Hey, everybody. We’re gonna be looking at moments, uh, in American history where god intervenes in our country’s dilemmas and plights and situations.
And you’re gonna hear something about the Apollo space program.
You’re gonna hear something about September eleventh, and you’re gonna hear something about 07/07/2005. Why does it matter?
And why does your worldview matter? Stay tuned.
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Well, everybody, we’re talking to you about, um, times of faith, times of god intervening, and, um, times of, uh, the test of what is reality.
And when I say that, um, what I mean by that is what’s going on in life?
Uh, happens. It is reality.
And the second thing is, how is it observed is how we determine or we establish having a world view.
Every single 1 of us have a world view.
And I’m gonna give you some examples right now as to why Uh, a worldview is important and why a, uh, worldview, uh, can be determined to be valid because not all world views are valid, though everyone has a world view just because you have a world view doesn’t make it right.
For example, we’re talking about moments in American history when god intervened and Boy, this is something that as an old guy, I remember. I I remember this, uh, because I lived it in real time.
I got to experience this, and some of you viewers, um, are gonna remember this.
On April eleventh, uh, 19 70, I believe it was, was the launch date of Apollo 13.
And, uh, everything seemed perfectly normal. We now Americans, the US space program, NASA.
We had become quite proficient at catapulting these guys in 10 cans.
Out into space and a, uh, a man in the future in my life, uh, who would become my father-in-law was a very, very, uh, gifted, uh, aeronautical engineer working for NASA and was already very well involved in the US space program, Lisa’s dad.
Uh, his his team, when Uh, and I forget the date.
You can look it up later when there was a practice run with the 3 of the Apollo astronauts in Florida.
Uh, when there was an oxygen leak and that, um, the Apollo module blew up in flames, and they burned to death inside.
They couldn’t get out. The door would not open.
And so Lisa’s dad’s team uh, were commissioned to create from that moment for a fail safe door or or a blow away hatch.
Part of the Apollo space program. So that’s pretty cool, but it doesn’t end there.
On April fifteenth, just 4 days later, On 04/15/1970, I was 12 years old at the time.
I was in school, and we were called. The entire school was called to the multi purpose room.
Do you remember that title? Multi purpose room. The whole school was gathered together. And, um, why?
It was because, uh, the president, uh, of the United States, uh, announced that our astronauts were in great peril that they were they being in space.
Um, they had a oxygen tank explode on the Apollo 13, uh, command module.
And, um, in fact, you’ve probably seen. If not, watch it. It’s very well done. And very accurate.
Uh, the Apollo 13 movie, I think Tom Hanks, uh, cranked that 1 out. Pretty awesome stuff.
But Uh, the fact is this that Richard Nixon called the nation to prayer and the nation prayed.
We prayed in public school. Uh, we saw on black and white TV screens.
In the multi purpose room, the the whole drama play out And by the way, it happened in some respects for for several days because, um, the there there was the initial announcement, Houston, we have a problem.
Uh, and then the drama played out of the engineers, which is very cool, by the way.
Those astronauts, you know, they’re all scientists.
They’re up there trying to figure out how do we fix this problem was something that blew out outside the craft.
How do how do we how do we get back home? Cause we’re not going home. We’re gonna die.
Uh, the the temperature inside the module, the guys were working in a con in conditions that were sub freezing temperatures.
They were now freezing to death. And the carbon, uh, dioxide is increasing. They’re having a hard time breathing.
They’re working at it. Check this out.
In Houston and in Los Angeles, and I would assume, uh, in Florida, NASA had engineers working on tables with the exact same parts that the astronauts had in the command module to try to figure out a way how does how to get this fixed.
And they were I mean, I don’t mean this literally, but it you should see this.
They were basically working with junk they were using stuff.
If we plug this thing and maybe we could make this piece of plastic from this thing plug into this hose, we’ll have it come back around and maybe it will cause a spark and restart the battery without blowing ourselves up.
All this kind of if if if if stuff, Now remember, not only is America praying. Public schools are praying.
Churches are praying. But listen, the Pope ordered Catholics to pray.
Uh, the the chief rabbi of Jerusalem orders Jews to go to the wailing wall and pray.
The world is watching. And, uh, it’s reported, uh, that the world is praying because America, you know, what’s it called about America?
At least it used to be true. We did everything publicly.
When the Russians did something, you never knew about it till it was over.
When Americans we do it from this we we we used to We used to share the experience and the experiment with the world in real time, and people love that.
Um, we you know, it’s just great. Anyway, the whole world went through that drama with us.
And as the nation prayed, can you imagine all the atheists like having uh, bowel issues, you know, like freaking out, stomach problems.
Pray. Everybody’s praying. How could they do that? How could they do that?
Have you noticed, by the way, you guys, when something bad happens? Atheists have nothing to offer. Hello?
Atheists have 0 to give you. Why? Because they believe in 0.
So when when life gets smacked with reality, your world views challenged in an instant.
Where are you gonna go? So atheist, what do they do?
Um, I actually know what they do, by and large.
We kinda have this qualified and and, uh, observable. Fast forward.
America has known in its history to be a nation of prayer when times get tough.
And on 09/11/2001, another event that I watched, happen.
Um, by the way, 3 months before the towers came down, Lisa and I stood atop the observation deck.
Of 1 of the World Trade Center Towers.
It got amazing video, which is really freaky because when you’re way up there, um, it was it’s so quiet.
You look down on New York, it’s total silent.
And what’s really weird is that you’re on top of this building looking down and you see helicopters, you know, they use helicopters in New York like taxis for real.
And there’s helicopters flying below you. You can’t even hear them. It’s awesome.
Uh, but on 09/11/2001, you know the story. Right?
Uh, Islam, Muslims, um, attacked, and it had to be on September 11, by the way. Side note.
The reason why Osama bin Laden determined that the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, the United States, would be destroyed.
The president would be beheaded. That’s right. That’s right. The president was to be beheaded on that day.
Bin Laden ordered it to be on 09:11.
If it didn’t happen on 09:11, they would wait 1 more year. For for the 09:11.
You wanna know 1? You wanna know why?
Because in Islam, you have to if you’re shamed in Islam, you have to take back.
The shame. You have to fix it. And throughout Islamic history, uh, that’s what they do.
By the way, if you’re in the FBI law enforcement, joint terrorist task force, CIA, National Security, NSA, National Security Agency.
Um, you know that dates are big deals to Islam And knowingly or unknowingly broadcast or not, we go on special preparedness, special alert in our military law enforcement on particular dates.
Well, 09:11, we were caught sleeping. And I get it.
But in 16 83, I think, I might be off a year. Or or 02:16 83 or 16 85.
I’m gonna go with 09/11/1683. Uh, the Muslims invaded the gates of Vienna. Islam.
Hello. Wake up call. What the heck are Muslim warriors doing invading Europe in Vienna, Austria?
It’s called jihad. It’s called global dominance. By the way, it’s still a doctrine of Islam today.
They’re not done. They’re not gonna be done. They’ve got a plan.
So on 6 on on 09/11/1683, the Islamic Forces attack the gates of Vienna, but the king of Christian Poland had communicated to all the other kings that as the most them are continuing to invade Europe.
If we don’t stop them, our children our children will be enslaved. Our wives will be impregnated.
And we will be dead. There will be no Christian Europe.
And so he invited them to meet him to take on the Muslims and it was 09/11/1683 that Islam was defeated in Europe.
That’s why Osama bin Laden in his own devotional writings for that day that was discovered in the investigation by the FBI in their apartments in Boston and in Florida, Osama bin Laden’s own devotion for those terrorists.
Uh, on why they were doing what they were doing in the name of Muhammad and and in the crusade of jihad.
And, um, by the way, the Israeli Masad had been warning us and telling us, you guys, they’re coming.
They’re coming. They’re coming. Uh, and that’s an absolute fact that we weren’t listening to because we’re America.
How can we ever be surprised by an invader, uh, Pearl Harbor.
Um, anyway, So, um, while that invasion takes place, or I should say on the day of that attack.
I remember we were a young church.
Little, uh, we were just a well, I guess, you know, 2011, we were a pretty good sized church.
But automatically, it was a Tuesday. I don’t have to remember that I just it was a Tuesday.
Everybody showed up at church. People left their jobs or people got off of work, and I went straight to the church office on a Tuesday open up the doors and people began to pack in and pray.
Guess what happened? People began to fill up Yankee Stadium, people began to pray in churches all around America.
People went to prayer. People were talking about praying on TV. People were praying. There’s pictures of people just praying.
Okay? And why?
Because our biblical world view is 1 that is based upon there’s a god in heaven who listens.
And so when there’s a time of crisis, we go to prayer as a people.
Ethereum has nothing to offer because they have nobody to go to.
But I find it interesting that when atheism is really, really slapped with reality.
How many atheists wind up at least acting like believers for at least a moment anyway?
So Americans go to pray. It’s in our DNA.
And this next and final thing I’ll I’ll say in in wrapping this up with this example, is London had their 09:11 experience on 07/07/2005.
Known as the London bombings. And it was their 09:11 event. It was terrible. Who did that?
Muslims, uh, Islam, uh, jihadis.
Now look, I’m not saying that not all Muslims are terrorists. Okay?
Not all Muslims are jihadists, but all jihadists are Muslims.
Simple fact, the collision of 2 world views for sure.
And a friend of mine from London. We were talking on the phone.
And he said, I am just I’m just sick to my stomach.
And this phone call now is in It’s in it’s happening.
Uh, I believe on, like, by now, it’s, like, July eighth or ninth. 2005.
And he’s telling me, he said, you know what? He said, I’m so disgusted with my country.
He said because we watched you guys when you were attacked, go to prayer.
If people meant it or not, they bowed their heads.
They filled up churches and synagogues, and they went to prayer.
People got people got involved by getting on their knees.
And he said, you know what my country Do you know what do you know what happened when we were bombed the other day?
He said there were lines of people in every pub in England, people were trying to get to the pubs to get drunk.
And he said, you guys pray. We get drunk.
He said, were our churches full? He said our church’s doors weren’t even opened.
And he said when a crisis hits England, we go to the pub.
When a crisis hits America, you guys go to prayer.
And, you know, I wanna I wanna wrap this up by challenging you this way.
There is something in psychology known as learned response behavior. Learned response behavior.
Learn response behavior is when you’re growing up as a child, you are being exposed to a worldview period.
That worldview may be 1 of such where You watch mom and dad pray over their meals, for example, at breakfast or dinner, or you go to church.
Or you go to synagogue, or you you pre you you’d participate in Shabbat every Friday.
Whatever it might be. You have a tradition and you have a worldview. And you grow up.
If you believe it or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s still putting putting something on you. You still No.
You can grow up in a Christian home and not be a Christian, but you’re gonna grow up with values guaranteed.
You may not be a Christian. But you have values, whatever they might be. Same is true in atheism.
You communicate your worldview and your kids will pick up on that.
And so what happens is this is that reality test our world view and our world view is exposed in a time of crisis.
Well, learn response behavior is now that I’m 14, or 24, and a crisis hits my life.
What do I do? Uh, know what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna do what I was taught to do.
Now the human is not thinking this thought. It’s a it’s a learned response behavior to a crisis.
What was learned becomes your response. What’s your response?
Grab a bottle of Jim Beam or Jack Daniels, reach for some cocaine.
Somehow drug yourself. Escape reality. It’s too painful.
Where’d you get that from? Learn response behavior.
By the way, if you think I’m making this up, isn’t it bizarre that people are told that you may not drink but your dad was an alcoholic.
So you are predisposed to the alcohol gene.
They use it on a genetic level. That is not scientific. It’s never been proven.
It’s like there’s no gay gene. Did you know that? Oh, I was born gay. It’s impossible.
Ask Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton commissioned the US army laboratories to do study on the gay gene.
And a year later, the US laboratory US army laboratories did their findings and released their findings, and they said there’s no gay gene.
Why what happens? Learn response behavior.
And so if you’re taught through life that when life gets tough, go to your knees and pray.
That’s your learned response behavior. If you’re taught to take to the streets and riot for crying out loud.
If the Lakers win the world championship, learned response behavior, burned down police cars.
If if the Chicago Cubs win the world series, what do you do?
Burn down half the city, learn response behavior, or give god thanks.
Right now our nation’s going through that right now.
By the way, humanity has always gone through that, and we’ll continue to go through that.
But what type of world respond uh-uh learned response behavior are you communicating?
When something happens, Do you guys go to god’s Bible and hang on to it?
Do you say things like, listen, son, listen, daughter, listen, mom, listen, dad, listen family, We’re gonna pray.
We don’t know what’s going on, but god does. We’re gonna hang on.
We’re gonna we’re gonna strengthen ourselves not fall apart as a family.
Your world view will determine your learned response behavior and your learned response behavior will affect your world view.
It matters, words matter, actions matter, what we decide matters.
And right now, today, We are seeing people destroying their lives while mom and dad are helping them.
Because they’ve grown up with no rutter. There’s no anchor in their life or in their world.
Today, we have a learned response behavior of, do what makes you happy.
If it feels good, do it. He who dies with the most toys wins.
And when crisis hits, you are going to reach for whiskey, Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, cocaine, or you’re gonna reach for your Bible.
Which 1 will it be? God intervenes in American history. Are astronauts made at home?
Those guys put a remarkable group of bunch of parts and pieces Together, they jump started the batteries.
They’re able to get the system going enough to point that module toward earth.
And they wound up landing what was supposed to be in the midst of a hurricane off the coast of Hawaii, And president Nixon made sure that he was there to greet them.
And there’s a cover on Time magazine. Look it up. The 3 astronauts are on solid terra firma. Right?
And all 3 of their heads are hanging down in prayer and thanks to God.
It’s on the cover of Time magazine. God came through. God answers prayer. You should have hope.
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