those ways? And if we're ever confused, we take it to mature Christian men, more mature than we. And we share it and we pray over it. And we know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Walking with the Lord as our decision maker is the implementation of wisdom. That's how biblically rebellious men treat something like Russell Brand.
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Gender Ideology Debate Centers On Biology, Hormones, And Medical Claims
Welcome back to Disciples View. I'm Todd Herman M. We'll get to the, tower of babbling in a personal note here, in just a quick moment. quick cleanup item. this is a man. It's a. It's a fascinating study of gender ideology. but what it does is it takes an actual biological marker for something. Okay. And it then applies that to a feeling a girl is having. Now, why this is so fascinating to me is if you've studied gender ideology and the lies of transgenderism at all, you know that there's nothing about it. That even if you scratch at the surface, there is no truth to any of it. So, for instance, they will intermittently claim that this is a medical issue. Okay, so here's the claim. Your child is born in the wrong body. There's no therapy for this. Talk therapy is harmful. It cannot help. Because talk therapy can't put them in the right body. Only savage surgeries and harmful hormones, hormone reversal, wrong sex hormones can help. It's a medical issue. A, medical solution. Okay, okay. So then you'd say, all right, so if there's a man who thinks he's a woman and doesn't want those hormones and doesn't want those surgeries and wants to go into showers with girls and women and force them to stand in his male presence, shouldn't he go get that medical procedure? Oh, you don't understand. No, no, no, you're not. Your sex is not determined by your physicality and your biology. Oh, no, no, no. That's. That's. But wait, hold. Wait, wait. I thought. It's called gender affirming care. You see anywhere you go, even one or two steps down, a simple series of questions, they end up getting blocked in their own lies. And I've tested this lifetime. There was a very well known hospital, and this was a private meeting. Therefore, I don't say the name of the hospital. You can guess it's probably the best known hospital, that deals with children. And we had a discussion at one point because they were asking me to stop using their name of the hospital, which I never have. I use it all the time, just not in this case, because it was a private meeting. So I sat with some of their medical professionals, and they had, in fact, brought a lawyer into the room. And I said, when they were introducing people, and this is our general counsel, and I said, okay, I'M not going to be in a meeting with your lawyer. Oh, no, he's just here to observe. No, he's not. So with all due respect, unless I can bring my own lawyer, we're not doing this. So the lawyer left and I said to one of the medical professionals, I said, look, I'll be happy, to stop talking about you guys if you'll do just one thing for me. And it is to show me one single organic marker, one biological marker. Make it a brain scan, make it a genomic indication, make it a DNA indicator, make it anything biological to show me that this is a medical situation, not a, A psychiatric condition, not a delusion. Okay. Show me that. He said, well, this is very complicated. You need to understand that. No, no. You are performing surgeries on children, giving them wrong sex hormones. That's medical. That's medicalizing. I'm a proponent of talking kids through this. Just like we talk them through eating disorders, suicidal intent. Just like we talk them through generalized body dysmorphia, which is simply hating their bodies but not tying it to gender or body integrity disorder, where they were believed they were born to have one leg and therefore they want one cut off. They said, well, I can't show you that because the science isn't advanced at that point. Okay, then I'm not going to stop criticizing you. So that brings us to the cleanup item. This 12 year old girl who was, quote, feeling like a boy on the inside, got her hormones tested and here's what they found.
Jeff Chamblee When we looked at her estrogens, we can see, here's the range. Low progesterone. This helps regulate our cycle and its cycle length. Very low. Here is our dominant estrogen. It's at 40. Look at that range. Your estrogens give us our femininity, they give us our womanhood. Her testosterone is normal. Normal. But that is all she has. Everything else is low. So by default she is going to be more testosterone dominant. Of course she's going to feel like a boy on the inside. Her hormones are male dominant. Ooh, and this one's really high. When we see this guy, really high in the urine on this Dutch task, this can create a lot of big mood swings, big emotions, anger outbursts, irritable episodes. This can actually contribute to a lot of the depression because estrogen, remember your hormones dictate your mood, how you think, how you feel, everything about your reality, your hormones control. So this guy actually being high is a very potent and powerful estrogen contributing to those mood swings.
Todd Herman Wow. You know what the gender jackers would have done, given her testosterone, more of it, and then put her on a fast track to have her body mutilated. You know what? She was actually low on female hormones. How does that happen often? environmentally, nutritionally. Often addressable through nutrition or in this case, probably hormone replacement therapy. The actual hormones she's supposed to have. There's your organic marker.
Tower Of Babbling Critiques Sports Debate And Claims About Hispanic Voters
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with our feature called the Tower of Babbling.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth at the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples view presents the Tower of Babbling.
Speaker I Hey, if you have an issue with trans women being in CIS women sports, you're either not a real athlete, because any real athlete would welcome a challenge and welcome the opportunity to show that they're better than the other person, or two year old sword loser, or just not an athlete in general. So
Todd Herman three
Todd Herman sound bites in today's Tao babbling. That's almost always the case beginning here from MsNow, which is now just rebranded MSNBC. They drove MSNBC's brand into the ground. Joe Joe Scarborough accused the GOP of brutalizing Hispanics.
Todd Herman Ted Cruz is the last person. He's the lone survivor on the island. Question is, because Republicans still don't get the fact that shooting, killing, beating, interning Hispanics hurt them in this election. Do they, do they get it inside the White House? Because it doesn't sound like they, they understand that beating up, brutalizing, interning, killing Hispanics does not help you with the Hispanic vote. I
Todd Herman wouldn't. Do you know what the number one reason the Hispanic vote went to, Democrats was? Do you want to. It wasn't immigration, it wasn't immigration reform. It wasn't the Iran war. It was the cost of living. That's what it was.
Media Fear-Mongering Claims Are Challenged Through Election Coverage
In fact, most Hispanics legally in America support immigration enforcement as ugly as the Democrats forced it to be carried out by not letting ICE operate in jails. Second SOUNDBITE in today's Tower Babbling, Allie Vitaly was on msnow and defended the media's pre election fear mongering. So
Speaker J after January 6, 2021, I do not think that we can take our democracy for granted. It's not fear mongering. It's listening to what
Speaker I the
Speaker J then outgoing, now current President of the United States said and
Jeff Chamblee did
Speaker J and reacting to that in a serious way.
Speaker I That doesn't tell people be afraid to vote. Certainly that wasn't the message that I would give to people who watched my show when I was On Ms. Now anywhere. But it's be vigilant
Speaker J about it.
Todd Herman So what they were fear mongering was that ICE was going to show up at voting locations and arrest people, that the president was going to cancel the midterms, declare an emergency, no more elections, and that form of fear mongering. But it was all okay because they're just responding to things the president didn't said according to them.
A Reporter’s Nihilism Discussion Draws Theological Criticism
Last sound bite in today's tower babbling. A NewSong York Times reporter cited James Jimmy Talarico as a cure for nihilism in this country.
Speaker K Like, what do you say to a pessimist who reads the billionaire beat and feels like it's still all a sham and rigged and we're just playing by somebody else's
Speaker L rules? Yeah, I mean, I get it. I mean ultimately, like the, the, a lot of Democrats this cycle, like James Talarico, he mentioned, talked about like up versus down versus left, as opposed to left versus right. There's, there's a sense, I mean, like amongst the very, very wealthy, even if you're far left or far right, Elon Musk or whomever, you, you benefit from the status quo in a lot of ways. The status quo is the status quo because you made it the status quo. Right?
Todd Herman Nihilism. He went on to say, what is nihilism? it's a philosophical, philosophical perspective holding that life lacks objective meaning, purpose, intrinsic value, or moral truth. James Jimmy Tallerico says that Jesus is just one dude, one way to heaven. Mary was making an argument for abortion when she agreed to carry the Lord Jesus in her body. Jesus never spoke of things like, same sex attraction and marriage. He has no opinion on such things. In other words, no objective truth, no moral perspective that matters, no intrinsic value, abortion at any cost. In other words, he is nihilistic. And that's a wrap for today's tower of babbling.
Listener’s Prayer Request Becomes A Closing Reflection On Hearing God
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon.
Speaker I Whoa. That is news
Jeff Chamblee on a disciples view.
Todd Herman On a, personal note today, I just heard from the gentleman who wrote me to ask me the question. His name is Brandon. and he asked me the question about when I heard God's voice, I had not known what to pray. I was really hurting, in a way that was probably my own making. And I was on my knees at my bedside and I was praying and I didn't know what to pray. And the Spirit led me to pray the Lord's Prayer. Our Father who art in heaven. And then I heard I see you hurting. And I stopped for a second thought, I didn't say that. I looked up at the cross my wife is placed on the wall of our bedroom. I went back to praying. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I see you hurting. Completely external to me, interrupting a prayer. I looked up at the cross, and I heard the same voice say, this is where you will hear my voice. And Jacob sent me this note saying, I don't doubt that you heard that. How did you know it was from God? And how I replied was the fruits. When I stopped myself and truly listened. The second time I heard I see you hurting, I felt instant relief from the pain. It was gone. The tears were done. It was completely consistent. I was on my knees, as I should be when I pray to God, Almighty, far more often than I am now. Yes, I have a constant conversation with God. I pray through him throughout the day, the day, pray to him throughout the day, have conversations throughout the day. I don't commonly hear his voice, but I know he's listening. But I think it's important sometimes to be reverential, to get to your knees. And at that point, man, I was just pouring out emotion. Someone who is a. I saw this guy as a marriage counselor online. I don't know how effective he is, but he had sort of a gross phrase which is holding the emotional, vomit bucket. Well, I was pouring out emotion. And that's God saying, I see you hurting is consistent with who he is, the God who sees. He told Philip, I saw you under the tree. it was consistent with how he acts. I was in pain, praying to him as the Lord Jesus taught us to pray. He didn't come in and tell me to do anything that would contradict his word. It didn't contradict his character. It delivered to me peace that transcends all understanding. And so in that way, I step back and say, that's the word of God. And Brandon wrote this and said, todd, thanks so much for your response to my question on the subject of I see you hurting. If I could use some prayer in this area, I'd really appreciate it. If the Lord brings me to your mind, I want God to speak more, and I want to hear him accurately and have the strength and faith to obey. Thank you for being an encouragement to me and letting God use you, brother. God just did it. Brandon, I didn't call you. I don't have your phone number. I didn't email you. With all due respect, brother, and all love to you, I didn't remember. Brandon, it was you who sent it. It's been on my mind. You've been on my mind. I mentioned it today, recording my podcast. Reminded myself. Oh, I need to remind. I need to respond to Brandon. I mentioned it last night at life group. Oh my gosh. You know, this guy wrote to me. It's this wonderful question. I need to respond to him because we were talking about God's voice. My friend Brandlen hears God speak a lot and she has an all going, almost 24 hour prayer ministry. Brother, he just spoke to you. I am not God or anything like it. I am so broken. But God is affirming he's hearing you. You tuned in at a time where I was answering your letter. Sometimes God speaks through other people. Sometimes he speaks through believers more mature in the faith than we are. Sometimes he speaks through his word and dreams. And today we. Brandon, he's spoken to you. What do you take from what you've learned? Where was I when I was speaking to God? Was I posing in prayer? I was pouring out ugly snot tears. Brother, trust him. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. Because we believe, we speak because he first loved us. We speak His Word. Walk in the path of Jesus to make disciples of all nations. On behalf of Randy and afr, I'm Todd Herman and this has been a, disciples view.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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Host Introduces Human Dignity, Divine Design, And Wisdom’s Beginning
He let me work in DC, let me work with EIB and Hollywood in Silicon Valley. And he's shown me through all those experiences that there is one problem and one solution. And that's why we do this show.
Jeff Chamblee Welcome to a Disciples View with Todd Herman.
Todd Herman When the God of the universe created the world, he didn't snap his fingers or wink his eye. The Lord spoke and God said, let there be light. Because we believe. We speak about the happenings in this world, mindful that our true home is with Jesus Christ and his kingdom. I'm Todd Herman. Welcome to a Disciples View. There's kind of a theme of, the first, segment here today, and it's a theme of all sorts of, dehumanization. I don't know that it's the normal, sort of interpretation of dehumanization. And so let's begin where it all begins, with, God's thoughts on humans. he created us in his image, male and female. He created us and he loves us. And to make 1m. To make human beings his image bearer, that's a big deal. And we would be wise to remember that. We would also be wise to remember that the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom. Why the beginning? Why do you think that the Fear of the Lord is not wisdom. I think you have to have fruits or to observe someone's fruits to know if they have wisdom. I mean, they could have knowledge. Lots of ways to have knowledge, book knowledge. But does that equal wisdom? I would contend that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Because it's one thing to fear and respect and love the Lord, and it's another thing then to put that in action.
Human Freedom And Speech Reflect God’s Love And Invite Misuse
So dehumanization. When we dehumanize people, we are delegitimizing God's design. We are denigrating it. And there's lots of ways that it's getting done. And let's examine a little bit further. God's love for humankind. And, as his image bearers, there's a lot of ways he could have created us. One of the things he could have done is made us silent. Because if we were silent, then we couldn't curse him with our tongues. James tells us that the tongue is a flame. It's the very world of inequity. It sets on fire the course of our lives and is set on fire by hell. It is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body. And he could have made us silent. We couldn't then curse him with our tongues. If we cursed him with our minds, no one else could hear it. Therefore we couldn't infect them, with our, disrespect for God. But he gave us a voice and he gave us the freedom to use that voice or the liberty, freedom within constraints. He could have given us minds that could imagine all sorts of things, except, for disobeying God. You know, there was a time, way, way back in the day where I heard my little girl once say to a friend of hers who was over, she said they were talking about trying to get away with something. And my daughter said, oh, no, no, my dad knows everything. Oh, were it so God does. And yet he, gives us this liberty to use words sometimes to share thoughts that go against Him. He gives us a mind where we can imagine all sorts of scenarios in which we just get away with something. Or maybe we lawyer our way through the Bible. Well, God said, love thy neighbor. But then again, Jesus never lived in an apartment building with the upstairs neighbors who clip and clop across the floor at 2 o' clock in the morning. So if we take this just a little bit further then and back to God's wisdom and the fear of the Lord being the beginning of wisdom, what then is the super intelligence, I would regard the super intelligence as that which has always existed and always will exist, that who didn't need us, but wanted us because he loved us before he made us and loved us afterwards. So God almighty. So when we dehumanize, we are also not just delegitimizing God's concern, God's love, God's design for us, we're also doing a little bit of fakery, fake Godism. So this is sort of a long path down to a destination before we get to segment two. And I'm going to start here. This guy is a, Silicon Valley denizen. He is a key advisor to President Trump, in regards artificial intelligence, which is not intelligent and it's certainly not superintelligent.
AI Regulation Could Enable Surveillance, Censorship, And Dehumanization
David Sacks predicted that Democrats would use AI legislation to create a surveillance state.
David Sacks So it's 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don't think you have to speculate too much to understand where it's going. I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that's turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean that's ultimately the end state. How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that the regulators give their notes on it. You can't get a model release unless you address their concerns. And, and their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID I mean, how quickly we forget all of this. They're going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI and it's going to be infinitely more powerful.
Todd Herman So they're going to go God style up and punish us for thoughts and words for which God doesn't punish us. He doesn't punish us for questioning power. He punishes us for sinning against him. And it's not even punishment, it's natural result. God says, you don't want me, you don't want to abide with me. I'm certainly not going to force you. That is your choice. You can continue in that way and there' destination if you continue in that plan and I love you and I'd rather have you not do that. But that's not what government intends to do. Government intends surveillance and control because government cannot stand this vacuum where they could control, but they're not yet doing it. And Republicans are a tiny bit better on this front. A tiny bit. And it's dehumanizing. And it's going to be machines eventually that make these decisions. For instance, Microsoft has filed a patent, ah, filed for a patent for an AI system that rewrites what people say during live streams. It does it in real time, and it in fact changes their lip movements so that viewers would be hard pressed to know that something had been changed. Now they're saying this is to, stop someone from cursing, or if they curse, you wouldn't know, or misspeaking or maybe from spreading disinformation. Now, wouldn't that be tidy to take that AI layer across all of social media so anyone speaking live time would be prevented from saying an untruth or rather misinformation. Disinformation. Wouldn't it be even better if that was done at the software operating system level? I mean, you have freedom of speech, you can speak into your camera, but what comes out won't be what you said. Good thing. They would, you know, never do that. Right. It would be dehumanizing. Keep in mind that there are technology companies who have disappeared. People's own writing. During the Cove Psyop. There were people who were writing papers about the COVID psyop and were writing reviews of research and experiments, and boom, they were gone. Entire bodies of work deleted. Why? They were disinformation or mal information, which is correct information, but inconveniently correct. That's one layer of dehumanization. And it involves technology. There's another. And the people who are pushing for AI controls and speech controls are using this second level of dehumanization as an excuse to have the first.
Online Sextortion Exploits Boys And Prompts A Faith-Based Response
Tim Tebow has a warning for, parents of boys who play sports.
Todd Herman We know the enemy is going after boys that play sports because they assume they have a platform in their school and a reputation, catfishing them, pretending to be a pretty young girl and sending them an explicit photo. And then, you know, the boys responding, believing that it's a young girl. And then once they, they send that back, they're saying, we got you now. And unfortunately, dozens and dozens of boys have now committed suicide because of it. And often within the first two hours because they don't know what to do. And they feel so ashamed. This is a huge growing issue. And actually the start of that Trend, it was more about pedophilia and the pleasure side of it. But it's actually grown to become more of the goal of individuals trying to lure a groom to gain money and truly sextort them in extortion way.
Todd Herman Now that's, done with tech. The communications between the, predators and the boys is done with tech. So you'll have people in power saying, yes, yes, yes, but give us control and we'll make sure that never happens. But it never seems to go that way because laws and regulations depend upon people participating in that. Because this presupposes that the people who are running networks like this don't have their own AIs. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What if we went back to the very beginning, to our, boys and said, God wants you to be humble. God wants you to protect weaker than you. God looks at us for how we treat the least of these. So if you, son, ever receive such a text message on technology and whether or not it's from actually a young girl, your response is immediately to delete such a sexual message or image. And if you must, write back and say, I don't participate in that, and I pray that you will pray about what you're doing and God loves you, and then block, and if they're a young person, go to a parent. Why don't we take the fear of the Lord and begin to have the wisdom to have our kids fear the Lord, which will in fact prevent more of this than technology ever will.
Prison Placement And Parental Rights Become Examples Of Dehumanization
Dehumanizing was the, theme, wasn't it? A federal jury has awarded about $150,000 to a woman who was forced to share a cell with a male sex offender, in a so called women's prison in the separate country of Washington. I remember talking to a, minister, a woman who ministered in prisons about this exact woman. Mazzie Clark, sued after, officials housed her with a man named Christopher Williams, who was a 6 foot 4 inch, convicted sex offender. And the state ignored her complaints of harassment and assault. In fact, as I recall the conversation with this minister, Mozzie was punished for speaking out. There's no men in here. What are you talking about? Your cellmate is a so called trans woman, not a man. You're lying to prison officials. Dehumanizing, delegitimizing God's design, taking the image bearers of God and making them smaller and so doing risking the wrath of God from that same separate country of Washington. There was an initiative that would, warn Parents of something. Here's how it read on the ballot, which is written by the, Attorney general's office there. A completely captured office. This initiative measures concerns, parental rights relating to their children in public school. The measure would repeal amendments to a statute listing certain rights of parents and guardians of public school children and reenact the law as it was originally enacted by the initiative to the Legislature 2081. Should this measure be enacted into law. What did that just say? Oh, here's what it actually did. It put back in place a rule that said if your kids were taking wrong sex hormones, hormones getting wrong sex surgeries, having abortions, changing their names and their supposed sex and or taking psychotropic drugs from a doctor, you had to be told that's what the initiative was asking. But the dehumanizing power brokers and fake gods of Washington state couldn't let parents actually know that. Therefore, the initiative failed. We'll come back under the apple's view.
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Russell Brand Allegations Raise Questions About Evidence And Politics
Welcome back to a Disciples view. I'm Todd Herman. We'll get to the tower of babbling in a personal note. next, segment, we're called to be in this world and not of it. And we concentrate heavily on that. in the second segment, and I was just remembering an email I got from a brother who listens to the show and dang it, I did not mark this and I meant to respond to it today because it begins a discussion and I'd like to treat it as a bookend to a discussion about Russell Brand and I assume you know who Russell Brand is. I didn't know much about Russell Brand and I'm not trying to be rude. I had simply he'd slipped my mind and at some time ago I thought he was a very talented, funny actor. I was unaware of what his personal life was like. I guess I could have guessed entertainment and Hollywood even entertainment in Britain being very similar. It's a pretty debauched society. And so I want to get into these sexual assault charges against Bran that I do not want to get in any kind of detail other than to say he lived in a debauched way, he had no problem using women for his pleasure. And the 20 year old charges from these women, I have no idea what's true and what's not true. I don't believe the judge and the jury do. the participants probably do for sure. Ah, 20 years ago apparently he was involved in some sexual activity with some women. Completely debauched outside of God's plan. And they said yes to some things and no to some other things. And the contention is that Russell Brand kept going doing the things they didn't want done. and that was then ruled to be sexual assault. And I'm not trying to make this less bad. I'm trying to reflect upon this in terms of evidentiary weight and the evidentiary weight lacks in that there's no DNA evidence, there's no contemporaneous reporting. There's the interesting timing that Russell Brand contends to be a Christian, wrote a book about Christianity, speaks somewhat well sometimes about the faith. I have no idea if he's truly Christian or not. Good news is you and I don't have to know. And it also came at a time where Russell Brand had created a very successful online presence where he has the pharmaceutical industrial state, mass migration in the uk, the refusal of the UK to prosecute gangs of Muslim men who have sexually assaulted and trafficked up to maybe a quarter million girls. Just flat refusal to do that. He became a noted and effective critic of the state. Lastly, these women had not gone to the police, their prerogative. they apparently didn't do anything about this until the media got in touch with them and said hey, we've heard some things, want to talk about it? Then suddenly the UK that had a completely ignored the grooming and sexual assault and trafficking gangs suddenly became deeply interested in protecting women from sexual assault that happened 20 years ago.
A Personal Story Offers A Framework For Testing Spiritual Guidance
So I want to bookend this a little bit because I Think this is the primary concern I have about the Russell Brand mystery is how do Christian men respond. And I'll find this message. I promise I'll do a better job on emails this weekend. I'm going to set aside two hours and answer email from listeners. a brother wrote to me about a personal note I shared. And I was talking about hearing God's voice. And at one point God had said to me, I see you hurting. And I was, I was crying. I was in real pain and, pain in many ways of my own making. It's often the case. And I was on my knees and I wasn't praying for help for me. And I heard in my mind, I see you hurting. And I stopped. And the thing is, I didn't know what to pray. So the Holy Spirit had led me to pray the Lord's Prayer. Our Father art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I see you hurting. And I stopped and I looked around and I, looked up at a cross my wife has in our bedroom. And then I went back to pray. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. I see you hurting. And I stopped and I looked up and I felt instantly better because it had been seen. And then I heard God say, this is where you will hear my voice. And from that I took to mean on my knees, expressing honest emotion. And the brother asked me, I don't disbelieve that you heard God's voice. How did you know? Well, the fruits, patience, kindness, seeking to serve rather than be served. The peace that transcended all understanding. Suddenly I was at peace. The fact that what God said is consistent with what God has said. He said it to Philip. I saw you under the tree. The God who sees, that's biblical. That's from the story of Abram's, servant who had, they had the child that was against God's plan. And I see you hurting. I see you, said the God who sees. So I want to bookend that with an examination of how Christian men should respond to this Russell Brand event where he is now facing 10 or more years in prison, for these sexual assault charges on these 20 year old charges. And the evidence is very lacking. I'm not here to say he didn't do it. So let's begin here.
Brand’s Public Christianity Contrasts With His Past And Leaves Uncertainty
This is Russell Brand encouraging Christians to preach Jesus and not compromise.
Speaker E Yeah. What would you say to pastors who are scared to like speak out, who are trying to walk the line because they don't want to offend either side
Russell Brand There's a revival happening. This isn't the time to be frightened. This is the time to no longer deny his holiness and his greatness. So, not only is Jesus Christ real, the devil is real. And the devil has his hands on the levers of power. And we must be mindful of that. Technology changes the world real fast. There is an attempt to assert centralization when it's clear that decentralization is possible. Maximum sovereignty for the individual. We are made in his likeness. The human faces his hallmark and his signature. We must honor and revere and love one another, but we must reflect, refute, and repudiate evil wherever we find it. And the culture is steeped in it. Be bold from the pulpit. Be bold among your congregation. That's what I'd say to the pulpits, to the pastors, even though in this instance it is hypothetical. I really got into it for a minute.
Todd Herman he did get into it. And let's remember that Russell Brand is an actor and a performer. And to my eyes, a super skilled actor and performer. To my eyes, I'm, no talent agent. He was speaking at a TP USA event. Now, see, here's part of the mystery. This was after he had come out as a converted Christian, and he talked about facing baptism. And I recorded a, YouTube video, one of the few that actually did well for us on that platform that seems to just hate us. And I simply responded and said, please, Russell. Hey, welcome to the family. Praise God you're here, B. Please don't expect all your troubles to be over. And I was unaware of the sexual assault charges he was facing, but he wasn't then. Maybe that's what drove him to Christ. And maybe he heard God's voice like I did. I see you hurting. Or maybe he heard the devil's voice. Hey, time to build your army. They're coming after you. Why don't you cozy up to the conservative right? They seem to like you. Because you're talking about the pharmaceutical, industrial state and immigration. Why don't you go get some friends and raise some money with a book and get some powerful people on your side. So which is it? How do we know? Judging by his fruits, he's now a married man. Judge him by his fruits. He now speaks against the world in which he used to live. The debauched world of Hollywood. And speaking of that, speaking of that, this is from back in the day. Russell Brand, acting. He played a fictional, debauched rock star named Aldous Snow. And Aldous Snow lived a lifestyle very Similar to a lifestyle Russell Brand was living. So here's Russell Brand singing the song. This is the title of the song. I Am Jesus. In his character of Aldous Snow.
Jeff Chamblee I am Jesus welcome to the church of me True
Todd Herman believers Take a walk across the sea I've come to feed the fish Heal the world.
Todd Herman If you heard the lyrics, that. That I am Jesus effectively put your home and, hope at me Walk across the sea with me I've come to feed the fish. Ha, ha, ha. Because it was a comedy. I've come to feed the fish. So he played a debauched rock star, and was that typecasting? But that was back in the day. Maybe Russell Brand heard God's voice and God said, russell, I see you debauching Russell. I see you abusing my creation. Russell, I have better plans for you. Russell, come with me. Maybe he heard the devil's voice.
Christian Men Should Pray, Examine Fruits, And Reflect On Themselves
How does a biblically rebellious man respond to this? Maybe not at all. Maybe it's not our lane. But it is our lane because it's in the world. And people of the world are making something of this, and young people are talking about it. And I know that in my youth groups, boys have asked me, todd, what do you make of Russell Brand? Biblically rebellious men need to be able to respond to this. So I've been praying about, how do you respond to this? I think you try to take into account who Russell Brand is. Now. This is Russell Brand confessing to engaging in the practice of prostituting women.
Russell Brand I've paid for sex before. I've slept with. I will not say I've slept with prostitutes because I would not denigrate those women with that term. I prostituted them. I participated in sin. I objectified them. So keen to worship at false orders that I allowed myself and other people to be denied. Denigrated. I desecrated his code. Ah. The one word that hit me so hard in Corinthians, when Paul says to them, did you not know that your body is a temple? It's a. Did you not know that gets me. Did you not know that your body is a temple? Did no one tell you that it's sacred, that you are beautiful? You can't have known, otherwise you wouldn't live like that. You can't have known that you are loved. So loved that he would do that for you. He did that for us. Let's not carry on doing the stuff that you got nailed up there for. Did you not know that your body is a temple?
Todd Herman Again, it sounds so good and he's such a good actor in my mind. But, but, but, but wait, wait. The Apostle Paul was an effective pursuer of Christians. He was an effective killer of Christians. He had a crisp mind for the law. He. He could memorize scripture and explain it to others. And he was fearless. And God came and Jesus met him on the road to Damascus. I am Jesus, whom you are crucifying. What were the fruits of the change of Paul? Well, the ministries, the writing being shipwrecked for Jesus, held captive for Jesus beaten nearly to death for Jesus willfully going to have his life taken for Jesus, all he needed to say with Caesar, you are equal to Christ. And he wouldn't. So what do we make of this with Russell Brand that Jesus knows? Jesus already knows. Is Russell Brand sincere in his faith? Jesus knows. What's our job? Pray for Russell Brand and the women. Pray for the UK judges who suddenly have an interest in protecting girls from rape, that they'll carry that interest out in the better enforcement of the law. And then, and then, and then look at ourselves. Because when the boys asked me, what do you make of Russell Brand? I give them this answer, I don't know. I know Jesus knows. What are the fruits? What can we observe? But let's turn this around. Why are you asking him me about him? What do I make of your faith walk? M. Where have we fallen short? How do we know we're following God's word? Biblically rebellious men know God will never argue with himself. God will never deny his own word. God will never send you down a path that would deny you the ability to abide with him. God will never applaud us, acting in a way that defies biblical love, that defies the fruits of the spirit, or invites the poisoned fruits of the flesh. How do we know it's God's voice in all those ways? And if we're ever confused, we take it to mature Christian men, more mature than we. And we share it and we pray over it. And we know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Walking with the Lord as our decision maker is the implementation of wisdom. That's how biblically rebellious men treat something like Russell Brand.
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Gender Ideology Debate Centers On Biology, Hormones, And Medical Claims
Welcome back to Disciples View. I'm Todd Herman M. We'll get to the, tower of babbling in a personal note here, in just a quick moment. quick cleanup item. this is a man. It's a. It's a fascinating study of gender ideology. but what it does is it takes an actual biological marker for something. Okay. And it then applies that to a feeling a girl is having. Now, why this is so fascinating to me is if you've studied gender ideology and the lies of transgenderism at all, you know that there's nothing about it. That even if you scratch at the surface, there is no truth to any of it. So, for instance, they will intermittently claim that this is a medical issue. Okay, so here's the claim. Your child is born in the wrong body. There's no therapy for this. Talk therapy is harmful. It cannot help. Because talk therapy can't put them in the right body. Only savage surgeries and harmful hormones, hormone reversal, wrong sex hormones can help. It's a medical issue. A, medical solution. Okay, okay. So then you'd say, all right, so if there's a man who thinks he's a woman and doesn't want those hormones and doesn't want those surgeries and wants to go into showers with girls and women and force them to stand in his male presence, shouldn't he go get that medical procedure? Oh, you don't understand. No, no, no, you're not. Your sex is not determined by your physicality and your biology. Oh, no, no, no. That's. That's. But wait, hold. Wait, wait. I thought. It's called gender affirming care. You see anywhere you go, even one or two steps down, a simple series of questions, they end up getting blocked in their own lies. And I've tested this lifetime. There was a very well known hospital, and this was a private meeting. Therefore, I don't say the name of the hospital. You can guess it's probably the best known hospital, that deals with children. And we had a discussion at one point because they were asking me to stop using their name of the hospital, which I never have. I use it all the time, just not in this case, because it was a private meeting. So I sat with some of their medical professionals, and they had, in fact, brought a lawyer into the room. And I said, when they were introducing people, and this is our general counsel, and I said, okay, I'M not going to be in a meeting with your lawyer. Oh, no, he's just here to observe. No, he's not. So with all due respect, unless I can bring my own lawyer, we're not doing this. So the lawyer left and I said to one of the medical professionals, I said, look, I'll be happy, to stop talking about you guys if you'll do just one thing for me. And it is to show me one single organic marker, one biological marker. Make it a brain scan, make it a genomic indication, make it a DNA indicator, make it anything biological to show me that this is a medical situation, not a, A psychiatric condition, not a delusion. Okay. Show me that. He said, well, this is very complicated. You need to understand that. No, no. You are performing surgeries on children, giving them wrong sex hormones. That's medical. That's medicalizing. I'm a proponent of talking kids through this. Just like we talk them through eating disorders, suicidal intent. Just like we talk them through generalized body dysmorphia, which is simply hating their bodies but not tying it to gender or body integrity disorder, where they were believed they were born to have one leg and therefore they want one cut off. They said, well, I can't show you that because the science isn't advanced at that point. Okay, then I'm not going to stop criticizing you. So that brings us to the cleanup item. This 12 year old girl who was, quote, feeling like a boy on the inside, got her hormones tested and here's what they found.
Jeff Chamblee When we looked at her estrogens, we can see, here's the range. Low progesterone. This helps regulate our cycle and its cycle length. Very low. Here is our dominant estrogen. It's at 40. Look at that range. Your estrogens give us our femininity, they give us our womanhood. Her testosterone is normal. Normal. But that is all she has. Everything else is low. So by default she is going to be more testosterone dominant. Of course she's going to feel like a boy on the inside. Her hormones are male dominant. Ooh, and this one's really high. When we see this guy, really high in the urine on this Dutch task, this can create a lot of big mood swings, big emotions, anger outbursts, irritable episodes. This can actually contribute to a lot of the depression because estrogen, remember your hormones dictate your mood, how you think, how you feel, everything about your reality, your hormones control. So this guy actually being high is a very potent and powerful estrogen contributing to those mood swings.
Todd Herman Wow. You know what the gender jackers would have done, given her testosterone, more of it, and then put her on a fast track to have her body mutilated. You know what? She was actually low on female hormones. How does that happen often? environmentally, nutritionally. Often addressable through nutrition or in this case, probably hormone replacement therapy. The actual hormones she's supposed to have. There's your organic marker.
Tower Of Babbling Critiques Sports Debate And Claims About Hispanic Voters
On this program, we thank the Lord for placing supposedly wise people on tall towers of shaking sand with our feature called the Tower of Babbling.
Jeff Chamblee You know about the biblical truth at the Tower of Babel. A, Disciples view presents the Tower of Babbling.
Speaker I Hey, if you have an issue with trans women being in CIS women sports, you're either not a real athlete, because any real athlete would welcome a challenge and welcome the opportunity to show that they're better than the other person, or two year old sword loser, or just not an athlete in general. So
Todd Herman three
Todd Herman sound bites in today's Tao babbling. That's almost always the case beginning here from MsNow, which is now just rebranded MSNBC. They drove MSNBC's brand into the ground. Joe Joe Scarborough accused the GOP of brutalizing Hispanics.
Todd Herman Ted Cruz is the last person. He's the lone survivor on the island. Question is, because Republicans still don't get the fact that shooting, killing, beating, interning Hispanics hurt them in this election. Do they, do they get it inside the White House? Because it doesn't sound like they, they understand that beating up, brutalizing, interning, killing Hispanics does not help you with the Hispanic vote. I
Todd Herman wouldn't. Do you know what the number one reason the Hispanic vote went to, Democrats was? Do you want to. It wasn't immigration, it wasn't immigration reform. It wasn't the Iran war. It was the cost of living. That's what it was.
Media Fear-Mongering Claims Are Challenged Through Election Coverage
In fact, most Hispanics legally in America support immigration enforcement as ugly as the Democrats forced it to be carried out by not letting ICE operate in jails. Second SOUNDBITE in today's Tower Babbling, Allie Vitaly was on msnow and defended the media's pre election fear mongering. So
Speaker J after January 6, 2021, I do not think that we can take our democracy for granted. It's not fear mongering. It's listening to what
Speaker I the
Speaker J then outgoing, now current President of the United States said and
Jeff Chamblee did
Speaker J and reacting to that in a serious way.
Speaker I That doesn't tell people be afraid to vote. Certainly that wasn't the message that I would give to people who watched my show when I was On Ms. Now anywhere. But it's be vigilant
Speaker J about it.
Todd Herman So what they were fear mongering was that ICE was going to show up at voting locations and arrest people, that the president was going to cancel the midterms, declare an emergency, no more elections, and that form of fear mongering. But it was all okay because they're just responding to things the president didn't said according to them.
A Reporter’s Nihilism Discussion Draws Theological Criticism
Last sound bite in today's tower babbling. A NewSong York Times reporter cited James Jimmy Talarico as a cure for nihilism in this country.
Speaker K Like, what do you say to a pessimist who reads the billionaire beat and feels like it's still all a sham and rigged and we're just playing by somebody else's
Speaker L rules? Yeah, I mean, I get it. I mean ultimately, like the, the, a lot of Democrats this cycle, like James Talarico, he mentioned, talked about like up versus down versus left, as opposed to left versus right. There's, there's a sense, I mean, like amongst the very, very wealthy, even if you're far left or far right, Elon Musk or whomever, you, you benefit from the status quo in a lot of ways. The status quo is the status quo because you made it the status quo. Right?
Todd Herman Nihilism. He went on to say, what is nihilism? it's a philosophical, philosophical perspective holding that life lacks objective meaning, purpose, intrinsic value, or moral truth. James Jimmy Tallerico says that Jesus is just one dude, one way to heaven. Mary was making an argument for abortion when she agreed to carry the Lord Jesus in her body. Jesus never spoke of things like, same sex attraction and marriage. He has no opinion on such things. In other words, no objective truth, no moral perspective that matters, no intrinsic value, abortion at any cost. In other words, he is nihilistic. And that's a wrap for today's tower of babbling.
Listener’s Prayer Request Becomes A Closing Reflection On Hearing God
Jeff Chamblee That was the Tower of Babylon.
Speaker I Whoa. That is news
Jeff Chamblee on a disciples view.
Todd Herman On a, personal note today, I just heard from the gentleman who wrote me to ask me the question. His name is Brandon. and he asked me the question about when I heard God's voice, I had not known what to pray. I was really hurting, in a way that was probably my own making. And I was on my knees at my bedside and I was praying and I didn't know what to pray. And the Spirit led me to pray the Lord's Prayer. Our Father who art in heaven. And then I heard I see you hurting. And I stopped for a second thought, I didn't say that. I looked up at the cross my wife is placed on the wall of our bedroom. I went back to praying. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I see you hurting. Completely external to me, interrupting a prayer. I looked up at the cross, and I heard the same voice say, this is where you will hear my voice. And Jacob sent me this note saying, I don't doubt that you heard that. How did you know it was from God? And how I replied was the fruits. When I stopped myself and truly listened. The second time I heard I see you hurting, I felt instant relief from the pain. It was gone. The tears were done. It was completely consistent. I was on my knees, as I should be when I pray to God, Almighty, far more often than I am now. Yes, I have a constant conversation with God. I pray through him throughout the day, the day, pray to him throughout the day, have conversations throughout the day. I don't commonly hear his voice, but I know he's listening. But I think it's important sometimes to be reverential, to get to your knees. And at that point, man, I was just pouring out emotion. Someone who is a. I saw this guy as a marriage counselor online. I don't know how effective he is, but he had sort of a gross phrase which is holding the emotional, vomit bucket. Well, I was pouring out emotion. And that's God saying, I see you hurting is consistent with who he is, the God who sees. He told Philip, I saw you under the tree. it was consistent with how he acts. I was in pain, praying to him as the Lord Jesus taught us to pray. He didn't come in and tell me to do anything that would contradict his word. It didn't contradict his character. It delivered to me peace that transcends all understanding. And so in that way, I step back and say, that's the word of God. And Brandon wrote this and said, todd, thanks so much for your response to my question on the subject of I see you hurting. If I could use some prayer in this area, I'd really appreciate it. If the Lord brings me to your mind, I want God to speak more, and I want to hear him accurately and have the strength and faith to obey. Thank you for being an encouragement to me and letting God use you, brother. God just did it. Brandon, I didn't call you. I don't have your phone number. I didn't email you. With all due respect, brother, and all love to you, I didn't remember. Brandon, it was you who sent it. It's been on my mind. You've been on my mind. I mentioned it today, recording my podcast. Reminded myself. Oh, I need to remind. I need to respond to Brandon. I mentioned it last night at life group. Oh my gosh. You know, this guy wrote to me. It's this wonderful question. I need to respond to him because we were talking about God's voice. My friend Brandlen hears God speak a lot and she has an all going, almost 24 hour prayer ministry. Brother, he just spoke to you. I am not God or anything like it. I am so broken. But God is affirming he's hearing you. You tuned in at a time where I was answering your letter. Sometimes God speaks through other people. Sometimes he speaks through believers more mature in the faith than we are. Sometimes he speaks through his word and dreams. And today we. Brandon, he's spoken to you. What do you take from what you've learned? Where was I when I was speaking to God? Was I posing in prayer? I was pouring out ugly snot tears. Brother, trust him. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God. Because we believe, we speak because he first loved us. We speak His Word. Walk in the path of Jesus to make disciples of all nations. On behalf of Randy and afr, I'm Todd Herman and this has been a, disciples view.
Jeff Chamblee The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
When does protecting people become a pretext for controlling them? In this episode of A Disciple’s View, Todd Herman reflects on the dignity of human beings as image-bearers of God—and argues that surveillance, censorship, exploitation, and the denial of biological reality all threaten that dignity. He examines concerns about government oversight of AI and speech, the use of technology to target boys through sextortion, and a Washington prison case involving a woman housed with a male sex offender.
Herman also considers the questions raised by Russell Brand’s conversion to Christianity and the sexual assault charges he faces, urging listeners to pray for everyone involved and to judge faith by its fruits rather than appearances. Along the way, he discusses gender ideology, parental rights, and the importance of testing claims against Scripture. The episode closes with a personal story about prayer, discerning God’s voice, and the peace that can come from feeling seen by God.
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