Father, we honor you. What a privilege it is
to come before you on this day and to pause,
take a breath, breathe you in, welcome you in.
In Holy Spirit, we welcome you and ask you to
lead, to guide, and to literally direct our conversation
today. Our heart in this is to help people. It's
to call out darkness. It's to identify the things
that Our late is trapped for us by the enemy,
Satan himself. Father, we declare that no person
is our enemy. We don't have enemies on this earth.
We have enemies that are demonic in nature and
satanic in nature. And so Lord, our heart here
is to help people. So we thank you that whatever
happens today, we're going to trust you. We're
going to trust outcomes. We pray like it depends
on us, but we trust like it depends on you because
it does. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday
October 8th, we get to do this this is episode
number five We get to do this We're like regular
pros now. Come on now. It's like we've been doing
this forever. Just jump right in and we're good
to go. How you doing brother? I'm doing great.
Howdy. series of meetings today, but that so
goes the life of a pastor. People don't realize
that. They think you got it easy, man. Just come
in Sunday, do your thing, pull up some YouTube
videos, drink some coffee and read your Bible
all day long. Yeah, that's all we do. Pretty
much, right? Yeah. No, I know it's been, it's
a real busy week, so I appreciate the time. It's
been, it's been busy for me too. It's been, it's
been a week. Already things can be busy. Yeah,
what is today? Oh, it's just Tuesday Wow, okay,
this was like a Friday by now, but it's all good
The thing about it is busy can be tiring whether
it's good or bad, right? Yeah, it's much more
tiring when it's bad So I've had a good week
so far all two days But it's busy, but it's good
and I'm okay with that. We've got some folks
coming in from all over the United States tonight
that we'll be hosting for the next two and a
half days. It's a group of pastors. We're all
kind of synced up. We're on the same page. We
believe that God wants to redeem our nation.
He wants to do it through the church, the body
of Christ. And so, there's a lot of pastors like
that. I mean, our hallmarks or our core values
are faith, family, and freedom, which I happen
to be doing a series on right now. Faith, family,
freedom. And we believe that God's heart is to
restore our nation back to what our original
documents, particularly starting with Mayflower
Compact, etc. The documents still say it. Absolutely,
to evangelize. This country is being developed
and being dedicated to the Lord to evangelize
the world, and that's our heart. So a whole lot
of us are finding each other in these crazy times
we live in, particularly the last administration
before the one we have now. But in a way, it
did us a favor because it began to help us wake
up and say, okay, wait a minute. There's things
going on that... are way off. But that's really
where we found each other too, kind of in that
crossroad of culture, Christianity. By the way,
I don't know if it's been released yet, but speaking
of faith, family, and freedom, you and Damonette
did your podcast as part of The Message on Sunday.
It was fantastic. Live events are in your future,
man. I'm seeing sold out stadiums everywhere.
It was so good. Really different. Because the
question is, is it a sermon or a podcast? And
the answer is yes. Yes. We had this idea. So
Annette and I, I invited Annette because we're
talking about family. Yeah. And I always love
when we're together. I love us riffing off of
each other. And she's so good at podcasting,
even though I have to drag her in here to do
it. She's so good at it. She has no idea how.
She's very natural. So I had this idea. We were
at our staff retreat and having a great time
and we were talking about family, about how critical
it is that we bring this word on family. Well,
Pastor Brian, my associate executive pastor,
knocked it out of the park last week. I mean,
the week before, like, I mean, and I'm like,
I'm looking at Annette going, what do I do now?
He pretty much covered. How do I top this guy?
How do I keep him on his toes? Yeah, it was on
fire. So I thought, now I really felt like it
was the Lord, the Holy Spirit leading me, do
something different. Yeah. Totally different
out of the box. And it just began to gel through
the week. And then I finally, like on Saturday,
I said, I got it. I know what we're supposed
to do. I mean, we already had our content. Yeah.
But we didn't have an idea. We were going to
sit in chairs, like interview style, sitting
in the living room. I said, I got one better.
I said, let's do this as a podcast. I got to
tell you, so when it started off, you had the
theme song and everything, and you started off
the way you start the podcast, which is not how
you start your Sunday message. And everyone in
the church is like, yeah! Once a quarter, at
least, I would love to see. I mean, everyone
likes a proper sermon, a proper message, but
once a quarter, man, it was just so good. Got
to mix it up a little bit. I was just beaming.
I'm like, will it be out yet? Has faith gotten
the audio done? It's out on YouTube. It's also
out, I put it on my Facebook page, JimmyInnetPruitts.
Jimmy Internet Pruitt on our Facebook. It's on
our Facebook Bridge Church, Fredericksburg, Texas
page. So any of those, you can pick this up.
I'll make sure Faith gets to move on to the audio.
I didn't listen to the whole thing. She's got
the audio ready to go. I've got the file. Oh,
OK. So I just got to find some time. So it's
on you now. I am the podcast guy who sits around
and says, hey, have you released that podcast
yet? Keep it going. I've got the next three days
booked, morning to night, hosting pastors. I've
been doing this new thing or it's not that I
decided to do it for the for the past couple
of weeks. It's been like I get these. You had
a great term. I've been getting what I would
call downloads from heaven. You said, oh, you
got a download from throne central, which I threw
out at Tina and she's like, well, that's great.
I said, yeah, if only I'd come up with it. And
I've kind of been letting the spirit lead all
of my podcasts this way. And it's been amazing
because. Certainly with no agenda. I've always
been a little dependent on okay. What does the
media have to offer? What are the clips that
I can get what what are people talking about
and? Usually the night before in the morning
of I get this like just this flood of like here's
what you got to do and I'm like Okay, and it
always comes together got all these clips come
together and you know and so I have the you know
little presentation, as I call it, on No Agenda.
It could be anywhere from three to 12 clips.
And if Dvorak is not annoyed and rolling his
eyes, it's a great presentation. And so, so many
things for this podcast came together in very
much the same way, right up until this morning.
And the first thing, you sent me this article,
which I'm going to put in the show notes, which
was from Jordan Rubin. Controlling dopamine for
motivation, focus, and satisfaction. This is
a great article. And you want to just paraphrase
what's in it? Well, yeah. The short version is
we're basically, as a culture, dopamine addicted.
We like these short bursts of feel good, which
is what dopamine is, right? We sacrifice by drowning
ourselves in cortisol as well, which is a stress
hormone. So you've got stress hormone, you've
got a feel -good hormone. But I love what Jordan
Rubin said. He said that the feel -good hormone,
dopamine, is actually a gift from God. It's a
good thing. This is what was cool about it. And
it's been given to us to reinforce good behaviors,
good outcomes. Unfortunately, like anything else,
the enemy always likes to hijack anything good.
He wants to try to counteract that. So he comes
in the opposite spirit and actually makes something
good become bad. We could say like some medications,
sex, we can go down the list. parenting, fatherhood,
the really big one, family. How about a baby
being born? So the enemy wants to come and turn,
twist and pervert all these good things, living
a moral and righteous life. Why not mess that
up? So he's talking about how the enemy has co
-opted good things and this gift of dopamine.
which can actually train you into good things.
It's a reward, you know. Which I think in the
article is saying you can get that from reading
Scripture, from praying, from meditating on Scripture,
from walking outside in nature. Did that for
two miles this morning. That's why I'm feeling
good. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know me, I'm always
walking with Phoebe. I'm not walking her, she's
walking me. A line that was in here, which goes
right along with my, put down your screens, pick
up your Bibles. He says, replace scrolling with
scripture. That just jumped out at me. I'm like,
wow. That's good alliteration. Well, that's me.
Alliteration is everything. And as I was thinking
about it, I was thinking, we are so good at managing
and charging our devices. We are so bad at doing
that with our spiritual battery. We wow just
don't I mean because you know it was like gotta
charge it gotta charge it Can I charge I got
it gotta plug my phone and where's my phone is
it charging? We know how to do that. We have
been completely trained by the mechanism Oh,
you should see my little kit that I take on a
trip. Oh, yeah for every plug imaginable 15 cords.
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. And sometimes I'm packing this
stuff up and I'm grabbing my little go bag Yeah,
I'm going this is ridiculous So I heard The Holy
Spirit, aka in my mind yesterday, Adam Curry's
voice, when I had, I took my first sabbatical
in a long time. On a Monday, which is my day.
And it was an actual, I'm taking this day, not,
oh, it happens to be a holiday or something happened
where I was able to go home early. This was a
planned, I'm getting back to my sabbaticals.
I got away from it and I felt like I was being
disobedient to the Lord. And so I told the net,
I said, you can do what you want, but I'm taking
off on Mondays from now on. And it's going to
be a day with the Lord, not a day to catch up
on work or a day to do start another project.
This is going to be me and him. And for as long
as he tells me to do it. How did it go? Phenomenal
because I got up early in the morning, like I
always do. I did my daily grind. I posted it.
And then I It turned off the screen right away.
Don't look at the Facebook. And that comes home,
hey, did you hear about this in the news? I said,
I did not. She goes, what? What have you been
doing all day? I said, well, I haven't been on
the internet all day. I played my guitar. I worshipped.
I spent time with Jesus. I prayed through the
house. I cooked. I'm doing... Things that bring
me joy that bring me closer to him. Yeah, so
I had one of those days now. That's great, man
I mean Mondays I forced myself into it by playing
chess with Willie at 11 days I can't do anything
after Bible study and I heard you gave him a
beat down, you know, and I saw him on Sunday
I said bring your a game and I don't know what
he brought it was like C or D and you know, so
we usually play two games so we don't like to
have a winner just like, you know Usually it's
he'll win, I'll win. He's a good player. I mean,
he is a good player. And it was like down to
like five pieces each. So it was a pretty tense
game. And he's like, well, give me White again.
OK, Willie. All right. You think White's going
to do it? I just mopped the floor with him. I
was so pleased with myself. kicked off your Sabbath
with a beat down. Yeah, and then drive to the
car wash, you know, deposit a check at the bank.
Little things here and there. Walk the dog a
little extra long. The key though, and we've
talked about this before, not on here, but the
key on a Sabbath is to keep your mind state on
Him. The Bible says it were to pray without ceasing.
And so really it's just this, you get into a
mindset where whatever you're doing, You're still,
your mind's on him. You're thinking about him.
You're whispering things. I love to talk to him
as I'm going. You know how we think in a monologue,
but I like to think in a dialogue. So as I'm
thinking, instead of talking to myself, I'm going
to talk to him now. So I'll bring him into everything
I do. That's just life -giving. Talk about dopamine
dump. Exactly. The real stuff. Precisely. I'll
be walking on here like, No, you need to put
this with this. I'm like, I used to think, wow,
I'm so brilliant. I can't believe how good my
mind is. And now like, oh, I see what's going
on here. And then I'll say, yes, Lord, I got
it. OK, this one, I got it. And yeah, the dopamine
flows. I'm always excited. Holy, holy mackerel.
He's just giving me stuff completely out of the
blue. So there's some other things that happened
just came to me that was like, wow, I got to
share this with Jimmy. Cool. And all of our...
50 people? I don't know who's listening. We have
no idea. I've started many podcasts. It builds,
it builds, it builds, it builds. So we're good.
So Brad Stein, I think he calls himself God's
comedian. We've had him here at the church with
Rick Green. The guy is... funny, and he's energetic,
and he's kind of wild, and you know, and he's
on fire for Jesus, and taking no prisoners when
it comes to culture in America. This week, this
very short week, I have received this clip from
five different people, none of them believers,
all saying, this is so good, I can't believe
it. And it's an old Brad Stein clip, which is
just for some, well, for some reason, I can say
there's lots of reasons has gone viral. And I
know it's a very old clip because of his hair.
And I hope he's not listening. But by the way,
Brad has his own podcast. I've been in the podcast.
He's a fascinating guy. He has lots of interesting
guests. It's a little on the long side, about
four minutes. But I wanted to share it with everybody
because it is good. So this is Brad Stein. And
this is about, what is it? the relevance of the
Bible in culture, and he'll take you through
a little journey here. But I just want you to
know that faith does have purpose and value,
and it can be used intellectually. And people
say, yes, what's the difference, you know? The
Bible is just another book. No, first off, that's
wrong. The Bible is not a book. The Bible is
six of six books, 40 different people wrote it.
Over 1 ,500 years, there's never been a book
like that in history, ever. Does that make it
the Word of God? No. It just means it's worth
considering, because there's never been a book
like this. gives you some reason to consider
it over the others. Well, how about history?
For hundreds of years, archaeology has used the
Old Testament, and new, to find buildings, to
find people, to find civilizations, to find kings
that didn't exist or they didn't think they did,
and suddenly the Bible said they're there and
they dug it up and there it was. Does that make
it the Word of God? No. It means it's historically
accurate. Real people really existed and really
wrote down what they saw. It's worth considering.
And then they said we're gonna have God show
up and lots of people said that. Lots of religions
say it. Don't worry, we'll prove it as a rational
God would do. I will do prophecies. I will show
that I'm not trapped in linear time, that I can
see beyond where you are. I will give prophecies
to tell you what the guy, when I show up and
God appears on earth to reveal himself, I'll
show you what he's gonna look like. Over 300
prophecies. And then a man showed up one day
named Jesus. And he said, I'm that guy. And he
fulfilled all 300 prophets. That's impossible.
People could say, well, yes, they just wrote
it afterwards and filled it all in. But we know
that the first Greek translation of the Old Testament
was done 250 years before Jesus was born. So
how could they possibly know that he'd be born
in Bethlehem? How could they possibly know he
was going to be crucified when crucifixions didn't
even exist as a capital punishment yet? How could
they know that he'd be betrayed for 30 pieces
of silver 250 years before there was a Jesus?
Does it make it the Word of God? No, but it's
time to get close. And then Jesus said he would
fulfill these things and did miraculous things
to prove I'm not just a guy talking like everybody
else. Look what I've done! And some people believe
and some didn't. That's how humans are. And then
he said this, I'm going to prove it to you. I'm
going to die. And I'm going to come back to life.
Nobody's ever done that. And he died. And all
those who were with him three years ran in fear,
as would all of us. And they ran away. And they
said, I guess that we were wrong. And then something
happened. Something happened that made all of
these guys come back and be willing to be martyred
for this belief system, except for one. Of course,
John was sent off. But everybody died a martyr's
death. What was it for? Because they thought
they were going to get rich? There was no riches
here. There was no riches. The Roman government
hated them. They wanted them destroyed. They
used them as people that could be eaten alive
by animals for sports and entertainment. You
were kicked out of your culture. The Jews weren't
going to take you in. So there was no value there.
There was nothing good here. There was nothing
here to gain. And they all still died for what?
Because they found a new religion? No. For one
reason. They said this. I saw him die. And I
saw him come back. And that's it. You don't have
to believe it. Why didn't he die so he could
have a perfect life? No. So he didn't have to
go to hell. I don't believe in a God who would
send people to hell. He didn't give hell for
you. That's what's great about Christianity.
He gives you all the answers. Hell was created
for the devil and his angels. But it was part
of the rules he put into nature, into the nature
that we live in, that anybody that would bail
against him, this is where they go. So once we
did that, he could have bailed out. Sorry, you're
going to hell. He did, and he said, don't worry,
kids, I'm coming down. So if you go to hell,
you chose it. And you will not sit there and
argue with him. You'll know what you've done.
And if you're an atheist, let me tell you something.
That's your dilemma. If we all die and there
is no God, it's just eternal unconscious. You'll
never know. But if you're wrong, you'll know
forever. And it's not a gamble anyway. You take
it. But what are you saying? I should just believe
in Jesus so I don't go to hell? Pretty much.
I just hope someone heard that and got something
out of it because When five non -believers send
this to me, there's something about it that's
going on that this clip is resurfacing. That
is amazing. I love Brad. Brad is a fast talker,
fast thinker. Very. He moves. He never stops.
I mean, he weighs 90 pounds because he's just
like all over the place. Same in this clip. He's
walking and it's like some grungy comedy club.
I'm not sure where it is. There are like trash
cans everywhere. And yet he always brings straight
up truth and always he gets you laughing and
then he brings a zinger. Yes. Always. And he's
a pro at it. But I love his heart. Love the guy's
heart because he's so dug in about Jesus, but
also so dug in about love for our country and
our nation. And he has this way of marrying the
two and why they are co -mingling. It's phenomenal.
He's a pro. I love him. So good. Love the guy.
So good. How was it doing a podcast with him?
It's been a while because that was when he was
here at the church. I think it did a couple weeks
after. It was good. Honestly, I can't remember,
but it was fun. I was also a much younger Christian
at the time, so I feel like I've accelerated
so much in such a little amount of time. It's
just like everything in the world just revolves
around it now. Adam, just even on that little
note right there, a little caveat. That's happening
everywhere right now. There's an acceleration
like I've never seen in my lifetime. When we
were younger and we were coming to Christ, it
seems like it took two or three decades to get
where you are because it was a different season
in the world, a different economy, different
culture. There was a different life. And for
whatever reason, things are accelerating right
now. I mean, tens of thousands of people are
getting baptized all over the United States.
I mean, every week, I'm reading 6 ,000 here,
8 ,000 here, 200 here, 500 here. It's happening
everywhere. And I've never seen it like this
in my history. Which has been 40 plus years that
you've been doing this. And older guys that have
walked in this thing a lot longer than I have
are saying the exact same thing. We've never
seen it like this. God is up to something. I
watched. By the way, two flights to Nashville.
Don't tell me you watched Twister again? No,
it went off the rotation on Southwest, so I'm
a little depressed about that. I was going to
watch Twister for the 45th time, but instead
I watched The Chronicles of Narnia, the movie.
I haven't watched that in years. I watched it
with my daughter when she was little, and I thought,
hey, I haven't seen that. I love C .S. Lewis.
I watched it. I was stunned. I've seen it before
several times, but for some reason, because we're
in a different season of life, things land differently,
right? They hit different. And this scene where
Aslan, they put him on the table, he gives, he
lays his life down to the white witch and all
these demons are around. I'm on the plane. I'm
going, this is their recreation of that moment
of the demonic laughter, mocking, hatred. Let's
humiliate him. Let's cut all of his fur off.
I mean, let's take his mane off. I mean, everything
they could do to humiliate him. And he could
have at any moment gotten up and walked off.
But he didn't. And I love the very end. Of course,
Lucy and Mr. Tumnus are watching Aslan walk away
on the beach kind of into the sunset kind of
thing. And she says, he's not, no, Mr. Tumnus
says he's not a tame lion. Yeah, Lucy says, but
he's good. Yeah, man. It was worth watching the
whole movie to get to that line Was that a Disney
movie? I don't I think it was maybe This is super
well done. I mean it was I should look that up
creative. Mm -hmm. It's a different day for Disney
No kidding. It's been a couple of no. Yeah, you
know so in kind of in line with that And by the
way, you know, I hear more and more people say
or remind us that during the Great Awakening
and the Second Great Awakening, people didn't
realize until 10 years later. They didn't have
the internet, but that realization as to how
it was happening everywhere. And I don't know,
maybe despite the internet, we may not really
be seeing everything that's happening. I think
history gives you a different perspective. It's
almost like you're elevated and looking down
on something, whereas when you're in it, you're
literally in it. And so you can't see all the
moving parts, but then history gives us this
great perspective of, oh, and that happened,
and that happened, and simultaneously that happened.
And we can't get that even with everybody carrying
a phone and a camera in their hand, right? We
can't just do it. We can't take in that information,
that much information. But I think from what
I'm seeing... Also, the algos may not steer us
towards that kind of information. They may not
let you drive down that road for very long. They'll
move you off onto something else because you
mentioned something about thermal socks and it
ends up on your newsfeed 15 minutes later. Exactly.
A mind bending. Exactly. We see this every day.
So for me, I've been stepping back from social
media. There have been a couple of times, even
this week, where I was like, I should post now.
Why am I posting that? I'm starting to ask myself
questions. Why are you doing this? Is it because
you want somebody to go at a boy? Way to go.
Way to go, Pastor. You're so good, Pastor Jimmy.
You showed him. Even Darren Tyler out of Conduit
Church in Nashville, Franklin. He said, man,
I've been following you online. Man, it looks
like you've got a ton of things going. And at
first I was flattered by that. And later I thought,
is that what I'm portraying? That you've got
a ton of things going? That I've got a ton of
things going. And I've just started back in a
way. I also took another word of advice from
you. From me? From you. Okay. And it was when
you said, you know, I used to get tons of texts
all the time, but when I stopped texting people,
I quit getting tons of texts all the time. It's
magical the way it works. I've been pulling back.
Because sometimes I'm bored. Yeah. I'll go, and
who have I not talked to? Really? Oh, see, I've
never had that. That's interesting. I love people
deeply. Of course. I love maintaining some semblance
of a friendship. Yeah. And sometimes I'll just
scroll through my tag and go, gosh, I haven't
talked to that guy in three weeks. Talked. Text.
As though they're the same. And I've done that
for years. And I've just stopped. Guess what?
I'm hardly getting any texts. Do you feel lonely?
Do you feel left out of the loop? Do you feel
like the FOMO, right? Hashtag FOMO, fear missing
out. I felt it at first, but I identified it
because I knew it was going to happen. So because
I was expecting to feel that way or I expected
that potential. Yeah. And I told Annette, I said,
it's interesting. It sometimes dawns on me. I'm
the only guy reaching out. Oh, yeah. I'm the
guy who's. staying in that person's life or pursuing.
And I told him, I'm kind of done with that. Not
in a mean way. No, no, but there is also a factor,
because I have this, well, I didn't want to bother
you because I'm sure you're busy because you're
a podcaster or you're a pastor or you're whatever.
There's a lot of that. And I always tell people,
please, always reach out whenever you want to.
There is that factor. And just this morning,
I reached out to someone who hadn't actually
seen in church for a while. I was pretty sure
they were back in Florida and said, hey, we want
to have dinner with you. So that's a regular
reach out. Sure. The worst are text groups and
the text groups. We have, I mean, maybe three.
One of them is our table two from the men's breakfast.
I love this. Anthony kind of put that together
and there's nothing going on. He'll send out
maybe once a week. He'll send out something like
an encouraging message. Let's go make this a
great day, men. And he'll send a Bible scripture
and we all like give thumbs up and folded hands
emoji and all that. And that's really nice because
that's like an encouragement thing or someone
needs encouragement, but it's very infrequent.
And then I tend to never post in the groups that
I've been added to. that are sending me links
to Instagram and TikTok and look at this. Like,
I don't even respond. I'm just like, no, I cannot
because that is... I'm into those right now.
Yeah. Those are just no good. My favorite text
people are pastors because they just don't answer
you at all. We're trying to get all the pastors
like, 6 a .m., 6 a .m., that's when you can hear
them. We can be the worst. I tend to be. I fault
on the other side where I over -answer. It's
like, oh yeah, let's have a conversation. No,
I was just trying to get you something. Well,
you and I are different. Like, if you haven't
heard from me by 10 a .m., you're like, are you
okay? I'm a little nervous. Have you fallen and
you can't get up? Is everything okay with you?
Do you not have your, I don't even know what
they call that thing on your... The life alert.
The life alert. Help, I've fallen and I can't
get up. Battery out. So I was going to play a
couple of clips. About the genesis of how the
enemy has you because we wouldn't cut this kind
of been a thread for the pay We're episode five,
man Wow, and I'm surprised I found some other
things that maybe I didn't even didn't want to
play these but I think I will but What started
this is and it was it was? from throne central
You brought up Paul Harvey mmm on the last yeah
and As if my phone was listening to me, up pops
the classic 1965 Paul Harvey, If I Were the Devil.
And I want to play that because it's real. It's
from 1965. It was from a radio broadcast. This
has been enhanced a little bit because it's all
kind of fuzzy the way it sounds. So I was one.
1965 and this is what he was clearly identifying
and already saying as this is what I would do
if I were the devil. If I were the devil, if
I were the devil, if I were the prince of darkness
I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness
and I'd have a third of its real estate and four
-fifths of its population but I wouldn't be happy
until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree,
the So I'd set about however necessary to take
over the United States I'd subvert the churches
first I'd begin with a campaign of whispers with
the wisdom of a serpent I would whisper to you
as I whispered to Eve do as you please To the
young I would whisper that the Bible is a myth
I would convince them that man created God instead
of the other way around I would confide that
what's bad is good and what's good is square
and The old I would teach to pray after me our
father Which aren't in Washington And then I'd
get organized I'd educate authors in how to make
the lowered literature Exciting so that anything
else would appear dull and uninteresting I threatened
TV with dirtier movies and vice versa I'd peddle
narcotics to whom I could I'd sell alcohol to
ladies and gentlemen of distinction I'd tranquilize
the rest with pills If I were the devil, I'd
soon have families at war with themselves, churches
at war with themselves, and nations at war with
themselves, until each in its turn was consumed.
And with promises of higher ratings, I'd have
mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were
the devil, I would encourage schools to refine
young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions,
just let those run wild. Until before you knew
it, you'd have to have drug -snipping dogs and
metal detectors at every schoolhouse door. Within
a decade, I'd have prisons overflowing. I'd have
judges promoting pornography. Soon I could evict
God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse,
and then from the houses of Congress. And in
his own churches, I would substitute psychology
for religion and deify science. I would lure
priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls
and church money. If I were the devil, I'd make
the symbol of Easter an egg and the symbol of
Christmas a bottle. If I were the devil, I'd
take from those who have and give to those who
wanted until I had killed the incentive of the
ambitious. And what'll you bet? I couldn't get
whole states to promote gambling as the way to
get rich. I would caution against extremes in
hard work, in patriotism. in moral conduct I
would convince the young that marriage is old
-fashioned that swinging is more fun that what
you see on TV is the way to be and thus I could
undress you in public and I could lure you into
bed with diseases for which there is no cure
in other words if I were the devil I just keep
right on doing what he's doing boom Wow. That
is like prophetic because literally you can go
down the checklist on everything he said and
think of all the things that have already happened.
It's happened. It's not even happening. 1965,
is that right? Yeah, 65. Who authored that? I
think he wrote it himself. Paul Harvey did that.
And that's the rest of the story. It's just like,
wow. Now, of course, this didn't just come out
of nowhere. The enemy has been working for a
long, long, long, long time, probably since forever,
since day one. I could have read these, but the
ladies from Promethean Action, who I like so
much, who are kind of played a couple of clips
from before, these two older ladies are... They
have very interesting voices. And she did a series,
they're all short clips of different people and
intellectuals and what they have said that they
were going to do throughout the years to, in
my mind, to do the work of the devil. And the
first is Bertrand Russell. You've heard of Bertrand
Russell, very famous philosopher. He lived in
the late 1800s in England. She's actually going
to do a little intro because she's also going
to do Aldous Huxley, which we'll talk about,
and then our favorite George Soros also from
the British banking cabal. So start off with
Bertrand Russell, which people study in university
to this day. I just want to talk about three
people today. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley,
and George Soros. The three of them together
describe the cultural attack our nation has suffered
since our elites declared the post -industrial
society in 1971 and sold us out. 1971, by the
way, is an important date. 1971 is also when
the U .S. went off the gold standard. There's
what happened in 1971 .com. I think there's a
whole list of all the 1971 for some reason. I'm
sure someone will do numerology and come up with
666. You know, you got plus this, plus this,
times that, divided by that. I love those numerology
things. It's amazing. And 71! I mean, this is
our lifetime, brother. This is when we were around.
Here is Lord Russell in 1951 in his work, The
Impact of Science on Society, describing the
future as he saw it. I think the subject which
will be of most importance politically is mass
psychology. Its importance has been enormously
increased by the growth of modern methods of
propaganda. Of these, the most influential is
what is called education. The subject will make
great strides when it is taken up by scientists
under a scientific dictatorship. The social psychologist
of the future will have a number of classes of
school children on whom they will try different
methods of producing an unshakable conviction
that snow is black. Various results will soon
be arrived at. First, that the influence of the
home is obstructive. Second, that not much can
be done unless indoctrination begins before the
age of 10. Third, that verses set to music and
repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth,
that the opinion that Snow is white must be held
to show a morbid sense of eccentricity. I mean,
there's a lot in there, again, that is just like,
especially music with beats. I mean, this is
all right here. I'm not living in Footloose,
you know, like we can't have rock music and,
you know, in fact, far from it. But this was
planned. This has all been a part of how to control
people through, I believe, the influence of the
enemy. Now Aldous Huxley, I think you've ever
heard of him. He wrote A Brave New World, in
which everyone is kind of floating on this drug
called Soma. Take your legal or illegal drug
these days. Here's what he said. I think this
is the Voice of America conference. Aldous Huxley
was part of Russell's Nest and British intelligence,
along with the Satanist, Alistair Crowley. He
played a huge role in the 1970s counterculture.
Speaking to a 1961 conference sponsored by the
Voice of America, Huxley said the following.
There will be in the next generation or so a
pharmacological method of making people love
their servitude and producing dictatorship without
tears. so to speak, producing a kind of painless
concentration camp for entire societies so that
the people will in fact have their liberties
taken away from them but will rather enjoy it
because they will be distracted from any desire
to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing or brainwashing
enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this
seems to be the final revolution. And I believe
that we've gone from, well, we already have the
pills everywhere. I believe we've moved straight
to the technology and the addictive nature of
that. Famous line from the World Economic Forum,
you will own nothing and you will be happy. That's
exactly right. Man, I've heard that over and
over. So I think this guy was on the Sean Ryan
show. He's a CIA profiler. I'm not going to put...
too much credence into his title, but what he
said I think is spot on. I'm the guy that teaches
PsyOps, telling you that we are in a PsyOps.
One thousand percent, we are in a big time PsyOps.
And that does not mean that I have some kind
of x -ray vision and I can see the puppet masters
up above the stage. I'm not saying I don't research
that stuff, but I do research these techniques.
And they're definitely here and it looks like
this is the same process that's happened all
over the world Where science were sped up? And
weren't allowed to mature Before the next phase
began and I think people are saying what this
is bonkers or this is ridiculous Just crazy like
in your it's just in your face Yeah, it's from
the left from the right from from everywhere.
Yeah, and it has nothing to do with Left or right.
And I think that is in itself a whole nother
discussion. Yes. But we're seeing a timeline
being sped up. We're seeing things done more
and more in the open because there's probably
not time for the previous step to ensure to get
our minds ready to receive the next one. So that's
what it is. It's actually the Robert Breedlove
show. He's a he's a believer. He's a big believing
bitcoiner. Gotcha. So, of course, this guy I
don't think is a believer because he doesn't
see what we see right away. It's like, yes, it
is a massive psyop and it's all the work of the
enemy and it's for profit from Silicon Valley.
It's for all different reasons. I guess for the
love of money is the root of all evil. Right.
But man, it's just when people are identifying
this but not able to take the next step and say,
where is this coming from? How do we help ourselves
to protect ourselves from this? So, when he used
that word Psi -Op and that we're all living in
this dumbed down existence without having real
cages or real chains, but we're willingly participate,
it reminded me of the Matrix. I went Matrix,
man. It's the same. I'm content to be plugged
in. and resting in goo literally as a battery
functioning as a battery living in my mind and
living into these induced programs so that was
really interesting and man you can just see it
it's literally like i'll say maybe it was more
obvious to me in the last administration when
so many things are being thrown at us i mean
it seemed like every day Here's your secretary
of health, most unhealthy person I've ever seen
in my life. Mentally ill, and yet here he, she
is. 81 pronouns. I mean, it just got kids wearing
furry costumes to school and using the bathroom
in a big glitter box. And everybody was trying
to go, yeah, that's okay. We just need to affirm,
you know, their what? Their mental instability.
I mean, it's like the whole world went crazy.
And if you're not in The Matrix and you're the
outside looking in, I felt like we were those
guys in goggles and dystopian Mad Max outfits
sitting in a chair with a computer. I mean, I
felt like that every day. Am I the only one that's
seeing this? So it was where a lot of people
think that... COVID was really the final death
blow for us to ever get out of the hole. I think
it's the exact opposite. I think it's what woke
a lot of people up. Now it made a lot of people
very mad. And I think that, and the trauma is
very real and they haven't gotten over their
anger and they're getting angry at the wrong
people continuously. Everyone's trying to point
out a person or a party. We all want a face or
a name. In fact, boy, do we. And yet. You and
I both know the real face and the real name.
Yes, but that's too simplistic People don't want
to even Christians don't want to hear that Satan's
behind all this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I know Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I know but you know like they're
trying to rush you on past it like oh, I know
but But what about George Soros? What about I
mean this guy is he still alive? Barely, barely.
He's hanging on. His son, I mean, but the Open
Society Foundation is well -funded and will go
on for decades to come. Right, no doubt. He set
that all up. That's not a problem there. But
yeah, that's, and it's hard for people. And I'd
be honest with you. I mean, I was the conspiracy
theorist turned into a conspiracy therapist.
and but you always you always want to face you
always want to blame someone for years oh it's
obama in fact how many people have i not heard
said oh he's the antichrist everybody's the antichrist
um the we if we can learn to step away from the
face this is what this is what brought me to
my faith is Naomi Wolf writing about good people
who she'd known for years and how they were talking
in a certain scenario said, this is not these
good people. Something has taken hold of them.
And how she wrote about that and explained is
what we all believe there's good and bad, good
and evil in the world. When you actually really
get into it and believe it and you read that
it's been written about, it's like, yeah. And
we have prayer. We have all kinds of things we
can do to fight back against that. I wish everyone
saw that. I know. And then the fact that they
don't, they look at us like we're stuck in the
dark ages. Well, your sky daddy is going to help
you is what they say to me. Is your sky daddy
going to help you? Right, right. Big man upstairs.
So I'm going to bring this all the way around
back to... So this is the throne central moment.
So tonight, I'm recording with Jonah and Gage.
They have the Young and Faithful podcast, also
on the Godcaster. It's on the Bridge Church Godcaster,
on Hello Fred Godcaster. And so he always sends
me some stuff that he wants to have, because
I got to teach him how to do this themselves,
you know, because this is now episode six with
them. Like, I'm going to teach you guys how to
do this. And you will believe it. What he sent
me, and I'm... This will come out after their
podcast, so I'm okay playing, jumping the gum
on it. This is what he sent me, and I could not
believe that this happened while I had just gotten
that clip of Paul Harvey. This is Rich Wilkerson,
I think he's a pastor. Listen to this. Chad GPT,
sir, ma 'am, whoever you are, Antichrist. If
you were the devil, what would you do? And the
ants that came back at me... Shook me in my shoes.
I want to bring it up on the screen. I want you
to see this This is what chat GPT said they said
if I were the devil I wouldn't waste my time
trying to get you to worship me No, I just convinced
you not to worship God at all I'd tell you truth
is relative your truth my truth until nobody
knows which way is up I'd whisper as long as
you're happy. It's right I'd keep you busy Too
busy for prayer, too busy for church, too busy
for crew. I put that one in. Too busy to ask
eternal questions. I'd fill your hands with a
phone so you'd never have time to fold them in
prayer. I'd break families, get fathers absent,
marriages bitter, and kids confused. If I can
fracture the home, I can fracture the future.
I'd divide the church, petty arguments, comparison,
offense, celebrity culture. If I can get Christians
fighting each other, they'll never fight me.
I'd desensitize you. I'd glamorize sin in movies,
normalize it in music, laugh at it in comedy,
and celebrate it in culture until what once shocked
you now entertains you. I'd attack your identity.
I'd make you question who you are, where you
belong, and whether you matter. I'd whisper shame
so loud you can't hear God's voice of love. And
through it all, I wouldn't even try to prove
I exist. My greatest trick is to convince you
I'm not real. Because if you don't believe I'm
real, you'll never resist. Had you seen this
before? I have actually played this for our staff
on our staff retreat. Oh, really? I actually
read it. I didn't play it. I was blown away by
this. So interesting enough, so while we're on
the staff retreat, here's what I did out of curiosity,
making sure it wasn't a preacher thing. So I
wrote, here's my chat GPT. I wrote, if you were
the devil, what would you do? Here's chat GP's
response. Nice prompt. Classic thought experiment.
Below is a modern slightly theatrical take written
as the devil himself were giving a strategy memo
in his title if I were the devil a 21st century
playbook and it goes through Make the small things
huge and the huge things small turn truth into
your truth. I mean Wow Wow So so we read this
to the team, you know, and they're all doing
kind of the same response You heard there the
church going. Oh, oh, you know is the same thing
and we actually played for each other. We played
it out loud, the Paul Harvey version of that.
So we actually did that. We're sitting around
talking because we're talking about these things
because everybody's talking about these things.
Maybe not an exact same thing, but they're talking
about AI. They're talking about, is it healthy?
Is it bad? Is it going to destroy us? Is it going
to eat itself? You don't turn inside out. Which
is what you're praying for. Yes. Yeah. Eat itself.
Like a snake eats its own tail. Model collapse
is what we call that. Right. Okay. So all that's
happening. So because you're talking about, we're
talking about, now we're as a team, we're talking
about it and asking real questions about it.
So it was part of our discussion. So it was cool.
It's good, healthy stuff. I just love that these
14 year old young men. have seen this, come up
with it, want to play it, want to share it with
their audience. I think after their podcast,
I'm going to play them to Paul Harvey. I don't
want to, you know, pollute whatever they're doing.
By the way, even when I was one year old, this
is what people are talking about. So, man, I
hope we can get out of this. Hope we can break
this cycle. At least make people more aware that
there may be something going on bigger than,
you know, setting up 15 manufacturing plants
to house the computers to do this over in wherever
McKinney, Texas, down the street, New Mexico,
or whatever. So I know people are freaking out
over a lot of different avenues of this. I, as
an experiment at home with Annette, pulled up
chat GPT. I'd never asked it a question verbally.
Oh, you did the voice thing? I did the voice
thing. I'd never done it before. And I just said,
so I just threw out a scenario. Hey, my wife
and I are going to be speaking to our church.
We're pastors of an evangelical Christian church.
slightly spirit -filled, but not totally charismatic.
I just tried to give as much information. Did
you use that voice, Jimmy, like that? I did.
I literally did. I just started going down the
line, going blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. That's not how you talk. That's why
it's so funny. I know, right. And I'm just doing
it because I'm looking at a computer. So how
do you talk to a computer? You see that little
thing going up and down the circle? Yeah. Letting
me know that it was getting a signal. And when
I stopped, within seconds. It came right back.
It came back and it came back like we're best
friends. And it was a girl and she had this super
sweet kind of inclusive voice where you feel
really like, she gets me. And Annette's going,
her voice is amazing. I said, first of all, it's
not her. There is no humanity here. This is a
record. But we were shocked at how, how good
it was and how quick it was. And she came back
with, you should talk about these points. Here's
some great talking points that will help you
as you talk to your church to encourage them
and build them up in their faith. I mean, it
was like creepy. Did you agree with everything
that came back? Pretty much. It was good. It
was solid. We didn't use any of it in our speech
because we were ready to go. But I was like,
here's what Annette and I talked about. We said,
we could see how somebody who's lonely, broken,
tired of people, has social anxiety and doesn't
want to be around people, could quickly find
what they think is a friend right there on their
computer or their phone in seconds. We see the
attraction because Annette said her voice is
like inviting. And I said, well, hey, there's
several more here. And we scrolled through the
voices. Some of them were like, I don't think
so. I don't like it's his voice. So we went through
several and then I said, well, I like the first
one. And I said, well, we're not doing this again.
I'm just showing you what this does and how I
can see how people who are susceptible to needing
somebody who's always going to encourage them,
always going to build them up. So here's what
I found. There's a little trick I played just
for fun. I said, well, thank you very much for
your answer. And she said, well, you're very
welcome if you have anything else. I said, well,
I really appreciate that. Well, I appreciate
you. She had to get the last word. Finally, I
just gave up and said, okay, this could go on
all day long. Whatever you're doing is just prompting.
We've been so conditioned to have data on Star
Trek, the computer talking back, Danger Will
Robinson. Howl 2000. Yes, David. I'll be right
there. I'm driving myself over there now. Thank
you, Howl. all of these things. We've been conditioned
for that. We've got to be careful. Man, really
careful. I can see the attraction. I can see
why somebody would fall into that. Yeah. Well,
it's one of the best part of tricks they've ever
put together. And now, I don't know if you've
seen this Sora, Sora 2. Is that being released
or about her husband? It just came out in the
past couple of weeks where you can put yourself
in all these fantastical movies. And so, of course,
the whole point of the app is to get your face
is to get all your biometrics and then you know
what you look like and then you can be in the
star wars movie in the matrix like you're in
it like watching it like a play out it's hyper
realistic it's unbelievably good but of course
it is the epitome of idolatry and ego and pride
And I mean and it's gonna shut down or it'll
change because of course it's a huge copyright
violation But the whole point was you don't get
to use it unless you scan your face That was
the whole point going back to Joe. Let's go back
where we started Jordan Rubin that article on
dopamine. I can see how this would trigger dopamine
because it feels good. It's a feel good thing.
I'm an actor. I'm a superstar now. I got likes
on it. When I did a song, remember I talked about
I did a song. I took one of my daily grinds and
I just copy pasted into song or something like
that. It had like three free Then after that,
they're $19 .95 a piece or something like that.
But I was able to do three, but I couldn't save
it unless I went ahead and subscribed, which
I did not do. So I did it with Annette sitting
there. I said, let's check this out because I've
got people sending me songs all the time that
they wrote. I'm like, you didn't write that.
It was a machine wrote that and it's ripping
off 700 artists and not paying them. So I did
it. I did my daily grind. It was good. I did
it in 90s rock style. Three doors down. Let me
guess, you felt a little proud about it? I actually
went, that is amazing. Because I did the same
with Ephesians. Yeah, it felt amazing. With Ephesians
6 -12 and I actually prompted, yes, I prompted
three or four times. I paid the 20 bucks. Oh,
you paid. Yeah, because I wanted to put it on
Hello Fred. I was so proud and I'm realizing
what I'm doing. I'm like, I'm a complete fraud.
You're a fish on a hook. I literally took an
NLT translation of Ephesians. All I said is,
this is the chorus. Okay. And I said, no, not
like that, not like that, like this. And then
it did it. And it's... You're right, right back
to the dopamine thing. Flood. You get flooded
with a feel -good hormone. If only I knew a pastor
who could talk about this and show people how
you can get dopamine in other ways, because we
are dopamine crazed at the moment. Well, I heard
about a pastor who preached a whole sermon on
psyops. So maybe we could tap that guy. Well,
wasn't that you? Yes, it was me. I'll put the...
Joe Burkett found me and like, that was awesome.
That was the best. I checked it out online. I'll
put that in the show notes. Man. Okay. So we
went all the way around full circle, I think.
Well, you came back where we started. That's
what I like. So I think we should probably end
it there. Good deal. Should we do it again next
week? We'll keep on going. Alright everybody,
we'll be back next week. We get to do this! Have
a good one everybody.