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- [Announcer] Followingprogram is sponsored by CBN.

- [Announcer] Coming up,

the top punter in the NFL.

- [Thomas] Stealing momentum from a team

that's just stolen your momentum.

- [Announcer] Far away from the Superdome.

- Punting in the street can be a bad idea.

What do you thinking about that, Maxwell?

- [Announcer] We're at home

with New Orleans' Thomas Morstead.

- You can say your kids need X, Y, or Z.

They just need you.

- [Announcer] And he tellsus what really matters.

- [Thomas] They're trulythe most eternal investment

you can ever make.

- [Announcer] On today's "700 Club."

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- Well, welcome to "The 700 Club."

A right hook from Marco andthen a left hook from Laura.

Two back to back stormsystems are on track

to hit the Gulf Coast within 48 hours.

And one of them isforecast to make land fall

as a major hurricane.

Nature's fury is also raging in California

with multiple infernos engulfing

more than one million acres.

George Thomas has that.

- I was told to get some stuff stuff

and that's what we're doing.

- [George] residents andvisitors in New Orleans

and several other parishesare either leaving town

or hunkering down.

- We don't know what to expect.

You know, I mean, is itgoing to be a catastrophe?

Is it going to be just a lot of rain?

- [George] Louisiana'sgovernor warning residents

to prepare for a one-two punch

as the two storm systems are set

to make rare back to backlandfalls on the Gulf Coast

within 48 hours of one another.

- We're going to get basicallya right hook from Marco

and then a left hook from Laura.

- Haiti, the Dominican Republic,

Cuba, and Puerto Ricoalready feeling the effects

from the weather systems.

And while the folks along theLouisiana Gulf Coast prepare,

residents in Northern California

are bracing for more fire outbreaks.

The National Weather Servicewarning of dangerous lightning

and thunderstormsexpected to hit this week.

- Each and every countyis now on high alert due

to the storm that's coming in.

- [George] Dramatic satellite imagery

from a few evenings ago shows the scope

of the fires sweeping thenorthern part of the state.

With hundreds of wildfires raging

and more than one millionacres already on fire,

the California National Guard

and US military deploying personnel

to help exhausted firefighterscontain the blazes.

More than 14,000 firefighters

are right now on the fire lines.

- A lot of adrenalineand a lot of passion,

a lot of love for the job,

knowing that if you sit down and you rest,

someone might not have a house.

- [George] President Trumphas declared the wildfires

in California a major disaster.

He's also issued emergencydeclarations in Louisiana ahead

of tropical storm Marco,set to hit this afternoon,

and Laura, which isexpected to be a hurricane

when it strikes overnightearly Thursday morning.

George Thomas, "CBN News."

- You have to askyourself, what is going on?

It's almost like nature hasturned against this great land.

Joe Bastardi is chief forecasterwith WeatherBELL Analytics

and he's with us now to talk

about these unprecedented storms.

Joe, has there any time like this,

where two storms have hit theGulf almost simultaneously?

- Well, we had a 1933,

and you wouldn't have known about this

because we didn't havethe communication we had.

Two major hurricanes hit within 24 hours,

one on the Florida Treasure Coast,

the other in South Padre Island.

And then the one that hit Florida

was into the Gulf of Mexicoa couple of days later,

or actually day later, and hit again.

So it hit twice within 36 hours

and the other major hurricanehad hit in between them.

Now, look you...

So you wouldn't know about

that unless you're into the weather

and know what happened before.

Marco is weakening dramatically.

It's barely going to be a tropical storm.

Laura is a big problem,

and I am getting more concerned

about the upper Texas Gulf Coast,

back to Houston andGalveston with this thing,

And you could see Lauracoming from quite a bit away.

As far as the California wildfires,

did you know when the 1920s wildfires

in the west burned five times more land

than they're burning now?

So you don't...

Ecclesiastes 1:9.

There's nothing new under the sun.

What has happened today iswe see all these things now.

Makes the news.

I mean, look what hurricanesand tropical storms do.

They get me on CBN with you, pastor.

But the fact of the matter is

when you put this inperspective, Marco and Laura,

if you go back to the April7th forecast we issued,

are part of the packagethat we were talking about,

that this is this going to be a big year

for the US coastline.

And in two weeks from today,

we might be talkingabout something coming up

the eastern seaboard.

It's pattern recognition,

but you gotta go back

and look before and youhave to be cognizant.

That does not diminishwhat is happening today

and the potential disasters with this

and the pain, theaggravation, the frustration

that we're experiencingwith the wildfires now,

but it's part of what has always happened.

And what we have to do iscontinue to adapt to it,

in my opinion.

- That thing that hit Galvestonand was so devastating,

they weren't prepared for it.

Is this anything comparable to that?

- Well, we're going to be prepared for it.

I'm very confident ofthe intensity of Laura,

that Laura is going to be veryclose to a major hurricane,

if not a major hurricane, when it hits.

We saw Hannah trying to ramp as it came

for South Padre Islandearlier in the season.

The tracks spread though,

until this gets away from Cuba,

because you see Cuba influences

what the storm's going to do, okay?

So when it gets away from Cuba,

then we will hone in on it.

Right now it looks like betweenCorpus and Lake Charles,

which would put Houstongetting closer and closer

to the middle of that option over there,

the Houston-Galveston area.

Now of course you had Ike in 2008,

Rita went into the golden triangle,

Harvey's legendary, butHarvey hit it at Aransas Pass

or a little bit further north,

as far as its full fury was with wind.

Carla in 1960 hit a Port Lavaca

and Houston had quite a storm there.

Benchmark storm is 1900 in Galveston.

And that particular storm, of course,

in 1900, you couldn't see it coming.

Killed over 6,000 people we know about.

The danger with this stormis the Galveston storm

was moving west northwest soit didn't close in on Houston.

This could be moving north northwest

and hit at Galveston, comeup just west of Houston,

push all that water into,you know, the channel

and what happens in Houston.

So I'm very concerned about that.

Certainly not a lock.

I am much more confidenton tensity than track,

but Houston, Galveston,Port Arthur, all those,

Lake Charles, and even down to Corpus

has got to be very concerned about this.

- Joe, thank you somuch for being with us.

Joe Bastardi.

It's nice to knowthere's nothing new under

the sun (laughs).

We've had them before.

We'll have them again (laughs).

- That's true.

We live on the east coast area as well.

- Well, now some good news.

Covid cases are going down.

Plus there's a promising new weapon

in the fight against the virus.

Ephraim Graham has more on that story.

- Pat, the number of new infections

has dropped to its lowestlevel inn two months.

It comes as President Donald Trump

and the Food and Drug Administration

announced progress in treating the virus,

declaring emergency useauthorization of convalescent plasma

saying its benefits outweigh its risks.

Convalescent plasma is blood from people

who've survived the virus,

which is then transferred intopeople currently fighting it.

It's been used on 70,000 peoplesince the pandemic began.

Some scientists expressconcern the treatment

has not been adequately tested.

President Trump said theemergency use authorization

will dramatically increaseaccess to the treatment.

COVID-19 has already had a major impact

on the 2020 presidential campaign.

Now there's growing concernover voting during the pandemic.

CBN's David Brody posed thatquestion to Dr. Deborah Birx,

who's coordinating the federal response

to the coronavirus.

- From a health perspectivethere will be a lot

of people voting in November.

And I know they've talked alot about mail-in balloting,

but what about just going to the polls?

I mean, is it safe to go to the polls?

- Well, I can tell you ithas been safe for me to go

to Starbucks and pick up my order.

So if I can go into Starbucks,

wait in my line socially distanced, and-

- It is safe to go to the polls.

- Well, certainly I havegone into Starbucks.

(laughs) I go into Starbucksin the middle of Texas

and Alabama and Mississippi

that had very high case rates.

Then, you know, I can't say that it would

be different waiting in line in the polls.

- Dr. Birx also told David

about the personal challenges of her job,

including getting death threatsand horrific text messages.

The Republican NationalConvention kicks off tonight.

The four night event will present America

as the land of promise,opportunity, heroes, and greatness.

The president is expectedto speak each night.

Tonight speakers include SouthCarolina Senator Tim Scott,

Congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana,

and former Ambassador to theUnited Nations Nikki Haley.

On a related note, we'relearning longtime Trump advisor,

Kellyanne Conway isleaving the administration.

The pollster, strategist,and former campaign manager

announced she's resigning from her post

as a senior counsel to thepresident at the end of the month

to spend more time with her family.

She is still scheduled to speakat this week's convention.

Pat.

- Well, her husband, by the way,

has been leading some kind of an effort,

I don't know whether

it's a campaign organizationopposing President Trump.

So here she is a senioradvisor in the White House

with her husband sending blogs out

about how he hates the president.

- I don't know that this is accurate,

but I've heard that he's leaving his post

for the same reason she is,to have time with family.

I mean, can you imaginebeing politically involved

in this day and age?

- I think that family stuff, everybody,

well I'm gonna spend time with the family.

That's about five minutesout of the next 20 hours.

No way, no how.

But anyhow, those things happen.

- Still ahead, the NFL is top punter,

The Saints' Thomas Morstead,

talks about the silverlining behind COVID-19.

Plus, why was he once a doubting Thomas?

Find out coming up.

But first, everywhere it's been tried

it's failed for 2,000 years and counting.

So why is there a growing trend

to turn America into a socialist state?

Historian Williams Federerrecounts the real history

of socialism after this.

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- Free healthcare, free education,

guaranteed jobs, and zero poverty.

Man, it sounds good.

That's what socialism promises to deliver.

A growing number of peopleare believing the lie.

The reality.

Everywhere it's been tried,

socialism has failed formore than 2,000 years.

Take a look.

- [Man] The idea of asociety where the wealth

is shared by all goes allthe way back to 380 BC

and the Greek philosopher Plato.

And for more than 2,000 years,

everywhere socialism hasbeen tried it has failed.

An often forgotten example from history is

the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony.

The settlement was initially built

on a socialist model basedon the writings of Plato.

The colonies bylaws said,"All such persons as are

of this colony are to havetheir meat, drink, apparel

and all provision out ofye common stock and goods."

A few years later,

the colony was on the brink of starvation

and Governor William Bradford

declared the communalexperiment a complete failure.

Only after Bradford assigned

a private parcel to each family

did the colony begin to thrive,

to the point of being able to share food

with Native Americans.

In a new book,

"Socialism: The Real Historyfrom Plato to the Present,"

historian William Federer recounts this

and many other examples of how socialism

has failed time after time and why,

despite its dismal track record,

many still want to turnAmerica into a socialist state.

- Oh, I read this book.

I thought, man, this is so good.

"Socialism: A Real Historyfrom Plato to Present"

is so excellent.

I thought that William Federer should come

and tell us more about it.

He joins us now and, Bill,

how many people don'trealize that socialism

and communism have a long history

all the way back to theGreek philosopher Plato?

Tell us about him.

- Well, Plato said thatthe chief characteristic

of democracy is tolerance.

Everybody tolerate each other.

It's wonderful.

Then they tolerate peoplethat are a little bit off

and then they tolerate people

that are a lot off till finallythey're tolerating crooks

and crime and broaddaylight looting of stores

and criminals are justwandering the streets.

And this insecurity causespeople to panic and say,

"Can't someone comealong and fix this mess?"

And then some mayor orgovernor says, "I can fix it.

I just need some emergency powers."

And they finally stand inthe chariot of state holding

the reins of power and they'rerevealed as the tyrant.

And this tyrant is the head of gold

and his party membersare the arms and chest

of silver and gold

and they are the ruling class

and the ruling classgets special treatment.

Everyone else is in the ruled class.

They're the abdomen of iron and bronze

and the ruled class own no property.

Their children are taken away

and raised by the state andindoctrinated with noble lies.

The state even decideswho gets to have children.

And this is socialism,

a structured society ruledby a deep state ruling class,

and then everyone elsewho has no property.

Now fast forward 2,000 years

and you have Columbus discovering America

and Sir Thomas Moorewrites "Island of Utopia,"

a fictitious islanddiscovered off the coast

of South America and on this island

it's a structured society with...

The word utopia, by the way, means nowhere

and the book is written as a dialogue

with someone named Highland Deus,

which means peddler of nonsense.

And so this Island of Utopia,

a structured society of aruling class and everyone else,

and they live in identicalthree-story houses,

they wear identical clothes,they eat in identical,

communal, like a monastery, their meals.

They own no property.

They have no privacy.

Their children are taken away

and the government chooses their careers

and everyone is tracked everywhere they go

and if you're caught without your papers,

it's a lifetime of slavery.

This is utopia.

This is socialism, the structuresociety of a ruling class

and a ruled class.

And then a century later,

Sir Francis Bacon writes a similar story

called "The New Atlantis."

It's an island in the South Pacific.

Somebody's washed up on itand it's a structured society,

a little more scientific

because of the scientific revolution.

And someone wrote a farce on it

called "Gulliver's Travels," right?

The guy's washed up on this island.

There's this ridiculous rulingclass and everybody else.

And why is this important?

Well, as it was said, thepilgrims had a company colony

with bylaws written by investors

that looked back toPlato, Sir Thomas Moore,

Sir Francis Bacon, and yes,everything was owned in common

and William Bradford said

that this was tried bywell-meaning people,

but it proved the emptinessof the theory of Plato,

that the owning of property in common

would somehow make men happy

as if they were wiser than God.

The young men objected to doing twice

as much work as the old guy,but they didn't get any more.

The old guy objected tobeing classed in labor

with the young men andconsidered it an indignity

and women objected to havingto wash other men's clothes.

And William Bradford said,

"After much discussion,

it was decided that every family

would get their own plot of land.

This made all hands more industrious.

The women now wentwillingly into the field

and took their little ones with them,"

where before they would allege weakness.

- Bill, I want to ask you about some

of these people that are written about it.

You had something about Machiavelli.

The whole idea is to keepthe people uninformed.

I mean, "1984" is another book about this.

Tell us about the lies thathave been told about this.

- Right, so in order for peopleto give up their freedoms,

they need to be in fear.

So Machiavelli lived500 years ago in Italy.

Italy was a bunch ofcity states that fought,

Naples, Vienna, so forth, and he thought,

well, if a prince conquers them,they would hate the prince.

But if the prince payscriminals to kill cows,

burn barns, smashed windows,the people will panic.

They'll cry out for help.

The prince will come in

and get rid of the very peoplehe paid to create the crisis.

No one will know the better for it

and everyone will praisethe prince as a hero.

So it's good marketing.

You create the need and fill it.

You go around the back ofthe house, set it on fire,

then you go around the front of the house

and sell them a fire extinguisher.

They'll pay anything for it

and even thank you for being there.

So it's called Machiavellianism,

where you create or capitalize on a crises

to consolidate control.

More recently it's worded,

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."

It's is an opportunity to pushyour big government agenda.

- Well Bill, I think yourbook is just tremendous

because, ladies and gentlemen,

it lays it out in great detail.

We're going to talk toMr. Federer tomorrow too

about what they're doing today.

The book is called

"Socialism: The Real Historyfrom Plato to the Present"

and it's availablewherever books are sold.

On tomorrow's "700 Club,"

Bill's going to talk aboutwhy so many young people

in America are captivatedby a socialist ideology

which never has worked anytime in history,

but it's being taught byMachiavelli type people to sell it

and they're lying to you and me.

Bill Federer, thanks for being with us.

Terry.

- Well, up next aSuperbowl champion shows us

the flip side of life in the NFL.

What it's been like for this punter

to shelter in place with his family.

The Saints' Thomas Morsteadtalks about football,

faith, and family in the ageof COVID-19 when we come back.

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- Ladies and gentlemen,we're here on "The 700 Club"

and we've got a very interestingguest coming up right now

and tell us about it.

- Well, we do, without question.

This is an NFL season like no other.

On September 13th, the NewOrleans Saints will face

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers inthe Superdome with no fans.

The Saints' Thomas Morstead is the NFL's

most accomplished punter.

Sports reporter Tom Buehringcaught up with the kicker

at his home where he'sbeen sheltered in place.

- [Tom] While the worldtackles a pandemic,

the NFL's most accomplishedpunter, Thomas Morstead,

kick-starts a reminder for families.

As both a Saint on the fieldand in his city of New Orleans,

the active communitycontributor speaks fittingly

from his home front aboutthe rare opportunity

we still share.

With the pandemic, it's breaking momentum.

It's a changing of the field,

potentially creating an opportunity,

as you do as a punter,

and it shifts the focus and the attention.

A lot of that for all of uscomes back here in our houses,

spending more time with families.

How has COVID-19 impacted your household?

- [Thomas] A silverlining during this time

is pretty insensitive.

I know there's going tobe a lot of people hurting

for a long of time moving forward.

Everybody, I feel like,is in a rat race of life

and you're on the hamster wheel.

You're always running from here to there.

And so for us not having anyagenda or schedule to keep

we've just been with ourselves

and it's been really nice.

20 years down the road

and I think I will regret

if I don't spend this time wisely.

Right now, it's a chanceto spend it with your kids.

Punting is a difficult thing to master,

but it's actually very simple in nature.

This football needs toline up with my wrist,

elbow, shoulder, hip, knee, and foot.

And it's all one line.

- You know, the expression punt

becomes almost a mechanism of quitting.

It's a yielding.

It's like I can't advance.

Coming from a punter, shouldwe look at a punt differently?

- I've always tried to view myself,

and hopefully the team has viewed me,

as a game changer at my position,

a player that can control the game,

stealing momentum from a team

that's just stolen your momentum.

There's nothing I can do about the fact

that it's fourth down otherthan do my best job possible.

It being fourth down andthe fact that we're here,

well, we're here.

So what are you going to do about it?

It's about having the right attitude

that every play could be the difference.

- How do the kids lookdifferent to you now

while being in this?

- Well, they've got longer hair.

(laughing)

We haven't had our corona haircut yet

and I can't force them to cut their hair

'cause dad's, you know,

dad's not a great example in that area.

So, you know, I thinkit's the simple things

that I used to hear my mom say.

The whites of their eyes,just how they look at you,

the freshness that they come in with,

the restfulness that's needed,

the amount of time and attention

that they're getting one-on-onehas been really important.

I've noticed a positive changein behavior of my children.

I have to think that part of that's

just how much time we'veall spent together.

Because I think you can sayyour kids need X, Y, or Z.

They just need you more than anything.

- [Tom] We talk about bringingbaggage in from our past.

How are you mindful tohelp steer them to a place

of resolution at a youngerage of some of those issues?

- I'm very aware of it.

And so I think it's cool to show them

now when they're listening the most,

and they're asking somany questions to say,

"Hey, daddy was scared.

Daddy was scared in the Super Bowl.

You know, I was afraidof a negative result.

And I dealt with these thoughts."

We all have vulnerabilities

and everybody's going through something.

Failure's just if you stop, right?

So you just got to keep on chipping away.

Some things you can get over in a day.

Some things take years.

Punting in the street can be a bad idea.

What do you think about that, Maxwell?

- Bad.

- Bad, that's right.

- Your book, "The Middle SchoolRules of Thomas Morstead,"

it addresses childhood vulnerability.

I'm looking at the quoted reads.

Putting yourself outthere to be vulnerable

is a sign of strength, not a weakness.

What is on the other side

when you get past that vulnerability?

- I think strength, confidence.

A lot of people that dospecial things in their lives,

that may have been theirstumbling block early.

I think when we tell our kids, though,

this obstacle is goingto make you stronger,

this thing that you'regoing through, the struggle,

it's going to build you.

I want my kids to be as challenged

as they grow up as possible

because we're going to be there for them.

I think the book is so good for parents

to read with their children.

My parents, the impactthat those two have had

on my life and the entiresurrounding family,

that support system, hasnever been in question.

It's never been eroded at all.

Your foundation, What You Give Will Grow,

inspires others in the giving spirit,

especially here in New Orleans.

What do you find to bemost underappreciated

about giving of oneself to others?

- What you give will growand what you keep you lose.

Some people think about itin terms of their own life.

You know, we have a life

and you can't take what you have with you.

I tend to think of it from a standpoint

of many of the things thatare worth investing in,

I look at the longterm piece to it.

That's why children are so wonderful

because they're truly themost eternal investment

you can ever make.

And I've just found that the more

that you pour into, whetherit's things that you do,

or the people that you're around,

the benefits come around like tenfold.

- [Tom] How does yourcompanionship with Jesus Christ

help navigate you?

- It's pretty evident rightnow that everything's unstable.

I grew up being doubting Thomas.

I knew about doubting Thomas

and that was always a thing for me.

And I think that's oneof the reasons I feel

so sure of myself.

No matter where I've been in life,

I think that fromfoundation and stability,

it's always there.

- The book is called

"The Middle School Rulesof Thomas Morstead"

and it's available where books are sold.

You know, I wondersometimes if dads understand

how much kids look to themfor those words of wisdom

so that they can moveforward with confidence.

- Exactly.

I mean, you know, that'sthe only model a child has

is his father or a mother.

And so if they do a particular thing

the child will begin to do the same thing.

They'll talk like his parent,

and they'll begin to act like the parent.

They'll have the same idioms

and the same attitudes about life.

- I love his attitude about the fact

that in the midst of even difficulty,

there's always something to be gleaned,

something to help usbecome more, become better.

That's a good word.

Well, still ahead, she was a Berkeley grad

and she founded the campuschapter of the ACLU.

So what on earth broughther to Regent University?

And how did she wind upworking in the White House?

Stay tuned to find out.

Plus, informative, entertaining,

and always unpredictable,

Pat's honest answers toyour email questions.

Sherry asks,

"What are your thoughts onconcealed carry in churches?"

Guess what Pat has tosay on that later on.

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- And welcome back to "The 700 Club"

for this "CBN Newsbreak."

Postmaster General Louis Dejoy testifies

before the House Oversight Committee today

over claims the WhiteHouse is trying to sabotage

e the 2020 election by instituting reforms

that slow down mail service.

Republicans called thecharges against Dejoy

a conspiracy theory.

Saturday, the House approved

a bill rolling back cost cutting measures

and sending $25 billion in extra funds

to help the Post Office.

The Senate is not expectedto take up the bill.

In communities throughout Indonesia,

Orphans Promise School of Life projects

are supporting educationfor children from poor

and disadvantaged families.

The country is not allowinglarge group gatherings

at this time, so students come in groups

of six or seven to receivetutoring during the week.

Despite the challenges of COVID-19,

Orphan's Promise remainscommitted to giving children

around the world everyopportunity to succeed

through its educational programs,

strong family initiatives,nutritional assistance,

and discipleship curriculum.

To learn more about thework of Orphan's Promise,

please visit orphanspromise.org.

Pat and Terry are back with more

of today's "700 Club"coming up right after this.

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- Hi, this is Pat Robertson

with an excerpt from my new book,

"I Have Walked With The Living God."

I hope it will be a blessingto you as you walk with God.

One night out in the country,

I was eating leftovers from my dinner

and there was a knock on my kitchen door.

I found a couple of teenagers

and they were part of awonderful group of young people

who had turned our garageinto a place of prayer

and worship that they calleda, quote, coffeehouse.

These youngsters said, "Dr. Robertson,

we believe a young girl inour group is demon possessed.

Would you come out andcast the demon out?"

Well, when I arrived, Ifound the young girl lying

on the grass between ourhouse and the horse barn.

"What's the matter?" I asked her.

"I can't stand being withthose people when they pray,"

she said, "I feel something in my stomach.

And I hear a voice saying,'Get out of here quickly.'"

I knew this was not a normal reaction

and this was indeed somekind of demonic possession.

Well, I told them twofellows who had come with me,

"Take hold of her hands.

I want to pray with her."

As I started to pray, shescreamed at the top of her voice,

"Let me go."

I then rebuked the demon.

I said, "Satan, I commandyou in Jesus' name,

come out of her."

Then out of that littlegirl's mouth came these words,

"You can't have her.

She's mine.

We've won.

We've won."

Suddenly. I remembered the words of Jesus,

"This kind going out by prayer,"

and so I earnestly prayed and said,

"Lord, please get this thing out of her."

And at that moment,the demonic spirit left

that little girl and sherelaxed and opened her eyes.

We held her up and she wentback to the prayer meeting,

restored and in her right mind.

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That's a little excerpt from my book.

The little kid, little 17 year old,

out of her mouth said,"You can't have her.

She's mine. We've won."

Little child talking like that.

Demonic.

It's in my book.

"I Walk With The Living God."

That is one of the thingswe have encountered.

I have encountered demonic possession

and I don't focus onall that kind of stuff,

but nevertheless, God'sgiven us an anointing.

So that's in the book.

Isn't that interesting?

- It is fascinating.

You've had more experiences

than most of us can ever hope to have.

(laughing)

- It goes on and on and on and on.

"I Have Walked With The Living God,"

but that's one of theexamples in that book.

There's so many like that.

In the early days of CBN,

the early days of Regent University,

to see what God can do.

Well during her freshman year at Berkeley,

Farnaz Thompson helpedstart a student chapter

of the American CivilLiberties Union, the ACLU.

The following year, a fellowstudent asked to pray for her.

What happened next?

A fascinating journey that took Farnaz

all the way from SanFrancisco to the White House.

- God is the God of justiceand when I'm pursuing justice,

I feel like I'm pursuing something

that's very close to His heart.

- [Reporter] FarnazThompson is a White House

appointed attorney workingfor the federal government

in Washington, D C.

- I had different options for law school,

but Regent University wonover all those options.

I think Regent really does a great deal

to prepare us for realworld practice of law.

- [Reporter] But therewas a time when Regent

would have been last on her list.

As an undergrad at UCBerkeley in California,

Farnaz helped found acampus chapter of the ACLU.

She had no use for God,but that would change.

- I had a friend who was instudent government with me

and she would always ask to pray for me.

I thought it was odd,but I also knew her heart

and that she cared about me.

Every time she did, Ifelt a sense of peace.

- [Reporter] So one evening Farnaz agreed

to go to church with herfriend to find out more.

- When I was at the Friday night service,

that was the moment where itbecame crystal clear to me

that Jesus Christ is who He says He is

and He is my Savior.

And it became clear to methat the sense of peace

wasn't just a sense of peacethat came out of nowhere.

It was a sense of peace that He promises.

- [Reporter] She broke ties with the ACLU

and moved forward with amuch different perspective

and began her pursuit of a future in law.

- I just gave that desire toGod when I became a Christian,

to become an attorney.

I really had to pray

and make sure that all of my beliefs align

with the Word of God.

And through that process,I came to know other people

who were in the legal professionand who are very godly.

- [Reporter] One of those peoplewas her small group leader,

an attorney who recommended

that Farnaz check out Regent University.

- Well, I had not heard ofRegent until the recommendation.

And I went and did my research online

as well as learned about "The 700 Club"

and the roots of CBN andI was really impressed.

I also was really impressedby the caliber of the faculty

at Regent University School of Law.

And when I visited, Iwas even more impressed

by the amount of time the faculty

took to actually talk toyou, to get to know you,

to determine what your goals were,

and to help you achieve them.

- [Reporter] But it was a phonecall from a Regent professor

that made the difference.

- He said that they were praying for me

and they felt very stronglythat I should be at Regent.

And I don't normally makedecisions spur of the moment,

but I decided that Regentis where I should be.

So I decided to move toVirginia Beach, Virginia

and start a new adventure.

- [Reporter] Farnaz stepped out in faith

and moved across the country by herself

to attend Regent Law.

- It was difficult the first year,

because I think any law school

that first year it'sthe most difficult year,

but what made Regent University different

is that they provideda community of support.

There was competition,

but at the same timeyou knew everyone wanted

what was best for you andeveryone was willing to help you,

including the students.

- [Reporter] Farnaz graduated cum laude

and went on to build an impressive resume

that includes a clerkship atthe Supreme Court of Virginia,

a job at the VirginiaAttorney General's office,

and now as a presidential appointee,

serving as an attorney in the office

of general counsel at theDepartment of Education.

- I'm not sure why God called me to law,

but I feel closest to Godwhen I am practicing law.

I needed to be at a university

where I received a reallygreat foundation in the law

and also a place where my spiritual walk

could be challengedand where I could grow.

If you were considering RegentUniversity School of Law,

you will receive a fine legal education,

but you will also receive the opportunity

to grow closer to God

and to really understand whatit means to be an advocate.

- What an amazing story.

From the ACLU to theTrump justice department.

Regent Law, by the way,has been rated top five

in the nation in teaching quality,

rated top seven in the nationby the Princeton Review

among the best law schools.

95% of Regent Law graduates were employed

within 10 months of graduation

and 20th in the nationof ultimate bar passage.

Listen, it's a great law school

and we've done a Supreme Court Justice

who's a faculty member, adjunct faculty.

We've got three circuit courtjudges, adjunct faculty.

One of the best, the Dean of the school

was a former chief judge ofNorth Carolina Supreme Court.

It's a fabulous school.

It really is.

It's just, in my opinion,I went to Yale law school,

but this is one of thebest in the country,

far away ahead of some of the others.

And if you are interested,here's the number.

It's 866-910-7615.

Regent EDU.

910-7615.

Regent Law.

What a marvelous place toget your legal education

at the same time, know you're serving God.

What a great testimony.

Okay.

Let's go.

- Well, still a head hailpounding on the windows,

popping sounds like gunfire.

A twister rips through a town

terrorizing a mother and daughter.

The help they never saw coming is up next.

And then your questionsand Pat's honest answers.

Michelle wants to know,"Are you still a Christian

if you have to go on government programs?

Does it hurt your witness to others?"

Stay tuned for Pat's answer after this.

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Hail pounding the windows,

popping sounds like gunfire,and absolute, utter darkness.

That's what left Nicole Ellis

and her daughter paralyzed with fear

as they huddled togetherin their basement.

A string of deadly tornadoes was ripping

through their neighborhood andall they could do was pray.

- [Reporter] Nicole Ellis is a single mom

who shares a special bondwith her daughter Shiloh.

- She's the best friend I've ever had.

It's like watching myself grow up.

- [Reporter] Nicole and Shiloh live

just outside Dayton, Ohio.

They've seen many storms,

but one night as Nicoletucked her daughter into bed

something felt different.

- I heard the hail hitting the window.

Right when I went to look,I heard just a crack.

- The power went out.

- I told her if it's timeto get in the basement

and we all ran straightdown to the basement.

- And then it hit.

- [Reporter] Moments later,one of the many tornadoes

that broke out around Dayton tore

through Nicole's neighborhood.

- You could hear the transformers popping.

It almost sounded like gunshots,

just pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

- It was really scary.

It's kind of like a movie.

It's a lot to take in.

- [Nicole] But you reallydidn't know how bad it

was until we walkedoutside after it was over.

- [Reporter] Destruction was everywhere.

Nicole tries to staystrong for her daughter,

but it isn't easy.

- Yesterday, I was having a meltdown.

I was talking to her about it.

I was trying to explain it.

And then she said,

"No matter what, every day you'll have me

and I love you to the moon and back."

I'm so proud of her.

- [Reporter] The love Nicoleand her daughter share

will get them through this,

but they still had a yardfilled with downed trees.

- I've never in my 45 yearsbeen through anything like this.

- [Reporter] That's whenvolunteers from Operation Blessing

showed up in their neighborhood.

- They're just here to help

and it's been an absolute blessing.

- I'm so thankful for you guys.

You guys are picking up trees.

You're picking up all thedebris and I'm so happy.

- It made me tingle inside

because you're just a groupof people here to help.

And I've just feltnothing but joy all day.

I think everybody who has ever donated

to Operation Blessing,

anything that you can domakes the biggest impact

in so many people's lives.

It's ginormous and I'm so thankful.

- People who are here to help.

You know, that's not just thepeople with Operation Blessing

who are out working.

That's you if you're a "700 Club" member.

You are a person who is willing to help.

And we want to say thank you.

Your kindness and yourgenerosity make it possible

for us to do all ofthese things here at home

in the United States,but also around the world

in places of need.

If you're not a "700 Club" member,

this is a great day to join.

You know, there's so muchgoing on in our country

and in the world and you make it possible

for us to make a difference.

Will you join with us ifyou haven't done that?

65 cents a day, $20 a monthmakes you a "700 Club" member.

So it's so simple to join.

You just call our toll free number.

It's 1-800-700-7000.

That's easy to remember.

Just say, "I want to join "The 700 Club."

When you do, we want to say thank you

for caring about othersby sending you this DVD,

"Do You Need A Miracle?"

We all do, don't we?

But this is full of encouraging stories

of people whose liveshave been touched by God

now in the present.

And we want you to hearwhat they have to say.

This is Dorothy wholives in Mesa, Arizona.

She's already watched this DVD.

She says the people who testified

in "Do You Need A Miracle?"

ministered to me and touched my heart,

giving me so much hope.

I want to share this blessingwith my friends and family.

And we want to share it with you.

So call and join "The 700 Club"

and we'll get, "Do You Need A Miracle?"

out to you right away.

We're going to be rightback with your questions

and Pat's honest answers after this.

Stay with us.

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Well, it's time for your questions.

And you know, Pat's gotsome honest answers.

So Pat, this first onecomes from Sherry who says,

"What are your thoughts onconcealed carry in churches?

I know of at least two churches in my area

where the pastor

and many of the congregantspack guns inside the church."

- I believe that pastorsshouldn't be gun toting cowboys.

You know, they're supposedto be spiritual leaders.

But here's the deal,

these crazy people who wantto kill people with weapons

will look for the most defenseless victim

and if they think that the people

that they're coming up against are armed,

then they will leave you alone.

So concealed carry means that you can have

a weapon on your person.

And in case somebody comes up, you know,

we had a case exactlyas the a shooter began

to shoot congregants and anoff duty policeman killed him

in the service and sparedthe life of many people.

So the idea of concealed carry, you know,

it's not like the old western,

you go into the bar andyou got to check your guns

at the door.

I mean, you know,

I think that it isn't theworst thing in the world.

But as far as pastors having weapons,

I don't think that's too cool.

I just wouldn't advise that at all.

All right?

- This is Michelle who says,

"I have two questionsabout Christians who,

even when they tried to work,be responsible, et cetera,

have to go on government programs

like Social SecurityDisability, Social Security,

food stamps, et cetera.

My first question is,are you still a Christian

if you have to go on government programs?

Second, if you are on government programs,

does that hurt your witnessto others as a Christian?"

- Oh, I don't think it hurts your witness.

You know, the truth is you're paying taxes

and not only are you paying taxes,

you're paying Social Security,

you're paying all this other stuff,

and theoretically you're getting back some

of the money you yourself have given.

And I don't see anything wrong

with taking Social Security.

It's set up for you.

Food stamps.

But I do think that, sooner or later,

people feel much better ifthey're going back working.

And the last thing we want to do

is to develop a dependencyon government programs.

I think we need to depend on the Lord,

but I don't think it hurts your witness

the fact that you're getting back a piece

of what you've been paying for.

- This is Elaine who says,

"Please explain grace and justification."

- Well, I haven't got the time

to get into lengthy descriptionof all these things,

but the whole idea of graceis God's unmerited favor

and justification isGod's forgiveness of sin.

And they're there in the Greek.

There's similaritiesbetween being justified,

being sanctified, being glorified.

And when we come to the Lord,

the idea is our sins are forgiven

because of the blood of Jesus Christ

and the laws that were against us

have been washed awaybecause of what He did.

And so that is the wholeidea of justification.

I am treated as if I have not sinned.

And sanctification, as Iam made holy by the blood

of Jesus Christ as I grow in His grace.

So grace is, quote, unmerited favor.

You didn't deserve it andyou don't work to get it.

All right.

- This is Nancy who says,

"Could you clarify the Father,Son, and Holy Spirit for me?

When God sent His Son Jesus to earth,

I've been told that this wasreally God in human flesh.

If so, then why didJesus look up to the sky

and ask God, 'Father, whyhave you forsaken Me?'

Are they separate beings?"

- I've written a book thathadn't been published yet

on the Holy Spirit that Ithink clarifies all this,

but we believe in a Trinity.

We believe that there's aGod who's a separate being.

We believe that there's aSon who's a separate being.

And we believe as the HolySpirit who's a separate being.

And each has His ownfunction in the Trinity

and the creative mind is God the Father.

The Son is the agent that brings

that to humanity or to the world.

And the Holy Spirit is the active force

that makes these things happen.

But we do believe in a Trinity.

So Jesus was saying,

"Father into Your handsI commit My spirit."

So the Son is returningin a sense to the Father,

but He's part of the Trinity.

Alright.

- This is Darryl who says,

"If tithing is a principlewe're supposed to follow today,

why is the only support fortithing from the Mosaic Law?

Why is there no NewTestament command to tithe?"

- Well, the New Testamentis not a command to tithe.

It's a command that everythingwe have belongs to the Lord.

Whatever you do in word or deed,

and to do all of the glory of God.

You know, I'm a bond slave of Jesus.

Everything I have belongs to Him

and He lets us use a part of it.

A tithe is sort of a legalobligation that is put on people.

But we're not under the Old Testament law

of you have to give a tithe,

but there's a tense.

But if you look at someof the giving standards,

is there three tithes.

There are a number oftithes that were given,

but a tithe there's a 10th.

And you remember Jacob saidto God, he was pretty good.

He said, "You take me backto where I've come from

and you look after meand I'll give you 10%

when it's all over."

Well, I mean, big deal.

What a generous thing.- Thank you, Jacob.

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- He knew how to deal withpeople, but it's a standard,

but we give out of our hearts

but everything I have belongs to the Lord.

It's not a question of 10%.

It's all.

It's everything.

Well today's PowerMinute is from Psalm 46.

"God is our refuge and strength,

a very present help in trouble."

Tomorrow more stunning revelation

on the rise of socialism in our country

and why the young peopleare falling for it.

William Federer will talk more about that.

You don't want to miss it.

So for Terry and all ofus, this is Pat Robertson.

See you tomorrow.

Bye bye.

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