 So yeah, so who has has anybody else seen guys not dead, too? No, not he hasn't seen it either. Hi. Hi there goodness Well this movie all of these guys not dead movies are based on actual Court cases and actual occurrences is hundreds of them probably thousands of them and so this brings up the The church and state thing we have a thing here in the United States is separation between church and state Pretty much most of these kind of things are reactions I mean throughout Christian history in Europe a lot of Europe is burned out on this church and State stuff where they had churches ruling the country He's very excited He's like So In United States separation of church the state, but these kind of laws get carried out in kind of extreme cases, so Whereas the first God's not dead movie. Does anyone see that one? Yeah, that was one with the professor and the student comes and Basically all the students in the philosophy class have to write out God is dead and signed the paper to skip over the problem of God But in this one we have a school teacher not not at the university level, but the school teacher Who basically wants to be truly helpful and is using some examples of Throughout history of different people and teachers and and happens to throw Jesus in the mix and Happens to share a line or two From the Bible I believe and then that's where all the attention and the hammer comes down So it's going to be that's the backdrop theme, but really I think it's very much like the first movie and it's just going inside and getting in touch with With values because it's not so much a religion or no religion or or trying to keep religion and Education apart which is Which is you know, they do have parochial schools in the United States that are private schools But in terms of public schools you're supposed to keep church religion and then Education apart so that's going to be the the underlying theme, but really It's more like it's you can see it in the characters the main character and then some of the students they start to get in touch with I think you could say it's their calling and And You know, we just Had a beautiful movie yesterday documentary movie which we follow this band Started out at a basement in Australia and then have gone worldwide With their church and their band and and I think you could see It's some of the documentary scenes of the of the different band members being called and Called by God they would say and then this is the fruition of that call is Going deeper and deeper into to being used by God and I think for For this teacher and the students it also brings in She has a good relationship with her father and Tries to talk things through with him Does anybody remember Pat Boone? Pat but he was very and His daughter Debbie she had a big head you light up my life. This is the father It plays he pays the father of the teacher in this and so he's He has some of his influence, but you can see with the students. They have to really Start to take a close look at at their own belief systems and what they value very much like the first God's not dead movie where The young man has to decide he can't in all of his in good conscious sign the paper that God is dead and in the end ends up having to get more and more in touch with What his beliefs are and his feelings and and and I would say underneath at the calling So this is a good movie for Answering the call and at the end the students have to make up their minds About the teacher whether they support the teacher or not and and how far are they? willing to go and supporting the teacher and and acting out what they feel is Very strong inside and I think that's even with Course of Miracle students, you know People can immerse with the book and then it comes a point whether it's going to be kind of like Trying to just teach the course intellectually and hold on to the status quo which is personhood and the world and Families and institutions and so on so forth or As the Apostles were called to do to let go of everything in the world and actually move towards the Christ Light and the Christ experience so this movie is more at the at the introductory levels of those that have a strong calling in terms of their faith and Yeah, in terms of a Teacher having to look at her principles and then Being threatened with you either Recant on these things and kind of cave in and give way or or you're fired and You know, this isn't quite as extreme as the Cathars in the Pyrenees where they were told recant Your position and accept the Catholic Church's position or burn and that fire right over there Not quite that extreme, but you never know pure flicks. They might come out with someday we could have the Cathars By pure flicks and you know because it that was very much taking a stand for the mystical Jesus I'd say and In one sense, that's what our daily lives are about to and like the Apostles giving ourselves over completely So I think this is one of those it's definitely a God movie It's got a God vibe in it like touched by an angel always has like a God vibe there This has got the God vibe and and again, it's based on actual court case actual or actual Cases that they just decided to make a movie out of so so for those of you that got to watch the The movie yesterday, this will be your second pure flicks movie in a row Back-to-back pure flicks Okay Oh Which she will be American civil liberties union Merrick ACLU is American civil liberties Yeah, yes Civil liberties protecting liberties the freedom of individuals Against things like religion So that's what they're formed for so that's a very powerful Organization so the school board is going to try to pass the buck and just say we we say Take hands off and then we let this American civil liberties union ACL come in and do the The dirty work Okay That we don't have the financial bearable fight that We submit copies of our sermons for the last three months For review Can they do that? They're all the ministers in the ground All the ministers in the town have been subpoenaed to submit their sermons for the last three months So Think about that you're a minister Getting a subpoena from a court What do you have to and now we'll hear why did they want to subpoena all the The sermons for the last three months word for word Well and all the reasons we've been using the church umbrella It's not possible for pastors to own any of their sermons so every Sermon that I've ever preached or every tape every audio every YouTube video is the property of the church And and basically these are all ministers of the church and now There are every one of them has been subpoenaed to submit their sermons for the last three months So we'll see what that's all about Could be involving private thoughts and private minds Which we talk a lot about which is where all the guilt is Where all the contention and conflict That's getting deeper. This is a deep movie But some of you are ministers and you're a minister most everyone Jeffrey's pretty new Jeffrey minister He's probably the only one safe all of you All of you You're a minister. There's a young minister 20 23 22 22 but still subject to The laws of God Okay, let's see what it does I Didn't use them So now the government can determine what we can and can't reach at our churches So the key turning point in the movie was God has a plan Even though no matter how everything looked and it's interesting. It just dawned on me and seeing that movie again that the very end of the trial they took it they took a play out of Mahatma Gandhi's playbook with With the British I don't know if you ever remember seeing the movie Gandhi But basically the British with their white wigs they tried him and they basically Use all of his writings in the trial to basically say Mr. Gandhi you wrote and he wrote about freedom he wrote about non-violence and all these things he wrote about and At the end they Pressured and pushed and pushed and pushed all these things that he had said Where everything that he had written was in violation of the British laws for India and then Gandhi said if if everything you have written and everything you've said that I have said is Sedition that's what they charged him with sedition he held his hands up and he went Then I am guilty as charged and must be put into prison immediately That popped it That's what they did, you know, it was like a reverse strategy But it was just coming to that point of having this you have to invert a whole belief system To come back to innocence and that's I think that was great because I was sitting there thinking where have I seen that? that ploy before In action and Gandhi actually used it you know as part of you know freeing The country of India from the British rule You know so it was good because he basically turned it around so I thought that was great But it really gets down to principles and I Think I don't know maybe I don't know if it's still after the credits We cut it off there But I think there might be some more because a very very end of the movie Maybe I think I've seen this is is more of an answer to the Sarah's question Because I know I saw more than that we might have to Go further there. We might have to seek a Sarah still waiting to see where that correlation So I think Nicholas we may have Cut it off too quick Yeah We're in canvas Where nothing is predictable including our movies Deanna I think got the pretty most of the harvest These were all the cases I'll see if it's done here. I know I remember seeing something so we'll see whether I saw it in the theater or whether it got Taken taken out of the movie or whatever What do we do now same as always Coming Sarah part three you'll get to see the whole the whole case and all the reasonings and seeming Arguments and all the different things it's this idea that there's a government a ruling body that has to protect That's what we really got when we watched Snowden It's and that's what we've seen too through our messengers over the years and Anywhere conflict arises at all. There's protectionism Something needs to be protected to be with Projects volunteers could be with Protecting a country protecting a body Protecting a group of people doesn't really matter. You know the answer is always in my defenselessness My safety lies It's coming to be convinced that there's nothing that needs protection But that takes a whole hearted Faith and that's what that final song to that was leading into that was all about, you know, there's nothing to need to hide or hold back You know, that's the only way you come to an experience that there's nothing to defend And there's nothing to protect As it goes against all of our hero movies What would Batman be without protectionism? What would? Superman be Wonder Woman. What would Robin Hood be What would all these great Movies that people flock to see over and over and over be without Protectionism wouldn't be any faith in the movies at all They wouldn't be blockbusters. They wouldn't be anything So it's you know, that's that's what these cases are seemingly playing out between Universities and Christian student unions and and Christian and believers and non-believers and government and all these things You know, you can just remember from the course truth That's not fight against illusions nor do illusions battle with the truth illusions battle only With themselves And that's the only lesson there is to learn that this was a world of complete illusion There's not some that are bigger stronger superior inferior Some that some illusions that win some illusions that lose Some illusions that succeed some illusions That fail. They are all equally the same and that Experience is end of game game over so it's just curiosity. I'm sure God's not dead three will explore how a government could subpoena sermons over the past three months for what reason What suspicion? Doesn't really matter what the details are. I would guarantee you there's some form of protectionism Going on in prosecution I Just like tripod almost identical she's back Same Same He hasn't even seen the snow yet our weather forecast for the night Yeah, I'm really good at Getting down to the core of the teachings. I think she wasn't like sure during the movie was the answer to who do you say that? I am with him. She never said the answer in that music. I Love that part. Yeah Stand up. Yeah Yeah, it's always that way the mind's playing hide-and-seek with itself, but but you know everything's Dissermant lesson and in the end that the teacher of God can heal the world without a sound so in the end the recognition of Who I am is all that's required and there's really in the end. That's why there's no court cases required There's no prosecution. There's no defense. There's no need to defend God There's you know in the end. It's a recognition in the mind That that is what it's all about and if there are situations where Seems to be there's a call to speak something then Then you have to face any kind of fear that that something could be lost or something could be harm I think in my the parable of David I do know that I remember traveling around around doing all these talks and sharing and then Kathy Martin was my assistant and one time she said Oh, there's a message while you were gone How traveling the message came in and you've been invited to speak at a church. There's nothing new about that But I was invited to speak at Zion United Church of Christ The church where the body of David was confirmed the church where I had to grow up and Listen to all these sermons and go to many different meals and Founders Hall and all these kind of things So it's quite interesting that that's what the invitation was to come and speak at that church Which was more again orchestrated by God and the Holy Spirit to say oh you want to walk right back into Anything that seems to be a past association You know how they say the hardest one to forgive is the one that's Closest that's most dear, you know because of the meanings and associations with it. So I Was like, what did you say the name of the church was? Zion's United Church of Christ it turns out that my biological father had because the the minister had been on had gone through a near-death experience and that he'd been on Oprah at that point, but he'd written extensively he's Preaching working into his his sermons and and basically yeah, I was in he decided to Hold a class in the church on mysticism and saints the mystics and the saints in a standard Christian Protestant church so Jack started going to the Things and he learned about Saint Teresa of Avila and he'd learned St. Francis And he was listening to all the mystics and saints Christian basically a lot of Christian Saints and everything and then finally at some point during these weeks of class Jack was like oh My son David is Is one of them I One of what the minister said and then Jack said I think I think you should invite him to come to this class come to the church The minister said he's always welcome. Everyone is welcome and Jack said because he's one of them One of what I mean he just couldn't Is teaching a class on all the great mystics and saints, but he couldn't comprehend the question What one of what he's welcome, but what are you talking? What are you talking about? so when I did go there they had a meal there and Minister was showing slide shows and and films of of his trip to Belize where he went down to help people Rebuild and like have a tough for humanity build and and as he kept showing the the Slides of these children in Belize. They all were beaming and smiling all were happy and It was the minister's daughter who said what are you doing in Belize said? You're not helping them Look at them fate look at their faces They don't need help And he was like Again, these are deep lessons, but but also after I there he was there and Some people had a big meal and some stayed behind and for me and he came to me and he said Well, I would like to be here while you're here, but I have to go visit a pastor a minister who's been diagnosed with cancer So he smiled at me and he said So I leave my flock to you and how he goes and Then I just went gave talks in that church like I give it any Any location over here in this room? I just went deeper and deeper and deeper and God didn't create this world and Just let the spirit come through I have nothing to protect Nothing to defend and I had no association with that place. It's being any different than any other So that's the one where it went deeper and deeper and deeper into a stillness. We just went It took us so deep into this deep stillness and then as we went into the stillness It got very it's just all stillness and Finally after a while of just complete stillness in Zion United Church of Christ, then One of the elderly women of the congregation said spoke up and broke the stillness and said who is Speaking to us now she said And there was such a quietness and such a stillness and such a The I am presence was so strong and I felt no need to give a word or a name to it but My biological father Jack was on hand and he looked around at his wife and his daughter and the whole congregation of his church and he went Jesus Jesus is speaking to us now And on the inside I thought That's the end of the world That's it It's over It's official. I thought it's official When your biological father says that in front of his wife and daughter and the congregation and the minister's gone and I went Thought there's no more I can speak You can't top that So that's the that's the answer who has what this movie is about who do you say that I am And then she said I heard Jesus speak to me so That's like the unspeakable thing in a courtroom, but That was what the her attorney felt was Absolutely necessary, you know was the one thing that's unspeakable Which of course this whole world was made to cover that over You know the the world doesn't ego doesn't want that question Ever to be asked because it asked the first question. That was the first question ever asked was what am I? It's a little too risky when you get down to that point To the original question because behind the original question is the original Experience of reality and ego doesn't want that Reminds me this movie reminds me of an Al Pacino movie from many many years an old Al Pacino movie and justice for all Where at the very end of the movie he Al Pacino Speaks to the jury speaks to the whole crowd and turns around and he's He gets up and he goes there. They're slamming the gavel saying You're out of order because he just starts Speaking in an unfiltered way in the courtroom and then Pacino goes. I'm out of order Looks at the crowd you're out of order. He looks at the jury. He's you're out of order He turns right over to the judge and he says and you're out of order He points to the whole thing and says you're out of order But I was telling a few people Francis, I think that Jennifer Anderson was just on Good Morning America and Yeah, she They were Started to question her and quiz her about the divorce Evangelina Jolie and her ex-husband Yeah on Good Morning America and she lost it she lost it She was like she turned furious and angry and she said you're asking me about this when You know a black man held his hands up It was on the nightly news at that their very same day and held his hands up and and was shot and Tulsa and Killed and you're you at the nerve and she just on Good Morning America It's like the Julia Roberts miss goody two shoes and the one that everyone loves the most. She's like Fuck society. She starts ranting and raving and just firing it up like how dare you ask about that when We've got things that we need to deal with she said what about people. Where are the people? How can this happen? You know, she's just venting her Rage rage against the machine From Jennifer Aniston, I could just see people at home who tune in for the last 30 540 years Let's see that's what that whole song was the last song that we saw You know, you have to speak it up You can't stuff it down. It's not going away And after we did our show out of the blue comes Francis zoo then yeah a friend Dan Wrote to me email titled rage That was the title of the email rage And he could feel it when he's golfing when he's out Doing the everyday ordinary things he can feel Under the surface. It's down there. It's bubbling And and that song at the end there was perfect for that There's a perfect No people pleasing no private thoughts that's a theme song anthem almost at the end there very beautiful lyrics those could be like printed out or the song could be sung at the beginning of Expression sessions lest you forget how important it is and think it's just another day you could play that song at the end how important it is Yeah That we practice those Principles, yeah, that was one of the lines that go out there and write and I noticed I thought that was strange But I guess you do if you don't raise your despair your frustration your rage and your anger authentically exactly as it's coming then Even the purity of the silent response that you're also talking about Yeah, yeah Yeah, that's what Jennifer Edison did. I'm good morning America. She raised the riot And she was quoted Oh Yeah, if you wanted a heartwarming video, I I earliest morning I got up and I I went in before the internet went out and I was I posted that George Harrison song and Then they have all these other suggested songs and they put his last appearance his last performance So I was like, oh, what was that? So I clicked on that and he stopped by VH one with his friend Ravi Shankar to promote Ravi's But it was like a 41 minute video, but oh my god. I just had tears of joy watching it and listening to it because Oh, it's so profound. It's so much right that was back in 1997 But it's so much white what is right here amongst us right now George Harrison coming on there was just a few people that were going to get some soundbites to do a little PR thing and He started talking about he said I I'm quite confused when I look at the world because I see people running around and so busy and All of these years of my life have showed me for what? There's nothing Nothing to do nothing to pursue He said the only question is Is What is death and how do I escape from it? So that's absolutely the only thing worth Focusing your mind on and looking at and nothing else And then We started talking about the essence we have an essence and our essence sees the world perfectly It's always been perfect and that's our whole point is to find to find that there's no other point to life and And he started a really who the spirit was just ripping through him on VH1 just ripping and then the young like VJ that had invited him on there was just like and Then George just looked into the eyes of this. I hope I'm not being too transcendental and the young VJ was like no you're not and Viting him to go more and he just he said He said, yeah, that's that's what it's all about and and he just spoke he just channeled spirit spirit spirit spirit and then Finally a woman who had come in who who had followed him in George in was one of the VH VH1 staff had brought in a guitar And so she stuck the guitar or they brought the guitar over and they thought it was George's guitar But it was just a woman who showed up on the spot with this tiny little PR promotion with the guitar so he's They didn't even know if he would stay he didn't do television appearances But they gave him the guitar and he did an impromptu concert taking requests and singing and Then I listened to his profound songs and he was having so much fun and One after the other other and they all were just like totally swept up in it And it was so precious and then I just waited I was laying in my bed to hear what's okay This is his last appearance on earth. What's What's it gonna be? What's the final song he's gonna spontaneously perform and It was about all things pass away And I was like, ah it's just like he was putting an end to a glorious lifetime and a glorious career by singing things pass away and It was just so precious and then hitting the last note of that song just perfectly and yeah Such a strong 41 minutes, but so strong. I was in there just for that little video And then of course I posted the other one give me love give me love even peace on earth and Marilyn over in Holland She said I'm gonna learn that song and on the guitar and play it so just kind of rippled out across the ocean and over to Europe and Very sweet Give me love give me love give me peace on earth Give me life. Give me life. Keep me free as a bird Give me hope help me cope with this heavy load and I ain't through Trying to reach you with heart and so Is Sweetie climbs to the top first dry clean On top of the world safe and clueless