1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,920 Did she just equate the creation of mankind with the- oh my it's so disgusting. 2 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:20,760 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheared Podcast. 3 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,760 I'm your host Austin Creed. 4 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:26,600 My friends, today we're going to be mixing it up a little bit. 5 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:32,720 You know normally we might do a little bit of a reaction to something or I might just 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:38,040 show you a little bit of what I think and what my view is on the culture but hey we're 7 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,720 going to do something a little different. 8 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,280 We're going to actually review a pastor. 9 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:49,120 We're going to review some of the people that I view as the problem and why this message 10 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,280 is so incredibly important. 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,160 That's right we're going to go live in living color. 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:00,080 I talk about some of these pastors on the internet who in my opinion are the problem. 13 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,040 So we're going to really dive into this. 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:08,460 Now before I show any clips here I don't want anybody going and harassing this person or 15 00:01:08,460 --> 00:01:13,080 this church or anything like that because number one it just looks trashy and number 16 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:17,760 two because this is supposed to be done in good faith. 17 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,880 Now do I- am I going to agree with this? 18 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:21,880 Probably not. 19 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:23,240 No, no actually I probably won't. 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,120 I definitely won't agree with one thing that I did see. 21 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,560 I have not seen the other message which will break down. 22 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:36,480 I have not seen it but I did have the misfortune of seeing what you are about to look at and 23 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:44,700 I warn you if you are a Christian somewhat evangelical whatever you will find this very 24 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:50,600 offensive so you have been warned beforehand. 25 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,400 Without further ado we're going to hump right in and I'm going to show you why I believe 26 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:01,040 biblical bachelorism to be so important and why I do what I do and why I talk about religion 27 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,160 as well as relationships. 28 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:08,680 Let's get right into exhibit A. I watched most of this already because I didn't want 29 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,240 you to have to and I wanted to see just what it was about when it was shown- when I was 30 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:22,200 told about this and what you are about to hear will probably not sit well with you but 31 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,000 we are going to go through it anyway. 32 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,720 Here we go. 33 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,880 Alright finally, last one. 34 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:35,000 God said let us make humankind in our image according to our likeness and let them take 35 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,760 care of the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and all the wild animals 36 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:40,760 of the earth. 37 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,520 And it happened. 38 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,240 He said, let us make man in our image and in our likeness. 39 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,040 He did not say let us make humankind. 40 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:56,360 He said let us make man in our image and by man he meant Adam. 41 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,200 Eve did not exist yet. 42 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,680 Just so you were clear. 43 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:06,660 And if you believe the old tales of Jewish folklore, Lilith might be involved. 44 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:10,080 I don't personally think that that is true. 45 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,840 But again, you see the slight little change? 46 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,240 You see the slight, you might have missed that by the way. 47 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:19,880 You might have missed that. 48 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,640 But God didn't say let us make humankind. 49 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:30,240 He said let us make man in our image and in our likeness. 50 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,440 There was no woman. 51 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,640 There was just Adam. 52 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:35,320 Just so we're clear. 53 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:36,320 Let's keep going. 54 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,400 Finally God created us, a beautiful blend of colors. 55 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,800 No he created Adam from the dust of the ground. 56 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,800 Can you find something with all kinds of colors? 57 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,200 A rainbow perhaps? 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:04:00,240 Did she just equate the creation of mankind with the- oh my it's so disgusting. 59 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,360 Oh my god! 60 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,480 Did you hear what she just said? 61 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:16,800 She just equated the creation of mankind with the symbol of the rainbow riding community. 62 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:22,880 Oh god, could this get any worse? 63 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,520 Might be a difficult one. 64 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,520 Yeah! 65 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,640 Oh look there it is! 66 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,040 The flag of the rainbow riders. 67 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:37,780 Look at- there it is. 68 00:04:37,780 --> 00:04:38,780 Right there. 69 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:39,780 There it is. 70 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,800 Oh and look who's carrying the flag! 71 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:43,800 Oh yes! 72 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:44,800 It's a child! 73 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:45,800 Oh yes! 74 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,040 Because that's exactly what the church needs. 75 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:57,240 We need the church to equate to young children that the creation of mankind should be associated 76 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:04,720 with the symbol of people who are the exact opposite of what God created. 77 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:10,240 But of course we're gonna ignore that because we're inclusive right? 78 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,240 This is what brainwashing looks like. 79 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,360 This is the definition of brainwashing. 80 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:26,000 Teaching young children to equate God with the LGBTQ plus flag. 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Now I have no beef with them as individuals. 82 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:30,640 I don't know them. 83 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Okay? 84 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,240 I've met plenty of people who are part of that community and they're fine people. 85 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,440 But when I see this, this is not laughable. 86 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:43,080 This is not cute. 87 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,080 This is brainwashing. 88 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,200 This is brainwashing. 89 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:55,740 Teaching young children to equate God and the creation of humans with the rainbow riding 90 00:05:55,740 --> 00:06:01,040 flag. 91 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,800 My friends, your eyes are not deceiving you. 92 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,840 This is what is happening in the churches in your community. 93 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:14,840 This is what is happening. 94 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:15,840 Let's continue. 95 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:16,840 Wonderful! 96 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:17,840 That's rainbowish! 97 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,840 Will you put it right here? 98 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:26,400 Oh and by the way, in case you didn't know, the woman who's talking is a lesbian who is 99 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,480 married to another woman or at least engaged. 100 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,120 I don't know if they're married now. 101 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:40,560 But at least engaged to another woman and she is a reverend in the Christian church. 102 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:47,680 I mean, let's uh, do we miss the lesson of Paul saying that women should not become head 103 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:48,680 pastors? 104 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,760 Oh, do we not, do we skip that part? 105 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,560 Oh, did we also skip the story of Sodom and Gomorrah? 106 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:03,040 Did we skip the part in the Torah where God explicitly forbids stuff like relations with 107 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:08,000 animals, relations with similar sexual characteristics? 108 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Did we forget that part? 109 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,760 Did we not read the Torah? 110 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,000 Oh, it's so disgusting bro. 111 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,000 How? 112 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,480 How is this not an issue to anybody besides me? 113 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,240 It's so disgusting and that's just the part that I've seen. 114 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,920 We haven't even gotten to the part that I haven't seen yet. 115 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,960 Y'all ready for this? 116 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,400 I haven't seen this part yet. 117 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:32,400 So let's see. 118 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,040 Let's break this down. 119 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,040 Let's break this down. 120 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:42,720 My name is Reverend Hannah Turner and I am one of the three ministers here at First Church. 121 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:43,720 It's great to be here. 122 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:45,120 Why are we wearing masks? 123 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,600 It's 2023 when this happened. 124 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,240 Why are we still wearing masks? 125 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,840 And oh my goodness. 126 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,360 Okay, let me tell you something. 127 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,400 If you wear a mask anywhere past like, I don't know. 128 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,680 I don't want to give an exact year. 129 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,280 I'll probably get thrown off of YouTube. 130 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,040 Let's just put it like this. 131 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,160 If you wear a mask, I know who you are. 132 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,640 You are a government drone. 133 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,200 You are the useful idiot that Linden wrote about. 134 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,200 We'll leave it at that. 135 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:20,200 I'm here this morning with all of you on Epiphany Sunday. 136 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:27,080 Epiphany is one of those fancy Sundays where if you didn't grow up in a more traditional 137 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:31,320 church or maybe you're new to church, you might not know what it is. 138 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,320 Let me explain. 139 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:39,760 When, I mean, we know the word epiphany is an aha moment, right? 140 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:45,240 The time when everything comes together to reveal something about our current reality. 141 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,840 These masks in the back are bothering me so unbelievably much. 142 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,600 It's like they're wearing a muzzle. 143 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,840 Like you're a junkyard dog wearing a muzzle so you don't bite people. 144 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,040 Is this what liberals wear today? 145 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,040 What the hell is going on here? 146 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,800 It could be in a video game. 147 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:09,880 Say you can't figure out the next step or which direction to go or how to beat the boss. 148 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,560 And then all of a sudden it hits you. 149 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:12,560 Aha. 150 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:13,560 You figured it out. 151 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,080 That's how you do it. 152 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,800 Or maybe an algebra or some other math class. 153 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,560 I'm not going to attack people's physical appearance because it's just low grade and 154 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,560 too easy. 155 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:29,640 Well, um, why do, where's the inflection in your voice? 156 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:33,320 Like I'm falling asleep over here. 157 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,640 Where is the excitement and where is the liveliness in your voice? 158 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,360 I don't see it. 159 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:40,360 What is going on here? 160 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,280 We've been struggling to figure out how to solve a problem and a teacher could explain 161 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,120 it just a little bit differently. 162 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,280 And then aha, you know how to do it. 163 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,280 Okay. 164 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,200 We've had these epiphany moments in our lives. 165 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,200 It could be the realization of love or sexuality. 166 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,200 Wait, what? 167 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,200 I'm sorry. 168 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,200 I can't take this seriously. 169 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,200 I paid to seriously. 170 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,200 What, what Christian shirt? 171 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:15,200 Look, if you don't, if you want to be part of the rainbow riding community, you're welcome 172 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,200 to do that. 173 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,200 But don't take my book, whether it's a book or a book, it's a book. 174 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,200 It's a book. 175 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:23,200 It's a book. 176 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:24,200 It's a book. 177 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:25,200 It's a book. 178 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,200 It's a book. 179 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,200 It's a book. 180 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:33,520 So my book, whether it's the Torah, the old Testament or the new Testament, take that 181 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,200 and twist it into whatever the hell you want it to fit. 182 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,200 That's not how this works. 183 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,920 Oh my, this it's so disgusting, bro. 184 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:43,760 What is this man? 185 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:52,880 Epiphany is a sudden realization of, of something that has been slowly revealing itself to you 186 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,600 over time. 187 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,960 Anybody else noticing the hidden language and the subtlety? 188 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:00,960 Stop being so subtle. 189 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,720 Tell me what you actually think, please. 190 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:12,080 Epiphany is not necessarily an immediate revealing and an immediate revelation. 191 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:18,960 It often takes time where this thing is revealing itself to you slowly and all of a sudden it 192 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,360 just makes sense. 193 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:24,360 We're being really big right now. 194 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:30,960 Epiphany Sunday follows Advent, the anticipation of the coming Christ. 195 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:37,800 And Epiphany is the celebration that Christ has come, the manifestation of God through 196 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,400 Christ to humanity. 197 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:48,080 I really hoping that this does not take a sharp turn to the left field. 198 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:53,520 And suddenly we're going to talk about something that is explicitly forbidden in the Bible 199 00:11:53,520 --> 00:12:00,560 multiple times by multiple prophets and multiple different leadership figures and is punished 200 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:01,680 multiple times. 201 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:02,920 But oh good. 202 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:03,920 We'll see what happens here. 203 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,160 I don't want to get ahead of myself. 204 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,520 I have no idea what she's going to say. 205 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:13,240 For the wise men, this was a whole journey of following a star till they arrived. 206 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,600 The Magi are very complicated. 207 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,200 Why are we making them very simple here? 208 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:20,720 They're very important. 209 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:29,240 The moment when the wise men were like, oh, this is the Christ. 210 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,400 Does anybody actually know the story of the Magi? 211 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,120 Oh, oh, oh, oh, me? 212 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,000 Yes, I do actually. 213 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,880 In fact, they were called the King Makers. 214 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:48,600 They were men from the ancient Near East who actually wrote, they wrote, they read the 215 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,640 book of Daniel because Daniel was one of the Magi when he was captured. 216 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:58,880 He and his friends and family members and kin were taken by the Babylonians. 217 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:04,160 He became one of the Magi, the chief Magi, and his writings, the book of Daniel were 218 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,160 saved in their ancient texts. 219 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:13,320 So they read about the coming Messiah, the King of all kings in Daniel's writing, and 220 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,720 they discovered it before the Jews did. 221 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,680 That's why King Herod was so taken aback by the Magi when they showed up. 222 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,680 And they didn't just show up, they weren't just three dudes. 223 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:31,800 They pulled up an entire caravan of mercenaries and they were a presence not to be ignored. 224 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,320 Herod didn't help them because he was a nice guy. 225 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,280 He helped them because he was terrified of them. 226 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,400 Let's continue. 227 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,200 This is God with us. 228 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,120 For the most accurate information on their journey, follow the Wandering Wiseman on Facebook 229 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,000 and you will see all their adventures. 230 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 How many of us follow the Wandering Wiseman? 231 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,000 What? 232 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,560 It's not actually a lot more of us though. 233 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:56,560 What kind of plug is this? 234 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:57,560 That joke didn't lie. 235 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:58,560 But it's okay. 236 00:13:58,560 --> 00:13:59,560 You gotta look at it. 237 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:00,560 It's hilarious. 238 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:11,200 Oftentimes our epiphanies aren't necessarily something revealed to us in full. 239 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:18,360 It might not make total and complete sense to us all at once. 240 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,440 What is happening? 241 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,080 Why are we being...is there some like secret code? 242 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,080 Is it secret? 243 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,080 What is it? 244 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,080 What are we talking about? 245 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,080 This is so vague. 246 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,080 I don't even know what we're talking about. 247 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:36,080 I don't think for a second that the Wiseman showed up to the manger and they were like, 248 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,080 oh yes. 249 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:38,080 You're right. 250 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:39,360 Because they didn't show up to the manger. 251 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,920 They showed up like two years later when Jesus was older. 252 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,760 They didn't show up when he was born. 253 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:53,000 Am I the only one who actually has read the New Testament? 254 00:14:53,000 --> 00:15:00,920 Everything makes sense to me now, but they did have a further understanding, an incomplete 255 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:02,040 understanding of what... 256 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,360 They did not show up when he was born. 257 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:10,840 And I think this is my opportunity to speak about community and time. 258 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,000 Oh boy. 259 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,040 For the Wiseman, we don't really get to hear anything else about their journey. 260 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:22,560 I'm going to hold my tongue on that. 261 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:27,800 After Epiphany, we don't know if they were present at Jesus's sermons or miracles or 262 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,920 his crucifixion, death, or what they did regarding the news of his resurrection. 263 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:38,360 But like most of the people in the area, I like to think that they followed around his 264 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,160 journey through the break time. 265 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:46,960 Listening to wonderful and culture shifting things that Jesus did and then exchanging 266 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:51,880 stories of their experience of Christ as a baby. 267 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,220 I am so confused. 268 00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:56,840 What is this even... 269 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,760 What is the point of this sermon? 270 00:15:58,760 --> 00:15:59,760 I'm so confused. 271 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:05,240 I've been listening for about four minutes and I have no idea what we're talking about. 272 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,600 This is not good. 273 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,080 This is not a good start. 274 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:17,200 When we have these moments of revelation, we experience and create a milestone of growth. 275 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:23,080 Sharing our aha moments or epiphanies with other people in our community make our revelations 276 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,120 and growth more complete. 277 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:30,440 This was one of the most powerful aspects of seminary for me. 278 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:35,680 We would all read the same book and then in our cohorts, we would share what we gleaned 279 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,680 from this text. 280 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,560 Most of the time, it would all sound a bit different but had a similar theme connecting 281 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,920 us all. 282 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,440 We just needed to listen in order to see it. 283 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:54,400 And we would leave more developed, more understood people at the end. 284 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:58,640 My friends, can anybody illuminate to me what we're talking about? 285 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,760 So epiphanies, I get it. 286 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,520 But related to what? 287 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,880 Do you know what we're even... 288 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:08,880 I feel like I've been... 289 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,080 Is anybody else getting a migraine right now? 290 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:15,800 Is anybody else just listening to this and they're kind of listening, kind of not listening 291 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,480 because they don't even know what we're even talking about? 292 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:26,160 And the more you hear and the less you understand, the more this migraine keeps forming. 293 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:33,160 You ever see those old commercials of like a vice closing in on your head and you have 294 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,160 like a migraine or something? 295 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:40,280 That's what I feel like right now watching this video, man. 296 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,360 We were not meant to keep all our epiphanies a secret. 297 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:50,000 In sharing our experiences, we can help lead others into their own beautiful moment of 298 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,420 epiphany. 299 00:17:52,420 --> 00:17:57,400 In the journey to epiphany, we learn to trust ourselves as well as something greater than 300 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,920 ourselves. 301 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:07,200 We trust that this small light beckoning us closer, we will arrive. 302 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,280 That something will make sense. 303 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:17,520 While the revelation of Christ to the wise men was a big deal, their faith in the light 304 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,000 was an even bigger deal. 305 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:25,280 Why are we not discussing the fact that they literally read the book of Daniel to find 306 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:26,280 him? 307 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,080 Why are we not bringing this full circle? 308 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:29,760 Because this would make sense. 309 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,000 Why are we not doing this? 310 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,520 I don't understand. 311 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,560 Why is this happening right now? 312 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:41,560 Who was preparing them for what they were about to experience? 313 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:46,920 This is the whole cliche of it's the journey, not the destination idea. 314 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:47,920 But it's true. 315 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:48,920 What? 316 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:54,520 And you and I can both think of times where the journey seemed to be more memorable than 317 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:55,520 the destination. 318 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,520 Oh, hell no! 319 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,200 It was all about the destination. 320 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:07,600 They were going to fulfill a prophecy. 321 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:12,880 Why do I get the sense that we're warming up to this big reveal that's really going 322 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:13,880 to make me unhappy? 323 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,080 I really hope I'm wrong on this, man. 324 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:23,800 No matter how adventurous, exhausting, or maybe even frightening it might have been. 325 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:24,800 Could be a road trip. 326 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:25,800 A move. 327 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:26,800 A time between jobs. 328 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:27,800 A big project you were working on. 329 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:39,800 You remember what that journey was like and you remember the destination. 330 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:46,200 I went with my dad camping to Big Basin National Park several years ago and we wanted to see 331 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:47,960 some waterfalls. 332 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:55,280 I had a big camping since maybe my early years of a Girl Scout and I was not athletic. 333 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,680 I've never really been athletic. 334 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,560 I don't know what I was thinking. 335 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,440 I'm not going to comment on that. 336 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,440 Anybody who's watching can see why. 337 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,040 I'm not going to comment on that. 338 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,720 We started our hike. 339 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,000 We didn't have a map. 340 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:14,280 We just saw signs along the way not knowing how long it would be until we reached the 341 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:15,280 waterfall. 342 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:23,560 And after about 40 minutes we were still climbing up and by then my feet were throbbing. 343 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,600 I can't do this, dude. 344 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,640 I have the biggest migraine. 345 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:28,640 You would not believe. 346 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,520 I need to drink some water. 347 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:32,520 This is painful. 348 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,280 I'm not saying she's bad at talking. 349 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:42,920 Actually, no, that's exactly what I'm saying. 350 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,600 I make it a point on my show, on this show, to not waste your guys' time. 351 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:55,880 I make it a very important philosophy for myself and a very important rule that I don't 352 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,160 just talk for the sake of talking. 353 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:03,960 I talk with an end goal in mind to get my point across. 354 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:05,760 I don't tell meaningless stories. 355 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:13,480 I don't talk in this Sphinxian Syndrome language that nobody seems to understand, but you feel 356 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,720 as though if you don't understand that you're unintelligent, I don't do this garbage. 357 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,120 But yet for some reason I'm getting a migraine like you can't believe listening to this right 358 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:25,640 now. 359 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:33,840 In between brainwashing children into thinking that the rainbows should be associated with 360 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:41,960 the creation of, in your words, humankind, in my words, mankind, why in the world I'm 361 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:42,960 getting... 362 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,400 I'm not even halfway through this video and I have the biggest migraine. 363 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,080 You would not believe right now. 364 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,760 But again, this is part of the problem. 365 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:57,560 Because when men come to listen to this, they don't come back. 366 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,720 Because they don't hear the fire, the brimstone, the authority, the order. 367 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:10,160 They hear this Sphinxian Syndrome language and fluffiness and bright colors and all this 368 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,000 stuff that makes you want to vomit because you're looking at it and you're like, 369 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,920 this is church, right? 370 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:28,960 I didn't go to the community center where they're having like a humanitarian club meeting 371 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,600 or something. 372 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,520 What is this, man? 373 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,800 You don't bring up context around the story you're telling. 374 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:41,440 You don't provide insight to the topic we're discussing. 375 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,360 We're being very subtle with what I think you're actually trying to say, which I hope 376 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:48,960 I'm wrong about, by the way. 377 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,080 And now we're into a personal story when... 378 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,720 Oh no. 379 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:57,480 My friends, I'll try to stomach this. 380 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,480 I don't know how much more of this I can take. 381 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:00,840 Truly, I don't know. 382 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,480 I'm getting a headache like you can't believe. 383 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:09,600 Mind you, I was wearing some pretty terrible indoor gym shoes and I have extremely flat 384 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:14,320 feet, which might be TMI, but now you don't. 385 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,640 My eyes started to go... 386 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:25,000 My dad, who is an animal who carries around a hundred pound pieces of wood on his back 387 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:31,760 every single day because he's a contractor and he's about 55 at this time, he's doing 388 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,320 this hike no problem. 389 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,320 And I... 390 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,080 I want to let you know something. 391 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:45,800 I'm sure she's fantastic as a person, I really am, but I don't understand what this has 392 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,120 to do with the Bible. 393 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:49,640 I'm really confused right now. 394 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:54,240 I've studied the Bible my entire life, been in church my whole life, and I don't even 395 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,040 understand what we're talking about. 396 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,600 Wise men, I get it, but we don't provide proper context. 397 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,120 We don't tie in with the Old Testament. 398 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:05,560 We're making this very... 399 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:06,560 I don't understand. 400 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:15,840 I'm sorry. 401 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,400 I know it might seem like I'm faking it right now. 402 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,000 I'm really not faking this. 403 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,000 I have a really bad headache right now listening to this. 404 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,160 I start to cry. 405 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:32,520 I'm not sure if it was out of shame or extreme pain or if I was just looking for some sympathy 406 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,640 from my dad, but I cracked. 407 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:42,920 I told him that there was no way I was going to finish this hike, and I didn't. 408 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:51,000 So we ended up turning back and arriving at our campsite, and I sat in that chair freezing, 409 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:59,680 and I massaged my poor feet and vowed never to go camping again until a year later, some 410 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,080 of my friends were going on a trip to Zion National Park. 411 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,920 I'm sorry. 412 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,560 I'm trying to pay attention. 413 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,120 I just can't do it. 414 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,840 I can't do it. 415 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,480 I just can't do it, man. 416 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:14,480 I just... 417 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:15,480 I don't... 418 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480 Oh my... 419 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:27,000 Is there any chapters in this that I can skip to stuff that's theology in nature? 420 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 No? 421 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Oh no, man. 422 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,120 My friends, I might have to just pick this up later, man. 423 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,120 I can't deal with this right now. 424 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:44,840 I have the biggest headache you could not believe right now, but you want to know something, 425 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:50,680 my friends, this is the problem. 426 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:56,000 We have this idea of the path of self and then the path of faith, and then people are 427 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,920 trying to just walk right down the middle of it. 428 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:08,520 We have people who are trying to essentially just make the Bible into this... 429 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,200 Hopefully you didn't hear that. 430 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,200 My apologies. 431 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:16,560 Why in the world we're living in this... 432 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,440 What kind of theology is this? 433 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,200 We wonder why young men are checking out of dating, Christian dating, the church, society 434 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,200 in general. 435 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,320 It's because people like this are running everything. 436 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,080 Because people like this are running it. 437 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,800 And again, I don't know her personally. 438 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800 I'm sure she's fantastic as a person. 439 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:38,760 But what I don't understand is I'm supposed to sit here and listen to this day in and 440 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,280 day out, week after week. 441 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,280 I can't do it. 442 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:42,280 I won't do it, man. 443 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:48,240 And it's no wonder why dudes are checking out, why men are choosing not to date, is 444 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,600 because women's a lot sound like this. 445 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,640 It's like you're using a bunch of words to say nothing. 446 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:02,320 You're using a bunch of flamboyant, sphinxian sounding, sophisticated sounding words, personal 447 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:05,000 stories, anecdotal evidence. 448 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,800 And what have I actually learned? 449 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:14,040 Other than I get really bad headaches when I can't listen to stuff longer than for five 450 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,040 minutes. 451 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:20,600 I don't understand what we're talking about anymore, man. 452 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,920 You know, someone wants to find hell as a place where there is no reason. 453 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:31,560 And my friends, I think I just dragged you into hell and I apologize for that. 454 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,200 I really apologize for that. 455 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:42,120 I think I just dragged you all into hell because I did not hear a single thing about the church, 456 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,080 the leadership within the church. 457 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,080 I didn't hear anything about. 458 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,800 This proves to me why men are checking out of the church, why men are checking out of 459 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,600 society and why men are checking out of dating is because people like this are leading everything 460 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,040 and are trying to tell them how to live their lives. 461 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,080 And if you don't want to listen to them, you're the problem. 462 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:10,920 If you don't want to learn all their terms and listen to their jibber jabber, then you're 463 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:11,920 the problem. 464 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,000 You are less educated. 465 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,720 You're a Neanderthal. 466 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:16,720 You're dumb. 467 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:23,960 And I don't believe that I could have said all of this in a fourth of the words and fourth 468 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,960 of the time. 469 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,040 But unfortunately, I'm not the reverend. 470 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,080 Why? 471 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,040 Because I don't think I could do it. 472 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,080 I really don't think I could. 473 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,120 Now can I provide you with this information so that you can make your own choices? 474 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,120 Absolutely. 475 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,120 And I'm happy to do it. 476 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,200 But if I have to listen to stuff like this day in and day out, man, I don't know if I 477 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,200 could do it. 478 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,320 You know, I know I mentioned earlier that a man wants to find hell as a place where 479 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,320 there is no reason. 480 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:59,160 I feel like I'm living in hell right now when I'm listening to this, man. 481 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,880 But you wonder why she mentioned sexuality. 482 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:08,320 She mentioned the colors and the rainbow writing community. 483 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,400 My friends, you want to know why we live in the debaucher society we're living in. 484 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,000 You want to know why people are just acting a gosh dang fool all the time. 485 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,480 You wonder why men are committing anymore. 486 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:29,320 You wonder why women are acting like total total skeezers and completely outrageous acting 487 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,240 like street workers. 488 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:38,240 Because instead of the fire and the brimstone and the authority and the accountability, 489 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,320 we have this in the church today. 490 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,680 You want to know why men aren't dating anymore. 491 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,960 It's because they rather go their own way and do their own thing. 492 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,120 Instead of having people like this tell them how to live their lives. 493 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:56,040 And if it were any time we say no, we become the problem, not them for making no sense. 494 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:01,120 My friends, I want to leave it there before I my mind just completely gives out on me 495 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:02,360 because this is killing. 496 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,760 This is giving me a migraine worse than I've had in years. 497 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:12,040 My friends, please, I encourage you to question everything that we said and talked about today. 498 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:19,680 You want to support the channel, follow the show, ask me questions or comment on my ex 499 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,600 page sheep get sheared. 500 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,840 I invite you to do so my DMs are wide open. 501 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,760 I've been getting a lot of like hate mail recently. 502 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,880 I find it really amusing and hilarious. 503 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,280 So it's very funny. 504 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,440 Actually, my friends, take care of yourselves. 505 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,440 I'm out of here. 506 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:40,080 Peace.