Russell Brand talks about his country, the UK falling apart, a crisis of identity that's deepening even in the festive period, the US marching to war, the peculiar and indulgent wedding of Jeff Bezos and what that tells us about elitism and the stratification of society.
00:04:40.000Thanks for joining me today for stay three with Russell Brand.
00:04:43.000We're going to be talking about a variety of things like my country the UK falling apart, a crisis of identity that's deepening even in the festive summer period.
00:04:53.000We'll also be talking about my country the UK marching to war, the peculiar and indulgent wedding of Jeff Bezos and what that tells us about elitism and the stratification of society.
00:05:06.000Michelle Obama's comments that women's procreational power is almost irrelevant amidst the power and beauty of creativity of women.
00:05:14.000Let me know in the comments and chat what you think about that.
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00:06:41.000That crisis is presenting itself throughout systems of government and systems of media.
00:06:45.000The UK has just announced that it might reintroduce conscription and that the British people should be ready for a kind of war without ever saying who the war is even against.
00:06:55.000What do you think about that, locals community, Lily Farm Girl, Mrs. CMS, all of the people that are joining us on a variety of media?
00:07:01.000We're streaming around the world right now.
00:07:03.000Thank God the world has radically changed and we can stay in touch with one another in spite of the best efforts of the establishments that control us and curtail us.
00:07:11.000Look, for example, during the time that we've been online, during the time that I've left Hollywood and legacy media in order to communicate with you directly, look at the kind of changes that are taking place.
00:07:26.000Now, 27th of July 2025, vaccine heart risk, COVID vaccines, heart risk warning update issued by FDA.
00:07:35.000The very same media that was marching you merrily towards myocarditis now has to acknowledge that fact to you.
00:07:46.000We might be on the precipice of near-peer war.
00:07:50.000Who knows if China and the United States of America will have to duke it out?
00:07:54.000There's evidently and apparently a kind of proxy war taking place right now between Russia and the United States of America that continues to increase and might yet devour the islands of the United Kingdom.
00:08:09.000But technology is emerging that may make the Chinese edge to the fore.
00:08:46.000I love being on the redneck Riviera knowing that the population here are ready to unbolt from institutions of corruption at a moment's notice and use the technology available to us not to spy on one another or surveil one another or to inject one another with controversial medicines.
00:09:03.000No, but to run communities parallel and adjacent to one another, trading only where necessary.
00:09:08.000Man, have you seen some of the interviews we've done?
00:09:10.000Did you see the interview of Eric Prince?
00:09:12.000Have a look at some of the stuff that's up on Rumble.
00:09:18.000I don't even know if the UK is going to be able to handle my trial that's scheduled for next June because it's going to be conscripting its own population.
00:09:25.000It's marching you all into war right now.
00:09:29.000The only thing about Florida, the only downside is there's a lot of pests.
00:09:35.000Oh no, there's a lot of pests and irritants that will come for you.
00:09:39.000And maybe, maybe, at least some of them could be Chinese drones.
00:09:44.000Hey, let's have a look at the entertainment value that's still available to you at a Trump press conference.
00:09:50.000Loads of you will have seen this up on X, but I want you to contrast it to the dreary and tedious tone of Keir Starmer, who wants your sons and daughters marching into a war against an opponent that he's not even really willing to name.
00:10:59.000Tommy Robinson might be coming on the show soon.
00:11:02.000He's been talking about a revival in the UK.
00:11:05.000My prayer is that the Christian folk of the UK can rise up against their corrupt government, can embrace multiculturalism, and we can have a new identity in the UK where it is possible to have a nation with an identity that's not homogenous, that there are different cultural groups, but we understand what the nation is for and what it's about.
00:11:25.000Let me know if you are in the UK right now and how you feel about that possibility.
00:11:29.000And let me know if you were at Glastonbury.
00:11:31.000We're going to be talking about the death to the IDF chance, Isaac.
00:12:32.000Now, I know people, I think, that know Jeff Bezos, and I'm sure he's an affable, lovely human being, forever penetrating the heavens with cockrockets, nearly at will, it seems.
00:12:45.000Didn't his wife go up into a pod with my former spouse, Katy Perry?
00:12:50.000Yeah, the comments were saying, can you believe that you married an astronaut?
00:12:54.000Did you know that was going to be something you were going to ever say?
00:12:57.000No, because I was meant to be the one who went to space.
00:12:59.000She bought me a ticket of space, did Katy Perry.
00:13:03.000I think it was pretty expensive, actually.
00:13:20.000Nevertheless, Jeff Bezos has gotten married.
00:13:23.000In Venice, what I'd like you to consider is the Medicis and the Borgias and the former warring principalities of Italy, a time where a rising bourgeois merchant class came to dominate the globe.
00:13:36.000Out of Rome came these glorious Italian principalities.
00:13:41.000Then there was Florence, there was Venice.
00:13:43.000And Venice is the scene, it seems, of Jeff Bezos' wedding.
00:13:47.000And have a look at the tone of this news reporting and tell me what it's inviting you to think.
00:13:52.000What do you think about these kind of class structures, these elite structures where a billionaire or plutocratic class are held before you as something to celebrate and glory in?
00:14:02.000Because this is a time where people are asking interesting questions about economics.
00:14:06.000Mendami, the new potential next mayor of New York, is avowedly, if not socialist, he's asking some interesting questions.
00:14:16.000We're going to be talking about Mendami a little bit later.
00:15:46.000Just hours earlier, before changing into her wedding gown, Sanchez stepping into her own boat, a chic headscarf protecting her hair.
00:15:56.000For a moment, imagine that we could become unified.
00:16:00.000That me, a follower of Christ Jesus, dear Isaac there, a lover of the Old Testament, and you, whether you are a Muslim or an atheist or a secularist or a materialist or a Zoroastrian, or whether you don't believe in nothing at all, we could be unified, we could be free, we can run our own communities together, or we could continue to look at this peculiarly atavistic, that means throwback, a kind of historical weird throwback.
00:16:26.000Why are we watching this where she looks somewhat Jackie-O?
00:16:30.000Why are we watching Jeff Bezos emerging from a gazebo, taking the cultural placebo while they step onto a Venetian boat celebrating?
00:16:41.000Wait, do you see the celebrities they attended?
00:16:43.000All them celebrities, by the way, that are always turning up on the internet to tell you about your carbon footprint, to tell you about your belief system, to tell you what you should be doing now.
00:21:09.000Now, I'm not suggesting any, I know that I went to them Diddy parties, not the ones with baby lube and sort of crazy stuff that was going on.
00:21:31.000Ahab in the captured in the thralls of Jezebel.
00:21:35.000Breaking down the legacy of David and Solomon.
00:21:39.000Breaking down the tribes, breaking down Israel, turning again to the false altars.
00:21:43.000Do you think we're any different from those people?
00:21:46.000Do you not think that we too make engraven images that we worship and treat like their gods?
00:21:52.000And Amazon and Apple and Facebook and these new icons and these new idols, these new ceramic tiles placed over the potential infinite cyberspace through which we could be connecting to one another in faith.
00:22:05.000Do you believe there might be something even more radical than what's being offered by Mamdani?
00:22:11.000You know, like whether you like Zoran Mamdani, we'll be talking about it a little later.
00:22:14.000Maybe you think he's a bit socialist and a little bit crazy, a little bit too Muslim, whatever you think about him.
00:22:20.000There are a lot of people, enough people for him to win that primary, the Democrat primary, to be the candidate for the Democrats who presumably will win because the Democrats generally win in New York.
00:22:49.000It's like we were made for a relationship.
00:22:51.000It's like we were made to depend on something.
00:22:53.000And the culture, with its setting up of false idols, with Michelle Obama telling you that a woman has so much more to offer than just childbirth.
00:23:01.000And of course, you know, I've got daughters.
00:23:52.000Well, I pray that they look, they've got a child together, and I pray for that child, and I pray for both of them that they find a way to resolve it.
00:24:45.000I have to go back for my trial, but I've also got to go back there because we've got to go back there and sort that country out because the UK's in serious trouble.
00:24:52.000And maybe conscription wouldn't be a bad idea in the UK if we had a UK to believe in.
00:25:15.000Benale, the city's old naval shipyard still controlled by the military, and it is incredibly hard to get to for the public, for the paparazzi, and most importantly, for the protesters.
00:25:26.000Well, Gruesome Newsome to clean it up.
00:25:29.000They should have sent Gavin Newsome in there to clean up the whole area, get the water purified, take some good pictures.
00:25:39.000When you see a ceremony like a wedding, a wedding is a sacred event.
00:25:42.000We, before our friends, our community, but most of all before God, declare that when marriage gets tough, and it will get tough, that we're going to look inside ourselves and go, no, I'm here to serve.
00:25:54.000And I'm going to be married to this woman like I'm married to Christ, like Christ married us.
00:26:00.000I'm going to overcome these difficulties and I'm going to be of service and I'm going to stop thinking about myself and what I want all the time and think about how I can be of use.
00:26:07.000Now, when you see that event taking place in Venice, it makes me think, I don't know about you guys, that the world ain't changed so much that we're easily distracted by ceremony and spectacle.
00:26:17.000And maybe Jeff Bezos didn't ask to be on the news, but he did ask Usher and Gail King and Obama and Orlando Bloom and that to come to his wedding.
00:26:27.000They're human beings just like me and you too.
00:26:29.000But this is what comes to my mind as a person who's participated in a celebrity wedding, actually, and who's been to big galas and big events.
00:26:38.000That ain't where you're going to find the glory.
00:26:40.000But in you now, right now, literally right now, as you're watching this stream on Rumble or X or YouTube or wherever you're watching it, within you, there is something they can never emulate, even as they create tiny, tiny drones and vast surveillance systems.
00:26:54.000There is something in you that you're participating in, that there is a grace within you.
00:26:59.000That if you enter in a faith into that aspect of yourself, amidst the stillness, beneath all the voices, there is a participant in there with you.
00:27:45.000The answer is not to worship at the false idols of culturally appointed oligarchs and billionaires that foster consuming, that require us to endlessly consume for their model to work.
00:27:59.000Turn within ourselves, turn away, repent, turn away from this world that has to be overcome, that has been overcome by him.
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00:30:53.000A trial in which my glorious innocent, the innocence that's been granted to me by the glory of the Lord, the innocence of these charges, certainly assured.
00:31:01.000But man, in the midst of this, while Diddy's on trial, while I'm awaiting trial, we are a team that puts Diddy in our commercials, man.
00:31:13.000That is what it's like to be innocent, to walk in faith, wearing the yoke of the Lord, to reject this world, this world of sin, to turn in glory towards him.
00:31:47.000Because a lot of the folks that was at the old Bezos wedding are kind of, you know, like people that tell you, you know, don't use a fucking too much carbon up and stuff.
00:31:58.000Listen, I guess that's kind of a curious hypocrisy, but it's a hypocritical system.
00:32:37.000I saw some clips of Italy, like the Italians just not very happy about it.
00:32:41.000I mean, there's all kinds of stuff that's always going to follow all these news stories that make you just want to keep talking about it.
00:32:47.000Well, I suppose it's because, on some level, we don't want to be caught up in mad, oligarchical, tyrannical systems worshiping billionaires.
00:33:40.000And it still affects the way a lot of male lawmakers, a lot of male politicians, a lot of male religious leaders think about the issue of choice as if it's just about the fetus, the baby.
00:33:57.000But women's reproductive health is about our life.
00:34:03.000It's about this whole complicated reproductive system that does the least of what it does is produce life.
00:34:11.000It's a very important thing that it does.
00:34:14.000But you only produce life if the machine that's producing it, if you want to whittle us down to a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way.
00:34:27.000But there is no discussion or apparent connection between the two.
00:34:33.000Whoa, I don't want to whittle no one down to a machine.
00:34:38.000Did you not know that your body is a temple, that you are housing the Holy Spirit, that life travels through us?
00:34:43.000That were you to watch this from the perspective of God, the ever-present God within us, that you would just see a concerto, a symphony moving through time.
00:34:52.000Temporarily, we are here materially, passing on our genes, passing on the ever-flowing Holy Spirit, the living water flowing through us.
00:35:01.000I don't think that a woman is a machine or a man is a machine.
00:35:04.000I think that we are a temple, that we are occupied by holy grace.
00:35:09.000And that it's not that the woman is not important and the fetus is important.
00:35:13.000It's that all of us are only important in so much as we are endowed with divinity.
00:35:17.000If you deny divinity, if you deny the divine touch of holy grace, that if you feel like you can do what you want with God's creation, then I suppose nothing is divine.
00:35:30.000Then you can just sort of cast aside matter whenever you wanna.
00:35:34.000It's just interesting when these interviews happen because people are trying to toe a line, like say the correct things while they're talking.
00:35:44.000So it's like, but then correcting themselves because they can't even accurately stay on the line.
00:35:49.000So it's like, you know, the fetus, the baby.
00:36:04.000Again, you can't even accurately toe the line that they're creating.
00:36:08.000You know, I was reading about Paul and Peter's first meeting.
00:36:12.000Paul, after his Damascene revelation, where he meets Christ after three years of reflection, I gather, at least that seems to be what's suggested in the book, Galatians, meets Peter, as we learn in the book of Acts.
00:36:26.000And the two of them have a chat about whether or not Gentiles, like non-Jews, can receive the Holy Spirit.
00:37:13.000That there is a kind of economy in reality, that debts need to be paid, that sacrifices must be made, that there is some invisible economy that we are participating in.
00:37:28.000You are a potential recipient of that grace.
00:37:30.000We are all potential recipients of that grace.
00:37:33.000Why would we engage in just legalism and law?
00:37:38.000Christ died that we can be forgiven, that we are forgiven.
00:37:43.000And that if we could, in our old laws, in our old ways, whether that is a Judaic law or whether it is the kind of law of who you used to be, if you could solve it yourself, if you could solve it without him, there would have been no reason for him to come and die for us.
00:38:29.000Have you stayed in Nicholas Cage's house in Glastonbury for a glorious six-month period and seen the ashes of his uncle there and learned about Nicholas Cage's background and his connections to Coppola, for the Coppola family?
00:38:47.000Have you looked at the Thor on the hill there?
00:38:50.000Have you heard the myths that Joseph of Ameraphia maybe went there?
00:38:55.000That maybe the Holy Grail is there in Glastonbury?
00:40:08.000Meanwhile, at a secular festival, Glastonbury, people are chanting or the punked up Bob Villain chants deaf to the Israel Defence Forces.
00:40:18.000That's because there's a lot of division about British support of Israel, whether that's military or economic or even just transactional support through the arms industry.
00:43:20.000She's a touted potential leader of the Democrat Party.
00:43:23.000And she can't disseminate correctly without equivocation and prevarication what a woman is, what a position on abortion is, what the reproductive system of a female is for.
00:43:35.000One might imagine that it's for reproducing.
00:43:38.000Now in Britain, you've seen Kierstama flannelling and panicking about the identity of a woman.
00:43:46.000A woman is whoever says they bloody well are.
00:43:52.000Now, now, Kierstama is saying that there will be conscription, that Britain must be ready for war, that there will be emergency announcements on your phone.
00:44:00.000Now, Glastonbury, some would say it's a spectacle and a festival and a chance for celebration of the summertime.
00:44:08.000Well, even that now has become the scene of great division.
00:44:44.000Heard you on your country back Shit me too!
00:44:48.000Heard you on your country back Heard you on your country back Shit!
00:44:54.000Shut the fuck up, heard you on your country back Uh uh, you can't have that The only place I know Smoling right under my nose My ignorant scum Trying to lay claim to a land that ain't theirs anyway Wait, what did you say?
00:45:12.000Shut the fuck up Heard you on your country back Uh uh, you can't have that Heard you on your country back Ha!
00:45:21.000Shut the fuck up Heard you on your country back Well shit, me too Heard you on your country back Heard you on your country back Shut the fuck up Heard you on your country back Heard you on your country back Can't have that Heard you on your country back Heard you on your country back Shut the fuck up Heard you on your country back Fuck you Can't not have that Stop!
00:45:54.000If you've ever performed in front of large crowds, if you've ever found yourself emerge from, well, listen, I've got a very particular perspective on this.
00:46:06.000And when I was first famous, I was still kind of carrying the freight, weight, trauma and scars of my previous life as a crack and heroin addict, as a member of a very particular social group in the UK.
00:46:18.000If you're a heroin addict and a crack addict, you exist outside the mainstream.
00:46:36.000That's the first time I've heard his name.
00:46:38.000But what I recognise as someone who's been at Glastonbury, who's performed at Glastonbury, is that feeling of scintillation and excitement that sometimes happens in front of a crowd.
00:46:48.000Now, the issue of Palestine and Israel is a complex regional dispute.
00:46:54.000You can take pretty clear moral positions based on Mosaic, ironically, law when it comes to death and murder and territory, protection of children, protection of women.
00:47:07.000We can all find a pretty simple route through those ideas.
00:47:10.000But you can see that in that cultural context, Palestine has a particular value and meaning.
00:47:16.000I think it means anti-establishment, I think is what it means there.
00:47:20.000Because I don't imagine that the crowd there or the artists there are examining the complex religious, political, economic, resource-based history of Israel or the Balfour Treaty or the involvement of the Rothschilds or the Israel that emerges out of the Old Testament and the modern interpretation of Israel and the various political allegiances and parties that exist within Israel and within Palestine and the relationship between Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:47:53.000I think what we're kind of experiencing is a culture that's separate in a part as the technology becomes available for decentralization en masse.
00:48:02.000There's no reason actually to have centralized national government for anything other than perhaps distribution of certain resources and national defense.
00:48:12.000Outside of that, we can have community democracy, syndicalism.
00:48:17.000We can have communities that are run according to some pretty tight tribal ideas.
00:48:22.000That's what I think is trying to emerge here.
00:48:24.000The rush for centralization through bureaucracies like the EU and NATO and old nation states that are backed up by commercial and corporate interests are starting to quake and shake.
00:48:36.000The first wave was the collapse of economic entities that we saw through NAPSTA.
00:48:41.000Then we saw the emergence of Occupy and then we saw the emergence of Donald Trump and nationalism is one of the ideas that can hold.
00:48:48.000We can understand the idea of being patriotic in the UK, can we?
00:48:52.000But what is it now to be a UK patriot?
00:48:55.000Does it mean that you're pro-Palestine or does it mean that you're pro-Israel?
00:48:58.000Or is it actually nothing to do with either of those ideas?
00:49:04.000Isn't your daily life about you and your family and your relationship with God and your relationship with your neighbors?
00:49:10.000How are you going to hold in your head an accurate understanding of what's happening in the Middle East?
00:49:17.000On both sides of that argument, there are reasonable people.
00:49:20.000There are brilliant journalists, academics, religious and political leaders making difficult and complex arguments about, well, of course, it's never right to kill a child.
00:49:29.000And then there's people saying, well, war is always uncovered.
00:49:31.000Do you think that Britain's colonization of India or America's occupation or wars in Southeast Asia were moral and ethical?
00:49:41.000Or the way that America itself was established by European colonisers?
00:49:45.000You and me are not going to work it out.
00:49:48.000And they ain't going to work it out in Glastonbury.
00:49:50.000What will happen is different people will exploit that event at Glastonbury for their own political ends.
00:49:59.000But the simple truth is that people in the Middle East are going to have to come up with some regional solutions to their problems.
00:50:06.000People in Russia and UK, Ukraine are going to have to come up with regional solutions to their problems.
00:50:11.000And I would suggest that we have maximal power in our own lives and our own communities, minimal taxation, minimal military intervention, minimal government intervention, minimal media manipulation.
00:50:23.000And then if there's a community over here that want to live like the reproductive system is not primarily about reproduction or gender identity can be determined by the individuals or that you're a devout Muslim or a devout Christian or a devout Jew or a devout atheist or you want to be hedonistic and get up and hit the pipes first thing in the morning and spend your whole day in decadent wonder, then do that.
00:50:47.000We're not going to get one centralized ideology.
00:50:50.000The best shot we have is to surrender to God in ourselves.
00:50:53.000At least then we might have simple principles like kindness, do as you would, do unto others as you would have done unto yourself.
00:51:02.000Maybe those kind of principles are something we can return to.
00:51:05.000The sort of chaos of that, man, when I watched that, I didn't think, oh there, this is the answer.
00:51:36.000What people are experiencing now is a catastrophe and crisis and the breaking down of our value systems.
00:51:43.000You can't conscript in a country like that.
00:51:46.000You can have conscription in Israel, actually, because Israel knows what its identity is.
00:51:51.000It's a country surrounded by opponents.
00:51:53.000You can have conscription on the Gaza Strip because they know what their identity is.
00:51:59.000You can probably Have conscription in a variety of countries and communities around the world, but in the UK, a country that don't know who it is or where it's going or what it believes in or what a woman is or whether it's Christian or not Christian, you can't have conscription there.
00:52:35.000Why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat?
00:52:39.000Let me know whether you think Glastonbury should be political, apolitical, or if apolitical is even a category that exists.
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00:58:13.000Now, listen, when I was just watching those events at Glastonbury and there was the moment where everyone started chanting deaf to the IDF, a lot of political issues in the Middle East can't be reduced to a chant.
00:58:25.000Like, you know, because to the river, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:58:31.000rhymes, that's a rhyme is not a good political policy.
00:58:37.000Now, my personal belief is there has to be peace in that region and the people of Palestine should have self-governance and freedom and shouldn't be killed.
00:58:57.000We're going to do a documentary about Paul because I think, like, let's face it, after our Lord and his apostles, the first person that took this gig, the message of Christ Jesus, into the world and into the region was Paul, who had previously been pretty devout to the persecution and even execution of Christians.
00:59:22.000An equivalent of that, I suppose, is to be deeply secularist.
00:59:26.000We don't live in a world at the moment that's governed by sort of religious principles and ideals as we would contemporarily understand them.
00:59:34.000We live in a materialistic, rationalistic age.
00:59:37.000And I contest that materialism and rationalism lead to selfishness, the most powerful things in your life, your own urges, your own desires, your own thoughts.
00:59:45.000I lived like that for a long, long time.
00:59:47.000I still live like that some of the time.
00:59:50.000This is a brilliant passage from the book of Acts that is, in this interpretation of the Bible, this is headed as the right Ephesians.
00:59:59.000Obviously, one of the chapters subsequently is Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
01:00:03.000He writes to the Galatians, the Thessalonians, the Corinthians, the Colosseans.
01:00:19.000Why I like this is because, like, Paul is preaching in Ephesians, and it kicks right off.
01:00:26.000Because when he's telling them to stop worshipping false idols, and a false idol these days, maybe it would be technology, or maybe it would be icons and idols of the culture.
01:00:35.000When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the spirit.
01:00:39.000When he had passed through Macedonia and Acacia, or Achaia, to Jerusalem, saying, After I've been there, I must also see Rome.
01:00:47.000So he sent into Macedonia two of those who had ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.
01:00:55.000At about that time, there arose a great commotion about the way, which is what Christianity was called then, which I found really interesting as someone who's well into the New Age and Eastern mysticism.
01:01:05.000And, like, I think about the Tao, the path that appears as you walk it.
01:01:09.000Like, if Christ's truths are indeed true, as I believe and have faith in, these truths present themselves throughout culture, throughout the world and throughout history.
01:01:20.000The idea that a path appears as you walk it, as you think it, as you speak it, if you surrender yourself to him.
01:01:26.000So it was called the way then, amazingly.
01:01:28.000For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Diana, bought no small profit to craftsmen.
01:01:37.000He called them together with the workers of similar occupation and said, Men, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.
01:01:58.000You know, like, you know, yeah, of course there would be, you know, I can't speak for 25 seconds without becoming a hypocrite because I'm a fallen, broken man.
01:02:08.000I'm just doing my best to be a good husband to my wife, a good father to my children, good mate, good co-worker with the people I work with.
01:02:21.000So this is our man, Demetrius, and said, listen, you know that we have our prosperity by this trade.
01:02:27.000Moreover, you see in here that not only Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people saying that they are not gods which are made with hands.
01:02:37.000How can something be a god if you made it with your own hands or if you made it with your own thoughts?
01:02:50.000Unless, of course, you find God in it.
01:02:52.000Unless you find grace when you fish or when you hunt or when you make things, when you devote yourself to God, then the divine will be present in it.
01:03:00.000So not only is this trade of ours in danger of falling into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Diana may be despised in her magnificence.
01:03:12.000destroyed whom all Asia and the world worship.
01:03:15.000Now, when they heard this, they were full of wrath and cried out saying, great is Diana of the Ephesians.
01:03:20.000So the whole city was filled with confusion and rushed into the theater with one accord, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's travel companions.
01:03:31.000And when Paul wanted to go into the people, the disciples would not allow him.
01:03:35.000Paul wants to go in there and chat to him.
01:04:21.000Some therefore cried one thing and they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward.
01:04:27.000And Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted to make his defense to the people.
01:04:31.000But when they found out that he was a Jew, all with one voice cried.
01:04:34.000cried out for about two hours great is diana of the ephesians and when the city clerk had quieted the crowd he said men of ephesius what man is there who does not know that this city of the ephesians is temple guardian of the great goddess diana and of the image which fell down from zeus therefore since these things cannot be denied you ought to be quiet and do nothing rashly for you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess Therefore,
01:05:00.000if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a case against anyone, the courts are open and there are pro-consuls.
01:05:07.000Let them bring charges against one another.
01:05:09.000But if you have any other inquiry to make, it shall be determined into the lawful assembly, for we are in danger of being called in question for today's uproar, there being no reason which we may give to account for this disorderly gathering.
01:05:21.000And when he'd said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
01:05:24.000Thankfully, that dude, a bureaucrat, managed to bring about a little bit of calm, a little bit of reason.
01:05:32.000And maybe there has to, if we can have reason derived from spiritual principles, that would be reason indeed, man.