Do or Die: U.S. Navy blockade in Strait of Hormuz

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So how about this folks?

How about we proceed with today's topic?

I call today's topic, Do or Die.

Now, who in the world am I addressing when I use such language as Do or Die?

I am presenting the Do or Die language to the government of Iran.

Those creeps, those thugs, those people who are so evil, who execute their very own citizens

for doing nothing but crying out for freedom.

I was told years ago by Israeli military personnel that America needs to learn that you

don't negotiate with terrorists.

And I believe that.

I believe our president has done a tremendous, tremendous job in trying to get them to

the table.

He's bent backwards, forward this way, that way, trying to do what?

Contrary to what the mainstream media wants you in need of believe, contrary to our liberals

and progressives want you in need of believe, the fact that a matter is is that the chairman

of Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Department of War, Department of the Navy, all our military

leaders, as well as the president of the United States and the Secretary of War Pete

Hexeth want to prevent a major, major war, want to prevent this war from expanding, they

want the Iranian government to come to the peace table.

But the Iranian government doesn't want to do that in my view.

But I hope and I pray that the role of the efforts that the president and this administration

has made towards them that somebody, somebody in the Iranian government will come through

their senses and say, you know, we better sit down with America because they mean business.

I've also shared time and time again on this broadcast, on other broadcasts, on nationally

televised networks, I've shared with all of the listeners because I know that the Iranian

government personnel as well as the Chinese Communist Party and perhaps every enemy of the

United States of America monitor just about every single broadcast in this country, in

our country, the United States of America.

They do, I believe that.

Let's have a collect intelligence and information, it's called an open source information.

A lot of information and intelligence, one could reap from listening to what we call open

source channels.

That would be your news networks, newspapers, magazines, etc.

But since I know that they do that, again, I have news for them, either you do what the

president of the United States is telling you to do or you will die.

I believe that.

We've got enough military hardware in the minis that could ensure that the leadership

of the Iranian government, the president leadership, will follow to the grave the others that

have gone to.

And we must keep one thing in mind, and I'm sure our government, the United States of

America and our leaders, keep in mind that the people of Iran want us to do what must

be done to take those shackles off of them, to return to them a free country.

My goodness, they went out there and they marched, they died for their country.

Not marching against America, not saying death to America, like they were forced to by

this terrible, terrible regime, but they're saying long live America.

And now we're hearing long live the American Navy.

They know our ships are out there.

And they know the United States Navy is engaged in a very, very tough situation in a war

though that we have already won as far as I'm concerned.

Now, the next step is to free them.

And we leave that up to the diplomats.

We leave that up to our government leaders who we elected to office.

And we do exactly what we are trained to do and exactly what we gave an oath to do.

And that is to carry out the policies of the people who we elected to office.

So I must tell you that after several weeks of employing a whole load of strategies to

encourage Iran to engage in negotiations to resolve this ongoing war, their leadership

persist.

They just don't give up.

And rejecting key components that would facilitate an end to this crisis and end to it.

They don't want an end to it.

They don't want an end to it because they know at this point that they are in a state of

total despair that they have lost their Navy, lost their Air Force, lost any army that

they had.

Well, they got as a bunch of gangsters running around trying to figure out what they're

going to do as far as the next step.

And they're trying everything to hinder the ability of the United States of America to

move forward and again to take complete control of their country.

They know the Navy's out there.

You know, they're doing a lot of bragging these days about how they're going to sink a

couple of Navy warships.

And they're going to kill Americans if the Marines land on the beaches.

They're doing a lot of talking, but no action.

And any action they have taken hasn't gotten them very much.

In fact, it's backfired on most of what they have been doing.

But they persist in rejecting anything that we try to advance.

And now, again, we hear they want to come to the table and talk.

Remember, at least I remember why I was told years ago, you can't negotiate with terrorists.

Let's see how far we're going to go before we teach them another lesson.

So rather than negotiating with Americans to resolve the conflict, what did they do?

They now confront the world's most powerful Navy.

That's what they do.

I can imagine what they're thinking when they take a pair of binoculars on one of their

coastal beaches, and they stare at the most powerful war-fighting fleet in the world.

What are they thinking?

What are they thinking?

I mean, they can't be thinking, gee, can we really sink that ship?

We can really sink that ship.

Oh, we could take out that carrier.

They're crazy.

They're out of their minds.

And they're generals and they're military personnel.

Hey, if any of you are listening from one military officer, meaning me, to you, give

it up.

Give it up.

Get a hold of your generals, get a hold of your military, and how about you guys do something

about the problem?

You guys convinced the civilian leadership in Iran, those dogs to give it up.

Save your own lives, save your souls, save your family's lives.

Believe me, with the United States Navy, with the power and might of the United States

Navy can do to you and your country is something that you can't even consider.

But we haven't done that.

In contrary, again, to what you and your government in Iran and what a lot of the mainstream media

out here is trying to lead people to believe, we do not target civilians.

We don't target people who are innocent.

And as I said over and over again, if we have a military target in our sights and we believe

that there will be massive civilian casualties, we don't attack.

We've never done that.

We haven't done that, and we won't do that.

And for those of you in Iran, and I understand some way, somehow you get broadcasts, and I'm

hoping some of you are getting one of mine, somehow, some way, and some of my colleagues,

we ain't given up on you, and you're not being targeted by the American government.

You're not being targeted by the U.S. Navy.

We pray for you, and we do everything we could to defend you against that evil, evil regime

that is controlling your lives.

But keep everything in prayer.

Keep your faith in God, almighty, and keep your faith in us.

My faith is in us in God and in the United States Navy.

And I believe as we have demonstrated in history, we always win, and our enemies always lose.

Now, a considerable number of individuals in our country and around the world, they're

looking in some way somehow to learn about the rationale behind the naval blockade that

we now have near Iran, and they're telling me a lot of people are in, and they're telling

me that they just do not fully grasp the definition of what a naval blockade is.

They hear about it on the news, on TV, and radio, and in the press.

Everybody's talking about a naval blockade, but most Americans don't know what that is.

Well, I could tell you that this broadcast, right here, peace through strength, America's

Navy.

We offer an opportunity to deliver information that clarifies the key aspects of the who,

the lot, the when, the where, and the why of military operations worldwide.

Specifically, the segment that you're listening to now of this broadcast will address the activities

of the United States Navy in the straight of her mouth.

I will now share with you what we mean by naval blockade.

Now, a naval blockade, all right, now, such as the current operation at the straight

of her mouth, it exemplifies the peace through strength strategy.

Remember, we've talked about peace through strength a few times, and what's it doing?

It's deterring our adversaries.

In this case, the Iranian government without the need for military engagement, we're deterring

them without the need for us to bomb the live-in-day lights out of them again, peace through strength.

Remember what I just said a second ago?

They get a pair of binoculars, they look out to the ocean from their coast, and they

see the most powerful warships on the face of the earth, you'd think they would use their

brains if they have any.

Let's forget their brains.

They don't have brains.

If they have brains, we all means they'd be ending this war, surrendering, if you will,

to the will that we are wanted to oppose in on them, and our will is freedom and liberty.

We're getting back to getting to them to understand that this peace through strength strategy

is a methodology that we're using to deter them from turning their backs on negotiations.

It isn't working.

It should have worked by now when you're dealing with people with common sense.

When you're dealing with people who get it, they don't get it.

This approach clearly communicates the consequences for non-compliance with established demands.

We have established demands, no nuclear weapons in your country, none, and there are a few

other demands in there, like, you know what, put an end to your supporting of the other killers

and murderers and animals called Hisbola and Hamas and all these other terrorist organizations.

I mean, come on, they got the whole world against them.

The fact of the matter is, the whole world is now slowly taking some time, coming together,

and they're looking at the United States Navy fleet out there and they're saying, you

know what, let's maybe help them out.

That's the winning side, not Iran, not the empty threats, not the nonsense, but the real,

real meat of the situation is right there, right there, off the coast of Iran.

So peace through strength and maybe a message is getting through to our L.I. saying, look

it.

Now we've got the mic, come on, nobody's going to hurt you, we'll protect you.

And that's what is going on right now, at least in my view.

Now this isn't the first time that I've heard about a naval black card.

I've heard some others going on throughout my lifetime, but the biggest one, the most powerful

one, the most effective one, was in 1962.

And some of you who were around then and old enough to listen to the news and understand

and live through, listen to this folks, for those of you who have not lived through that

time, who lived through the possible end of the world.

That's right.

I'm not talking about a science fiction movie, I'm talking about the real deal.

And you know why it was almost the end of the world?

It was because during that time there was a Cuban missile crisis going on.

The United States of America found Soviet nuclear missiles being placed in Cuba.

That's 90 miles off our coast.

Why in the world would the Soviet Union want nuclear missiles?

Or for our coast?

Well, that escalated what we called a Cold War.

Now a Cold War is a war going on without fighting shots, bullets, bombs.

Cold War has a lot to do with propaganda, intelligence, information.

Not kind of hugging, maybe shaking a hand once in a while, but it was a Cold War.

And it was a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Now to counter this, to counter these Soviet ships coming into Cuba, President John Fitzgerald

Kennedy imposed a naval blockade to help all Soviet ships transitioning to Cuba.

They were carrying missiles and military shipments to Cuba, which means guess what?

They meaning the Soviet ships were going to be stopped.

They were going to be boarded.

And if they didn't allow us to board them, we were going to sink them.

And of course, the Soviet Union said that if you sink one of our ships, we're going

to be launching nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union, which led to us telling them

that we'll be launching missiles from not only the United States, but from Europe.

And we will destroy the entire Soviet Union.

So there we were close to World War II, World War III folks.

And I've got to tell you, it was a frightening time.

People all over America, they would stop in front of stores, look at the TV sets in

the stores and get up to the minute the news flashes as to what was happening down there

in the Caribbean, close to Cuba.

But Kennedy did that.

He imposed a naval blockade and it worked.

With still here folks, it worked.

Not a shot was fired and the Soviets, they turned their ships around.

They got just so far.

Kennedy told them where the red line was, across that line, and we're going to sink you

if we don't board you and seize your ship.

And Nikita Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union, boarded his ships right up to that

red line.

And then they heard the voice of the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy and

others, turn your ships around, do or die.

They did and they didn't die.

Although years later, President Ronald Reagan and his time of office helped facilitate

if not lead the fall of the Soviet Union.

It worked.

There were people in a Soviet empire who had some common sense, there were military leaders

who used their brains and clearly understood that we can destroy them in minutes.

Yep, they would do a lot of damage to us, maybe destroy us, who knows, but everybody

understood it would be the end of this world.

A nuclear holocaust, never seen before, would never be seen again, because no one

would be left.

And believe me, if we allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon like the Soviets did, it's a replay

of 1962.

So a naval blockade, for those of you now who I hope are learning something here, it

restricts the movement of vessels, not only ships now, big ships and small ships, but

also aircraft, to and from, and adversaries, ports, their airfields, and their coastal

regions.

It prohibits them from transitioning back and forth, they just can't go anywhere

folks.

Not into the country, not out of the country, on land, sea or air.

And it serves, these blockades serve as a strategic military and economic measure to do

what, designed to disrupt supply chains, which we're now doing in Iran, impede commercial

activity, definitely doing that, and potentially compel changes in leadership without necessitating

full military operations.

That is exactly what we're doing, that is what we want to see work.

But again, it's going on, it's happening, instead of the Iranians coming to the table,

they decided to put the lack of a better illustration, a toll booth, in the state of

her modes.

And here's the toll booth, you've got a few Iranian ships, all right, not, not their

warships, they've got nothing left, but a few small boats, they're hanging around over

there at the straight, and they're making it known that you've got to pay a fee.

I think it's $5 million for an oil tanker.

You give them $5 million because they need cash to go broke, to go bankrupt, I mean,

deeper than bankrupt, that their economy is, is really getting dead.

Give them $5 million, you could go through without worrying about being sunk.

But if you're going to go through without paying the $5 million, which happens to be blackmailed

by the way, we're going to sink you.

That's what the Iranian government has resorted to.

They are charging people a fee to go through the straight so that they can get the oil to

other countries.

Well, we put a stop to that because now we're controlling the state of her modes.

And we're making it clear that no ship is going to get by without us, the United States

of America, checking on them, making sure that they're not bringing stuff into Iran,

and making sure that they're going from one place to another through the straight without

the necessity of stopping it around.

We want to check you out before you use those straights.

We check you out, you get a stamp of approval, you don't get charged a fee, you go for free.

How do you like that?

International law being enforced, right?

Freedom of the high seas, they call it.

It's one that you charge someone to go on the ocean.

Which leads me just a little bit off the side here.

Why in New Jersey do we have to pay a fee to go to the beach?

I go to other states around the country.

You go to the border walk, you have a cup of coffee, ice cream, you want to go down to

the beach, you go to the beach around the sand, you're near the beach.

In New Jersey, in many places, not in all, there are few freebies there, you got to pay

a fee to go to the beach.

Well, I know I went off on a little tangent, but it just came to my mind, folks, and I

thought I'd mention that for whatever reason.

It's nice to have a little fun on a broadcast, isn't it?

I mean, everything is serious, serious, serious, and it needs to be serious, and we need

to address things that are serious.

But there's nothing wrong with kind of taking a step back every once in a while and saying,

you know all this serious stuff?

We have it under control.

The mainstream media would lead us to believe it's out of control.

I have enough confidence and enough faith in the United States Navy and our military commanders,

Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, enough faith and confidence in

them that they know exactly what to do and when to do it.

They know the who, the lot, the when, the where, and the why.

I've been with many of them, they plan things out perfectly.

This is why we have the strongest military on earth.

Common sense, compassion, strategic thinking, tactical thinking, pulling it all together

into one, one big plan.

That not just one or two people put together, but a whole lot of smart people put together.

And that is why we are the greatest country on the face of the earth and we have the greatest

military on the face of the earth.

Now, some of our naval ships, they are involved in what they call a close blockade, all right?

These are our naval ships that either patrol or remain stationed just outside enemy territory,

aiming to intercept any vessels coming or going, including merchant ships and oil tankers.

So that's pretty, I'm sorry, that's kind of a more than close, a little bit more than

some other ships that are closer to the shores of Iran.

Now, certain U.S. Navy vessels are carrying out what I originally shared with you close

blockade missions, okay?

Those are the ones that are stationed directly outside of Iran's ports, very close to their

ports, very close to their border, okay, their beaches, if you will.

Meanwhile, the other Navy ships are assigned at a greater distance to monitor what, hostile

aircraft, other ships, and submarines.

So that's what they're doing.

Now, the blockades are not an attack group of people, they don't want to attack if they

have to, they will.

I mean, they'll certainly defend themselves, but they're not there to attack on the territory

of Iran unless they have to, but rather, they are working on what we call maritime restrictions.

They're checking on the ships, they're seeing who's coming and going, and if they have

to signal to take tough military action, they will.

So what's the goal here?

We always hear the new, ah, what's the goal?

What's this?

Why are we there?

We start the adversary of resources by doing what?

By controlling the sea lines of communication.

It is simple.

Every time I hear some expert, so-called expert, quote unquote, get on the air, well, there

is no plan.

Well, you don't know the plan, eight, because you haven't sit in on the plans, and

the president, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US military personnel, the Department of the

Navy, ah, no, no, no, no, they're not going to broadcast the plan for goodness.

They should know better.

And we have retired military people going on these mainstream media networks, sharing

that kind of stuff.

They want to know what the plan is, they should know better.

And then, of course, is what they call legal standing, a lot of going on, right?

With all kinds of politicians and the Congress and on and on, oh, is it legal?

Is it legal what we're doing?

Well, to be valid, a blockade must be declared, formally announced, and effectively maintain

to prevent entry or exit.

Rather than just being a paper blockade, that's it.

There's your legal standing.

It is valid.

It was declared, and it was formally announced, right?

Our government announced, I think, a week ahead of time.

We're coming, Mr. and Mrs. Iran, ah, no, Mrs. Iran's in there, the way they treat woman,

what a shame, huh?

Another issue about them.

But the thugs over there in Iran, they were told, we're coming, and we got there.

So again, this is what a blockade is, all right?

Now, the U.S. Navy, we're using this strategy to stop oil exports in this case by intercepting

ships that are paying those tolls and aiming to freeze, guess what?

The adversary, in this case, Iran's economy, went on only freezing it, folks, were taking

it down.

Those are going to be like big, big blocks of ice that we're going to chip away at,

and then they're going to melt and become part of the straighter homos.

So where are we now?

What are we up to now?

What's the ultimate, ultimate mission?

It's the mission is to get them to the table, and if they don't come to the table, again,

I go back to the original theme of this broadcast, Peace Through Strength America's Navy, this

particular broadcast, message to Iran is, do or die.

I'm 23-4.

Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

For you are with me.

God bless America, and God bless the United States Navy and all of our armed forces.

Thank you.

Until next time, I'm Lieutenant Commander Stephen Rogers.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.

Certainly, my pleasure to be with you, and I hope it says, as much as the pleasure of

you being with me.

Well, this is the second half of our birth test, and during this second half, I share with

you information and news of all kinds of things except any news or other things, if you

will, that are created by man.

Hmm.

Sounds like a science fiction, doesn't it?

Well, it's not.

I'm talking about the things that come from the creation of God Almighty, the things that

are written in the Holy Word of God, the Bible, known as the Book of Life.

I'm talking about what reams and reams and reams of paper that have printed on those

reams and reams and reams of paper, words that were written by people many, many years

ago, thousands of years ago, written by people indeed but inspired by the Holy Spirit of

God, which tells me that everything written in the Bible, everything written on those

pages, has come from the mouth of God, have come from Him, it's His Word.

Now, if you don't believe that, well, that's your problem, not mine.

But if you do believe it, get ready because what you're about to hear may affect you in

some way somehow, may affect the destiny of your life.

That's why I love the second half of this broadcast because this half of the broadcast

doesn't bring you gloom and doom, doesn't bring you a lot of the news that kind of makes

you feel like, oh my God, the sky is falling.

I know that happens during the first half, but I always make sure that during the first

half that you get at least some relief that you're getting to understand and learn that

as the world goes around and around, you're in this world, you're part of this world and

you can help make change.

And now, during this portion of the broadcast, you could help make significant change in

this world going around and around in your life, your life, not anybody else's life, but

your life.

So listen up, listen up, and I hope and pray that when I'm about to share with you, does

have profound positive impact on you and delivers you from the challenges and the problems

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What do you think of that, folks?

I just, I didn't break that as a script, it just came to my mind, not bad, huh?

Not bad, well let's get to the word of God.

Let's talk about one or two things that I hope and pray will impact your life.

Now I know I've said this and shared with, I'm about to share with you many times, at

the opening of many of these broadcasts, but I want to do it every once in a while, especially

when people ask me to repeat what I said about the Bible, to the benefit of those who are

new listeners.

So, here we go, what is the Bible?

Well it's the word of God.

The Bible reveals the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of

sinners, and the happiness of believers.

Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions

are immutable.

It's easier to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy.

It contains light to the wreck you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you.

It's a traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword,

and the Christian's charter.

Here paradise is gained, heaven opened and hell disclosed.

Christ is its grand object.

Our good, its design, and the glory of God, its end, it shall fill the memory, ruled

the heart, and guide the feet.

Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully.

It is a mine of wealth, a paradise of glory, and the river of pleasure.

It has given you in life, will be opened in the judgment, and be remembered forever.

It involves the highest responsibility, promises the highest reward for labor, and condemns

all who trifle with its sacred contents.

That is the Bible.

That is the Word of God.

And I would venture to say that the overwhelming majority of you have bibles in your homes.

Maybe it's time to kind of take you off of that bookshelf, or wherever it's been there

for years, and shake the dust off of it, and open it up.

Take a look at it.

In fact, I'm going to ask you to take a look at the one-hundredth and third Psalm.

Oh, yeah, I got one all figured out already, folks, and there's a reason why I bring up

the one-hundredth and third Psalm.

Because occasionally, I visit a monastery, and you know what I do in that monastery?

I have conversations with God, yeah, yeah, that's correct, I speak with him.

Now you may wonder, does he respond?

I mean, come on.

Does he respond?

Are you telling us that you're getting a voice out of heaven?

No.

But he does respond.

Oh, yeah, he does.

And the fact of the matter is, is that I'm not experiencing hallucinations or hearing voices

unexpectedly.

Both the lightings are not coming down, and the earth is not shaking.

However, after I express gratitude for the blessings that I've received in my life,

and making a few more requests during my conversations with him, which have to be the way I pray.

You see how I'm talking to you?

I'm speaking with you.

That's the way I pray.

I've said to people over and over again, I'll pour a cup of coffee, five o'clock in the

morning, get my dog, my German Shepherd bear, and he sits next to me.

I'll sip that coffee and I begin to talk.

Now bear must be wondering, what the heck is this guy doing that he flipped his lid?

Well, he had dog, wouldn't I mean, you never know, you know, animals are smart.

He looks at me.

He does.

I wonder what he's thinking about.

My point is, folks, is that I'm talking to God, I'm having a conversation with God.

And yet, me talking to him, I don't hear any voices, like I said, added a heavenly realm.

But I've got to tell you, after I have this conversation with God, things do happen.

And it's happened in the monastery several times.

And what I do is after I make a few requests and talk to God, I proceed to a Bible that's

in the monastery.

It's right out there on top of a podium.

It's located near the altar where I have these discussions with God.

I'll kind of leaf through the Bible and I'll always go and just leaf through the book

of Psalms and then suddenly randomly stop.

And then I see a Psalm that I'm led to.

Now why do I say I'm led to because I don't purposely go to like a particular Psalm and

look for it and search it and say, gee, this is the one I wanted to read.

I'm glad I'm here.

Nope.

I just stop.

And each time that I stop, I begin to read that Psalm.

And I believe it is the Holy Spirit that led me to that Psalm because God just heard my

prayer.

I just had a conversation with God.

Show me thy way, O Lord.

It's what I say to him.

Please show me thy way.

Teach me thy path.

Speak to me.

Let me know what direction should I go in life?

How can I solve this problem?

How can I tackle this challenge?

I do that, folks.

And he does answer me through his word, through the Bible.

Happens in my house.

Happens wherever I go.

Sometimes I do carry a little pocket testament with me.

I travel back and forth to Washington, D.C., I'm out of train.

I bring a Bible with me, little one in my pocket or bigger one in my briefcase or actually

I have one on my phone, an app called Bible on my phone.

But after chatting with God, like I did recently, I began to get led to the Bible near that

altar and recently I was led to a hundred and third Psalm.

You know, I was led to that Psalm when I went up to the podium where that Bible was.

It was opened to the hundred and third Psalm.

Now, as I read this Psalm to you, I'm going to ask you to apply it to your life.

I did and I realized that the word spoken in this Psalm were directed to me at that point

in time in my life.

And now I tend to believe that at this point in time in your life, this is God's message

to you.

Using me as a vehicle, as he uses others as vehicles to reach me.

And here's where that Psalm says, you ready?

Think about you now and your life.

Think about you.

Bless the Lord on my soul and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

See, reverence to God right away.

Bless the Lord on my soul and forget not all his benefits.

That's right.

Let's not forget all that he's done for us ten times we tend to do that, then a lot

for you, then a lot for me.

Let's not forget that.

Who forgiveeth all thy name equities, who healeth all thy diseases.

His disease, he heals all of us from us, our sins, so boy, I've committed sins in life.

Sometimes a little here and there now, you know, but not like I used to.

Oh no.

The reason why I tell you a little here and there, well the fact is we're all sinners, right?

We're all sinners.

Bible says all are sinned, all are sinners, but God forgives us of our sins, so we should

thank him that he forgives us our equities and that great disease calls sin.

To redeemeth, I lie from destruction, who crameth thee with loving kindness and tend their

mercies.

You ever on a road to description?

Road to destruction?

I'm sorry.

A road to destruction?

Does he take that?

Destruction?

And just put it aside, and he crowned you with his loving kindness and his mercies.

It's happened to me a few times in my life, I was on my way to hell, folks, I'm telling

you.

On my way to hell.

He picked me up.

Forty Assam says, I cried and I cried.

The Lord bent over and heard my cry.

He pulled me out of the myery clay, and he established my life on a rock.

And that rock happens to be Jesus Christ.

So what he has for you, this hundred and third Psalm does on to say, who satisfyeth my mouth

with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.

I've prayed for quite some time, Lord, I want the bigger of my youth, the strength of my

youth.

The time goes on, I'm running out of time, and God is saying, you ain't run out of time,

buddy.

This is just the beginning.

And he began to renew my strength, some of you a week out there, depressed and weak,

you feel lonely.

I get it.

I've been there.

I mean, King David, he's been everywhere, Jesus Christ so at all.

Nothing new to God.

You're not new to God.

He loves you.

He will renew your strength, like an eagle.

You're not mount up.

The Bible says it's mount up with a wings of an eagle and fly, my friend.

That's what he has for you.

You know, it's exciting right now when I'm thinking about somebody out there listening

to this, realizing that this is really a message from God to them.

He has heard your prayer.

He is answering that prayer.

Whether you're on a worship somewhere around the world, whether you're on the ground in

a US military somewhere, whether you're that cop, that firefighter, that custodian, that

cashier, whoever you are, wherever you are, maybe you're unemployed, you're going through

a living hell right now.

Help is on the way.

Help is on the way for goodness' sake.

Pesor wants it to me.

You know what, Steve?

The longer you look at the problem, the bigger the problem gets, but the longer you look

at the savior, the bigger he gets.

The Lord executed righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

He made known his ways on tomozas, his acts unto the children of Israel.

If he, my friend, made his ways known to Moses, and his acts unto the children of Israel,

the Bible says, the Lord is the same today as he was yesterday, and yes, who is going

to make his ways known to you?

What was good for Moses, according to the Bible, is good for you.

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiness and mercy.

He will not always try, neither will he keep his anger forever.

Yeah, I've gotten anger from him, boy.

And I thank God he hasn't kept it forever.

In fact, he probably keeps his anger towards me in a minute or two when I know I fell

up, but boy, I'll tell you, it feels like a long time.

But I get the message, mm-hmm, we all go that way.

He has not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our inequities.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

That word fear is not a fear in the sense that you've skipped the death of him.

That word fear is translated for those who respect him, who love him.

Yep, great is his mercy toward you, my friend.

What are you waiting for?

Talk to him.

Have a conversation with him.

He's going to talk back to you.

You're going to hear from him.

You're hearing from him right now.

Simply my voice, me, I'm just a vehicle.

Go right to his word, right to his Bible, like I've done.

As far as the use is from the west, so far, he removed our transgressions from us.

Man, I tell you, when I read that over and over again, I used to think, man, I did things

man.

I did things that I shouldn't have done in life.

I remember them, and maybe others remember those things, but guess who forgot about them?

Jesus Christ did.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He got about them.

He forgave us.

That's it.

Don't over with the need, though.

Don't worry about it.

What are you worried about?

I always say that Christian people, those of us who love Christ and who work hard to

be the best Christians we can, we don't forgive ourselves.

He does.

So if God forgives you, what are you running around feeling guilty about this and that?

It's over and done with you.

Did it?

Done with it?

You have a new heart, a new soul, a new spirit cleans might a blood of Jesus, right?

Like as a father, pitiate his children, so the Lord pitiate them, that fear him.

For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

You know what that means, folks?

God knows us.

You know, the Bible says that God knew us in the womb of our parents, that God knew us

before He put us in the womb of our mother, but that's not going to bit.

He knows us all.

He knows us longer than we know ourselves.

As for man, his days are as grass as a flower of the field, so he flirts it.

As I've gotten older, folks, I realize what that says.

His days are as grass, grass don't live long.

You know what, we get up in years and we begin to look at the grass and the flowers and

nature.

I'm beginning to do that more so than I've ever done in life.

I began to appreciate everything around me now.

My younger years, I was there, I took it for granted, it'll always be there.

Well, it'll always be there, but you get to a point in life when you realize that you

won't always be there, where you're going to be, where you're going to go.

I had planned on going to a better place.

Oh, yeah, I'm going to get there, and that's heaven.

My job now is to share with people everything I know about the Savior, my friend, my buddy,

God Almighty, Holy Spirit.

I remember sharing with people, I've been asking God for years, what do you want, what

can I do for you?

And I finally realized in the Bible through his word, that you will want one thing.

One thing.

You don't want, you don't care, you don't need them, I can say you don't care, but he likes

the idea you got to help people and you do this and you that and maybe you give here

and give that.

That's great.

You're a good person.

You pray, he loves that, so he wants you to do that.

He wants really one thing from you, and there which encompasses all of that.

You know what that is?

He wants you to be his friend.

That's it.

Be God's friend.

And how you are God's friend is by doing the things that he wants you to do.

He wants you to pray, communicate with them, love thy neighbor, right, love thy neighbor,

submit those sins and when you do just ask for forgiveness, repent.

In fact, all of the things he wants you to do are wrapped up in ten things.

God it folks, ten, the number ten, remember that, any, any, any, remember that?

What does the number ten mean to you?

I'll give you ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

Here you go.

The ten commandments.

Some of you are saying, oh, I knew, thank God, I knew, I knew.

Others are saying, oh, my God, I forgot.

Oh, my goodness, listen, you know, no penalty involved, okay?

No penalty involved.

And I'm not talking about the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights,

all right?

I'm talking about maybe the Bill of Freedom.

How about that folks, the ten commandments of God, all right?

He said, for he knoweth our frame, he remembered that we are dust, and that's what we are with dust.

But to him, where's loving children?

Remember that.

As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, I'd just share to you what

that means.

For the wind pasteth over it and it's gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Oh, and it's hard, don't it?

For the wind pasteth over it.

How about the wind passing over us, and we're gone, which that's it gone?

And the place thereof shall know it no more.

The place where we are in life, not only will we know, not know anymore, but as time goes on,

people will forget.

You'll forget years from now that Steve Rogers was on the air talking to me about Jesus Christ,

about a relationship we should all have with God.

You'll remember, and then you won't remember.

Somebody will ask you one day, hey, did you hear a guy radio on a podcast talking about

God and, you know, relationship with Christ?

You remember who he was?

Nah, I don't.

The point is God remembers, and that's what's important.

All things on this earth, the temporary folks, who everything, believe me, but the mercy

of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him.

Again, that word fears respect, and his righteousness unto children's children.

You such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments, to do them.

So he remembers, he remembers you, remembers me, remembers everything we do, we're accountable

for every word that comes out of our mouth.

We're accountable, even for the things that are deep in our heart, but we could correct

all these things.

And I'm going to share with you how you can do that in a few minutes.

We need to keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments, he remembers

them.

The Lord had prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom rule with the overall.

You know, I tell you, and I think about all the leaders today, and, you know, they're

going to do this, they're going to do that.

They're going to solve our problems, your problems, everybody's problems.

They promise this, they promise that they're long gone before they could fulfill any of

those promises.

The only one who could fulfill his promises, the only one who truly rules over all of

us, even though so-called big shots and powerful people on earth, we have no power at all,

but no power at all.

I'm telling you that God allows them to have power, not for their purposes, but for his.

God rules even over them.

Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, harkening

unto the voice of his word.

I get a kick out of this for it.

You know why?

This part of the scripture, blessed the Lord, ye his angels.

Yeah, I believe in angels, folks.

The Holy Spirit of God is a powerful angel.

Guardian angels, I bet they're all over the place.

I believe that.

I don't know if he assigns one angel to every, you know, one angel, every, every body

of personal angel.

I don't know if he does that or not.

I can't believe he does.

Plus scripture in the Holy Bible, that kind of points in that direction.

But here's one that says, you know what?

Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, and do his commandments, harkening

unto what?

The voice of the Lord.

Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts, his ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

The minister of his, that do his pleasure.

You, me, all of us who are Christians who believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, were

ministers of his.

And finally, the hundred and third Psalm verse 22, bless the Lord, all his works, in all

places of his dominion.

Bless the Lord, oh my soul.

What do you think of that, folks?

Now, how do you get there?

Step one, most important step, receive Jesus Christ into your life.

Have a chat with him, a conversation with him, confess to him that you are a sinner.

Why?

Because you are.

Like I am.

Let him know you're a sinner.

And you know some of the sins you've committed, some of them you justified, there's no justification

and some let him know, tell him.

You could even say, Lord, I don't know if I sin, they're not, if this is bad, if this

is good or what, but I confess it to you.

And I want you to know, I'm sorry for doing it, if it's offended you.

And I ask that you forgive me.

And you have that conversation with him.

And then you'll let him know that you believe that he came to this earth, was crucified,

and shed his blood, so that those sins of yours would be forgiven.

Now, a lot of people say to me, you know, I could say it, I don't understand it all, let

him know.

Let's say it, confess it to him, he knows your heart.

Sometimes things that come out of our mouth are not necessarily the greatest things that

could explain how we feel, he knows that, let's just tell him.

I know people have said to me, gee, they prayed to God, and I've said it at times when I

pray, you know what, I don't understand how this works, but I believe it works.

I trust in you and have faith in you that it works, so I pray it.

So accept him, then, as your friend, as your buddy, as your savior, let him know he's

your God, he's your Lord, not money, not any boss, not politician, nobody, but him.

The Bible says for he is the jealous God, yep, he loves you, he wants to take care of you.

And as I said earlier, he really just wants one thing, be his friend.

You do that, and he's a friend who has promised, I will stick closer to you than a brother.

Come to me, you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, and I will give you peace,

that far passeth understanding.

So he has ready for you, now you tell me, are you listening to this broadcast because

you plan to, by accident, well, you're listening to this part of the broadcast because God

wants it to speak to you through me this time.

Next time somebody else, next time there'll be somebody else at work, at home, somewhere

somehow somebody you're going to run into that's going to speak to you about the word

of God Almighty.

And remember what I said to you, we're merely vehicles, and then he will use you one day

to be a vehicle, to bring his word to someone else.

That's it, God bless you all, until next time.

Have a great and wonderful day.