Friday, September 27, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:40)
When Children Discover Their Parents Are … Russian Spies? Who Are You People? The Huge Story of the Children Who Recently Learned the True Identity of Their Parents for the First Time
- The Kids Who Didn’t Know Their Parents Were Russian Spies by The Wall Street Journal (Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw)
Part II (12:40 - 17:57)
If Kamala Harris is Elected as President and Uses Taxpayer Funds for Abortion, Are Christians Still Required to Pay Taxes? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (17:57 - 22:07)
I am Bedridden with ALS, and I Cannot Attend Congregational Worship on My Own. How Can I Stoke the Fires of Desire for God’s Word in My Heart? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (22:07 - 26:20)
What is the Significance of Pentecost If the Holy Spirit Worked in Old Testament Saints? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, |
| 0:05.0 | Friday, September 27, 2024. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Mueller and this is the briefing, |
| 0:10.3 | a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | We have remarked at various points that truth is stranger than fiction, and there's a reason |
| 0:18.4 | why truth is stranger than fiction. |
| 0:21.4 | Truth is more varied than fiction because of the reality of human nature and the immeasurable |
| 0:28.6 | multiplicity of human experience. |
| 0:31.0 | Somewhere, somehow, among someone, something you can't even imagine has taken place. |
| 0:37.0 | So we think of novelists and we think of writers and filmmakers and fantasists. |
| 0:41.0 | We think they're the ones who are coming up with all of this |
| 0:44.2 | variety all of this drama when in reality it's often pre-existent you have some of the |
| 0:50.8 | most famous television programs some of the most famed movies you have some of the most famous television programs, some of the most famed movies, you have some of the most famous books that have not come before an occurrence, but rather after an occurrence in order to try to take an opportunity to turn the story to a new effect. |
| 1:07.5 | And so you had the Americans. |
| 1:09.2 | That was a television program about a couple who were embedded in American culture, a couple who were |
| 1:16.0 | actually communist spies, they were agents for the Soviet Union, they were |
| 1:19.9 | embeds, and they were called the Americans because they were embedded as Americans but they |
| 1:25.6 | were anything but Americans. They were a young man and a young woman in the case of the |
| 1:30.8 | story is told on the Americans who had been raised even from |
| 1:34.8 | their adolescents in order to be spies agents for the Soviet Union they had been |
| 1:39.3 | paired as husband and wife not by romance but rather by the KGB, and then they had been sent by a |
| 1:45.7 | Directorate of the security and intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union into the United States, |
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