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These Types of Men Will Survive the AI Apocalypse · Sacred Men

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  What's going on, men? Welcome back to the Sacred Men
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  YouTube channel. This is Pastor Justin Dean, and
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  I've got a pretty simple concept to push your way this week.
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  It's something that I mentioned in my sermon at Sacred City
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  Church this past Sunday, and it's this idea that there's only
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  three types of people in the world.
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  There's builders, there's consumers and there's destroyers
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  and I want to build that out just a little bit and then show
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  us how we can move into becoming the type of men, build things
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  who create good things for the good of our people, for the good
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  of our self, and also for the good of our community and the
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  good of the world. But before I do that, look at
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  some statistics. Last year, this, this channel is
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  less than a year old and we had over 10,000 views last year,
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  and all of that fun stuff, but really thrilled with what God's
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  done so far and what we're building here at Sacred Men.
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  And this channel exists to build godly virtuous men in a
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  degenerate culture, a culture that only knows how to tear
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  things down. And that kind of leads me to our
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  topic of the day builders, consumers and destroyers.
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  So here's the idea. Builders build, they create
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  things, they add value. They walk into a room and we've
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  already talked about having gravitas of being a person that
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  carries weight and responsibility.
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  They're a virtuous person and they can kind of command a room.
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  They, they, they have a gravity about them that pulls others
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  into their orbit. And if you're a godly man with
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  gravitas, you're pulling others towards God, right, towards
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  Jesus, and you're moving them and all the people around you
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  into a, into the orbit of Christianity, right?
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  And that's what we all want to do.
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  But builders, they know how to add value.
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  If you put them in a business setting, they're going to be
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  there to build things, to build up other people, to build up the
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  organization, to get success, right, to move the mission
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  forward. Builders build.
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  Now, if we think in in the world today, I don't think there's a
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  greater builder in the world today than Elon Musk, right?
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  Seems like he's got the Midas touch.
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  Everything he touches turns to gold.
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  But the reason he's like that is because he has a builder
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  mindset. He's there to build great
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  things, right? He's got this kind of an
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  engineering mindset and a leadership mindset where he's
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  building for a greater purpose. And he's obviously the most
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  wealthy man that's ever lived. Then there's the consumers.
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  Now consumers consume. They live to purchase.
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  They live to consume. They live to veg out on Netflix,
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  they live to veg out on social media.
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  They live. They go to work, not to build.
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  They go to work to get a paycheck.
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  They get that paycheck. And by the time they get that
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  paycheck, most of that paycheck's already spent because
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  they spend all their waking hours thinking about what am I
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  going to buy, right? Whatever it is, clothes,
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  vacations, vehicle, all of these types of things.
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  Now what's interesting when I was in the construction trade, I
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  had a guy who had a very successful business here and he
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  told me because there's a lot of turnover in the construction
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  trade. And he said one of the best
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  things you can do if you want to get a foreman or you want to get
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  one of your guys to stay committed to you is encourage
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  him to buy a brand new truck. And what he was getting at here
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  is a lot of people are consumers and the only thing that will
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  keep them locked into a job is a paycheck, right?
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  Or it or is a is a large car payment because they get that
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  they get that payment or they get that paycheck and
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  immediately it goes to that payment and then that payment
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  keeps them locked in. That fear of that 500 seven
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  $100,000 payment keeps them locked in day-to-day, coming to
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  work and putting in the hours. And he's getting at this idea
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  that our culture is really built off of consumerism, right.
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  Many of us lack an an internal motivation to be builders.
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  And sometimes the only thing that can get us out of bed in
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  the morning is the the fear of missing a payment, the fear of
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  the repo man coming and taking that that truck away from us.
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  And so we have been kind of indoctrinated in the society to
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  be consumers. And so there's a large swath of
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  the population that they only exist to consume things.
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  They go to church just like baby birds, right, with their mouth
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  open just to consume. They have no thought of being
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  there to feed and, and to receive sustenance from the word
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  of God. In order to build myself up, in
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  order to build up my family and other, in order to build up my
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  church, in order to build up society.
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  They're not there as builders. They're there merely as
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  consumers. And so they're takers, right?
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  If they go to a Christian community or a men's group,
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  they're going to sit there and just what's in it for me, right?
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  Do I enjoy this? Are the people that I like here?
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  They're not thinking about building others up.
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  And our our society's filled with these people.
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  And it's kind of one of the the negative traits of the boomers,
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  right? They've worked their life,
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  they've received their income, they've got a good retirement
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  and now they're kind of kind of cashing in their checks.
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  And they're only, they only think about themselves.
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  They only think about the vacations they want to take, how
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  much golf they can play, get by in the RV and travel in the
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  country. They don't think about the next
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  generation. They don't think about pouring
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  into their children, continuing to pour into their children,
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  helping their children build businesses and build lasting
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  legacies to take the family name and that legacy to the next
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  generation. And we don't want to be like
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  that. We don't want to be just
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  consumers. And then lastly, the last group
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  of people are the destroyers. These people ruin everything and
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  they, they, they destroy businesses, they're terrible to
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  work with. They, they do bad work.
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  They destroy churches, they destroy families.
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  Usually they're so selfish and immature that they're just
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  thinking about the, the moment and they're just there to get
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  whatever they can from whoever they can.
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  And they tear things down. Now, when you look at this as a
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  society, honestly, our educational system has been
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  building destroyers for a, a long time.
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  You go off into college and you learn everything you hate about
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  America, everything you hate about our forefathers and the
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  founders of our country. And, and they're taught just to
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  tear things down. They're taught to tear down
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  statues. They're taught to riot in the
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  streets. They're taught to protest
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  everything. And they're, they can't build
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  anything and they can only tear things down.
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  Now that's obviously a recipe for destruction.
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  No society can last with that many destroyers.
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  And So what we want to do as sacred men and we want to be as
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  Christian men is we want to be builders, men that build things
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  that last a lifetime and that last on into the generations.
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  So I'm 46 right now and I have an 18 year old son who's about
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  to be 19. And I'm spending a lot of time
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  thinking about helping him build a business, helping him find the
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  niche that he can succeed in and multiply not only, you know, his
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  wealth, but a generational wealth, right?
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  That can go on into the future. And one of the things I was
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  thinking about, I'm reading a couple books right now on AI and
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  it's pretty concerning, right the of the future of our economy
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  as it becomes a kind of an AI economy.
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  And one of the guys I'm reading basically said all of the middle
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  managers, all of the paper pushers, all of the guys that
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  basically are consumers, they just go to work to consume, AI
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  is going to replace them. Now, AI is not going to replace
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  the Craftsman, the tradesman. And so I think we need to be
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  encouraging young men to go into the trades, but you go into the
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  trades not to be a consumer. You go into the trades to be a
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  builder, to build something that lasts, to provide value for
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  other people, build a great home, whatever it is, whatever,
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  whatever trade you want to go into and and then build a
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  lasting legacy that potentially you could pass on to your
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  children. But this book is is basically
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  saying that all of those middle manager, paper pusher type of
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  jobs are going to be replaced by AI.
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  But the men who become, well in his term, butt kickers, right,
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  that wasn't quite his term. That's his edited term, butt
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  kickers. Men.
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  And in my words, men that are builders, men that know how to
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  develop other people. They know how to develop
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  themself. They add value to whatever room
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  they're in. They're not there to take.
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  They're there to build and to give.
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  Those people are going to get filthy rich, is what he says in
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  this AI economy, because they're going to get a bunch of butt
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  kickers around them, guys that want to get things done and
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  build. They're going to use AI and
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  technology to the best of their ability to do all the stuff
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  that, you know, a consumeristic type of worker would typically
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  do. And AI is going to be much
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  cheaper than hiring those people.
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  And they're going to implement processes that can keep this
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  system going. And those guys are going to make
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  a lot of money and they're going to be really successful.
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  And so as Christian entrepreneurs and as Christian
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  men, I think we need to be thinking in these lines.
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  We want to be builders and we don't we want to avoid
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  destroyers right now there's we don't choose who's in our
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  family. We don't choose who our
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  neighbors are. But you know, it's been said
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  that you will become basically just like the the five men that
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  you spend most of your time with, right?
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  The five people you spend most of your time with, that's who
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  you're going to become. So we want to surround ourselves
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  in a tight circle with men who are builders, right?
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  That's the kind of men we want to become.
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  And so we want to do our best to surround ourselves with men like
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  that. And that's what we're trying to
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  do at Sacred Men. That's what we're trying to do
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  at Sacred City Church. We want to surround ourselves
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  with builders and we want to move guys that are consumers.
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  We want to move them from being consumeristic into this builder
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  mindset. And that's what I want to leave
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  you with today. I'm trying to keep this video a
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  little bit shorter. Is the power of a mindset,
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  right? We've talked before at Sacred
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  City about our identity, like who are we?
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  Who do we think we are, right? And it's important that we have
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  a mindset. No matter if I've been
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  consumeristic in my past, no matter if I've been a destroyer
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  in my past, that when we meet Christ and Christ changes our
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  identity, gives us this new identity that we're now a new
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  creation in Christ and that now we have to put on the mind of
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  Christ. It's important that that our
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  mindset changes. That we start looking at
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  ourselves as a builder, right as a disciple of Jesus who's out
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  here to make more disciples and renew the world for the glory of
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  God. That we're here to build things
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  that last for the Kingdom of God.
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  And this mindset can really change the way you see
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  everything. It's it's like these glasses, if
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  these glasses were tinted a certain color, everything I
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  would see would be tinted with that color.
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  Well, having a builder mindset is like that.
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  Every room you go into when you get home from work, you, you're
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  seeing your home through the mindset of a builder.
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  I'm here to add value. I'm here to love my wife, to
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  lead my wife to love my children and disciple my children.
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  When I sit down at the dinner table, I'm not just there just
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  to gobble it all up as fast as I possibly can, but I'm there to
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  disciple my kids. And so we're going to pray and
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  we're going to sing a hymn and maybe we're going to read
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  something out of the Bible or a devotional book.
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  And I'm there to add value to my family because I'm wanting this
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  builder mindset to not just stay with me.
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  I'm wanting it to be passed down to my children, right?
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  And so I don't want to just raise consumeristic kids.
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  So we I want to teach my children that you're are all a
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  part of this family and we need your labor like we need your
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  effort, we need your devotion. We need so all my kids, they
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  have a chore. My 4 year old unloads the
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  silverware every night. And to be honest, she's one of
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  the best at it. Immediately we get done with
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  dinner, she runs to the the dishwasher, pulls out the
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  silverware, puts them on the counter and starts putting them
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  away without even being asked. And what I'm trying to do is
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  create a builder mentality into my kids.
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  You're not just consumers, right?
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  You're not just here to receive from mom and dad and and then
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  take it all for granted. You're a vital member of this
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  family and we're all going to provide value to this family.
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  And that's how families succeed. So as the at the beginning of
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  this year, man, 2026, I'm praying that you would embrace
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  this builder mindset. Every room you would step into
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  at work, you're there to add value.
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  You're not there to take a paycheck and just push some
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  buttons or type some emails. You're there to add value.
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  How can you add value to the people around you?
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  How can you add value to your boss above you?
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  How can you, how can you people that are below you, how can you
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  add value there and, and pull them up?
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  People that know how to add value to an organization, they
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  move up, they succeed, right? If you're in a, what you
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  consider a brainless job, you're, you're a, you're a
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  manual laborer. You need to go into that job
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  thinking, how can I add value? I remember 1 situation on a job
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  site that I was on and I was just the, I was just the cut
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  man. I was probably 19, maybe 20
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  years old. I was just the cut man, but I
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  was there to learn how to be a builder, right?
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  That's how I saw my job. I wasn't there just a cut boards
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  and, and carry lumber. I was there to learn how to do
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  the job of the foreman. I wanted his job, right.
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  And I remember one day they all went off for lunch and I was
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  broke. And so I had my peanut butter
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  and Jelly sandwich in my lunch box.
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  I sat down, I ate it. I ate that thing in probably 7-8
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  minutes. And I knew my, my job.
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  I knew what I needed to do. So I ate in 7-8 minutes.
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  I got up and I went back to work.
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  And when I when I was out there cutting and working and they all
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  pulled up, I heard the foreman say, somebody wants a raise.
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  And I was sitting in there thinking, heck yes, I do.
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  Actually, I want your job. And I'm going to outwork
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  everybody on this job site and one day I'm going to have your
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  job. And a year later I did have his
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  job. And it was, and that's just
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  because I was there not to collect a paycheck.
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  I had the mindset of a builder. I want to move up.
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  I want to add value. I want to build something great.
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  And I want to be that type of man.
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  And so I think it would be, I think it would be good for all
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  of us to to, to begin to see ourselves that way.
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  I'm a builder. I'm here to learn a trade.
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  I'm here to learn how to be a leader.
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  I'm here to learn how to be a better man.
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  I'm not just here to take a paycheck and then sit on the
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  couch and consume like a lemming like everybody else.
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  So many people in our society, right?
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  If you learn how to be a builder, you're going to be
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  successful in this new economy. You're going to be successful in
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  the future, right? AI will never replace builders.
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  So that's the thought I wanted to do.
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  Start our year off with this this year guys, and if you've
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  got any thoughts, put them in the comments below.
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  I'm going to kind of build out this theme over the rest of the
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  year, this idea of builders, consumers, and destroyers,
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  right? So thank you guys for a great
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  year in 2025. I look forward to what God's
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  going to do in US and through US in 2026.
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  I will talk to you soon, soon. God bless.