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Confession And Reward? · Outcast

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  All right, God bless you. For all those that have been
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  listening, thank you. For those that are new, thank
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  you very much. Share, subscribe, all that stuff
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  before we start. We always pray.
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  So I'll lead us and pray. All right.
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  All right, Lord, thank you for allowing us to be here, Guide us
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  and lead us into the absolute truth for whatever it is that
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  You want us to speak about. May we learn something for the
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  moments that we learn things. It is an honor and a blessing.
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  And then I know it's only to get closer to you.
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  So guide us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  All right, so today we have someone here, young kid.
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  Absolutely. And he's actually here before he
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  goes off to college and he's gonna go play D1 soccer.
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  Pretty cool. So introduce yourself.
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  Oh, yeah. So my name is Jacob Marquez.
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  I'm 18 years old. I've grown up with these two
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  unfortunately, but. Why unfortunate?
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  Unfortunate. Damn bro, I think he's going to
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  say fortunate. Yeah, fortunate.
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  Yeah, not favour. I've learned a lot growing up
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  next to these guys. But but yeah, like you said, I'm
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  about to leave to College in less than a week, start a new
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  journey. It's going to be interesting.
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  But I just I just finished high school.
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  And isn't that isn't that crazy? Yeah, yeah.
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  Wow, he's just finishing school. Isn't that crazy, yo?
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  I feel like, I feel like I was in Nora's arc.
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  No, it's a whole day. No, no.
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  I mean seeing, for example, my brother is what, the same age as
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  you? Pretty much, right.
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  Yeah. So it's funny because when I was
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  that age, I thought I was grown and then people my age would see
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  me as little kid. And then now I'm this age and I
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  see you and I, I see you as a little kid.
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  So. And I guess it's always going to
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  be like that, always going to be like that.
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  Like what? Like, for example, our parents,
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  we could be like 50-60 years old and they can be like really old
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  8090. They'll still see us as a little
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  kid. Yeah, no matter what.
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  Yeah, so that is true. Yeah, it's crazy.
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  And retrospect, yes I am older than him so he is a kid right
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  Comparison to me You are technically.
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  Also, I'm like what 1312? I think so.
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  I'm 35, you're, yeah, 34. So 11 years.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. 11 years. So a decade.
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  Yes, Yeah, it is a decade. That is a decade, yeah.
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  So yeah, man, but I've always said wisdom does not come with
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  age. I agree.
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  OK, I totally agree. Knowledge comes with age, of
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  course. Does experience Exactly.
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  I've seen an older person sees more than a younger person, yes.
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  But wisdom does not come with age.
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  No, it doesn't. You know what people on earth,
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  people that have no relationship with God, they say some things
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  that are like interesting that you can learn from.
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  Of course you can. You can learn from people in the
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  world too, absolutely. But this wisdom that we we
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  acquire, it's different comes from God.
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  It's something where you cannot, it cannot be taught by man, but
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  it comes from God directly so. But I'm sorry to interrupt you,
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  you're saying like so. He's going to college.
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  Yeah. How's that for you?
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  How's that feel? It's a weird feeling, honestly.
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  Everybody always talks about it like when they're in that stage,
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  they're like, oh, like you don't really know how to feel.
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  And I always thought like, it's just going to be like I'm
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  leaving, so whatever. But like, it's a really weird
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  feeling because I'm, I'm like saying goodbye to so many things
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  at the same time, like like club soccer, I've been playing my
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  whole life, like my friends that I've grown up with my whole life
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  and living in the same house. But I'm also like really excited
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  to say like introduce myself to a lot of different things, like
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  playing college soccer, you know, like taking college
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  courses and all these things. So it's like a really
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  bittersweet feeling. Yeah, but for you it's going to
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  be different because you're not just going to college to party
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  like others would. Yeah, like the you you're you're
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  going to college, but you're you're also in a team.
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  You're playing for a soccer team if you want soccer team.
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  So you're still essentially you're still working.
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  Oh yeah, you're not like, oh, I'm good classes, you know, I'm
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  sure in the weekend you have your time of like of de stress,
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  but you're still going to be playing, you're still going to
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  be training. You're still going to be
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  essentially just working. Yeah, for sure.
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  It's it's a lot more pressure too, because it's like before
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  even like if you're a freshman year, if you don't play, you
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  could just red shirt. And so that meant like you can
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  extend a year like if you don't play red shirt.
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  So then you still have four more years of eligibility, but now
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  they made it so that it's like a clock.
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  So like the psyche, you turn 18, you have five years to play as
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  much as you can. So it's like now you have more
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  pressure to actually play your freshman year because if you
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  don't then you're just wasting your on that clock.
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  Really. Yeah.
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  So what? Like, so this is just a little
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  bit so everybody knows. Whoever's listening, they get to
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  know you. By the way, he is a family
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  member of mine. Yes.
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  He's my cousin. You know, it's funny.
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  We brought my cousins here. We have yet to bring.
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  No, we have yet to bring your cousin.
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  We bring him. Oh my God, dude, we got to.
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  Be. Ready all of.
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  Them we bring all of them. Just be ready.
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  Yeah, just be. Ready.
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  I would love to have Andrew. Oh, I want to get his, his, his
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  retrospect of animals. Very smart kid.
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  Yeah, yeah, nice smart kid. So yeah.
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  Yeah. So you're, so how does that
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  work? I mean, are you going to start
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  playing with the team, yes, right away or is that?
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  So I leave on Tuesday, we start like captain's practice for one
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  week and then that's then after that week the coaches get
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  involved. We start training.
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  You train 2 * 2 * a day. So you train before the sun
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  rises and then you train after the sunsets and then usually you
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  have a run in between like depending on the day and lifts
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  as well and then. You're while having classes.
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  Yeah, while having classes and then you're also on a, on a
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  nutrition plan, obviously. They put you on a nutrition
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  plan. And do they supply the nutrition
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  stuff? Yeah, so like not every school
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  has. It so you expected to to even
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  lose more weight. Yeah, you just got to stay at a
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  certain amount of body fat. I think it's like.
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  There's a, there's a. Oh, OK, yeah.
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  Like depends on your height and they test yourself.
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  Yeah yeah. Oh wow.
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  Test your VO2. Max.
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  What? That's crazy.
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  They have some super condition to that point.
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  That's what I mean, yeah. I mean, because schools they
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  make money off of like, athletes, right?
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  Yeah. So they got to keep them in top
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  shape. Yeah.
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  So. That's crazy.
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  They. Test our VO2 Max, our body fat.
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  Yeah. But yeah, like not every school
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  has it, but like, luckily it's a big blessing.
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  My school has like an athlete only dining hall, so it's like
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  all organic food. Like what?
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  Like you got there, you got whatever you want cook like you
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  pull up for breakfast you can ask for like an omelette.
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  You want an. Omelette, but it'll be clean.
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  Yeah, it's clean. Organic like, only for athletes.
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  Like the normal dining hall, you don't really get stuff.
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  Cooked like straight up whole food bro.
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  Bro, So like the only reason we have that is because we have, we
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  have a big football team and like that's like the biggest
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  thing here in the US. So like if you have a big
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  football. Team like American football,
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  Yeah. Yeah, like a football team, you
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  got a big, like a big pot of money to use.
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  So we get athlete only they. Gotta use it, yeah.
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  What is it like a tax write off? Type no?
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  Or is it just in? College College essentially is a
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  nonprofit. Okay, so they like donors, they
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  just get. Money bro.
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  Really. From who?
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  Donors, people like. For example, let's say, let's
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  say I, I become an alumni from ODU, like I'm going to Old
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  Dominion University by the way, but like let's say I graduate
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  from there and then and then I'm, I'm studying finance.
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  So if I find a good job in finance, they're making a lot of
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  money. You can donate.
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  I want to donate technically for.
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  My tax finals, but if I just. Want to donate to donate because
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  like, obviously I like after you're spending four years
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  there, you're going to have a strong passion for the program.
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  I'm going to get money back. But anybody can donate too.
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  Anybody can donate, but like, football is massive.
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  So like all the football donors, they donate like, like I'm
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  talking like they have like $60 million budget.
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  No way. That's.
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  Ridiculous. So if if an athlete makes
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  history in school, it's like huge.
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  It's a big deal, yeah. It's AD one school, so that's a
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  big deal. Yeah, yeah.
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  Wow. We play in like a really, we
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  play in like the second most competitive conference.
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  Wow. In soccer or or or also
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  football? In soccer, football is it?
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  Football is like different. Football has like different
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  conferences, but in football it's like the SEC, which is a
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  Southern Eastern Conference, and then we play in the Sunbelt
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  Conference, which is like US, Kentucky, South Carolina,
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  Coastal Carolina, University of Central Florida, University of
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  Southern. Florida.
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  Wow, that is really West Virginia.
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  Yeah, seems like it's going to be an eventful.
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  Wow. Four years.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're pretty much, you're
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  going to a school that many kids, many high schoolers would,
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  would dream of. Yeah.
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  So well. That's tricky, because dreaming
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  is just dreaming. What what I mean is.
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  Because what if someone does, you know the reps is what you
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  want to call. It.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put in the work.
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  Yeah, Inevitably. Are you gonna you're gonna gland
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  someone? No, absolutely.
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  I mean, I'm, I'm speaking for like, let's say no, you're
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  right, you're right. The reps do.
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  The ones dreaming are the ones who never did anything.
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  He's never. Yeah, you're right.
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  You're. Right.
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  Oh, I see. But what about those that get
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  injured too? You know, like the ones that get
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  injured. It's never meant to be.
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  Just gotta suck it up. That's how I see it.
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  I mean, I played soccer and I broke my knee playing it.
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  Yeah, I never played again. Yeah, I have another cousin of
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  ours. Weldon, his name is.
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  Well, he broke his knee playing, so he's still playing.
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  He's crazy. Yeah, he's doing that.
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  But he destroyed his knee. Really.
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  So he's mad for life. Shattered.
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  Straight up shattered. Damn, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. So you know, like, so that's
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  that's the thing we didn't know, but we would play like if it was
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  our last game, right. You know what?
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  I. Mean no, I mean, yeah, I get it.
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  I get it when you're obsessed with a sport like that or you.
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  Or is it just? I mean, I'm not trying to be
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  like, like, I just say if if someone gets hurt like that
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  Canadian, for example, that Canadian player that you saw his
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  leg dangle, Oh yeah. What does that look like for
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  him? Can he play soccer again?
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  I I think he could have just it's like.
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  I mean, you saw it really. Like the skin was the one
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  keeping it together. He would have to invest a lot of
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  money. Into it, right, I had a my best
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  friend from school, He's actually also very Christian.
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  But my best friend's from school in 7th grade, like we were,
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  we've always been at like the set like the same level, but he
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  lived in like the town where we went to high school and I
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  didn't. So the high school coach is a
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  gym teacher at their middle school.
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  So he knew him, and he would invite him to practice with the
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  high school kid. And one time he was practicing
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  with the high school kids, four or five years older, and they
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  went in. They didn't want him there.
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  So they went in on a hard tackle.
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  They snapped his ankle, and the bone was hanging out of his
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  thing like that to cut his cleats off.
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  No way. And yeah, now he's committed to
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  play soccer just like me. His name's Tim.
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  Wow, he like snapped his ankle. Yeah, his ankle, like he broke
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  his foot. His ankle was like popping out.
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  It was really bad. Dang, he's still playing?
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  Yeah, and he's playing and he's like just as.
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  Good As I tore my IC O, my other cousin shattered his head.
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  He doesn't even exist. It's metal.
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  It's just metal. It's.
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  Just metal, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  So. It really just depends on a lot
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  of it is just like a mentality thing, like if you want to get
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  back, you find a way to get back.
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  Like it might take a long time, but like for example, that
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  Canadian guy, he might not play. Like he used to, but he can
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  still. Play like he used to and he
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  might not play for a year, 2 years.
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  He might take a year and a half to recover, come back and then
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  get hurt the first game again and then then.
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  What I guess is if you love the game, it's certainly all you got
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  to keep going then, right? Yeah.
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  I mean, I liked it, but it wasn't like that for me.
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  Like. Right, right, right.
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  You know, yeah, but I guess if you love.
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  It now what about you? What about you with music like
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  we got when when you had cancer and got took that away from you?
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  Like singing. I Can't Sing anymore.
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  Like did that. No, I didn't.
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  Did. You did you want to get back
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  into it or not? I mean, I was going to vocal
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  therapy, they would literally put these things in and shock
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  my, my vocal, my vocal cord nerves.
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  Yeah, that like they would shock them because it's just they
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  were, I don't know, weak. And I mean each session was
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  $250. Really.
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  The first three sessions is the insurance covered it, but yeah,
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  yeah, I wasn't going to continue paying 250.
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  It's like it's not even worth it.
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  I'm not going to become a Grammy winning.
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  We're like to at least to my to realistically, right, right.
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  But I can still speak. The doctor said, hey, listen, we
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  did our best so that you can speak all this.
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  That's for me, because with the voice I can speak about God's
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  Word. Yeah, that's plenty.
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  There you go. That's it, you know.
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  I can sing, but it it still hurts.
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  Yeah, it tightens. Uh huh.
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  Because dude, they cut my whole neck.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember. I can still play Sox, that's not
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  a problem. I can still play piano all yeah,
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  I just Can't Sing. Yeah, Remember that picture we
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  were watching? It was like a while back but he
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  lost his voice and in the middle of preaching.
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  Yeah, I don't know if you ever saw that, that video, but he
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  lost his voice. Like he lost it.
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  Like, not that he lost it. It was.
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  It was just like Riggy. Yeah, like Thor, like he had a
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  throat cancer. He just never spoke.
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  He would speak like. Yeah, yeah.
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  Like that's how he would preach. In the middle of his preaching,
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  right then and there, in real time, God heals his voice and he
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  starts to speak and he starts crying and he just yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, I just, yeah, you showed me that.
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  Yeah, dude, that was crazy. No, I remember bro crazy.
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  Anything is possible for God. It is.
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  It is what God determines if it's in his will or not.
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  Or not that is true what he speaks.
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  Yeah, bro. Sometimes it's hard for us to
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  accept that. It is.
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  It's tough. It is tough.
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  We. We live in a in a culture where
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  like anything is possible, your dreams and goals and everything.
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  From the very beginning, elementary school, they tell us
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  what do you want to be when you grow up?
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  It's a sia. They're setting us up, which
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  it's good for society, for capitalism, and it sets us up to
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  do a lot of. Things it does, yeah.
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  But also simultaneously, if you then get to know God, that
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  starts to be a like a friction. Attention there is been doing
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  God, Yeah, because then perhaps maybe you're going to do things
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  thinking that you're doing them for God, but they could end up
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  just being for yourself. Yes, yeah.
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  And we spoke about this before. Like, like ambition.
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  I'm sorry. By the end of the day, when it
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  comes to ambition, you will turn your back.
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  Inevitably. Away from God, yeah.
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  At first it seems harmless. It seems awesome.
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  Yeah, it seems great. But you know, you're a young
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  kid, man, you. Yeah, you're.
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  Gonna learn these things as you go, but that's good man.
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  Not a lot of kids play AD one. No, no, not a lot of kids.
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  A lot of kids strive for it, but they never make it.
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  Or at least in my first, my first time in my family.
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  What is it I know? Your whole family is athletic
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  bro, I mean you. Know what?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Well, my parents, you know my parents, dude, I have no
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  complaints. I can't complain.
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  Yeah, they did their best to raise those.
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  I have no complaint. But, you know, they were a
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  little bit strict. They wouldn't let us play
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  soccer. My brother was very, very good.
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  He was a good striker, that was his position, but you know there
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  was no support but that's fine, what are you going to do?
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  Yeah, he's fine now. He's.
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  Fine. Yeah, he's fine.
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  Yeah. Yeah, he's fine.
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  But you know it's. But you know.
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  Some people hold resentment to that.
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  I guess so, but my brother's fine.
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  Yeah, she's. Like she's a sport or you.
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  Know, but yeah, everybody for the most part, yeah, I guess
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  given the chance and if they would have taken it seriously,
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  yeah, maybe. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'm not saying. Opportunities are not bad.
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  Also, too, in our family, it's it's everybody's competitive,
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  really. I don't know if you noticed that
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  that's a thing. Everybody's competitive.
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  It's an overture where there's nothing wrong with that.
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  Yeah, yeah. That can essentially backstab
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  you at some point. But everybody's competitive.
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  Yes, it's a thing. Yeah, yeah.
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  I don't know if that's a thing in your family, but that's a
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  thing here. My dad's side of the family,
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  yeah. Because I believe you're they're
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  Yeah, they're very ambitious. And they have businesses.
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  So yeah, that part, yeah, 100% so, but it seems like, wait,
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  what were you gonna say? No, nothing I was gonna say.
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  It seems like you have stuff written down.
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  And no, Yeah, so we were talking one time and you wanted to share
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  a message. And it's interesting to always
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  hear a message, especially from someone who's 1818.
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  Yeah. You're 18 now.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Huh, young buck? Young, straight up young buck,
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  Yeah. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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  So you're like. What did I let you?
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  Yeah, and you want, I, I just, this is to glorify God.
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  Of course. Kids his age, you know, they
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  just want to be, you know, partying and doing their own
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  thing. Yeah, that's power to you,
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  right? But it's always nice to see a
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  young buck. Yeah.
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  To, you know, surrender to Christ.
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  Yeah. To to surrender to him.
• 17:01
  Yeah, you know, I know, I know, I know Christian.
• 17:04
  I know social media has a huge influence on kids.
• 17:07
  I know. And it's kind of sad, but but,
• 17:11
  you know, there is this like, I guess you can say hope because
• 17:15
  like, OK, well, they're being led to they're being like, you
• 17:18
  know, they have their eyes on like the things of God.
• 17:20
  Sure, just don't let the, you know, social media influence.
• 17:24
  Yeah, because it can be trendy. I get it.
• 17:26
  Yeah, it can. It can because, you know, it
• 17:27
  looks beautiful. Things of God look manly.
• 17:30
  They look awesome. They look like, like, like a
• 17:33
  full of authority and power. Like, it looks awesome.
• 17:35
  But, you know, when I was in the gas station, there was this
• 17:39
  young kid and he filled up my gas and he was like, our man's
• 17:42
  our day. I was like, yeah, man.
• 17:43
  He's like, hey, man, Jesus Christ loves you, man.
• 17:44
  Have a good day. Just saying that to everybody.
• 17:47
  You don't see that. Yeah, you don't really see that
• 17:48
  nowadays. You really you only see a bunch
• 17:50
  of young bucks with curly hair and curly hair and.
• 17:55
  Yeah, everybody wants to have that curly hair.
• 17:57
  Yeah. I'm like, bro, what?
• 17:58
  And then also on top of that too, they'll have that essential
• 18:02
  sweatshirt for your God. So, but then, you know, their
• 18:05
  lifestyle completely contradicts whatever they were, you know?
• 18:09
  Work in progress. Exactly.
• 18:10
  So what I'm saying is like when I see kids like that are putting
• 18:13
  effort, I'm like, word cool. Yeah.
• 18:15
  Just be careful with being influenced, being influenced by
• 18:18
  the Holy Spirit and that's it. Yeah.
• 18:20
  So you have you have things. Yeah, yeah.
• 18:22
  So let's get right into it. So now that Jake Jacob has been
• 18:28
  introduced, what do we got? What?
• 18:30
  What? What are we gonna well as a
• 18:32
  young kid, as a 18 year old finishing high school, going to
• 18:36
  college, what have you come to realize that perhaps kids your
• 18:41
  age and and even for kids like kids like people like your age
• 18:46
  as well, Brian. I mean your age too, man.
• 18:49
  Yeah, there's some people that blows my mind.
• 18:51
  But I know, yeah, it's. What have you seen that seems
• 18:55
  like people are missing the mark?
• 18:58
  Yeah. So I think like you guys said,
• 19:00
  this obviously like anything in this sort of like subject
• 19:04
  applies to anyone, like of any age.
• 19:06
  It's just something that like I've noticed like like going
• 19:10
  through four years of high school, I've like, I've tried to
• 19:13
  put myself in, in every scenario, like you said, like
• 19:16
  I've put myself in those settings, like those parties and
• 19:19
  those things. And obviously I haven't indulged
• 19:21
  in, in the things that they partake in, but I wanted to put
• 19:24
  myself in those settings to see, you know, like, like what like
• 19:27
  just see from a different perspective, like what they see
• 19:29
  in it, you know, like what's calling them towards this, you
• 19:30
  know, because for everyone it's different.
• 19:32
  But I think something I've seen is like is like instant
• 19:36
  gratification. That's something that I wrote
• 19:38
  about. I think I said to you that like
• 19:40
  the doc, that's something that I was thinking about.
• 19:42
  This was like, this was a while ago.
• 19:43
  This was like in October of 2025 that we were talking about this.
• 19:46
  Oh, OK. But yeah, I just think like what
• 19:50
  I wrote down here was it like the youth and generation I'm
• 19:52
  living in expects to receive an instrument award in exchange for
• 19:56
  like a holy action. And I and I put holy action in
• 19:58
  in parentheses, obviously, because that's very subjective.
• 20:01
  But like to me like what I'm talking about is like.
• 20:04
  What does that? What does that look like?
• 20:05
  Yeah, yeah. So what that looks like to me is
• 20:07
  like, for example, someone will go out to a party, they'll start
• 20:12
  drinking. They're still doing all these
• 20:13
  things, you know, doing things. And and then they'll come,
• 20:18
  they'll go to church, for example, like the town I live
• 20:20
  in, and I think a lot of New Jersey, there's many Catholics.
• 20:24
  And so they obviously believe in confession, where you go to
• 20:26
  confession and then after that, like technically you're like
• 20:30
  sins are washed away after you confessed.
• 20:31
  It's like a reboot. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:33
  Like you just get yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:35
  Listen, I personally don't like agree with that, obviously, but
• 20:40
  they'll go, they go to confession and then as soon as
• 20:42
  they go to confession, they're feeling good, they're hyped up.
• 20:44
  They're like, I just confess, like I'm doing good.
• 20:47
  And then they'll walk around. They'll be like instead of
• 20:50
  saying they'll be like what the and then they won't say the
• 20:52
  word. They'll say like a different
• 20:53
  like Frick instead of like, you know, saying that's like a holy
• 20:55
  action. They're like God, like I didn't
• 20:57
  say a curse word like now why am I like like dude, it literally
• 21:01
  be something as dumb as like, Oh, I didn't say a curse word.
• 21:03
  Why my stuff in my toe God like why are you doing this to me?
• 21:06
  Or like why, why why is my friend moving away?
• 21:09
  Like I stopped saying bad words for you.
• 21:10
  Why is my friend moving away so they they want like that instant
• 21:12
  gratification of doing these like holy.
• 21:14
  Acts so they so so they they they think there should be a
• 21:17
  reciprocation. I do this.
• 21:21
  God should come through. Exactly.
• 21:23
  I think it's a huge like common misconception.
• 21:25
  There you go. I literally, literally took the
• 21:27
  words out of. Huge misconception that like,
• 21:29
  right That you're saved for your actions.
• 21:31
  You're not saved for your actions.
• 21:33
  I'm saying like, so I think that's a huge thing.
• 21:36
  They're like, oh, like, like I do this, this and this.
• 21:39
  Like I like to ask this question a lot to do on my edge because
• 21:42
  they get really uncomfortable when I ask them.
• 21:43
  I'm like, like, if you were to die today, would you be saved?
• 21:47
  And then most of the time the edge is like, yeah, like I'm
• 21:50
  nice to my mom, nice to my dad, like I'm nice to my friends.
• 21:52
  So there's a certain expectation, yeah, of just why
• 21:58
  should there be no reason for me to say that I do this, I do
• 22:00
  that. Well, I'm not a bad person.
• 22:01
  I do this and this and that. I understand what.
• 22:03
  You, yeah. And, and then there's some
• 22:05
  people who who I'll be like, all right, well, like, you know,
• 22:07
  you're not saved by your actions, though, right?
• 22:09
  You're saved if you believe that, you know, Jesus died on
• 22:10
  the cross. I'm saying you confess to your
• 22:12
  tongue, believe with your mind that you really died on the
• 22:15
  cross for our sins to save us. And then they'll be like, yeah,
• 22:18
  like I I get that. That's true.
• 22:20
  But like, do you really think God would save someone that that
• 22:22
  was a good person? I'll be like, what makes you a
• 22:25
  good person though? That's interesting.
• 22:27
  Right. What makes you a good?
• 22:28
  Person right, right. So so because your your
• 22:33
  generation, obviously social media helps a lot and
• 22:37
  Christianity is is seen now more the why do you serve God?
• 22:44
  Why do I serve God? Yeah, because that's that's a
• 22:48
  no. I I know it's such a simple
• 22:49
  question, but it's deep. Like I serve God because he just
• 22:54
  is in. Do you, do you serve him because
• 22:57
  you you have a certain expectation?
• 22:58
  No, I just know that he just is. So I'm just like.
• 23:02
  And I, I think people are afraid to kind of like, come to realize
• 23:06
  that like, you have to be OK with maybe he will reward you.
• 23:14
  Maybe he's not going to reward you.
• 23:16
  Yeah. Your duty is to surrender.
• 23:18
  Exactly. Is that what?
• 23:19
  You're doing that is what you're saying.
• 23:20
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's really what I was
• 23:21
  thinking about driving up here. Like.
• 23:23
  Like I was really driving up here and I was thinking like,
• 23:26
  like, why would it be that gratification?
• 23:28
  Like literally the only reason we're here, the only reason we
• 23:30
  have all these things is because of him.
• 23:33
  Like that's the little, that's the like, if you were to ask me
• 23:35
  that question, like, why do I serve God?
• 23:36
  That's my sole purpose, Because we're, we're imperfect.
• 23:40
  We're not meant to have this. And we have all these blessings,
• 23:42
  all these privileges only because he died on the cross for
• 23:45
  us. That's why I serve Christ.
• 23:46
  You know what I'm saying? So why is it that like you need
• 23:50
  gratification, you already have all these blessings.
• 23:52
  Why do you need more? Yeah, it's funny because when
• 23:56
  the apostles asked Christ, oh Christ, can you increase our
• 23:59
  faith? And then and then he was like,
• 24:02
  he was like, when you serve your master, do you like first down
• 24:07
  for do you first sit and eat? He's like Or do you go serve
• 24:10
  your master first? Dude, I'm sorry that I just
• 24:14
  remembered that that that story where he says you will you will
• 24:21
  make the food yes and you will give it to the king 1st.
• 24:25
  And then whatever's left over. Then the king will say, then now
• 24:27
  you can. Eat.
• 24:28
  Now you can eat. Here's what's left.
• 24:29
  Over the remaining response is and you will say crisis and you
• 24:34
  will say I'm an unworthy. Servant, Servant.
• 24:36
  I'm only doing what my master asked.
• 24:38
  So in that story, he's like, this is how you increase your
• 24:42
  faith. Yes.
• 24:44
  That's insane. Exactly.
• 24:46
  So it seems like a lot of those kids, like they just.
• 24:49
  They want to be served. They want to be served bad.
• 24:51
  Rather than to serve the master. Yeah, exactly.
• 24:54
  Because even at the end, God is going to give you what's
• 24:56
  leftover. He's like, all right, this is
• 24:58
  what's leftover. Yeah, here you go.
• 25:00
  But at the end, we say we are unworthy.
• 25:02
  We only do what our master tells us to do.
• 25:05
  See. But see when they think I don't
• 25:07
  know. The good thing about information
• 25:10
  is no one can lie to you anymore.
• 25:12
  The government can lie to you. You can go on Google.
• 25:14
  I mean, the access of information we have, it's
• 25:16
  ridiculous. You can go to AI, you get
• 25:18
  everything right. It's a good thing.
• 25:20
  Simultaneously, it's also a bad thing because you'll just eat up
• 25:24
  everything. You just take everything.
• 25:27
  Yeah, you'll take everything you will not.
• 25:28
  Take anything with a grain of sauce.
• 25:30
  So you know, you know why bro? It's almost like this whole,
• 25:35
  like the fact that we have everything to our access.
• 25:37
  It's almost like long-suffering, the fruit of long-suffering.
• 25:40
  It's almost like it's not really talked about much.
• 25:44
  So what you're saying is we become less patient?
• 25:46
  Yes, less patient because remember, the fruit of the
• 25:49
  Spirit that God gives is long-suffering to suffer.
• 25:53
  It's OK to not know and suffer. Yeah, and you know what?
• 25:56
  Since we have all this information AI, it's almost like
• 25:59
  that fruit is rottening everywhere.
• 26:00
  Yeah, because no one. Yeah, because we get the
• 26:02
  information too quick. Yeah, too quick when when the
• 26:05
  suffering is what sometimes teaches us rather than AI, for
• 26:09
  example, like you, you've gone through cancer and you know, you
• 26:14
  this other. People have gone through worse
• 26:15
  bro trust. Me.
• 26:16
  No, no, I know, like Job. I mean, Job didn't have AI.
• 26:20
  He learned through suffering. Yeah, he learned literally
• 26:22
  through suffering. At the end he's like, now my
• 26:24
  eyes see. Yes, I followed you by hearing.
• 26:27
  But not my eyes. See.
• 26:29
  Yeah. So suffering, long-suffering.
• 26:31
  It seems like it's based off what you're saying.
• 26:33
  It almost seems like it's like fading away.
• 26:36
  And they don't want to struggle. I mean by struggle, I mean they
• 26:39
  don't want to suffer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause look at
• 26:41
  here, look at here. I love this ever since I found
• 26:45
  this verse. Second Corinthians, chapter 4,
• 26:48
  seven. Look what Paul says to the
• 26:51
  people. But we have treasure in jars of
• 26:54
  clay to show the surpassing power belongs to God and not to
• 26:59
  us. Look what it says here.
• 27:03
  The surpassing power belongs to God and not us.
• 27:09
  We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed.
• 27:11
  There you go. So we are afflicted in every
• 27:13
  way. We're going to survive.
• 27:15
  We'll be crushed. We'll be fine, yeah.
• 27:17
  We're going to be afflicted in every type of way.
• 27:19
  Perplexed, but not driven to despair.
• 27:23
  So you know what perplex means? Overwhelmed.
• 27:25
  Overwhelmed. Yes, but you're going to be OK.
• 27:27
  Yes, that's. Long-suffering, persecuted but
• 27:31
  not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, always carrying
• 27:38
  in the body of death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may
• 27:43
  also be manifested in our bodies.
• 27:49
  Yeah, you're right. And then and that instant
• 27:50
  gratification, that is a huge, huge thing in our time.
• 27:56
  It is. Huge thing it is.
• 27:57
  It is. Especially for kids your age,
• 28:00
  Jacob, because everything is accessible so fast.
• 28:04
  It's almost like, it's almost like people are lusting on on,
• 28:07
  on knowledge. No, literally, I mean, that's
• 28:10
  literally how it is because like, not to get nerdy with it,
• 28:12
  but like I, I just took anatomy and we literally learned like
• 28:15
  the number one source of dopamine in our body is
• 28:18
  gratification. Like that was the word.
• 28:20
  That's like the scientific word. That makes.
• 28:22
  That makes. Sense and like not with AI like
• 28:26
  you like I promise in school, at least in high school, you don't
• 28:30
  see a single kid anymore like doing an assignment.
• 28:32
  Oh without AI I agree and it's like.
• 28:34
  Dude when I was in school. Teachers grade with AI now.
• 28:37
  Oh really? Literally it's, it's so
• 28:39
  inevitable that like in the rubrics, you're, you're allowed
• 28:42
  to use AI. Like before I was like, oh, no
• 28:44
  AI whatever, you're gonna get written up.
• 28:46
  Now it's like you can use AI for this and this.
• 28:48
  We would get penalized for using Google.
• 28:50
  That's what I'm saying. No, we were penalized for using
• 28:52
  Google and Wikipedia. I'm sorry bro, that's so.
• 28:55
  I'm telling you, they would. They would suspend us for that
• 28:58
  way. I kid.
• 28:59
  You so they wanted you to be booked.
• 29:00
  But you know what happened in real time?
• 29:02
  We saw that they inevitably had to accept it.
• 29:04
  Right. That Google search engine was
• 29:07
  the way to search. It wasn't Yahoo anymore.
• 29:10
  Yeah, no, I, I run this. We started this club being my
• 29:14
  friends, two of my friends, me, Tim and Jerry, we we started a
• 29:18
  club called life club so which stands for a living for
• 29:20
  eternity. And then I started clothing
• 29:22
  brand with that as well, but we started a live club and we, we
• 29:26
  have these meetings like twice a month.
• 29:27
  We try to do them bi weekly. And this is in high school,
• 29:30
  obviously, but we would have these meetings.
• 29:32
  And one time we had like a youth group leader like come in and
• 29:35
  speak and they were, they were like asking like things that you
• 29:39
  thought were OK, like as a Christian to do.
• 29:41
  And, and when the topic of like using AI on assignments and
• 29:44
  like, or like cheating on tests, like the kids visibly got like
• 29:48
  so uncomfortable, like they were so uneasy because they, they,
• 29:52
  they knew that it was wrong, but they didn't want to say yes
• 29:54
  because they all, everybody does it.
• 29:56
  So they were like, they were like visibly like they were just
• 29:59
  like getting on easy. Like they were moving in their
• 30:00
  seats. And then they were all saying
• 30:02
  like, yeah, like it is. And then so there's like was
• 30:05
  like, why you do it? And then just like, just because
• 30:08
  it's easy, it's like, it's the easier way out, simpler.
• 30:11
  It's. It right?
• 30:12
  No, it is, it is. You know what I mean 100%?
• 30:14
  Like when I. Oh I mean AI was was fresh, knew
• 30:18
  when I was in college still and when I found out about it, it
• 30:21
  was over. Dude, I I didn't, I didn't have
• 30:23
  it. I, I saw it come alive.
• 30:27
  Yeah, right after. Dude A.
• 30:28
  Little bit before the pandemic. Is Gen.
• 30:30
  I want my whole my whole this started like my junior year AI
• 30:33
  was like that's how you get everything done and like I never
• 30:36
  used it because I always wanted to like keep my own knowledge.
• 30:39
  And then when I started using it for the first time, like my
• 30:41
  senior year, dude, that stuff is ridiculous.
• 30:44
  I know, it's so easy. To fall into trouble for just
• 30:45
  letting it do it for you, because you can literally make
• 30:48
  it do it for you, and then once it does, you can ask it to make
• 30:50
  it more human, yeah. Yeah, yeah, there's and there's,
• 30:53
  there's several prompts in which you could use to to apply that.
• 30:58
  I honestly think that AI is good when it comes to like business
• 31:01
  stuff and marketing. Yeah, I agree.
• 31:03
  Because although it doesn't give you all the answers, because it
• 31:05
  doesn't, it does speed up the process for you.
• 31:08
  Yeah, there's a truth to that end.
• 31:11
  Whether people like it or not. This is where the world is
• 31:13
  heading. You know what I mean?
• 31:14
  It's not, it's not true AI, right?
• 31:17
  It's still programmable. It's still learning.
• 31:20
  It's not even sentient. It's not.
• 31:21
  That's not going to happen. We will not, we will not even be
• 31:24
  alive when it becomes artificial, mind you, being
• 31:28
  sentient. Right.
• 31:31
  So, so people need to relax. Like, yes, we can program it.
• 31:34
  Yes, the government can shut it down and we don't have AI
• 31:36
  anymore. That can happen.
• 31:39
  But the reality is that it does speed up the process for a lot.
• 31:45
  Of things, Yes it does. And I mean for a lot of things.
• 31:47
  You know, yeah. I mean, I mean, we've spoken
• 31:51
  about this even it's it's interesting and, you know,
• 31:55
  everything's speeding up. Even the even the seasons are
• 31:57
  speeding up. Everything is speeding up.
• 31:59
  Even time itself feels speed up. Yeah, I know Christ says that in
• 32:04
  those times the days will be shortened for the sake of the
• 32:07
  Saints. And who knows, maybe we we are
• 32:10
  in in those times, yeah, you know, but that's besides the
• 32:13
  point. But.
• 32:14
  So. It's true, though.
• 32:15
  It's true. And be like in, in still in the
• 32:17
  conversation on secular notification.
• 32:19
  What else have you seen about it?
• 32:23
  You know, we spoke about it in the faith, how it looks in the
• 32:26
  faith. Oh, well, God, yeah, I did this.
• 32:28
  You know, like you called it holy action, which is really a
• 32:31
  good way to say it. Yeah.
• 32:33
  You expected. Oh, God, I did this.
• 32:35
  Why you're not doing this for me?
• 32:37
  You know, you know, before we move forward, Yeah, it's true.
• 32:40
  Like in the book of Revelations, Revelations chapter 22, you
• 32:45
  know, when Christ gives his last few words, he says, you know,
• 32:49
  let the righteous be righteous. Let the filthy be filthy, let
• 32:51
  the holy be holy. I will pay them accordingly.
• 32:55
  You know, there's a lot of people out there that, you know,
• 32:58
  righteous They they're they, they do those acts of
• 33:01
  righteousness. And Christ's like, OK, I'll pay
• 33:03
  you accordingly and then. Continue.
• 33:06
  I'm sorry. And then he separates his other
• 33:08
  group, where he says blessed are those who wash the robes daily,
• 33:10
  for they will have access to the tree of life.
• 33:13
  Yes. So I literally, you took that
• 33:15
  like he says, let the righteous be righteous.
• 33:18
  Yeah, Let the filthy be filthy. Let the holy be holy.
• 33:21
  I will reward them according to their deeds.
• 33:24
  Yes. They don't understand what that
• 33:25
  really means. They really don't.
• 33:26
  When he says I will reward him, to reward something implies that
• 33:29
  he has to judge it. Yes, in order.
• 33:31
  To reward, it has to be judgement.
• 33:33
  He cannot reward you unless there's no under like
• 33:37
  underlining there is I'm gonna judge you from.
• 33:39
  Correct, correct. And that's why he says in the
• 33:42
  next sentence, he's like, I am the alpha, the Omega in the
• 33:45
  beginning and the end. And then he says to the other
• 33:47
  group, blessed are you because you watched your robes daily.
• 33:49
  So. Yeah, it generally gives me
• 33:51
  chills every time I hear like, like beginning and the end,
• 33:54
  which is like, what's crazy thing about bro?
• 33:56
  Is it crazy like he's the, he's the alpha and the Omega.
• 33:59
  So in Greek, he's the beginning of the letter.
• 34:01
  Yes, the end of the letter, right?
• 34:02
  Right then the beginning and the end, which makes sense because
• 34:05
  if he is the word, the word is the last, the 1st and the last
• 34:10
  thing spoken. So true, right?
• 34:11
  So if the father speaks through his son, his son is the 1st and
• 34:17
  the last thing makes. So much sense.
• 34:20
  Every sentence you say has a beginning and an end.
• 34:23
  Exactly so based on the holy action, what what else?
• 34:29
  What do you why do you think that happens?
• 34:32
  Why is it? Why are they set up besides the
• 34:36
  fact that Catholicism and whatever, but.
• 34:39
  That plays a large role in like in like what I see like because
• 34:43
  in my school it's like all Catholics.
• 34:44
  But I've also been around like many non Catholics before and
• 34:47
  it's like the same thing. But I think in my school like
• 34:50
  area specifically, I think the Catholicism plays a large role
• 34:54
  in that, in that like that like you kind of like tally up your
• 34:57
  sins and then you clean them away and then you go again.
• 35:00
  And then like, I think like the the biggest thing, like I
• 35:03
  explained this to one of my friends.
• 35:04
  I have a friend named Benji. He's like, he's like a a school
• 35:07
  friend of mine, but he's like, he's very lost in the world.
• 35:11
  But like he, he like at the same time I got, I got, he's such a
• 35:14
  genuine guy. Like he's such a good guy.
• 35:15
  He's just, he's just around the wrong people doing the wrong
• 35:18
  things and like. Dude I I have friends I see.
• 35:20
  I see the drive in his heart to like, become a better person and
• 35:23
  like he's always asking me like, to tell him like a random Bible
• 35:25
  verse. So we had this thing where I
• 35:26
  would tell him a Bible verse like every day, just fun.
• 35:29
  He would tell me like what he thought about it.
• 35:30
  And but yeah, I, I told him the story one time because, because
• 35:34
  he would tell me how he would like do something bad and then
• 35:37
  he would do something good, right?
• 35:39
  And like, like, if he would cancel it out, right?
• 35:41
  So, and he was like, like, like, bro, so you think because you
• 35:43
  did 44 sins and then you did, and then you stopped yourself
• 35:47
  from cursing 4 times, you think you're going to be saved now?
• 35:50
  And I was like, bro, you know how, like how dumb that sounds,
• 35:52
  right? Like straight up bro, you know
• 35:53
  how dumb that sounds, right? He's like, he's like, yeah, but
• 35:55
  like, not really. Because like, I just cancelled
• 35:57
  it out. And so then I saw this story one
• 35:59
  time, I think it was on, on Instagram reels, to be honest.
• 36:01
  But it was like, it was like a farmer who, who, and there was
• 36:05
  this guy on his farm and it was like this field split by a
• 36:08
  fence. And on one side was hell and on
• 36:10
  one side was heaven. And every time he sinned, he
• 36:12
  like took a step towards towards the hell side.
• 36:15
  And then every time he did something good, it was like
• 36:17
  towards towards the heaven side. And so he ended up sending three
• 36:22
  times and then he did a good deed 3 times and he ended up on
• 36:25
  the fence. And then the farmer was like,
• 36:27
  let me tell you something, now Satan owns that fence.
• 36:31
  Now he's cooked. Right, right.
• 36:33
  No, I've heard of that too. Yeah, saying it was that fence,
• 36:35
  like you, you did all this to get to that fence and that fence
• 36:38
  doesn't even save you. So like the only way to stay on
• 36:41
  heaven is is to like, bro, you could do all these good things,
• 36:45
  but does God even know you? Like does he even know you?
• 36:47
  Like it's like you you could hear like bro, I could have no
• 36:50
  idea who Job is. I'd be like, I could hear of
• 36:52
  like all the good things that this guy is.
• 36:54
  Doing yeah, right, Right. And then if someone asks me
• 36:56
  like, oh, like Job's a good guy, right?
• 36:57
  Dude, I don't know who he is. Like, I don't know who he is.
• 36:59
  I've heard what he's done. I don't know him and he doesn't
• 37:02
  know me. So how am I going to come here
• 37:05
  and save you? Right, Right.
• 37:06
  That's really what God says. I forget where in the Bob, but
• 37:09
  he. Says he says to Lord for me,
• 37:10
  because yeah, he says Lord, Lord, Lord, have we not done
• 37:13
  this in your name? You know, you know that part
• 37:16
  people sleep on that They said, you know, people think blasphemy
• 37:20
  is the worst sin of all. It's not.
• 37:23
  We'll get to that one day. But they say blasphemy is the
• 37:26
  worst sin of all. But I think, I don't think I
• 37:30
  know the worst of it all When Christ, when when God literally
• 37:35
  says depart from me. I never knew.
• 37:37
  You now here's a little bit of a thinking cap because you brought
• 37:41
  it up. Yeah, he says.
• 37:44
  Well, they say, Lord, Lord, have we not done this right in your
• 37:47
  name, you. Know what they says it says?
• 37:49
  Have we not prophesied? That in your name that means
• 37:52
  have we not so? Have we not done so and so and
• 37:54
  so all this check right, right, right in your name, right,
• 37:56
  right. So we we before you continue
• 37:59
  right? If they said have we not
• 38:01
  prophesied in your name? Meaning what they were
• 38:04
  prophesying was coming to pass? So, so see, see, that's why I
• 38:07
  said thinking cat, right, OK, right.
• 38:09
  If they've said all this, the implication that of that is that
• 38:13
  the name of Christ in which they did use did back them up.
• 38:17
  It did, yeah. Here's the difference though.
• 38:21
  Does God recognize you though? Paul says you can have all these
• 38:25
  gifts, but if you don't have love.
• 38:28
  So. So when Christ says depart from
• 38:30
  me, I do not know you. Now this is going to sound a
• 38:33
  little bit paradoxical, but in order for Christ to say depart
• 38:39
  from me, I don't know you. It requires information, Grim to
• 38:42
  say I don't know you, right? In other words, I don't know you
• 38:46
  doesn't mean he doesn't know. Right, right.
• 38:48
  Yeah. It just means he's on standby,
• 38:51
  in other words. Well, since he's one with God,
• 38:54
  his Father. Listen, I don't get information
• 38:57
  about you, so I don't know you, right?
• 38:59
  Right. It's not mean he doesn't know.
• 39:02
  Dude, I'm sorry, bro, you. Yeah, I understand what you're.
• 39:05
  Saying you don't. Do you understand what I'm
• 39:06
  saying? It's only because of right, how
• 39:08
  Christ and the Father are one now people are going to be like,
• 39:12
  well, what does that mean? God, Christ doesn't know.
• 39:13
  Listen, Christ proved it in Scripture that he has
• 39:17
  limitations. He doesn't know things and
• 39:19
  that's OK. For example, he doesn't know the
• 39:22
  hour of the day, right? Does that mean he he's all of a
• 39:25
  sudden not powerful, right, right.
• 39:27
  No, he know. He knows that he's coming, just
• 39:30
  doesn't know when that's going to happen.
• 39:32
  Right Right now, to be in the position at the other side for
• 39:38
  Christ to say I don't know you, man.
• 39:41
  Depart from me. That's crazy.
• 39:43
  But that's worse than blast. That's that's worse than
• 39:46
  committing the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
• 39:48
  Right, right. Yeah bro, 100%.
• 39:50
  Can you imagine Christ say? Depart from me, I.
• 39:53
  Don't know you. That's the worst, like.
• 39:56
  I know you exist, but I have no information in regards to you,
• 40:00
  so I don't know you. Exactly.
• 40:01
  Imagine how much that would hurt if it was like if you were
• 40:04
  literally just trying to go to like like the House of a love,
• 40:06
  like someone you thought like you loved.
• 40:08
  Uh huh. Like it's like if I try to come
• 40:10
  to Oscar's house and I'm like, dude, I speak good about you
• 40:13
  when you're not there or whatever, all these things.
• 40:14
  And then he tells me, dude, get out of here, I don't know who
• 40:17
  you are. Right, right, right.
• 40:19
  That's. A love one.
• 40:20
  Imagine God. Doing that, yeah.
• 40:21
  Yeah. If I say to Jake, I don't know
• 40:24
  you, but I know he exists for me to say I don't know you.
• 40:27
  Right, right, right, right. It's just my affirmation that
• 40:31
  you, I don't know you, right? I don't know who you are.
• 40:33
  Yeah, and people don't understand.
• 40:35
  They still don't understand this concept.
• 40:37
  Christ is the word. Do you speak without thinking?
• 40:42
  No, you have to think. Yeah, exactly.
• 40:46
  So Christ is the word. That's why it makes so much
• 40:49
  sense. Why, he says.
• 40:50
  I don't know. You depart from me, you worker
• 40:52
  of iniquity. That means he knows.
• 40:55
  That there is a worker of an. Yeah.
• 40:57
  So you see, like people don't understand that.
• 40:59
  Like he can't say I don't know you, but yeah, I know that
• 41:02
  you're a worker of. An equity like what do you mean
• 41:04
  exactly 1 day We'll get to that really deep topic.
• 41:07
  I know that's I know that's complicated.
• 41:08
  Yeah, that's why I said we're. Just I like.
• 41:11
  It. Do you understand that though?
• 41:12
  Right. Yeah, Yeah.
• 41:13
  So. So when he brought that up, I
• 41:15
  was like, interesting. They don't think deeper than
• 41:18
  what it actually says, right? And you're right.
• 41:22
  You can't expect God. I did this, you know, and expect
• 41:25
  this. No, no, no, no, you.
• 41:27
  Your duty is to surrender. That's it.
• 41:29
  You're an unworthy servant. He is blessed to have the
• 41:32
  opportunity to go play D1. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:37
  He. Doesn't know two or three months
• 41:39
  from now what God wants to do. Exactly.
• 41:41
  The question is the true test would be.
• 41:43
  Then the two true test of character would be.
• 41:45
  How would you react if, if something plays out where, I
• 41:49
  don't know, God comes and said, Jakey, we have a different plan.
• 41:53
  Are you up for it? Yeah.
• 41:55
  That would be the true test of character, right?
• 41:57
  Because, you know, Yeah, God was with my goals and dreams.
• 42:01
  Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I don't know what I was.
• 42:03
  Speaking with that, with that youth group leader, this was
• 42:07
  before I even committed. And so like, just for a little
• 42:10
  context, like I, I've like always been like perceived as
• 42:14
  this good player and I've always esteemed myself pretty highly,
• 42:16
  but I've always also like worked hard.
• 42:19
  And so I expected to get a lot of good looks, especially
• 42:22
  playing at a high level, but I never really did.
• 42:24
  I only ever got one Division One offer, which is the one that I,
• 42:27
  the school that I'm going to. And so at this moment in time,
• 42:29
  when I was talking to this, to this youth group leader, I was
• 42:33
  like, I was telling him about my situation.
• 42:36
  He was telling me. And then he was like, well, let
• 42:38
  me tell you something. He was like you, you say you're,
• 42:41
  you're like a man of God, right? You've like surrounded your life
• 42:43
  to Christ and soccer is like one of the biggest things in your
• 42:46
  life. So what do you do that for?
• 42:47
  Like do you play soccer for yourself or do you play soccer
• 42:49
  for God? And then in my head I was like,
• 42:52
  I mean, like, I would like to say I play for God, but like
• 42:55
  there are moments where I'm doing things for myself.
• 42:57
  And then he was like, all right, here, let me ask you a better
• 42:59
  question. This, this will make your answer
• 43:00
  more clear. He was like, he's like, let's
• 43:03
  say he's like, let's say God like shrug down right now.
• 43:06
  He said to your face, He said. He said I need you to quit
• 43:09
  soccer. I'm not gonna tell you why.
• 43:11
  I just need you to quit soccer. I mean, you quit soccer.
• 43:14
  Think about it. And in my head, I was like, like
• 43:17
  being completely honest, I would say no, like I would in my, I'd
• 43:20
  be like, no, I don't want to quit.
• 43:21
  They'd be like a You feel like a defiance.
• 43:23
  Yeah. Be like we what And.
• 43:24
  That's right. In that moment was when I like,
• 43:26
  I completely shifted like my perception of why I'm playing,
• 43:30
  why I'm doing it. And then I mean, that's when I
• 43:34
  got my offer. I'm not saying that's why I got
• 43:35
  it, but I think that's that's a moment where I actually, I
• 43:38
  learned like, like you said, like 3 months from now, if there
• 43:40
  was another plan, like I would be completely at peace with it.
• 43:42
  That's what I'm saying. You know what I mean?
• 43:44
  Right, right. Oh yeah, absolutely.
• 43:47
  It's just why, why especially for a kid his age, right, mind
• 43:51
  you, growing up elementary school, what do you like to do
• 43:54
  when you grow up? All this right, right.
• 43:55
  And then you also do notice, like what he was just saying,
• 43:59
  you do notice a capacity that you have, right?
• 44:01
  That you bring to the table. You know that?
• 44:04
  Don't. Don't.
• 44:04
  Yeah. No one can come to me and be
• 44:06
  like, no. And and try to be humble about
• 44:08
  it. Listen, right.
• 44:09
  You know what you bring to the table?
• 44:10
  Yeah. Like, you know what I mean?
• 44:12
  Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
• 44:13
  No. No, no, absolutely.
• 44:14
  I totally agree, you know, and that's good that you recognize
• 44:16
  that. Number one, that shows
• 44:17
  humbleness #2 you're aware of that part of your conscience.
• 44:22
  Exactly. You know, a lot of people don't
• 44:25
  want to admit it. A lot of people say I'm doing
• 44:27
  this for God, but in their conscience, they know that
• 44:29
  they're not. Yeah, but at least you, on the
• 44:31
  other hand, you admit it. You're.
• 44:32
  You're honest about the the fact that would I and then you then
• 44:37
  you answered honestly. Oh, I wouldn't.
• 44:39
  Yeah, you know what I mean. And that's such a big thing as
• 44:41
  well because it's like every time, like sometimes people will
• 44:44
  like, will like do some crazy things in front of me and like
• 44:47
  they know who I am in my faith and, and like, dude, sometimes
• 44:51
  they'll come and apologize to me.
• 44:52
  I'm like, dude, what are you doing?
• 44:53
  Like, why are you apologizing to me?
• 44:55
  Like, like if you're apologize to someone to apologize to God,
• 44:58
  right? And the only reason they're
• 44:59
  doing that is because like they don't want to offend me,
• 45:00
  whatever because of my faith. And then it's like, or it's like
• 45:03
  they'll tell me like, dude, I've spoken to so many people.
• 45:05
  They're like, Oh yeah, like guess what?
• 45:06
  Like did you know I pray every night before the bed?
• 45:08
  Like did you know, I pray for my friends every time.
• 45:10
  And then when I wake up, I pray before I eat.
• 45:12
  I pray. I do all these things and then
• 45:14
  I'll be hanging out with them or eating.
• 45:15
  They didn't pray, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:16
  We went to a sleepover. We're going to bed.
• 45:18
  I don't see them pray, you know what I'm saying?
• 45:20
  And it's like, and then I asked them like, is that true?
• 45:22
  And they're like, no, it's not true.
• 45:23
  Like to be honest, like I was just telling you that to look
• 45:25
  better. I'm like, bro, why are you
• 45:26
  trying to look good for me? Like you're not going to God's
• 45:28
  not a. Fool.
• 45:29
  You can't fool him. So that's that's where it came
• 45:32
  from. Like my idea in my head, like
• 45:33
  I'm not going to lie to this youth group leader and be like,
• 45:36
  Oh yeah, I would say yes, because God knows I'm not lying.
• 45:38
  So why am I Like, it doesn't matter if he thinks, right?
• 45:40
  He thinks it doesn't really. Matter at all?
• 45:42
  Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 45:44
  I mean, look what happened to our our Jakey.
• 45:47
  Like Jakey, I call him Jakey Jacob and me our cousin Wilmer,
• 45:51
  what he did in Florida was not not uneasy thing for him to do
• 45:54
  man. Especially for a 20 year old
• 45:57
  like being in their 20s, that much success and to let it go.
• 46:01
  Heading to that right to that point, yeah, yeah.
• 46:03
  Before he came to Jersey, Yeah, bro, the what?
• 46:04
  The story he told us, that's not.
• 46:07
  No, that's not easy. That's not easy.
• 46:08
  No, it's not. You know what I mean?
• 46:10
  No. And you know what?
• 46:13
  So there are things when you come to Christ that you know,
• 46:17
  you unlearn a lot of things when you come to Christ.
• 46:20
  But here's the problem too. That's good that you're honest
• 46:23
  because let's just say you decide to make your prayer life,
• 46:28
  your fasting life, the wisdom that God gives you offers
• 46:31
  something that drives your eyes away from God.
• 46:35
  And then when the time comes, because like it says in Second
• 46:37
  Corinthians where God puts you through that fire to be for your
• 46:42
  faith to be presented, to be approved for his glory.
• 46:46
  Next thing you know, when God puts you through that fire, all
• 46:48
  that praying, all that fasting, all that wisdom that you did not
• 46:52
  put towards God, but rather towards what your conscience was
• 46:55
  telling you. Next thing you know all that
• 46:58
  fire that God put you through that's.
• 47:00
  True, that's true. The fire would be the test and
• 47:03
  see if you do come out if you yeah that that makes.
• 47:06
  Sense if you come out pure. So what you're saying is this is
• 47:12
  crazy, dude, Because it's true. And I only said it because I've
• 47:14
  lived it, right? Because I've done it?
• 47:16
  No, I'm gonna be honest. And.
• 47:18
  I'm learning about it too, yeah. You will pray, fast, and seek
• 47:23
  wisdom for your own benefit, right?
• 47:25
  So you do those things while simultaneously walking and
• 47:29
  thinking in the flesh. Yes.
• 47:31
  Trying to do the things of the spirit, yes, for the benefit of
• 47:34
  the flesh and the. I only say that because, see,
• 47:38
  I'm 100% guilty of that because. Perfect, perfect, perfect,
• 47:42
  perfect. Like I bro, me too.
• 47:45
  And it's true. Like, and it sucks because I've
• 47:47
  been tested and you want to know when the test comes, you get
• 47:51
  dismantled. Yeah, you know why you get
• 47:53
  dismantled? Because then you're like, wait,
• 47:56
  you thought you were had a prayer life.
• 47:58
  You thought you were fasting. But the test comes to prove to
• 48:03
  see that what you were doing. Right, for what is in the heart
• 48:06
  will eventually come out. Now that is so true because you
• 48:10
  know, the Church of Revelations, it says, you know, I see your
• 48:12
  works, you know, you seem alive, but you are dead inside.
• 48:16
  So, you know, one in church or in life, they can seem like so
• 48:20
  like, oh, this person has a strong prayer life.
• 48:22
  This person has, you know, a strong fasting life.
• 48:25
  This person seeks good wisdom. But then when the moment comes
• 48:28
  where God is like, all right, it's time for the fire, then you
• 48:30
  will see truly if what is inside is spiritual or just flesh.
• 48:35
  Yeah, people are going to confuse it with, Oh well, works.
• 48:38
  No, no, no. This has nothing to do with
• 48:40
  works. There's nothing to do with that.
• 48:41
  This is for the betterment and refinement, right of your walk
• 48:45
  with Christ. Yeah, he says.
• 48:48
  He says do not worry about anything.
• 48:51
  First the Kingdom. Yeah, seek for the Kingdom and
• 48:53
  righteousness and everything else.
• 48:55
  Right shall be an add on. 100%, literally 100%.
• 49:00
  I'm not saying this is like a manifestation thing, cuz then
• 49:02
  no, they also do that too, yeah. They do that too, man.
• 49:05
  God and pray and everything will come.
• 49:07
  Yes and no. Yeah, yeah.
• 49:09
  It's not what you think it is. Now, if you were walking in the
• 49:13
  Spirit, then you'll be, you'll be like, like, gratified of like
• 49:17
  of like. Whoa, God, this is what you're
• 49:19
  teaching me. Everything else is falling to
• 49:21
  its. Place, if you walk and think in
• 49:23
  the Spirit, Instant gratification is but a far
• 49:25
  thought, yes. So when the moment of gratitude
• 49:29
  that God gives, yeah, yeah. To you, you're just like, oh,
• 49:31
  that's well, yeah, that's great, right?
• 49:33
  For example, like the the lessons that God teaches us.
• 49:37
  Like it to to me, I know it's you too.
• 49:41
  And to our sister Linda, all of us, it's like, it's like
• 49:44
  precious, it's like gold. It feels better than receiving a
• 49:48
  paycheck. Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 49:50
  So like. That is true.
• 49:52
  It does feel rewarding when when, for example, I've been
• 49:57
  able to share right, or with Diego, share with Wilmer.
• 50:02
  It's rewarding not because I'm getting rewarded.
• 50:06
  It's rewarding because I get to see that you guys don't have to
• 50:08
  go through a huge time frame and suffer like I did.
• 50:14
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. God doesn't want.
• 50:16
  It's almost like God doesn't. He's like I did this, Oscar, so
• 50:18
  that when these group of people like Jacob, like these come to
• 50:23
  you, you have bearing gifts that I Yeah, not you.
• 50:27
  Yeah, You give to them. Yeah.
• 50:28
  And they will grab it because they won't have to go through
• 50:31
  that. Bro.
• 50:33
  And that's the reward I see. And it is.
• 50:36
  It's good. It's good, yeah.
• 50:37
  Because I know it's for his Kingdom.
• 50:38
  Exactly. It's like what Paul said to the
• 50:40
  church. He's like, oh, I come to you
• 50:41
  with spiritual gifts. And then he speaks.
• 50:44
  Yeah. And I think the reason I, I
• 50:47
  don't know, I don't know your friends, but I can definitely
• 50:50
  say that why they like to be around you, it's because of
• 50:54
  that. Yeah, it's because you're you're
• 50:57
  different. And they see that they.
• 50:59
  They, they see these little, these little, these little, I
• 51:02
  call them like, I don't know, gummies or treats.
• 51:04
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, they, you receive those treats, those
• 51:06
  treats, you call them like gifts, like what he was talking
• 51:09
  about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 51:10
  They feel that and that's why they like to be around you.
• 51:13
  And yeah. And Christ said, you being
• 51:16
  wicked, you know how to do. Yeah bro, that's why they say
• 51:19
  sorry to you, because they know what they're doing is bad.
• 51:21
  Yeah, literally they are. Yeah.
• 51:22
  The thing is like people always are like, like I'm so far gone,
• 51:27
  whatever, like they're they feel hopeless.
• 51:29
  And I'm like, dude, you literally feel guilt.
• 51:30
  Like that's the first step. The first step is, is feeling
• 51:33
  that guilt. That means you're conscious in
• 51:35
  that like spiritual mind that like you know what you're doing
• 51:37
  is wrong. You just can't sort out how to
• 51:39
  not do it. Yeah, you're being convicted.
• 51:41
  You don't know how to go about it.
• 51:43
  Yeah, exactly. And like on on that topic as
• 51:45
  well. Yeah.
• 51:48
  Like I'm being hopeless. It's like I try to work with so
• 51:50
  many kids, like in school, like I have so many friends or just
• 51:54
  like mutual friends that I see are like such good people that I
• 51:56
  like I've grown up with. And like, when we were little,
• 51:59
  we were like all these like good kids and then we've grown up and
• 52:01
  like, maybe gone around the wrong company.
• 52:03
  And like, people are always like, ask me like, like, dude,
• 52:06
  like, why are you even trying to help?
• 52:07
  Like, why are you trying to help them?
• 52:08
  Why are you trying to help them? Or like, they're so far gone.
• 52:10
  Like you're not really going to get any anywhere with that.
• 52:13
  Like, why don't you just like stick with you, like your
• 52:14
  Christian friends, whatever. And then what?
• 52:18
  I found this verse. Yeah.
• 52:19
  That was that. Matthew, Matthew 911 to 13.
• 52:22
  It's like when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples,
• 52:25
  why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?
• 52:29
  On hearing this, Jesus said it is not the healthy who need a
• 52:31
  doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this
• 52:34
  means. I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
• 52:37
  for I have come not to call the righteous, but sinners, right,
• 52:41
  right. So it's like what?
• 52:42
  Why would I sit here and like and, and so my Christian friends
• 52:45
  when I know they're saved, when I know like we're on the same
• 52:48
  page. We got to go, keep helping, keep
• 52:50
  discipling, because that's what it's all.
• 52:51
  About wait wait, these are your Christian friends telling you
• 52:54
  this? No, no, no.
• 52:55
  I'm saying like it's other people telling.
• 52:57
  Me it's like. They're the ones telling me
• 52:59
  right, right, right, Stick around with my friends.
• 53:00
  Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, bro.
• 53:02
  Our job is literally to disciple and spread the gospel.
• 53:04
  So he says I want mercy, not sacrifice.
• 53:06
  Yeah. So when he says I want mercy.
• 53:10
  I desire. He I desire mercy, not
• 53:12
  sacrifice. So when you like, for example,
• 53:17
  you go to someone like that, you're displaying mercy on them.
• 53:21
  Yeah. When you displayed mercy, there
• 53:24
  will be a sense of sacrifice that you have to under go.
• 53:28
  Yeah. Because if we, if we go, if we
• 53:32
  go to a train station, Morrison and we give them food, at that
• 53:36
  moment they feel like there's mercy.
• 53:39
  Yes, However, they're going to think about it, right?
• 53:41
  They can think about it. God is merciful or the universe
• 53:44
  is merciful, whatever they're going to think.
• 53:46
  But then the next step is that mercy is the initial state, then
• 53:51
  the sacrifice. That's why he says I don't I I
• 53:55
  desire mercy, not sacrifice. Right.
• 53:57
  Because they were going with that first and not show mercy.
• 54:01
  Yeah, I know. I see what you're.
• 54:02
  Saying, and mind you, he reads, he's reading something that the
• 54:05
  tax collector, who was it a tax collector?
• 54:08
  Tax collectors and and sinners. They were out like in the
• 54:11
  culture in that time. They're outcast.
• 54:13
  Yeah, they were. They weren't part of society.
• 54:16
  Yeah, that's true. They would look down upon like
• 54:18
  stay away from me. We're, you know, we're we're
• 54:22
  yeah, we're clean. We're not unclean.
• 54:26
  Yeah. Where is the mercy?
• 54:27
  No, Yeah, yeah. Where's the mercy?
• 54:30
  Yeah, bro, it's like the Mercy's like the foundation and then the
• 54:33
  sacrifice just. It's inevitable.
• 54:36
  Yeah, exactly. That's true.
• 54:38
  They would go with sacrifice and not mercy.
• 54:40
  Right. Wow man.
• 54:43
  So what do you guys think about about Lent?
• 54:46
  Have you guys heard about Lent? Yeah, yeah, the 40 day lent did
• 54:49
  they do the the Catholic indoor? Yeah, I have AI have a for
• 54:52
  something. I have mine from my friend who's
• 54:54
  I won't say her name, but she's a devout Catholic and she's she
• 54:59
  loves she loves God, bro. I can't right.
• 55:02
  We might disagree in some things, but when land came,
• 55:07
  she's like, oh, are you in your 4040 day land thing?
• 55:09
  And I'm like, no, well, we don't necessarily do that, right?
• 55:13
  They use that because, you know, Christ went to the desk over 40
• 55:15
  days and 40 nights. So they use that, that 40 day
• 55:18
  land, you kind of abstain from something that that, yeah, makes
• 55:23
  you sad or something. Yeah, yeah.
• 55:24
  So for example, if you like eating too much meat, then or
• 55:27
  you abstain from meat. Right, like every.
• 55:29
  Friday, they can't eat meat. Yeah, yeah, like that.
• 55:31
  Like on the 40 day on Friday, they can't eat meat, right?
• 55:34
  So it's this thing where like they sacrifice something for 40
• 55:37
  days. Basically, right, Right.
• 55:39
  That's what Lente is. It's just a preparation to
• 55:41
  Easter, if you will. Yeah, there is a discipline to
• 55:46
  the flesh, but that doesn't do anything.
• 55:49
  Yeah, doesn't amount to anything.
• 55:51
  That's what I'm saying. Like I think that is like that's
• 55:53
  certainly shown here is like he desires mercy, not sacrifice.
• 55:56
  Like yeah, you're sacrificing something, but like.
• 55:59
  To what end? To what end?
• 56:00
  You could sacrifice like anybody in the world could sacrifice
• 56:02
  something. So that's just discipline.
• 56:03
  That's true and. So it's like and then on another
• 56:05
  layer to that is like I also have like a variety about
• 56:09
  Christian, right? He's one of the University of
• 56:10
  Notre Dame, very smart guy. He also loves Christ, but like
• 56:15
  he's telling me how like it's supposed to be something like
• 56:17
  something you sacrifice for land is something emotional like
• 56:20
  something like that. Like, you know, has a good deep
• 56:22
  connection. Like it's rooted really in your
• 56:24
  heart. And then there's like literally
• 56:26
  like what people give up is like like Cheetos or something Like
• 56:29
  they'll. Give up like a pink drink.
• 56:31
  From Starbucks Like all the girls give up a pink drink from
• 56:33
  Starbucks. That's crazy and Starbucks loses
• 56:35
  profit there. All the dudes like give up like
• 56:37
  Chipotle. It's like dude, like.
• 56:39
  Guess that could have easier. Yeah, it's almost aimlessly.
• 56:43
  They're like, well, they're doing.
• 56:44
  It to check it off the list. Right.
• 56:46
  Exactly. That's what they're doing.
• 56:47
  Yeah, 100%. Yeah, no, it doesn't work that
• 56:50
  way. No, Now I'll say if they were to
• 56:52
  really truly apply the 40 day land the proper way, they'd they
• 56:56
  would see Bennett benefits in regards to disciplining the
• 56:59
  flesh in the spirit. Right, right.
• 57:01
  Like the flesh submitting to the spirit.
• 57:03
  Yeah, but in in what Jacob is saying it that's that means
• 57:08
  nothing. Yeah, man, I agree.
• 57:10
  It's absolutely nothing. I agree.
• 57:11
  And you know what? When Christ went up there, it
• 57:15
  was for a purpose. It literally says in Scripture
• 57:17
  he was He was sent by the spirit.
• 57:22
  Oh no, no, like. No, he was taken.
• 57:23
  He was taken by the Spirit to the wilderness to be tested and
• 57:27
  tempted. It literally says on scripture
• 57:29
  there was a purpose behind it all.
• 57:32
  People are fascinated that they they said to Christ, well, no,
• 57:36
  the the enemy, the devil, whoever, whoever he is right?
• 57:39
  He was like if you are and so and so you'll do this and then
• 57:45
  Christ would respond. They seemed the fascination of
• 57:49
  the calling response that they right that they were both
• 57:51
  having. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 57:52
  But what really intrigues me is the fact that he had to say if
• 57:56
  you are right. So there was a sense that he had
• 57:59
  to he was not he was setting him up to prove himself right if he
• 58:03
  was from God. So I think, I think it goes much
• 58:06
  deeper that when that temptation comes, it is the enemy will is
• 58:10
  to say, for example, Jacob, let's say God forbid it doesn't
• 58:14
  happen right at college, but the enemy will come and God will
• 58:18
  allow it. Mind you, he was taken by the
• 58:20
  script. Then we will come to, to to test
• 58:25
  you. But he's he's going to come and
• 58:27
  test you with, with light, with truth, and you will have a
• 58:31
  response because we've learned. We learned from.
• 58:33
  Scripture. Yep.
• 58:34
  But I think the greatest test is if you have to prove yourself
• 58:40
  before someone that you are who you say you are before God,
• 58:44
  because that was the whole purpose of what Satan was trying
• 58:47
  to do. If you are the son of God, then
• 58:48
  you will do this if if you say you are right.
• 58:52
  So we and social media I've I've I'm guilty of it in the.
• 58:59
  Past. Yeah, me too.
• 59:00
  A lot of Christians and social media always have to prove
• 59:03
  themselves because of a comment that someone made because of
• 59:08
  another comment and they have to make like a real or in a podcast
• 59:11
  mention and they have to prove themselves.
• 59:14
  Yeah, who they say they are already.
• 59:18
  It's a failure. No, you failed the moment you
• 59:21
  try to prove yourself that you are a follower of Christ.
• 59:23
  I'm sorry you failed. You don't need to prove
• 59:24
  anything. You don't.
• 59:25
  It is God. Yes.
• 59:27
  Who's going to do it? Look.
• 59:27
  What it says after you get after you, you're put through the fire
• 59:31
  of the testing of your faith to be approved.
• 59:34
  It's to glorify God. It literally says the next
• 59:36
  sentence. It's to glorify him.
• 59:38
  Yeah. So why are you trying to prove
• 59:40
  yourself that you are a follower of Christ?
• 59:42
  Let your fruit speak and that's. It so the instant gratification,
• 59:47
  it stands from ego, right? Yeah, It stands from me.
• 59:50
  Yeah, it stands from my own desires and my own
• 59:54
  satisfactions. And if in fact, there were such
• 59:58
  a thing as instant gratification, if if there were,
• 1:00:01
  it shouldn't even be for us. No, that instant gratification
• 1:00:05
  should be for his glory. For his glory, It shouldn't even
• 1:00:07
  be. For us, I mean, come on, man.
• 1:00:08
  I mean when you eat, when you eat you get instantly like it's
• 1:00:12
  amazing, gratified. You like you feel gratification.
• 1:00:15
  So that's why Christ says serve the Master.
• 1:00:18
  Then at the end, whatever's leftover, he will give you.
• 1:00:21
  He is to be gratified, used to want to be served, and at the
• 1:00:25
  end, you know, then whatever's left over, you will eat.
• 1:00:28
  Anything else you have? I think just like like, like
• 1:00:34
  times like these is like important to get or like, just
• 1:00:37
  like lastly, touching on what you guys were saying about the
• 1:00:40
  about like proving yourself is like I've experienced that
• 1:00:42
  literally in high school already where it's like, I'll be at a
• 1:00:44
  party and kids will come at me with this like animosity.
• 1:00:47
  Like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, Oh yeah, like if,
• 1:00:49
  if you're so controlled, if you're so Christian, like, why
• 1:00:52
  don't you drink a bit like you? See what I mean?
• 1:00:53
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you can control it
• 1:00:55
  anyway. Like you don't have to be a
• 1:00:56
  reckless drink or just drink a bit, like whatever.
• 1:00:58
  Like if you're actually Christian, like, dude, like why?
• 1:01:01
  Literally why? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:02
  It's like it's like so. Useless.
• 1:01:03
  I mean, there's so many layers. So I don't do any of that stuff.
• 1:01:05
  Like, well, like that's the way I've seen it affect my family.
• 1:01:08
  Like on top of my faith, just the way I've seen it affect my
• 1:01:10
  family. And yeah, and also like my life
• 1:01:11
  as an athlete, I was, I would just never touch those things.
• 1:01:14
  But like, obviously mainly my faith, but it's just like, dude,
• 1:01:16
  I'm not gonna like, yeah, yeah, literally.
• 1:01:18
  What do I have to prove to you bro?
• 1:01:20
  Exactly. No you don't.
• 1:01:21
  And. That's happening a lot, Yeah.
• 1:01:23
  I mean, it's happening everywhere.
• 1:01:24
  I mean, like, OK, yeah, it's true, bro.
• 1:01:26
  Because in social media, like there's a lot of, you know,
• 1:01:30
  Christian influencers, I guess you can say, and sometimes they
• 1:01:34
  record themselves praying over people or like that one guy that
• 1:01:38
  used to do voodoo and he doesn't do it anymore and he's, he has
• 1:01:42
  to record himself. Like, like, like saying, OK, so
• 1:01:45
  you know, this Uber driver, you know, he, she came here and I
• 1:01:48
  just feel like, you know, the Holy Spirit is telling me this
• 1:01:50
  and put some mic to her. I'm like, why do you have to
• 1:01:52
  record yourself? Like I.
• 1:01:54
  Don't know for that. Like for example.
• 1:01:57
  I didn't even know that this. What I'm holding right here, the
• 1:01:59
  scriptures though, the word of God right here, they never knew
• 1:02:04
  these letters. They never.
• 1:02:05
  That wasn't their intention to like, like, Oh yeah, make it the
• 1:02:09
  best seller. Paul.
• 1:02:10
  Paul didn't know it was going to end up in a in a collection of A
• 1:02:14
  and we call it Bible. The Bible?
• 1:02:15
  Yeah. He was in prison just writing.
• 1:02:17
  He was just concerned for his churches, the churches.
• 1:02:19
  Yeah, he wasn't trying to like influence.
• 1:02:22
  No, he was just like, I'm being used by God.
• 1:02:24
  Brothers and sisters, I love you so much.
• 1:02:26
  Please stay strong. And that's it.
• 1:02:28
  That was it. Yeah, that's literally it.
• 1:02:30
  And we're blessed. Yeah, we have that now.
• 1:02:32
  Very. Yeah.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, dude, literally I got, I
• 1:02:34
  film these, I film these tik toks where I like, sometimes I
• 1:02:38
  do like Bible studies, I do, I like read a verse and then break
• 1:02:40
  it down, whatever. Or then sometimes I do like,
• 1:02:43
  it's kind of just like a day in my life.
• 1:02:45
  And then it's it's like I do it to show people that like I can
• 1:02:48
  balance. Like when I was in school, I was
• 1:02:50
  balancing school. I was balancing my life with
• 1:02:52
  Christ. I was balancing soccer at the
• 1:02:53
  same time. Right now it's just like soccer
• 1:02:54
  and Christ. It's a lot.
• 1:02:55
  It's just, yeah. Like you just like clips of me,
• 1:02:58
  like reading the Bible, clips of me praying and stuff.
• 1:03:01
  And like obviously I'm, I'm filming those clips and then I'm
• 1:03:03
  actually doing it for real. Like the clips are just like
• 1:03:05
  like a LARP pretty much. But like I'm actually doing this
• 1:03:08
  stuff. And then like there'll be
• 1:03:10
  comments of people saying like, oh, you just want, you're just
• 1:03:12
  doing this because you want us to see that, see that you pray,
• 1:03:15
  but you're not actually praying. Like I see where they're coming
• 1:03:18
  from. That, that, that is true.
• 1:03:20
  Yeah, You're right. You're right.
• 1:03:21
  Yeah. Saying like it's like, yeah,
• 1:03:22
  that's true. Like you're you pray in private.
• 1:03:23
  But the reason I'm doing is to show that like, you know what
• 1:03:27
  I'm saying? Like I do all these things and
• 1:03:28
  then I still find time to pray at night.
• 1:03:30
  You know what I'm saying? It's like that guy.
• 1:03:31
  I'm just going to mess the. Guy, I see where they come from.
• 1:03:32
  But like they're trying to look for that like like I'm like,
• 1:03:35
  like you're saying, like just like they're trying to look for
• 1:03:38
  that stuff, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:41
  No, I get where I that is true what you're saying.
• 1:03:42
  I get where you're saying. You're basically coming in the
• 1:03:44
  aspect of like it's possible. Yeah, you can.
• 1:03:46
  You can. Like I've, I've like, I've seen
• 1:03:50
  so many like underclassmen, like it's helped a lot that I've been
• 1:03:53
  like been a captain of soccer team the past two years.
• 1:03:55
  So like a lot of these kids would like, they don't look up
• 1:03:57
  to me, but like, you know, I'm like in a leadership role for
• 1:03:59
  them. And they've like, they've like
• 1:04:02
  been like kind of lukewarm. And then they start like taking
• 1:04:04
  pride in their faith because like they see the way I, I carry
• 1:04:06
  myself around and like, obviously I'm not perfect
• 1:04:09
  either, but like they see, I carry out myself around and
• 1:04:11
  they're like, oh, like he can do it with pride.
• 1:04:13
  Like he's not shy. Like that's another thing I
• 1:04:14
  wrote down is like people think it's so scary because like
• 1:04:17
  they're going to face so much like persecution and all these
• 1:04:21
  things, but it's like, dude, like when you're actually, when
• 1:04:24
  you're going through it, like we talked about earlier, like
• 1:04:27
  you're gonna survive. You're gonna be like, you're
• 1:04:28
  gonna be OK, I. Literally become like people,
• 1:04:31
  like every time, sometimes I'll try to be comforting people and
• 1:04:33
  I bring up like Romans 818. It's like there's always light
• 1:04:35
  at the end of the tunnel. Yeah.
• 1:04:36
  Like, how long is this tunnel? It's OK, bro.
• 1:04:38
  And like I'll literally sometimes be laughing in their
• 1:04:40
  face and be like, to be honest is as long as he wants it to be.
• 1:04:43
  Let's go listen, listen, listen, bro.
• 1:04:45
  That's true. It's exactly.
• 1:04:46
  What you're saying? Yeah, we see it from even the
• 1:04:49
  Old Testament. What did the Israel people do
• 1:04:51
  like the the Jewish people do the Israelites, they had to go
• 1:04:55
  through the desert. God said he declared as much
• 1:04:59
  time as he wants. Of course they disobeyed.
• 1:05:02
  But the point is that they had to go through all that the
• 1:05:05
  deserts because they came from a Pagan like ritual.
• 1:05:11
  They came from Egypt, they served different gods.
• 1:05:14
  They were used to that, so God had to put them in the desert.
• 1:05:18
  And he had to unlearn. They need to unlearn a lot of
• 1:05:20
  things. They needed to.
• 1:05:21
  Unlearn. Because let's be real here, it
• 1:05:23
  wasn't just Israelites with them.
• 1:05:24
  It was probably people from Egypt that were like, wait, who
• 1:05:27
  is this God you serve? I want to.
• 1:05:28
  I want to be. Part of this too.
• 1:05:29
  There's no way if you 100% some of them tagged along.
• 1:05:33
  Yeah, because they were like, whoa, whoa, this God is
• 1:05:35
  powerful. I want to go follow this one.
• 1:05:38
  And they had to unlearn a lot of things.
• 1:05:40
  Remind to remind you they were in the desert.
• 1:05:44
  That's how our walk with God is sometimes.
• 1:05:46
  We are in the desert, that's okay.
• 1:05:48
  You're right, these kids, you're right because of the instant
• 1:05:51
  gratification, they're like, well, how long is this tunnel?
• 1:05:53
  Uh huh, right. They're well, dude, I can't
• 1:05:58
  believe you brought this up, but I I will now officially share it
• 1:06:01
  because there's just some some things that happened to me
• 1:06:03
  spiritually that yeah, you could either understand it, you might
• 1:06:06
  not. I might sound ridiculous, and
• 1:06:07
  probably do sound ridiculous. Hey, lose your mind for.
• 1:06:10
  Yeah, lose your mind for. Christ.
• 1:06:11
  So there was one time, I think, I believe I told you, I came out
• 1:06:14
  of my body. That's right.
• 1:06:16
  And that's scriptural too, by the way.
• 1:06:17
  I did come out of my body and I ended up in a kind of like a
• 1:06:22
  dirt Rd. like kind of where like where you where you live in that
• 1:06:24
  area. It was like that and it was
• 1:06:26
  straight and there was like trees on either side and I had
• 1:06:29
  this huge harness like hauling a wait and I'm like, I'm
• 1:06:35
  continuing and I'm like, damn, this is long.
• 1:06:38
  This is long, right? When is this coming to?
• 1:06:40
  You know, I literally was saying like, when is this gone?
• 1:06:42
  And then I see people kind of going into this little
• 1:06:45
  shortcuts, like why don't I just go there too?
• 1:06:48
  As soon as I do that, my foot sinks into the ground to the
• 1:06:52
  sinking mud. I'm like, well, this is a bad
• 1:06:54
  idea going back, right? And I remember you were behind
• 1:06:58
  me also with the same harness hauling your weight as I'm like,
• 1:07:02
  I kept going. I just keep getting heavier.
• 1:07:04
  And then at some point far, dude, I see a dim of light and
• 1:07:09
  I'm getting closer and closer and closer and I and it's just
• 1:07:13
  going to sound so cringe because it's not, it's not what I
• 1:07:16
  expected. I I see myself with a wife and
• 1:07:22
  three kids, right? And I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
• 1:07:24
  Now, now that I'm desperate, none of that.
• 1:07:27
  But, you know, being a man, it's not easy.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah, single. You know, you have to undergo
• 1:07:33
  these hormones and emotion like, you know, it's just like until I
• 1:07:36
  got like, this is this is too much.
• 1:07:39
  But he's like, in other words, it's coming, but you just got to
• 1:07:42
  keep going. Yeah, you just got to keep
• 1:07:44
  going. That's it.
• 1:07:44
  So that's a that that reminded me of that experience.
• 1:07:47
  I was out of my body, by the way, that felt like 10 minutes
• 1:07:51
  and seven hours had passed in my body.
• 1:07:54
  Yeah, it's insane. But yeah, it reminded me of
• 1:07:57
  that. So yeah, you will.
• 1:08:00
  You are experiencing that and we'll experience more.
• 1:08:04
  Yeah, way more, yeah, definitely in college.
• 1:08:05
  But like, it's literally just like it's, it's literally in our
• 1:08:09
  human nature to like want to speed things up.
• 1:08:11
  Like we always want to get things done as quickly.
• 1:08:12
  Like we literally talked about that.
• 1:08:13
  Like that's why people are so inclined to use AI because it's
• 1:08:16
  such the simple option. Like Proverbs 21 Five says, the
• 1:08:19
  plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but
• 1:08:22
  everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
• 1:08:25
  Keywords hasty. Hasty.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah, you got to slow yourself down sometimes.
• 1:08:29
  Like, even though, like, I was obviously going to be
• 1:08:31
  uncomfortable, Yeah, to think about like, oh, this might take
• 1:08:34
  forever. It might take a long time.
• 1:08:35
  Like, dude, you're not on your own timing anyway, so it doesn't
• 1:08:38
  matter. They're all in God's time.
• 1:08:40
  Exactly. So to those listening, what
• 1:08:42
  would be that one thing you would tell them?
• 1:08:45
  Whoever listens to this about instant gratification, what
• 1:08:49
  would you say to them? I would just tell them that it's
• 1:08:53
  not about the gratification you get.
• 1:08:55
  I think the gratification we get from all these blessings and
• 1:08:57
  these privileges of being able to live present on this earth
• 1:09:00
  and being promised a life forever in heaven is, is
• 1:09:04
  gratification enough? And that the rest of it is just
• 1:09:08
  you surrounding your life to Christ.
• 1:09:09
  Because he already did that for us and there's no way we could
• 1:09:12
  repay it. But all, all we have to do and
• 1:09:15
  all he calls us to do is to put our best effort into it, put our
• 1:09:18
  110% into serving him, you know, spreading the gospel, whatever
• 1:09:23
  it might be. That 100% that everybody puts
• 1:09:26
  your 100% may not be the same 100% as the other one.
• 1:09:29
  Exactly. Yeah, I will meet you there.
• 1:09:31
  Yeah, he meets you there exactly 100.
• 1:09:33
  Percent we go through a different sacrifice compared to
• 1:09:36
  a Muslim in the Middle Eastern country.
• 1:09:41
  Their sacrifice is different from ours.
• 1:09:42
  Yeah, his 100% his best effort, meaning he has to let go of his
• 1:09:46
  family. Yeah, he just renounced Islam.
• 1:09:48
  Yeah, serving Christ, that 100% obvious is not going to be the
• 1:09:52
  same 100% of the other one, right?
• 1:09:54
  Right. But God meets them.
• 1:09:55
  Yes, 'cause God where they are. Yeah, 'cause God weighs the
• 1:09:57
  heart, He weighs it. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:10:00
  That's awesome. That's great.
• 1:10:01
  And also glory to God that you are going to play D1 soccer.
• 1:10:09
  Yeah. Hey, listen, you know what?
• 1:10:13
  God plans everything. Yes, there's to a certain extent
• 1:10:16
  that we know in part and we don't know in part, right?
• 1:10:19
  And that's OK. Yeah.
• 1:10:21
  Not knowing it's OK. Yeah.
• 1:10:23
  Not having controlled thing is OK.
• 1:10:25
  Exactly. Sometimes we have that dreadful
• 1:10:27
  feeling in our stomach of anxiety or whatever that may be.
• 1:10:30
  That just means that we think we're invincible.
• 1:10:33
  We're not. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:10:35
  You know, And sometimes, sometimes, you know what I mean?
• 1:10:39
  God is going to give us a reality, a reality check.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, so 100%.
• 1:10:45
  Now that's great. Hey, listen, man, I know you're
• 1:10:48
  where is this school located? Virginia.
• 1:10:49
  Virginia. Virginia, right?
• 1:10:51
  Listen, we know you're leaving, but if you ever decide to want
• 1:10:55
  to hop on an episode, dude, if you want to drive up calm.
• 1:10:59
  No, yeah, for sure, yeah. If you have someone that like,
• 1:11:04
  let's say, like all this person, they'll be cool to bring to the
• 1:11:06
  podcast. Yeah.
• 1:11:07
  You know you. Can bring them, yeah.
• 1:11:09
  Yeah, bring them. Yeah.
• 1:11:10
  Because I, I know, like, how do I say this?
• 1:11:14
  You can't have these conversations at a church.
• 1:11:16
  You could, but it's, it's not, you can't have these
• 1:11:20
  conversations at in a church setting, right?
• 1:11:21
  Yeah, they're too, they're deep. It requires a bit of a
• 1:11:27
  conversation that we need to engage in.
• 1:11:29
  Yeah. So if you have anyone that wants
• 1:11:31
  to be a part of the conversation, 100% yeah, bring
• 1:11:35
  the now. Mind you, let them know at least
• 1:11:39
  I like challenging, you know, making you think a little bit.
• 1:11:42
  Yeah, yeah. That's I like doing that.
• 1:11:45
  Yeah, dude, I think that's another huge issue is like is
• 1:11:48
  that like people have such a such a problem with people not
• 1:11:51
  having a filter Like bro, I'm like.
• 1:11:55
  What do you mean by what do? You mean more on Hinge than me?
• 1:11:57
  Like especially. Especially you are, yeah.
• 1:11:59
  Yeah, but like, dude, I just be saying stuff like shut up.
• 1:12:01
  Like, dude, like I always tell you this like, it sounds mad
• 1:12:04
  corny, but like some people hate me for it and some people love
• 1:12:06
  me for it. I'm just gonna be, I'm tell you
• 1:12:07
  what, like what I see. Yeah, that's how it is.
• 1:12:10
  And it's like exactly. I think some people like are a
• 1:12:13
  little a little too sensitive to be honest, but.
• 1:12:16
  But that's the culture though, and they've taken that away from
• 1:12:19
  us because there's AI. Don't know if you guys seen in
• 1:12:21
  memes like where like someone hits the the door from the 80s.
• 1:12:24
  Oh, you see that? Someone hits the door from the
• 1:12:27
  90s or someone from the 2000s, and then it just keeps getting
• 1:12:30
  weaker and weaker. That's literally what's
• 1:12:33
  literally happened. I thought that was funny.
• 1:12:34
  But yeah, I just say I just like to when I mean challenge people.
• 1:12:40
  It's not that I'm trying to get like, oh, I know more than you.
• 1:12:45
  I just want to know where you are.
• 1:12:46
  What can I do to help you right that to me, I'm going to
• 1:12:51
  challenge you a little. Bit yeah, I mean Paul, they say
• 1:12:53
  test all spirits. Yeah, Yeah, we are.
• 1:12:56
  We are supposed to keep each other accountable.
• 1:12:58
  I mean, let's say I do something wrong, right?
• 1:13:02
  I'd do something wrong. I'm hoping that you and you as a
• 1:13:08
  brother in Christ, I was supposed to correct me, right?
• 1:13:13
  I mean, honestly, yeah. That's how I know you guys love
• 1:13:16
  me in Christ. Now when that correction comes,
• 1:13:19
  if Oscar doesn't respond the way he should be, then how she
• 1:13:22
  should respond, then that's on me.
• 1:13:24
  Yeah, it's on you, exactly. But if I do reciprocate to that,
• 1:13:27
  that accountability, that's amazing.
• 1:13:31
  Why? Why?
• 1:13:32
  You know what I mean? No, exactly.
• 1:13:33
  And we, we need to practice that more amongst believers, yeah.
• 1:13:38
  And unbelievers help them become more faithful again.
• 1:13:43
  Amen. You know what I mean.
• 1:13:45
  Any last words, Brian? Well, you probably wrote down a
• 1:13:49
  lot of things, did you? Yeah, yeah, I have a lot,
• 1:13:51
  brother. There's so much to talk about.
• 1:13:53
  Even I have more. This is just one doc I have.
• 1:13:55
  I have more stuff and the more stuff he's bringing up, that's
• 1:13:57
  such another big issue is that, like, kids my age are full of a
• 1:14:01
  bunch of yes. Like they're surrounded by a
• 1:14:03
  bunch of yes men. It's like they go to their boys.
• 1:14:05
  They're like, dude, I just did this and this.
• 1:14:07
  Like, bro, is that bad? Nah, bro, you're good.
• 1:14:09
  Like, it's it's all fine. Like, bro, right.
• 1:14:11
  Like, bro, like be for real. Yeah.
• 1:14:14
  Seriously. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:15
  No, I mean, that's true. A lot of approval for man.
• 1:14:18
  Yeah. That's why Paul is like If I
• 1:14:20
  wanted to seek approval for man, I would not be serving Christ.
• 1:14:23
  No, he literally says that, Yeah.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah, he literally says that, Yeah.
• 1:14:25
  Yeah, but I seek after Christ. So, you know, and that's for me,
• 1:14:28
  like I don't ever go to anybody to if I did this or, or what
• 1:14:34
  not, right? I, I will literally I'll bank on
• 1:14:37
  like for example, my brother, if I do something that's completely
• 1:14:40
  out of pocket, he'll literally be like, dude, how was that?
• 1:14:44
  You know, I'm going to be like, yeah, Nah, you're right.
• 1:14:48
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:14:49
  No, no, exactly. Well, you know, he's like, no,
• 1:14:51
  no, no, no, no, no. But, and that doesn't mean
• 1:14:53
  you're right. You don't.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah. So this is the last thing I got
• 1:14:56
  to say too, because. Oh no, the conversation's been
• 1:15:00
  amazing. No, trust me, I I didn't dude,
• 1:15:01
  we've. Never gone this.
• 1:15:02
  Far and I've by the way, and I did not feel it to be honest,
• 1:15:06
  but yeah, like we'll have you back again, you know, Yeah,
• 1:15:10
  keep, keep those. Questions no dude, dude like
• 1:15:12
  let's say you leave right because obviously if you have a
• 1:15:14
  weekend that you know you can make it up here yeah come come
• 1:15:19
  like yo I'm coming all right we're.
• 1:15:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But I would, I would say this, I
• 1:15:25
  guess before we end, like, you know, a young guy actually to a
• 1:15:30
  young guy from, from Starbucks, you know, I sometimes I talk to
• 1:15:34
  him because, you know, he's seeking after Christ.
• 1:15:37
  You know, he says, he asked me, Yo, what's, what's the number
• 1:15:40
  one thing all Christians talk about?
• 1:15:41
  But they don't really do like love your neighbor as yourself.
• 1:15:45
  He's like, wait, bro, how'd you know?
• 1:15:47
  I was like, Nah, because like, how do I asked him, how do you
• 1:15:51
  love yourself? I was like, oh, and he's like,
• 1:15:52
  Oh, well, you know, I take care. Taking care of yourself, you
• 1:15:57
  know, eating healthy, all these things.
• 1:15:58
  You know, I'm like, interesting. Well, you want to know how I
• 1:16:02
  love myself? I love myself so much that I
• 1:16:05
  deny myself. So in that same way, I will
• 1:16:08
  display to the other person too. And I would tell them, deny
• 1:16:10
  yourself and repent. Yeah.
• 1:16:13
  And don't think that way. Yeah.
• 1:16:14
  Well, that's how I love him. That's exactly how I love him
• 1:16:17
  because I love myself that way. That that's real love.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, cuz you, if he's saying
• 1:16:22
  you love your neighbor as you love yourself, So there she's
• 1:16:26
  been saying there, you do love yourself, right?
• 1:16:29
  But it's the love you love yourself enough that you
• 1:16:33
  recognize that you have to deny. Deny yourself because you love
• 1:16:35
  God so much. So in that same way you also
• 1:16:38
  display to your name exactly that's.
• 1:16:39
  Great, that's good. That's why the first commandment
• 1:16:41
  is like the second commandment. Yeah, that's right.
• 1:16:44
  That's right. Yeah.
• 1:16:45
  So, yeah, no, there's so much to talk about.
• 1:16:47
  I know you have a lot. I know you do.
• 1:16:49
  That's good stuff. And.
• 1:16:51
  And, and listen. And if any of Jacob's friends
• 1:16:54
  listen to this, do not lose heart.
• 1:16:57
  Yeah, OK. The spare, the boundary of
• 1:17:00
  despair, if you will, if you want to call it that, cross it.
• 1:17:02
  You're going to be OK. You're going to be fine.
• 1:17:04
  You're going to be fine. And, and whoever listens to
• 1:17:08
  this, keep your eyes on the Kingdom.
• 1:17:12
  Yep, that's it 100%. Keep your eyes on the Kingdom.
• 1:17:16
  And if you don't understand what God is or what is this, don't
• 1:17:21
  lose heart. Yeah, don't lose heart and
• 1:17:23
  remember that if you pray to God about something, do not doubt it
• 1:17:28
  because then you fall into that trap of being double minded.
• 1:17:31
  Yeah, and if you do feel like you, I need help to believe in
• 1:17:35
  this. Ask God.
• 1:17:37
  Yes. For for ask him to help you.
• 1:17:39
  Have faith. 100% it literally says that in scripture.
• 1:17:42
  Literally don't just go on a rabbit hole like I doubt this
• 1:17:45
  this this can't be it. Yeah.
• 1:17:47
  Listen, doubting is OK Ask God to help you.
• 1:17:52
  Yes. Have faith.
• 1:17:53
  Exactly. Break that barrier to break that
• 1:17:56
  100%. You know what I mean?
• 1:17:57
  So it was it was a pleasure, Jacob, I hope that when do you
• 1:18:00
  leave this weekend, Tuesday. Yeah, hopefully.
• 1:18:03
  Have a safe strip and glorify God and everything and every
• 1:18:10
  single thing you do, do it for the glory of God.
• 1:18:15
  Yes. And you know what I was telling
• 1:18:18
  Oscar this. I'm glad you came because you're
• 1:18:21
  gonna go into college. God forbid.
• 1:18:25
  It seems like you love God. It seems like you're affirm.
• 1:18:27
  I'm just saying, God forbid you were to ever like, strive away.
• 1:18:33
  You have this podcast. One day you listen to it and
• 1:18:35
  it'll remind you, Yeah, all the words you said, all the words we
• 1:18:38
  said. But I have faith.
• 1:18:41
  I have hope that you will remain and you can always use this
• 1:18:44
  podcast as reference and to remind yourself like, Oh yeah,
• 1:18:47
  that's right. I remember saying that word.
• 1:18:48
  God did reveal that to me. Yeah.
• 1:18:50
  So it's I'm glad you came. Yeah, there will be moments of
• 1:18:53
  discouragement. Yeah, that that happens. 100%
• 1:18:55
  yeah. But I like that idea of the of
• 1:18:57
  the podcast. I mean, like I think times like
• 1:18:59
  now it's, it's like it's important to get creative with
• 1:19:02
  it. Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:19:03
  Like you spread the gospel, you spread it through podcasts,
• 1:19:06
  clothing, music, whatever, like clubs, anything.
• 1:19:09
  And it's like like whenever I'm wearing like my own merchandise,
• 1:19:11
  you know what I'm saying? Like sometimes I'll just be
• 1:19:14
  like, I'll be channeling, I'll be doing something.
• 1:19:15
  I look at my shirt and I'm just like, I literally have a shirt
• 1:19:18
  that on the back that says like, Jesus died for me and now I live
• 1:19:20
  for him. And it's just like, just like a
• 1:19:22
  quick reminder, right? Right, right.
• 1:19:23
  Yeah, That's good. That's good.
• 1:19:25
  Yeah, I know. And another thing to like, for
• 1:19:30
  example, this podcast, you know, I know, I know he struggles with
• 1:19:34
  this sometimes when it comes to ambition, his podcast, even if
• 1:19:40
  just two or three. Listen to it.
• 1:19:42
  That's awesome. Yeah.
• 1:19:43
  Even if two or three of your friends get to listen that to us
• 1:19:46
  is that's a victory to me because literally it's podcast
• 1:19:49
  like two people got baptized because of it.
• 1:19:52
  And that's glory to God. It's.
• 1:19:53
  Nothing to do with it. No, actually 3, three.
• 1:19:55
  Yeah, three people. Trust me, if it was up to me, I
• 1:19:57
  would not be doing this. No, no, no.
• 1:19:59
  Yeah. And if it were up to us, we
• 1:20:02
  would be doing the whole algorithm thing.
• 1:20:04
  And if I wanted to really, like, there's so many things.
• 1:20:07
  But you know what? I'm glad you have your own
• 1:20:09
  merchandise. Let that happen on its own
• 1:20:11
  organically, because there's so many things we can do to
• 1:20:15
  artificially blow it up because it's possible.
• 1:20:17
  Trust me. But it's just better if it has
• 1:20:20
  that organic touch from God. Yes.
• 1:20:22
  Because now more than ever, now that we live in an artificial,
• 1:20:24
  systematical world, yes, Yeah. We've lost the taste of organic
• 1:20:28
  meaning, right? When God just lets things happen
• 1:20:31
  on their own time. Yeah.
• 1:20:33
  We're so used to the speed to the let's make it happen.
• 1:20:36
  Now, there's nothing wrong with that, but there's limitations.
• 1:20:40
  Yes, because if this podcast is from man, it's going to die out,
• 1:20:46
  but if it is from God, it'll live out.
• 1:20:48
  It'll continue forever. God will pluck us out, put
• 1:20:50
  someone to continue, yes. So it'll be that way.
• 1:20:53
  Yes, so that's how I see it. If it is from God, it'll live
• 1:20:56
  out. Yeah, so you want to close
• 1:21:01
  prayer? Close us in the prayer.
• 1:21:02
  Close it, of course. Go for it.
• 1:21:05
  Lord, I pray that you keep protecting us.
• 1:21:07
  You protect all three of us that are here doing this podcast,
• 1:21:09
  everybody listening and everybody that isn't listening
• 1:21:12
  at this moment as well. I pray that you just fill us
• 1:21:16
  with wisdom, fill us with your health.
• 1:21:17
  That way we may keep discipling and be ready for when it is your
• 1:21:20
  time to come. We're here to serve you and
• 1:21:22
  we're here to surrender to you. The only reason that we're here
• 1:21:25
  is because of you. So we want to display that with
• 1:21:27
  not only our words because that's easy, but we want to
• 1:21:29
  display with our actions as well.
• 1:21:31
  Or we pray that you allow us to keep living the lives we're
• 1:21:34
  living, splitting up in different directions with me
• 1:21:37
  leaving the college and thousands of other kids leaving
• 1:21:40
  the college as well. Some people are graduating from
• 1:21:42
  8th grade, going to high school. Some people are going from high
• 1:21:45
  school to college, and other people are leaving college and
• 1:21:47
  going into the real world, finding a job.
• 1:21:50
  Everybody's in a different stage of their life, but we just, we
• 1:21:54
  all keep our trust in you and we know that everything will be OK.
• 1:21:56
  And just like we said during this podcast, everything will be
• 1:22:00
  fine whether it feels like it or not.
• 1:22:02
  We have peace and knowing that you will take care of us always
• 1:22:05
  and forever. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
• 1:22:07
  Amen. All right, guys, till next one.
• 1:22:09
  This will be out as soon as possible also.
• 1:22:13
  Yeah, go. Sorry, sorry.
• 1:22:14
  One last thing too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:16
  We have an organization. OK.
• 1:22:18
  Yeah, right. We have a clothing and a book
• 1:22:20
  coming soon, so for those that are listening, you know, as time
• 1:22:25
  goes on we will start I guess promoting it more on here.
• 1:22:30
  Yeah, setting it up, I guess. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:32
  That's the best way I can play. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:34
  Oh, by the way, whoever's listening, the medical brigade
• 1:22:36
  was, was a success. We had a hiccups and they tried
• 1:22:41
  to not sue us. But is there any moment you try
• 1:22:46
  to do something good for the government, go crazy?
• 1:22:50
  But whatever is from God, nothing was.
• 1:22:52
  But it but but glory to God it it went well.
• 1:22:54
  Yeah, it was great. That's good stuff.
• 1:22:57
  Awesome, Awesome. All right, guys, to the next
• 1:22:59
  one.