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00:05 prophets of the old test 00:08 profits message rich and wisdom and filled with true is as 00:13 relevant today as it was. Then 00:16 it's hard to find. Come next. 00:18 Joining us now on 3ABN for an in-depth study of the word of 00:23 God 00:25 in the mines. 00:30 >> Hello and welcome back to 3 ABN. Can't meeting someone 00:34 can't maybe even having a great time. 00:37 Anybody blast. I've been blessed absolute in so many 00:40 speakers. So so many singers, musicians and I praise the Lord 00:45 for all of you each and every one of you here. It's amazing 00:48 when we talk to folks that we find out where you're from, 00:52 I mean, states all over even a few other countries. And I'm 00:56 like where we're going is the right here. So you came all the 01:00 way from California came all the way from Alaska, UK mauled, 01:04 you know, from Bahamas, whatever all the way just for 01:07 the camp meeting. So thank you. That's the amazing that you 01:10 would come here and we just want you to know the folks at 01:13 home. Thank you for your love and your prayers and financial 01:16 support of 3 ABN as we endeavor to take this great gospel of 01:20 the kingdom in all the world. You know, it's been a van 01:23 almost gone. 39 years since we did idea to start to the been 01:28 look what God is Ron and that amazing God blesses this. 01:32 In spite of us. We have a special special 01:36 speaker of this hour and a man of God that loves Jesus and 01:40 he's he's a man is bold and we're very happy to have him 01:44 here tonight. You want to give us Doctor Ben Carson, any of 01:47 you heard Ben Carson, Doctor, Carson? All right. 01:56 >> Doctor Benjamin as Carson, senior Indy is the founder and 02:00 chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. 02:03 He most recently served as the 17th secretary of the U.S. 02:07 Department of Housing and Urban Development 02:10 previously served as director of pediatric neurosurgery at 02:15 the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. He co-founded the 02:19 Carson Scholars Fund and has received dozens of awards 02:23 including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and being 02:26 named in 2008 by the U.S. News Media Group and Harvard Center 02:32 for Public Leadership as being among America's best leaders. 02:39 >> Absolutely incredible. And his wife Candy, joy, 02:43 to be around. You have and they're happy Christians. 02:46 Don't you like the around happy Christians? No matter what's 02:49 going are going on around the world, they find something to 02:52 laugh about to smile about and to praise the Lord for. So 02:55 we're going to ask Melody to come out right now and Simeon 02:59 and feel come out Melody. We're going to a little song 03:03 and you may have heard this song before. It's entitle Holy 03:06 Ground 03:08 [MUSIC] 03:12 [MUSIC] 03:17 [MUSIC] 03:19 as I will. 03:21 >> Through the dual 03:23 I sensed his presence. 03:26 [MUSIC] 03:30 I knew this was 03:34 the plays too. 03:36 >> Where love the? 03:41 >> So this is the tempo. 03:46 >> Jehovah God by and 03:54 >> we stand 03:57 [MUSIC] 03:59 and his presence. You feel that on Holy. 04:06 [MUSIC] 04:09 >> We. 04:12 [MUSIC] 04:16 >> And 04:19 [MUSIC] 04:22 >> and I know that the. 04:35 >> And 04:48 >> we in his press. 04:56 >> All. 05:02 [MUSIC] 05:04 >> In his presence, there is Joe 05:10 beyond them and 05:12 [MUSIC] 05:14 >> and that he is he. 05:18 >> He saw of my can still be. 05:23 [MUSIC] 05:26 >> You have my God of he had. 05:32 >> As the end. So. 05:36 >> Reach Plame. Time to stand name. 05:42 >> On holy ground. You believe it. Stand up saying with. 05:50 [MUSIC] 05:56 [MUSIC] 06:01 >> We know that the. 06:21 [MUSIC] 06:24 >> We 06:27 [MUSIC] 06:31 and 06:33 [MUSIC] 06:40 [MUSIC] 06:44 >> when the 2. 06:48 [MUSIC] 06:52 >> We can be student. 06:54 [MUSIC] 06:59 [MUSIC] 07:04 [MUSIC] 07:09 >> Well, I like start with the word of prayer 07:13 kind father in heaven. We're so grateful for this venue that 07:17 you have provided and we ask that your spirit will be here. 07:22 But the words that are spoken be yours and not mine. That 07:25 hurts. Be prepared 07:27 in Jesus name. Amen. 07:31 Well, as I said earlier, 07:33 you know, the Mary American family is somewhat at risk. 07:40 And I think we've all probably notice that 07:44 things seem to be moving in a 07:47 direction that is not particularly good 07:51 and what's happened all of a sudden, too, 07:55 the American dream, 07:57 which was so important 08:00 to the whole world. Have you ever noticed that 08:03 America is the only country that has a dream? 08:08 There's no French train. 08:10 There's no Canadian jury. McCain is thought they had one 08:12 too recently, but we're the only ones who have a dream. 08:18 And people want to come here. 08:21 Even though there are a lot of people who try to denigrate our 08:23 country and say that's terrible place and 08:27 it's systemic Lee races and it's unfair to everybody. 08:32 And if it was that bad, why are all these people trying to get 08:34 in here? 08:36 And when they got here, when they call on their family and 08:39 friends say, don't come here. This is a horrible place. 08:42 That's not what's happening. 08:45 And really the question this, 08:47 how do we maintain that 08:51 fund them in a fundamental building block 08:54 of a great nation. 08:57 It's the family. 08:59 And what does the Bible say 09:02 about the family 09:04 and how important to this? 09:06 Think about it and genesis, too, 09:10 for the Lord says 09:12 it is not good. 09:15 That man should be a long 09:18 and I will make for him to help me. 09:24 He took a bone from Adam's rib years 09:29 and fashion Eve. 09:31 Now you notice he didn't take 09:34 part of this call. 09:36 So the shoe be the head leaving him around 09:40 and he didn't take part of the foot so that he'd be walking 09:43 all over her. He took a rigged, signifying somebody who would 09:48 be by his side 09:50 as a helpmate. And that's what helped me. There's an equal who 09:55 helps you to accomplish your goals. 09:58 So got set the standard for the family. 10:02 And it says 10:04 and that chapter also 10:07 male and female. 10:10 He created 10:11 don't say anything about anything else 10:14 and the male and a female. 10:17 And there is actually a scientific reason for that 10:23 because the last I checked, those were the only combination 10:27 capable of producing offspring. 10:31 And, 10:33 you know, it's it's interesting that there's so much 10:36 argumentation about that these days. 10:40 You know, what is a woman 10:42 we knew where the woman was for thousands of years. All of a 10:45 sudden we don't know where that woman is. 10:50 Her crazy is that. 10:55 But at any rate, 10:57 there does seem to be a war on the traditional family. 11:02 And what is interesting is 11:06 we see if I can see 11:07 find my telephone here, you know, the truly needy states 11:11 because you can carry everything around with you and 11:15 you're from 11:17 and 11:18 she can do that 11:20 to the congressional record 11:23 from January. The 10th 1963 11:30 read into the congressional record 11:33 where the goals 11:35 for Communist and United States of America. 11:40 There are 45 of them. 11:45 No. Let me read 11:46 a few of them. 11:49 Goal number 17, 11:51 get control of the schools. 11:55 Use them as transmission belts for socialism 11:59 and current communist propaganda. 12:02 Soften the curriculum, 12:05 get control of teachers associations, 12:09 the party line and textbooks 12:12 18 12:14 gain control of all student newspapers, 12:18 19, you student riots to foment public protest against programs 12:25 or organizations which are under communist. The attack 12:30 20 infiltrate the press, 12:34 get control of the book review assignments, 12:38 editorial writing policymaking positions 12:42 number, 21 gain control of key positions and the radio TV and 12:49 motion pictures 12:52 and then down to number. 24 eliminate all laws governing 12:58 obscenity 12:59 by calling them censorship 13:02 and a violation of free speech and free press 13:07 break down cultural standards of more around the by promoting 13:11 pornography 13:13 and obscenity and books. Magazines, Motion Pictures, 13:16 Radio and television. 13:19 26 present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as 13:26 normal, natural and healthy. 13:31 And then number 28, 13:33 eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression and the 13:39 schools on the grounds that it violates the principles of 13:42 separation of church and state. 13:46 This credit, the American Constitution by calling it 13:49 inadequate fashion out of step with Martin needs a hindrance 13:54 to cooperation between nations 13:57 and on a worldwide basis, 13:59 discredit the American founding fathers present them as selfish 14:04 aristocrats who had no concern for the common man 14:11 and then 14:14 Coe's number 40 41 14:18 discredit the family as an institution, 14:23 encourage promiscuity and easy divorce 14:28 emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative 14:32 influence of parents. The Tribune prejudices mental 14:37 blocks and returning of children to suppressive 14:42 influence of parents. 14:45 And that interesting that so many of those are the things 14:48 that are going on in our society right now. 14:53 I would have to say 14:55 those who are trying to fundamentally change us into 14:59 something else 15:01 have found the key, 15:03 but attacking our faith 15:06 and our families 15:08 because they recognize that the country was much too strong to 15:12 bring down militarily. 15:15 But it could be brought down from inside by attacking the 15:19 pillars of strength 15:22 and 15:25 what you probably noticed 15:28 is 50 years ago, maybe 60 years ago 15:32 when the family was portrayed on television, 15:36 they were strong, traditional nuclear families, a mother, 15:39 a father, 15:41 children. 15:42 You had a strong founders like Father knows best. 15:48 And then it started to morph. 15:50 And then you've got the bumbling idiot, dad, you know, 15:54 like how funding those kind of things. 15:58 And it got to the point where 16:00 the man was really kind of peripheral. 16:04 He didn't really need him. 16:07 And look what has begun to happen. 16:11 The family structure subsequently, 16:15 I mean, in the 70's 16:19 you have 40% 16:22 nuclear families. 16:24 Now it's 18% 16:29 of all the families out there. 16:32 And 40% 16:34 of babies in this country are born out of went park 16:39 have been lots of studies to show that children who are 16:44 raised and single-family single parent families do not do 16:48 anywhere near as well academically and in other ways 16:53 now there are exceptions. 16:56 You're looking at one of them. 16:58 But 17:00 I will have to tell you that it wasn't fun 17:04 growing up in a single parent 17:07 because usually have a lot less in the way of resources. 17:12 And you always feel, you know, you're not quite as good as 17:16 everybody else are always kind of 17:19 looking through the window at everybody else and wishing you 17:23 were inside. 17:28 You think about all the problems 17:30 that you see in children today. They're multiplied 17:33 significantly 17:35 and those homes with single parents. 17:39 But we're having a real problem with 17:44 and our society today, 17:48 feelings of inadequacy 17:51 being attacked, 17:53 saying that they're demonstrating toxic 17:56 masculinity, 17:58 whatever the U.S. 18:03 it's being defined as 18:06 negative characteristics of men, 18:11 there's nothing wrong with masculinity 18:13 and I think we need to define it the right way. Masculine men 18:18 are men who accept responsibility, 18:21 who take care of their family, who love their wives, who are 18:25 the appropriate models for their children 18:30 has nothing to do with who you can beat up poor. 18:34 You know what rock tissue can cause in the bar. 18:38 You know, that's just stupid. And that has nothing to do it 18:40 masculinity. 18:42 And I think we have to start being more aggressive in 18:46 opposing those things. 18:49 But the Bible talks about the reasons for marriage and the 18:53 talks 18:54 about the fact that 18:57 in the Christian home 19:00 men should love their wives. 19:03 Wives should submit to their husbands and the Lord. 19:08 And that's the key part there. 19:10 You know, if your husband is us Munsch 19:14 haha. 19:18 But but it also says that 19:21 if you're still kind to your husband, even though he's my 19:25 age 19:26 and you still 19:28 help to smooth things over, you may win him over and he may 19:33 soon become a very responsible individual. 19:37 So I think the wives can play a tremendous role that way. 19:42 But I don't want to give short script, too, 19:46 the single parents 19:48 because we have a lot of them now where we have more of them 19:51 than the other way around. 19:53 And 19:55 in many cases, it's not necessarily even their fault. 20:00 You know, my mother got married when she was 13 years trying to 20:04 escape dire poverty in. 20:06 She didn't know that 20:08 her husband was already married, 20:12 have another family. 20:14 I was telling that story, a graduation at University of 20:17 Utah. Nobody thought it was that strange. 20:26 But 20:28 but she thought that was very, very strange. And in fact, 20:33 it was 20:34 sure it's change. 20:36 And she found herself trying to raise 2 young sons all by 20:42 herself 20:45 to the interesting thing about my mother 20:48 as she absolutely refused to be a victim 20:53 and she refused to let us be victims, too. 20:57 She never made excuses. And if we ever made an excuse, 21:03 this was the point that came out of her mouth. 21:06 If things go bad for you and make you a bit ashamed often 21:11 you will find out you have yourself to blame 21:15 swiftly. We ran to mischief and then the bad look came. 21:20 Why do we for others? We have ourselves to blame. 21:24 Whatever happens to us. Here is what we say. Had it not been 21:29 for so. And so things would have gone that way. 21:33 And if you're short of friends out to you what to do, 21:37 make an examination, you'll find the fault saying you, 21:42 you are the captain of your ship. So agree with the same. 21:47 If you travel down work, you have yourself to blame 21:52 and she knew that point by heart. And we knew that if we 21:55 made an excuse that was coming out of her mouth. Haha. 22:00 So guess what? 22:02 We stop making excuses. 22:05 And isn't that 22:07 what parents are supposed to do? 22:09 Provide the right kind of guidance, 22:12 the right kind of example for the children. 22:17 And that's why one of the goals 22:21 of those who want to fundamentally change 22:24 our nation 22:26 is to minimize the influence of parents 22:31 and allow others 22:34 to tell the children who they are 22:37 and what they're supposed to be doing. And that is a major, 22:41 major problem. 22:43 You know, and a lot of the school systems 22:47 you have 22:49 teachers and counselors 22:52 talking to the children about who they really and saying, 22:56 don't tell your parents, 22:59 don't get your parents involved. 23:02 Your parents love you. And they mean, well, but they don't 23:05 really know what they're doing 23:07 and we know what we're doing. 23:12 And you think about how they are impacting some of the 23:16 younger children in particular. 23:23 Children are naturally very, very curious. We do know that. 23:30 But children are also very suggestible. 23:37 It's very easy to go to a child and say 23:42 to think you're really a corrupt. 23:46 Do you think maybe your boy 23:49 say that to a boy? 23:51 Don't you sometimes feel this way? 23:56 And 23:57 did you ever try putting your mothers high heels on? 24:03 But most boys try that because you're curious, the boys, 24:07 they want to know what it feels like. Not because they want to 24:09 be a woman. 24:12 Most little girls. 24:13 You know, they put there dance to build on. It doesn't mean 24:17 they want to be a boy. It means they are curious. They want to 24:21 know what it's like. But if then you have someone come 24:24 along behind him and say, you see, 24:27 I told you are really a boy 24:30 and there's some things we can do. We can give you some 24:33 hormones and 24:35 we can change you so that you can be fulfilled. 24:39 Now, the reason you know that that's not legitimate. 24:44 Well, you have to do is look at 24:46 the rates of mental illness and the suicides and attempted 24:50 suicides and people who go down that route. 24:54 And that will tell you 24:57 really has the best interests of the child at heart. 25:02 And that is the parent. 25:04 And that's the reason that there's been an explosion since 25:07 2020 25:09 of homes, schools to have doubled 25:12 and that time 25:13 long, long lines, kids for pro keo faith-based schools 25:21 and 25:22 doesn't mean that people shouldn't get involved and 25:25 helping to change 25:27 the public school system. 25:29 We all have a stake and we can't just sort of turn our 25:32 backs 25:34 on the children and our society because their predators 25:39 who want 25:40 our children 25:43 now, what does the Bible say 25:45 in Proverbs? 22 6 train up a child 25:49 and the way he should go with his own will not depart from 25:52 that. 25:53 That is such a vital fronts. The most important thing that 25:57 you can do is change your children the right way. 26:02 Those who want to fundamentally change just know that too. 26:06 It was Wladimir Lennon, 26:10 one of the fathers of Marxism 26:13 who said give me your children to teach for 4 years and the 26:16 sea that I so will never be a prudent. 26:21 That's why they're so anxious to get in and get the children 26:25 and the very young age. I've seen some of the books. 26:30 The children read some of the PRE K schools. 26:34 They have a book about war 26:38 and how these worms 26:40 as they grew up 26:42 can become either male or female. 26:46 Now, why would you be teaching that to a preschooler? 26:50 What are you trying to prepare them for? 26:54 And then some of the books in the elementary schools that 26:57 I've seen, 26:59 it's this is actually very hard to look at him. I mean, there's 27:03 frank pornography and these books 27:06 showing children, sexual positioning and things of this 27:10 nature. 27:13 You saw one of those goals 27:17 was to sexualize children, 27:21 promiscuity, 27:22 all kinds of degenerate things in front of our troops. Why 27:26 would anybody be trying to do that 27:29 unless they are trying to fertilize the ground 27:34 for something else? 27:38 As you can see, it's succeeding. 27:41 It's working very rapidly as we go downhill. 27:45 The question is, is it possible to stop it? 27:50 You know, I had a terrible temper as a 27:54 child. 27:55 And when I was 14, I stab someone. 28:01 My mother, 28:03 who is the wisest person that I've ever known, even though 28:07 she only had a less than a 3rd grade education. 28:11 She knew some people who lived on a farm. 28:14 So that summer 28:16 she sent my brother 28:18 and me to live on the farm 28:21 with them. 28:23 And I could tell you 28:25 that was a real eye-opening experience 28:28 getting up at 5 in the morning. 28:31 Milking cows 28:34 picking corn and beans. Chopping wood. Going to the 28:39 sawmill. Learning how to drive a tractor, cutting the lawn, 28:44 building the hay. 28:47 And boy, did you work up an appetite 28:50 and that food was so good that fresh food out of the ground. 28:54 That was good stuff. 28:57 And you don't want to watch TV. You are just so tired. You want 29:00 to go to bed and go to sleep so she could up the next morning. 29:04 But 29:06 it was sort of a a wake-up call. I know the reason that 29:10 she did in retrospect, 29:13 that's because she wanted us 29:16 to see what hard work was all about. 29:19 And that may be then we would study harder in school. So you 29:24 have to work that. Our haha. 29:29 I actually grew to really love farming after that and loving 29:34 the country in the piece in the song, too. 29:38 And, 29:40 you know, we have a farm 29:43 spend much time there. But sometimes we love to go there. 29:47 Just watched the beautiful amber waves of grain is a 29:52 because the wind is blowing through. 29:55 And my mother used to plant some of the most incredible 29:58 food on that farm 30:00 and what a difference it made. 30:03 One of the other things that is having an impact on family 30:07 formation 30:09 as women's empowerment 30:13 and the women's movement. 30:16 Now, do all the women started throwing tomatoes at me 30:23 in 1963, it was Betty Friedan am 30:28 who wrote a book called The Feminine Mystique, 30:34 created a lot of discontent 30:37 among women 30:39 who previously were pretty happy 30:42 with the things they were doing. It was OK, you know, 30:46 taking care of the family in 30:48 being the primary, one who raise the kids. But all of a 30:51 sudden 30:53 that was menial work 30:56 and those were second-class citizens 31:00 and they weren't nearly as important 31:02 as the women 31:04 who are out 31:05 and the workforce 31:07 and doing things. 31:09 Well, of course, if you have both male and female parent out 31:15 in the workforce 31:17 who's taking care of the KENS, 31:20 the most important thing that we have to do 31:25 so that again, 31:26 to be a problem, 31:29 it's not as much of a problem 31:33 if both parents 31:36 recognize how important taking the kids to taking care of the 31:40 kids are and actually sit down and plan 31:44 how it's going to be done. 31:47 One of the things that's going on now is remote work 31:52 and a lot of people can do just as much at home with their 31:56 computer as they could to an office, 32:00 but being able to work things out together and with employers 32:05 is something that's very important. 32:08 We're never going to go back. 32:10 I don't think 32:12 to just one parent 32:15 working another one, staying home, taking care of the kids. 32:20 People will do that. But most we're not going to it because 32:25 we've gotten so used 32:27 to having the extra car 32:30 and the bigger house and these things. 32:33 And, 32:35 you know, I'm not gonna lie. 32:38 That's a sacrifice 32:41 to take care of the kids 32:44 do. Keep in mind, 32:46 the kids are only there for 32:49 4 32:50 part of your life. 32:53 They come and they go pretty quickly collect crank up. 32:57 And so it's not something you have to commit to for the whole 33:00 time. 33:03 How worthwhile as it. And I give my wife a lot of credit 33:09 because, you know, she had a bachelor's degree from Yale and 33:13 a master's degree from Johns Hopkins. 33:16 It's a very accomplished person 33:19 and said 33:21 the most important thing is for me to stay home and take care 33:24 of the kids. 33:25 And, you know, all 3 sons 33:29 turned out to be terrifically successful. 33:32 And I think a lot of that had to do with her. 33:36 But also as a dad, 33:40 I knew how important that was to be there for the kids 33:43 because 33:44 if you look at people who are incarcerated 33:47 and the penal system, 33:49 80% of them come from fatherless homes 33:54 that fathers and sons is so vitally important. 33:59 And so many kids grew up without a father 34:02 without a real authority figure 34:05 and there 34:08 and the first person they run into with great authority as 34:12 police 34:14 or someone in their neighborhood is better than 34:16 they are. 34:17 And either case 34:19 it frequently doesn't work out well 34:22 and they may end up in the penal system or debt. 34:27 It's a real problem 34:29 and a lot of it can be solved by having a father to be there. 34:36 But it's not happening to a large degree because we have 34:41 kept minimizing the role of fathers. 34:45 You may have been to a college graduation recently. 34:50 If you have you probably know this 34:53 that the vast majority of graduates are women, 34:58 60% of college graduates now our feet. Now 35:03 what's happening to the guys? Where are they going? 35:08 What are they doing? 35:10 It's problematic. 35:12 And it's one of the reasons that a lot of these young 35:15 professional women 35:18 instead of looking for a husband 35:22 just looking for 35:24 a s**** donor 35:26 so that they can have children 35:29 because then they know they have somebody who will love 35:32 them, 35:33 somebody who will cherish them 35:37 and that's what they want. But that's not taking into 35:40 account the needs of the child. 35:43 It's actually being somewhat selfish. 35:47 And we need to really begin to emphasize 35:51 what the Lord really want to. 35:54 It's much easier for women to work outside the home now 35:57 because, 35:58 you know, 50, 60 years ago, 36:01 a lot of the higher paying jobs 36:04 naturally want to men because 36:08 they require a lot of physical strength. 36:11 That's not the case anymore. The majority of jobs now to not 36:15 require a lot of physical strength. 36:19 Now, interestingly enough, 36:21 over the last 30 years study that was reported and the 36:26 Washington Post a couple years ago 36:31 looking at grip strength 36:34 of men 36:36 has gone from 117 times 36:40 to 98 times 36:44 for women. 36:45 It has stayed 36:47 98 pounds over that whole time. 36:51 So 36:52 young women and young men have about same Christian now, 36:56 but they don't you don't need a lot of grip strength to hold 36:59 the ink pen. Other pushed keys on a keypad at 37:03 and what has happened as men because they're not involved in 37:07 a lot of the strenuous activities. 37:10 You know, they don't develop the same kind of strength, 37:13 but you don't really need the same kind of stir. 37:17 It's a different world that we live in now. 37:21 So it still is important to remember how those changes are 37:26 affecting people. 37:28 And then the whole concept 37:30 of no-fault divorce. 37:34 You notice that that was one of the 37:36 Khan Yunis goals that I read it, 37:39 making the force quick and easy. 37:43 No fall 37:45 has had a tremendously devastating effect 37:49 on our society 37:50 and our people. 37:53 And 37:55 you're not supposed to talk about that because it's not 37:58 politically correct. 38:00 You know, everybody is and 2, 38:02 what's good for me? 38:04 What feels right for me? 38:08 Well, you know, that's not an added to that is conducive 38:12 to a strong nuclear family. 38:15 It should be 38:17 what's in it for us. 38:19 How does it strengthen us as a unit as a family? How does it 38:25 make it better for us to be able to pass on our values to 38:30 our children? 38:31 So any time to we become selfish, 38:35 we contribute to the breakdown of what's happening 38:39 with our families. 38:42 And it's so important to recognize when you get 38:44 divorced, 38:47 it's devastating for the kids. 38:51 I'm sure. So if you've been through it, I mean, I certainly 38:54 went through it. 38:56 I can't tell you how devastating that was. 39:01 And as a little 8 year-old 39:05 had learned how to pray. 39:07 And I prayed that every single night, Lord, please help them 39:13 to get back together. 39:16 And I believe the harder I pray that somehow it would happen, 39:21 but it never did it. 39:24 But of course, as a youngster, I didn't know 39:28 the reasons that my parents got divorced. 39:31 I didn't know about the big tree and the bigamy that my 39:35 father was involved in. 39:39 But, you know, sometimes lord doesn't answer the prayer that 39:43 we ask him for, 39:46 because obviously he knows the in from the beginning. He knows 39:49 what's better for us. 39:51 And, you know, my father was 39:54 involved in 39:56 gambling 39:57 and drugs 40:00 and women. 40:04 Women are okay. But you only need one. 40:08 You know, he wasn't involved in things that would not have been 40:12 conducive to me becoming a successful doubt. 40:18 In retrospect, I was very glad that got an answer, that prayer 40:22 and the average case 40:25 that child 40:27 loves both of their parents. 40:30 And the worst thing you can do 40:32 is to tear apart 40:34 that family 40:36 and it's 40:38 really worthwhile thinking about 40:41 how do you 40:42 mend the fences to keep things running smoothly here to 40:46 recognize when 2 people get married, 40:49 they come from different environments. They come from 40:52 different settings. 40:54 So there's going to be friction. 40:56 The slight rubbing 2 pieces, the same paper together. 41:02 If you keep revenue, they gets move. 41:05 You just have to stay in there. Long enough for them gets 41:08 moved. 41:09 And, you know, our society today doesn't emphasize that. 41:14 They said if things are working out the way that you thought 41:18 they would 41:19 threw him out and get someone else 41:23 and that's problematic. 41:25 The statistics show us 41:28 that by the age of 16, 41:32 most young people in this country, 41:36 we'll have lived in either a single parent home 41:40 or a home with their parent and a co happened 41:45 who is not married to their parent. 41:49 That's the message that is being sent to our children 41:55 about what family life is supposed to be. 41:59 And that's why we're seeing it deteriorating so quickly and 42:03 our society today 42:06 and we can accept it. 42:08 We've been can begin to find it. 42:11 We can begin to recognize that there are those who are trying 42:16 to destroy 42:18 America as we know it. 42:21 And these are the methods that they are using. 42:25 And I think if you know your and the man, you know what 42:28 you're doing, you at least have a chance 42:31 to see what's going on. You at least have a chance to begin to 42:35 try to fix 42:36 what's happening. 42:39 You know, when it comes to 42:42 the issue of 42:45 gays, 42:47 what does the Bible say about that? 42:51 Well, it's actually very it was pretty straightforward. Says 42:55 Obama nation. The Lord does not like it, 42:59 but it doesn't say that the Lord doesn't love them. 43:03 And the Lord loves everybody 43:06 and he died for everybody, 43:10 including, you know, everybody in the LGBTQ, 43:17 whatever, whatever letter you want to ascribe to it, he loves 43:22 them and he paid the ultimate price for that. 43:27 And that means that we should love them, too. 43:32 Doesn't necessarily mean the 43:34 that we have to promote what they do it. 43:38 And that's a very big difference. 43:43 She says 43:44 love the centers 43:47 and he was criticized for us shading 43:51 with various centers. 43:56 He came to rescue the centers, 44:00 the church as a hospital for centers. 44:05 And we should always keep that in mind. It doesn't mean that 44:09 we have to alter who we are. 44:12 That doesn't mean that we have to redefine who we are. 44:17 You know, 44:18 when it comes to 44:20 transsexuals, 44:22 you know, I have a lot of very contentious 44:27 sessions with Congress 44:29 when I was a secretary of 44:32 because he's transgender. Women wanted to be 44:36 and the women shelters 44:38 and the women didn't want them and the women shelters 44:43 because a lot of the women were in women shelters because they 44:47 were having trouble with abusive men. 44:50 So they were not that happy one somebody showed up 44:54 who was obviously a man 44:57 and wanted to be with them. 45:00 And, you know, I said just that 45:04 maybe we should have shelters for transgenders. 45:08 They don't want that. They want to be with the women, 45:11 serious changes. And that I was reading an article 2 weeks ago 45:18 about 45:21 cyclists, some cyclists, women, cyclists 45:25 and a transgender woman won first place. 45:30 The second and 3rd place finishes who are real women. 45:35 I didn't want to be on the trophy stage 45:38 with that person because they felt that it was unfair 45:42 and it was unfair 45:45 because 45:46 men and women are different. 45:49 And it you know, it's funny because some of the transgender 45:54 community gets upset with you. 45:57 If you say the man can have a baby, 46:02 you know you're being transphobic. 46:06 The less I check 46:08 men did not have ovaries and uterus 46:12 or 2 X chromosomes. 46:15 And of course they can't have babies. It's almost like we've 46:19 lost their minds. 46:22 I talked to a lot of people from other countries 46:26 and that's the most common question. I get asked 46:29 what happened to you guys? I think we've gone off the deep 46:32 end. 46:34 I think we have to a large extent. 46:38 But what does it require 46:43 not to fall into those traps? 46:46 The easy thing to do is just to go along 46:50 with what everybody else is doing 46:52 and saying the Bible says we're supposed to be a peculiar 46:56 people. 46:58 And first, Peter, 2, 9, 47:02 that means you don't go along with what everybody else is 47:07 doing 47:08 just in order to get along. When Jesus said 47:12 if you follow me, 47:14 you can be persecuted 47:16 and you are 47:18 you're not going to be of the world 47:22 and they don't like people who are not 47:24 of the world, 47:26 but his the way. I kind of look at it, 47:29 no matter what they do, 47:33 no matter what they call you, 47:35 no matter what they try to do to you. 47:39 What is that 47:40 against a backdrop of the turn to 47:45 and it's like a flash in the pan. 47:49 We don't have to really concern ourselves about that. We have 47:52 to concern ourselves. We're being a part of the family of 47:55 CA. 47:57 And where do we get the courage 48:00 from him? 48:01 He is the source of courage. You know, I remember 48:06 as a resident, 48:08 I was on call one evening 48:11 and that was it was a time of a nurse surgical national 48:15 meeting. So all the attending were out of town at the menie 48:19 except the one that been left behind to take care of 48:21 emergencies. 48:23 And 48:25 a young man was brought in to the emergency room who have 48:28 been severely beaten with a baseball bat. 48:32 He was unconscious. His brain was swelling that can scan 48:35 demonstrated hemorrhages 48:37 he was going to die 48:40 unless a dramatic operation was done 48:43 and which you took out part of the frontal lobe and part of 48:45 the temp probe of to make space inside the skull. 48:50 So I called for that ending because as a resident, I 48:54 couldn't to that operation under way at that 48:58 and attending 48:59 couldn't reach the attending. 49:03 The nurses call for the tending couldn't region 49:05 the paging operate. A car for the tendon couldn't reach him. 49:10 I was left with a horrendous decision. 49:14 It was illegal 49:15 for resident to take her son to the operating room to do an 49:19 operation that I'd never done before. 49:22 I've seen it but never done one before 49:26 or 49:29 do the safe thing. Put him in the intensive care unit, 49:31 intubate him, Kim steroids and that nature take its course. 49:36 Why should I risk my career 49:39 and do something 49:41 that you can't you're not supposed to do. 49:45 So I pray. 49:48 I said, Lord, 49:49 please give me the wisdom 49:52 to know what to do in this case. And this is that prayer 49:56 was over. I instantly knew what to do. I have to take them to 50:00 the operating room. 50:02 It wasn't about my career was about his life 50:06 and everything came back to me. I remember everything. It 50:09 worked out extremely well. And today that young man as a 50:13 child psychologist or very well, you know, that 50:22 I never got into any trouble. In fact, I was praise for doing 50:26 the right thing 50:28 by the attending when they got that. 50:34 That is really the key. 50:37 2 50:38 creating strength not only in our church 50:42 but in our communities 50:45 and then our nation 50:47 being courageous, 50:49 being willing to step out and do the things that 50:53 other people want to, because they're afraid 50:56 that they're going to be called a nasty name 50:59 or that they're going to be canceled. 51:02 Guess what? 51:04 No one can can see you 51:07 if God doesn't want you cancel. 51:10 And we have to remember who's really in charge makes all the 51:14 difference. 51:20 And that gave me 51:22 a lot of courage throughout my whole career 51:25 to sometimes do things that other people wouldn't do. 51:28 Just asking God for guidance. Remember, there was a young 51:31 man. 51:33 He had a disease called been hippel Lindau 51:36 and which you develop these very vascular tumors in the 51:39 brain 51:41 and he developed one right in the middle of his brain stem. 51:46 The brain stem is an area you can't really operate on us like 51:49 a coaxial cable. 51:52 So none of the adult learners surgeons with doing anything. 51:57 Well, unfortunately, for me, 52:00 it turns out that his wife 52:03 was a nurse on the pediatric nurse or jury service. 52:07 So she had access to me. 52:12 It's just as you've got to operate. The my husband, 52:15 I said, but I'm a pediatric nurse surgeon. He's an adult. 52:19 She said when he acts like a child. 52:22 >> Haha. 52:30 >> She just kept after me and after me and 52:34 finally, I said, OK, I'll go and talk to him. 52:37 And I went and I spoke to him. I said, Craig, 52:43 you know, 52:45 if I take you to the operating room and I operate on this 52:49 tumor, 52:51 there's at least a 50, 50 chance that you will die on the 52:55 table. 52:58 And he said, Doc, 53:00 if you don't operate on me, there's 100% chance and I'm 53:04 going to die. 53:05 So I'll take the 50 to 50 odds any day. 53:10 And I talked to the operating room is very complex. He'd 53:14 grown a lot of new blood vessels down around the brain 53:17 stem. 53:20 But I found a way through them under the microscope, made a 53:23 very tiny incision in the brain stem 53:27 and put a little micro probe into the brain stem 53:31 feeling toward the area where I felt the tumor should be. 53:34 And I could feel a little spends like give 53:39 I figured that was the capsule, the tumor, Putin little micro 53:43 force up and grab the capsule 53:47 and start it, pulling it out in freeing it up with another 53:51 small micro instrument 53:54 and then the evoked potentials went flat. 53:57 The electrical signals in the NFC, Joe, the set, I told you 54:02 you were going to kill him 54:04 than that. 54:07 And 54:09 but I just continue to take the tumor out. 54:12 Finally got it all out. Close them out. 54:16 He was a maximum life support. 54:19 I went back to the intensive care unit, 54:23 Fieri 54:26 very religious and the vigil as was his wife. 54:30 We've spent a lot of time talking and praying 54:35 the next morning when I came in, 54:39 he had been extirpated. He was sitting up in the bed telling 54:42 jokes. Haha, 54:50 what that case helped me realize 54:54 is that sometimes 54:56 you do things, 54:59 maybe the odd turn good. 55:02 But you recognize 55:04 that there's someone else in charge that's greater than you 55:07 are. 55:08 That's really the key 55:15 when we look at all the things that are going on right now in 55:19 our society and sometimes we have a tendency 55:23 to maybe get a little discouraged, 55:26 maybe think 55:28 what's the use 55:30 the finding was use of resisting. 55:34 Here's what we need to recognize. 55:37 We serve an awesome guy. 55:39 All powerful 55:41 and a loving. He loves everybody. It doesn't matter 55:48 what use done or where you came from. He loves you 55:53 and I'll tell you how much God loves you. 55:58 You would be happy 56:00 living with him for ever and haven't. 56:04 He will find a way to safety 56:07 if you would not be happy if you don't like his rules, 56:14 he's not going to take you there because he loves you too 56:16 much to torture you for ever by having you in a place where you 56:20 wouldn't be happening. 56:22 So 56:23 you don't really have to spend a whole lot of time for 56:26 reading. 56:28 You know, I used to do that when I was a kid. I just think 56:31 anything you do the Lord's gonna write that town so you 56:34 can be punished for, you know what? You hear stuff like that. 56:38 That's not who God is. 56:40 He's a wonderful guy. And when it comes to families, 56:45 the best thing we can ever do 56:49 as be part of the family of God 56:53 [MUSIC] 56:58 [MUSIC] 57:03 [MUSIC] 57:08 [MUSIC] 57:13 [MUSIC] 57:18 [MUSIC] |
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