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 - This evening is number 100, Savior.

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 - We'll sing there, starting on the 1st.

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 - Father, we thank you for this day,

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 for the many blessings that you've given unto us.

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 I just pray that you would be with

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 and strengthen those salvations that we had this evening,

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 and thank you for just leading us

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 to so many that were receptive.

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 Lord, I pray also for our service this evening,

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 that everything would be done decently and in order,

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 and that you just would have your hand of protection

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 on us for today and the coming weeks,

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 and really for our whole lives that we have serving you,

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 Lord, that we would continue in service to you,

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 and that you would continue protecting us as we do so.

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 These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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 For our next hymn, number 139,

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 "I Know Whom I Have Believed," 139.

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 39, they're on the 1st.

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 ♪ Wondrous grace ♪

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 Song this evening is in your white handout.

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 Holy, holy, holy in your white handouts.

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 Holy, holy, holy.

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 They're on the 1st.

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 Ecclesiastes chapter, Ecclesiastes chapter number,

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 Ecclesiastes four, the Bible reads.

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 So I returned and considered all the oppressions

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 that are done under the sun,

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 and behold, the tears of such as were oppressed,

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 and they had no comforter,

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 and on the side of their oppressors there was no power,

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 but they had no comforter.

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 On the side of their oppressors there was power,

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 but they had no comforter.

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 Wherefore, I praise the dead which are already dead,

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 more than the living which are yet alive.

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 Yea, better is he than both they,

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 which hath not yet been,

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 who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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 Again, I considered all travail and every right work,

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 that for this a man is envied of his neighbor.

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 This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 The fool foldeth his hands together

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 and eateth his own flesh.

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 Better is a handful with quietness

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 than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

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 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

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 There is one alone, and there is not a second,

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 yea, he hath neither child nor brother,

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 yet is there no end of all his labor.

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 Neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither saith he,

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 for whom do I labor and bereave my soul of good.

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 This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor;

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 for if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow;

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 but woe to him, that is alone when he falleth,

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 for he hath not another to help him up.

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 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat;

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 but how can one be warm alone?

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 And if one prevail against him, two shall stand with him,

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 and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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 Better is a poor and a wise child

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 than an old and a foolish king,

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 who will no more be admonished;

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 for out of prison he cometh to reign,

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 whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becomeeth poor.

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 I considered all the living which walk under the sun,

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 with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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 There is no end of all the people,

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 even of all that have been before them.

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 They also that come after shall not rejoice in him.

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 Surely this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 Let's bow our heads forward to prayer.

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 Father in heaven, we thank you for today,

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 and we thank you for the spirit of this good life.

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 - Men, we're in Ecclesiastes chapter four,

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 and as a reminder, Ecclesiastes is a really

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 philosophical book.

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 He's kind of walking us through the vanity

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 that's under the sun and just how vain,

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 vexatious and evil life is in this world.

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 And of course, at the end, he realizes

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 the only thing that's important is fearing God

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 and keeping his commandments.

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 But it's gonna get a little black-pilled again,

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 because again, he's just showing us

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 how life under the sun is just evil and vain.

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 It says in verse number one,

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 so I returned and considered all the oppressions

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 that are done under the sun.

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 And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed.

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 They had no comforter, and on the side of their oppressors,

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 there was power, but they had no comforter.

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 So, of course, you read something like this

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 and your heart kind of breaks.

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 You just think about what an unfair, sad situation this is.

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 And you know, it's true.

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 This is what the world is like.

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 The world is full of wickedness.

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 The world is full of sin.

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 The world is full of unfair situations.

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 I mean, he's looking at these people that are oppressed.

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 They have no comforter.

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 And the people who are doing the oppressing,

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 the ones that are doing the evil,

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 power is on their side.

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 Boy, that reminds me of our government today a lot.

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 People who are oppressing, doing wrong,

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 but all the power is on their side.

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 And he's saying, man, there was no one to help these people.

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 There was no one to comfort these people.

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 He's just considering and thinking upon these things.

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 But you know, the silver lining of this situation

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 is that we as Christians are the only people

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 situated in this world to actually do something about it.

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 Because yes, he's explaining just the reality

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 of this carnal world and the sinful state that is in.

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 And it's just like, hey, people are getting oppressed,

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 you know, taken advantage of, hurt.

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 And when I look at these people getting oppressed,

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 I see there's no one to help them.

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 There's no one to comfort them.

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 And all the power is on the side of the oppressors.

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 But here's the thing.

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 We as Christians actually do have something

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 that can help and comfort the afflicted.

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 It's called the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 And the Bible talks about how pure religion

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 and undefiled before God is this,

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 that we visit the fatherless and widows

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 in their affliction, right?

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 Sometimes people wanna get down on that word religion

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 and say, oh, you know, religion's a bad word.

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 You don't wanna be a religious person.

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 You got tons of preachers.

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 They're constantly preaching against religious people.

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 It's like the Bible literally says that pure religion

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 and undefiled before God is this,

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 that we visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction

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 and that we keep ourselves unspotted from the world.

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 There's nothing wrong with pure religion.

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 Pure religion, helping people that have a need.

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 Preaching the gospel to people,

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 following God's commandments, living a holy life.

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 You know, religion is not the problem in this world.

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 False religion is the problem.

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 The problem with this world is religions

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 like the Catholic Church that are oppressing people,

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 that are keeping people in bondage

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 and all the powers on their side,

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 and the people that are stuck in the Catholic Church,

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 they have no one to help them, no one to comfort them.

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 They're being told, hey, keep all the commandments

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 and you can go to heaven.

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 Repent of all your sins and you can go to heaven.

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 Confess to the priest, take the sacrament,

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 do this long list of things to get to heaven,

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 and guess what, no one can do that.

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 And every single Catholic, if you believe the doctrine

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 of the Catholic Church is unsaved.

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 Does that mean that we hate them?

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 No, we love them, that's why we want them to be saved.

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 That's why we go and preach them the gospel

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 and we show them, hey, I know you're afflicted right now,

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 I know you feel oppressed right now,

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 but guess what, there's liberty in Christ

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 when you put your faith in him.

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 Now you're free, now you're saved,

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 now you can actually keep God's commandments out of love,

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 not out of fear of going to hell.

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 You know, we actually could do something about

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 the people that are oppressed in this world,

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 but when you think back about this verse,

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 just from a carnal perspective,

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 it is true that life in general is just unfair.

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 Life is unfair, life is hard,

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 a lot of just terrible things are happening

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 to people in this world,

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 and the wrong attitude would be to see all the evil

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 that's done under the sun and then start to blame God.

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 To look at the horrific things that happen in this world,

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 like Epstein's Island, or warfare, or poverty, or disease,

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 and a lot of foolish people will then turn their anger

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 or their pain around at God, that is a foolish idea, folks.

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 Why is it that evil exists in this world?

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 It's because of sin, it's not because of God.

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 God created this world perfect,

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 the Garden of Eden was perfect, there was no sin,

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 there was no death, why is it that there's oppression

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 and evil and harm and disease and murder?

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 Because of sin, that's why.

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 It's foolish to sit there and charge God.

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 Go to John 16, but here's the thing.

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 Number one, why is there sin in the world,

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 or why is there evil in the world because of sin?

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 Also, the Bible never said that life would be perfect.

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 God never claimed that your life would be perfect.

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 The Bible doesn't say that you are owed happiness,

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 or wealth, or health, or things going well for you.

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 God never even promises that to you.

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 So why, if you don't have those things,

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 would you be mad at God?

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 It'd be one thing if you read the Bible

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 and God said, hey, if you're saved,

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 you're never gonna have health issues,

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 you're never gonna have financial issues,

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 you're never gonna have marital issues,

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 everything's gonna go well for you,

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 and then those things don't happen,

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 you'd be like, God, what's going on?

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 Why are you lying to me?

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 But here's what the Bible actually says

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 as you're turning to John 16.

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 Listen to this, Psalm 34, verse 19.

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 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

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 but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

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 The Bible says many are the afflictions of the righteous.

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 So you could be a righteous person,

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 you could be a good Christian,

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 and still have a life full of afflictions.

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 That's actually what the Bible teaches.

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 And of course, out of those all, the Lord will deliver us,

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 whether that's in heaven someday,

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 we're delivered from all of our troubles, right?

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 Oh, you got health problems someday, we'll get a new body,

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 we'll be delivered from those things.

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 Oftentimes, the afflictions we go through

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 aren't necessarily a lifelong thing,

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 they're a season of life,

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 and you've got to have some faith and trust in God

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 to get you through those times

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 and see the Lord deliver you out of those times.

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 But look, my friend,

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 do not expect life to have no afflictions.

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 The Bible says, "Many are the afflictions of the righteous."

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 Look at John chapter 16, verse 33.

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 Look what Jesus said, "These things I've spoken unto you,

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 "that in me ye might have peace."

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 In the world, ye shall have tribulation,

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 but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

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 So notice, in Christ, what do we have?

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 Peace, isn't that a blessing?

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 Having peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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 But in the world, what's that?

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 Life under the sun.

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 What is Solomon analyzing in this book

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 as he's looking at life under the sun?

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 And what is he seeing in life under the sun?

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 Tribulation, affliction, oppression, heartache,

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 problems.

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 But here's the thing.

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 Jesus told us that's what it's going to be like.

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 So why would I get mad at God for life ending up

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 looking exactly like how Jesus said it would?

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 He said, hey, in me, you have peace.

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 That's why you shouldn't just live your life for the things

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 under the sun, because then your heart's just always going

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 to be stressed.

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 You're always going to be worried.

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 You're always going to be sad.

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 You're always just going to be upset.

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 You don't really want to spend your whole life considering

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 the affliction, right?

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 We should care about it.

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 But you don't want to be like Solomon.

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 We're just like in a permanent state here

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 of just thinking about the negative, and all the evil,

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 and all the bad, and all the sorrow.

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 No, no, no, what we should be thinking about is Christ.

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 Because in Christ, we have peace.

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 Yeah, in the world, we have tribulation.

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 But what did he say?

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 Be sad about all the issues?

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 No, he said be of good cheer, for I've overcome the world.

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 So we as Christians, yeah, this world sucks because of sin.

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 But should we be sad about that?

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 Should we constantly be whining and complaining about that?

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 We should be joyful in Christ.

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 That's actually what God said to do.

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 Go to Galatians chapter number three and think about this, instead of just, you know, complaining

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 about how hard life is and all the problems that we have and how evil this world is under

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 the sun and all the oppression and all the afflictions, why don't you just be thankful

00:38:38.870 --> 00:38:44.720
 that Jesus Christ was willing to leave the perfect life in heaven to take on the curse

00:38:44.720 --> 00:38:47.820
 of the sin of this world so that we could be saved?

00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:50.150
 Because here's the thing, he already had it all.

00:38:50.150 --> 00:38:53.400
 He I mean, he's God, he's eternally existed in heaven with the Father.

00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:57.560
 He had all the riches, he had all the glory, he had all the fellowship with God.

00:38:57.560 --> 00:39:03.000
 You know, he came and gave all of that up and became sin for us so that we could be

00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:03.990
 saved.

00:39:03.990 --> 00:39:07.020
 You know, instead of getting mad at God for the evil of this world, why aren't you thankful

00:39:07.020 --> 00:39:10.240
 to God for dying for the evil of this world?

00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:15.940
 Look at Galatians 3 verse 11, "But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of

00:39:15.940 --> 00:39:20.840
 God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith.

00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:25.280
 And the law is not of faith, but the man that doeth them shall live in them."

00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:27.960
 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:33.660
 Notice this, "Being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth

00:39:33.660 --> 00:39:34.640
 on a tree."

00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:37.250
 You know, we didn't deserve Christ's mercy.

00:39:37.250 --> 00:39:42.560
 We didn't deserve Jesus Christ to come down from heaven and become a curse for us and

00:39:42.560 --> 00:39:48.330
 to endure the mocking and the scourging and the betrayal and the loneliness and the nails

00:39:48.330 --> 00:39:52.430
 through the hands and His feet and being put on the cross for six hours.

00:39:52.430 --> 00:39:56.680
 You know, we deserve hell and Jesus loved us so much that He's willing to become a curse

00:39:56.680 --> 00:39:57.680
 for us.

00:39:57.680 --> 00:40:00.000
 You know, we shouldn't be mad at God at the evils of this world.

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.250
 We should be thankful that He was willing to save us from the evils of this world.

00:40:04.250 --> 00:40:06.400
 And let's just be honest, folks.

00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:10.110
 Verse number one of Ecclesiastes four, you can go back to Ecclesiastes.

00:40:10.110 --> 00:40:14.560
 Verse number one of Ecclesiastes four, I'm just speaking for my life right now.

00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:16.930
 This does not describe my life.

00:40:16.930 --> 00:40:21.680
 My life is not one of just constant oppression and evil.

00:40:21.680 --> 00:40:27.390
 And there's no one to comfort me, no one to help me, and just the enemy has all the power.

00:40:27.390 --> 00:40:28.820
 That is not what my life is like.

00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:30.080
 Here's what my life is like.

00:40:30.080 --> 00:40:36.870
 I live in this great anomaly of the history of humanity called the United States of America

00:40:36.870 --> 00:40:37.920
 in 2026.

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.440
 I mean, folks, we have it better than people have ever had it ever.

00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.600
 I mean, why are you black-pilled?

00:40:45.600 --> 00:40:47.130
 Why are you so depressed?

00:40:47.130 --> 00:40:48.710
 Why are you such a complainer?

00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:52.310
 You live in the best time in the history of the world.

00:40:52.310 --> 00:40:54.560
 In the best place in the history of the world.

00:40:54.560 --> 00:40:59.470
 I mean, folks, I'm just, I'm so sick and tired of everyone acting like they're this poor

00:40:59.470 --> 00:41:00.950
 little house slave.

00:41:00.950 --> 00:41:06.260
 I'm so sick and tired of everyone acting like they're this poor little, you know, 1920s

00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:08.090
 black lung factory worker.

00:41:08.090 --> 00:41:12.590
 I mean, folks, whether you're a man or woman, whether you're working to provide or you're

00:41:12.590 --> 00:41:16.000
 keeping the house, look, let's just be honest, we've got it better than we've ever had in

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.140
 our entire, in the history of this world.

00:41:18.140 --> 00:41:19.610
 We do, right?

00:41:19.610 --> 00:41:23.710
 And so instead of just constantly being black-pilled and just considering all the evil and just

00:41:23.710 --> 00:41:26.280
 thinking about all the problems, why don't you be thankful?

00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:28.890
 Why don't you focus on the good?

00:41:28.890 --> 00:41:33.020
 Why don't you rejoice that we live in this time, in this place?

00:41:33.020 --> 00:41:36.120
 Look, I wouldn't want to live any other time, any other place.

00:41:36.120 --> 00:41:38.300
 I thank God for the time that I live in.

00:41:38.300 --> 00:41:40.660
 I thank God for living here in Oklahoma.

00:41:40.660 --> 00:41:43.090
 You know, we need to rejoice in that.

00:41:43.090 --> 00:41:45.420
 Go if you would to Revelation 20.

00:41:45.420 --> 00:41:49.980
 But you know, let's be honest, the evils of this world, it does eat at us.

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:53.400
 It is sickening to see the Epstein list.

00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:56.770
 It is frustrating to know how evil this world is.

00:41:56.770 --> 00:41:57.750
 But here's the thing.

00:41:57.750 --> 00:42:03.060
 We just have to take comfort in knowing the fact that God will settle all scores someday.

00:42:03.060 --> 00:42:06.970
 And if Pam Blondie doesn't do it, God certainly will.

00:42:06.970 --> 00:42:10.520
 You know, if the attorney general and the president and our government doesn't want

00:42:10.520 --> 00:42:14.770
 to take care of business, there's a great judge, there's a great courtroom coming called

00:42:14.770 --> 00:42:16.820
 the great white throne judgment.

00:42:16.820 --> 00:42:21.270
 Look at Revelation 20 verse 11, "And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on

00:42:21.270 --> 00:42:27.370
 it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for

00:42:27.370 --> 00:42:28.360
 them."

00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:33.250
 I mean, there's coming a day in history where this will just be the only event going on

00:42:33.250 --> 00:42:34.600
 in the universe.

00:42:34.600 --> 00:42:38.760
 Heaven and earth flees away, it's just like this great court trial.

00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:40.860
 Who likes to watch trials on YouTube or something?

00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:42.240
 I like to watch trials.

00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:44.820
 This is going to be the coolest trial ever.

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 And look, we're going to be there.

00:42:46.210 --> 00:42:49.770
 We're not going to be being judged, but we're going to be there because it says heaven and

00:42:49.770 --> 00:42:50.740
 earth fled away.

00:42:50.740 --> 00:42:52.090
 Where else is there to be?

00:42:52.090 --> 00:42:53.260
 We're in this courtroom.

00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:55.550
 We're watching the judge take care of business.

00:42:55.550 --> 00:42:57.980
 Notice it says, and I saw the dead both.

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 I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another

00:43:03.410 --> 00:43:08.270
 book was open, which is the book of life and the dead were judged.

00:43:08.270 --> 00:43:14.520
 Notice out of those things, which were written in the books according to their works.

00:43:14.520 --> 00:43:18.550
 You know, people today that want to justify themselves and tell you, oh, I'm going to

00:43:18.550 --> 00:43:23.700
 heaven because I'm a good person, because I keep the law and they're trusting in their

00:43:23.700 --> 00:43:25.390
 works to get them to heaven.

00:43:25.390 --> 00:43:27.650
 Someday God's going to open up the books.

00:43:27.650 --> 00:43:31.490
 He's going to open up the book of life and he's going to judge what's written therein

00:43:31.490 --> 00:43:33.550
 and weigh it against their works.

00:43:33.550 --> 00:43:34.540
 And guess what?

00:43:34.540 --> 00:43:38.090
 Every single person trusting in their works is going to be found wanting.

00:43:38.090 --> 00:43:42.910
 Those of us who have trusted in Christ, hey, Christ's righteousness is imputed unto us

00:43:42.910 --> 00:43:47.590
 and God sees nothing but pure righteousness because of Jesus on our account, not because

00:43:47.590 --> 00:43:49.440
 of our works.

00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:54.230
 It says in verse 13 in the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered

00:43:54.230 --> 00:43:59.570
 up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works.

00:43:59.570 --> 00:44:04.010
 People will go to these verses to try to like act like it's a slam dunk for work salvation.

00:44:04.010 --> 00:44:07.470
 It's just like, I don't think you actually want to be judged according to your works,

00:44:07.470 --> 00:44:08.500
 buddy.

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:10.900
 It's like that verse is not on your side.

00:44:10.900 --> 00:44:13.040
 You're going to be judged according to your works.

00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:14.170
 Exactly.

00:44:14.170 --> 00:44:17.010
 You're going to fail, man, like you're going to come up shore.

00:44:17.010 --> 00:44:19.680
 Why are you excited about that?

00:44:19.680 --> 00:44:23.200
 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:27.710
 This is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was

00:44:27.710 --> 00:44:30.100
 cast into the lake of fire.

00:44:30.100 --> 00:44:31.340
 Right.

00:44:31.340 --> 00:44:34.720
 So the wicked is not going to get away with it forever.

00:44:34.720 --> 00:44:37.770
 Someday every secret thing will be made known.

00:44:37.770 --> 00:44:38.910
 Every work will be judged.

00:44:38.910 --> 00:44:39.970
 And you know what?

00:44:39.970 --> 00:44:45.190
 The wicked, the unsaved will be cast into the lake of fire.

00:44:45.190 --> 00:44:50.440
 Go to verse number two of Ecclesiastes four, verse number two of Ecclesiastes four.

00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.080
 So remember he's considering all the evil and all the oppression in this world.

00:44:54.080 --> 00:45:00.500
 In verse two he says this, "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than

00:45:00.500 --> 00:45:02.590
 the living, which are yet alive."

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 He's saying life is so bad, you know, I'm happy for the people that are already dead.

00:45:06.600 --> 00:45:09.210
 They have it better than the people that are alive.

00:45:09.210 --> 00:45:14.240
 "Yea, better is he than both they which have not yet been, who have not seen the evil work

00:45:14.240 --> 00:45:16.210
 that is done under the sun."

00:45:16.210 --> 00:45:21.690
 Now remember, in Ecclesiastes, of course, every word of Ecclesiastes is accurate and

00:45:21.690 --> 00:45:26.330
 inspired by God, but you have to read this whole book in context because he's walking

00:45:26.330 --> 00:45:30.030
 us through a process of his philosophizing and his thinking.

00:45:30.030 --> 00:45:34.190
 He's examining everything under the sun and he comes to the right conclusion at the end

00:45:34.190 --> 00:45:37.580
 that you know, the conclusion of the matter is to fear God and keep his commandments.

00:45:37.580 --> 00:45:41.710
 But look, I don't think that this is the right attitude that he has right here, okay?

00:45:41.710 --> 00:45:46.310
 Some people just act like every single thing that he says is just 100% the right attitude

00:45:46.310 --> 00:45:47.300
 to have.

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:48.290
 No, no, no.

00:45:48.290 --> 00:45:51.280
 It is true that people do feel this way sometimes, right?

00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.890
 That it's better to be dead than to alive, to be alive, or this, that it's better not

00:45:54.890 --> 00:45:56.780
 to have even existed, right?

00:45:56.780 --> 00:46:00.600
 Some people have this attitude like I don't want to bring kids into this evil world.

00:46:00.600 --> 00:46:02.880
 I don't want to bring kids into this sinful world.

00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:05.230
 I'm not going to have kids or something like that.

00:46:05.230 --> 00:46:08.050
 But look, yes, this world is evil.

00:46:08.050 --> 00:46:09.130
 Yes, it's bad.

00:46:09.130 --> 00:46:13.220
 But again, we shouldn't be sitting here just focusing on all the negative in life and just

00:46:13.220 --> 00:46:14.850
 obsessing on all the negative.

00:46:14.850 --> 00:46:16.200
 Why don't you do something about it?

00:46:16.200 --> 00:46:19.530
 Why don't you do something positive in the situation?

00:46:19.530 --> 00:46:21.720
 How about go be a soul winner, right?

00:46:21.720 --> 00:46:23.420
 It's like, yeah, this world is full of sin.

00:46:23.420 --> 00:46:25.310
 It is full of oppression.

00:46:25.310 --> 00:46:26.300
 There is evil.

00:46:26.300 --> 00:46:29.890
 Yeah, people could be so vexed that they wish they weren't even alive because they have

00:46:29.890 --> 00:46:30.880
 no comfort.

00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:31.870
 They have no hope.

00:46:31.870 --> 00:46:32.920
 But here's the thing.

00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:33.900
 We do have comfort.

00:46:33.900 --> 00:46:39.020
 In fact, we have the Holy Spirit, which is literally called the Comforter.

00:46:39.020 --> 00:46:44.610
 That is one of the duties of God the Holy Spirit is to bring comfort to believers.

00:46:44.610 --> 00:46:46.650
 Now, guess who has the Holy Spirit?

00:46:46.650 --> 00:46:48.120
 Save people.

00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:49.090
 So here's the thing.

00:46:49.090 --> 00:46:51.120
 If someone's not saved, do they have the Comforter?

00:46:51.120 --> 00:46:52.260
 No, they don't.

00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:55.430
 So why don't we go give them the Comforter by preaching them the gospel?

00:46:55.430 --> 00:46:58.320
 I just don't think this is the right attitude to sit here and just be like, you know, we

00:46:58.320 --> 00:46:59.790
 should just all be dead.

00:46:59.790 --> 00:47:01.210
 We shouldn't have even been alive.

00:47:01.210 --> 00:47:02.200
 Life's just so terrible.

00:47:02.200 --> 00:47:05.060
 It's like, no, why don't we preach the gospel and get people to go to heaven?

00:47:05.060 --> 00:47:06.440
 Right?

00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:09.460
 I mean, every single person who's in heaven right now, do you think any of them wish that

00:47:09.460 --> 00:47:10.700
 they were never born?

00:47:10.700 --> 00:47:11.950
 No, they're loving heaven.

00:47:11.950 --> 00:47:13.030
 They're enjoying it.

00:47:13.030 --> 00:47:14.020
 It's great.

00:47:14.020 --> 00:47:15.330
 Yeah, obviously we don't want people to go to hell.

00:47:15.330 --> 00:47:16.480
 That'd be awful.

00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:17.920
 Do something about it.

00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:19.200
 Be a soul winner.

00:47:19.200 --> 00:47:23.860
 Don't complain about people going to hell if you don't even preach the gospel.

00:47:23.860 --> 00:47:25.460
 Don't sit here and judge God.

00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:27.530
 God is so mean for sending people to hell.

00:47:27.530 --> 00:47:28.510
 Hell is so terrible.

00:47:28.510 --> 00:47:29.500
 Yeah, it is.

00:47:29.500 --> 00:47:30.720
 Why don't you do something about it?

00:47:30.720 --> 00:47:35.990
 But if you're not going to, don't sit here and get mad at God and impugn his character.

00:47:35.990 --> 00:47:38.670
 You know, the right attitude is to be thankful for your life.

00:47:38.670 --> 00:47:41.310
 Go to Psalm 118, Psalm 118.

00:47:41.310 --> 00:47:42.290
 This is the right attitude.

00:47:42.290 --> 00:47:49.150
 Regardless of your situation, the right attitude is for us to be thankful for our lives and

00:47:49.150 --> 00:47:53.200
 not have this attitude, well, well, they're happy with their life because they've been

00:47:53.200 --> 00:47:54.950
 given more good than me.

00:47:54.950 --> 00:47:55.940
 They've been given more blessings.

00:47:55.940 --> 00:48:00.000
 And if I just had their blessings and their good, then I'd be happy.

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:01.350
 Then I'd rejoice.

00:48:01.350 --> 00:48:02.840
 That's the wrong attitude.

00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:08.420
 Look at the Psalmist in Psalm 118 verse 18, it says, "The Lord hath chastened me sore,

00:48:08.420 --> 00:48:10.210
 but he hath not given me over unto death."

00:48:10.210 --> 00:48:11.180
 Right?

00:48:11.180 --> 00:48:12.580
 Hey, there's always a bright side.

00:48:12.580 --> 00:48:14.530
 It's like, yeah, God is chasing me sore.

00:48:14.530 --> 00:48:18.590
 Man, I mean, God's really came down, but I'm alive.

00:48:18.590 --> 00:48:20.450
 You can always look at the bright side.

00:48:20.450 --> 00:48:22.660
 You can always look at the silver lining.

00:48:22.660 --> 00:48:26.110
 It's like, yeah, maybe God has to come down on us pretty hard every once in a while.

00:48:26.110 --> 00:48:27.030
 But did you die, though?

00:48:27.030 --> 00:48:30.480
 Because that's what the Psalmist is saying, he's like, "I didn't die."

00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:34.170
 Verse 19, "Open to me the gates of righteousness.

00:48:34.170 --> 00:48:37.600
 I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord.

00:48:37.600 --> 00:48:42.990
 This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter, I will praise thee, for thou

00:48:42.990 --> 00:48:45.330
 hast heard me, and are become my salvation.

00:48:45.330 --> 00:48:49.330
 The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner.

00:48:49.330 --> 00:48:50.320
 This is the Lord's doing.

00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.360
 It is marvelous in our eyes.

00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.560
 This is the day which the Lord hath made.

00:48:55.560 --> 00:48:58.820
 We will rejoice and be glad in it."

00:48:58.820 --> 00:49:02.160
 That's the inspired word of God right there.

00:49:02.160 --> 00:49:04.110
 Sometimes you read just verse 24.

00:49:04.110 --> 00:49:08.790
 I'm sure when we've heard this verse, it's usually just quoted by itself.

00:49:08.790 --> 00:49:10.690
 This is the day which the Lord hath made.

00:49:10.690 --> 00:49:12.870
 We will rejoice and be glad in it.

00:49:12.870 --> 00:49:16.360
 But when you actually read it in context, it's not like everything's going great in

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:18.120
 the psalmist's life.

00:49:18.120 --> 00:49:21.760
 It's not like, well, I'm rejoicing because everything's great with my car and my house

00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:23.900
 and my job and my money and my relationships.

00:49:23.900 --> 00:49:27.890
 He said, no, no, no, God has been chastising me sore.

00:49:27.890 --> 00:49:29.900
 Like God has really been coming down on me.

00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:35.020
 I've been really having a lot of issues, but I didn't die, but I'm still alive.

00:49:35.020 --> 00:49:40.120
 And so, hey, if I'm alive, I'm going to rejoice in the day that God has made and be glad.

00:49:40.120 --> 00:49:45.250
 And again, it's like we often get so depressed and so sad about how our life is doing under

00:49:45.250 --> 00:49:48.690
 the sun, but our life under the sun doesn't matter.

00:49:48.690 --> 00:49:50.830
 It's all going to go away someday, right?

00:49:50.830 --> 00:49:55.460
 It's like, oh, I just got health problems and debt and all of that will be wiped away

00:49:55.460 --> 00:49:56.590
 in heaven.

00:49:56.590 --> 00:49:58.710
 Your debt will not go with you into heaven.

00:49:58.710 --> 00:50:01.660
 Your relationship problems will not go with you, you know?

00:50:01.660 --> 00:50:08.270
 Your ex-wife may not go with you, but seriously, like we just need to have a good attitude,

00:50:08.270 --> 00:50:09.260
 right?

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:11.790
 I mean, doesn't it say in Philippians chapter four that we're supposed to think on things

00:50:11.790 --> 00:50:16.110
 that are good, pure, lovely, of good report, you know, we're supposed to think on those

00:50:16.110 --> 00:50:17.670
 things, right?

00:50:17.670 --> 00:50:23.320
 So I wouldn't recommend going down Solomon's, you know, philosophical quest of just like

00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:29.050
 let me just think about vexation and vanity and evil and folly and just everything that

00:50:29.050 --> 00:50:30.540
 can be known under the sun.

00:50:30.540 --> 00:50:34.140
 It's like we don't have to stay too long there because really what the Bible says is to focus

00:50:34.140 --> 00:50:38.190
 on the positive, to focus on that which is good.

00:50:38.190 --> 00:50:44.070
 If you look at verse number four of Ecclesiastes four, it says in verse number four, "Again,

00:50:44.070 --> 00:50:45.720
 I considered."

00:50:45.720 --> 00:50:47.380
 So notice, is he thinking about the positive?

00:50:47.380 --> 00:50:49.800
 No, he's just thinking about all the evil.

00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:56.320
 He says again, "I considered all travail and every right work that for this a man is envied

00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:57.510
 of his neighbor."

00:50:57.510 --> 00:51:01.190
 This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

00:51:01.190 --> 00:51:02.540
 So he kind of shifts gears.

00:51:02.540 --> 00:51:03.730
 Here's another evil.

00:51:03.730 --> 00:51:06.220
 Here's another, he's just going to list everything that sucks about life.

00:51:06.220 --> 00:51:07.210
 All right.

00:51:07.210 --> 00:51:09.410
 He's like, "Here's another thing that's bad about life.

00:51:09.410 --> 00:51:14.350
 If you work really hard, if you're successful, even if you do good things, even if you do

00:51:14.350 --> 00:51:18.200
 that which is right, you'll still be envied of other wicked people.

00:51:18.200 --> 00:51:19.840
 You'll still be hated of your neighbor."

00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:21.060
 Right?

00:51:21.060 --> 00:51:22.030
 And look, that's a bad attitude.

00:51:22.030 --> 00:51:23.010
 Of course, that's vexing.

00:51:23.010 --> 00:51:23.990
 That's annoying.

00:51:23.990 --> 00:51:26.120
 Like, imagine you're doing right.

00:51:26.120 --> 00:51:27.070
 You're succeeding.

00:51:27.070 --> 00:51:28.030
 You're serving the Lord.

00:51:28.030 --> 00:51:30.050
 You know, God's blessing you.

00:51:30.050 --> 00:51:31.820
 And then people hate you for that.

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:34.610
 People are envious, you know, towards you for that.

00:51:34.610 --> 00:51:37.180
 You know, that's a vexing thing to go through.

00:51:37.180 --> 00:51:38.170
 That's not something we should be.

00:51:38.170 --> 00:51:40.270
 We should not be envious people.

00:51:40.270 --> 00:51:42.950
 I'll read for you Galatians 525.

00:51:42.950 --> 00:51:47.180
 It says, "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

00:51:47.180 --> 00:51:53.500
 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another."

00:51:53.500 --> 00:51:54.690
 Right?

00:51:54.690 --> 00:52:00.150
 So someone who is consumed with envy, it's just 100% guarantee that person's not walking

00:52:00.150 --> 00:52:01.130
 in the Spirit.

00:52:01.130 --> 00:52:04.430
 Because the Bible says, "Hey, let's walk in the Spirit."

00:52:04.430 --> 00:52:05.840
 Not doing these things, what?

00:52:05.840 --> 00:52:08.530
 Being full of vain glory, right?

00:52:08.530 --> 00:52:12.970
 Being so obsessed with your image, obsessed with what people think about you, what you

00:52:12.970 --> 00:52:13.960
 look like.

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:14.950
 Right?

00:52:14.950 --> 00:52:17.460
 That's someone, and someone who's obsessed with vain glory, you know what they do?

00:52:17.460 --> 00:52:20.690
 They envy people who have the things that they want.

00:52:20.690 --> 00:52:25.200
 Like if you're vain and shallow, you know what you do, you hate people who have what

00:52:25.200 --> 00:52:26.180
 you want.

00:52:26.180 --> 00:52:27.170
 You know, girls can be like this.

00:52:27.170 --> 00:52:30.400
 A lot of girls are just really vain and shallow about their appearance.

00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.710
 And so they just hate pretty girls.

00:52:32.710 --> 00:52:35.800
 Like if there's another beautiful woman out there, it's just like that girl will just

00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:38.150
 hate that beautiful girl for no reason whatsoever.

00:52:38.150 --> 00:52:39.970
 They may have never even spoken to each other.

00:52:39.970 --> 00:52:41.780
 They're just like, "She's terrible.

00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:42.770
 She's..."

00:52:42.770 --> 00:52:43.760
 Why?

00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:45.340
 Because this woman is actually vain in her heart.

00:52:45.340 --> 00:52:48.050
 This woman is actually really envious and vainglorious.

00:52:48.050 --> 00:52:49.510
 And so she just hates.

00:52:49.510 --> 00:52:50.490
 Guys can be this way too.

00:52:50.490 --> 00:52:53.490
 There's a guy that's successful in the workplace.

00:52:53.490 --> 00:52:54.840
 He makes good money.

00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:58.610
 And people who are just lazy but covetous, they'll just be like, "Oh, that's a terrible

00:52:58.610 --> 00:52:59.600
 person.

00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:00.590
 He's evil.

00:53:00.590 --> 00:53:01.580
 He's wicked."

00:53:01.580 --> 00:53:03.280
 That's the wrong attitude as well.

00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:05.370
 That's someone just walking in the flesh.

00:53:05.370 --> 00:53:10.520
 And, you know, one of the biggest problems with Gen Z is vanity.

00:53:10.520 --> 00:53:14.710
 It's like we kind of like swung the pendulum way too far one direction.

00:53:14.710 --> 00:53:20.710
 Like 10 years ago, it was like fat pride, body positivity, and hey, isn't it just like

00:53:20.710 --> 00:53:24.480
 so great and so healthy to be 600 pounds?

00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:27.100
 And let's celebrate being 600 pounds.

00:53:27.100 --> 00:53:28.130
 Woo, great!

00:53:28.130 --> 00:53:31.560
 And then Gen Z is like, "Hey, let's do bone smashing.

00:53:31.560 --> 00:53:36.890
 Let's get a hammer and smash my face with a hammer to try to get a chiseled masculine

00:53:36.890 --> 00:53:37.870
 look."

00:53:37.870 --> 00:53:38.990
 That's so gay.

00:53:38.990 --> 00:53:42.770
 That's so faggity as a man to care that much about how you look.

00:53:42.770 --> 00:53:45.620
 You are vain glorious, my friend.

00:53:45.620 --> 00:53:50.720
 I mean, what has possessed you to hit your own face with a hammer?

00:53:50.720 --> 00:53:54.380
 There is a guy who is super popular all over the internet.

00:53:54.380 --> 00:53:56.280
 His name is Clavicular.

00:53:56.280 --> 00:54:02.090
 He's like this streamer, and for years he's literally beat his face with a hammer.

00:54:02.090 --> 00:54:06.820
 He has all these drugs, takes all these performance enhancing drugs, and he's trying to do this

00:54:06.820 --> 00:54:09.570
 thing called looks maxing.

00:54:09.570 --> 00:54:11.600
 Who's ever heard of looks maxing?

00:54:11.600 --> 00:54:14.030
 Let me tell you, that is gay.

00:54:14.030 --> 00:54:15.550
 Oh my goodness, folks.

00:54:15.550 --> 00:54:20.690
 Look, we don't want fat pride, but we also don't want looks maxing, where it's just all

00:54:20.690 --> 00:54:26.780
 about how you look, and it's just like, as a guy, look, brush your teeth, dress nice,

00:54:26.780 --> 00:54:28.440
 do some pushups, all right?

00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:32.430
 But guys who are overly obsessed with their appearance, that's just so effeminate, it's

00:54:32.430 --> 00:54:33.810
 not even funny.

00:54:33.810 --> 00:54:37.930
 It's just cringe, it's weird, and look, young people are following guys like that, you

00:54:37.930 --> 00:54:42.180
 need to stop, 'cause the Bible says we're not supposed to walk in the flesh, and you

00:54:42.180 --> 00:54:43.930
 know what it is when you're walking in the flesh?

00:54:43.930 --> 00:54:48.840
 You're obsessed with vainglory, oh, looks maxing, making myself look as much like a

00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:53.570
 Hollywood actor as possible, and just maxing on money, and maxing on cars, right?

00:54:53.570 --> 00:54:54.720
 Andrew Tate's the same way.

00:54:54.720 --> 00:54:59.130
 Oh, you need to get rich, you need to get a Bugatti, you need to have 10 girlfriends,

00:54:59.130 --> 00:55:00.490
 you need to do all these things.

00:55:00.490 --> 00:55:02.610
 Why don't you, like, godly max?

00:55:02.610 --> 00:55:07.200
 Why don't you Bible max, why don't you load up some Bible verses on the bar, why don't

00:55:07.200 --> 00:55:11.210
 you squat some Bible verses or something in your life spiritually, why don't you go soul

00:55:11.210 --> 00:55:14.760
 winning, why don't you go to church, why don't you stop going to an effeminate church with

00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:19.790
 a woman pastor, why don't you stop going to a gay church, you know, why don't you start

00:55:19.790 --> 00:55:23.330
 caring about the things that God actually cares about, not your stupid looks.

00:55:23.330 --> 00:55:27.300
 Guess what, your looks are going away, everything under the sun is going away, and for some

00:55:27.300 --> 00:55:29.200
 of us it's going real fast.

00:55:29.200 --> 00:55:33.000
 For me it's going real fast, I'm just like, am I thinning already, I'm 28, what is going

00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:33.990
 on?

00:55:33.990 --> 00:55:34.980
 But hey, who cares?

00:55:34.980 --> 00:55:41.610
 It's under the sun, it's all going to disappear someday, I'm worried about rewards in heaven.

00:55:41.610 --> 00:55:43.960
 Go if you would to Ecclesiastes 4.

00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:46.810
 So hey, what's one thing that's just kind of vexing about life?

00:55:46.810 --> 00:55:49.860
 It's like well, if you're successful, if you do well, people will envy you, because they're

00:55:49.860 --> 00:55:52.320
 vain and they're envious and they're walking in the flesh.

00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:56.480
 Well, here's another thing, in verse number 5, the fool foldeth his hands together and

00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:58.170
 eateth his own flesh.

00:55:58.170 --> 00:56:02.410
 You know there's a certain vexation about being successful, is that often times you'll

00:56:02.410 --> 00:56:05.390
 have clingers on, you'll have haters, you'll have envious people.

00:56:05.390 --> 00:56:09.470
 But you know there's a certain vexation with being someone who's just like poor and lazy

00:56:09.470 --> 00:56:10.460
 too.

00:56:10.460 --> 00:56:11.750
 It's called being a loser.

00:56:11.750 --> 00:56:14.140
 And it's like, verse 5, who wants to be this guy?

00:56:14.140 --> 00:56:17.170
 The fool foldeth his hands together and eateth his own flesh.

00:56:17.170 --> 00:56:21.860
 This is just the lazy do nothing, who doesn't achieve anything, he's not doing anything

00:56:21.860 --> 00:56:22.860
 with his life.

00:56:22.860 --> 00:56:26.600
 And it's like, these are like opposite sides of the coin, but they're both vain.

00:56:26.600 --> 00:56:27.590
 They're both vexatious.

00:56:27.590 --> 00:56:29.320
 It's like you don't really want either one.

00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:32.700
 The Bible really hammers that we should be aiming towards that middle ground.

00:56:32.700 --> 00:56:39.530
 Because look at verse six, it says better is in handful with quietness than both the

00:56:39.530 --> 00:56:43.270
 hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

00:56:43.270 --> 00:56:46.980
 It's like, you know, you don't want to be the poor lazy guy.

00:56:46.980 --> 00:56:49.500
 The poverty of the poor is their destruction.

00:56:49.500 --> 00:56:53.460
 The Bible says, you know, being poor is not something that's cool or exciting.

00:56:53.460 --> 00:56:54.490
 That's terrible.

00:56:54.490 --> 00:56:58.670
 But also you don't necessarily want to have both hands full in life because that could

00:56:58.670 --> 00:57:03.200
 be full of vexation and travail that that could be, you know, none of your friends

00:57:03.200 --> 00:57:04.540
 are real.

00:57:04.540 --> 00:57:06.650
 That could be none of your family members actually love you.

00:57:06.650 --> 00:57:09.910
 That could mean people are just always trying to get something from you to get an advantage

00:57:09.910 --> 00:57:14.090
 of you and people are flattering you and they really just envy and hate you.

00:57:14.090 --> 00:57:15.080
 That's not a fun life.

00:57:15.080 --> 00:57:16.410
 Right.

00:57:16.410 --> 00:57:18.020
 Like, do you think these Hollywood actors actually have a fun life?

00:57:18.020 --> 00:57:21.100
 Like, they can't just go out for ice cream with their kids.

00:57:21.100 --> 00:57:22.320
 They can't just go to a coffee shop.

00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:23.310
 They can't go to a restaurant.

00:57:23.310 --> 00:57:25.990
 They have to wear these weird disguises.

00:57:25.990 --> 00:57:28.340
 You know, it's like that's not a fun life.

00:57:28.340 --> 00:57:30.660
 You know, people are constantly stalking them at their house.

00:57:30.660 --> 00:57:33.470
 Oh, look, look at this person without makeup.

00:57:33.470 --> 00:57:34.510
 [HUMMING]

00:57:34.510 --> 00:57:35.540
 Breaking news.

00:57:35.540 --> 00:57:37.440
 Here's Sydney Sweeney without makeup.

00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:38.550
 She was caught at a grocery store.

00:57:38.550 --> 00:57:40.280
 It's like, that's not a fun life.

00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:42.190
 No one wants to live that type of a life.

00:57:42.190 --> 00:57:44.820
 But you know what better is than handful with quietness.

00:57:44.820 --> 00:57:46.450
 Go to Proverbs 15.

00:57:46.450 --> 00:57:47.850
 Proverbs 15.

00:57:47.850 --> 00:57:51.200
 And this is a big theme in Proverbs,

00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:54.620
 how we're not supposed to desire to be rich.

00:57:54.620 --> 00:57:56.460
 You know, we don't want to be poor.

00:57:56.460 --> 00:57:57.740
 We don't want to be rich.

00:57:57.740 --> 00:57:59.890
 We want to have convenience, right?

00:57:59.890 --> 00:58:02.090
 We want to have that food, which is convenient for us.

00:58:02.090 --> 00:58:04.060
 It says in Proverbs 15, verse 16,

00:58:04.060 --> 00:58:07.070
 better is little with the fear of the Lord

00:58:07.070 --> 00:58:10.100
 than great treasure and trouble therewith.

00:58:10.100 --> 00:58:12.270
 Right, hey, I'd rather be around people

00:58:12.270 --> 00:58:14.860
 who have no means or low means,

00:58:14.860 --> 00:58:17.630
 but they're godly people, they're God-fearing people,

00:58:17.630 --> 00:58:20.650
 than be over at some rich Hollywood actor's house

00:58:20.650 --> 00:58:24.700
 who worships the devil and some abortion-loving Democrat.

00:58:24.700 --> 00:58:26.430
 It's like, who wants to be around that type of person?

00:58:26.430 --> 00:58:28.690
 I'd rather be around the lowly.

00:58:28.690 --> 00:58:31.430
 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is

00:58:31.430 --> 00:58:33.990
 than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

00:58:33.990 --> 00:58:36.290
 You'd rather eat a vegetarian dinner

00:58:36.290 --> 00:58:38.950
 than be at some, you know, what's the restaurant

00:58:38.950 --> 00:58:40.690
 where they just bring endless meat?

00:58:40.690 --> 00:58:42.000
 Brazilian restaurants.

00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.740
 Yeah, like Brazilian-style restaurants.

00:58:43.740 --> 00:58:45.360
 They just bring like endless meats.

00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:46.720
 I love those restaurants.

00:58:46.720 --> 00:58:47.550
 But here's the thing.

00:58:47.550 --> 00:58:49.860
 You'd rather literally just have a salad

00:58:49.860 --> 00:58:52.010
 with normal, good, godly people.

00:58:52.010 --> 00:58:53.160
 You know, you'd rather just have a salad

00:58:53.160 --> 00:58:55.780
 with the wife of your youth that you love

00:58:55.780 --> 00:58:58.280
 than be around all these vain, evil, wicked people

00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:00.140
 just gorging on the best food.

00:59:00.140 --> 00:59:01.170
 Why, because you know what?

00:59:01.170 --> 00:59:03.650
 The things of this world don't matter, right?

00:59:03.650 --> 00:59:06.450
 The things under this sun does not matter.

00:59:06.450 --> 00:59:08.840
 Flip the page, Proverbs 16, verse eight.

00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:11.310
 Better is a little with righteousness

00:59:11.310 --> 00:59:13.520
 than great revenues without right.

00:59:13.520 --> 00:59:17.230
 You know, never trade your righteousness for money.

00:59:17.230 --> 00:59:20.140
 Never trade your integrity for money

00:59:20.140 --> 00:59:23.020
 because it's better to have little with righteousness

00:59:23.020 --> 00:59:25.110
 than great revenues without right.

00:59:25.110 --> 00:59:27.300
 Go back to Ecclesiastes four,

00:59:27.300 --> 00:59:29.240
 Ecclesiastes chapter number four.

00:59:29.240 --> 00:59:31.210
 He's gonna kinda continue on this financial theme

00:59:31.210 --> 00:59:32.160
 for a little bit.

00:59:32.160 --> 00:59:33.620
 In verse number seven, he says,

00:59:33.620 --> 00:59:37.490
 "Then I returned and I saw vanity under the sun.

00:59:37.490 --> 00:59:40.470
 "There is one alone, and there is not a second.

00:59:40.470 --> 00:59:43.160
 "Yea, he hath neither child nor brother.

00:59:43.160 --> 00:59:45.930
 "Yet is there no end of all his labor.

00:59:45.930 --> 00:59:49.180
 "Neither is his eye satisfied with riches.

00:59:49.180 --> 00:59:51.570
 "Neither sayeth he, for whom do I labor

00:59:51.570 --> 00:59:53.500
 "and bereave my soul of good?

00:59:53.500 --> 00:59:58.170
 "This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail."

00:59:58.170 --> 01:00:02.070
 So notice there's this man, he's just alone, right?

01:00:02.070 --> 01:00:03.320
 And it's like, when I read this,

01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:06.340
 I'm not really thinking about a teenage boy

01:00:06.340 --> 01:00:09.160
 or a young man in his 20s, because we wouldn't be like,

01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:12.880
 wow, how vexatious and travail that you're single

01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:15.030
 at 21 years old or something like that.

01:00:15.030 --> 01:00:17.170
 You can't expect that, that's not that rare.

01:00:17.170 --> 01:00:20.150
 I kinda get the idea that this is maybe an old man

01:00:20.150 --> 01:00:22.970
 or a guy, upper middle age or something like that,

01:00:22.970 --> 01:00:25.310
 and he just has no people in his life.

01:00:25.310 --> 01:00:27.320
 And there are people like this in this world,

01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.200
 sadly, there are some people where they go to old age

01:00:30.200 --> 01:00:32.390
 and they have no one in their life.

01:00:32.390 --> 01:00:35.680
 Not a friend, not a brother, not a child,

01:00:35.680 --> 01:00:37.900
 not a spouse, not a parent.

01:00:37.900 --> 01:00:39.900
 That's a horrible situation to be in, right?

01:00:39.900 --> 01:00:41.120
 That's really sad.

01:00:41.120 --> 01:00:42.410
 My heart breaks for those types of people.

01:00:42.410 --> 01:00:43.430
 We should minister to those people.

01:00:43.430 --> 01:00:44.250
 We should love those people.

01:00:44.250 --> 01:00:45.820
 We should take those people in.

01:00:45.820 --> 01:00:47.690
 But notice, why is his life vain?

01:00:47.690 --> 01:00:49.590
 Well, it's like he's working super hard.

01:00:49.590 --> 01:00:51.650
 There's no end of all his labor.

01:00:51.650 --> 01:00:54.030
 It's not like when you don't have people in your life

01:00:54.030 --> 01:00:55.860
 that you get to just like not have to work or something.

01:00:55.860 --> 01:00:57.930
 Like he still has got to go to work.

01:00:57.930 --> 01:01:00.520
 And he says, neither is his eye satisfied with riches.

01:01:00.520 --> 01:01:01.960
 You know, he gets all these riches.

01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:04.040
 That doesn't make him happy, right?

01:01:04.040 --> 01:01:05.660
 Some people, they don't want to have kids

01:01:05.660 --> 01:01:07.230
 because they want to make as much money as possible.

01:01:07.230 --> 01:01:08.830
 That will not make you happy.

01:01:08.830 --> 01:01:10.650
 You will not be fulfilled in life, you know,

01:01:10.650 --> 01:01:14.020
 by getting your tubes tied or doing whatever

01:01:14.020 --> 01:01:15.330
 so that you don't have to have kids.

01:01:15.330 --> 01:01:17.130
 And it's like, okay, you serve money.

01:01:17.130 --> 01:01:20.330
 Money doesn't serve or doesn't please you still.

01:01:20.330 --> 01:01:23.170
 Notice, neither save he for whom do I labor

01:01:23.170 --> 01:01:25.070
 and bereave my soul of good.

01:01:25.070 --> 01:01:27.340
 This is also vanity, yay, it is a sword travail.

01:01:27.340 --> 01:01:29.510
 See, when you're really working hard,

01:01:29.510 --> 01:01:31.940
 but you know that it's benefiting other people,

01:01:31.940 --> 01:01:34.020
 it kind of gives you something to motivate you, right?

01:01:34.020 --> 01:01:35.300
 It gives you something to work for.

01:01:35.300 --> 01:01:37.820
 It's like, hey, sucks to wake up early,

01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:40.330
 sucks to put in this much labor, but you know what?

01:01:40.330 --> 01:01:42.670
 I love my wife, I love my kids,

01:01:42.670 --> 01:01:44.600
 and I'm gonna do whatever it takes to take care of them.

01:01:44.600 --> 01:01:46.540
 You know, that can keep you going, right?

01:01:46.540 --> 01:01:48.960
 Or just friends that you have in your life, other people.

01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:51.010
 But if you have none of those things,

01:01:51.010 --> 01:01:52.440
 it can be very difficult.

01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.300
 Go to Genesis two, keep your place there.

01:01:54.300 --> 01:01:56.240
 Genesis chapter number two.

01:01:56.240 --> 01:01:57.540
 And I think one of the lessons this verse

01:01:57.540 --> 01:01:58.850
 is trying to teach us,

01:01:58.850 --> 01:02:01.940
 is that people are more important than things.

01:02:01.940 --> 01:02:03.850
 It's more important to care

01:02:03.850 --> 01:02:05.900
 about the relationships in your life

01:02:05.900 --> 01:02:07.610
 and the people in your life,

01:02:07.610 --> 01:02:09.470
 rather than things.

01:02:09.470 --> 01:02:12.610
 And living a life where you prioritize money,

01:02:12.610 --> 01:02:15.060
 career, net worth, assets,

01:02:15.060 --> 01:02:18.720
 is a very sad, shallow, empty life.

01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:21.190
 This is what the boomers did by and large.

01:02:21.190 --> 01:02:22.650
 The boomers by and large,

01:02:22.650 --> 01:02:24.630
 they just gave themselves over to money

01:02:24.630 --> 01:02:27.700
 and their stock portfolio and chasing riches.

01:02:27.700 --> 01:02:30.120
 And that's why the old folks home today

01:02:30.120 --> 01:02:32.830
 is filled with people that are lonely,

01:02:32.830 --> 01:02:34.660
 that have no one to take care of them,

01:02:34.660 --> 01:02:35.930
 no one to love them,

01:02:35.930 --> 01:02:38.930
 'cause a lot of these people just didn't have kids,

01:02:38.930 --> 01:02:40.760
 or they didn't care about their kids,

01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:42.450
 or they forsook their kids.

01:02:42.450 --> 01:02:44.540
 Like, it was just a really selfish generation,

01:02:44.540 --> 01:02:45.990
 let's be honest.

01:02:45.990 --> 01:02:47.680
 And they just found themselves in this position.

01:02:47.680 --> 01:02:49.160
 Look, some people are in this position

01:02:49.160 --> 01:02:50.730
 because they're wicked.

01:02:50.730 --> 01:02:53.000
 Look, I feel bad for people that are in this position

01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:54.230
 through no fault of their own,

01:02:54.230 --> 01:02:55.410
 but here's just the honest truth.

01:02:55.410 --> 01:02:58.500
 Some people die alone because they were wicked.

01:02:58.500 --> 01:03:01.010
 Some people die alone because they burned every bridge

01:03:01.010 --> 01:03:03.490
 in their life, and look, that sucks,

01:03:03.490 --> 01:03:06.110
 but that's the reality of this world.

01:03:06.110 --> 01:03:07.810
 You know, it's not good for man to be alone.

01:03:07.810 --> 01:03:09.580
 The Bible says in Genesis two, verse 18,

01:03:09.580 --> 01:03:11.520
 "And the Lord God said it is not good

01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:13.160
 "that the man should be alone.

01:03:13.160 --> 01:03:15.490
 "I will make and help meet for him.

01:03:15.490 --> 01:03:19.050
 "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,

01:03:19.050 --> 01:03:21.100
 "and he slept, and he took one of his ribs

01:03:21.100 --> 01:03:23.300
 "and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

01:03:23.300 --> 01:03:25.540
 "And the rib which the Lord God had taken for man

01:03:25.540 --> 01:03:28.240
 "made he a woman and brought her unto the man.

01:03:28.240 --> 01:03:30.130
 "And Adam said, 'This is now bone of my bones

01:03:30.130 --> 01:03:31.710
 "and flesh of my flesh.

01:03:31.710 --> 01:03:34.670
 "She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.

01:03:34.670 --> 01:03:37.770
 "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother

01:03:37.770 --> 01:03:39.480
 "and shall cleave unto his wife

01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:42.110
 "and they shall be one flesh."

01:03:42.110 --> 01:03:45.730
 You know, it's not good for a man to be alone.

01:03:45.730 --> 01:03:47.310
 The Bible says, "Whosoever findeth a wife

01:03:47.310 --> 01:03:49.440
 "findeth a good thing."

01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:52.060
 The Bible says, "A prudent wife is from the Lord."

01:03:52.060 --> 01:03:55.010
 Look, we need to encourage people today to get married.

01:03:55.010 --> 01:03:57.800
 There's been a lot of bad advice from previous generations

01:03:57.800 --> 01:03:59.100
 where they told you, "Hey, you know,

01:03:59.100 --> 01:04:01.650
 "focus on the riches first."

01:04:01.650 --> 01:04:03.550
 No, no, no, focus on the money.

01:04:03.550 --> 01:04:04.850
 Build up the nest egg.

01:04:04.850 --> 01:04:06.720
 Make sure you've got a savings account.

01:04:06.720 --> 01:04:08.510
 Make sure you've got the college degree.

01:04:08.510 --> 01:04:10.180
 Then get married.

01:04:10.180 --> 01:04:12.460
 And that's why we're in this weird situation

01:04:12.460 --> 01:04:15.300
 where there's so many people in their late 20s,

01:04:15.300 --> 01:04:20.650
 early 30s, beyond, that have never had kids by choice,

01:04:20.650 --> 01:04:23.010
 that have never gotten married by choice.

01:04:23.010 --> 01:04:24.510
 And I've told you the story.

01:04:24.510 --> 01:04:26.630
 You know, recently I had my 10-year anniversary

01:04:26.630 --> 01:04:28.690
 of my high school graduation,

01:04:28.690 --> 01:04:29.940
 and I went through the Facebook group,

01:04:29.940 --> 01:04:32.660
 and I'm just like blown away by the profile pictures,

01:04:32.660 --> 01:04:35.260
 how I went to the largest high school in Idaho,

01:04:35.260 --> 01:04:38.160
 and it's like five pictures, someone's married.

01:04:38.160 --> 01:04:40.460
 It's like three pictures, someone has a kid.

01:04:40.460 --> 01:04:42.200
 And it's like, what is happening to my generation?

01:04:42.200 --> 01:04:43.740
 I'll tell you exactly what's happened,

01:04:43.740 --> 01:04:45.290
 is that we've been brainwashed

01:04:45.290 --> 01:04:48.180
 to care about money more than people.

01:04:48.180 --> 01:04:49.770
 And you get this bad advice, it's like,

01:04:49.770 --> 01:04:52.470
 no, you can't afford to get married.

01:04:52.470 --> 01:04:55.140
 Oh, you can't afford to have your wife stay home

01:04:55.140 --> 01:04:56.390
 and start having kids.

01:04:56.390 --> 01:04:57.220
 Let me tell you what,

01:04:57.220 --> 01:04:58.730
 you'll never be able to afford to do anything,

01:04:58.730 --> 01:04:59.900
 and then you'll die, the end.

01:04:59.900 --> 01:05:01.770
 That's just the reality of this crazy world

01:05:01.770 --> 01:05:03.400
 that we live in, okay?

01:05:03.400 --> 01:05:05.670
 But it's like, look, I would rather, you know,

01:05:05.670 --> 01:05:10.560
 not be alone and have my wife and have children,

01:05:10.560 --> 01:05:13.530
 and look, I thank God that I'm 28 years old,

01:05:13.530 --> 01:05:15.670
 and by God's grace, I've got four beautiful girls.

01:05:15.670 --> 01:05:17.090
 I wouldn't trade that.

01:05:17.090 --> 01:05:18.120
 Oh, do you make a lot of money?

01:05:18.120 --> 01:05:19.310
 No.

01:05:19.310 --> 01:05:21.020
 Do you have the best financial situation in the world?

01:05:21.020 --> 01:05:23.140
 No, I don't, but I don't care,

01:05:23.140 --> 01:05:24.630
 because I've got those four beautiful girls,

01:05:24.630 --> 01:05:25.970
 and I've got my wife.

01:05:25.970 --> 01:05:28.260
 And it's like, it's a foolish endeavor today

01:05:28.260 --> 01:05:29.280
 that people are making

01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:31.860
 where they're trading money for people.

01:05:31.860 --> 01:05:33.160
 Don't do it.

01:05:33.160 --> 01:05:34.610
 Do not make that decision.

01:05:34.610 --> 01:05:36.760
 I would encourage young people, get married.

01:05:36.760 --> 01:05:39.270
 Now look, don't be an idiot, okay?

01:05:39.270 --> 01:05:41.300
 Don't work at McDonald's and be like,

01:05:41.300 --> 01:05:43.170
 "Oh, that'll be files, work at McDonald's."

01:05:43.170 --> 01:05:45.120
 Start pumping out 10 kids at McDonald's.

01:05:45.120 --> 01:05:47.070
 No, no, you should take your career seriously.

01:05:47.070 --> 01:05:49.300
 You should work as hard as you can.

01:05:49.300 --> 01:05:51.480
 You should, as a man, provide the best you can

01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:54.550
 and make as much money as you can without compromising,

01:05:54.550 --> 01:05:56.020
 without skipping on church.

01:05:56.020 --> 01:05:59.460
 But look, you do not have to be rich to have a family, okay?

01:05:59.460 --> 01:06:00.970
 You do not have to,

01:06:00.970 --> 01:06:03.600
 making just tons of money hand over fist.

01:06:03.600 --> 01:06:06.700
 You don't have to have $100,000 in your savings account.

01:06:06.700 --> 01:06:09.370
 You don't have to have an engineering degree.

01:06:09.370 --> 01:06:12.410
 Okay, what you need is to seek first the kingdom of God

01:06:12.410 --> 01:06:13.740
 and his righteousness,

01:06:13.740 --> 01:06:15.370
 and all these things will be added unto you.

01:06:15.370 --> 01:06:16.780
 That's what you need to do.

01:06:16.780 --> 01:06:18.230
 Young people today need to be told,

01:06:18.230 --> 01:06:21.350
 hey, you wanna provide for your family, put God first.

01:06:21.350 --> 01:06:22.560
 You wanna provide for your family,

01:06:22.560 --> 01:06:24.800
 type 10% to the church.

01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:26.770
 You know, you wanna, you take care of your family,

01:06:26.770 --> 01:06:30.080
 go soul winning, preach the gospel, be godly,

01:06:30.080 --> 01:06:32.670
 read the Bible, then God'll take care of you.

01:06:32.670 --> 01:06:35.120
 You know, people just wanna divorce God from their life.

01:06:35.120 --> 01:06:37.470
 It's like, don't you believe in God?

01:06:37.470 --> 01:06:40.350
 Don't you believe that that God who's holding this world

01:06:40.350 --> 01:06:42.120
 upon nothing in the universe can provide

01:06:42.120 --> 01:06:43.810
 for you and your family?

01:06:43.810 --> 01:06:45.360
 Then just obey him, right?

01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:50.400
 Be fruitful, multiply, have kids, get married.

01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:52.110
 Go to Matthew 19.

01:06:52.110 --> 01:06:52.910
 Now I do wanna say though,

01:06:52.910 --> 01:06:56.320
 because of course there are people in this world where,

01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:59.020
 hey, you know, they didn't get married in their 20s,

01:06:59.020 --> 01:07:00.850
 they didn't get married in their 30s, right?

01:07:00.850 --> 01:07:03.120
 They're past that, maybe they're still single,

01:07:03.120 --> 01:07:05.220
 or maybe tragedy has happened in their life

01:07:05.220 --> 01:07:07.470
 and their loved ones have died and they're alone,

01:07:07.470 --> 01:07:09.680
 or just the circumstances of life

01:07:09.680 --> 01:07:11.920
 that were kind of beyond their control,

01:07:11.920 --> 01:07:13.330
 whatever transpired happened,

01:07:13.330 --> 01:07:14.540
 and now they're just kind of alone.

01:07:14.540 --> 01:07:15.940
 Well, here's the thing.

01:07:15.940 --> 01:07:19.070
 Don't give up and don't get black-pilled

01:07:19.070 --> 01:07:21.590
 because God can give you a new family.

01:07:21.590 --> 01:07:23.580
 Look at Matthew chapter 19, verse 28.

01:07:23.580 --> 01:07:26.150
 "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you,

01:07:26.150 --> 01:07:28.980
 "That ye which have followed me in the regeneration,

01:07:28.980 --> 01:07:32.020
 "when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory,

01:07:32.020 --> 01:07:34.650
 "ye also shall sit upon 12 thrones,

01:07:34.650 --> 01:07:36.610
 "judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

01:07:36.610 --> 01:07:38.650
 "And every one that hath forsaken houses,

01:07:38.650 --> 01:07:41.210
 "or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,

01:07:41.210 --> 01:07:44.100
 "or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake,

01:07:44.100 --> 01:07:46.110
 "shall receive an hundredfold,

01:07:46.110 --> 01:07:48.890
 "and shall inherit everlasting life."

01:07:48.890 --> 01:07:51.470
 You know, if the relationship aspect of your life

01:07:51.470 --> 01:07:54.520
 isn't everything that you have hoped it to be,

01:07:54.520 --> 01:07:56.400
 don't give up on life.

01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.640
 Don't just get black-pilled on life and just give up,

01:07:59.640 --> 01:08:01.880
 and, you know, God forbid, commit suicide

01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:02.710
 or something like that.

01:08:02.710 --> 01:08:05.330
 That's why a lot of people commit suicide.

01:08:05.330 --> 01:08:07.470
 They're alone, they're lonely.

01:08:07.470 --> 01:08:08.300
 But here's the thing.

01:08:08.300 --> 01:08:10.150
 Okay, you don't have, you know, a brother.

01:08:10.150 --> 01:08:11.600
 Okay, you don't have a son.

01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:12.430
 But here's what you do have.

01:08:12.430 --> 01:08:13.960
 You have a church.

01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.060
 You have a room full of people that love you.

01:08:16.060 --> 01:08:18.520
 You have a church here that's willing to take you in.

01:08:18.520 --> 01:08:20.050
 And it's like, look, we should also be sensitive

01:08:20.050 --> 01:08:21.420
 to people that are in those positions.

01:08:21.420 --> 01:08:22.730
 People that, you know, they're in life,

01:08:22.730 --> 01:08:24.350
 they don't have a wife, they don't have brothers,

01:08:24.350 --> 01:08:25.600
 they don't have family members.

01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:27.920
 You know, don't ignore those people, love those people.

01:08:27.920 --> 01:08:31.140
 Because God gives spiritual family to those people

01:08:31.140 --> 01:08:33.370
 to fulfill those needs in life.

01:08:33.370 --> 01:08:35.200
 And look, if you have great friends,

01:08:35.200 --> 01:08:36.890
 if you have great church members,

01:08:36.890 --> 01:08:38.300
 but you don't have those other things,

01:08:38.300 --> 01:08:40.960
 you still have more than a lot of people in this world.

01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:43.170
 And it's like, if you've got Anchor Baptist Church,

01:08:43.170 --> 01:08:45.620
 if you're in a new IFB church in the United States

01:08:45.620 --> 01:08:48.570
 of America, you know, your life is still pretty great.

01:08:48.570 --> 01:08:50.150
 You still have it better than a lot of people,

01:08:50.150 --> 01:08:51.480
 and you should thank God for that

01:08:51.480 --> 01:08:53.520
 and not get all black-pilled.

01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:55.080
 Verse number nine of Ecclesiastes four,

01:08:55.080 --> 01:08:56.680
 go ahead and go back there.

01:08:56.680 --> 01:08:58.680
 Ecclesiastes four, verse nine, it says two are better

01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:03.470
 than one because they have a good reward for their labor.

01:09:03.470 --> 01:09:06.050
 Right, when you're working for someone else,

01:09:06.050 --> 01:09:07.930
 when you're thinking about, oh, I gotta provide

01:09:07.930 --> 01:09:10.140
 for my family or, you know, I gotta take care

01:09:10.140 --> 01:09:12.110
 of the house of God, there's a good reward for that.

01:09:12.110 --> 01:09:12.940
 You're working for that.

01:09:12.940 --> 01:09:15.510
 You're excited to see the fruits of that.

01:09:15.510 --> 01:09:17.090
 Right, two are better than one.

01:09:17.090 --> 01:09:18.760
 And notice it says, for if they fall,

01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:20.760
 the one will lift up his fellow.

01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:24.000
 But woe to him that is alone when he falleth,

01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:26.390
 for he hath not another to help him up.

01:09:26.390 --> 01:09:29.250
 Look, we need other people.

01:09:29.250 --> 01:09:30.880
 We need other people.

01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:33.030
 You know, we get more encouraged

01:09:33.030 --> 01:09:35.260
 and we have more accountability in our life,

01:09:35.260 --> 01:09:37.720
 the more people that we have in our life.

01:09:37.720 --> 01:09:40.390
 And it's like, hey, when two are together,

01:09:40.390 --> 01:09:43.680
 if one falls, the other can pick him up, right?

01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:47.410
 But woe unto him that is alone when he fallen.

01:09:47.410 --> 01:09:49.720
 Sadly, when people start to get backslidden

01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:51.300
 or they start to kind of get cold

01:09:51.300 --> 01:09:53.150
 or things bad happen in their life,

01:09:53.150 --> 01:09:55.540
 you see them kind of just withdraw from church,

01:09:55.540 --> 01:09:57.910
 which is the worst thing you could possibly do.

01:09:57.910 --> 01:09:59.420
 To withdraw from God's people,

01:09:59.420 --> 01:10:01.070
 to withdraw from your family.

01:10:01.070 --> 01:10:02.500
 Look, those are the times

01:10:02.500 --> 01:10:04.330
 that you gotta let people encourage you,

01:10:04.330 --> 01:10:07.190
 let people love you, let people help you out

01:10:07.190 --> 01:10:09.530
 in those times and not back away

01:10:09.530 --> 01:10:12.960
 because woe unto him that is alone when he falleth.

01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:14.290
 You know, I'll tell you a story about one time

01:10:14.290 --> 01:10:16.540
 when I was hunting and I got lost in the woods.

01:10:16.540 --> 01:10:18.510
 Mom, I'm sorry if you've never heard this story.

01:10:18.510 --> 01:10:19.460
 I don't mean to give you a heart attack,

01:10:19.460 --> 01:10:21.680
 but it's over, I'm safe now, okay?

01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:22.550
 Just letting you know.

01:10:22.550 --> 01:10:25.400
 So here's the thing, getting lost in the woods in Idaho

01:10:25.400 --> 01:10:28.460
 is not like getting lost in Texas or Oklahoma, okay?

01:10:28.460 --> 01:10:30.350
 Like here's the thing, it's just flat here,

01:10:30.350 --> 01:10:33.020
 there's roads everywhere, there's civilization everywhere.

01:10:33.020 --> 01:10:34.570
 You know, when people hunt here,

01:10:34.570 --> 01:10:36.360
 it's like you're in a tree stand, you're in a blind,

01:10:36.360 --> 01:10:37.830
 you kind of wait for a deer to walk by.

01:10:37.830 --> 01:10:39.480
 That is not how it is in Idaho.

01:10:39.480 --> 01:10:41.810
 When you hunt there, it's like you're in places

01:10:41.810 --> 01:10:43.800
 untouched by human beings oftentimes,

01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:48.050
 or where just no people live within like hundreds of miles.

01:10:48.050 --> 01:10:50.180
 I mean, the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho

01:10:50.180 --> 01:10:54.830
 is the largest uninhabited wilderness area in the lower 48.

01:10:54.830 --> 01:10:56.180
 So you think about like Alaska,

01:10:56.180 --> 01:10:57.620
 there's places where just no one lives.

01:10:57.620 --> 01:11:00.040
 Okay, well like Idaho is like mini Alaska.

01:11:00.040 --> 01:11:01.350
 So when you hunt there,

01:11:01.350 --> 01:11:03.870
 it is literally a deadly thing to be doing.

01:11:03.870 --> 01:11:05.800
 Like you have to take it super serious.

01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:08.300
 You don't go hunting alone because woe unto him

01:11:08.300 --> 01:11:10.170
 that is alone when he falls.

01:11:10.170 --> 01:11:12.500
 When people go hunting alone and they break their ankle,

01:11:12.500 --> 01:11:13.580
 you're like, oh, they just broke their ankle.

01:11:13.580 --> 01:11:15.110
 No, that's a death sentence.

01:11:15.110 --> 01:11:16.620
 Like you'll freeze to death.

01:11:16.620 --> 01:11:18.710
 You'll get eaten, you'll get killed, right?

01:11:18.710 --> 01:11:20.840
 You don't wanna go out in the snow, you know,

01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:23.300
 in a vehicle alone 'cause if you get stuck,

01:11:23.300 --> 01:11:25.890
 that's a death sentence literally oftentimes.

01:11:25.890 --> 01:11:28.620
 So it's like woe unto him that is alone when he falls.

01:11:28.620 --> 01:11:30.360
 You know, I was hunting and my dad,

01:11:30.360 --> 01:11:32.110
 I'm sorry mom, I'm sorry, okay.

01:11:32.110 --> 01:11:33.590
 My dad thought it'd be a good idea.

01:11:33.590 --> 01:11:35.440
 Hey Dylan, you go with this guy.

01:11:35.440 --> 01:11:37.800
 And this guy's like a really experienced hunter.

01:11:37.800 --> 01:11:39.000
 I'm a young teenager.

01:11:39.000 --> 01:11:40.210
 This guy knows what he's doing.

01:11:40.210 --> 01:11:42.740
 He's moving fast and he tells me, he's like, all right,

01:11:42.740 --> 01:11:44.530
 you know, you're gonna go on this side of the river.

01:11:44.530 --> 01:11:45.880
 I'm gonna be on this side of the river

01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:48.460
 and we're just gonna go, you know, towards each other.

01:11:48.460 --> 01:11:49.730
 I'm kind of like on the top of the ridge.

01:11:49.730 --> 01:11:52.620
 He's on the bottom because the goal is if there's any elk,

01:11:52.620 --> 01:11:54.840
 I'll push him down to him or he'll push them up to me.

01:11:54.840 --> 01:11:56.430
 It's honestly a pretty good plan.

01:11:56.430 --> 01:12:00.110
 But I was an inexperienced teenager and I got lost.

01:12:00.110 --> 01:12:02.870
 And when I got lost, I started to panic.

01:12:02.870 --> 01:12:04.530
 I started to get scared.

01:12:04.530 --> 01:12:05.490
 You know why?

01:12:05.490 --> 01:12:06.440
 Because here's the thing.

01:12:06.440 --> 01:12:08.160
 I've been charged by a black bear before,

01:12:08.160 --> 01:12:09.910
 when I was even younger than that.

01:12:09.910 --> 01:12:12.510
 I've ran into mother moose, like a mama moose,

01:12:12.510 --> 01:12:13.580
 with its babies.

01:12:13.580 --> 01:12:15.180
 We've seen mountain lions.

01:12:15.180 --> 01:12:17.330
 Like, it's a scary world out there

01:12:17.330 --> 01:12:18.530
 in the woods of Idaho, okay?

01:12:18.530 --> 01:12:21.240
 And when you're a kid alone, you start to panic.

01:12:21.240 --> 01:12:22.240
 And here's the thing, it's not like,

01:12:22.240 --> 01:12:23.670
 oh, I'm just walking through a field.

01:12:23.670 --> 01:12:25.780
 There's all these dead fall trees

01:12:25.780 --> 01:12:28.060
 that are all over each other and these things are huge.

01:12:28.060 --> 01:12:30.770
 I'm having to like hoist my whole body over them,

01:12:30.770 --> 01:12:33.920
 flopping myself down, slowly going through the woods.

01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:35.980
 I've just got a 270 rifle,

01:12:35.980 --> 01:12:37.640
 or it might have been a 30-06, I can't remember.

01:12:37.640 --> 01:12:39.880
 But I've got a rifle that's not great for like bears

01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:41.440
 or wolves or something like that.

01:12:41.440 --> 01:12:43.040
 And what I start to do when I panic

01:12:43.040 --> 01:12:47.350
 is I start to go fast, that idea to go fast, right?

01:12:47.350 --> 01:12:49.430
 What you wanna do is stay calm,

01:12:49.430 --> 01:12:50.910
 but I was a teenage boy or whatever.

01:12:50.910 --> 01:12:52.240
 So I start going super fast.

01:12:52.240 --> 01:12:53.850
 I'm just going over these trees.

01:12:53.850 --> 01:12:55.960
 I've got a gun, I'm alone or whatever.

01:12:55.960 --> 01:12:58.350
 Finally, I end up making it to a road.

01:12:58.350 --> 01:12:59.860
 But let me tell you, during those times,

01:12:59.860 --> 01:13:02.250
 I was scared, my heart was racing.

01:13:02.250 --> 01:13:03.680
 I could have broken my leg.

01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:06.430
 I could have gotten in serious trouble there.

01:13:06.430 --> 01:13:07.260
 But here's the thing.

01:13:07.260 --> 01:13:09.620
 If I would have just had someone with me,

01:13:09.620 --> 01:13:11.620
 do you think I would have been panicking like that?

01:13:11.620 --> 01:13:13.280
 Do you think I would have been throwing my body

01:13:13.280 --> 01:13:16.330
 over the trees and worried about things?

01:13:16.330 --> 01:13:18.860
 No, if someone was with me, we could have been like,

01:13:18.860 --> 01:13:21.450
 all right, we're lost, but let's make a plan.

01:13:21.450 --> 01:13:22.560
 Let's figure this out.

01:13:22.560 --> 01:13:24.000
 Let's do something together, right?

01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:26.200
 Well, that's exactly how life is.

01:13:26.200 --> 01:13:27.830
 It's like the Bible says, "Woe unto him

01:13:27.830 --> 01:13:29.740
 "that is alone when he falleth."

01:13:29.740 --> 01:13:31.780
 Because you start doing stupid things.

01:13:31.780 --> 01:13:34.450
 Look, don't make decisions when you're discouraged.

01:13:34.450 --> 01:13:37.200
 Don't make decisions when you're backslidden.

01:13:37.200 --> 01:13:40.290
 Don't make decisions when you've withdrawn from people

01:13:40.290 --> 01:13:42.240
 and you have no friends in your life.

01:13:42.240 --> 01:13:43.830
 You have no one that's giving you good counsel.

01:13:43.830 --> 01:13:46.130
 That's a bad time to be making those decisions

01:13:46.130 --> 01:13:48.950
 because woe unto him that is alone when he falleth.

01:13:48.950 --> 01:13:51.230
 You wanna make sure, hey, I've got friends with me.

01:13:51.230 --> 01:13:52.670
 I'm getting good counsel.

01:13:52.670 --> 01:13:53.980
 I'm doing the right thing.

01:13:53.980 --> 01:13:55.240
 And it's like, if I would've just had

01:13:55.240 --> 01:13:57.770
 that experienced hunter with me and we'd gotten lost,

01:13:57.770 --> 01:14:00.080
 we could've just took a nice, easy stroll.

01:14:00.080 --> 01:14:01.820
 I wouldn't have risked getting injured

01:14:01.820 --> 01:14:04.340
 or anything like that and it would've been just fine.

01:14:04.340 --> 01:14:07.270
 So look, let me just tell you, hey, if you ever feel

01:14:07.270 --> 01:14:09.230
 like you're lost in the woods spiritually,

01:14:09.230 --> 01:14:10.650
 you're going through a rough time,

01:14:10.650 --> 01:14:13.050
 you know, that's not the time to quit serving God.

01:14:13.050 --> 01:14:15.590
 That's not the time to quit church or to not, you know,

01:14:15.590 --> 01:14:18.720
 talk to friends or people in your life that love you.

01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:20.940
 Make sure you use the buddy system in life.

01:14:20.940 --> 01:14:22.290
 Don't just go solo.

01:14:22.290 --> 01:14:24.750
 It's too dangerous out there.

01:14:24.750 --> 01:14:26.810
 Now, look at verse number 13.

01:14:26.810 --> 01:14:31.530
 It says this, better is a poor and a wise child

01:14:31.530 --> 01:14:33.860
 than an old and foolish king

01:14:33.860 --> 01:14:35.470
 who will no more be admonished.

01:14:35.470 --> 01:14:37.040
 I like how God looks at things

01:14:37.040 --> 01:14:38.980
 differently than this world does.

01:14:38.980 --> 01:14:40.520
 Because of course, this world,

01:14:40.520 --> 01:14:41.770
 if they're presented with the option,

01:14:41.770 --> 01:14:44.260
 hey, do you wanna hang out with this kid or this king?

01:14:44.260 --> 01:14:46.350
 They'll like always say like, oh, the king's better.

01:14:46.350 --> 01:14:47.810
 We want the king's favor.

01:14:47.810 --> 01:14:49.190
 But God can see the heart

01:14:49.190 --> 01:14:52.020
 and he could actually see that a young child,

01:14:52.020 --> 01:14:56.480
 a child who's wise is better than an old and foolish king.

01:14:56.480 --> 01:14:57.280
 You know what that tells me, by the way,

01:14:57.280 --> 01:14:59.270
 is that children can be wise.

01:14:59.270 --> 01:15:04.210
 Children can decide to put away vanity and stupidity

01:15:04.210 --> 01:15:05.780
 and just emptiness in their life.

01:15:05.780 --> 01:15:07.780
 And children could actually be very wise.

01:15:07.780 --> 01:15:09.770
 You know, there's children soul winners here.

01:15:09.770 --> 01:15:10.760
 That's great.

01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:12.230
 That's what the Bible literally says.

01:15:12.230 --> 01:15:14.810
 He that win his souls is wise.

01:15:14.810 --> 01:15:18.030
 You know, it's better to listen to the words

01:15:18.030 --> 01:15:21.680
 of a five, six, seven, eight-year-old soul winner

01:15:21.680 --> 01:15:24.450
 than to listen to the words of the old pope.

01:15:24.450 --> 01:15:26.350
 I mean, the old pope, he might be old.

01:15:26.350 --> 01:15:28.270
 He might be a king in some religion,

01:15:28.270 --> 01:15:30.920
 but he's a fool, he's evil, he's wicked.

01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:33.360
 You know, it's better to listen to the young, wise person.

01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:34.200
 Right?

01:15:34.200 --> 01:15:35.780
 So just 'cause you're a child, just 'cause you're young,

01:15:35.780 --> 01:15:39.170
 it doesn't mean you have to be foolish, vain, empty.

01:15:39.170 --> 01:15:41.880
 You know, you can't actually choose to be wise.

01:15:41.880 --> 01:15:42.710
 And how do you do that?

01:15:42.710 --> 01:15:44.890
 You do that by actually learning things, right?

01:15:44.890 --> 01:15:48.140
 'Cause the child is contrasted against the king.

01:15:48.140 --> 01:15:50.140
 What does it say about this old, foolish king?

01:15:50.140 --> 01:15:52.920
 He will no longer be admonished.

01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:55.870
 One of the worst traits anyone could have

01:15:55.870 --> 01:15:58.950
 is getting to a point where they stop learning,

01:15:58.950 --> 01:16:00.950
 where they're not willing to take correction,

01:16:00.950 --> 01:16:03.420
 where they're not willing to investigate things,

01:16:03.420 --> 01:16:05.300
 learn, hear truth.

01:16:05.300 --> 01:16:06.960
 You know, and often, who is it that does this?

01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:08.620
 Old people, right?

01:16:08.620 --> 01:16:10.500
 Oftentimes, it's the older people

01:16:10.500 --> 01:16:12.580
 where they've just shut off their mind,

01:16:12.580 --> 01:16:14.090
 they've made up their decision,

01:16:14.090 --> 01:16:17.360
 and facts, evidence, logic, Bible verses,

01:16:17.360 --> 01:16:18.350
 won't convince them.

01:16:18.350 --> 01:16:19.170
 You know what that person is?

01:16:19.170 --> 01:16:21.080
 A fool, right?

01:16:21.080 --> 01:16:23.330
 I mean, one of the easiest dogs to kick right now

01:16:23.330 --> 01:16:25.250
 is the pre-trib rapture.

01:16:25.250 --> 01:16:26.080
 Because you know what?

01:16:26.080 --> 01:16:27.950
 The pre-trib rapture is only believed

01:16:27.950 --> 01:16:31.190
 by old, stubborn, foolish preachers.

01:16:31.190 --> 01:16:32.700
 Because the pre-trib rapture doctrine

01:16:32.700 --> 01:16:34.570
 is dying amongst the new generation

01:16:34.570 --> 01:16:36.760
 because it's not biblical.

01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:38.610
 And it's like, hey, we're living in the day and age

01:16:38.610 --> 01:16:40.630
 of the internet and AI.

01:16:40.630 --> 01:16:43.520
 And we don't have to go to John Nelson Darby's notes

01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:46.820
 or John Schofield, whatever his name is, notes.

01:16:46.820 --> 01:16:48.440
 We can actually read the Bible.

01:16:48.440 --> 01:16:49.920
 We can actually get great documentaries

01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.180
 like After the Tribulation.

01:16:51.180 --> 01:16:52.490
 We can hear good preaching on this.

01:16:52.490 --> 01:16:54.400
 And a lot of people are waking up to the fact

01:16:54.400 --> 01:16:57.700
 that the Bible teaches that it is after the tribulation.

01:16:57.700 --> 01:16:58.630
 What are you talking about?

01:16:58.630 --> 01:17:01.480
 The Bible says it's after the tribulation.

01:17:01.480 --> 01:17:03.670
 The Bible literally says that the man of sin

01:17:03.670 --> 01:17:06.290
 has to be revealed before the day of the Lord,

01:17:06.290 --> 01:17:08.530
 that he has to stand up in the temple of God

01:17:08.530 --> 01:17:10.150
 and declare himself to be God.

01:17:10.150 --> 01:17:12.530
 The pre-trib rapture is a lie.

01:17:12.530 --> 01:17:14.430
 And look, I'm not mad necessarily

01:17:14.430 --> 01:17:15.690
 at someone for believing that,

01:17:15.690 --> 01:17:18.170
 but I am mad if they're being corrected with the Bible

01:17:18.170 --> 01:17:22.060
 and they just won't listen because that is foolishness.

01:17:22.060 --> 01:17:23.790
 Anything that's in the word of God

01:17:23.790 --> 01:17:25.420
 should be able to be presented to you

01:17:25.420 --> 01:17:27.700
 and you should be able to change your mind.

01:17:27.700 --> 01:17:30.720
 Evidence should be able to be shown to you

01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:33.060
 and you should be willing to change your mind.

01:17:33.060 --> 01:17:35.370
 Why are flat earthers such retards?

01:17:35.370 --> 01:17:37.640
 'Cause they won't accept reality.

01:17:37.640 --> 01:17:40.290
 They won't accept facts and evidence.

01:17:40.290 --> 01:17:42.220
 And it's like, it doesn't matter how much facts

01:17:42.220 --> 01:17:44.700
 and evidence you show a flat earther, they deny it.

01:17:44.700 --> 01:17:45.510
 They reject it.

01:17:45.510 --> 01:17:47.600
 That's a foolish person.

01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:51.370
 Whereas a child who may not know much about the way

01:17:51.370 --> 01:17:53.120
 that the solar system works.

01:17:53.120 --> 01:17:56.130
 They don't know about, you know, the Apollo missions

01:17:56.130 --> 01:17:58.070
 and the Artemis missions, but you teach them

01:17:58.070 --> 01:17:59.570
 and they're just like, oh, that's interesting.

01:17:59.570 --> 01:18:00.660
 Oh, that's cool.

01:18:00.660 --> 01:18:02.290
 Oh, that's how a lunar eclipse works.

01:18:02.290 --> 01:18:03.520
 Oh, that's a solar eclipse.

01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:04.710
 Wow, isn't it interesting how it's always

01:18:04.710 --> 01:18:05.940
 in the form of a circle?

01:18:05.940 --> 01:18:07.880
 Yeah, 'cause the earth is a sphere

01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:09.350
 and children get this.

01:18:09.350 --> 01:18:10.180
 Why?

01:18:10.180 --> 01:18:13.040
 Because they're not wicked and stubborn, right?

01:18:13.040 --> 01:18:14.800
 And so we don't want to have that same mentality

01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:17.410
 as the old and foolish king that can never be corrected.

01:18:17.410 --> 01:18:20.390
 Go to Proverbs one, Proverbs chapter one.

01:18:20.390 --> 01:18:22.940
 And you know what, to be a wise person,

01:18:22.940 --> 01:18:27.120
 you must not assume that you're right about everything.

01:18:27.120 --> 01:18:30.830
 It is a fool that thinks that they are right about everything.

01:18:30.830 --> 01:18:32.920
 That's a bad attribute, folks.

01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:34.130
 Don't assume you're right about everything,

01:18:34.130 --> 01:18:35.830
 but the fool does assume they're right about everything,

01:18:35.830 --> 01:18:37.700
 so they're hard to correct.

01:18:37.700 --> 01:18:40.470
 Look at what a wise man does in Proverbs one verse five.

01:18:40.470 --> 01:18:44.510
 A wise man will hear and will increase learning,

01:18:44.510 --> 01:18:47.400
 and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.

01:18:47.400 --> 01:18:50.650
 Notice there's three things that the wise man does.

01:18:50.650 --> 01:18:51.660
 What does he do?

01:18:51.660 --> 01:18:53.150
 He hears.

01:18:53.150 --> 01:18:53.940
 You know what that means?

01:18:53.940 --> 01:18:55.330
 He's not talking.

01:18:55.330 --> 01:18:56.710
 He's listening.

01:18:56.710 --> 01:18:58.920
 He's ingesting information.

01:18:58.920 --> 01:19:00.410
 He's trying to learn.

01:19:00.410 --> 01:19:02.510
 He's trying to see other points of view.

01:19:02.510 --> 01:19:04.560
 That's what a wise person does.

01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:06.680
 The fool's known by the multitude of his words.

01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:09.220
 He wants to discover his own heart.

01:19:09.220 --> 01:19:11.240
 He wants his heart to discover itself,

01:19:11.240 --> 01:19:13.130
 and that's how he's known to be a fool.

01:19:13.130 --> 01:19:16.310
 Also, notice, he increases learning.

01:19:16.310 --> 01:19:18.480
 You know, you want to be a lifelong learner.

01:19:18.480 --> 01:19:20.250
 You never want to be content saying like,

01:19:20.250 --> 01:19:22.600
 I have reached the pinnacle of Bible knowledge.

01:19:22.600 --> 01:19:24.800
 I have reached all the knowledge in my trade.

01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:27.850
 I know everything there is to know about the Apollo.

01:19:27.850 --> 01:19:29.480
 I'm not even close to it, folks.

01:19:29.480 --> 01:19:30.670
 You know, I'm gonna keep learning

01:19:30.670 --> 01:19:31.820
 just to piss everyone off.

01:19:31.820 --> 01:19:33.280
 I'm just gonna keep learning about it.

01:19:33.280 --> 01:19:34.310
 Right, we want to keep learning.

01:19:34.310 --> 01:19:36.230
 It says, and a man of understanding

01:19:36.230 --> 01:19:39.630
 shall attain unto wise counsels, right?

01:19:39.630 --> 01:19:43.870
 So it's important to seek advice from otherwise people.

01:19:43.870 --> 01:19:45.820
 Right, that takes humility to say,

01:19:45.820 --> 01:19:47.990
 hey, I don't know everything about this.

01:19:47.990 --> 01:19:49.530
 I am not the expert in this.

01:19:49.530 --> 01:19:51.640
 Hey, I've never been through this situation before.

01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:53.940
 Let me go find a wise person.

01:19:53.940 --> 01:19:55.230
 Look, if there's no one in your life

01:19:55.230 --> 01:19:58.460
 that you ask counsel of, you're living foolishly.

01:19:58.460 --> 01:20:00.620
 Like there should be some people in your life

01:20:00.620 --> 01:20:02.450
 that you ask counsel from.

01:20:02.450 --> 01:20:04.070
 And look, wise people, they're not always

01:20:04.070 --> 01:20:05.700
 just gonna go up to you and say,

01:20:05.700 --> 01:20:08.110
 hey, I've noticed here's everything wrong with your life.

01:20:08.110 --> 01:20:09.420
 And if you just listen to this,

01:20:09.420 --> 01:20:11.210
 this would fix a lot of your problems.

01:20:11.210 --> 01:20:12.940
 And hey, you've got this giant blind spot

01:20:12.940 --> 01:20:14.710
 that you don't see, but let me just tell you,

01:20:14.710 --> 01:20:15.550
 that's what preaching is for.

01:20:15.550 --> 01:20:17.060
 I'm just saying people won't do this

01:20:17.060 --> 01:20:18.530
 like on an individual basis.

01:20:18.530 --> 01:20:20.910
 That's why you need to ask wise people.

01:20:20.910 --> 01:20:23.160
 You need to go seek wise counsel.

01:20:23.160 --> 01:20:24.660
 You need to ask someone who's wise saying,

01:20:24.660 --> 01:20:26.460
 hey, what do you think about this?

01:20:26.460 --> 01:20:29.160
 And look, when you know someone is wise,

01:20:29.160 --> 01:20:32.700
 you should take their correction very seriously.

01:20:32.700 --> 01:20:36.190
 And a fool, again, it's easy to pick on the flat earthers.

01:20:36.190 --> 01:20:37.100
 We're gonna pick on them

01:20:37.100 --> 01:20:38.860
 because it's the week of the Artemis mission

01:20:38.860 --> 01:20:40.590
 and they're all over the place right now.

01:20:40.590 --> 01:20:42.000
 It's like people will say things like,

01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:44.470
 "Oh man, the new IFB pastors,

01:20:44.470 --> 01:20:46.780
 "they're so well read and well educated.

01:20:46.780 --> 01:20:48.290
 "They know the Bible so well.

01:20:48.290 --> 01:20:49.900
 "And man, they preach really good sermons.

01:20:49.900 --> 01:20:50.860
 "They're leading churches.

01:20:50.860 --> 01:20:52.190
 "They're getting lots of people saved.

01:20:52.190 --> 01:20:54.350
 "But man, they're just wrong on the shape of the earth.

01:20:54.350 --> 01:20:57.340
 "Man, they've just never researched it.

01:20:57.340 --> 01:20:59.110
 "I mean, man, they still don't know

01:20:59.110 --> 01:21:01.210
 "that NASA means to deceive."

01:21:01.210 --> 01:21:06.160
 And it's like, or you're an idiot, okay?

01:21:06.160 --> 01:21:08.500
 It's like, or it's like Pastor Anderson

01:21:08.500 --> 01:21:10.090
 actually is really smart

01:21:10.090 --> 01:21:11.850
 and he does preach really good sermons,

01:21:11.850 --> 01:21:14.280
 and he is really wise, he has read the Bible a lot,

01:21:14.280 --> 01:21:15.690
 and he has studied science a lot,

01:21:15.690 --> 01:21:18.670
 and he's right and you're wrong!

01:21:18.670 --> 01:21:22.580
 It's like, maybe you're wrong and your pastor is right!

01:21:22.580 --> 01:21:25.440
 It's like, whoa, I mean, I know that these pastors,

01:21:25.440 --> 01:21:28.410
 man, they've read the Bible 20-something plus times,

01:21:28.410 --> 01:21:30.120
 40-something plus times,

01:21:30.120 --> 01:21:32.300
 but man, he's never seen that verse.

01:21:32.300 --> 01:21:34.630
 He must've never seen that one.

01:21:34.630 --> 01:21:36.440
 Now look, like, pastors should never be

01:21:36.440 --> 01:21:37.780
 like the Old Foolish King either,

01:21:37.780 --> 01:21:39.070
 where they can never be admonished,

01:21:39.070 --> 01:21:41.670
 but I'm just saying, when you know someone's wise,

01:21:41.670 --> 01:21:44.580
 you should really take what they say to heart,

01:21:44.580 --> 01:21:47.140
 and not just be like, oh man, good in this area,

01:21:47.140 --> 01:21:48.580
 but man, they're wrong about the shape of the earth.

01:21:48.580 --> 01:21:50.860
 It's like, you are an idiot.

01:21:50.860 --> 01:21:51.760
 You just are.

01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:54.430
 Look, if you're a flat-earther, you are an idiot.

01:21:54.430 --> 01:21:57.750
 You deny the Artemis program, you are an idiot, my friend.

01:21:57.750 --> 01:22:00.610
 You're just a stupid person or wicked or both.

01:22:00.610 --> 01:22:02.540
 And it's like, no, no, no, you're wrong.

01:22:02.540 --> 01:22:04.000
 No, you're wrong.

01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:04.810
 You're a fool.

01:22:04.810 --> 01:22:07.580
 And the Bible says that the thought of foolishness is sin.

01:22:07.580 --> 01:22:08.510
 Why do you talk about this stuff?

01:22:08.510 --> 01:22:10.700
 Because it's sinful to be stupid.

01:22:10.700 --> 01:22:12.660
 And my job is to preach against sin.

01:22:12.660 --> 01:22:15.150
 And if you told me that the moon was actually an apple

01:22:15.150 --> 01:22:16.890
 or a cheese, I'd preach against that too.

01:22:16.890 --> 01:22:19.000
 But sadly, there's actually real human beings

01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:20.590
 that think that the earth is flat.

01:22:20.590 --> 01:22:23.340
 And that is stupid.

01:22:23.340 --> 01:22:25.190
 All right, Proverbs 12.

01:22:25.190 --> 01:22:26.710
 It says in Proverbs chapter 12, verse one,

01:22:26.710 --> 01:22:29.950
 "Who so loveth instruction, loveth knowledge.

01:22:29.950 --> 01:22:32.800
 "But he that hateth reproof is brutish."

01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:34.580
 If you don't like being reproved,

01:22:34.580 --> 01:22:35.480
 what does the Bible say?

01:22:35.480 --> 01:22:38.570
 You're stupid, you're brutish, you're like an animal.

01:22:38.570 --> 01:22:40.020
 Oh, I don't like you using those words.

01:22:40.020 --> 01:22:41.280
 The Bible uses it.

01:22:41.280 --> 01:22:42.170
 Brutish, what does that mean?

01:22:42.170 --> 01:22:45.250
 Stupid, animalistic, like a dumb animal,

01:22:45.250 --> 01:22:47.840
 is what you are when you don't like to be reproved.

01:22:47.840 --> 01:22:49.600
 Proverbs 17, verse 10, I'll just read for you,

01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:53.580
 a reproof entereth more into a wise man

01:22:53.580 --> 01:22:56.180
 than in a hundred stripes into a fool.

01:22:56.180 --> 01:22:58.460
 See, a wise person, when they hear a reproof,

01:22:58.460 --> 01:23:01.630
 they're saying like, oh, this actually is a wise person.

01:23:01.630 --> 01:23:03.360
 This person is a golly person.

01:23:03.360 --> 01:23:06.750
 I'm gonna take that reproof because I'm probably wrong.

01:23:06.750 --> 01:23:08.450
 Oh, but that means that I'm dumb.

01:23:08.450 --> 01:23:10.950
 No, no, the Bible says that's what the wise person does.

01:23:10.950 --> 01:23:13.420
 The dumb person, you could literally beat the crap

01:23:13.420 --> 01:23:15.890
 out of them and they still don't get the message.

01:23:15.890 --> 01:23:19.490
 A hundred stripes into a fool is not as effective

01:23:19.490 --> 01:23:21.890
 as just a reproof to a wise man.

01:23:21.890 --> 01:23:23.140
 So what does that tell you?

01:23:23.140 --> 01:23:25.790
 Be the wise man that could take the reproof

01:23:25.790 --> 01:23:28.680
 and not need the stripes of life to teach you.

01:23:28.680 --> 01:23:31.980
 The stripes of God's chastisement to teach you.

01:23:31.980 --> 01:23:35.140
 Go back to Ecclesiastes 4.

01:23:35.140 --> 01:23:38.280
 Now, speaking of that young child, it says in verse 14,

01:23:38.280 --> 01:23:41.440
 "For out of prison he cometh to reign,

01:23:41.440 --> 01:23:44.800
 whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becomeeth poor."

01:23:44.800 --> 01:23:49.120
 So it's like, hey, the wise person versus the foolish king.

01:23:49.120 --> 01:23:53.070
 You know, the wise child, he can overcome adverse situations.

01:23:53.070 --> 01:23:55.550
 Like, even if you throw a wise person

01:23:55.550 --> 01:23:59.560
 into a negative, disadvantageous situation,

01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:03.790
 I mean, they can come out of prison and succeed in life.

01:24:03.790 --> 01:24:06.680
 Someone who is wise, they can lose their job and succeed.

01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:09.260
 Someone who's wise, they can have people turn on them

01:24:09.260 --> 01:24:11.920
 and succeed, where it's like, this foolish king,

01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:13.900
 he can literally be born into the kingdom.

01:24:13.900 --> 01:24:16.550
 He can literally be born into the position of being a king,

01:24:16.550 --> 01:24:20.370
 and he will destroy it and ruin it because he is a fool.

01:24:20.370 --> 01:24:24.210
 So hey, wisdom, the Bible says, is the principal thing.

01:24:24.210 --> 01:24:26.550
 With all thy getting, get understanding.

01:24:26.550 --> 01:24:28.570
 Seek it as buried treasure.

01:24:28.570 --> 01:24:30.680
 Be a wise person because that's how you're

01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:31.790
 going to succeed in life.

01:24:31.790 --> 01:24:35.160
 That's how you're going to overcome these situations.

01:24:35.160 --> 01:24:37.830
 By the way, this is why what people need today

01:24:37.830 --> 01:24:40.990
 is wisdom, not handouts.

01:24:40.990 --> 01:24:45.260
 Because if you give a fool a handout, they'll ruin it.

01:24:45.260 --> 01:24:47.760
 What people need today is hard preaching,

01:24:47.760 --> 01:24:50.810
 not you bleeding hard, rolling down your window

01:24:50.810 --> 01:24:54.050
 at the stop sign and giving the crack addict money.

01:24:54.050 --> 01:24:56.330
 What that person needs is rebuke.

01:24:56.330 --> 01:24:59.590
 What that person needs oftentimes is the rod, literally.

01:24:59.590 --> 01:25:01.340
 You know, and that could fix their problems.

01:25:01.340 --> 01:25:03.710
 People need wisdom, not a handout.

01:25:03.710 --> 01:25:06.720
 People need Bible preaching, not welfare.

01:25:06.720 --> 01:25:09.110
 People need the rebuke of the wise,

01:25:09.110 --> 01:25:11.820
 not the pity of fools, right?

01:25:11.820 --> 01:25:13.790
 Where we sit here and we just cry and complain,

01:25:13.790 --> 01:25:15.490
 oh, I feel so bad for these people,

01:25:15.490 --> 01:25:16.990
 they're in such a terrible situation.

01:25:16.990 --> 01:25:19.310
 That's not gonna help them, your little pity party.

01:25:19.310 --> 01:25:22.880
 What will help them is rebuke and correction.

01:25:22.880 --> 01:25:24.660
 It says in verse number 15,

01:25:24.660 --> 01:25:28.620
 "I considered all the living which walk under the sun,

01:25:28.620 --> 01:25:31.480
 when the second child that shall stand up in his stead."

01:25:31.480 --> 01:25:33.320
 What I think this is saying is saying like,

01:25:33.320 --> 01:25:36.580
 hey, you know, eventually this young child

01:25:36.580 --> 01:25:39.370
 can even stand up in the stead of the king.

01:25:39.370 --> 01:25:41.410
 And the Bible talks about, I'll just read for you,

01:25:41.410 --> 01:25:43.010
 Proverbs 22 verse 29,

01:25:43.010 --> 01:25:45.260
 "Seest thou a man diligent in his business,

01:25:45.260 --> 01:25:47.390
 he shall stand before kings.

01:25:47.390 --> 01:25:49.580
 He shall not stand before mean men."

01:25:49.580 --> 01:25:51.640
 So, you know, eventually people get tired

01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:53.640
 of the old fool, right?

01:25:53.640 --> 01:25:57.350
 Eventually people get tired of the old stubborn leader.

01:25:57.350 --> 01:25:59.850
 And this new leader comes in, the young child,

01:25:59.850 --> 01:26:01.520
 he stands in his place.

01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:03.780
 But here's where the vanity comes in again,

01:26:03.780 --> 01:26:06.130
 'cause remember he's explaining the evil under the sun.

01:26:06.130 --> 01:26:08.520
 Verse number 16, it says this,

01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:10.420
 "There's no end of all the people,

01:26:10.420 --> 01:26:12.310
 even of all that have been before them."

01:26:12.310 --> 01:26:15.590
 Notice this, "They also that come after

01:26:15.590 --> 01:26:18.530
 shall not rejoice in him."

01:26:18.530 --> 01:26:23.240
 Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

01:26:23.240 --> 01:26:25.710
 Here's the vexing part of the situation.

01:26:25.710 --> 01:26:28.660
 It's like, the child can be wise,

01:26:28.660 --> 01:26:31.630
 he could put off childhood and youth and vanity.

01:26:31.630 --> 01:26:33.760
 He could be wise, he could be diligent,

01:26:33.760 --> 01:26:37.190
 he could work really hard, he can get into that position.

01:26:37.190 --> 01:26:39.100
 But, notice this, "They also that come after him

01:26:39.100 --> 01:26:40.630
 shall not rejoice in him."

01:26:40.630 --> 01:26:43.740
 People could end up just not even appreciating him, right?

01:26:43.740 --> 01:26:46.560
 Where it's like, you had this foolish old king

01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:49.930
 that totally sucked, and then the young king comes in,

01:26:49.930 --> 01:26:53.760
 and he was a hard worker, he was wise, he was intelligent,

01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:55.840
 but the people that came after,

01:26:55.840 --> 01:26:58.310
 they didn't even rejoice in what they had.

01:26:58.310 --> 01:27:00.030
 You know, they just take things for granted.

01:27:00.030 --> 01:27:04.010
 And this is human nature to take things for granted.

01:27:04.010 --> 01:27:06.340
 This is human nature to not appreciate

01:27:06.340 --> 01:27:07.720
 the things that you have.

01:27:07.720 --> 01:27:09.060
 And look, if you're just born into,

01:27:09.060 --> 01:27:10.880
 let's say you're just born into a country

01:27:10.880 --> 01:27:12.260
 that has a great leader,

01:27:12.260 --> 01:27:14.840
 are you gonna know what a bad leader is like?

01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:17.350
 Right, it's like these young people that love communism,

01:27:17.350 --> 01:27:19.820
 and then all the old people that escaped Cuba

01:27:19.820 --> 01:27:21.550
 and came to Florida, they're just like,

01:27:21.550 --> 01:27:23.930
 you're an idiot, you know, communism's terrible,

01:27:23.930 --> 01:27:24.930
 don't be a communist.

01:27:24.930 --> 01:27:26.880
 Why? Because they've lived it, they know it.

01:27:26.880 --> 01:27:28.720
 And so they appreciate freedom,

01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:30.540
 where it's like people are just born

01:27:30.540 --> 01:27:33.100
 into a nation with a silver spoon in their mouth,

01:27:33.100 --> 01:27:35.260
 they're like, oh man, communism sounds great.

01:27:35.260 --> 01:27:37.990
 Yeah, 'cause you've never read the Gulag Archipelago.

01:27:37.990 --> 01:27:40.610
 Yeah, because you've never read the bridge at Andal,

01:27:40.610 --> 01:27:42.170
 and you're an idiot and you're a fool,

01:27:42.170 --> 01:27:45.190
 and so you take things that we have in life for granted.

01:27:45.190 --> 01:27:47.360
 Look, people do this with every area of life.

01:27:47.360 --> 01:27:49.600
 I mean, how about with Jesus himself?

01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:51.710
 Jesus himself comes on the scene.

01:27:51.710 --> 01:27:52.710
 What does the Bible say?

01:27:52.710 --> 01:27:56.100
 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

01:27:56.100 --> 01:27:58.310
 Talk about taking someone for granted.

01:27:58.310 --> 01:28:01.520
 The Lord Jesus Christ lives in your day,

01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:04.320
 in your generation, walking around in the flesh,

01:28:04.320 --> 01:28:07.870
 in your country, and you don't even appreciate him?

01:28:07.870 --> 01:28:10.570
 I mean, wouldn't we all, with hindsight especially,

01:28:10.570 --> 01:28:12.530
 just be like, wherever he's gonna be, I'm gonna be,

01:28:12.530 --> 01:28:14.020
 I wanna watch all his miracles,

01:28:14.020 --> 01:28:16.760
 I wanna see what he's doing, I wanna follow him, right?

01:28:16.760 --> 01:28:17.590
 Guess what?

01:28:17.590 --> 01:28:18.820
 There was real people that really had that chance,

01:28:18.820 --> 01:28:20.240
 that squandered it.

01:28:20.240 --> 01:28:22.560
 There was real people where Jesus came into their town,

01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:23.640
 and they just didn't care.

01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:25.800
 Or they brushed him off, or worse, they hated him.

01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:26.830
 Or worse, they tried to kill him.

01:28:26.830 --> 01:28:29.320
 Or worse, they told him to leave the town.

01:28:29.320 --> 01:28:30.380
 That's crazy.

01:28:30.380 --> 01:28:32.110
 You know, this could happen in family situations.

01:28:32.110 --> 01:28:33.680
 I'll read for you.

01:28:33.680 --> 01:28:34.900
 Matthew 13, verse 57.

01:28:34.900 --> 01:28:37.430
 The Bible says, "And they were offended in him,

01:28:37.430 --> 01:28:40.930
 but Jesus said unto them, 'A prophet is not without honor,

01:28:40.930 --> 01:28:44.070
 save in his own country and in his own house.'"

01:28:44.070 --> 01:28:47.770
 This happens all the time with different family dynamics.

01:28:47.770 --> 01:28:49.340
 Someone gets saved.

01:28:49.340 --> 01:28:51.510
 Someone starts preaching the gospel.

01:28:51.510 --> 01:28:54.810
 And the family, instead of saying, like, wow, what a gift.

01:28:54.810 --> 01:28:56.120
 Wow, this is awesome.

01:28:56.120 --> 01:28:57.680
 Wow, what a great thing that you're doing.

01:28:57.680 --> 01:29:00.660
 Oftentimes, they'll end up persecuting that family member.

01:29:00.660 --> 01:29:02.100
 And it's like, hey, a soul winner

01:29:02.100 --> 01:29:03.190
 is a rare thing in this world.

01:29:03.190 --> 01:29:04.580
 It's something to be honored.

01:29:04.580 --> 01:29:06.180
 I mean, it's something that we should be cheering on,

01:29:06.180 --> 01:29:07.490
 someone that's a soul winner.

01:29:07.490 --> 01:29:08.440
 And yet, guess what?

01:29:08.440 --> 01:29:10.610
 A prophet, a preacher, does have honor.

01:29:10.610 --> 01:29:14.350
 But oftentimes, not in his own country, not in his own house.

01:29:14.350 --> 01:29:15.590
 Now, look, that's wrong.

01:29:15.590 --> 01:29:17.510
 But that's reality, right?

01:29:17.510 --> 01:29:20.610
 Here's the thing, familiarity breeds contempt.

01:29:20.610 --> 01:29:23.410
 That's wrong, but that's reality.

01:29:23.410 --> 01:29:24.240
 And guess what?

01:29:24.240 --> 01:29:25.700
 We should know these things.

01:29:25.700 --> 01:29:27.200
 We should be aware of these things

01:29:27.200 --> 01:29:29.490
 so that we don't allow our hearts to fall

01:29:29.490 --> 01:29:31.310
 after that same mistake.

01:29:31.310 --> 01:29:32.900
 'Cause people are like this with Jesus.

01:29:32.900 --> 01:29:34.270
 People are like this with family members.

01:29:34.270 --> 01:29:36.940
 People are like this with church sometimes.

01:29:36.940 --> 01:29:39.580
 And it's really funny, like, people will, you know,

01:29:39.580 --> 01:29:43.360
 they'll come from a situation where it's like Zionism,

01:29:43.360 --> 01:29:47.150
 preach rib, gospel being preached every Sunday.

01:29:47.150 --> 01:29:50.570
 Pay for all your tracts, all the events you gotta pay for.

01:29:50.570 --> 01:29:53.150
 You know, Israel flags everywhere.

01:29:53.150 --> 01:29:55.870
 And then, like, what one time really literally happened,

01:29:55.870 --> 01:29:58.680
 it said fast, is a family's just like,

01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:00.180
 we're at a soul winning marathon,

01:30:00.180 --> 01:30:01.750
 and they walk up to Pastor Shelley and they're just like,

01:30:01.750 --> 01:30:03.850
 where's the juice for my kid?

01:30:03.850 --> 01:30:04.780
 Literal real story.

01:30:04.780 --> 01:30:07.240
 And it's just like, you're an idiot, man.

01:30:07.240 --> 01:30:09.150
 It's like, you've lost the plot.

01:30:09.150 --> 01:30:11.520
 You have forgotten to, you know,

01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:13.780
 appreciate the things that you have in life.

01:30:13.780 --> 01:30:16.290
 You have gotten a little too familiar

01:30:16.290 --> 01:30:17.430
 to sit here and just be like,

01:30:17.430 --> 01:30:19.520
 okay, wait, don't you need to remind yourself

01:30:19.520 --> 01:30:21.250
 you're in a great church, King James only,

01:30:21.250 --> 01:30:24.220
 hard preaching, soul winning, missions trip,

01:30:24.220 --> 01:30:26.380
 great pastor in Pastor Shelley,

01:30:26.380 --> 01:30:27.540
 doing all these great things,

01:30:27.540 --> 01:30:30.450
 but you're bad because you don't have a juice box

01:30:30.450 --> 01:30:31.680
 for your kid.

01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:33.730
 But you know, this is what carnal people are like.

01:30:33.730 --> 01:30:34.540
 They really are.

01:30:34.540 --> 01:30:37.120
 Or it's like this, I remember people leaving church

01:30:37.120 --> 01:30:39.090
 when I was working for Steadfast Baptist Church,

01:30:39.090 --> 01:30:41.280
 Pastor Shelley instituted a rule,

01:30:41.280 --> 01:30:44.580
 no toys for the kids in the seats.

01:30:44.580 --> 01:30:46.050
 No toys, you're not allowed to play toys.

01:30:46.050 --> 01:30:48.460
 People literally left the church over that.

01:30:48.460 --> 01:30:49.800
 That's pathetic.

01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:51.190
 That is so lame.

01:30:51.190 --> 01:30:53.670
 I mean, you've just, you're not appreciative

01:30:53.670 --> 01:30:55.310
 of the things that you have in life.

01:30:55.310 --> 01:30:57.590
 Because if you think that, you know,

01:30:57.590 --> 01:31:00.160
 you being content has to be every single thing

01:31:00.160 --> 01:31:02.050
 that you like being checked off a box.

01:31:02.050 --> 01:31:02.880
 Let me tell you something.

01:31:02.880 --> 01:31:04.430
 You will never be happy in life.

01:31:04.430 --> 01:31:06.620
 You'll never be content anywhere you go.

01:31:06.620 --> 01:31:08.920
 And look, just wherever you are in life,

01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:10.980
 focus on the positive.

01:31:10.980 --> 01:31:13.240
 You know, appreciate the things that you have.

01:31:13.240 --> 01:31:15.230
 Don't take for granted the things that you have.

01:31:15.230 --> 01:31:16.840
 Men, when you go to your job,

01:31:16.840 --> 01:31:17.670
 don't sit here and just be like,

01:31:17.670 --> 01:31:19.190
 "Oh, vexation under the sun.

01:31:19.190 --> 01:31:20.020
 "I wish I was dead.

01:31:20.020 --> 01:31:21.120
 "I wish I was never born."

01:31:21.120 --> 01:31:22.070
 You know, why don't you remind yourself

01:31:22.070 --> 01:31:24.420
 you live in America in 2026.

01:31:24.420 --> 01:31:26.590
 Why don't you remind yourself you have a lot of good?

01:31:26.590 --> 01:31:29.570
 You know, are you that man who has no brother,

01:31:29.570 --> 01:31:31.010
 no son, no friend, no one?

01:31:31.010 --> 01:31:33.190
 Or do you have lots of people in your life that love you?

01:31:33.190 --> 01:31:34.500
 Why don't you appreciate that?

01:31:34.500 --> 01:31:35.860
 You know, are you like these people

01:31:35.860 --> 01:31:39.710
 that email me constantly from Pakistan and India and Africa

01:31:39.710 --> 01:31:42.180
 where, you know, they just like barely have any Bibles?

01:31:42.180 --> 01:31:43.170
 It's probably a scam.

01:31:43.170 --> 01:31:45.000
 But if what they're saying is true,

01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:47.190
 it's like they barely have any Bibles,

01:31:47.190 --> 01:31:48.870
 they need all this help, it's terrible.

01:31:48.870 --> 01:31:51.460
 It's like, or are you in the new IFB?

01:31:51.460 --> 01:31:53.210
 Like, are you in one of the greatest, you know,

01:31:53.210 --> 01:31:56.390
 soul-winning movements that I think America's ever seen?

01:31:56.390 --> 01:31:58.700
 And it's like, hey, we should be thankful for that

01:31:58.700 --> 01:32:00.460
 and not take things for granted.

01:32:00.460 --> 01:32:01.290
 And you know what?

01:32:01.290 --> 01:32:03.370
 Life under the sun can be hard, it can be vain,

01:32:03.370 --> 01:32:05.420
 it can be vexatious, but guess what?

01:32:05.420 --> 01:32:07.210
 We're not living for life under the sun.

01:32:07.210 --> 01:32:08.940
 We are living for the Lord Jesus Christ.

01:32:08.940 --> 01:32:09.750
 Let's pray.

01:32:09.750 --> 01:32:11.040
 Lord, thank you so much for your word

01:32:11.040 --> 01:32:12.870
 for the book of Ecclesiastes.

01:32:12.870 --> 01:32:14.910
 I pray that you would just continue to bless this series,

01:32:14.910 --> 01:32:16.570
 that you would reveal truth to us,

01:32:16.570 --> 01:32:18.000
 help us to be appreciative of the things

01:32:18.000 --> 01:32:20.340
 that we have in life, and we love you very much.

01:32:20.340 --> 01:32:28.710
 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

01:32:28.710 --> 01:32:38.410
 - Last hymn this evening turned to 143.

01:32:38.410 --> 01:32:44.010
 Hymn number 143-143, Blessed Assurance.

01:32:50.470 --> 01:32:59.540
 143. 143 there on the 1st.

01:34:14.250 --> 01:34:28.350
 This is my song, my state, my soul.

01:34:28.350 --> 01:35:01.410
 It's a misadventure, but it's my soul.