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Segment 1 • An update on Jimmy Hicks’ surgery recovery reveals an unexpected lesson about marriage, suffering, and seeing your spouse with fresh eyes. • Could one difficult season expose blessings in your family that you've been overlooking for y...
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Todd Friel
Wretched radio begins in 3, 2, 1. Now, I can preach it like this, okay?
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Jimmy Hicks
Repent.
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Radio Host/Commentator
Or I can tell you change your mind.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
Preaching repentance in the area of consciousness of sins is dishonoring the work of Jesus.
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Jimmy Hicks
Repentance means you realize you're guilty, that you deserve the wrath and punishment of God. You begin to realize that sin is in you and you turn your back on it in every shape and form. You renounce the world, whatever the cost, and you deny yourself and take up the cross and go after Christ.
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Todd Friel
It's time for Wretchedness Radio with Tod
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Radio Host/Commentator
Friel, Charlamagne and the Legacy. Hold on, hold on. Breaking news, breaking news.
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Jimmy Hicks
This is Redshed Radio.
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Radio Host/Commentator
Charlemagne's just gonna have to wait. We have some breaking news received into my never before nicotine stain. Figures. Okay, I didn't receive it there. It came through the email, then it got printed up. But I'm holding in my never before nicotine stained fingers an update on the health of Jimmy Hicks. That's right. I said, jimmy, we need to know what's going on. Write a report. And he did. And here it is. As of today, the progress is good. I'd call it positive. That's really good because the first few days after his surgery, it was a beating. Our very own Jimmy Hicks, who of course does the news and about a gazillion other things around here, had back surgery. I'm able to stand and sit on my own now. That took some time. I'm not doing it quickly, but I'm doing it. I'm also walking around on my own. I don't need a posse anymore. Well, that's good because you don't always have a posse available to help you walk around. So that's positive, isn't it? I'm weaning myself off of a few things. One is the walker, the other is the medication. Cutting back on the pain medication because, yeah, it was painful. And you gotta watch out for those oxy things, don't you? Because the epidemic of people that are hooked on that stuff. I still haven't tackled stairs yet. That'll be a feat for later this week. Pain wise, though, I'm doing well. My neck is awfully stiff.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
Expected.
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Radio Host/Commentator
I'm still not supposed to be turning it. I'm supposed to turn with my whole body for another week so the stiffness makes sense. Yeah, that's needed. But that's the creepy turn, isn't it? You don't turn your head, you just turn your whole body at somebody. It makes you look like you got issues or something. So Jimmy's gonna have issues for another week is basically how I interpret that. Every day there's progress of some kind. Every day I'm doing something different without help. Those were the first. But the first few days were rough. I think I talked about this. This is Jimmy talking about this on radio before the surgery. But it was hard for me to go through it because I wasn't in pain before. I knew the surgery was going to cause pain, at least during the recovery. So when it came, my first thought was, yep, I knew it. I shouldn't have done this. But God has been very kind to me. My wife has been an absolute treasure. And I think that's been the biggest lesson God taught me through this whole ordeal. It's funny how God teaches us, isn't it? Isn't it amazing what God uses and ordains for us to grow? And it sounds like according to Jimmy, he's learning some stuff, in this instance about his wife. I've always known how much Mrs. Hicks sacrifices and does for our family, but this recovery has allowed me to see it in a way I never did before. It's like the blinders have come off and I've been able to witness what she's been doing for our entire marriage. Perhaps there is a lesson that we can learn to learn that lesson before we have to have back surgery. Because you don't want to have to go through back surgery to learn stuff, learn from somebody who has gone through it. Take a look, maybe at your family at a whole new light. What are they doing that perhaps you've been taking for granted, especially your spouse and their faithfulness? Look, you'll find something. There's stuff there. Maybe you're going through a bit of a season right now, but there's still stuff. He or she is still there. That's something. Look for it, study it, to appreciate it. Jimmy. It's a humbling thing to be completely cared for. There was a stretch where I couldn't do anything on my own. It's hard to let my wife do those things for me. But she never hesitated. A couple of days after I got home, I was in a lot of pain, and if I'm being honest, extremely emotional man. I'd like to see that. I remember I apologized to her. I told her I knew that I wasn't the man she married. And I knew this wasn't what she signed up for. She corrected me very quickly. She agreed I'm not the man she married. She said, we're both different people than we were 23 years ago. And that's just life. But then she told me I was sadly mistaken if I thought this wasn't what she signed up for. She said, we're going to get older. That's what people do. Our vows covered all of this. In sickness and in health is exactly what we signed up for. And she hasn't missed a beat. That. That's a lesson that was hard learned, but a lesson well worth learning. When you get married, this is what you sign up for. All of it. Now, the physical stuff, that's pretty obvious, but there can be a fair amount of emotional stuff that you didn't anticipate. Things about the dreamboat that you married you never expected would be a part of the package, but they are. And that is why marriage is this covenantal union that is so profound. I can tell you that what Jimmy and Mrs. Hicks are actually enjoying right now and going through this experience, what it is building, what it is doing for them, how it is knitting them together, is beyond describable. It's profound. And if you're young and you're hesitating to get married because you think of things like, oh, well, what if my spouse gets sick? Right? That's hard. But it also will do something for you. It'll bring you together and it'll bond you and knit you together with somebody in a way that you never even imagined. You want closeness, you want intimacy. And I'm not talking about physical. You want intimacy, get married and tough it out. Go through these seasons. Because what lies on the other side of the suffering is profound and good. And it is always worth it. Back to Jimmy. God has given me eyes to see my wife in a fresh way. And I'm more in love with her today than I've ever been in 23 years of marriage. Looky there. Look at that fruit. It's not because she did something through this process to earn my love. It's because I finally been able to see the ordinary steps of her life, the things that she does every day without fanfare. She didn't rise to the occasion to take care of me. She just kept living like she always has. And I'm finally seeing it. I'm grateful for this entire process, which sounds crazy, but I have so much genuine gratitude for my wife and for my kids. That is beautiful is what that is. And then this was a really odd request. He finishes it up by asking me if I would play a song for his wife. So, okay, Jimmy, I'll click the button I'm all out of you.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
I'm so lost without you.
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Jimmy Hicks
You're kidding.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
I know.
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Radio Host/Commentator
You were right to believe in a soul.
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Jimmy Hicks
Okay, Mrs. H,
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Radio Host/Commentator
this one's from Jimmy. Take a breath. Then let's get to Charlemagne, shall we? And the legacy of Christian political violence. You say, wow. Why do we need to learn this? Well, we can always learn something from history, can't we? And today is no exception. Why? Because we're wrangling with how are we as Christians supposed to be engaging with politics? How are we supposed to be responding to a government when it doesn't behave well, now I know that right now we're in a bit of a respite. Although it's interesting. I did see that over 400 churches were violently attacked in the not. Well, they weren't attacked. They were vandalized or abused or burnt down in some way in America. 400 in the last year. What are we going to do? Because it's not an if question, it's a when question. How are we going to respond when the government is different, when the attitude toward Christians is the exact opposite opposite, when it isn't favorable, when it's actually aggressive against Christians? What are we going to do? And we don't need to really look too much further than our Bible. No, we don't need to look further than our Bible period to know how we're supposed to respond, because it's laid out for us. But we can also learn from history because we have learned over the course of the centuries what happens when we goof it up, when we blur the lines between church and state in confusing our realms of jurisdictional authority, Bad things happen. And Charlemagne can lead the way in helping us understand from this article that didn't happen at 9 marks ministries. Put the author on your things there. Known as the grandfather of modern Europe, Charlemagne codified the partnership between the emperor and the papacy, making the papacy Christian Europe's most powerful authority. A key feature of their partnership was Charlemagne's use of state coercion to convert persons to Christianity. And he's going to recount for us what happens when there's a blending of church and state inevitably, and I mean inevitably leads to bad things. While it is the Bible most certainly that draws the lines for us, we can see what happens when we blur them, when we try to promote some sort of theonomy, some sort of blending of church, well, what some people would call Christian nationalism today. What can we learn from Charlemagne? A lot. Next on Wretched Radio,
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Todd Friel
Books of the Bible. The book of Micah contains prophecies against the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Micah warns of God's judgment for idolatry and oppressing the poor. But he offers hope of salvation in the coming Messiah, who is a shepherd, a judge and a ruler. Those whom God has saved are charged to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with their God. This is Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
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Radio Host/Commentator
Anybody else got lost in love? No. A lot of love. It's got the word love in it. This is Wretched Radio. Whilst looking for Jimmy's request song from Air Supply, bumped into this. This guy could sing these people back, I'm telling you, from the 80s. I don't know what was in the water, but there were a number of lead singers. Man, they had a voice. This is this. I always find stuff like this intriguing. This is actually backstage warming up for a concert. This was 1995, so this is obviously very acoustic. Getting ready to take the stage. You could sing back then, This guy's voice.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
So,
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Radio Host/Commentator
Wow. They don't quite sing them like that anymore, do they? Speaking of Lost in Love. Charlemagne. That's right. That was the segue right there. Learning lessons from Charlemagne. Why? Because he was, well, not the first, but he was the bestest at incorporating Christianity into government. What are the lessons that we can learn as we go about the business of trying to figure out? What is that line? How do we determine the role of Church and state? Is there indeed a wall separating the two? What does it look like? When can the Church speak to the government? Is that the limitation? They can preach at the government. Can Christians be involved in politics? What does that look like for a politician to have a Christian informed worldview? It is not a new question. It is one that has been asked now for centuries. And we have some of the answers for us when we study history going back to Charlemagne. If you recall, this conqueror was one who became a Christian. His testimony was he got saved and he went about the business of making the papacy a very powerful institution. Let me share with you from Charlemagne and the legacy of Christian political violence. What Charlemagne introduced was using force to convert pagans to Christians. And his use of violence to create Christians served as a model for the next thousand years. The year is 771 AD. Charlemagne became the sole Frankish king without wasting any time. After his Coronation, he led his army to war with the pagan Saxons of the north. Victories were just one after the other, and he became increasingly convinced that God's favor was on him. And to pay homage, Charlemagne forced prisoners of war to confess Christ and be baptized. Now this is from the Royal Frankish annals. Charlemagne viewed the Saxons as lost souls who needed to be compelled to come in. And so he thought it was his duty to, to convert them. Now you and I of course know that's problematic because you can't make somebody become a Christian. You can't force them, you can make them say some words, you can make them hide their true beliefs, but we can't regenerate anybody. Why this treatment of Charlemagne, it exposes the dangers because there are people who would like a more Christian infused government. And as soon as I say that, I want to qualify it immediately. I too want a Christian infused government. How does that happen? It happens when there are men, when there are women who are informed by their Christianity, who vote wisely, who write legislation that is God honoring. But what almost inevitably happens when we say that a government is going to be a Christian government is that you're going to see excesses. Needless to say, you're going to see some extremes. And that is precisely what we saw with Charlemagne. The Catholic Church, they approved of Charlemagne's tactics. Archbishop Lullus of Mainz, he was a Frank, argued the only way to save the Saxons was through violence. For these stubborn people will never convert on their own. So we've got to force them to submit. And in 796, Charlemagne wrote to Pope Leo Charles, by the grace of God, King of the Franks and Lombards and patricians of the Romans, to His Holiness Pope Leo, I will ever defend the most holy seat of the Roman Church. For it is our part to defend the holy Church of Christ from the attacks of pagans and infidels from without and within to enforce the acceptance of the Catholic Church. It is your part, most Holy Father, to aid us in the good fight by raising your hands to God as Moses did, so that by your intercession, the Christian people, under the leadership of God, may always and everywhere have the victory over the enemies of his holy name. And the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified throughout the world. Not sure there's anybody that is promoting that America should look like Charlemagne's 8th century Europe. But the point of studying history is we see where these confusions about what the Bible prescribes is the role of Church and the role of state and the role of family. It leads to, well, what you're hearing, that's where it, it goes. While it can sound good, because I've heard the argument, hey, everybody's vying to influence the government. Isn't it best if Christians influence it? And the answer is yes. The problem is the conclusion. Some would say, therefore, we need to be a Christian government. Well, first of all, a government can't be Christian. But the issue is what happens when that does take place, because we've already seen that in history. From the article at 9 marks, the correspondence outlines a division of labor for advancing and protecting Christianity. Charlemagne was the sword and the shield of Christianity, while the Pope was its intercessor. But these lines all, they immediately became blurry. So On Christmas Day, 800 AD, the Pope crowned Charlemagne as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. The Empire was made Roman Catholic by decree. The council of Claremont 1095. Fast forward. This is Pope Urban II. With an immense crowd listening. Urban implored Christian knights to take up the sword against the Turkish invaders and Muslims more generally. This was the beginning of the Crusades, and this author is contending, this just follows the pattern of the Church and state mingling. There was an assault against Christians, that is certain, by Muslims. And so it was the Pope who ordered the raising up of an army for the sake of reclaiming the lands. And thus began the Crusades. Let the deeds. This is from Pope Urban ii. Let the deeds of your ancestors move you and incite your minds to manly achievements, the glory and greatness of King Charles the Great. That would be Charlemagne and his son Louis, and of your other kings who have destroyed the kingdom of the pagans and have extended these lands in the territory of the Holy Church. In other words, we're going to war for Christianity. Almost valiant soldiers and descendants of invisible ancestors do not degenerate, but recall the valor of your progenitors. And so the crusading of the Middle Ages was very comfortable with, if you will, converting people, spreading the gospel through the sword. From our article. Nearly everyone would count Charlemagne's example as extreme. Even the most ardent theonomist or Christian nationalist will remark, of course we cannot convert people by the threat of the sword. That's ridiculous. And they would say that, so why recount history at all? Here's the answer. Those who advocate for some version of theonomy should be aware of perversions, and they should beware of precedence when the Church possesses coercive power. And that's what would happen when there's a theonomy form of government, when the church possesses coercive power, it invariably becomes warped and corrupted. So those who advocate for some version of theonomy should ask themselves, how might the systems of governance I'm promoting be abused? Because they will be abused. History has taught us that the apostles, they propagated the gospel differently. They preached it. They proclaimed it. Peter instructs us how we're to respond to bad governments. It wasn't by going to war. It wasn't by imposing and flexing Christian muscle and imposing Christian values. It was by being a peculiar holy royal priesthood set apart, proclaiming the gospel of the king. What is our lesson from history? It's a powerful lesson. But I would ultimately say the lessons that we need to learn about how we view church and state need to be informed by the Bible. This this is Wretched Radio,
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attorneys general, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas have sued the World Professional association for Transgender Health, accusing it of misleading parents into buying puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries for kids by lying about their safety. The complaint says clinicians pressured parents with a chilling would you rather have a live daughter or dead son? Even though there's no solid proof any of it lowers suicide risk? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the group sold children irreversible procedures as safe and necessary, staying with gender ideology. But on a lighter note, in minor league baseball, the York Revolution were set to host their 11th annual Pride Night. Then several players refused to wear the rainbow jerseys, so the club forfeited the game and threw the Pride party anyway. Free admission with a $10,000 donation to boot. And speaking of caving to the mob in fashion, the progressive brand Silky rolled out a red, white and blue collection. The problem, however, it dropped during Pride Month. And Silky own left wing fans revolted, calling the dresses unsafe and demanding the brand release. Nothing at all. The founder refused to apologize. Apparently, the American flag is now the Internet's number one trigger, which says far less about the flag than it does about the people it triggers. And on the pro life front, a new report finds the United nations top humanitarian office is still routing American tax dollars to groups that push abortion and gen her ideology overseas, despite a Trump administration policy banning exactly that. One grantee bills itself as a feminist group led by queer, trans and immigrant staff, and the administration won't say if it quietly granted a waiver. And the spending doesn't stop overseas. California collects 80% of all federal welfare going to illegal alien households. $759 million nationwide. But here's the part that might stick to American families face a five year lifetime cap on that aid the illegal cases. No time limit. The checks just keep coming till the child turns 18. And better than nine in 10 of those homes draw food stamps as well. So your tax dollars, they're still hard at work. Across the pond, a story you'd swear was invented. A man who threw a three year old boy over a fence into a crocodile enclosure at an English zoo has already been freed on bail until September. Police say he's too mentally disabled to even be questioned. The boy survived a 15 foot fall with a broken pelvis and arm after the zoo owner's wife vaulted the fence to pull him out. That wraps up today's Fortis News break. I'm Jimmy Hicks.
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Todd Friel
Attributes of God what does it mean to say God is righteous? He is the standard of what is right and good. He is in strict adherence to his moral law and he is the source of righteousness through Jesus Christ for every sinner who repents and puts their trust in Christ. This is Wretched Radio with Todd Friel.
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Do not, I repeat, do not be left behind. And I don't mean that in a pre Trib kind of way. This is Wretched Radio. Oodles. That's right. I counted oodles. Oh, people are signing up for Jason Lyle's new podcast. In the beginning, he does tackle creation. Most certainly spends time in Genesis. But then he also tackles all scientific issues dealing with subjects that are quite contemporary these days. UFOs, global warming. It is a podcast that you really will benefit from. It is so good and it's so accessible. If science is kind of like to you, don't panic. He makes it really, really easy to understand. For instance, when he talks about dating mechanisms. You don't have to be a PhD to get it.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
So there are three main assumptions that are made when we estimate the age of a rock using radiometric dating. One, that we know the initial ratio of elements, which we never really know for certain, two, that the decay rate has always been constant, and three, that the system is closed in the sense that no Material has moved in and out of the rock. Now, if any one of those is wrong, you're going to get the wrong age. And there is very good evidence that that second assumption is dead wrong. The Rate Research Group, which was a group of many PhD physicists and geologists that had a creation worldview, they came together and did some wonderful research showing that there's good evidence that in the past, radioactive decay rates were much faster than they are today. And so if you don't compensate for that, your estimated ages will be far older than the true age. And this might account for why secularists believe that rocks are much older than we know from Scripture, that they really are.
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In other words, the uniformitarianists, they believe that everything has been constant, nothing has changed. It's never been in flux. Decay rate's always been the same. They don't know that. In fact, there is now some, I think, sufficient evidence to indicate it hasn't been. Hence their dating is wrong. And this is why we've discovered so many things that shouldn't be. That there's marrow inside of a dinosaur bone. Well, how in the world do you account for that? That should be long gone. Unless, of course, they haven't been gone that long. Jason Lyle, he will help you to shore up your apologetics when it comes to sharing your faith. Because the creation issue, it's always going to be there. People always want to try to dismiss creation, and they ultimately want to dismiss the Bible, therefore, because they believe that the mechanism of evolution is sufficient to prove God did not create the earth.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
When Mount St. Helens erupted in the 1980s, and it erupted more than once, but we collected some brand new rocks that had formed from the magma, and we sent them into secular labs and had them estimate the age. And those rocks came out with estimated ages of hundreds of thousands to even millions of years on rocks that we know are brand new. So the bottom line is radiometric dating has been shown to not work on rocks of known age, and yet secularists assume that it works on rocks of unknown age. That is not logical.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
And so the idea is by measuring the C14 to C12 ratio in the remains of an animal, you can actually tell how long ago it died. Now, of course, that's based on certain assumptions as well. It's based on the assumption that the C14 in the atmosphere has been constant over time, but nonetheless, we find that when we use this method to estimate the age of something whose true age we know, it tends to give the right answer, or at least within the right ballpark. And the neat thing is, it never gives millions or billions of years, even on things that evolutionists believe to be very old, like coal beds. Coal is supposed to be hundreds of millions of years old, and yet every chunk of coal we've ever tested has C14 in it. And that tells you it can't be anywhere near millions of years old. In fact, if the entire Earth were nothing but C14 after 1 million years, you'd not have a single atom left. If there weren't any regeneration sources, C14 doesn't last that long. And so the fact that we have found C14 in dinosaur remains shows that dinosaurs are not millions of years old. We found C14 in diamonds, diamonds that evolutionists believe to be 1 to 2 billion years old, but they can't be, because they have C14 in them, and it simply doesn't last that long. And then the secularists have said, well, there must be some kind of contamination, some way of getting new C14 in there. But how would you do that with a diamond? It's the hardest substance. There doesn't seem to be any way to do that. Nor can other radiometric sources recharge the C14, because there aren't enough of them. You'd need 13,000 times more radioactive productivity in the Earth to recharge the C14. It's just not feasible. And so the fact that we find C14 and just about everything that has carbon in it tells us the entire Earth is nowhere near millions of years old. It's only a few thousand years old.
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Doesn't that make you feel good? Isn't that nice to hear that? Because when they've got these academic institutions and they have seminars and journals and they hold symposiums, it makes it sound like this is a done deal. The Bible is flat out wrong. And then, of course, some people have decided, well, it looks so persuasive and so overwhelming that the Earth is old. We need to reinterpret how we read Genesis, and it is entirely unnecessary to do so. As you're hearing from Dr. Jason Lyle's podcast, the evidence indicates their mechanisms for dating. They are not reliable.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
For example, the rate at which salt flows into the ocean. Even fresh water has a little bit of salt in it. Rivers pick up a little bit of salt from the continents, and they dump that salt into the ocean at a rate of 450 million tons per year. Now, the water in the ocean evaporates, but it leaves the salt. And so the oceans actually get a little bit saltier every year. You can get rid of a little bit of that salt with salt sprays and things like that, but that only gets rid of 27% maximum. And so the other 73% simply accumulates. And so the oceans are actually getting saltier and saltier over time. And if you do the calculation based on today's rates, it puts the maximum possible age of the ocean between 30 and 40 million years. Even being generous to the critics, the oceans would have to be less than 62 million years old. And you'd say, well, that sounds like a lot, but that's the maximum possible age. Because if you run it back that far, the ocean would be fresh water. And you can't go back further than that because you can't have less salt than no salt. And so what that does is it means the maximum possible age of the Ocean would be 62 million years. And yet the secular views require that the ocean's 3 billion years old. That doesn't work. But it's perfectly consistent with the biblical age of about 6,000 years. Knowing that God made the oceans with
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salt already in them, I'm wondering, when is there going to be a movement of left wing folks who salt? Not global warming, not climate change, ocean salt change. We're on the precipice of disaster. There's more salt in the ocean today than there was 10 years ago. Yeah, that's right. That's because that's been happening ever since God created it.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
Human population is another problem for millions of years because you see humans reproduce quickly. And even starting out a few thousand years ago, you can easily get Earth's current population of between 7 and 8 billion people. It's not a problem. But if the human race went back a hundred thousand years or more, as evolutionists believe, then the Earth should be completely full of people. But it isn't. That even includes the fact that there were greater mortality rates in the past and so on. We do have to take those factors into consideration. But it is virtually impossible to maintain a 0% growth rate for hundreds of thousands of years. It just doesn't work. The record of human population growth is consistent with the biblical timescale.
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Radio Host/Commentator
That is a huge issue. There's another one that has always just been just so obvious to me. Why is it that we have history going back about 6,000 years and no further? Why don't we have artifacts, writing. Why don't we have the variety of languages back millions of years? We don't have any of those artifacts. Why? Well, it's because the Bible is accurate.
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Dr. Jason Lyle
The rate at which the Earth's magnetic field is decaying is consistent with its biblical timescale of a few thousand years. We know that the energy in Earth's magnetic field is dropping with time. We'd expect that because magnetic fields are caused by electrical current in the core, and electrical current encounters resistance and therefore runs down with time, just like a battery. The Earth's magnetic field is draining with time. And we can measure that. We've been able to measure that for the last century and a half. And we know it's decaying. And if you use the current decay rate, assuming an exponential decay, which is what we'd expect for this type of phenomenon, and you run the equation back 6,000 years, the Earth's magnetic field would have been 20 times stronger than it is today. And that's fine. But if you run it back even 60,000 years, not millions of years, but 60,000, the magnetic field would have been stronger than that of a neutron star. And that's enough to rip the atoms of your body apart. And so that limits the age of the Earth to much less than the 4.5 billion years that secularists think they need in order to make evolution sound plausible.
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Todd Friel
Titles of Christ in the Bible, Jesus is given many titles that teach us about who he is and what he has done. Jesus is called a curse for us. When Adam sinned, all creation came under a curse. And everyone who breaks God's law is cursed. But Jesus bore our curse on the cross so that we may receive the blessings of God. This is wretched radio with talk freel,
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TikTok challenges and the catechism. This is wretched radio. No doubt you've heard of some of the TikTok trends, the dare games that the kids play. Hey, put in. What the. Not an ipod. The. The thing. The dishwasher. The dishwashing soap thing. Jimmy, I missed you. What's the name of the dishwasher? You know, it's in the thick. We know what it is, Todd. You put it in your mouth and whatever that game and children died from it. Well, here's the latest. And I've heard there's just a wide variety of these games that kids are playing online. This one was a 15 year old girl. She participated multiple times actually in the Benadryl challenge. It involves recording yourself trying to stay awake while downing excessive amounts of the allergy medication because it puts you to sleep. So you take a big. You drink a bottle of it and then you film yourself and people watch it. And what do you get from it? You get lots of views. And according to this girl's dad, that's exactly why she did it. She desired online fame. Officials in Connecticut confirmed three children in the state had died over the last two months from apparent overdoses of Benadryl. Like products. Because it has a scientific name that I can't pronounce different. That's just Connecticut. Why do kids do. Why are they seeking this online? Well, whether this girl was seeking online fame or not, eternity will tell her parents perhaps know. But I think that that's one of the great motivators for why kids are doing this. Look at me, see me, Appreciate me. I need some attention. Why? What's missing? Now you can make the sociological case they're not getting parental affection. Well, that could be a part of it. I don't argue with that. It could be a difficult home life. It could be that they simply purchase the messaging that has been sent their way since they were born. What's really cool is to be famous. If you really want to be special, you've got to be a celebrity. You've got to be an online influencer and they desire that. But I would suggest to you the bigger problem, because it's always the bigger problem, is spiritual. They don't know who they are. Literally, they don't know who they are because they're more than a member of a family. They're More than a member of a community. They are God's creation. They are image bearers. And when you don't know that things are going to be off, when you don't know who your maker is, when you don't know why you're here, you don't know what you're supposed to be doing, you're going to try to fill that up in some way. And now it appears that the kids are trying to fill that up with these TikTok challenges that are dangerous. They're dying from these things. And that is why I think that we need to be catechizing our kids more and more. I'm so persuaded of this because I know that catechism has fallen out of favor these last decade, few decades. This has only been recent. We've decided we need to amuse the kids to pieces, and we've decided it's just too hard for them to. I was watching a video of Stephen Furtick's son. Great. His progeny are preaching and he's speaking to a youth group. And he was talking. The verse was, this is my beloved son, and it's the story of Jesus and his baptism. And so he's reading the story of the baptism. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And then he said this. Okay, okay, only one more verse. And then he read about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. Why did he have to inject that? Hey, hold on. Don't go away. Don't be. I don't want to lose you here. One more verse. Stick with me. Because they. They feel like they. That they've got to keep the kids engaged by making sure that the preaching is super, super short. It's got to be really cool, by the way, really fashionable. It's got to seem really hip. And like, the people that are teaching, man, they're really. They're really groovy. Why? Because their mindset is kids are canuckleheads. They've got a short attention span. And we got to dumb this down. We got to do anything necessary, and I mean anything necessary to keep them engaged. I deny and reject all of that. You don't need to. If you can't keep a teenager's attention with the Bible, you are absolutely in the wrong business when it comes to the verdicts. I mean business. The Bible is plenty interesting. And when we dumb everything down, when we've stopped catechizing our kids, I think it is causing a great deal of angst amongst this generation. Consider this is the Truth and Grace memory book from the Heidelberg Catechism. What is your only comfort in life and death? You got something more relevant than that? What is your only comfort in life and in death? Do you think that the kids at youth groups that are doing TikTok challenges might benefit from knowing the answer to that? What is your comfort in life and death? Listen to what people wrote 500 years ago. That I am not my own, but belong body and soul, in life and in death, to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. That alone, even just that statement, my faithful Savior Jesus Christ, you belong to him. You're safe. You are affirmed in him. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven. In fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Do you think that might help somebody who's feeling like they've got to do something crazy to get some attention? Because I belong to him. Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him. And then it of course cites all the different bible verses. Question 2. What must you know to live and die in the joy of this comfort? And this is noteworthy because how often these days are we not presenting the gospel rightly to the kids? I think I mentioned this last week. Been watching online videos of youth groups, some I would say better than others, the videos that I've seen. So this is. I'm not impugning all youth groups everywhere in America, but the videos that I've seen, not one of them got it right. Not one. They would leave out an element that was crucial to the understanding of it. And when we do that, we're going to create some false converts. You've got to understand the gospel. And if we were perhaps catechizing our kids, maybe kids would learn the gospel better, even if it's not being preached well from the stage. From a groovy youth pastor. So what do we need to know to live and die in the joy of this comfort? Three things. How great my sin and misery are. Two, how I am set free from all sins and misery. Third, how I am to thank God for such deliverance. Question 3. How do you know your misery? The law of God tells me. What does God's law require of us? Jesus teaches in a summary, you shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart, soul, mind and strength. 5. Can you live up to all of this perfectly.
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Todd Friel
No.
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I have a natural tendency to hate God and my neighbor. By the way, that was left out of every Gospel presentation that I saw. He just wants to be your friend. Was the big message. Did God create man wicked and perverse? No. God created man good and in his own image. It was man who fell number seven. Then where does man's corrupt nature come from? From the fallen disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve in paradise. This fall has so poisoned our nature that we are all born sinners, corrupt from conception on. 8 But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined toward all evil? Yes, unless we are born again by the Spirit of God. But doesn't God do man an injustice by requiring in his law what man is unable to do? No. God created man with the ability to keep the law. Man, however, when tempted by the devil and reckless disobedience, robbed himself and his descendants of these gifts. 10 will God permit such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished? Certainly not. He is terribly angry about the sin we are born with as well as the sins we personally commit. As a just judge, he punishes them now and in eternity. He has declared cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law. But isn't God also merciful? God is certainly merciful, but he is also just. His justice demands that sin committed against his supreme majesty be punished with the supreme penalty, eternal punishment of body and soul. This is laying the ground then for the Gospel. Can we pay our debt ourselves? No, we cannot. So then of course, the question is, then what can we do in order to be reconciled to God? And that is a big chunk of the catechism explaining this is what God has done. Out of his great love. He sent his only beloved Son to live a perfect life of righteousness, to take the wrath that we have earned for being law breakers and God haters. Who is the mediator? Who is truly God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous? Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us to set us completely free and make us right with God. That's the gospel. And with so many kids not hearing it rightly, and with so many kids so depressed and so desiring to just they so desirous to be a part of something. Here we are with the truth. Maybe, just maybe, one more reason to catechize our kids. Tick, tock, challenges and until tomorrow, go serve your king.