THERE IS A DEVIL LOOSE! JOSEPH GERDVIL, 41, SON OF RONALD GERDVIL, 77, AND ANTOINETTE GERDVIL, 79, DECAPITATES AND MURDERS HIS OWN PARENTS IN COLD BLOOD AND THEN HE DECAPITATED THE FAMILY DOG
Dramatic footage shows the moment a California man accused of decapitating his parents and their dog started singing ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ while covered in blood on the ground – before being shot by police.
Joseph Gerdvil, 41, belted out the hit as he lay bleeding out after Orange County Sheriff deputies shot him several times in the torso outside San Juan Mobile Estates on July 9.
The disturbing interaction came moments after the cops discovered the headless bodies of his parents – Ronald Gerdvil, 77, and Antoinette Gerdvil, 79, along with their mutilated dog inside their mobile home.
Grisly footage shows cops intercepting Gerdvil in the middle of a road as he charged toward them on foot while babbling incoherently and holding an unidentified object.
An officer shouted at him several times to get on the ground, but Gerdvil didn’t listen.
The first three bullets had little effect on Gerdvil, who continued appraching them.
The fourth floored him – he dropped to the ground with blood pouring from his abdomen.
Cops shouted at Gerdvil to roll onto his stomach. Finally, he obeyed. Moments later, Orange County Sheriff deputies rushed over to render aid.
Gerdvil continued muttering, saying: ‘I love you. I’m sorry you’re going to have to die.
Then, he made a sad plea.
‘Just finish me off,’ the 41-year-old muttered moments later. ‘Put one in my head, please. I beg of you.’
As cops rushed to cover his wounds, Gerdvil started belting out love songs.
‘What’s love got to do with it, got to do with it? What’s love but a second-hand emotion?’ he sang from the 1984 Tina Turner hit, before starting a Stevie Wonder song.
‘I just called to say I love you,’ he sang from the track of the same name, also from 1984.
Cops intercepted Gerdvil after he allegedly attacked a maintenance worker following the murders of his parents, and he threw a heavy shovel at cops moments before the bodycam footage begins, police said.
The shovel can be seen lying on the ground nearby.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department said he was taken to the hospital and stabilized.
He has been charged with homicide over the deaths of his parents.
A motive for the brutal decapitations remains unclear.
But neighbor David Desmond said he saw Joseph fighting with his father the day before.
He described to Fox 11 how the younger Gerdvil was ‘in his face’ and ‘looked angry’ while confronting his father on Monday.
Another neighbor, Bob Demario, also claimed Joseph ‘had a drug issue.’
‘That’s why he lived there and they kept him there,’ Demario claimed.
Online, Joseph made a number of unhinged posts about Jehova’s Witnesses and posted dissonance music on YouTube – including one on Monday entitled Shots Fired and another named Pope on a Rope, with a picture of the pope being hanged.
Others described the family as friendly and quiet.
‘The lady that lived there walked her dog all of the time in the neighborhood,’ Tammy Pavese said. ‘Everybody knew who he was.’
Victoria Alford also said Antoinette and Ronald were a ‘very sweet couple.
‘And at that age to tragically be murdered by your own son is just tragic, period,’ she said.
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THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III
This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.
“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.
Not “Trying” But “Trusting”
“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!
What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!
May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!
One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.
If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
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