Father, thank you for the privilege and the opportunity
to come together today and talk about what's
going on in our world, Father, with and through
a biblical worldview. That's our heart. Father,
for those that will be listening today, we pray
for them. Their hearts will be receptive. Their
ears will be open. And Father, that we will be
open to the truth and that we will be seekers
of truth. And I thank you that Your Word tells
us that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth
who leads us and guides us into all truth. And
so we lean in that today. And Father, we celebrate
the fact that we get to do this in Jesus' name.
Amen. Amen. It's Wednesday, January 14th, 2026.
We get to do this. This is episode number 18.
We get to do this. Well, hello, brother. Hey,
we get to do this. We do. Listeners, you tuned
into the right podcast today. This is the one
you want to hear. Everything is going on today.
It's amazing. It's all good. We're here to lift
you up and encourage you and just put some lift
under your wings. You know, yesterday I had a
big seminar, I'm sorry, my least favorite word
in the dictionary, a webinar, a webinar. for
Godcaster stations and churches. And I sometimes
get really keyed up about this stuff. It's just
like, you know, I've got to do this whole thing.
It's 45 minutes and it's just me. I'm doing live
demos. And so we set up and we can't get anything
to work. Like the video is not full screen. Okay,
we got all that fixed and the clock is ticking.
And now it's five minutes to show time. everything's
working except any sound I'm playing from my
demo isn't coming through. And I'm just like,
Lord Jesus. And guess what? Jesus did it. Right
away I heard, no, no, you need to look at the
setting in Skype, which is buried way under the
audio, which I'd set. maybe a year ago and then
switched back. What they do is it's a noise canceling
feature. So if there's noise in the background,
people won't hear it. So it was just basically
filtering out. all of the stuff that I was sending
through it, and I just could not believe how
awesome our Lord Jesus is. That came out of nowhere.
A year ago. This is so good, so good. I don't
remember what I was doing a year ago. I mean,
literally. It can only be the Lord. You know
Silicon Valley companies, like, we'll just change
this. Why not? It'll only improve their lives.
You know, nothing more tension building than
getting alerts that, oh, where's this new update?
Oh yeah. We'll just update it. I'm not a fan.
While you're playing. So my Kemper, which is
my complete amp system gear for playing guitar.
It's digital, right? It's a digital system. It's
totally digital. It's out of Germany. It is a
great piece of machinery, a real Nashville standard.
And I love it, but I haven't updated it in three
years. Because I like what it's doing. Don't
touch it. I can't even imagine updating it now.
It'd probably take three weeks. I don't know
how that would work. Just reconfigure it another
three weeks. Oh, man. I've got it so dialed in.
I talked to another friend. He lives in Nashville,
plays a lot in Nashville. I said, Brian, when
was the last time you updated your Kemper? He
said, about three, four years ago. I said, man,
me too, bro. Don't touch it. Don't touch it.
Would you like it? Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
But that doesn't seem to be the mantra for. No,
everybody always. Silicon Valley. Same with your
iPhone. I think I've taught you, and I don't
want to use it that way, but I have kind of taught
you. You've informed me. I've informed you. When
they say, oh, we've got an update of your OS,
do not, repeat, do not upgrade right away. Just
let it sit for a week or two. You'll be hearing
about it. And you may see, so if it's like 26
.1, Within two weeks, you may say 26 .2 because...
You will. Yes. Almost always. It's tough because
we like new goodies. Like, I got some new shiny.
What will the difference be? Nine times out of
10. No, 99 out of 100 times, there's no visible
difference. You don't see anything different.
But then you notice it's slower. My phone gets
hot. All kinds of stuff takes place. I had a
real... Thank you for Jesus because... I had
to do something early this week, which I have
not done for 40 years and just had a illogical
fear of. I had to have blood drawn. Wait a minute.
You had an illogical fear after you've had your
teeth and face hammered on by Maverick? Well,
the thing I was most afraid of with having my
teeth done was the IV. But the way that works
is you're so You know, they give you a little
pill beforehand. You're like, yeah, I'm so happy.
Like, oh, what? OK, and then you're out. But
this was, you know. in a strip mall in Bernie,
you know, you go in the back. This weird little
chair has an arm on it. Yeah, and there's printers
and ink and everywhere. It's called flubotomy.
That's what they do. There's a whole thing around
it. Flubotomy? Flubotomy. Oh, is that what a
blood drawing is called? A flubotomist. Well,
the flubotomist, whose name was Cameron, she
was very nice, very sweet, very young. And I'm
like, oh, man. And it's the needle is one thing,
but the whole idea that the blood is going out
and they're switching out tubes. Yeah, they're
pulling these little files out. I have this real,
you know, visceral problem with it. And we're
dry. And I had not said anything that's interesting
because we're going together. And I'm just like,
I'm just praying all morning. And I feel so silly.
But I wanted to share it with people because
it can even, you know, a 61 year old man can
have these weird things. And I got in that chair
and I'm just like, our Father which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. And I just went halfway
through it and Cameron says, are you still with
me? So yeah, I'm just doing our father. She says,
okay. And then, you know, of course it was over
and everything was fine. I'm like, why, why,
why? But man, that helped me so much. It's such
an easy way to get into Jesus helping you. It
was just - Man, thanks for sharing that for several
reasons, several layers. First of all, we all
have things like that that are that don't make
sense maybe to everybody else, but for you it's
a thing. So I talked to our staff yesterday,
we have our staff meeting every Tuesday, and
I brought this up, exactly what you just said.
I said, it's interesting how no one has ever
asked me, because I do the Lord's Prayer every
service, both services, every Sunday. I will
occasionally forget it on one service if I get
too in the flow or ahead of myself, but 99 I
have a hundred times. And no one has ever asked
me why, which is weird. You would think somebody,
why do we do that all the time? I love that.
Why don't we do it? But there is a reason behind
it. I told the staff this yesterday. I said,
the reason I've taught the church the Lord's
prayer is because there will be a day where you
will find yourself on a gurney or in a situation.
And you will have it so burned into the gray
matter of your brain and so lined in your spirit
that you will automatically have scripture to
speak. Yes. I'm helping you memorize something
that's a go -to. Awesome. And they were like,
Oh, that's neat. And our church definitely knows
it. Our kids know it. So we had a report from
our children's ministry director and she was
talking about how, one of our coordinators, she
wanted to teach the kids the Lord's Prayer. When
she started into it, they all knew it. And she
was just blown away by it. Isn't that beautiful
to hear a group of children doing that? You gave
life to that, what I was telling them. That was
the reason why we do it. Isn't it interesting
these coincidences that just happened when we
talk about stuff on this show? I know, right?
That's so cool. So the big thing this week that
I want to talk to you about, and this is the
perfect podcast, we are the perfect combination
for this. Somebody I know quite well. passed
away. I want to say quite well, we've exchanged
messages over the years. I'm talking about Scott
Adams, the creator of the comics. And Scott,
he was really sick for at least a year and he
just went downhill. He kept doing his podcast.
I was a big fan of, you know, he says he always
said he was a trained hypnotist. So he did help
a lot of people kind of hypnotize your own brain,
which really is no different than what Anthony
Robbins would do, just all kinds of different
techniques and tricks. It's neurology. I mean,
it's repetition to all those things. But he had
a very good look on life and he approached things
with reason and argumentation and his own...
special brand of logic. And as he was getting
towards the end, his voice was weak and he would
still do his daily podcast. And he said, a lot
of my friends have said, please consider converting
to be a Christian as you're in these final days.
And I sent him a message as well. I know he didn't
answer, but I know he read it. So it was a private
message. And I said, Scott, Let me just give
you this one piece Romans 10 9 10 if you declare
with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead
you will be saved and I prayed for him several
times a day for the past couple weeks, and I
know my prayer was and I would even Say this
to God. I would say Lord if if he professes that
Jesus is Lord and he believes it in his heart,
please consider saving him, because what a great
influencer he would be. I know you don't need
influencers, God. I know you don't need it, but
I'm just throwing it out there for consideration.
And he answered my prayer in a much bigger way
than I ever would have imagined, because the
way Scott went out, and I'm going to play a little
bit just so we can hear it, brought up a discussion
where everybody is now having a debate about
whether he was saved or not. The debate is not
about, is Jesus real? Is heaven real? This is
what God did. He was so smart and creative in
this one. Like, no, no, I'm not going to have
some guy who's gone and everyone says, well,
he converted and became a Christian. No, I'm
going to start a debate where the question is
not whether this is real. It's whether he made
it or not, which is like, boom, boom. My mind
was blown by this. So I just get into it. So
he wrote a farewell note and it's important to
note that he that he wrote this on January 1st
and he passed away yesterday the 13th and I could
have read it because it's been published but
I really wanted to play his ex -wife Shirley
Miles who they were good friends they had just
separated many years ago and he died just before
his his typical daily I think it's Coffee with
Scott Adams. And so she did it and she went live.
Oh, nice. And she read the note. I'm just going
to play the first paragraph. It's, you know,
she's talking through her tears. So I'm not playing
it for effect. But really, because I feel it's
more like his words through her than me just
reading it. So here she is. He has a final message
that he wanted to say. So I'm going to try to
read it. Trying to be strong. If you are reading
this, things did not go well for me. I have a
few things to say before I go. My body fell before
my brain. I am of sound mind as I write this
January 1st, 2026. If you wonder about any of
my choices for my estate or anything else, Please
know I'm free of any reason or inappropriate
influence of any sort. I promise. Next, many
of my Christian friends have asked me to find
Jesus before I go. I'm not a believer, but I
have to admit the risk reward calculation for
doing so looks so attractive to me. So here I
go. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior
and look forward to spending an eternity with
him. The part about me not being a believer should
be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I
won't need any more convincing than that. I hope
I'm still qualified for entry. So this is what
has sparked an incredible debate. I know it's
it's tough to listen to isn't it man that got
me Yeah, so although I'm not a believer I accept
Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and then he
says so if I wake up in heaven I'll have all
the proof. I need to know that it's all real
so This is fascinating and it just grabbed me
because everyone's walking around yelling you
know what you got he got saved Spiking the ball
for the for Jesus, right? No, he didn't do it,
right? He he didn't he didn't say he believed
in his heart and I believe this is what's called
Pascal's wager. Mm -hmm Have you heard of Pascal's
wager have so I looked it up This is so Who was
this guy? He was Pascal. He was a blaze Pascal.
Yes And he and he argued that the reason alone
cannot determine God's existence, but one cannot
abstain from the decision by living one is forced
to wager. So he said the decision is presented
as a choice under uncertainty. And this is where
it gets really complicated. I'll just tell you
what I think about it and I want to hear what
you think about it. So first of all, Only Jesus
knows what was in his heart. Exactly. And there
was almost two weeks between when he wrote this
and when he passed. And we have the, a lot of
people are pointing towards this, you know, the
deathbed conversion, Luke 23. This is when Jesus
is on the cross and one of the thieves, he said,
you know, aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself
and us. And of course the other criminals said,
don't you fear God since you're under the same
sentence? But Jesus said, Remember me when you
come into your kingdom." He said to Jesus, remember
me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus
answered, truly I tell you today you will be
with me in paradise. So at the very end, and
so now kind of this conversation goes down to,
well, did he really believe it? So we don't know,
nobody knows. But Jesus also said, and this I
thought was my great theological discovery, He
said, all you need is a mustard seed of faith
in order to move mountains. So I just wanted
to lay that down before you and get your take
on it because it is rampant and you got pastors
weighing in, you got influencers weighing in.
And it's just like, I believe that this will
be a conversation and I want people to hear us
talk about it and help them understand what was
really going on here. Wow. Adam, thanks for bringing
this up. And that clip was powerful. I had not,
I've read where he wrote that, you know, and
that was powerful, just reading it. But then
to hear her through her heart, you know, and
her tears, that was, that was very, you see,
he didn't do it for effect, but it affected me.
And probably anyone else that'll hear that with
the right heart. I pulled up Romans 10, you know,
nine, 10. that if you confess with your mouth
the Lord Jesus, which he did, and believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead.
Some will split a hair on that and go, well,
he didn't do that. He literally said, although
I'm not a believer. What I love is his honesty
and the pureness. That's this purity of heart
to come to God and say, I do not have this figured
out. I remember when I was 18 and I prayed to
receive Christ. Man, I didn't have any answers
and I knew nothing of the Bible. I mean, it was
all blank slate. And so what I did, I did by
faith. What God honors is not information and
content, it's faith. And the fact that he, by
faith, wrote that out, I accept Jesus Christ
as my Lord and Savior. I want to be in heaven
with him, or I will be in heaven with him. That
was a statement of faith. And you remember there
was a centurion soldier who said basically this,
he said, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. Mark
9, 24. Beautiful. One of the most... I believe,
help me in my unbelief. Faith -filled humility,
totally laced with humility. What I heard from
this guy is humility. I don't have it figured
out. I hope it's right, but here's what I'm going
to... I mean, at the end of that passage where
it says, if you confess through your mouth, believe
in your heart, it says, you'll be saved with
the heart one believes under righteousness with
the mouth, confession is made in salvation. Two
more verses down in verse 13, it makes this statement,
for whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall
be saved. So as I was thinking about this passage,
I knew it ended in verse 13 with that. And I'm
thinking, I'm going right there. This guy called
on the name of the Lord in this letter, in his
writing and in his prayer. And like you said,
that was two weeks out. There's no telling what
kind of... things went on in his heart, mind,
between that. I remember when I professed my
faith, and I did it publicly, a lot of people
were saying, you did it wrong, you said it wrong,
you didn't go the right way. When you were on
Rogan, people really dissected that, some of
the snooty religious people. But to me, and everybody
I hope who's listening can remember when you
first came to Christ, when you were first saved,
You don't know exactly what you're doing. I still
don't say stuff right. And I've been in this
43 years. Your faith builds over time. Exactly.
And it is a journey. You're taking the first
step on a journey. And I look at this as what
your friend did. This was his first step. And
people can get incensed that it happened at the
end of his life. Why don't we just rejoice? Annette's
dad on his deathbed received Christ as his Savior
and his Lord. And for the few two, three weeks,
he was a changed man. He grew tender. He told
Annette he loved her for the first time in her
life. She didn't hear that until she was an adult,
until he was about to die. But it was because
the Lord transformed his heart right there. Well,
is that fair? Who cares if it's fair? It's the
kingdom of God and the gospel doing what the
gospel does. The Bible says that the gospel is
the power of God unto salvation. Who am I to
cheer or not cheer when someone says, I don't
know how to say it all right, but here's what
I think. I remember people got bent out of shape
when Trump was saying, well, I hope I get to
heaven. People got all worked up about that.
I'm like, take the win. The guy's open. The guy's
hungry. The guy's listening. I think we just
get so freaking judgmental. because they don't
do it exactly like I wanted them to do it, or
I hope they would do it, or I know how they should
do it. The older I get, the less I know. It's
just been real. There are days when I say, Lord,
I almost feel like I know nothing. Well, it's
interesting because Tina and I had this conversation
yesterday when he passed, and Tina's like, isn't
it great? I say, well, No. And I was literally
going to the literal words. I'm like, no, because
he didn't believe it in his heart. How quickly
that came up, right? Me, right? Interesting.
And it wasn't until this morning when I was really
sitting down and thinking about it and prayed
for him again. And then the Holy Spirit just
like said, go look at this one. And then, you
know, and then what about that mustard seed?
And then you're right about the centurion. and
help me in my unbelief. Man, reading the Bible
is really helpful. Isn't it though? What it does,
if you think about the genius of God, I mean,
it sounds silly to call him a genius, we already
know he is, but he is, I'm just saying it. And
that he puts these open -ended things all throughout
Scripture, because I think if he gave us a formula,
we would just... put it in a book and sell it.
We'd write songs about it and make money on it.
I mean, we would just, we'd monetize everything
about it. We would metric everything about it.
We would do that anyway in what we believe. But
my goodness, humility, which is such an underrated
virtue, and honesty, another underrated virtue,
and grace, all these things, humility, grace.
the idea of I could be wrong. I mean, 43 years,
well, I've been in ministry doing this 41 years.
I finally calculated the other, I was like, oh
wait, I was off a year. So 41 years of doing
this. And to this day, I still will say and caveat
things with I could be wrong. Because I'm certain,
But there's always that because I don't ever
want to think I've got this all figured out.
Because the moment I do, God gets a big delight,
a big kick out of rocking my theological boat.
And so if we cannot walk in humility to say,
you know what, my entire journey of walking with
Jesus has been a series of oops, off course,
oops, course correction, oops, back up, get another
run at it. My whole life has been that way. It
is not one straight linear line. It's all over
the place. It's like a roller coaster. And even
at this age, it's not like I'm just constantly
sitting around questioning everything. When I
make a definitive statement, I've always got
this in the back of my mind. I could be wrong.
And it may be nuanced. Because isn't maturity
growing in the nuances, not just the big epic
things? So I'm not going to sit and take this
man's final words and break it apart. I'm going
to take it for the win that it is. And at the
end of the day, I'm not the judge anyway. It
doesn't even matter what I think. And the fact
that people will sit and postulate on a microphone
over this guy's statement, it just really bothers
me. And here we are kind of doing it. No, we're
not. I'm not. We're not splitting hairs on what
he said. Good point. We're saying this is a win,
you know, and he had two more weeks to maybe
at another level. Who knows? That's the part
that really hit me this morning. It's like, wait
a minute, this was January 1st. He had two weeks.
Oh man, so much can happen. And also I was kind
of mad at myself. Like that was my first initial
response with, no, he didn't do it right. I'm
like, wow, Adam Curry. Whereas my mom would say,
Adam Clark, hurry. You did not just do that.
You know exactly how that feels. You hear that
voice in your head. I hope she's in heaven. She's
talking to me from there, man. I hear that whenever
Tina says my name. Isn't it funny, though, how
we want to boil things down to the simplest element.
And to me, it's complex and simple at the same
time. The complexity is the nuances of everything.
We don't know his intent. We don't know his heart.
We don't know. He just wrote a sentence, very
honest and very humble. And, you know, I'm not
sitting in the seat going, yeah, yeah, he didn't
do it quite right. You know, he missed that belief
in your heart. He actually confessed it. You
know, I mean, you could hash that out all day.
It won't make a hill of beans. I don't think
God, Jesus, Holy spirits up there just... with
a little checkbook and going, okay, we've got
three out of five. Okay, let's let him in. Come
on. By the way, we are, we are educated from
a very young age. That's exactly how it goes.
You come to the gate and there's, and there's
Peter going like, no, I don't think so. So, which
is kind of, it's kind of mean, you know, when,
because that's, well, what we put it, that's
spiritual abuse. Very real. So if anything, it's,
it's It's manipulation. It may not be abuse,
but it's a manipulation. I grew up with so many,
the two cartoons I always remember were, there's
St. Peter and he's looking at the check mark.
He's like, no. And then the other one is the
little devil on one shoulder and the angel on
the other, which is actually kind of more realistic
than the check marks at the gate. That one feels
a little more real. It does. Yeah. And then the
check marks at the gate. So, well, good. I just
wanted to make sure that we talked about it.
Thank you for bringing that up. Oh man, the Lord
put this on my heart this morning so hard, like
you got it. You know, because I always say, you
know, daily bread, Lord give me guidance and
provision. And the guidance was, this is what
you got to do. The provision was the Scripture
and her, and the clip of her saying that, and
I'm like, oh, okay, I got it. This is what I
got to talk about. Wow, man, that's beautiful.
That was really moving for me, hearing her tears
and hearing her heart in it. At the end of the
day, we don't know. No. And do we know anything
at the end of the day? We know very little, but
very little we can be certain of. I mean, everything
down here is a big gamble where we're saying
up to this date of January 14th, 2026, to the
best of my ability, this is how I interpret this.
But five years from now, I may have a different
take on some of these things. And that may sound
uncertain or wishy -washy for a seasoned pastor
who's studied the Bible all of his adult life
to say something like that. But I hope it lands.
No, that's honest. And at the end of the day,
we walk by faith and not by sight. And my faith
tells me, I do believe, I do trust, I am forgiven.
I will spend eternity with Him. Everything else
is up for grabs. You know, right after I was
doing this, before I came over, there was a,
you know, where we're presenting again at the
National Religious Broadcasters Conference. And
there was an email. I should see if I still have
that. Sure. Just to show you the dichotomy of
my world sometimes. Joseph F Drummond, have you
ever heard of Joseph F Drummond? Well, there
is a Dr. Drummond that I've heard of. And I'll
just so dear Adam. The veil is tearing. The birth
pains are no longer. Whispers, they're screaming.
Iran is in flames. The Ayatollah's regime is
teetering on collapse. This is a religious broadcasters...
mailing list. Russia is massing troops on Europe's
doorstep and the Red Heifer is still going to
be sacrificed. These are not random headlines.
Just look at all, look at all the images. We
got like, here, flee. We've got fire. We got
explosions. I'm like, what is going on with this?
Not the Dr. Drummond I know. No, I don't know
who this Joseph F. Drummond is. Wow. come on
man and then look there's the heifers and what
what is going on with this like calm down when
i hear that kind of alarmist it's it sounds to
me outsider looking in that he wants this to
happen it's like he's manifesting finally yeah
finally we're there and it's like wow is that
your heart because i don't mean any disrespect
or dishonor to god but i'm like God, there's
part of me that wants you to come back soon.
There's a part of me that wants you to wait because
we've got to win a lot more people to Jesus.
We've got disciples to make. We've got work to
do. Give us a little longer. You remember that
movie about Ridge? It was the guy who saved a
bunch of people. It was in World War II on the
landing on the beach. Maybe Normandy. And he
kept pulling them up the hill and saving them,
letting them down. People had been wounded. It's
like every World War II movie I've ever seen.
Yeah, this is a true story. But his prayer was
just one more. Just one more. Just one more,
Lord. And when I read something like that, it
bothers me because I'm like... instead of having
a just one more, he's just like going, bring
it on. He didn't say that specifically, but we're
right there. And I'm like, just one more, Lord.
Man, come on. You said something shocking on
Sunday, which by the way was a great service.
It was so wonderful. Now, I couldn't look around
because I was just worshiping. Were the hands
up in the air, man? Were people into it? Because
it sure felt like it. Through the progression
of the service, by the end, it was almost every
hand in both services. Beautiful. Beautiful.
I mean, I was actually tired, uplifted, but tired.
I'm like, wow, because I had to do my show right
after the service. That's right. That's a lot.
I was like, holy moly, I'm wrecked here. What
happened? Oh, that's right. We were worshiping.
We were having to stand up, sit down. We were
Catholic. It was more than that. It was just
giving it to God. Yeah, the energy. It was fantastic.
Anyway, so... You said, and I know it was shocking
because there was an audible gasp. You said you
had a dream. You want to just. Glad to share
that. Relay that. Yeah, I'm just going to share
with you what happened to me and people can judge
it like they want. I really don't care. And I
don't mean that in a mean way. Just I don't because
it happened to me a few nights ago. It would
have been about a week ago, probably now. I had
one of those jolt you awake moments, like a full
blown adrenaline rush where your second thought
is, it's going to take me two hours to get back
to sleep because I was literally shaking. I mean,
from adrenaline, not shaking out of emotions
or anything, just adrenaline and heart bumping.
And I heard a voice and I couldn't tell if the
voice woke me up. or if I heard it while I was
waking up, but it was very clear and it was deep
and resonant. And it said, he is coming. And
I didn't go into detail in the church because
for brevity's sake, but I had two reactions to
that. The first one was fear. And it was fear
that it was the devil or a demonic entity telling
me the enemy's coming, like he is coming. the
Antichrist or something. That was the first thought
because I'm in the middle of a full -blown adrenaline
rush. That's survival mode. So I had a negative
connotation at first, and that was a very split
second. Then immediately it switched to, wait,
I think that was the Lord or an angel or something.
I don't know what, but I felt like I've heard
the audible voice of God maybe once or twice
in my life, my whole Christian experience, people.
Sometimes people talk to him all the time. I'm
like, really? Man, I don't get that. But anyway,
yay for you. You know, nay for me. But so this
might have been the second or third time. I can
definitely tell you it's the second for sure.
And it really rocked me. And normally I'd go
right back to sleep, not even remember that.
You know what was shocking to me? You hadn't
texted me that. Sorry. What's up with that, brother?
We text everything, right? Well, it kind of was,
you know, I did go back to sleep. And so it's
sort of like, I almost forgot about it for a
couple of days. I'm just kidding, obviously.
But yeah, it was a jolt. Yeah. Well, he is coming.
Remember Jolt Cola? Yes, I do. It was like drinking
a couple of those, slamming a couple back to
back. Just full adrenaline rush. Well, he is
coming. We just don't know when. He is. And I
don't, once I sat and prayed and processed it,
there's no fear. Just that reminder. He's coming.
Maybe that's what it was, just a reminder. Hey,
pastor, just remember, be ready at all times.
And get people ready. Yes. Well, you do a great
job with our church, brother. Thank you. You
know, just speaking of that, the Department of
War sent me a package yesterday. Really slick
segue well speaking of that is well because of
World War two, okay? Just one more. I was sorry.
I had to make the connection with no go for it
They sent me I have two grandfathers who fought
in World War two one who landed at Normandy and
was at the liberation of Europe and the other
who fought in the South Pacific and The Department
of War sent me all of my grandfather's medals
That from the one who was in in Europe And it's
an array. It's like 15 different medals. And
they've invited me, and I'd love for you to come
with me, to the Nimitz Museum, because that of
course is the Pacific War Museum here in Fredericksburg,
for my other grandfather's medals. And their
stuff, I never knew. He was on a ship that was
in three heavy battles. He was the second in
command, I think. They sunk a U -boat. He was
a base commander on one of these. Never heard
a single thing about this in my family ever,
which is possible that a lot of these guys just
didn't want to talk about it. But my heart is
just so, I feel, you know, it's like, wow, these
guys, look at what they did. Even though we were
doing it for Europe, it wasn't even really for
us. Pearl Harbor and we could go on for hours
about, you know, what happened there and why
it happened. And as I'm reflecting on, I'm like,
man, I hope a lot of people still have that spirit,
not for going to war, but to fight for our country,
to fight. I've lived in so many countries. This
is still the best country on earth. We got our
problems, for sure. But when I see people wrapped
up in in minutiae, and someone getting killed
by an ICE officer is not minor. But, you know,
let's just not talk about the 18 people who've
been shot in Chicago and killed in the same amount
of time, just since January 1st. So you got to
put it into perspective. 1700 assaults on police
officers or federal officers this year. So just
put it into perspective and Everyone and it's
it's by design 17 ,000. I'm sorry. I miss my
number. Holy 70 ,000 over 400 with weapons So
I want to give a little bit of perspective on
that because I really am trying to follow the
bigger picture and the bigger picture is all
the things that we really have wanted for all
this time and people are missing it because and
it's it I mean Where else can you get this? Unless
you're reading the Federal Register, unless you're
looking at executive orders, executive actions,
which are two different things, you're just not
going to get this from any news anywhere. And
in fact, we're doing our fast, our church fast
this week, which has just been phenomenal. Tina
and I have been reading a lot more, just taking
things calm. We are watching. one series at night,
but Tina's no more social media. For my occupation,
there's still things I need to look at, like
inbox, but I really just stayed away. And even
when I'm like, I just turned it off and went
away, I've missed nothing because it's all meaningless.
It is all, what would King Solomon say? It's
all vanity. And every single bit of it. But what
is happening, is President Trump, and man, every
day I still pray, Lord, hear us in heaven, heal
our land. And I believe he is working through
this man in such amazing ways. And of course,
he is the weirdest guy ever to be doing this.
I mean, he really is. I mean, he's obviously
as faulted as anybody is. But he is going full
bore. Davos is the big get -together, all the
elites go to Switzerland, the bankers, the big
movers and shakers. Klaus Schwab, he started
Davos back in the 70s. President Trump is going
there and he's going to speak and he's taking
everybody. Scott Bessent, Witkoff, the whole
gamut, Lutnik. And I think he's going to go...
and negotiate the terms of surrender with the
globalists. And something, I think this came
out, I know if we talked about on the last show,
if not, I have a clip just to highlight it, because
I had the clip from one day after our show. This
is something that barely got any attention, but
a lot of us have... prayed for this to happen.
President Trump announced the United States will
withdraw from 66 international organizations
and treaties. This includes major bodies like
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. The decision follows a review by Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, citing these groups as
contrary to U .S. interests. Critics warn the
move could hurt American companies and communities
by sidelining the country in the booming clean
energy sector. Supporters argue it will stop
U .S. funding for what they call ineffective
global agendas. The withdrawal marks a historic
shift, leaving the U .S. as the only nation outside
key climate treaties. Now that was from USA Today,
the only mainstream outlet I can find with any
report whatsoever on it. And that should tell
you something right there. So World Health Organization,
a lot of these are subdivisions of the United
Nations. He's pulling us out of all of it. Sixty
-something? Sixty -six. The IPCC, the International
Panel on Climate Change. it really now of course
it's not getting any coverage that's why i want
people to hear it and just pray for the president
yes and his whole team and marco rubio praise
this brother this brother is i think he he might
be our next president i mean this guy is And
he's also funny. I like this guy. He's a funny
guy. That's what got me when I heard him speak
at Charlie Kirk Service. That was not scripted.
No, he's all in. And this is the really big one.
The Federal Reserve, I just want our church to
hear it because a lot of people haven't heard
this. When people hear Federal Reserve, well,
those are the guys who manage our money as part
of the government. Nothing could be further from
the truth. The Federal Reserve, it is just like
Federal Express. The government doesn't own Federal
Express. It's just called Federal Reserve. And
it was in fact set up in 1913 in secret on Jekyll
Island off of Georgia. And it was bankers and
they got together and they said, Hey, we want
to control the money and we're going to do that.
And we're going, they had already done it twice
before, which I'll get into in a second. And
if you look at your, your dollar bill or your,
your five, your 10, your 20, it says on it, this
is a federal reserve note. It does not belong
to the United States. It does not belong to our
government. It belongs to this group of banks.
of which many of the members are not even known.
It's secret. We know who the chairman is, Jerome
Powell currently. We know who the board members
are, but the actual members and the true members
of the banks, we don't really know. And their
job is really to create money. They can literally
create money whenever they want to, to keep all
of their banks solvent, which really none of
them are, but that's a much longer story. And
also to be the settlement, you know, all money,
when you transfer something to me on Zelle or
PayPal or a credit card, ultimately, and it usually
takes three days, sometimes even longer, it goes
through the Federal Reserve and that's where
the accounts are all reconciled. That used to
work. And you can still go to the Federal Reserve,
I think, in Dallas, and you can do a tour, and
you'll see all these bars of gold in all these
different slots. And so when Bank A had sent
all these payments to Bank B, they'd literally
move bars of gold over to that bank. Trust me,
that's just show these days. But we were in this
situation with the first and second bank of America.
Same basic, not necessarily the same guys, some
of them were. during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
And he saw that this basically gave a small group
of very powerful people reign over our land.
They determined everything. If you control the
money, certainly if you can create the money,
then you control the entire Kitten Caboodle.
And Andrew Jackson broke that bank and he broke
it in a number of ways. He actually paid off
our entire debt by doing it. And he drained,
he said, all right, give me all those accounts,
give me all that money that you've printed, that's
ours, give it to us. And he decentralized it
and gave it to small banks and literally dissolved
the first bank of America, the second bank of
America, which is just a federal reserve. They
had a sunset clause of 20 years. And so they
had like a poison pill. He still broke that bank.
And then in 1913, The same group of people came
together said, wait, we got to rebrand this.
We're not doing this right. I'm going to call
it the Federal Reserve and we'll make it an act
that Congress passes so it can never sunset.
Wow. So President Trump, I think, and I've been
looking at these strategies and I don't want
to go into it. I can't even explain it properly
right now. In my head, I can see the connections.
He's in a full bore attack against this banking
system. Well, there's two things happening. One,
Andrew Jackson, one of the ways that he paid
off the debt, funny enough, was by extreme tariffs
on imports. What are the chances? Today, the
Supreme Court of America may or may not be, they're
going to make a decision and announce it, whether
the tariffs that the president is using are legal
under this emergency clause, this emergency law.
I pray, and we all should pray that they say
yes, because this is a tool that is saving us.
Now the president can do this in other ways,
but it won't be as easy as like, boom, you got
tariffs. Boom, you got tariffs. The second thing,
which is also a Supreme Court decision, you may
have read that he has been trying to fire one
of the board members for mortgage fraud. So when
you have what they call an independent agency,
like the Federal Reserve, does the president
have the power and the constitutional power to
dismiss someone for cause? Now remember, these
people think they know they're outside of the
government, but you know, there's a ceremony,
we confirm them in the Senate, etc, etc. And
this has led to the chairman coming under severe
fire and it's being played under, and President
Trump saw this, he's a builder, so he understands
it, the renovation of what we'll call the marble
palace of the Federal Reserve. They wanted to
renovate their building and they budgeted $1
.9 billion. Let that just settle in for a second.
By the way, the original Bank of America, they
literally were in a marble palace. They built
this marble palace. That's why we're calling
it the second marble palace. They overran that
budget. And we were just talking before the show,
construction always costs more. It takes longer,
costs more. So they overran the 1 .9 billion,
which is already an astounding amount of money
to me, by $700 million. So President Trump, you
know, this was maybe six, seven months ago, he
went out there, maybe had the hard hat on. He's
like, what is this? How can this cost so much
money? So the Senate Banking Committee said,
okay, Powell, come in and testify. And what happened
in the last few weeks, there was a grand jury
that based upon his testimony, they want the
Department of Justice to investigate Powell for
perjury. because they say his answers were untruthful
and he lied about this. Now $700 billion, it's
easy for $100 million to slip somewhere else
or to go to someone who delivered a nail or a
toilet seat or whatever. So there is a high suspicion.
That's what a grand jury does. You can indict
a ham sandwich with a grand jury, but still this
is people off the street who come in and say,
well, this looks like some fraud to me. And this
has now played up to such an extent that Jerome
Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
did a hostage video. He literally went on their
website and did a video and claimed the following.
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice
served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas
threatening a criminal indictment related to
my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee
last June. That testimony concerned in part a
multi -year project to renovate historic Federal
Reserve office buildings by the testimony in
part There was more this wasn't a public hearing
so in part there may be some other things going
on I Have deep respect for the rule of law and
for accountability in our democracy No one certainly
not the chair of the Federal Reserve is above
the law But this unprecedented action should
be seen in the broader context of the administration's
threats and ongoing pressure. This new threat
is not about my testimony last June or about
the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings.
It is not about Congress's oversight role. The
Fed, through testimony and other public disclosures,
made every effort to keep Congress informed about
the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The
threat of criminal charges is a consequence of
the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based
on our best assessment of what will serve the
public, rather than following the preferences
of the President. This is about whether the Fed
will be able to continue to set interest rates
based on evidence and economic conditions, or
whether instead monetary policy will be directed
by political pressure or intimidation. I have
served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations,
Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case,
I have carried out my duties without political
fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate
of price stability and maximum employment. Public
service sometimes requires standing firm in the
face of threats. I will continue to do the job
the Senate confirmed me to do with integrity
and a commitment to serving the American people.
Thank you So this is a very scared man. I can
tell you he is afraid because he knows if Supreme
Court says yes You can dismiss for cause he can
be dismissed for cause this doesn't dissolve
the Federal Reserve But it does weaken the entire
institution independent institution funny enough.
There is a bill that was proposed in 2025 to
these have come out almost every single year
the most recent one to end the Federal Reserve
there's about 15 co -sponsors. Interestingly,
it's Thomas Massey who put this in. This is a
long time Rand Paul and before him Ron Paul.
He wrote a fabulous book called End the Fed because
when the Federal Reserve prints money, it is
literally a tax on the people because more supply
means less purchasing power. And so I believe
that President Trump has a plan, Davos may be
a part of it, but certainly to weaken the Federal
Reserve as an institution and use an alternative
system for settlement. Once people are using
something else, and I'll just say the word, you
don't have to figure it out, stablecoin. I believe
Scott Besson is one of the smartest, our treasury
secretary, one of the smartest men we've ever
had in that position. He is looking at everything.
He sees all the money flows. He knows exactly
what's happening. I believe President Trump with
those things, with the tariffs continuing, with
dismissing corrupt actors in the Federal Reserve,
which by itself is theft of the American people,
from the American people. I believe he can actually
do this, witness every single central bank in
the world. Same system, by the way. They're just
central banks. They're independent. They're not
part of the government, the European Central
Bank. It's not the European people's central
bank. It's Christine Lagarde and a whole bunch
of other elites. They're all like, this is an
outrage. This is just political. But it's not,
because he's lying right here. When COVID hit,
we had 9 % to 10 % inflation. What were the interest
rates? Zero, almost zero. Even with the tariffs,
they said inflation would be horrible. It's even
less than they expected, 2 .7 % as of yesterday.
The interest rate still is five to six percent,
which is hurting the American people. It is hurting
us so we don't have control over that. And I
think Besant has a plan to bring back control
of the interest rates and the money back to the
people, back into the government. I wish I could
explain the whole thing. I wish I had a blackboard.
I just want people to know, keep your eye on
Scott Besant. Keep your eye on what President
Trump is really doing. Keep your eye on the Supreme
Court and take your eye off of X, Facebook, Instagram,
et cetera. It is just meant to confuse you and
obfuscate what's really going on. Wow. Wow. Okay.
So today that decision will be made. Well, supposedly,
I haven't heard, you know, they can delay it,
you know, whatever. It may have already happened
while we were just here talking. If they say,
no, you can't do that, there are other ways to
do it. It does make it harder. But even Scott,
Scott Besson is an amazing, you know, he used
to work for George Soros. I was curious where
he's from. And this is what I like. You got a
guy who knows how it works. I believe him to
be an honest, good man. I just look at the things
he's doing, the moves he's making, and wow, he
really is dismantling things right before our
very eyes. So final message from Adam, very positive
about the future. Thank you, Lord, for hearing
our prayers in heaven and working through this
unbelievably crazy guy. Choosing him to do this
for some reason you chose him and I think it
was just a brilliant choice I love that and what
that says to me and I'll just kind of Spitball
this back It says that you don't have to know
all the intricate ins and outs of government
and political Gameplay and all this to pray for
these people. Yes, this is the thing that's so
God gives us this amazing ace card Trump card,
if you want to use that word. Anyway, he gives
us this amazing thing that in the middle of all
that, even if I don't understand what's going
on completely, I still can pray. I can pray for
God's heart, God's will, for justice, righteousness,
truth, to reign. I want to encourage anyone listening
to this program. What Adam just presented is
layered and complex and yet He was giving us
the simple version of it. But we don't have to
understand all the ins and outs. All we need
to know is that we have this amazing gift, the
power of prayer. We can move things. We can move
atmospheres. We can change things through prayer.
And I want to encourage you. My phrase for the
year is, let's pray more. Three simple words.
And please pray for your Democrat. representatives
as well. Every single time the needle moves,
you just need one or two. Just pray for them.
Yeah, they have different programming in their
brain, they've got other ideas, but pray for
them to get clarity. That would really help.
Thank you for saying that. That is a big part
of what me and Pastor Brian met this morning.
Part of my conversation was, I feel like the
Lord wants us to continue to bring awareness
and information to what's going on culturally.
We're going to continue down that track. However,
we always want to lace everything we do with
humility, with grace and mercy, the same thing
God gave us. We have a responsibility to give
that out, which means I'm not going to lob grenades
over on the other side of the aisle. I don't
know what aisle I'm in right now, so I'd be blowing
myself up anyway. The whole idea is I want to
pray more for everyone, for understanding, for
wisdom, for strategic thinking and implementation
that will move the needle for the people of our
country. Not for party postulating and your own
agendas, but what will be better for our country?
We need to do that across the aisle, in our aisle,
in our seats, in our section, on our own lives.
More grace, more mercy, more love, more patience.
But this idea of let's walk in great humility.
Confidence? Yes, absolutely. Confidence in Him,
not in us. And so that's my heart on this. So
let's pray more for what's going on. All right,
brother. Let's lay in this place. Thanks for
bringing it, man. That was awesome. Thank you.
We get to do this, and I love doing this with
you, man. All right. And we're having dinner
on Friday night, too, so we can follow up on
this decision. I'm excited. All right. We'll
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you next week, everybody.