Podcasts about Jon Burge

Attorney Flint Taylor has been fighting racism and police brutality in Chicago since 1969. With his first major case on behalf of the family of Fred Hampton, the leadef of the black Panthers who was killed by police. He talks Hampton murder, Jon Burge police torture trials and more. Read his book—The Torture Machine.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On March 29, 1994, 10-year-old Rodney Collins was fatally shot while riding his bike after being caught in a crossfire between two street gangs in Chicago, IL. Two brothers, 17-year-old Sean Tyler and 18-year-old Reginald Henderson, came under suspicion after a corrupt police force used extreme physical abuse to force false confessions out of them and others. Despite no evidence linking them to the crime other than their coerced false confessions, the brothers were each sentenced to over 50 years in prison.  Jason Flom talks to Sean Tyler and Reginald Henderson along with Sean's attorney, Karl Leonard from The Exoneration Project. To learn more and get involved, please visit:  https://www.instagram.com/nuvisean_/ https://www.instagram.com/tharippleeffect75/ https://www.exonerationproject.org/ To hear more about Chicago's infamous police commander Jon Burge and his 'Midnight Crew':  https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/360-wrongful-conviction-false-confessions-midnight-crew-update/ https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/211-jason-flom-with-marcus-wiggins/ Wrongful Conviction is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Jeffrey Haas. A long time attorney for the People's Law Office in Illinois, Haas represented Fred Hampton and member's of Chicago's chapter of the Black Panther Party. Haas talked with Hampton and heard him speak against Racism on a regular basis. Hampton had such an impact that Haas remained dedicated to fighting to expose the government-led, White Supremacist conspiracy to assassinate the young chairman. He compiled the years of deceptions and courtroom battles in his 2010 book, The Assassination of Fed Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. We'll discuss the role of FBI informant William O'Neal, a black male recruited to spy on black people when he was 19-years-old. O'Neal is accused of drugging Hampton the December night in 1969 when the Panther leader was killed in his sleep. He admitted to providing a detailed floor-plan of the premises. Haas describes O'Neal as a "moral eunuch." We'll discuss the years of lies to conceal this unjust murder and how Fred Hampton's assassination relates to other incidents of Chicago history, like the murder of Emmett Till and the Torture of black males by former Police chief Jon Burge. We'll be sure to ask for Mr. Haas's views on the film Judas & The Black Messiah as well as his upbringing in Racist Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Haas got riled when Gus referred to his longtime White comrade and former C.O.W.S. guest Bill Ayers as a criminal. Ayers, as a part of The Weathermen, was complicit in the bombing of the Pentagon and the US Capitol building. This is the same sort of minimizing and absolving of White Terrorist behavior we've been discussing with Columbine and Chicago native Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski. #LenardClark #TheCOWS14Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Jeffrey Haas. A long time attorney for the People's Law Office in Illinois, Haas represented Fred Hampton and member's of Chicago's chapter of the Black Panther Party. Haas talked with Hampton and heard him speak against Racism on a regular basis. Hampton had such an impact that Haas remained dedicated to fighting to expose the government-led, White Supremacist conspiracy to assassinate the young chairman. He compiled the years of deceptions and courtroom battles in his 2010 book, The Assassination of Fed Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. We'll discuss the role of FBI informant William O'Neal, a black male recruited to spy on black people when he was 19-years-old. O'Neal is accused of drugging Hampton the December night in 1969 when the Panther leader was killed in his sleep. He admitted to providing a detailed floor-plan of the premises. Haas describes O'Neal as a "moral eunuch." We'll discuss the years of lies to conceal this unjust murder and how Fred Hampton's assassination relates to other incidents of Chicago history, like the murder of Emmett Till and the Torture of black males by former Police chief Jon Burge. We'll be sure to ask for Mr. Haas's views on the film Judas & The Black Messiah as well as his upbringing in Racist Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Haas got riled when Gus referred to his longtime White comrade and former C.O.W.S. guest Bill Ayers as a criminal. Ayers, as a part of The Weathermen, was complicit in the bombing of the Pentagon and the US Capitol building. This is the same sort of minimizing and absolving of White Terrorist behavior we've been discussing with Columbine and Chicago native Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski. #LenardClark #TheCOWS14Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#

The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Jeffrey Haas. A long time attorney for the People's Law Office in Illinois, Haas represented Fred Hampton and member's of Chicago's chapter of the Black Panther Party. Haas talked with Hampton and heard him speak against Racism on a regular basis. Hampton had such an impact that Haas remained dedicated to fighting to expose the government-led, White Supremacist conspiracy to assassinate the young chairman. He compiled the years of deceptions and courtroom battles in his 2010 book, The Assassination of Fed Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. We'll discuss the role of FBI informant William O'Neal, a black male recruited to spy on black people when he was 19-years-old. O'Neal is accused of drugging Hampton the December night in 1969 when the Panther leader was killed in his sleep. He admitted to providing a detailed floor-plan of the premises. Haas describes O'Neal as a "moral eunuch." We'll discuss the years of lies to conceal this unjust murder and how Fred Hampton's assassination relates to other incidents of Chicago history, like the murder of Emmett Till and the Torture of black males by former Police chief Jon Burge. We'll be sure to ask for Mr. Haas's views on the film Judas & The Black Messiah as well as his upbringing in Racist Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Haas got riled when Gus referred to his longtime White comrade and former C.O.W.S. guest Bill Ayers as a criminal. Ayers, as a part of The Weathermen, was complicit in the bombing of the Pentagon and the US Capitol building. This is the same sort of minimizing and absolving of White Terrorist behavior we've been discussing with Columbine and Chicago native Ted 'Unabomber' Kaczynski. #LenardClark #TheCOWS14Years INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE: 564943#

In Chicago, old habits die hard. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside one of the worst police abuse scandals in U.S. history. For decades on the southside of Chicago, a group of white cops turned the interrogation room into a torture chamber for Black men. Those cops called themselves the Midnight Crew. We are releasing this updated episode to share that even though the city passed a reparations bill that will compensate Jon Burge's victims and their families, the promise has yet to be fulfilled.  To learn more and get involved, visit: https://chicagotorture.org/ https://chicagotorture.org/donate-2/ https://www.centeronwrongfulconvictions.org/ Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An official investigation blows the whistle on Chicago PD. Jon Burge faces a day of reckoning in court.This episode was originally released as a Wondery+ exlusive.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/americanscandal.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Civil rights attorneys take on a risky case against Jon Burge. As they press their fight in court, an official in the police department launches an official investigation.This episode was originally released as a Wondery+ exlusive.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/americanscandal.Support us by supporting our sponsors!Tommy John: Get TWENTY PERCENT OFF YOUR FIRST PURCHASE at https://www.TommyJohn.com/AS RIGHT NOW for Valentine's Day!Audible: New members can try Audible free for 30 days. Visit https://www.Audible.com/AS or text AS to 5005See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jon Burge is a star detective in the Chicago Police Department. He's known as a man who can crack the most difficult cases, and send the worst criminals to jail. But underneath his success is a dark secret—one that could shatter the city of Chicago.This episode was originally released as a Wondery+ exlusive.Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/americanscandal.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jon Burge is a star detective in the Chicago Police Department. He's known as a man who can crack the most difficult cases, and send the worst criminals to jail. But underneath his success is a dark secret—one that could shatter the city of Chicago.This episode was originally released as a Wondery+ exlusive. Listen to new episodes 1 week early and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/americanscandal.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lawyer and activist Flint Taylor returns to the program to discuss his recent article in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report "The Wrongful Conviction of Johnnie Lee Savory. Taylor's work in fighting against police torture in Chicago over the past 29 years has been instrumental in obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of police torture ringleader Jon Burge and the precedent setting decision that upheld the inclusion of former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a co-conspiring defendant in the Tillman civil rights case.

Today we're heading over to Chicago, IL to talk about a fairly infamous figure in the city's history. Jon Burge had a pretty normal start to his life, then wound earning himself a place in the memory of everyone who lived in Chicago by being one of the biggest pieces of shit their police department has ever seen. And because this is Chicago, there's also plenty of corruption to go around as a cherry on top of our regularly scheduled violence. Enjoy!

Jon Burge is a star detective in the Chicago Police Department. He's known as a man who can crack the most difficult cases, and send the worst criminals to jail. But underneath his success is a dark secret—one that could shatter the city of Chicago.Need more American Scandal? With Wondery+, enjoy exclusive seasons, binge new seasons first, and listen completely ad-free. Start your free trial in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or visit wondery.app.link/IM5aogASNNb now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is part 2 of the interview host Bob Hercules conducted with the remarkably persistent and dedicated civil and human rights attorney Flint Taylor.  Part 1 of this interview took a close look at the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, and the 13-year legal battle that ensued to successfully change the public narrative of how Hampton died.  If you have not heard this part of the interview, which is episode 9 of this podcast, please give it a listen first.  This part of the conversation transitioned to another one of Taylor's landmark investigations that uncovered a systemic pattern of brutal torture in Chicago, which included the use of electric shock to elicit false confessions from subjects, led by the notorious police commander, Jon Burge.    Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and his colleagues at the People's Law Office brought a lawsuit against the offending CPD officers and the City of Chicago.  As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States.  Both parts of this interview are explored in Taylor's ground-breaking book, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, published by Haymarket Books.

“We come to you and ask you to enforce the law because if it is not enforced here, when will it be enforced? Are police officers going to be allowed to shoot from 90 to 100 bullets into an apartment of citizens of this country, whether they be black or white, poor, rich, Panthers or not Panthers, to use the color our laws to do that, to tear the place asunder, to beat people, to shoot them, to maim them for life, to kill them? Are they going to be able to? That is the question that you have to ask yourselves. These defendants, as police officers, are they going to be allowed to violate those rights in the face of the law, in the face of our Constitution, in the face of the Bill of Rights? I say you won't let them, and you will come back with a just and fair verdict which history will be proud of. That is what we ask and that is what the evidence demands.”   That very prescient quote from Flint Taylor was said in 1977 during the trial of the cops that murdered Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Sadly, not much has changed in the demands of the people to the people charged with protecting and serving the public. Much emphasis has been made in recent history on the unjustified homicide of Black citizens by police malfeasance. Another major source of police abuse has been the use of torture by police to elicit confessions and general cooperation by citizens. In this episode we will talk to former Black Panther Fred Hampton's Lawyer, Flint Taylor about his 50-year battle against police abuse and torture and inquire if police reform is truly possible.   About Flint Taylor: G. FLINT TAYLOR, a graduate of Brown University and Northwestern Law School, is a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago, an office which has been dedicated to litigating civil rights, police violence, government misconduct, and death penalty cases for 45 years. Among the landmark cases that Mr. Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case; the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis; the Ford Heights Four case in which four innocent men received a record $36 million settlement for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment; and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, former Mayor Richard M. Daley, former State's Attorney Richard Devine, and numerous other police and government officials, five of which have been settled against the City of Chicago and Cook County for a total of approximately $26 million. He obtained a multi-million dollar settlement for a seven year old boy who was falsely accused by the Chicago Police of the murder of 11 year old Ryan Harris and has represented, and continues to represent, numerous other wrongfully convicted persons who have spent decades in prison and on death row, including Burge torture victims Michael Tillman, Darrell Cannon, Ronald Kitchen, Alonzo Smith, Anthony Holmes, Victor Safforld, Shawn Whirl, and Jackie Wilson, exonerees Randy Steidl, Paul Terry, Ronald Jones, Jerry Miller, Oscar Walden, Lewis Gardner, Paul Phillips, Terrill Swift, and Jonathan Barr, and the first woman jailhouse lawyer in Illinois, Maxine Smith.   Get Flint's Book, "The Torture Machine" from Haymarket Books here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1642-the-torture-machine     Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION merch HERE: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com

Earlier this season on Everyday Injustice, we spoke with Flint Taylor who highlighted his years of fighting to expose the Chicago Torture Scandal. We also spoke with former Illinois Governor George Ryan who ended the death penalty in Illinois in part due to the torture scandal. And this week we talk more about the torture scandal and the death row 10 with four guests, two of whom were past survivors of the torture machine by former Police Captain Jon Burge. Three of these men were tortured into making false confessions landing on death row. One remains incarcerated but the death penalty was ended in Illinois by Governor Ryan in part due to the efforts of the Death Row 10. This is a story of their work from the inside to expose this scandal and force the hand of the governor. Mark Clements: Organizer Chicago Torture Justice Center Ronnie Kitchen: Death row wrongfully convicted, Jon Burge torture survivor Stanley Howard: D eath row wrongfully convicted, Jon Burge torture survivor Joan Parkin: One of the activists who helped to pressure the governor to commute the sentences of the death row incarcerated people.

The appointment of a second special prosecutor to look in to the actions of members of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office (SAO) demonstrates the problems within the SAO but also the great bias within the the Cook County Courts. Kim Foxx, who ran as a progressive and is implementing some progressive reforms, seems to garner very critical attention for actions that are far less egregious then her predecessors were caught doing. The special prosecutor appointed in the Jessi Smollett case is pure politics and when compared to the Vanecko case the actions are incredibly minor. The the Vanecko case a nephew of Mayor Richard Daley almost got away with murdering someone and it wasn't until the courts appointed an independent prosecutor that Vanecko was charged. To the last day in the case former Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez turn down charging Vanecko and said there was no corruption in the case despite the Sun-Times printing multiple front page stories documenting the corruption within the Chicago Police Department and the SAO. No special prosecutor was ever appointed to investigate the actions of the SAO in that incredibly important case. This latest special prosecutor is indeed needed but honestly it is like 40 plus years overdue. The role of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in the Jon Burge torture saga still is unexplained. The appointment of the special prosecutor at this point seems a little odd given the decades of malfeasance by the SAO. Also on our show today: CPD arresting the wrong people8 people shot Gun violence prevention rallyPolice refusing to turn over use of force dataCalifornia Governor displays typical democratic weakness Images from today's show Videos from today's show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3I875QSjU

Chris Hedges discusses police abuse and torture with civil rights attorney Flint Taylor. Taylor’s new book is ‘The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago’. With his colleagues at the People's Law Office, Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases exposing the corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department and throughout the city’s political machine, from the alderman to the mayor's office. The book takes the reader from the 1969 murder of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark – and the historic 13-year trial that followed – to the pursuit of chief detective Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the Chicago Police Department that used barbaric methods including electric shock and suffocation to elicit false confessions from suspects – a violation of the UN Convention against Torture. Taylor and the People’s Law Office gathered evidence to bring suit against the Chicago Police Department, breaking the department’s “code of silence” that had enabled decades of cover-ups. The legal precedent they set has since been adopted in human rights legislation around the world.

Gooooooooood whatever time it is where you are! We're back at ya after a short break with another episode! We're sorry this one isn't so fun, but hey, we all gotta learn something once in a while, even if that something sucks. Taylor tells us the story of Darrell Cannon, just one survivor of Jon Burge's Chicago police torture ring (yeah.) And Emily walks us through a bit of history on Slave Patrols, but finishes telling us about the inspiring, incredible woman Ida B. Wells.     

Kim Foxx is trying to reform one of the most notorious counties in the Country - see what she is doing about issues like wrongful convictions, police shootings and bail reform. Kim Foxx took over in the wake of the Laquan Macdonald killing and revelations in Chicago - a city that has had its share of scandals from the torture scandal and Lt. Jon Burge to the federal report on policing to one of the highest incidents of wrongful convictions in the country. Kim Foxx talks about policing in Chicago and her efforts at reforming the system.

Join Heather Ann Thompson, Flint Taylor and Darrell Cannon as they discuss 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark—and the historic, thirteen-years of litigation that followed—through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. The three panelists will further delve into the events leading up to and the legacy surrounding the 1971 Attica prison uprising when 1,300 prisoners took over the facility. These event will be framed in the context of the paperback release of Taylor's book Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago and Thompson's Pulitzer-prize winning book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Heather Ann Thompson is a Collegiate Professor of History in the departments of Afro- American and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She is the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971. Blood in the Water won five other major book prizes and was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Silver Gavel Award, and the Cundill Prize in History. The book has also been optioned by Sony Pictures and Thompson is also the lead advisor on Stanley Nelson's forthcoming Showtime documentary on Attica. Thompson is also a public intellectual who writes extensively on the history of protests, policing, prisons, and the current criminal justice system more broadly. On the policy front, Thompson served on the historic National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the U.S. She currently serves on the standing Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies. She is currently writing her next book on the MOVE Bombing of 1985. @hthompsn Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago. He is one of the lawyers for the families of slain Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, has represented many survivors of Chicago police torture over the past 30 years and is counsel in several illegal search and wrongful death cases brought against the Milwaukee Police Department. Darrell Cannon is a Chicago police torture survivor who was subjected to electric shock and a mock execution at a remote torture site on the far southeast side of Chicago by two of notorious Chicago police commanderJon Burge's main henchmen. As a result he gave a false confession, was wrongfully convicted, and spent 24 years in prison, 9 in a supermax prison, before he was exonerated in 2007. After his release, he became a powerful leader in the successful movement to obtain reparations for 60 Chicago police torture survivors. ---------------------------------------------------- Order a copy of Flint Taylor's book , The Torture Machine: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1642-the-torture-machine Order a copy of Heather Ann Thompson's book, Blood In The Water: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781400078240 Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/neXDQiYTpns Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

He was the young charismatic leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party who was gunned down by the Chicago Police Department at the behest of the F.B.I's COINTELLPRO program. Designed to neutralize the Black Panther Party and all other leftist movements that ran counter to the status quo of U.S. Imperialism and White Supremacy. Hampton a bold leader and organizer was reaching across racial boundaries to form what he would call a "Rainbow Coalition". Unfortunately he wouldn't live to see it come to fruition. On this episode we'll be speaking with the lawyers that litigated his case for DECADES Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas. G. Flint Taylor is a founding member of the People's Law Office in Chicago. He was, together with Jeff Haas, a lead lawyer in the landmark Fred Hampton and Mark Clark civil rights case. He has represented numerous police torture survivors during the past 33 years. He was one of the lawyers involved in the struggle for reparations and has chronicled the decades-long fight against Chicago police violence and torture in his book, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, which was released March 2019 by Haymarket Books. Jeff Haas is a founding partner of the People's Law Office (PLO) in Chicago. He was, together with Flint Taylor, a lead lawyer in the landmark Fred Hampton and Mark Clark civil rights case, and was one of the main lawyers for the 17 Pontiac Brothers, wrongfully charged but acquitted in the capital murder trial for the Pontiac Prison Rebellion in 1978.   Jeff also worked with other PLO lawyers representing the victims of Chicago Police Department torturer Jon Burge. Most recently, Jeff provided legal support and represented Water Protectors at Standing Rock. He is a board member of the Water Protector Legal Collective as well as of the Adalah Justice Project. Jeff is the author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther.   You can find G. Flint Taylor's Book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/author...​   You can find Jeff Haas' Book here: https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-...​   Read the Truthout Op-Ed Here: https://truthout.org/articles/new-doc...   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out.  We appreciate each and everyone of you.  If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!    Become a patron now : https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://medium.com/@jasonmyles/they-dont-really-care-about-us-e2f1703ca39e ​

*TRIGGER WARNING* This episode gives depictions of torture which some may find disturbing.Jon Burge was a former Chicago Police Department commander who had previously served in Vietnam. During his time in service, he may have learned torture techniques that he would later employ as an officer to gain false confessions from victims he apprehended. Huge thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/Promos: https://linktr.ee/Crimeatoriumhttps://linktr.ee/Stolenfromme6

Have you ever wondered what it would look like to truly live in a technological totalitarian society? A dystopian nightmare where your every action is closely monitored and controlled. Even your very thoughts no longer your own, but rather a carefully crafted program designed to serve the party. Well, wonder no further as we dive into the realm of rehabilitation throughout history and around the world, as well as a brief look into the horrors of modern authoritarianism involving the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. A real life blend of George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Terrifying examples of forced sterilizations, behavioral rehabilitation and thought-policing are all commonplace within the walls of these massive technological "Patriot Training" facilities. These things can't happen in America, right? Is this kind of tyranny being normalized and accepted under the comfortable camouflage of euphemisms? Will human beings ever be truly free?You decide.Chapters01:30 - Terms10:28 - Ft. Sumter14:08 - American Internment17:58 - Chinese Uighurs38:36 - The Salt Pit42:09 - Homan Square47:26 - Floating Prisons50: 06 - Future Prisons51:57 - First Step Act01:00:23 - Police ReformLINKS-Drone FootageOrgan HarvestingForced Sterilization Hair WeavesTrain Car Screams?Falun GongNBA and ChinaNBA and Free Hong KongChinese censorship in USTrump and TikTok***CONTACT US- TwitterWebsiteGoogle PlayAppleSpotifyStitcheriHeartRadioYouTube***WITH YOUR HELP- Markus and Drew can improve bringing you more of this kind of electrifying information with better equipment, software, etc. If you liked what you heard and can afford to help us grow, please throw a couple bucks our way ...and if your budget is too tight but you still want to help please Like, Share and/or leave us a good review. Thank you!Support the show (https://paypal.me/phase2phase?locale.x=en_US)

- Today’s podcast we are joined by fellow CSU alumnus and current dual Masters student at Carnegie Mellon, Cameron. Today we talk about Chicago and the right lenses to look through when discussing Chicago. We address the bad side of Chicago that frequently gets swept under the rug. - Crime is dispersed based on economic opportunities. The groundwork for crime and economic disparity was started decades ago by the government. Chicago has done a poor job perpetuating through over policing, yet under nursing the community. Today we take a deeper look into that. Section 1: Chicago Current Problems - Our opinions on Lori Lightfoot - Legalization of weed - Gang violence, extreme poverty, and gun violence Section 2: Chicago and it’s complicated history with MLK Jr/Civil Rights Movement - Chicago - "The most segregated city in the North." - MLK Jr. once said I think the people of Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate”.) - White Chicagoans celebrated the assassination of MLK Jr. which led to looting in response to the disrespect. - Public Housing in Chicago and how segregation was pushed as civil unrest grew. Section 3: Current Issues Facing American Cities - Gentrification, segregation, and evictions. Chicago's eviction rate is 1.1% compared to the nationwide rate of 2.34% but this does not include the informal eviction that go unreported or the discriminating leasing practices by landlords. - How does real estate impact the black plight and segregation? - Is gentrification inevitable in Chicago? And if so where do poor residents move to next? Section 4: Police misconduct in Chicago - Chicago spent more than $113 million on police misconduct suits in 2018, half a billion $ in 8 years. - From 1972 to 1991 a group called the midnight crew led by Chicago detective Jon Burge tortured suspects into giving confessions. - Between 2000 and 2008 1,300 Chicago PD officers have been the subject of at least 100 citizen complaints. How does this get fixed? What is the next generation of policing going to look like? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Officer Jon Burge was accused of torturing over 200 criminal suspects while on duty between 1972 and 1991. CHANGE Illinois Board Member Andy Shaw reveals to John Howell why he is still haunted by this case today.

In light of recent events involving systematic brutality faced by POC concerning law enforcement, this week's episode covers former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge. Burge supervised the mental and physical torture of over a hundred of criminal suspects, resulting in a plethora of wrongful convictions between the 1970's and 1990's. We look back at how the misdeeds of Burge and his officers contributed to a prevailing aura of distrust within minority communities towards the Chicago Police Department.

Who's the biggest piece of shit in history this time? Join us for our 2nd annual Flim Flam Bowl, where we pit liars, murderers, cheats, con men and flim flammers against each other. Who will emerge victorious? Who will have the most dick jokes? Team Tilton or Team Burge? A flim flammer of the most evil nature, Jon Burge was a con man of a cop who would solve crimes by any means necessary, especially if those means involved torture. For twenty-years, Burge was publically known as one of the most successful, admirable, and decorated police officers on the entire Chicago P.D. force. But privately, he was responsible for ruining the lives of entire generations of innocent black men, whom only a percentage of finally found any form of redemption when the dust settled.  During the 80’s and 90’s, the airwaves were plagued by a foul scourge known as the televangelist. And just like some kind of weird monster from the X-Files, televangelists can never truly be destroyed. They just scurry off into their Marcus-holes for 27 years and come back with plastic surgery and some hair plugs. This is the story of how we almost managed to take one down- The Reverend Robert Tilton aka Pastor Bob.

  Transcription (was completed by automated process. Please ignore any speech-to-text errors) [00:00:00] Hi this is Caroline Springer and welcome to the next session of sellers calling you Beatty Carmichael Beatty is the CEO of Master grabber and the creator of agent dominator and one of the top marketing experts in the real estate field. Today we're gonna be talking on one of our radical faith calls and I'm going to pass it over to Beatty for our little disclaimer on just explaining what that is.   [00:00:23] Real simply this has nothing to do with real estate today. It has everything to do with Christ. So if you don't want to hear about Christ and this podcast that's pretty simple isn't it.   [00:00:34] Pretty simple.   [00:00:37] All right. Well I guess I'd call this meeting so I'll start the agenda. Actually I think Caroline has been a little while since we did the last radical faith call. So if I recall correctly the last one we're talking about is faith. So maybe less just a real quick recap on what is faith and not trying to put you on the spot. But if you if I were to ask you Caroline what is faith. What would you tell me.   [00:01:16] Well the first thing that come to mind is just like being sure of what we do not see and believing not just what meets the eye but what goes beyond that. So that's kind of my first thought that first from Hebrews immediately comes to mind. But I know it's definitely multi-dimensional and something that we walk through our lives processing with the words. But that's the first thought.   [00:01:43] Great. So first in Hebrews we're talking about Hebrews 11 1. Can you quote it.   [00:01:48] Do you remember it faces the assurance of what we do not see and nothing about it.   [00:02:03] It's about it's about what we do not see right.   [00:02:06] So Faith assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen. And faith comes from where do we get that level of faith.   [00:02:18] It's a gift from God.   [00:02:20] It comes from Romans. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ and that word is actually the Greek word Rama. Now there are lots of uses for Rama. But in general you've got two words in the Greek so the New Testament was written in Greek and then it was translated ultimately into English. And there are two primary words in Greek use that's translated as word one word is logos logos I guess is how our logos logos and the others Ramo are EMEA. When we were talking last time we're talking about logos means primarily just talking about a concept or an idea. Rima is very specific Okay real simple explanation. I want to tell you about the Kingdom of God that's going to be logos but I'm going to say Caroline can you give me please give me that water. That's a Rima I'm directing you on something or I'm going to say Caroline. You're going to have another child in the next year. That would be arraignment if that were actually from God's word. So is something that's very clear specific and most importantly it's specific to you.   [00:03:48] Does that make sense. It does. Great explanation too.   [00:03:53] Yes.   [00:03:53] So faith is when you've had that word some revelation some word from God and it is now faces the conviction of things not seen in other words we it's not something that we have to work on believing it's intrinsic and within our being. And that's what faces faith is not something that we well up and try to belief. If you have to try to believe if you have to will yourself to believe that's not faith that's simply in the natural. That's what we'll call hope. We're just hoping it's really true. But you know we have to work on trying to make ourselves believe it. So this thing that we talked about last. Is is all about this. This alternate. Understanding of faith being a clear direction a clear revelation a clear truth from God to us and we act on it. That's kind of where we're talking and where I want to talk about today kind of the topics that we're going to move into now is taking this understanding of what faith is and starting to see how it's applied in our lives.   [00:05:21] And I call this topic stepping out of the boat or getting out of the boat and I remember I read a book I love the title I got a little bit of the book but I get more out of the title Jon Burge wrote a book. I'm sure you've never heard of it or you don't recall it. Do you recall a book that John Burge wrote.   [00:05:42] I do not.   [00:05:44] The title is real simple if you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat right. And so that's kind of where I want to take our call today if you want to walk on water if you want to do the most amazing things in God's work by his direction then you've got to be willing to step out of the boat. So also just to cover a couple of things I want to use the term sometimes radical faith. In reality there is only one faith. It's just faith. We kind of think of it as radical because for us as it's what I call normal Christians or Western Christians. Faith is well I believe in God and I pray and I go to church right. I'm sure you know some people like that don't you.   [00:06:38] Definitely in the south definitely in the south. Radical faith is when you go oh my gosh I can't believe you go do that. Well that's actually what Jesus expects of us.   [00:06:52] So let's see. One of the things that we came out with is a definition that radical faith or this true thing I call faith is choosing to step out on God's clearly defined will. His revelation or his direction for you in such a way that it's usually great personal risk or sacrifice. In other words when you walk by faith you're not walking by sight and therefore you have to step out in faith and trust that you can't see it. And it's at great personal risk in fact. Do you remember there a great example of this and I'll watch the movie in search of the Holy Grail not Monty Python. But this is Raiders of the Lost Ark. You remember when do you remember. I think it may have been the last the last part of that series. And they're searching for the Holy Grail. Did you ever watch that movie.   [00:07:57] I did. I'm sure my husband had toward the end of the last scene.   [00:08:03] Here's where they are. What's his name. Who's the main actor in that. The name escapes me. Harrison Ford thank you. Harrison Ford has just come to this. He's he's somewhere in the middle of nowhere in this cave or chasm and he comes to the edge and there's this great big chasm below him and across the way maybe a hundred feet or maybe two hundred feet is one of the nights of many years back story like a crusade or type of night.   [00:08:45] And there is the Holy Grail the goblet that Christ used at the Last Supper. And Harrison Ford has been walking been following all these clues and secrets on how to get here. And now he has to take a leap of faith. That's basically the next clue is a leap of faith. He looks down in this chasm and it's straight down for a thousand feet or whatever it is and this is sheer death. But he chooses to step out by faith and so he steps out.   [00:09:19] He can't see anything but yet his foot now lands on solid ground that he can't see. And he starts walking across this invisible bridge is basically what it is. That's kind of an idea of what faith is. You can't see it. You know it's there you trust is there and you trust is there because God said it is. That's God's word. And that's kind of what I mean by stepping out typically at great personal risk or sacrifice because if God doesn't show up in the way that he says he will then all is lost. And so I want to talk in terms of showing you how this applies from biblical things and start to apply to our lives.   [00:10:04] Do you have your Bible handy by chance. I can't.   [00:10:09] Okay. I want you to pull up Matthew 14 and let me know when you get there.   [00:10:18] And we're going to do Matthew 14. This is versus 28 and 29. And as you get there let me just kind of give everyone the background of what's going on. So Jesus has just the day before. Literally that afternoon before has fed 5000 people with five loaves and two fish. He sends the people away he sends his disciples back across the lake in a boat and then Jesus goes up to the mountain to pray. Now it is early dawn before the sun is risen and the disciples are rowing against the wind and they see Jesus walking on the water and they can just make him out and they all get afraid because they think it's a ghost. And Jesus says no it's it's me. And now that's where we picked up Matthew 14 versus 28 and 29 Can you read that.   [00:11:16] Yes. This is Peter. He says Lord if it's you Peter replied tell me to come to you on the water. He said Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water and came towards Jesus.   [00:11:32] Okay.   [00:11:36] So Peter says Lord if you command me to come and Jesus has come and Peter gets out of the boat and walks on the water and comes toward Jesus. So here's a question when Peter stepped out of the boat and started walk on water. What happened.   [00:11:54] I didn't know you're asking me directly. Well he doubted. I mean he he took his eyes off of the word and saw the wind and fear.   [00:12:04] Hold on. Okay. Before that we're going gonna get to that before but when you get out of the boat at the very beginning what happens. Does he walk on water.   [00:12:13] Yes he walks on water. And how does he walk on water by faith by listening to the word of the Lord Jesus said Come on he's not gonna let me think.   [00:12:24] That's right. So here's a little truism that we start to see when we step out of our comfort zone because we stepped out by the Lord's direction. So Jesus Jesus's revelation if we want to use that term or his direction or his command if we want to use those terms to Peter was come and so Peter steps out of the boat. Great personal risk and sacrifice. If God doesn't show up he's sunk no pun intended. And guess what happened. God shows up. God does a miracle.   [00:12:59] Do you see the little equation that's starting to come up. We stepped out by God's clearly defined well for us. We have faith that God is going to perform because faith is the assurance of things hoped for. Now the word hoping that Sharon says things to hope for another translation gives it faith as the title deed is the absolute. You actually own the title to what has been promised. Is that confident. So that's what faith is. That's what Peter does. He steps out of that boat and when he does something happens and what happens is God shows up and does a miracle. Pretty cool and it really cool. So the question then is or the comment on this is when God acts the God showing up moments because this is what we want in our lives. How do you live this life of faith and what does it look like. This life of faith is when God constantly shows up and he either shows up miraculously like he did with Peter walking on the water or he shows up providential where he just kind of organizes and orchestrates all kinds of events.   [00:14:22] Now I want to talk in terms of these things. I think one of these I may have to fall back but does the name George Mueller ring a bell to you.   [00:14:34] He's an author right.   [00:14:36] Well he's written several books were maybe better spoken several books were written about him. He was actually a man of God back in the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. He was in England in a town called Bristol England and he felt the Lord leading him to start an orphanage. And so he started an orphanage and within 10 or 20 years that orphanage was housing I think it's 20000 children. And he never once it was faith based people gave and contributed and supported the work and he never once asked anyone for money.   [00:15:26] And he later said in light that the reason he started at the orphanage was not because there was a great need. There was a great need. And it was not because he felt that this was his life's calling. He started the orphanage. He said to show people how to live by faith that he could by God's direction start an orphanage. Never ask anyone for money but trust God for all of the resources and God continue to provide more and more and more resources to start it and to grow it. And so a lot of the books have been written about George in terms of how do you get your prayers answered. How do you live by faith.   [00:16:07] And I want to share an example because this kind of talks in terms of what this stepping out by faith really means getting out of the boat. So because it is faith based ministry they never really had much money at any given time. They didn't have this great big bank account with lots of money to carry through months and months. They live basically day to day trust. It's like what Jesus says Lord give us this day our daily bread. And so I want to read you an excerpt from one thing that happened with George. So here's the extra one morning. So this is in an orphanage and they bring all the children together for breakfast one morning all the plates and cups and bowls on the table were empty. There was no food in the pantry and there was no money to buy food. The children were standing waiting for their morning meal just as they would always do. And Mueller said children you know we must be in time for school and then lifting up his hands. He prayed Dear Father we thank you for what you are going to give us to eat that pretty bowl.   [00:17:23] That's really all.   [00:17:26] I love it too. So then here's the rest of the story. There was a knock at the door. The Bakers stood there and said Mr. Mueller I couldn't sleep last night. Somehow I felt you didn't have bread for breakfast. And the Lord wanted me to send you some. So I got up at 2 o'clock this morning and baked some fresh bread and then brought it.   [00:17:47] And then Mr. Mueller thanked the baker and no sooner had the Baker left when there was a second knock at the door and there was a milkman he announced that his milk cart had broken down right in front the orphanage and he would like to give the children his cans of fresh milk so he could empty his wagon to repair it. So here's my question.   [00:18:09] Do you think that was orchestrated by the Lord.   [00:18:16] I do. I mean obviously if the Lord inspired those people spoke to them to do those things but I think it I think it can be inspired by the Lord. But I think also partners with his faith his willingness to say my husband lovingly says All right Jesus. Are you under the bus. You better show up. I'm just gonna put it out there. So I think it's kind of a partnership of both.   [00:18:45] It is. I think partnership.   [00:18:48] I think this is the key I think you hit it on the right word. It is a partnership because the Lord gives us a revelation gives us a promise like the promise he gave. Mueller was I'll meet all your needs. Mueller takes that promise at face value. And he says Lord thank you for giving us whatever you're to give us. Mueller had no doubt that the Lord was going to provide food. And yet here's the thing that's really interesting. When did the food arrive at the orphanage a long time before Mueller prayed a long time after he prayed or   [00:19:29] At the moment he prayed.   [00:19:35] You remember when you said at the moment he said Father thank you for what you're going to give us to eat. And then there was a knock at the door right after he prayed thanking by faith the Lord showed up. Does that make sense right.   [00:19:50] But now here's a bigger question. This is what's so fascinating about this. When did the Lord prepare everything to show up at that moment. Did he prepared at that moment or did he prepare it beforehand he prepared it beforehand for the baker. He got the baker up at 2:00 in the morning for the meal and he had the milkman leave at a certain time go through his route and all of sudden his car breaks down at that moment. So here's what's really fascinating and this is a hot topic for a whole nother discussion that we'll do. Is that faith actually operates outside of time.   [00:20:30] Think about this for a moment when Mueller thank the Lord. By faith all of these things were put in place prior to him thanking the Lord. Here here's a hypothetical question If Mueller never thanked the Lord by faith do you think those people would have showed up.   [00:20:52] That is a bigger question. I think that sometimes there is a grace over our actions and the Lord does show up but I think how much more soul or delight in our faith and our willingness to you know to believe and to step out and how much more fun is that for us to partner with it. I don't know.   [00:21:15] Good thing he's sovereign is sovereign. We don't know the answer entirely but let's say for a moment that Mueller was scared.   [00:21:27] He doubted that he doubted God's provision and therefore he really couldn't pray in faith and say Lord thank you for what you're going to give us to eat. If he was in that situation what do you think would have happened. Do you think the Baker would have shown up and do you think the milkman would've shown up.   [00:21:49] They might not have. I think in those months like I was saying I think there can be a grace that can happen and you can you're just blown away at God you're so faithful even when I'm not. But then I think also there are things that we missed out on. From not believing and not stepping out and taking a risk in faith with the Lord just even the way you just worded it I did envision I mean if you hadn't. They might not have shown up.   [00:22:18] So let me ask you a question because this is kind of the fascinating part with all of this. So let's look at when God moves when God shows up when God showed up with Peter and he walked on the water which was an absolute miracle. Was that. Any more of him showing up than him coordinating the baker and the milkman to providential show up at the same at the right time is walking on the water. Any greater an act of God than coordinating what appears to be human events.   [00:23:01] I don't think so. I mean I think that's the privilege of walking through life awake and aware of the Lord and how he works is that we're constantly in awe of every miracle he does whether it's walking on water or the provision in those moments of orchestrating all of that. So my my personal answer would be I think it's equally as beautiful and miraculous.   [00:23:29] I think you're right on that.   [00:23:31] I think you're right. Let me ask this question. Is it any harder for God for someone to walk on the water versus coordinating those events for them to show up.   [00:23:43] No I wouldn't think so.   [00:23:45] Is it any harder for God to heal someone from a cough versus heal them from multiple sclerosis and getting him out of a wheelchair. Is it any harder.   [00:23:55] No. No it's not.   [00:23:57] So when we look at things from God's perspective this is kind of tapping into where I'm going with this thing on faith. When we look at things from. God's perspective there is no level of difficulty greater than another and what we do in our lives whether we walk on the water or whether we bring some people to show up and bring bread and milk. It's all God acting he does it through different methods but it's all God showing up. Faith is actually seeing everything from God's perspective. This is if you go back to faith is the assurance that things hope for. It's a title deed to those things that God has said is the conviction of things that you cannot see what it actually is. In a broader scope in a more realistic scope. Faith is seeing things from God's perspective.   [00:24:54] And when you can see from God's perspective with Mueller God's perspective is I've got people bringing you stuff. So Mueller had no doubt from God's perspective with Peter on walk. Walking on the water. It was it was happening. It doesn't matter because God's perspective. God knows what's going on. And faith is when we operate from the perspective of God because we're operating from the Word of God and the word is absolute truth. I'm making some connections there. Does that make sense.   [00:25:30] It does. And what an honor. An amazing thing. Jesus made possible that we can see things through the lens of heaven and operate from that place because that's ultimately what it means to be a son or daughter is to operate with him and seeing things in the way that he does and walking in that kind of faith. Absolutely that makes sense.   [00:25:55] So then let's put it.   [00:25:57] Let's take this a step further because this is another truism we'll get into this a little bit more on another session but just to kind of open the door real quickly into this Jesus says Thy word is truth.   [00:26:10] Remember that I think it's John 17 and what Jesus is saying about the father's word is that it's true. And I'm gonna use the word truth with a capital T.   [00:26:26] Truth.   [00:26:28] Is not the same as reality. Reality is in the moment and reality can change. Truth is always absolute and always truth. Now when I'm talking in really deep terms for a moment. But are you following me kind of following at least generally the concept I'm trying to articulate.   [00:26:53] Yes.   [00:26:55] So now let's go back to Peter walking on the water. I'm gonna bring this up again a little bit later I think but go back to Matthew where you were and read where I stopped you from reading.   [00:27:09] Okay so let me let me catch this up 28 and 29 and you read from after that so catching up 28 29 as Peter says to Jesus Lord at that you command me to come on the water jesus gives Peter a command a word a word of truth come with that word of truth that command come is intrinsic within that the the truth that if he operates on that command then he's going to get what Peter asked for which is walking on the water so from that one word is encapsulated the truth of what's about to occur. Are you following me so far. Mm hmm mm hmm. Okay so it says Peter guy got out of the boat and walked on the water and came towards Jesus a miracle occurred as Peter operated by faith according to God's word according to the reign of Christ. Now pick up from there and tell me what it reads.   [00:28:13] So in verse 30 it says that when he saw the wind he was afraid and beginning to think he cried out. Lord save me right.   [00:28:22] And then what would Jesus do.   [00:28:26] Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him a little face and said Why did you doubt.   [00:28:32] Perfect. Okay now here's something really cool. If you pray and God answers your prayer does that mean that you are righteous. Does that mean that you have great paper or does that mean that you're really special because God answers your prayer.   [00:28:54] Yeah. I was thinking about because I know there is the righteous the righteous man or the right to effective prayer for a righteous man accomplishes much.   [00:29:07] James Right. But generally speaking when most people think about a man or woman to praising God answers their prayer. Generally speaking do most people look at that person saying Oh a man or woman of God. Because God answers their prayers.   [00:29:25] All right.   [00:29:25] Well I guess generally speaking though generally speaking they think that way or generally speaking they don't think that way.   [00:29:33] They don't. They wouldn't think that. I guess I would think generally people would just think that might be normal. I don't know. Okay so books have been written about George Miller   [00:29:48] On how his prayers are consistently answered.   [00:29:52] Because it's been so unusual that someone can pray in their prayers answered. Does that make sense. Have you ever prayed and prayed and your prayers were not answered at least not answered the way you asked God to answer them.   [00:30:08] I think the Lord always when you release the control of what you believe or thought was supposed to be there was something that you're praying specifically into. You can usually go and we'll take you into a place where you can see his way. And so I don't know I don't I don't know that I feel like defeated thinking Oh I know because I trust the words ways are better.   [00:30:36] I guess I'm not saying you feel defeated. Have you ever asked Lord please do a and he doesn't do a. Have you ever had that happen. Yes. Have you ever asked the Lord please do be. And he does.   [00:30:52] Yes. Which one of those instances are you more enthused and delighted about.   [00:31:00] Well you're definitely worth doing what you pray for is answered. Okay. Okay.   [00:31:05] So that's where I'm going. Most people believe that when you pray and ask the Lord for something and he does what you've asked him to. There is an elation and there's a specialness to it because frequently we ask and we don't see the answer to the prayer that we've asked. I'm not making sense of that.   [00:31:25] You are. You are.   [00:31:26] Okay. So here we have Peter. He prays to the Lord and the Lord answers him exactly how he prays. It says Peter cried out to the Lord which is prayer. Lord save me. And it says Jesus reached out his hand and saved him.   [00:31:47] God answered Peter's prayer but here's the question is that good or bad. Let me go. Let me go where I'm going. Okay so often we're related because God answers our prayer. But answering our prayer is not necessarily God's highest and best of what he wanted for us. What was God's highest and best for Peter at that time. At that moment.   [00:32:24] To believe that he could walk into walk on the water and he lost the highest and best because of what now because of doubt and then he prayed in crisis and the Lord answered his prayer.   [00:32:45] And how many times do we pray for something far less than God's highest and best. He answers our prayer. We're elated but we have no real clue how much we've really lost out on what he wants us to have done something that does make sense.   [00:33:05] That's a great way to put it into perspective.   [00:33:09] But what happens then is Peter. So let's look at the sequence of events. Peter is given a word. A Rama from the Lord in some circles. We call it a revelation in some circles we'll call it a promise in whatever word you want to use. It's very clear to Peter that the Lord has given him a special direction.   [00:33:38] And so by absolute faith the assurance of things he could not see. He claimed the title deed.   [00:33:48] I can step out and he boldly steps out of the boat and starts to walk on the water and he's all excited and then his carnal mind gets in the way and starts to look at the circumstances and says oh my gosh this can't be happening. And instantly he goes from faith to doubt doubt is the opposite of faith. He immediately goes from operating from God's perspective   [00:34:25] To operating from man's perspective. He goes from operating from truth to operating from reality. And as soon as he goes from truth to reality what happens to his reality.   [00:34:43] It changes does it change.   [00:34:46] Here is the most amazing thing I've learned about faith. The most amazing but kind of the first of the many amazing things is you have truth which is God's word. Jesus says to his father and the High Priest I think they called the high priestly prayer. I think it's John 17. He's talking to the father praying all kinds of you know he's about to be turned over and then crucified. So this is the last stuff that he said. This is real important and one of the state statements he made his father die. Word is truth.   [00:35:26] Truth trumps reality. Truth modifies reality and look at what happened with Peter as long as Peter operated by truth. From the perspective of truth God's word by faith any claim that title deed then truth overcame natural laws and what should not have occurred did occur.   [00:35:56] Peter walks on the water as soon as Peter doubts in his heart instantly in a twinkling of an eye. If we want to use that term he transformed from operating by faith. To operating in the natural instantly just like that and instantly it says immediately he begins to sink. He loses the impact of truth and reality of his circumstances instantly changed. He goes from acting boldly upon God's word to sending up a prayer crisis.   [00:36:36] Lord help me and the Lord answers his prayer but the Lord would have preferred not to have to have intervened to answer that prayer. PAUL Peter lost the Lord's highest and best because he got his eyes off of Jesus and onto his circumstances and where you place your eyes is what you get is this kind of making some sense it is I think that's a really great way to put it and I think it's kind of a challenge for us to really think about like what we're asking the Lord for and to make sure that that is God and not settling racist.   [00:37:27] And he'll answer that.   [00:37:29] And it's not only based on what we're asking the Lord but what are we doing with what the Lord has directed us. Because often when the Lord directs us he directs us. Makes no sense in the natural. Do you think it made any sense to step out of the boat. Now keep in mind let me let me give you where this situation is. It says that they were rowing against the wind and had made very little progress to get to where they were going. By the time Jesus walked up to them. So that means you got all these strong men. They've lived on the on the on the sea for years. That was their livelihood being fishermen in a boat. They're rowing against the wind and they made very little headway. This is not calm water. This is a water that is very turbulent is very turbulent. They got a lot of things against them and it was in that situation that Jesus says stepped out of the boat and come walk with me. It's not going to be in an easy situation it's going to be one of those situations that is turbulent. Does that make sense. It does and it makes no sense in reality this is where the idea of faith really comes in stepping out. Let me look at my arm. I also make someone make a little point because I think it all kind of ties in a real simple point. Look at your phone for a moment and for those who are listening to this if you're driving you look at your steering wheel for a moment.   [00:39:24] Do you have faith that that telephone or that steering wheel exists.   [00:39:30] What about you. You have faith that it exists. Yes it's right here.   [00:39:36] Very good. So go back. And now I want you to read Hebrew see love in one for me.   [00:39:47] Ok.   [00:39:56] So now faces confidence and what we hope for an assurance about what we do not see.   [00:40:02] Stop. Do you see your phone. Yes. Can you have faith that it exists. I can't. I'm sorry. Something to speak to on me. I just said I can. Okay. Ready. Hebrew see love in one again.   [00:40:23] Now faces confidence and what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.   [00:40:29] Assurance of things we do not see. But you can see your phone. Yes. You cannot have faith that your phone exists because you see it. Are you okay. Right. If you can see it. You do not have faith because faith by definition is the assurance of things not seen.   [00:40:57] And that's why it's so hard in the natural. We have to operate with our will use a very broad non-technical term. We have to operate with our spirit mind and our spirit eyes rather than our physical mind and our physical lives. And what happens is we're always pulled back our natural self wants to keep using our natural senses and our natural logic to tell us what reality is. That's what happened with Peter as soon as his naturalize left Jesus and went to the wind then at that point. Everything. Fell apart. And this is what happens in our lives too. Let me tell you a story is real interesting. This was 2003. To set the stage 2002 we we brought on this large account. We were making a lot of money. This one account was producing 2002 seventy five thousand dollars a month in profit a large account. And at that time we were giving a high percentage of what the Lord brought us back into the kingdom. And this account was scheduled to leave on I think it was June 1. We were holding nothing in reserves. By the way it was a lot of profit but it was all of the profit the company made. Without that account we would immediately be losing money because of our fixed expenses. So they were scheduled to leave on I think it was June 1 and we knew it. But we were saving nothing up in reserves and then they left and we immediately went from making a lot of profit to going upside down and we had no reserves to lean on because we'd given all the reserves away. And so that's where I found myself. And for the first month or two I was gung ho Lord's going to take care of us. Right. And operating what I thought was my faith but it kept going and we were borrowing money to survive.   [00:43:25] And all of a sudden I get scared and I shift and I start to batten down the hatches tell my business manager cut every expense put everyone down on reduced payroll. Now these are not bad things but they were things that I enacted out of fear.   [00:43:47] And so we batten everything down. Everyone took pay cuts. I took the biggest of all the pay cuts obviously since I owned the company and I was going to lead by example. And we're going to quote unquote weather the storm. And it kept going bad and bad and bad. And it was January. It was about January 25 2003. So we've been like this for six months seven months. And I was out on a what I call a day of prayer with the Lord just seeking Him going Lord of what's going on. And I was in a panic mode just like Peter Lord save me. And I remember asking the Lord Lord Quinn are you going to let up. And the Lord spoke to me in my heart this conversation we have in our spirit with the Lord so to speak. And he said Well do you really believe my word to take care of you. I said yes.   [00:44:50] And guess what the next question he asked me was any idea he believes that he'll take care of you and then can you see it make you pay for it almost.   [00:45:06] Pretty close he said. If you truly believed how would you act differently than you're acting right now.   [00:45:16] That's a great question to even ask ourselves. We say we're trusting the Lord we say we have faith that he's going to handle whatever we're going through. The question is if you really believed how would you operate different. And so I said well if I really believed I would put myself at full pay and I put all my people back at full pay.   [00:45:43] So you know what the Lord said to me what do I do. So I did. I called my office manager that moment I said my business manager I said put everyone back to full pay retroactive for January 1.   [00:46:03] So to put this in perspective we got paid twice a month on the 15th and on the 30th first and so on the 15th everyone was at the reduced pay amount. So what I told Walter was put everyone back to full pay for the month meaning let's say that month the full pay for selling was five thousand dollars but it reduced pay to thirty five hundred. So that means that that mid-month pay there were only going to get it paid about seventeen hundred instead of the normal twenty five hundred. Does that make sense. Because 17 is half of 35 right. So for the end of the month pay we're going to make up whatever is remaining to get them back to 5000. So that end of the month was a much bigger paycheck than it would have been if I just said start now. So we start at the first went back to the 1st of January to catch everyone up for that month. Well now that was only five days later. We lost that at that moment. We lost ten thousand dollars. We were ten thousand dollars in the hole by doing that but then the end of February. We had made ten thousand dollars profit.   [00:47:28] So there was a 20 thousand dollars swing in revenues not to get you lost with numbers. Twenty thousand dollar swing in revenues. And even to this day as I look at my profit and loss I cannot find where that money comes from. It wasn't that we had a lot more. Excuse me. Twenty thousand dollars swing in profit. It wasn't that we had more money that came in. It wasn't that we had fewer expenses. Literally I cannot find it. But here's the cool part. From that moment on for an extended period time we were making profit every month. The only thing that changed was operated by faith on God's promise to me rather than by sight with what I saw. And this is the whole idea of stepping out of the boat not being afraid to step off the boat because the word of God cannot fail God's promises can never fail. In fact it says I think in Luke 1 37 and 43 or something like that in the living Bible it says you believe God would do what he said. That is why he is giving you this wonderful blessing right. I think that says that God's promises cannot fail or something like that.   [00:48:59] And so when we at in that direction and when we act on God's word then what's happening is we're acting by truth not by reality and in some mysterious way God. God's truth alters reality because reality is variable. It changes all the time but God's truth is fixed and it is absolute is this kind of making sense.   [00:49:29] It is absolutely.   [00:49:30] So let's go back to the Mueller situation. He says Lord thank you for what you are about to give us to eat my question to you was if Mueller had doubted would the Baker and Hamilton have shown up.   [00:49:54] I understand.   [00:49:56] I love your question. Your answer was actually a little bit better than mine. Black and white.   [00:50:01] God's grace will still come into play at times even in the absence of us having faith. But if we look at the strictly strictly from a faith perspective. If Mueller had doubted then I think it's not near as likely. Except by only by God's grace and nothing more. Not near as likely that the food would have shown up because there's something about when you operate from a perspective of God's truth it changes reality. And when you operate from a perspective of the natural you don't get the truth reality. You get the natural reality and they are two different things.   [00:50:50] Kind of cool it it is something to feel like I'm going to do over some of this for a while because it is challenging in the best way for us to kind of even evaluate what we hear and how we act on it and just knowing what a vital role we get to play and be a part of it. It is I think a lot of this is going to stay on for a few days and I'm applying Yeah.   [00:51:22] So then let's talk about applying it because this is now at an academic level to a degree. We start to understand just a very shallow level of the truth about faith. ROMANS 10 17. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. This is what we talked about last time. That word is the Greek word Rama and it means something very clear a very clear direction a promise a truth a quote unquote revelation something that's specific to you a rama. A lot of times is when you're reading God's word and something pops out of the page directly at you and you go oh this is God's word to me. Sometimes God speaks to you. Like that example where we're losing money and God said well if you really believed how would you act differently.   [00:52:14] You're right. Okay so you have that faith is rooted in God's word rooted by hearing God's word. It's rooted by hearing God's Word which is truth. And then Faith Hebrews love and one is the assurance of hope for the conviction of things not seen. Okay we start to understand that truth change is reality. Reality doesn't change truth. Truth change is reality and based on truth. Reality changes and based on the absence of truth I doubt you'd get the absence of truth. You get reality. This is what happened with Peter walking on the water soon as he doubted. Same situation two different outcomes right. One outcome God shows up another outcome. The natural consequence shows up. If we went back to Mueller one outcome by faith Lord thank you for what you're about to give us. God shows up he had already coordinated things to occur at that moment but in the absence of faith. Oh Lord please help us we have no food. I don't know how we're going to feed all these children. Help Lord God might have shown up but my guess is God would not and they would've gotten the natural consequence. Then you have.   [00:53:44] Let's see where was I going. God showing up.   [00:53:49] Then you have things like healing look at healing in the Bible. Jesus represents truth Jesus. In the beginning was the Word the Word was with God the Word was God thy word is truth. Jesus operates from the perspective of truth from the perspective of God. He walks up to someone and they're instantly healed demons are instantly cast out. He gives authority to his disciples to do the same thing. And a lot of the people who heal the demons are cast out but not all. There is an element the further away you get from truth. The further away you get from truthful modification of reality and you get to just natural consequence to tell you just one story is really interesting. So you're talking about West sometimes putting God under the bus and I know you don't put it on the bus but he commits God right. Also there's a story. One of the guys is out at a McDonald's. This guy's name is Judah by the way. And dude is at McDonald's and he sees there's a bunch of high school football players students on crutches with a broken leg and it hurts.   [00:55:08] And the guy walks up and says hey what's matter with your leg is is broken does it hurt you. Oh it hurts a lot. So would you like to heal it. I would love for him to. Great. And then Judah says he puts God under the bus so to speak. He yells out to the entire McDonald's restaurant. Hey guys come over here. You're going to see a miracle right now. God's going to heal this leg right now. And the guy says Well I don't believe it. I'm an atheist and you come up front and watch this. And he prays and God instantly heals that leg. For two reasons. Judah is operating from a position of faith.   [00:55:59] Absolute confidence in the unseen that God is about to heal that leg. And then because he operates from truth the leg gets healed. Have you ever known anyone that prays that they're sick and they've been praying and praying and praying and they're not healed ever had no people like that. Yeah. So for those who are listening so I actually go out with Caroline's husband yes once a month what we call straight ministry and literally just go out to Wal-Mart and say hey we're just praying for people anything I can pray for you. And frequently there are illnesses elements usually in the area of pain degenerative discs in the back.   [00:56:49] Major knee pain arthritis and blood clots and all kinds of things and they have their believers and they've been praying for healing and they've had this situation for years and nothing happens. I come up or w comes up or some of the folks with us will pray for that person and instantly they're healed. What happened. What's different is that it was simply God's timing now for them to be healed. Or do you think by God's grace a providential put the two of us together so that I could pray with a level of faith that hasn't been prayed for before for that person and because of my faith and what God's going to do. God heals or is it something different. There's something there.   [00:57:44] It's where I'm going. And when you operate from that perspective then truth overcomes reality. But here's the here's where I was kind of going. I was making a long circle around to get to this one point faces a choice think about it when Peter stepped out of the boat.   [00:58:08] He had a choice do I act on God's direction or do I not even once he got out of the boat.   [00:58:19] He had a choice. Do I look at Jesus and confidence in him or do I look at the wind and the waves and then he changed the choice.   [00:58:34] He chose the same thing happened with me with my business.   [00:58:40] I started into that unprofitable season when we lost that account by choice to trust the Lord and then because I couldn't see I could not see how is happening. Faith is the conviction of things not seen because I couldn't see what was going on or how God was going to take care of us. I became afraid and doubted James. I think it's James five says I'm not the man who doubts expect to receive anything from the Lord. That's kind of a paraphrased version of 2 3 versus all together. Actually I think it's James 1. It says For anyone who lacks wisdom let him ask of God but let him not down in his heart for the one who doubts ought not to expect to receive anything from the Lord. So I started it out. I started by fear. I started to go down and as soon as I changed and chose to act by faith everything changed. And this is the cool thing about faith. You choose to act by it. You don't act by it naturally. You choose to act on that word that the Lord has given you. You choose to believe it to be true. And then by believing it to be true you acting on it.   [01:00:05] That's when God starts to move. And I could tell you some more stories but I think that's probably got enough right now. We'll talk about some other stories later but it's kind of cool.   [01:00:21] I love it. And inspiring too. Food for thought.   [01:00:26] It is. So hopefully you take this and go look at these passages and ask the Lord What does this mean to me. The most important thing to be asking yourself is Lord if I really believe the promises you've given me. Faith is rooted in truth so it's not what you want to happen is what God has told you is going to happen. Lord if I really believed these promises you give me or really believed this direction. There is command that you told me how you want me to operate how would I act differently than I am acting right now.   [01:01:05] And if the way you would act differently is different then you're acting right now.   [01:01:11] Then that means you're acting in a natural not in the spiritual. You're acting by sight not by faith. You're acting by doubt not by faith and ultimately lead into this. If faith is the perspective of God would you agree that that's basically a decent definition of faith based on what the Bible says what faith is the perspective of God right.   [01:01:45] Right.   [01:01:45] Or how he sees things.   [01:01:49] I think it's operating by truth. If you operate in a way contrary to God what is that called.   [01:02:04] I guess that would be called doubt or disobedient.   [01:02:09] Right.   [01:02:10] And what is disobedience called sin.   [01:02:15] Huh. Okay. So now we're getting down to a deeper root. Faith is obeying God because faith comes from God's direction his truth.   [01:02:27] And it's believing God to be true believing his word to be true. Acting on that when you cannot see it that is complete obedience when you don't act in that direction you're doubting God's word to be true.   [01:02:44] Does that please God. No.   [01:02:48] That's right. Later in Hebrews it says Let not the one who doubts. Let's say what does it say. But act in faith for God has no pleasure in someone who doubts or something like that forget these phraseology. So when we do not act by faith if we do not act in a way that we would be acting if we absolutely believe God's word to be true then that ultimately means that how we're acting is in sin. When Peter took his eyes off of the Lord and put them on the waves. At that moment he disobeyed. He doubted God's word. He doubted Jesus and for him that is sin and he starts to get the consequence. He still praise the Lord saves him but he doesn't have God's highest and best God's highest and best is when we operate in total obedience with the Lord in total congruency with his direction for us in total faith in his word.   [01:03:55] Anything less than that is sin.   [01:04:00] And then we get into lots of degrees of sin. If we finish then. But surely there is a degree but that's where we're kind of moving. So just to throw that out that's a bonus. I like it.   [01:04:15] I'm thinking one of the one quote I love is obedience is actually obedience. That's right. That kind of reminded me of that. It's just like when we feel that prompting what you're saying from the Lord. Immediate obedience. That's what faith is. That's where that plays in. And what's holding us back from just jumping in. Because if there is anything holding us back that either out of fear or sin or ultimately that's just obedience. Even if it's just a slow obedience it's still disobedience. That's always been a convicting quote. It is here now to kind of just   [01:04:58] Speak philosophically or philosophically maybe fill out theology philosophically we sin because we feel it's better for us than following the Lord. Ultimately I mean it's a choice we send by choice and therefore we make a choice because we always make choices that we think are the right choices or make the choices that satisfy our desires. Imagine for a moment. Let me ask you you have said before is that correct.   [01:05:36] Yes. Okay right.   [01:05:39] Yep yep. So do you remember any time when you send when you kind of knew it was wrong but you did it anyway.   [01:05:49] Yeah I mean I feel like those kind of moments are few and far between.   [01:05:55] We're talking about any time. Do you recall any. Yeah.   [01:06:00] So let me ask you a simple question if at that moment you had a choice to send or not if you knew that if you resisted that said you you would be given a million dollars and have everything your heart's desired would occur if at that moment you knew what was going to occur. Would you have still chosen to send or do you think you would have had the will to say no.   [01:06:31] Yeah I would say that's some pretty powerful incentive. I'd probably have the will.   [01:06:37] I think we all would. So here's the issue. When we do not follow the Lord we know what he's telling us to do but we choose to go a different direction because we get afraid.   [01:06:50] Ultimately it's because we really don't understand how good the Lord is and what's in store for us. That's why we always sin when we sin is because we choose to satisfy our own desire based on what we think is maybe not best for us both what we really want but if we really understood what God has in store for us and any and every situation we would never sin. It's the lack of root truly understanding it. I think this is probably possibly where Paul talks about the renewing of your mind where he talks about in Romans 7. I do the things that I don't want to do but the sin in me that does it. And in Romans he talks about your mind the mindset on the spirit is life and peace in the mindset on the flesh of sin and death. The more we live by the spirit the more we live by the renewing of our mind the less we actually sin because the more we're conformed to Christ is therefore that obedience that conformity but also the more we realize how much the Lord has in store for us and we're willing to step out on his direction without really knowing the ultimate end of it. But we know who's leading us. Abraham stepped out went toward the promised land but he had no idea why he just followed the Lord. And so this kind of this great big cauldron of all of these spiritual truths kind of wrapping together but all pointing in the same direction. Anyway that's a freebie.   [01:08:27] I like the freebie so let's wrap up the call.   [01:08:31] I think we're about out of time on this one. I don't know if we have an official wrap up but here's the official wrap up if you like. Be sure to subscribe. We'll go get more radical faith love to share more if you have any questions on this you can email our support support at Master grabber dot com direct them to me if you have any questions on spiritual stuff and we'll either try to get there and try to answer them personally or maybe as a topic for another radical faith call as questions and answers from the field that might be a topic to try. Okay well you'll be blessed. Caroline thanks for being the sounding board on this one.   [01:09:16] Thank you for having me I really enjoyed it.   [01:09:18] All right have a great day.   P005

"T'agrada el blues?" especial des de l'exposici

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" menu_anchor="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" parallax_speed="0.3" video_mp4="" video_webm="" video_ogv="" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" overlay_color="" video_preview_image="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" padding_top="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" padding_right=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" center_content="no" last="no" min_height="" hover_type="none" link=""][fusion_text] "Getting out of the boat" is one of my favorite Radical Faith topics because this is where I start to share what living by faith looks life in real life.  While I know there are no "mechanics" to living by faith (since faith is spiritual, not physical), if there were "mechanics" to it this topic is where you start to learn how to apply it. Listen via YouTube video below [/fusion_text][fusion_youtube id="https://youtu.be/T0518_n76PA" alignment="center" width="" height="" autoplay="false" api_params="&rel=0" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" /][fusion_text] Transcription (was completed by automated process. Please ignore any speech-to-text errors) [00:00:00] Hi this is Caroline Springer and welcome to the next session of sellers calling you Beatty Carmichael Beatty is the CEO of Master grabber and the creator of agent dominator and one of the top marketing experts in the real estate field. Today we're gonna be talking on one of our radical faith calls and I'm going to pass it over to Beatty for our little disclaimer on just explaining what that is. [00:00:23] Real simply this has nothing to do with real estate today. It has everything to do with Christ. So if you don't want to hear about Christ and this podcast that's pretty simple isn't it. [00:00:34] Pretty simple. [00:00:37] All right. Well I guess I'd call this meeting so I'll start the agenda. Actually I think Caroline has been a little while since we did the last radical faith call. So if I recall correctly the last one we're talking about is faith. So maybe less just a real quick recap on what is faith and not trying to put you on the spot. But if you if I were to ask you Caroline what is faith. What would you tell me. [00:01:16] Well the first thing that come to mind is just like being sure of what we do not see and believing not just what meets the eye but what goes beyond that. So that's kind of my first thought that first from Hebrews immediately comes to mind. But I know it's definitely multi-dimensional and something that we walk through our lives processing with the words. But that's the first thought. [00:01:43] Great. So first in Hebrews we're talking about Hebrews 11 1. Can you quote it. [00:01:48] Do you remember it faces the assurance of what we do not see and nothing about it. [00:02:03] It's about it's about what we do not see right. [00:02:06] So Faith assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen. And faith comes from where do we get that level of faith. [00:02:18] It's a gift from God. [00:02:20] It comes from Romans. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ and that word is actually the Greek word Rama. Now there are lots of uses for Rama. But in general you've got two words in the Greek so the New Testament was written in Greek and then it was translated ultimately into English. And there are two primary words in Greek use that's translated as word one word is logos logos I guess is how our logos logos and the others Ramo are EMEA. When we were talking last time we're talking about logos means primarily just talking about a concept or an idea. Rima is very specific Okay real simple explanation. I want to tell you about the Kingdom of God that's going to be logos but I'm going to say Caroline can you give me please give me that water. That's a Rima I'm directing you on something or I'm going to say Caroline. You're going to have another child in the next year. That would be arraignment if that were actually from God's word. So is something that's very clear specific and most importantly it's specific to you. [00:03:48] Does that make sense. It does. Great explanation too. [00:03:53] Yes. [00:03:53] So faith is when you've had that word some revelation some word from God and it is now faces the conviction of things not seen in other words we it's not something that we have to work on believing it's intrinsic and within our being. And that's what faces faith is not something that we well up and try to belief. If you have to try to believe if you have to will yourself to believe that's not faith that's simply in the natural. That's what we'll call hope. We're just hoping it's really true. But you know we have to work on trying to make ourselves believe it. So this thing that we talked about last. Is is all about this. This alternate. Understanding of faith being a clear direction a clear revelation a clear truth from God to us and we act on it. That's kind of where we're talking and where I want to talk about today kind of the topics that we're going to move into now is taking this understanding of what faith is and starting to see how it's applied in our lives. [00:05:21] And I call this topic stepping out of the boat or getting out of the boat and I remember I read a book I love the title I got a little bit of the book but I get more out of the title Jon Burge wrote a book. I'm sure you've never heard of it or you don't recall it. Do you recall a book that John Burge wrote. [00:05:42] I do not. [00:05:44] The title is real simple if you want to walk on water you've got to get out of the boat right. And so that's kind of where I want to take our call today if you want to walk on water if you want to do the most amazing things in God's work by his direction then you've got to be willing to step out of the boat. So also just to cover a couple of things I want to use the term sometimes radical faith. In reality there is only one faith. It's just faith. We kind of think of it as radical because for us as it's what I call normal Christians or Western Christians. Faith is well I believe in God and I pray and I go to church right. I'm sure you know some people like that don't you. [00:06:38] Definitely in the south definitely in the south. Radical faith is when you go oh my gosh I can't believe you go do that. Well that's actually what Jesus expects of us. [00:06:52] So let's see. One of the things that we came out with is a definition that radical faith or this true thing I call faith is choosing to step out on God's clearly defined will. His revelation or his direction for you in such a way that it's usually great personal risk or sacrifice. In other words when you walk by faith you're not walking by sight and therefore you have to step out in faith and trust that you can't see it. And it's at great personal risk in fact. Do you remember there a great example of this and I'll watch the movie in search of the Holy Grail not Monty Python. But this is Raiders of the Lost Ark. You remember when do you remember. I think it may have been the last the last part of that series. And they're searching for the Holy Grail. Did you ever watch that movie. [00:07:57] I did. I'm sure my husband had toward the end of the last scene. [00:08:03] Here's where they are. What's his name. Who's the main actor in that. The name escapes me. Harrison Ford thank you. Harrison Ford has just come to this. He's he's somewhere in the middle of nowhere in this cave or chasm and he comes to the edge and there's this great big chasm below him and across the way maybe a hundred feet or maybe two hundred feet is one of the nights of many years back story like a crusade or type of night. [00:08:45] And there is the Holy Grail the goblet that Christ used at the Last Supper. And Harrison Ford has been walking been following all these clues and secrets on how to get here. And now he has to take a leap of faith. That's basically the next clue is a leap of faith. He looks down in this chasm and it's straight down for a thousand feet or whatever it is and this is sheer death. But he chooses to step out by faith and so he steps out. [00:09:19] He can't see anything but yet his foot now lands on solid ground that he can't see. And he starts walking across this invisible bridge is basically what it is. That's kind of an idea of what faith is. You can't see it. You know it's there you trust is there and you trust is there because God said it is. That's God's word. And that's kind of what I mean by stepping out typically at great personal risk or sacrifice because if God doesn't show up in the way that he says he will then all is lost. And so I want to talk in terms of showing you how this applies from biblical things and start to apply to our lives. [00:10:04] Do you have your Bible handy by chance. I can't. [00:10:09] Okay. I want you to pull up Matthew 14 and let me know when you get there. [00:10:18] And we're going to do Matthew 14. This is versus 28 and 29. And as you get there let me just kind of give everyone the background of what's going on. So Jesus has just the day before. Literally that afternoon before has fed 5000 people with five loaves and two fish. He sends the people away he sends his disciples back across the lake in a boat and then Jesus goes up to the mountain to pray. Now it is early dawn before the sun is risen and the disciples are rowing against the wind and they see Jesus walking on the water and they can just make him out and they all get afraid because they think it's a ghost. And Jesus says no it's it's me. And now that's where we picked up Matthew 14 versus 28 and 29 Can you read that. [00:11:16] Yes. This is Peter. He says Lord if it's you Peter replied tell me to come to you on the water. He said Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water and came towards Jesus. [00:11:32] Okay. [00:11:36] So Peter says Lord if you command me to come and Jesus has come and Peter gets out of the boat and walks on the water and comes toward Jesus. So here's a question when Peter stepped out of the boat and started walk on water. What happened. [00:11:54] I didn't know you're asking me directly. Well he doubted. I mean he he took his eyes off of the word and saw the wind and fear. [00:12:04] Hold on. Okay. Before that we're going gonna get to that before but when you get out of the boat at the very beginning what happens. Does he walk on water. [00:12:13] Yes he walks on water. And how does he walk on water by faith by listening to the word of the Lord Jesus said Come on he's not gonna let me think. [00:12:24] That's right. So here's a little truism that we start to see when we step out of our comfort zone because we stepped out by the Lord's direction. So Jesus Jesus's revelation if we want to use that term or his direction or his command if we want to use those terms to Peter was come and so Peter steps out of the boat. Great personal risk and sacrifice. If God doesn't show up he's sunk no pun intended. And guess what happened. God shows up. God does a miracle. [00:12:59] Do you see the little equation that's starting to come up. We stepped out by God's clearly defined well for us. We have faith that God is going to perform because faith is the assurance of things hoped for. Now the word hoping that Sharon says things to hope for another translation gives it faith as the title deed is the absolute. You actually own the title to what has been promised. Is that confident. So that's what faith is. That's what Peter does. He steps out of that boat and when he does something happens and what happens is God shows up and does a miracle. Pretty cool and it really cool. So the question then is or the comment on this is when God acts the God showing up moments because this is what we want in our lives. How do you live this life of faith and what does it look like. This life of faith is when God constantly shows up and he either shows up miraculously like he did with Peter walking on the water or he shows up providential where he just kind of organizes and orchestrates all kinds of events. [00:14:22] Now I want to talk in terms of these things. I think one of these I may have to fall back but does the name George Mueller ring a bell to you. [00:14:34] He's an author right. [00:14:36] Well he's written several books were maybe better spoken several books were written about him. He was actually a man of God back in the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds. He was in England in a town called Bristol England and he felt the Lord leading him to start an orphanage. And so he started an orphanage and within 10 or 20 years that orphanage was housing I think it's 20000 children. And he never once it was faith based people gave and contributed and supported the work and he never once asked anyone for money. [00:15:26] And he later said in light that the reason he started at the orphanage was not because there was a great need. There was a great need. And it was not because he felt that this was his life's calling. He started the orphanage. He said to show people how to live by faith that he could by God's direction start an orphanage. Never ask anyone for money but trust God for all of the resources and God continue to provide more and more and more resources to start it and to grow it. And so a lot of the books have been written about George in terms of how do you get your prayers answered. How do you live by faith. [00:16:07] And I want to share an example because this kind of talks in terms of what this stepping out by faith really means getting out of the boat. So because it is faith based ministry they never really had much money at any given time. They didn't have this great big bank account with lots of money to carry through months and months. They live basically day to day trust. It's like what Jesus says Lord give us this day our daily bread. And so I want to read you an excerpt from one thing that happened with George. So here's the extra one morning. So this is in an orphanage and they bring all the children together for breakfast one morning all the plates and cups and bowls on the table were empty. There was no food in the pantry and there was no money to buy food. The children were standing waiting for their morning meal just as they would always do. And Mueller said children you know we must be in time for school and then lifting up his hands. He prayed Dear Father we thank you for what you are going to give us to eat that pretty bowl. [00:17:23] That's really all. [00:17:26] I love it too. So then here's the rest of the story. There was a knock at the door. The Bakers stood there and said Mr. Mueller I couldn't sleep last night. Somehow I felt you didn't have bread for breakfast. And the Lord wanted me to send you some. So I got up at 2 o'clock this morning and baked some fresh bread and then brought it. [00:17:47] And then Mr. Mueller thanked the baker and no sooner had the Baker left when there was a second knock at the door and there was a milkman he announced that his milk cart had broken down right in front the orphanage and he would like to give the children his cans of fresh milk so he could empty his wagon to repair it. So here's my question. [00:18:09] Do you think that was orchestrated by the Lord. [00:18:16] I do. I mean obviously if the Lord inspired those people spoke to them to do those things but I think it I think it can be inspired by the Lord. But I think also partners with his faith his willingness to say my husband lovingly says All right Jesus. Are you under the bus. You better show up. I'm just gonna put it out there. So I think it's kind of a partnership of both. [00:18:45] It is. I think partnership. [00:18:48] I think this is the key I think you hit it on the right word. It is a partnership because the Lord gives us a revelation gives us a promise like the promise he gave. Mueller was I'll meet all your needs. Mueller takes that promise at face value. And he says Lord thank you for giving us whatever you're to give us. Mueller had no doubt that the Lord was going to provide food. And yet here's the thing that's really interesting. When did the food arrive at the orphanage a long time before Mueller prayed a long time after he prayed or [00:19:29] At the moment he prayed. [00:19:35] You remember when you said at the moment he said Father thank you for what you're going to give us to eat. And then there was a knock at the door right after he prayed thanking by faith the Lord showed up. Does that make sense right. [00:19:50] But now here's a bigger question. This is what's so fascinating about this. When did the Lord prepare everything to show up at that moment. Did he prepared at that moment or did he prepare it beforehand he prepared it beforehand for the baker. He got the baker up at 2:00 in the morning for the meal and he had the milkman leave at a certain time go through his route and all of sudden his car breaks down at that moment. So here's what's really fascinating and this is a hot topic for a whole nother discussion that we'll do. Is that faith actually operates outside of time. [00:20:30] Think about this for a moment when Mueller thank the Lord. By faith all of these things were put in place prior to him thanking the Lord. Here here's a hypothetical question If Mueller never thanked the Lord by faith do you think those people would have showed up. [00:20:52] That is a bigger question. I think that sometimes there is a grace over our actions and the Lord does show up but I think how much more soul or delight in our faith and our willingness to you know to believe and to step out and how much more fun is that for us to partner with it. I don't know. [00:21:15] Good thing he's sovereign is sovereign. We don't know the answer entirely but let's say for a moment that Mueller was scared. [00:21:27] He doubted that he doubted God's provision and therefore he really couldn't pray in faith and say Lord thank you for what you're going to give us to eat. If he was in that situation what do you think would have happened. Do you think the Baker would have shown up and do you think the milkman would've shown up. [00:21:49] They might not have. I think in those months like I was saying I think there can be a grace that can happen and you can you're just blown away at God you're so faithful even when I'm not. But then I think also there are things that we missed out on. From not believing and not stepping out and taking a risk in faith with the Lord just even the way you just worded it I did envision I mean if you hadn't. They might not have shown up. [00:22:18] So let me ask you a question because this is kind of the fascinating part with all of this. So let's look at when God moves when God shows up when God showed up with Peter and he walked on the water which was an absolute miracle. Was that. Any more of him showing up than him coordinating the baker and the milkman to providential show up at the same at the right time is walking on the water. Any greater an act of God than coordinating what appears to be human events. [00:23:01] I don't think so. I mean I think that's the privilege of walking through life awake and aware of the Lord and how he works is that we're constantly in awe of every miracle he does whether it's walking on water or the provision in those moments of orchestrating all of that. So my my personal answer would be I think it's equally as beautiful and miraculous. [00:23:29] I think you're right on that. [00:23:31] I think you're right. Let me ask this question. Is it any harder for God for someone to walk on the water versus coordinating those events for them to show up. [00:23:43] No I wouldn't think so. [00:23:45] Is it any harder for God to heal someone from a cough versus heal them from multiple sclerosis and getting him out of a wheelchair. Is it any harder. [00:23:55] No. No it's not. [00:23:57] So when we look at things from God's perspective this is kind of tapping into where I'm going with this thing on faith. When we look at things from. God's perspective there is no level of difficulty greater than another and what we do in our lives whether we walk on the water or whether we bring some people to show up and bring bread and milk. It's all God acting he does it through different methods but it's all God showing up. Faith is actually seeing everything from God's perspective. This is if you go back to faith is the assurance that things hope for. It's a title deed to those things that God has said is the conviction of things that you cannot see what it actually is. In a broader scope in a more realistic scope. Faith is seeing things from God's perspective. [00:24:54] And when you can see from God's perspective with Mueller God's perspective is I've got people bringing you stuff. So Mueller had no doubt from God's perspective with Peter on walk. Walking on the water. It was it was happening. It doesn't matter because God's perspective. God knows what's going on. And faith is when we operate from the perspective of God because we're operating from the Word of God and the word is absolute truth. I'm making some connections there. Does that make sense. [00:25:30] It does. And what an honor. An amazing thing. Jesus made possible that we can see things through the lens of heaven and operate from that place because that's ultimately what it means to be a son or daughter is to operate with him and seeing things in the way that he does and walking in that kind of faith. Absolutely that makes sense. [00:25:55] So then let's put it. [00:25:57] Let's take this a step further because this is another truism we'll get into this a little bit more on another session but just to kind of open the door real quickly into this Jesus says Thy word is truth. [00:26:10] Remember that I think it's John 17 and what Jesus is saying about the father's word is that it's true. And I'm gonna use the word truth with a capital T. [00:26:26] Truth. [00:26:28] Is not the same as reality. Reality is in the moment and reality can change. Truth is always absolute and always truth. Now when I'm talking in really deep terms for a moment. But are you following me kind of following at least generally the concept I'm trying to articulate. [00:26:53] Yes. [00:26:55] So now let's go back to Peter walking on the water. I'm gonna bring this up again a little bit later I think but go back to Matthew where you were and read where I stopped you from reading. [00:27:09] Okay so let me let me catch this up 28 and 29 and you read from after that so catching up 28 29 as Peter says to Jesus Lord at that you command me to come on the water jesus gives Peter a command a word a word of truth come with that word of truth that command come is intrinsic within that the the truth that if he operates on that command then he's going to get what Peter asked for which is walking on the water so from that one word is encapsulated the truth of what's about to occur. Are you following me so far. Mm hmm mm hmm. Okay so it says Peter guy got out of the boat and walked on the water and came towards Jesus a miracle occurred as Peter operated by faith according to God's word according to the reign of Christ. Now pick up from there and tell me what it reads. [00:28:13] So in verse 30 it says that when he saw the wind he was afraid and beginning to think he cried out. Lord save me right. [00:28:22] And then what would Jesus do. [00:28:26] Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him a little face and said Why did you doubt. [00:28:32] Perfect. Okay now here's something really cool. If you pray and God answers your prayer does that mean that you are righteous. Does that mean that you have great paper or does that mean that you're really special because God answers your prayer. [00:28:54] Yeah. I was thinking about because I know there is the righteous the righteous man or the right to effective prayer for a righteous man accomplishes much. [00:29:07] James Right. But generally speaking when most people think about a man or woman to praising God answers their prayer. Generally speaking do most people look at that person saying Oh a man or woman of God. Because God answers their prayers. [00:29:25] All right. [00:29:25] Well I guess generally speaking though generally speaking they think that way or generally speaking they don't think that way. [00:29:33] They don't. They wouldn't think that. I guess I would think generally people would just think that might be normal. I don't know. Okay so books have been written about George Miller [00:29:48] On how his prayers are consistently answered. [00:29:52] Because it's been so unusual that someone can pray in their prayers answered. Does that make sense. Have you ever prayed and prayed and your prayers were not answered at least not answered the way you asked God to answer them. [00:30:08] I think the Lord always when you release the control of what you believe or thought was supposed to be there was something that you're praying specifically into. You can usually go and we'll take you into a place where you can see his way. And so I don't know I don't I don't know that I feel like defeated thinking Oh I know because I trust the words ways are better. [00:30:36] I guess I'm not saying you feel defeated. Have you ever asked Lord please do a and he doesn't do a. Have you ever had that happen. Yes. Have you ever asked the Lord please do be. And he does. [00:30:52] Yes. Which one of those instances are you more enthused and delighted about. [00:31:00] Well you're definitely worth doing what you pray for is answered. Okay. Okay. [00:31:05] So that's where I'm going. Most people believe that when you pray and ask the Lord for something and he does what you've asked him to. There is an elation and there's a specialness to it because frequently we ask and we don't see the answer to the prayer that we've asked. I'm not making sense of that. [00:31:25] You are. You are. [00:31:26] Okay. So here we have Peter. He prays to the Lord and the Lord answers him exactly how he prays. It says Peter cried out to the Lord which is prayer. Lord save me. And it says Jesus reached out his hand and saved him. [00:31:47] God answered Peter's prayer but here's the question is that good or bad. Let me go. Let me go where I'm going. Okay so often we're related because God answers our prayer. But answering our prayer is not necessarily God's highest and best of what he wanted for us. What was God's highest and best for Peter at that time. At that moment. [00:32:24] To believe that he could walk into walk on the water and he lost the highest and best because of what now because of doubt and then he prayed in crisis and the Lord answered his prayer. [00:32:45] And how many times do we pray for something far less than God's highest and best. He answers our prayer. We're elated but we have no real clue how much we've really lost out on what he wants us to have done something that does make sense. [00:33:05] That's a great way to put it into perspective. [00:33:09] But what happens then is Peter. So let's look at the sequence of events. Peter is given a word. A Rama from the Lord in some circles. We call it a revelation in some circles we'll call it a promise in whatever word you want to use. It's very clear to Peter that the Lord has given him a special direction. [00:33:38] And so by absolute faith the assurance of things he could not see. He claimed the title deed. [00:33:48] I can step out and he boldly steps out of the boat and starts to walk on the water and he's all excited and then his carnal mind gets in the way and starts to look at the circumstances and says oh my gosh this can't be happening. And instantly he goes from faith to doubt doubt is the opposite of faith. He immediately goes from operating from God's perspective [00:34:25] To operating from man's perspective. He goes from operating from truth to operating from reality. And as soon as he goes from truth to reality what happens to his reality. [00:34:43] It changes does it change. [00:34:46] Here is the most amazing thing I've learned about faith. The most amazing but kind of the first of the many amazing things is you have truth which is God's word. Jesus says to his father and the High Priest I think they called the high priestly prayer. I think it's John 17. He's talking to the father praying all kinds of you know he's about to be turned over and then crucified. So this is the last stuff that he said. This is real important and one of the state statements he made his father die. Word is truth. [00:35:26] Truth trumps reality. Truth modifies reality and look at what happened with Peter as long as Peter operated by truth. From the perspective of truth God's word by faith any claim that title deed then truth overcame natural laws and what should not have occurred did occur. [00:35:56] Peter walks on the water as soon as Peter doubts in his heart instantly in a twinkling of an eye. If we want to use that term he transformed from operating by faith. To operating in the natural instantly just like that and instantly it says immediately he begins to sink. He loses the impact of truth and reality of his circumstances instantly changed. He goes from acting boldly upon God's word to sending up a prayer crisis. [00:36:36] Lord help me and the Lord answers his prayer but the Lord would have preferred not to have to have intervened to answer that prayer. PAUL Peter lost the Lord's highest and best because he got his eyes off of Jesus and onto his circumstances and where you place your eyes is what you get is this kind of making some sense it is I think that's a really great way to put it and I think it's kind of a challenge for us to really think about like what we're asking the Lord for and to make sure that that is God and not settling racist. [00:37:27] And he'll answer that. [00:37:29] And it's not only based on what we're asking the Lord but what are we doing with what the Lord has directed us. Because often when the Lord directs us he directs us. Makes no sense in the natural. Do you think it made any sense to step out of the boat. Now keep in mind let me let me give you where this situation is. It says that they were rowing against the wind and had made very little progress to get to where they were going. By the time Jesus walked up to them. So that means you got all these strong men. They've lived on the on the on the sea for years. That was their livelihood being fishermen in a boat. They're rowing against the wind and they made very little headway. This is not calm water. This is a water that is very turbulent is very turbulent. They got a lot of things against them and it was in that situation that Jesus says stepped out of the boat and come walk with me. It's not going to be in an easy situation it's going to be one of those situations that is turbulent. Does that make sense. It does and it makes no sense in reality this is where the idea of faith really comes in stepping out. Let me look at my arm. I also make someone make a little point because I think it all kind of ties in a real simple point. Look at your phone for a moment and for those who are listening to this if you're driving you look at your steering wheel for a moment. [00:39:24] Do you have faith that that telephone or that steering wheel exists. [00:39:30] What about you. You have faith that it exists. Yes it's right here. [00:39:36] Very good. So go back. And now I want you to read Hebrew see love in one for me. [00:39:47] Ok. [00:39:56] So now faces confidence and what we hope for an assurance about what we do not see. [00:40:02] Stop. Do you see your phone. Yes. Can you have faith that it exists. I can't. I'm sorry. Something to speak to on me. I just said I can. Okay. Ready. Hebrew see love in one again. [00:40:23] Now faces confidence and what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. [00:40:29] Assurance of things we do not see. But you can see your phone. Yes. You cannot have faith that your phone exists because you see it. Are you okay. Right. If you can see it. You do not have faith because faith by definition is the assurance of things not seen. [00:40:57] And that's why it's so hard in the natural. We have to operate with our will use a very broad non-technical term. We have to operate with our spirit mind and our spirit eyes rather than our physical mind and our physical lives. And what happens is we're always pulled back our natural self wants to keep using our natural senses and our natural logic to tell us what reality is. That's what happened with Peter as soon as his naturalize left Jesus and went to the wind then at that point. Everything. Fell apart. And this is what happens in our lives too. Let me tell you a story is real interesting. This was 2003. To set the stage 2002 we we brought on this large account. We were making a lot of money. This one account was producing 2002 seventy five thousand dollars a month in profit a large account. And at that time we were giving a high percentage of what the Lord brought us back into the kingdom. And this account was scheduled to leave on I think it was June 1. We were holding nothing in reserves. By the way it was a lot of profit but it was all of the profit the company made. Without that account we would immediately be losing money because of our fixed expenses. So they were scheduled to leave on I think it was June 1 and we knew it. But we were saving nothing up in reserves and then they left and we immediately went from making a lot of profit to going upside down and we had no reserves to lean on because we'd given all the reserves away. And so that's where I found myself. And for the first month or two I was gung ho Lord's going to take care of us. Right. And operating what I thought was my faith but it kept going and we were borrowing money to survive. [00:43:25] And all of a sudden I get scared and I shift and I start to batten down the hatches tell my business manager cut every expense put everyone down on reduced payroll. Now these are not bad things but they were things that I enacted out of fear. [00:43:47] And so we batten everything down. Everyone took pay cuts. I took the biggest of all the pay cuts obviously since I owned the company and I was going to lead by example. And we're going to quote unquote weather the storm. And it kept going bad and bad and bad. And it was January. It was about January 25 2003. So we've been like this for six months seven months. And I was out on a what I call a day of prayer with the Lord just seeking Him going Lord of what's going on. And I was in a panic mode just like Peter Lord save me. And I remember asking the Lord Lord Quinn are you going to let up. And the Lord spoke to me in my heart this conversation we have in our spirit with the Lord so to speak. And he said Well do you really believe my word to take care of you. I said yes. [00:44:50] And guess what the next question he asked me was any idea he believes that he'll take care of you and then can you see it make you pay for it almost. [00:45:06] Pretty close he said. If you truly believed how would you act differently than you're acting right now. [00:45:16] That's a great question to even ask ourselves. We say we're trusting the Lord we say we have faith that he's going to handle whatever we're going through. The question is if you really believed how would you operate different. And so I said well if I really believed I would put myself at full pay and I put all my people back at full pay. [00:45:43] So you know what the Lord said to me what do I do. So I did. I called my office manager that moment I said my business manager I said put everyone back to full pay retroactive for January 1. [00:46:03] So to put this in perspective we got paid twice a month on the 15th and on the 30th first and so on the 15th everyone was at the reduced pay amount. So what I told Walter was put everyone back to full pay for the month meaning let's say that month the full pay for selling was five thousand dollars but it reduced pay to thirty five hundred. So that means that that mid-month pay there were only going to get it paid about seventeen hundred instead of the normal twenty five hundred. Does that make sense. Because 17 is half of 35 right. So for the end of the month pay we're going to make up whatever is remaining to get them back to 5000. So that end of the month was a much bigger paycheck than it would have been if I just said start now. So we start at the first went back to the 1st of January to catch everyone up for that month. Well now that was only five days later. We lost that at that moment. We lost ten thousand dollars. We were ten thousand dollars in the hole by doing that but then the end of February. We had made ten thousand dollars profit. [00:47:28] So there was a 20 thousand dollars swing in revenues not to get you lost with numbers. Twenty thousand dollar swing in revenues. And even to this day as I look at my profit and loss I cannot find where that money comes from. It wasn't that we had a lot more. Excuse me. Twenty thousand dollars swing in profit. It wasn't that we had more money that came in. It wasn't that we had fewer expenses. Literally I cannot find it. But here's the cool part. From that moment on for an extended period time we were making profit every month. The only thing that changed was operated by faith on God's promise to me rather than by sight with what I saw. And this is the whole idea of stepping out of the boat not being afraid to step off the boat because the word of God cannot fail God's promises can never fail. In fact it says I think in Luke 1 37 and 43 or something like that in the living Bible it says you believe God would do what he said. That is why he is giving you this wonderful blessing right. I think that says that God's promises cannot fail or something like that. [00:48:59] And so when we at in that direction and when we act on God's word then what's happening is we're acting by truth not by reality and in some mysterious way God. God's truth alters reality because reality is variable. It changes all the time but God's truth is fixed and it is absolute is this kind of making sense. [00:49:29] It is absolutely. [00:49:30] So let's go back to the Mueller situation. He says Lord thank you for what you are about to give us to eat my question to you was if Mueller had doubted would the Baker and Hamilton have shown up. [00:49:54] I understand. [00:49:56] I love your question. Your answer was actually a little bit better than mine. Black and white. [00:50:01] God's grace will still come into play at times even in the absence of us having faith. But if we look at the strictly strictly from a faith perspective. If Mueller had doubted then I think it's not near as likely. Except by only by God's grace and nothing more. Not near as likely that the food would have shown up because there's something about when you operate from a perspective of God's truth it changes reality. And when you operate from a perspective of the natural you don't get the truth reality. You get the natural reality and they are two different things. [00:50:50] Kind of cool it it is something to feel like I'm going to do over some of this for a while because it is challenging in the best way for us to kind of even evaluate what we hear and how we act on it and just knowing what a vital role we get to play and be a part of it. It is I think a lot of this is going to stay on for a few days and I'm applying Yeah. [00:51:22] So then let's talk about applying it because this is now at an academic level to a degree. We start to understand just a very shallow level of the truth about faith. ROMANS 10 17. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. This is what we talked about last time. That word is the Greek word Rama and it means something very clear a very clear direction a promise a truth a quote unquote revelation something that's specific to you a rama. A lot of times is when you're reading God's word and something pops out of the page directly at you and you go oh this is God's word to me. Sometimes God speaks to you. Like that example where we're losing money and God said well if you really believed how would you act differently. [00:52:14] You're right. Okay so you have that faith is rooted in God's word rooted by hearing God's word. It's rooted by hearing God's Word which is truth. And then Faith Hebrews love and one is the assurance of hope for the conviction of things not seen. Okay we start to understand that truth change is reality. Reality doesn't change truth. Truth change is reality and based on truth. Reality changes and based on the absence of truth I doubt you'd get the absence of truth. You get reality. This is what happened with Peter walking on the water soon as he doubted. Same situation two different outcomes right. One outcome God shows up another outcome. The natural consequence shows up. If we went back to Mueller one outcome by faith Lord thank you for what you're about to give us. God shows up he had already coordinated things to occur at that moment but in the absence of faith. Oh Lord please help us we have no food. I don't know how we're going to feed all these children. Help Lord God might have shown up but my guess is God would not and they would've gotten the natural consequence. Then you have. [00:53:44] Let's see where was I going. God showing up. [00:53:49] Then you have things like healing look at healing in the Bible. Jesus represents truth Jesus. In the beginning was the Word the Word was with God the Word was God thy word is truth. Jesus operates from the perspective of truth from the perspective of God. He walks up to someone and they're instantly healed demons are instantly cast out. He gives authority to his disciples to do the same thing. And a lot of the people who heal the demons are cast out but not all. There is an element the further away you get from truth. The further away you get from truthful modification of reality and you get to just natural consequence to tell you just one story is really interesting. So you're talking about West sometimes putting God under the bus and I know you don't put it on the bus but he commits God right. Also there's a story. One of the guys is out at a McDonald's. This guy's name is Judah by the way. And dude is at McDonald's and he sees there's a bunch of high school football players students on crutches with a broken leg and it hurts. [00:55:08] And the guy walks up and says hey what's matter with your leg is is broken does it hurt you. Oh it hurts a lot. So would you like to heal it. I would love for him to. Great. And then Judah says he puts God under the bus so to speak. He yells out to the entire McDonald's restaurant. Hey guys come over here. You're going to see a miracle right now. God's going to heal this leg right now. And the guy says Well I don't believe it. I'm an atheist and you come up front and watch this. And he prays and God instantly heals that leg. For two reasons. Judah is operating from a position of faith. [00:55:59] Absolute confidence in the unseen that God is about to heal that leg. And then because he operates from truth the leg gets healed. Have you ever known anyone that prays that they're sick and they've been praying and praying and praying and they're not healed ever had no people like that. Yeah. So for those who are listening so I actually go out with Caroline's husband yes once a month what we call straight ministry and literally just go out to Wal-Mart and say hey we're just praying for people anything I can pray for you. And frequently there are illnesses elements usually in the area of pain degenerative discs in the back. [00:56:49] Major knee pain arthritis and blood clots and all kinds of things and they have their believers and they've been praying for healing and they've had this situation for years and nothing happens. I come up or w comes up or some of the folks with us will pray for that person and instantly they're healed. What happened. What's different is that it was simply God's timing now for them to be healed. Or do you think by God's grace a providential put the two of us together so that I could pray with a level of faith that hasn't been prayed for before for that person and because of my faith and what God's going to do. God heals or is it something different. There's something there. [00:57:44] It's where I'm going. And when you operate from that perspective then truth overcomes reality. But here's the here's where I was kind of going. I was making a long circle around to get to this one point faces a choice think about it when Peter stepped out of the boat. [00:58:08] He had a choice do I act on God's direction or do I not even once he got out of the boat. [00:58:19] He had a choice. Do I look at Jesus and confidence in him or do I look at the wind and the waves and then he changed the choice. [00:58:34] He chose the same thing happened with me with my business. [00:58:40] I started into that unprofitable season when we lost that account by choice to trust the Lord and then because I couldn't see I could not see how is happening. Faith is the conviction of things not seen because I couldn't see what was going on or how God was going to take care of us. I became afraid and doubted James. I think it's James five says I'm not the man who doubts expect to receive anything from the Lord. That's kind of a paraphrased version of 2 3 versus all together. Actually I think it's James 1. It says For anyone who lacks wisdom let him ask of God but let him not down in his heart for the one who doubts ought not to expect to receive anything from the Lord. So I started it out. I started by fear. I started to go down and as soon as I changed and chose to act by faith everything changed. And this is the cool thing about faith. You choose to act by it. You don't act by it naturally. You choose to act on that word that the Lord has given you. You choose to believe it to be true. And then by believing it to be true you acting on it. [01:00:05] That's when God starts to move. And I could tell you some more stories but I think that's probably got enough right now. We'll talk about some other stories later but it's kind of cool. [01:00:21] I love it. And inspiring too. Food for thought. [01:00:26] It is. So hopefully you take this and go look at these passages and ask the Lord What does this mean to me. The most important thing to be asking yourself is Lord if I really believe the promises you've given me. Faith is rooted in truth so it's not what you want to happen is what God has told you is going to happen. Lord if I really believed these promises you give me or really believed this direction. There is command that you told me how you want me to operate how would I act differently than I am acting right now. [01:01:05] And if the way you would act differently is different then you're acting right now. [01:01:11] Then that means you're acting in a natural not in the spiritual. You're acting by sight not by faith. You're acting by doubt not by faith and ultimately lead into this. If faith is the perspective of God would you agree that that's basically a decent definition of faith based on what the Bible says what faith is the perspective of God right. [01:01:45] Right. [01:01:45] Or how he sees things. [01:01:49] I think it's operating by truth. If you operate in a way contrary to God what is that called. [01:02:04] I guess that would be called doubt or disobedient. [01:02:09] Right. [01:02:10] And what is disobedience called sin. [01:02:15] Huh. Okay. So now we're getting down to a deeper root. Faith is obeying God because faith comes from God's direction his truth. [01:02:27] And it's believing God to be true believing his word to be true. Acting on that when you cannot see it that is complete obedience when you don't act in that direction you're doubting God's word to be true. [01:02:44] Does that please God. No. [01:02:48] That's right. Later in Hebrews it says Let not the one who doubts. Let's say what does it say. But act in faith for God has no pleasure in someone who doubts or something like that forget these phraseology. So when we do not act by faith if we do not act in a way that we would be acting if we absolutely believe God's word to be true then that ultimately means that how we're acting is in sin. When Peter took his eyes off of the Lord and put them on the waves. At that moment he disobeyed. He doubted God's word. He doubted Jesus and for him that is sin and he starts to get the consequence. He still praise the Lord saves him but he doesn't have God's highest and best God's highest and best is when we operate in total obedience with the Lord in total congruency with his direction for us in total faith in his word. [01:03:55] Anything less than that is sin. [01:04:00] And then we get into lots of degrees of sin. If we finish then. But surely there is a degree but that's where we're kind of moving. So just to throw that out that's a bonus. I like it. [01:04:15] I'm thinking one of the one quote I love is obedience is actually obedience. That's right. That kind of reminded me of that. It's just like when we feel that prompting what you're saying from the Lord. Immediate obedience. That's what faith is. That's where that plays in. And what's holding us back from just jumping in. Because if there is anything holding us back that either out of fear or sin or ultimately that's just obedience. Even if it's just a slow obedience it's still disobedience. That's always been a convicting quote. It is here now to kind of just [01:04:58] Speak philosophically or philosophically maybe fill out theology philosophically we sin because we feel it's better for us than following the Lord. Ultimately I mean it's a choice we send by choice and therefore we make a choice because we always make choices that we think are the right choices or make the choices that satisfy our desires. Imagine for a moment. Let me ask you you have said before is that correct. [01:05:36] Yes. Okay right. [01:05:39] Yep yep. So do you remember any time when you send when you kind of knew it was wrong but you did it anyway. [01:05:49] Yeah I mean I feel like those kind of moments are few and far between. [01:05:55] We're talking about any time. Do you recall any. Yeah. [01:06:00] So let me ask you a simple question if at that moment you had a choice to send or not if you knew that if you resisted that said you you would be given a million dollars and have everything your heart's desired would occur if at that moment you knew what was going to occur. Would you have still chosen to send or do you think you would have had the will to say no. [01:06:31] Yeah I would say that's some pretty powerful incentive. I'd probably have the will. [01:06:37] I think we all would. So here's the issue. When we do not follow the Lord we know what he's telling us to do but we choose to go a different direction because we get afraid. [01:06:50] Ultimately it's because we really don't understand how good the Lord is and what's in store for us. That's why we always sin when we sin is because we choose to satisfy our own desire based on what we think is maybe not best for us both what we really want but if we really understood what God has in store for us and any and every situation we would never sin. It's the lack of root truly understanding it. I think this is probably possibly where Paul talks about the renewing of your mind where he talks about in Romans 7. I do the things that I don't want to do but the sin in me that does it. And in Romans he talks about your mind the mindset on the spirit is life and peace in the mindset on the flesh of sin and death. The more we live by the spirit the more we live by the renewing of our mind the less we actually sin because the more we're conformed to Christ is therefore that obedience that conformity but also the more we realize how much the Lord has in store for us and we're willing to step out on his direction without really knowing the ultimate end of it. But we know who's leading us. Abraham stepped out went toward the promised land but he had no idea why he just followed the Lord. And so this kind of this great big cauldron of all of these spiritual truths kind of wrapping together but all pointing in the same direction. Anyway that's a freebie. [01:08:27] I like the freebie so let's wrap up the call. [01:08:31] I think we're about out of time on this one. I don't know if we have an official wrap up but here's the official wrap up if you like. Be sure to subscribe. We'll go get more radical faith love to share more if you have any questions on this you can email our support support at Master grabber dot com direct them to me if you have any questions on spiritual stuff and we'll either try to get there and try to answer them personally or maybe as a topic for another radical faith call as questions and answers from the field that might be a topic to try. Okay well you'll be blessed. Caroline thanks for being the sounding board on this one. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 1969, FBI agents raided the apartment where Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton was sleeping and shot him dead. Years later, a Chicago Police Department detective by the name of Jon Burge charged up a small electric box that would soon be used to torture hundreds of black men. The connection: Flint Taylor, author, attorney and founding partner of the People's Law Office. As litigator in the cases central to these events, he has spent his career seeking justice for those involved. On this episode of DISCOVERY, Taylor details the harrowing sagas of the Hampton murders and the infamous CPD torture ring.

This week we’re very excited to bring you a conversation with Mariame Kaba.  Mariame is an organizer, educator and curator. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. After over 20 years of living and organizing in Chicago, she moved back to her hometown of New York City in May 2016. In this episode we talk to Mariame about where her interest in US Communist Party came from and talk about some of the figures, cases, positions and formations within and around CPUSA that have historical significance for her and that drew Black women into party membership particularly in the first half of the 20th century before McCarthyism really took hold. In particular Mariame talks about the CPUSA’s many examples of mass participatory defense work. We also talk about her work around clemency with FreeThemNY. We talk a little bit about Survived and Punished and Mariame’s interest in undermining the ways that the prison industrial complex violently enforces gender We end by taking a little time talking about what it means to call a protest “direct action,” and discussing recent discourses in the mainstream around “civility” in relation to protests deemed too provocative by the political class. About our guest: Mariame Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Prior to starting NIA, she worked as a program officer for education and youth development at the Steans Family Foundation where I focused on grantmaking and program evaluation. She co-founded multiple organizations and projects over the years including the Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander and the Rogers Park Young Women’s Action Team (YWAT) among others. She has also served on numerous nonprofit boards. She has extensive experience working on issues of racial justice, gender justice, transformative/restorative justice and multiple forms of violence. She has been active in the anti-violence against women and girls movement since 1989. Her experience includes coordinating emergency shelter services at Sanctuary for Families in New York City, serving as the co-chair of the Women of Color Committee at the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network, working as the prevention and education manager at Friends of Battered Women and their Children (now called Between Friends), serving on the founding advisory board of the Women and Girls Collective Action Network (WGCAN), and being a member of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. She co-founded and currently organizes with the Survived and Punished collective and is a founding member of the Just Practice Collaborative. She served as a member of the editorial board of Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal from January 2003 to December 2008. She is the co-editor (along with Michelle VanNatta) of a special issue of the journal about teen girls’ experiences of and resistance to violence published in December 2007. She has written and co-authored reports, articles, essays, curricula, zines, and more. She is currently an active board member of the Black Scholar. She runs the blog Prison Culture. In 2018, she co-authored the guidebook “Lifting As They Climbed” and published a children’s book titled “Missing Daddy.” She was a member and co-founder of We Charge Genocide, an inter-generational effort which documented police brutality and violence in Chicago and sent youth organizers to Geneva, Switzerland to present their report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture. She is an advisory board member of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, a group (along with Project NIA and WCG) that worked to get the Chicago City Council to pass a reparations law providing restitution to the victims of Jon Burge, a police commander who tortured more than 200 criminal suspects, most of them black men, from the 1970s through the early 1990s. She is a founding advisory board member of the Chicago Community Bond Fund. The CCBF pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois. Through a revolving fund, CCBF supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence. She is also a member of Critical Resistance’s community advisory board. Critical Resistance’s vision is the creation of genuinely healthy, stable communities that respond to harm without relying on imprisonment and punishment. She was a 2016-2017 Soros Justice Fellow where she extended and expanded my work to end the criminalization of survivors of violence. Currently she is a researcher in residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality and Criminalization at the Social Justice Institute of the Barnard Center for Research on Women through September 2020. She is co-leading a new initiative called Interrupting Criminalization: Research in Action with Andrea J. Ritchie. Combining participatory research, data analysis, and systemic advocacy, Andrea and Mariame will work in partnership with local campaigns to identify primary pathways, policing practices, charges, and points of intervention to address the growing criminalization and incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for public order, survival, drug, child welfare and self-defense related offenses. Research will be disseminated in accessible formats for use by organizers, advocates, policymakers, media makers, and philanthropic partners working to interrupt criminalization at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. This initiative will also host convenings of researchers, organizers, advocates, policymakers, and philanthropic partners on key topics relating to violence and criminalization, and support partners in developing and implementing campaigns designed to interrupt criminalization of women, girls, trans and GNC people of color. She has a long history in the fields of education and youth development, having taught high school and college students in New York and Chicago. She has taught sociology and Black studies courses at Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, and Columbia University. She has developed and facilitated many workshops and presented at events. She was a founding board member of the Education for Liberation Network. She studied sociology at McGill University, City College of New York, and Northwestern University. She has received several honors and awards for my work over the years. She am occasionally available to consult on various topics.

Lawyers Brendan Shiller and Aaron Goldstein were organizers of the first electoral defeat of a sitting Cook County judge in nearly 30 years. Judge Coghlan was heard cases involving Jon Burge and Reynaldo Guevara, dirty cops and torturers and was most blatant in bias towards the police. The conversation moves to the Chicago Democratic Party and the changing demographics of the city is forcing progressive change.

Ex Chicago Police commander Jon Burge died on September 19th, 2019. We interview the reporter closest to the case, John Conroy, about how the Chicago PD's history of violence echoes to today and the trial of Jason Van Dyke.

The violence that grips the streets of Chicago has been the subject of news outlets and even the President’s tweets, but what is actually being done to address the issue? In this episode of Planet Lex, host Daniel B. Rodriguez talks to Alexa Van Brunt, an attorney on the MacArthur Justice Center, about police brutality and bias in Chicago and the draft consent decree to reform the Chicago Police Department. They discuss the Justice Department’s report on police misconduct during the Obama Administration, how new policies might impact law enforcement, and the challenges of reform. They also talk about the MacArthur Justice Center’s role in combating police misconduct in Chicago. Alexa Van Brunt serves as a clinical associate professor at Northwestern Law and an attorney on the MacArthur Justice Center team where she works on key cases, including litigating on behalf of victims of the Jon Burge police torture scandal and other police misconduct.

AFSCME's Elijah Edwards joins us to talk about life after Janus. Ronald Kitchen, author of My Midnight Years, is one of the Death Row Ten and a victim of Jon Burge torture and false conviction.

It's a SWAPCAST! Rich and Shefsky team up with Sam Tripoli and Ryan Davis from Tin Foil Hat, a great podcast for you conspiracy lovers out there. Sam and Ryan join the guys for the story of Jon Burge, a bona-fide hero who turned out to be a massive villain. Funny how that works ain't it? Burge had more impact on police procedure than the invention of donuts. Yeah, that's a cheap joke, but you try writing these every week. This episode includes poorly thought-out book titles, sensual interrogations and scandalous X-Men. Check out Tin Foil Hat  Use the promo code CRIME15 to get 15% off products from our sponsor Sudio Headphones https://goo.gl/aR6d7q CRiiiME is a show about lawbreakers from Rich Slaton and Jon Shefsky, taped in the dungeon at The World Famous Comedy Store. Follow us on social media @CRiiiMEPOD. Email us at crimepodcast@gmail.com (one "i" or three)

Welcome to another episode of Tin Foil Hat with Sam Tripoli. Today Ryan and Sam welcome comedians Rich Slaton and Jon Shefsky to do a swapcast with their show CRIIIME! On this episode we discuss.....1) The Social Justice Warriors Comedy Tour of Texas2) The Police Force of Chicago3) Police officer Jon Burge and Criminal Andrew Wilson4) Confessing all over your face5) Patreon for Criminals6)L7 and Grunge Chicks7)Commit the crime do the time!8)We want to thank Nick Fox for the awesome new "The Revolution Will Be Podcasted" tshirt artwork! Thank you for all of your support. Please check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/TinFoilHat. Plus we've got some awesome new shirts available at AllComedyTshirts.com! Thank you for your support homeboy!

Please join us as we discuss the miscarriage of justice and cruelty of the American judicial system. Frank Chapman & Armanda Shackelford will discuss the Gerald Reed case. We will also discuss the importance of #CPACNOW to the community and why it's needed. Mayor Rahm Emanual has implemented COPA and refuse to allow citizen oversight of the police department. Let's support this family. Mrs. Shackelford's son has been wrongly imprisoned and tortured. It's time to put pressure on Kim Foxx, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emannuel and other politicians that can remedy this problem. It's not only Gerald Reed, there are well over 100 people who were forced & coerced into giving false confessions. This includes men, women, black, latino, poor whites,and children.

Monica and Page sit down with Joey Mogul to talk about Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, a book that she co-wrote with Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock in 2011. Joey is an attorney with the People's Law Office, initiated and co-founded Chicago Torture Justice Memorials and represented Jon Burge torture survivors demanding reparations from the city of Chicago, and won! Drawing on years of research, on-the-ground activism, and legal advocacy, their book examines queer & trans historical experiences-as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime, and unpacks queer criminal archetypes-like “gleeful gay killers,” “lethal lesbians,” “disease spreaders,” and “deceptive gender benders“-to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. And because it's Pride season, we also got into some conversation around Joey's amazing direct action experiences with disrupting Chicago Pride in the 90's with Queer to the Left, so basically, you should tune in now!

"Racist and Systemic Police Violence, Chicago Style." Lecture by longtime civil rights attorney Flint Taylor of the People's Law Offices on police torture and violence in Chicago, including the 1969 assassination of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, the torture of African American suspects by police commander Jon Burge, and the recent videotaped police murder of Laquan McDonald. University of Massachusetts Amherst History Department 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. October, 2016. Image credit: "Freedom" by Ronnie Goodman, www.ronniegoodman.com

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the concluding study session on Leanita McClain's posthumously published A Foot In Each World. McClain was an extraordinarily skilled black journalist in the 1980's. She had essays published in the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post. She made a habit of using words to reveal how White Supremacy impacted black people. She committed suicide in May of 1984 at the age of 32. Her suicide note illustrates the degree to which White Supremacy compromised her mental health. She wrote: "Do not try to pull me back into this world. I will never live long enough to see my people free anyway." A Foot In Each World is an assembly of her poetry and essays that was edited by her former husband and journalist Clarence Page. Studying her work chronologically offers insight on her evolving thoughts on Racism as well as her personal depression. It seems her fear of being rejected or vilified by other black people was a regular source of agitation. She also seemed to harbor hopes and heartache over a few "Good Whites." Last week we discussed her articles which detailed the dynamics of black fear of police - McClain wrote this essay during Chicago Police commander Jon Burge's reign of terrorism against black citizens. McClain also shared a powerful essay detailing her father moment of "dignity" confronting a White Supremacist who cautioned a White Woman about entering a train car full of niggers. #BlackMentalHealth INVEST in The COWS -http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

What might a global Black Lives Matter movement look like? A discussion with Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, a Black feminist writer, communications strategist, cultural organizer, and co-founder of the BlackLivesMatter Network. She is also executive director of the US' leading Black organization for immigrant rights, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Also, we look at Chicago's successful campaign for reparations for the Jon Burge police torture. All that and a few words from Laura on patriarchal pretexts for racist killing, and how she isn't Dylann Roof's woman.

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham January 29, 2011 10 pm EST ALFO, co-hosting Tonight Our Guest: Mark Clements, victim of Jon Burge Sentenced and sent to the IL Department of Correction at age 16. He spent 28 years in prison after being tortured into a false confession by Jon Burge. His wrongful conviction was overturned but not discovered until he had spent 28 yrs. behind bars. He is now an activist to bring justice for other prisoners victimized by Jon Burge. Mark A. Clements, Administrator Jail Jon Burge Coalition & Campaign to End the Death Penalty The OUTRAGEOUS Case of Jon Burge: Rogue Sheriff Decades after torture allegations were first leveled against former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, a federal jury has found him guilty of lying about torturing prisoners into making confessions. Burge has long been accused of overseeing the systematic torture of more than 100 African American men.