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Nothing Is Yours · Outcast

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All right, God bless you. Thank you for those that have
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been listening and for those that are new, welcome.
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Amen. And before we get started, we
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always pray. So, Lord, thank you so much for
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giving us the opportunity just to be here.
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I pray, O God, that you guide us and you lead us always into the
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ABS of the truth. Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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All right, what do you got, man? Yeah, so I saw a really cool
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quote and and this is from Marcus.
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Yeah, I'm a boss. The name I read Luis no Aurelius
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saying Aurelius. Yeah, I told you I was going to
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Bosh it. That's that's so sad.
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I don't even know what to say. English wasn't my Aurelius.
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Aurelius, Yeah. So he was a Roman emperor,
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right? And he was not Christian.
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He was not Christian. And during that time, you know,
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Christians were being actively, actively persecuted in the parts
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of, you know, of the Roman Empire, Right?
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Right. But he said an interesting
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quote, you know, not a Christian, just a Pagan,
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basically. OK.
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But he said a really good quote that maybe he said it to spike
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up his military or, you know, going into war, right.
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But still, this quote was really interesting, he said.
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What are you afraid of losing when nothing in this world
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actually belongs to you, right? And you know.
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That makes sense. Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean. Whoa, It it makes sense because
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he says it to his soldiers, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We already know that.
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Yeah, based on scripture. But right.
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Yes, he was a Pagan. You know, their religion.
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I believe Zeus in their religion is Jupiter.
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Yes, Jupiter, Yeah. Correct.
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That makes sense. So I mean, I mean, if, I mean,
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you're going into battle, right, Something that they probably
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witness all the time, they probably had newbies.
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That's a good way to round them up, you know?
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Yeah, yeah. To a goal out, you know, to that
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pretty much spikes up the probability much higher to
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survive because they have nothing to lose and they're
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going to perform like perfect. Yeah, yeah.
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But if they think if, if they if they have a framework of they
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have a lot to lose, they might hesitate, they might overthink
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it when they're fighting and stuff like that.
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Yeah, yeah. So it makes sense the way you
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said that, absolutely. Absolutely.
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That's a cool quote and you know it's true.
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I mean, I'm not going to deny it's true.
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Nothing here on Earth belongs to us.
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I mean, but any, anyone, anyone can arrive at that, whether
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you're a Buddhist, you know, if you're a Chinese monk or.
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Yeah. What is that called?
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That fighting technique that they they spend on the temple.
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Oh, you mean like the Qi Kung Fu stuff?
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Yeah, like, I mean, that's just not martial arts.
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But they have also philosophers and way of thinking, you know,
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the the Pagan religions in the Middle East, they all like even
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the Vikings, they they all arrive Mayan religion, Pagan
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culture, all of them, they all arrive at that they know.
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Yeah. There's there is some afterlife.
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Right, right, right. They know that nothing goes with
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them, although the Egyptians would bury some of their things
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because they think that that's the things that they'll have
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there in their afterlife. Yeah, yeah.
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Yes. Yeah, I mean.
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Of course I don't want to go deeper in that, but yeah, no,
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no. So that makes sense why he said
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that. Yeah, I mean, of course it makes
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sense. Nothing here here on earth is
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ours. And also like death itself, I
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don't, you know, when people die, I don't think it's over.
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I personally, I, I I know, I know it's not over.
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I know it's not over. Yeah, it's not it's not an
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opinion. It's just, I just know it's not
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over. I know that there's something
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deeper out there. It's like we were talking
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before, you know, God created Adam and Eve.
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I don't want to get too deep on the the story of it, the origin
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and how they became mortal, but they were supposed to become a
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holy nation. Even if they weren't, even if
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they wouldn't have eaten of the of the tree of of good and bad,
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they were going to become a nation.
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Simple with the simple fact that when he said to Eve, God said to
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Eve because you've done this, I will not multiply implying that
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you would have labour pain, but it would have it wouldn't have
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been as severe, right, Right. With the implications that she
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will be able to. Yeah, because the concept of
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being. Give labour to a kid.
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Yeah, it to a baby that was already a concept that they
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already knew, it seemed like. But that happens.
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So what I'm trying to say is that they were going to become a
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holy nation. They'd be slower, appropriately.
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Now it's just as soon as they were kicked out, it was just
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done faster and inappropriately. Yeah.
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But the reason why I'm saying, the reason why I'm saying like
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that there is after this is because of that, right?
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Yeah, it's not, It's not. It's not over yet.
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Yeah, yeah. No, of course not.
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Even when Christ comes to rule. It's not over.
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It's still not over. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Just because the great day comes of the great day, the day that
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he judges, that's not the last day of the story.
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Yeah, exactly. People act like it's over.
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That's it. It's like, no, I feel like we're
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about to begin the mission. Yes, whatever journey they're of
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happens or thereafter, you know, really is the the the the
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exciting one. Yes, exactly.
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Not to say that this one is not but.
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Yeah, I mean, we're just here to decay.
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But he is right. What he said is right.
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Yeah, cool quote. No.
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That is, that is. Something that we all know.
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Yeah. People who don't believe in God
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also know this, that nothing logically, you don't bring it
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with you. I mean, the only reason why we
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know that is because, like, we can go and excavate and go to
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and see archaeologists discover things that were there in the
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past. Yeah.
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Therefore, imagine if everybody dies with their things, things
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go with them. We literally wouldn't have
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anything. Oh no, no, right.
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So common. Sense.
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Yeah. No, it is common sense.
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Yeah. No, but we don't act like like
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it, you know? But you know what?
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Interestingly, the fact that you brought that up, him being an
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emperor, Pagan worshiper or whatever, he understood that and
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he had no care or I don't know his story.
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I I do vaguely remember that he is was one of the emperors.
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Yeah. Of Rome.
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Yeah, he was one of those, Yeah. But for him to to have concluded
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that and us believers, we tried to learn how to navigate that in
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our modern time, especially where everything is of soul.
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Abundant. Yeah.
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Overly abundant. Yeah.
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Yeah, we can eat so much to the point where we, we, we can throw
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up. Yeah.
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It's true. Like in, you know, Korean BBQ,
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You can just eat. Let's go.
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Let's keep eating until you feel like puking.
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Yeah. No one is stopping you.
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Nope. You see the life we live.
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So, like, interestingly, we sometimes live life with
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contingencies, second plans. Yeah, we don't live.
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We don't live it adventurously. No, yeah, we really don't.
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And being believers, obviously, we should be OK with taking a
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risk, especially if if we're doing God's will, if we know it.
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Yeah, definitively. But, yeah.
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But believers do have a hard time.
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We'd like to keep our things. I mean, I, myself included.
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I'm not going to be, you know what I mean?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I'm not, I'm not saying this to both, but because we learned
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something recently in regards to what, what it really means in
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regards to contingencies and stewardship and how they can be
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similar. They're not I, I've, I've, I've,
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I have a kind of eliminated the framework of emergency funds
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that I have in my account. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Turned it into something else. Right, Right.
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That's actually more beneficial than emergency funds.
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And those steps, as a believer, you make them as you go.
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Yeah, not that you're trying to seek for improvement, but yeah,
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you just want to trust in God more.
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Position yourself where you can trust in.
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Him, Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's the goal to like put
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yourself like, I guess there's there's like God will always
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meet you at checkpoints, right. But there's also this effort in
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which like, you want to, you just want to trust God, you want
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to get deeper with God and you want to like, not trust in like
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material things and money and Job and you want a trust in God,
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you know, you want to condition yourself to that, you know?
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Yeah, our, our lives here are essentially different than third
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world countries. Yeah, Yeah.
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Second World country, right. Or serious, serious impoverished
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countries. They're not even third world.
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They're just, yeah, they're like cooked, right.
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Yeah. We live in a first world country
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where like the challenges that we undertake may not be the same
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for some who are in a third world country.
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We need to willingly positions ourselves the trust in God to
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have faith in him. That's just how it is for us
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here When over there, they their faith is great, but there's a
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caveat. If they leave that circumstance
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to a circumstance where everything is abundant, then
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they get challenged and trials because now they have it all.
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Yeah, things starts to shift. That happens to a lot of
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migrants who come here. Yeah, those I've seen.
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Come with that fervent like zealousness forgotten, then it
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just dwindles because of the comfort that this country
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provides, abundancy that this country.
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Provides, yeah, yeah. So like when you say we're not
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against on someone being prosperous and whatever they do,
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it's just logic. If you put the work in, you're
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going to see something happen. But would you not want your
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spirit to prosper? Yeah, more so meaning like
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drawing near to God. Yeah, yeah, God.
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Drawing you too? Like what James, 47 says.
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Yeah, because wisdom. Wisdom does not come with like
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how much wealth you have wisdom. Comes.
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From from God, so. And I think there's a mistake
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that I don't think that's a mistake that they they make.
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I think then Solomon all of the sudden became rich because he
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obtained wisdom. He was already rich.
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He was born on a golden crib. And to then say that, oh, Noel,
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yeah, he had all that wealth, but he didn't know how to wield
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it. No.
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He was being trained by his dad. There's the Proverbs, there's
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the Psalms being trained by councils.
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He wasn't like a he wasn't like poor.
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All of a sudden, he didn't have access to education.
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Trust me. He had the knowledge on how to
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how to administrate it. What he probably didn't have was
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the wisdom on how to govern and discern the heart of the people
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that he was going to govern, which is entirely different,
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right? They they mistaken that.
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So you know Solomon asked for wisdom 2 Govern the people.
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Yeah, to govern the people. Yeah, and to govern the people,
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meaning having the ability to discern the heart when no one
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knows it. Right?
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Exactly. And he perfectly displays it in
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scripture. When 2 moms came and were
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fighting over a child, Yeah, one was saying that's my child.
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The other mother was saying no, that's mine in front of the
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council. And Solomon was like, this is
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where you literally see his wisdom in display and he
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determines it. And this way, now you and I read
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it. But at that moment, no one there
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knew how he was going to solve that.
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And that's how he displays it. He knew that the real mother
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would jump. The moment he was about to do
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something reckless, the instinct of the mother would kick in and
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say no, 'cause what mother would want to see his child die?
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That's so true. Right, so when he's about to
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draw the sword, the real mother says no, let her keep the child
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right then and there. He knew that was the moment.
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So that type of wisdom that discerns the depths of the of
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the heart not knowing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That is what he obtained. Yeah.
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Obviously having that wisdom on how to discern the heart when he
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already had the knowledge on how to administrate the, the, the
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country, of course, it was like a powerhouse, but it didn't mean
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because all of a sudden he now had this, he knew how to do
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this. Right.
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Yeah, yeah. It just meant like he could
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easily now administrate Israel without having a headache on how
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to rule these people. He already had the wisdom how to
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rule them and still focus on the economy of the country, if you
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will. Yeah, I don't know if that makes
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sense. No, absolutely.
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Absolutely so. If they, you know, so many
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people just crazy. No, no, yeah.
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I mean like if you want to talk about wealth, I think like for
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example, God's when God's when you know he had that dream and
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an Angel came right and said ask anything.
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No, it's actually. God, it was, oh, it was God,
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right? Yeah, yeah.
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So God came, says ask for anything and I'll give it to
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you. And then he said, oh, give me
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wisdom so I can rule over these people.
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Then afterwards it says I will give you wealth like I'll I'll
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multiply your wealth so no other king out there can compare
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himself to you. But the true wealth that he
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obtained was the wisdom itself. That was a real wealth because
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it even says that other kings, other people would come and.
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Would they come for his riches? No, they were already rich.
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Yeah, yeah, they just came for his knowledge.
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The fact that they can have that huge tour just to contend, that
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means they have to have a lot of resources to travel.
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That. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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It would already implied that. They were really good.
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They had a lot. They came for his knowledge, his
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words, the the wisdom that came from heaven.
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That's what they came for. So here in America, we have this
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problem, but we're just so focused on wealth and resources.
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It's fed to us. Yeah, when, when, when the truth
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is like wisdom is what we should be seeking, that deep wisdom
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that can discern the heart. Because when, when people are
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following Christ, they were moments where they probably
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didn't eat or they starved. And you know, you, you see it in
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the Sermon on the Mountain, you know.
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That's another thing that they use.
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Well, you know, well, a lot of people with abundance gave their
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properties, they sold their properties and gave it to their
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Well, of course they believed in the movement that they, they
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wanted to see Christ coming back.
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So of course, nothing they already knew.
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Remember the quote you just said?
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Why do you care about any of these possessions if none of it
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will come with you anyway? Just stays here.
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Nothing that's on earth. So in the in the Greco Roman
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era, they already knew this. This was something common.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So especially for something like that.
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Yeah. Of that magnitude of a message
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and everybody like I I don't know how many people witnessed
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Christ's resurrection. I think it was more than like AI
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think there's a lot of people. They they were like we're we're
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going for this. Yeah, we're going.
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For how can you not? Yeah, how can you?
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Not right they. Probably they probably felt that
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moment like this life here is. Nothing.
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So you can't just all of the sudden say, yeah, they prepared
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themselves for that. And you can then say, oh, well,
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God had everything set up for that.
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You were in no position to, to put yourself where like you're
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going to be a part of what Like, oh, I'm going to hey, listen, if
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you are blessed, good. If you make, if you make like
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100 million, then see what you can do with 99.99 million and
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see what you can stay with a million.
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Yeah, yeah. That's what do you need to stay
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with 203040 yeah right like if you make 100 million, we'll see
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what you can do with 10 yeah, give the rest 9 million or let's
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go all out with the 9 million right.
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It's that's the what's I'm not against if you were to obtain
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that right existential amount of funds.
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No, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is what you do with it.
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And do you do you need to be like whipping out a watch that
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costs 100K? Yeah.
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I mean, like, is that necessary? Right.
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Right. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a
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fanatic of cars. If I had that kind of money, I'd
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be like, I would like to get every car right.
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And that's the test of character.
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What do I need that's necessary? Like Francis Chang.
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Yeah, I, I was just going to say that because, you know what
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would be, what would be so much more beautiful for you to have a
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like your dream car or to see like a bunch of hospitals
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helping kids? What would be more beautiful?
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That that, that's actually one of my guilty pleasures.
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No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, we.
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Obviously. I mean, I would love to have
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like 3-4 hospitals. No, yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely. I would like to.
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And I heard that too. What the.
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I heard that too. That was like a scream, right?
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Yeah. That was weird.
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That was weird. Yeah.
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I don't know if anybody heard that.
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But yeah, that's my, that's my, that's my guilty.
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I would aside from cars and aside from like, yeah, really
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just for me, it's cars and instruments, right, Right,
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right. I would love to have a bunch of
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hospitals and clinics and just like, yeah, just go, just go
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picks you up. Yeah.
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Yeah, like solve the problem because Francis, Francis Chang,
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his testimony, I mean, we've we've spoken about it, but just
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to give a little story, he basically they said when he sold
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his book, he was going to collect $4 million, right?
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You know, and he spoke to his wife.
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He said he he was like, why don't we just keep like 300 or
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400 K for ourselves and then the the rest of it just give it to
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hospitals and schools out there in China or somewhere else.
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And he's, yeah, you know, he was basically like, you know, what
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would be, you know, what would be more awesome for me to have a
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new house or this, or to see a bunch of kids in clothes and
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yeah, yeah, you know, all these things.
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Yeah. Yeah, 'cause at the end of the
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day, are we not here to glorify God?
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Yeah. So wouldn't it be so beautiful
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to use all that to glorify God? Of course.
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You know what I mean? Yeah.
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So like I said, that quote speaks a lot, especially from a
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Roman Empire who has The Who had the power?
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Yeah. And OK, fine.
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He probably used it to get their soldiers riled up.
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He was saying the truth anyways. Yeah, Yeah.
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So. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, listen, I mean, he was Pagan, but like, wow, man.
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I mean, let's just say he did live by that quote.
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Let's just say we don't know. I mean, we don't know his heart.
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We don't know what he was doing. But I mean, don't didn't a lot
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of emperors like fight in front of the battles?
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Oh. No, no, yeah, most of them.
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It was known that the leader, yeah, of such country or Kingdom
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right, would also be in battle battling with them.
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Yeah, yeah. So as I'm saying, they probably
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had that same mentality when they were fighting up.
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There in the front. That's why they were always
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fixated with an air. I need to leave an air.
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I need a boy. I need a first boy.
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Yeah, yeah. And train them because they were
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they would go out to campaigns meaning to battles, right.
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And if something happened to him, there was already someone
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who would take care, right. So that was also a thing.
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So you you say you have something that you wanted to a
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video. Is this is a?
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Yeah, if you want to. Yeah, I just, it's just it, it
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just kind of this, this video kind of blew my mind because
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like, so basically this is like a podcast and this pastor is
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talking about like how Christ came to him and then put like a
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heavy golden, like, like what is it like a like a blanket on him
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made out of gold or something like that.
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And then says all, you know, we we need more wealth and this and
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that to, to go do more missions, like not missions, but like
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stuff here, like I don't, I don't like evangelize and stuff.
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And and I don't know, man, it was just like interesting the
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way he was saying it because I'm just like, I'm like, I mean,
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look at John the Baptist. He was a hobo in the wilderness.
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Yeah, like a hobo. Meaning like, because he.
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Yeah, he was just. I was in the wilderness.
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Yeah. Eating raw honey and crickets
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and. Grasshoppers.
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Grasshoppers and and and Christ said he was one of the best
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man's that has come out of a woman.
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He didn't even know resources or anything like that.
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Now, if God provides that's different, but I I don't think
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you have to go out of your way to just go seek it all all the
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time. I feel like there's there's a
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limit in which what if God wants you to just stay?
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But if you then say that to someone of that prosperity type
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of gospel message, then there would be like, yeah, well, you
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think that way because you've been taught or, or conditioned
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to think a certain way because this is bad or money's bad or
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that that's what they that's what they were saying.
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No, I know. And I would say to them, I'm
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like, I, I don't think money. And and just yeah, exactly.
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I'd be like, I don't think money is bad, I'm just saying I think
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God is more powerful than money. Yeah.
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Just to let the facts out there, we've never implied that money
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is bad. Yeah, We've never implied that
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finances bad. Is that we are wicked.
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Yeah. We are wicked the intentions of
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our. Hearts are wicked.
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We are very ambitious, yes. And as much as people would like
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to say well, you would have to, you have to be ambitious and say
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well, at hindsight it may not seem harmful, but inevitably.
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Yeah. It gets in the way.
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Oh yeah, ambition. Ambition will cause you to sin.
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So yeah, I mean, I'm not against what people prosper.
22:37
Yeah, yeah. Don't get me.
22:38
Wrong me neither. Look, if if God allows you to
22:41
get to that, you know, spot or, you know, allows you to get an
22:46
immense amount of like, you know, money, that's fine.
22:50
I'm not saying you're going to go to hell, but I'm saying like
22:53
there's a bigger picture out here, yeah.
22:55
There's a bigger It's not about God knows your needs too.
23:00
He knows. He knows you need to live under
23:02
a roof and eat and transportation.
23:04
Yeah. How you want to live and what
23:07
type of transportation you want really comes down to your test
23:11
of character. Yes.
23:12
Do I really need this? Yes.
23:14
Yes. Do I?
23:15
If you have 4 kids, do you really need a mansions?
23:17
Do you really need a mansion? Really.
23:19
You know what I mean, Right? Right.
23:20
But God wants the best for you. Yeah, and it's not here on
23:24
earth. Yeah, you already gave you the
23:26
best. I'm the Son of God.
23:28
I'm like, what are you talking about?
23:29
I'm. Pretty sure throughout Scripture
23:31
you can literally see repeatedly how, like, we get called out to
23:35
not pay attention to the things here on Earth.
23:37
Yeah, yeah. That are perishable.
23:39
That's true. Like a bunch of I don't know,
23:41
man, but you know, I'm gonna play this.
23:45
Is there a certain section where you or you just want to listen
23:48
to it as we go? No, I guess we'll we'll listen a
23:50
little bit to it, OK? Yeah, yeah, maybe I.
23:52
Think it was. I think it was on this part.
23:54
Alright, yeah, I'm not. Really.
23:55
Sure. We'll listen, we'll pause.
23:56
It's just something new that we're trying.
23:58
This is. See this is see there 4.
24:02
Percent of any economy and they can begin to take control.
24:06
They build cultural centers. They build schools, private
24:10
schools. They build stores, markets where
24:14
people shop and buy food. They build halal centers.
24:19
Oh, he's talking about the Muslim community.
24:21
How like. Well, I I will give respect to
24:23
the Muslim community. For this.
24:24
Aspect for this aspect you know I've never seen it too that
24:27
let's just say you know you have a brother and another brother.
24:30
You know you 3 will join together and have the wives at
24:33
home taking care of. The kids, no, they have this
24:36
unity thing in their family. That's, that's it's unrivalled
24:43
because I don't see it. I maybe, yeah, I see a little
24:46
bit in the Hispanic culture, but I see it more on the Middle
24:49
Eastern families and on the Jewish community.
24:52
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't.
24:56
I only Middle East, I think and Indians, yeah.
24:59
Asians, Southern Asians, yeah, maybe on the eastern side, but I
25:05
have never seen it in the West. Yeah.
25:07
So what he's saying is that they may call out centers.
25:11
So I'm assuming, yeah. Islam.
25:15
Yeah. Like Muslim Muslims?
25:16
Yeah, Muslims like they grab a lot of resources, a lot of this
25:19
and that. They unite together to grab
25:20
wealth and all this stuff and they open up market.
25:24
If I'm not mistaken, I mean I've seen this before too but you can
25:28
press it. He talks about this.
25:31
You probably might say this after this, but and by doing
25:36
that, that spreads Islam in a way kind of like evangelizing.
25:40
So it seems like I do remember this because I, I've seen this
25:43
before. He it is almost like this
25:48
infrastructure that they have to help people.
25:50
They give it, they give money to influencers and stuff like that.
25:53
So they they that is some can spread and spread and spread,
25:57
right, right. And so she's probably I know you
26:00
can get going. I think I know he's going with
26:02
this. Right.
26:03
They start businesses, they they buy gas stations and pretty soon
26:08
everybody in the community is patronizing these businesses.
26:14
You know, and I gave this story one time I went to Africa and I
26:18
was, we're planning 20 churches in Africa.
26:20
I remember this and I. Get down there and I'm telling
26:23
them about Deliverance and I'm telling them about, you know,
26:26
prophecy and the supernatural. And like, they were yawning,
26:30
like in my meeting, they were like, they were like, we know
26:34
all of that. We've been doing that.
26:36
We do that better than you all do that, he said.
26:39
But we don't have any money. And I said, what do you mean?
26:43
He said, well, we're trying to build our little church and and
26:48
put a roof on the building and build windows and by generators
26:52
3 or 4 mosques go up in that same time period.
26:55
And we're losing people to Islam, not because of the
26:59
doctrine or the theology, but. Because hold on, hold on, keep,
27:03
keep going at it. Because they'll go in and
27:05
they'll offer bags of rice. They'll offer free.
27:07
Education. So how sad, the fact that, you
27:13
know, I, I remember seeing all of this, it's sad that the
27:18
people that were hearing his message about prophesying of
27:21
this, they then said we don't need that.
27:24
We just need money because of the long span of us trying to do
27:27
this. Three months goes up, but then
27:29
shame on you because if you really had those gifts, would
27:32
that not mean that's a lot of a lot of people for you to go out
27:35
and reach out to? You know what, like that just
27:37
blew my mind. The fact that I just remembered.
27:39
That, And what does Paul say? Or if he says prophecy builds
27:44
the church, Yeah. It.
27:45
It does say that it's not a gift.
27:47
You know what blows my mind is not we need money.
27:50
Yeah, because you want to you want to give education all that,
27:55
but if you have the gifts of the Spirit of the Lord, should you
27:58
not with that with that what you just answered him.
28:02
No, no, no, we can do that better than you.
28:04
Okay, if that is true, then why don't you then in those three
28:07
Moss go in and and spread to them.
28:10
Yeah, go challenge. Now they're like yeah, but if we
28:13
do that they're going to look at us.
28:14
They're going to look down upon us because we don't have
28:16
anything to provide. You have the word of God.
28:19
That's living water, dude. You know dude, but there.
28:23
But I know where he's coming from because Islam gives all of
28:25
this food, education, all that, all that.
28:28
That must be the faith, because they just give it all.
28:31
Right. Hey, listen, the apostles didn't
28:35
need that. No, they didn't.
28:36
Peter said to the lame. He's like, hey listen, I don't
28:39
have silver gold, but I have the word of God.
28:40
So we stand up and walk. OK, you see, that's a really
28:43
good story you just brought up because, yeah, he literally said
28:46
to to the lame. He says I don't have silver,
28:48
gold, but I have this in the name of Jesus, get up and walk.
28:52
Yeah. And then after that, guess what
28:54
happened. The rich saw it and they were
28:57
like, oh, we gotta, you know, here's the money.
28:59
Like the resources just came naturally.
29:01
But they didn't. They weren't looking for it.
29:02
Just, you know, but they weren't after the silver and the gold.
29:05
They were after. Yeah, The mission, Yeah.
29:07
But I'm not Even so much disappointed on why he's even
29:11
using this story. Yeah.
29:12
More disappointed on whatever church he found in Africa and
29:15
gave them that response. Yeah.
29:17
Yeah. Rather than like, no, these are
29:19
souls that are getting lost, essentially, Yeah.
29:22
We gotta go reach him. We gotta go.
29:24
Reach out. Yeah.
29:24
Let them know who the real God is, right?
29:26
If in fact you say we can do this better than you, Yeah.
29:30
I'm not judging them. I'm just like.
29:32
I mean, dude, I mean, what did Elijah do?
29:34
What did Elijah do? He says, all right, let's, let's
29:37
do, let's do this. We'll see which God is real.
29:40
You know, come on. Like, you know, he was, he was
29:42
more like, like, all right, if if I worship the real God, you
29:45
guys have to bow down to this one.
29:47
This is the real. So like it's, it's like we need.
29:52
Money because of windows. And that's fine.
29:54
That's true. There's nothing wrong with that,
29:56
right? There's churches here in in
29:58
America that are that work so hard to pay the bills and they
30:01
can barely get through. Yeah, yeah, I get that.
30:04
But you want to know something, bro?
30:05
You want to know what's so funny that the churches that do have
30:10
these millions of dollars, what are they doing?
30:12
All they're doing, it's just renovating the churches to make
30:15
you look more beautiful when they already have a huge
30:18
sanctuary. Yeah, they're, I know where
30:20
you're coming from, though. A friend of ours chaired.
30:25
It's it's it's, it's not nothing secret.
30:28
Yeah, they they announced. They it's literally on, It's
30:32
actually on their newsletter. I don't know where, but they
30:34
received like some funds from the government.
30:38
It's just probably subsidies because governments are the
30:41
federal gives money to so so this can go to so that money can
30:46
go to, you know, the ecosystem program, whatever green
30:48
whatever. So they gave this to a church
30:53
here in I'm not going to name the church the church here in
30:56
New Jersey and Morris County. And basically they're proposing
31:01
to put solar panels, make the church, you know, living, you
31:05
know, while they could, they do have help centers and all that
31:09
other stuff. Why don't they just continue
31:10
with that? Why don't they expand that?
31:12
Yeah. But I guess the church needs to
31:15
look nicer. But see, this is the again,
31:19
because I say it's ridiculous, doesn't mean I'm offending.
31:22
I don't know how they come to these decisions.
31:24
And I don't know if, if they don't use that for the for the
31:28
green initiative, I wonder if they can't even hold on to the
31:30
funds if funds are taken back. So, you know, it's, we don't
31:33
know, but let's assume that they're, they're given that $9
31:39
million as a grant. Grant means you don't pay it
31:42
back. It's just here it is.
31:43
Yeah. Let's assume that they can do
31:46
whatever they want with it. Why not like keep expanding and,
31:50
and, and strengthening this the helping centers again, that
31:56
doesn't mean I'm against them. And no, I hate them.
31:58
Or it's just, it's just, what are you doing?
32:00
I think it's just common sense, no, Yeah.
32:04
If it's the other route where like if you don't use it for
32:06
that initiative, for that initiative, green go green,
32:09
whatever, and they take the grant out, then you shouldn't
32:11
even be getting involved with the government then and and and
32:16
and and and with the government at all.
32:18
Yeah, twice. But but anyways, you can
32:23
continue. I just, I thought that was
32:24
interesting. No, no, no, that's a good point.
32:25
I mean, then you know what? That you know what that shows me
32:28
actually that story you just saw right now where Paul is like, I
32:32
can have all these gifts, this and that, but if I don't have
32:35
love, I don't have anything. Paul says increase your love in
32:39
this way by knowledge and discerning in all things no
32:44
matter what. So yeah, that's that's really
32:46
interesting. You brought that up.
32:47
Increase in knowledge. Yeah.
32:50
And then discerning in all things, yeah.
32:51
That's what. If you increase in knowledge, at
32:54
some point you're going to have to discern all that knowledge
32:56
you have. Yeah, right.
32:59
Yeah, but that's a good point you brought up, man.
33:01
It's really a good point. Yes, that's true.
33:04
For this so, so people are being evangelized financially by
33:09
Islam. That's theologically.
33:11
And so the church, what the church hasn't understood is
33:14
that. I'm sorry, dude, rhetoric of I
33:19
remember, I remember watching this and.
33:21
And he, you know, he cares about you without the demonstration of
33:28
wealth does not compute in this generation because yes, God
33:33
loves me, but I can't pay my bills, I can't feed my kids.
33:37
I, I don't know how to handle this or that.
33:41
So whoever answers these problems has the ear of society.
33:46
And I don't think we understand that when you look at all of the
33:48
deviants, all these guys that are doing all this perverse
33:52
deviant things, they're all wealthy, right?
33:55
And they're funding a lifestyle of darkness.
33:58
So the question I go back to is, who's going to pay for when we
34:01
say, oh, we're viable. We're going to see revival in
34:03
cities, OK, That means we're going to have to disciple
34:06
children, disciple young people. We're going to have to help
34:10
people transition out of their lifestyles.
34:13
How are we going to do that, right?
34:15
When we talk about human trafficking, the number one
34:17
reason by human trafficking is finances.
34:20
People sell their children because they don't have money.
34:23
Women get into all types of compromising sexual things
34:26
because of finances. You know, I was talking to a
34:30
group of people that we, we, we have, we actually support an
34:34
anti trafficking ministry in our, in our city when in
34:37
Sarasota area. And one of the things you often
34:40
hear with these young ladies, they'll say, Hey, I, I, I want
34:44
to come out of the clubs, I want to come out of the brothels, I
34:47
want to come off of these, these websites, but how am I going to
34:51
pay my bills? I got 3 kids, right?
34:54
So we tell them to come out of the lifestyle, but we don't
34:56
teach them about God's plan to prosper them how?
35:00
How can their transition? I'm done with this.
35:03
I can't listen. I'm sorry bro.
35:04
No, no, no, no, no, no. It's just, you know, I was, I
35:07
was going to say something. I was actually going to say
35:08
something. It's like, no, it's like, it's
35:11
like, OK, yeah, that's that's that's sad.
35:14
That's sad. You know you have three kids,
35:15
this and that, but like, is there not such thing as
35:18
consequences? But honestly, come on, you have
35:20
a brain. Yeah, like Start learning
35:23
something different, dude. And you want to know something
35:25
too? No, no, that's OK.
35:27
That's. I get what he's saying.
35:29
That's number one. I get what he's saying.
35:31
Yeah, I I get what? He's saying poverty will lead
35:33
you to do wicked things. I mean, I Davidson.
35:36
And so I was like, God give me enough so that I don't mm hmm,
35:38
not too much of that. I forget about you and not too
35:40
little that I start, you know, right to theory, but like, come
35:44
on. Like I, I know.
35:45
That I would curse your name, I mean.
35:46
Also, well, there has to be a sense of faith, too, bro.
35:50
That's number one. Number two, like consequences
35:53
arise. Of course you put yourself in a
35:54
situation, there's going to be consequences.
35:56
Number three, I've seen people, bro, that come to this country.
36:02
Yeah, that you heard that again? Yeah, it was, that was OK.
36:05
But anyways, it's like saying like if the the girls aren't
36:09
only fangs, like I think like far four of them, like, you
36:13
know, the four of them and the again, I'm just saying like
36:22
they're already only fans because the marketing they can
36:26
expose themselves. There's desperate people that
36:28
want to lust so bad that they're willing to do that.
36:31
Yeah, yeah, that they get so much money out of it.
36:34
Right, right. And then some of them, actually
36:37
one of them is genuine, that turned to to to Christ.
36:40
Yeah, I forgot her name. I didn't even talk about yeah.
36:43
She redhead. Yeah, and people were bashing on
36:45
her. Yeah, you know, but then there's
36:47
other ones like, Oh yeah, because of because of the trend.
36:49
Yeah, right. Yeah.
36:52
So like who you know who, who, who it who told them that you
37:03
know what I. Mean no yeah, yeah.
37:03
To come out of it yeah. You know social media, the trend
37:06
exactly, exactly. I don't know.
37:08
And you want to know something too, bro?
37:10
Like, like he was like, oh, you know, what am I going to do all
37:12
this stuff, bro? I've seen, I've seen people,
37:15
bro, that come to this country literally like with no English,
37:19
no nothing. With kids, they just go work,
37:23
they go hustle, they go work 32 jobs, three jobs.
37:26
They they learn to trade. And the next thing you know, the
37:28
trade picks up and they just go off from there.
37:30
Yeah. Yeah.
37:30
So like. Is it easier to just do that?
37:33
Clubs or only things? Yeah.
37:34
It's probably easier, yeah, absolutely.
37:37
But if you want to come. Out of that much work?
37:38
If you want to come out of that lifestyle, I'm sorry, there's
37:40
going to be consequences. Look there, there is an
37:44
entrepreneur, his name is, everybody knows who he is, Alex
37:47
Ramozi. And he firmly believes this is a
37:51
guy who doesn't believe in God, who doesn't believe in it,
37:55
believes there's no such thing as free will.
37:58
And I agree. That's insane and that's
38:00
amazing. And this is true.
38:01
Yeah. Yeah.
38:02
Because. Alexa Mosey and also that
38:04
others. Really smart British kid.
38:06
Oh, Alex O'Connor. Yeah, he also.
38:08
Says the same thing too. Yeah.
38:09
And they arrive at that because there will always be a certain
38:13
situation that's going to cause you to behave differently
38:15
because of that situation. Implying that you don't have,
38:19
you're not autonomous like your decisions have consequence if
38:23
you decisions didn't have consequence and you can override
38:25
any of that and truly you are free, free willed being.
38:28
You have free willed. Right.
38:29
So like at the end of the day, these you make these decisions.
38:34
Maybe our past ancestors made bad decisions and This is why
38:38
we're all broke. But it takes again, I'm not
38:42
saying go conquer the world and go start an enterprise.
38:45
If you're a believer trusting God if he takes you in a route
38:49
where you then acquire that amount, be wise, be wise and
38:53
rationalize to see what is worth for you as a living for your
38:57
wife and family. Do you eat 10 million?
38:59
What are you going to do with 10 mil?
39:00
Yeah, right. Exactly.
39:02
So that's, you know, that's what I just, I couldn't, right,
39:06
Right. I couldn't finish that.
39:08
No, I know, I know. It's just.
39:10
And the fact that he says that they're being, they're being
39:12
financially evangelized. I do remember this podcast and
39:15
he goes on and says that we need to start financially
39:18
evangelizing, not theologically evangelizing, right?
39:22
That blew my mind. I mean, if you keep watching it,
39:24
because now I remember, I know I.
39:26
Did hear that part? Yeah.
39:27
Yeah, I do remember that. No, the world we live in, the
39:30
times we live in. Wow, it's crazy. 2 perspectives,
39:34
1 from like a third world country full of gifts and
39:36
they're like, no, we need money. And then over here, where it's
39:39
like we need more money. Yeah, and then a Roman emperor
39:43
years ago says nothing on this earth stays with you anyways.
39:47
Yeah, I don't know, bro. So yeah, it's crazy.
39:50
It's crazy. Yeah.
39:51
Yeah. Well, I think that's it for
39:54
today, but. Hey, by the way, whoever
39:56
listens, if you like how that went with listening to I hope
40:01
that those you know, they keep. I mean, they're our brothers and
40:04
sisters. Grace.
40:06
I I hope they're doing. I hope they keep doing it for
40:09
the Kingdom. I just don't understand.
40:11
They're where they. And when I say I don't
40:14
understand, doesn't mean like I I want to understand or not.
40:17
It just doesn't make sense, right?
40:18
Right. But that's neither or.
40:20
Yeah. I hope God keep blessing them
40:22
and yeah, keep going at it, Yeah, and we'll close it off.
40:27
Absolutely. All right, absolutely.
40:28
Thank you Father, for this opportunity.
40:31
Generally, I am convinced that this was your will for tonight
40:35
and we we ask that you bless all those who are in need and
40:39
provide a way, you know that breath of life so that they can
40:44
be able to continue living because we need to survive.
40:47
We need to eat, we need to sleep.
40:49
We all get there and we know you understand that and that you
40:54
will be done always at all times.
40:56
And as we know that the enemy gets upset or I don't know what
41:03
have you on what he wants to do, but that we ask you, Lord, that
41:07
you know you rebuke him. You're in control of all things
41:11
and always provide the way for us to continue in your path,
41:17
abiding under grace under Your Son, which is an amazing gift.
41:23
We know that once we pass from here to the next, it doesn't
41:28
end, but it continues as we know there are certain several
41:33
episodes to happen in the coming years and era.
41:37
And if we are here to witness it, glory to You.
41:39
And if we're not, glory to you always and we thank you for
41:43
everything you have done. Amen.
41:45
Till the next time guys, goodbye.