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 be back next week. Make sure you subscribe to
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