Father, we honor you and bless you today. Thank
you for a new day. Thank you that we get to do
this, not just as a slogan or a title, but as
a mantra, as a call, as a declaration over our
lives. We thank you for the privilege of this.
Father, for those listening, our prayer is they
will live up in a down world. They will fight
the good fight of faith. They will stand. They
will rise up and they'll speak the truth in love
and because of love. So Lord, today we give this
to you. We let go of it and take our hands off
of it and ask you to speak through us in Jesus
name. Amen. Amen It's Wednesday, November 19th
2025 we get to do this. This is episode number
11 We get to do this. Yes, we do. I can't sing.
Well, you're under the weather. I usually can.
My voice is very unnaturally low right now. I
had to kind of not focus on your voice during
the prayer. I'm like, wow, that's a great radio
voice he's got there. I'm sorry, Lord, I'm back
with you. It's like the night time guy, you know,
playing the solo. Dr. Johnny Fever, everybody.
WKRP Cincinnati. That's what it feels like. How
you doing, brother? I'm doing better. I'm drinking
my... third or fourth cup of coffee. I actually
ate a donut, just for some energy. I was thinking,
whatever works. So the donut was from our, is
this a monthly thing that we do now? The Devo's
and Donuts? So they do two different things.
So Devo's and Donuts is an outreach from our
church, our student ministry, to the middle school.
They'll do that once a month and then to the
high school once a month. And this morning was
the middle school. We prayed away the rain because
there was chances of rain this morning, so we
asked the Lord to part the clouds and He did.
And then they had their largest group ever show
up. They had 379 students show up. That's a lot
of donuts. That is a lot of donuts. When I went
through the kitchen, I was going to get an ibuprofen
because I just have a headache. Allergy stuff
going on rather than rare for me. That's like
a Penske truck full of doughnuts I mean, that's
what I was so here's what I was thinking. I'm
thinking I'm gonna go through the kitchen I don't
usually eat doughnuts and stuff like that But
I'm like today when I feel like I'll take anything
that'll give me a temporary energy boost of energy
Yeah, so I went through the kitchen. There was
only three doughnuts left three Wow I'm assuming
they left some with the teachers and stuff because
they typically do that in the faculty if there's
any left over, which I'm assuming there were
some, but yeah, that's the largest group they've
ever had. These are students that come out, they
get a doughnut. They usually get a little value
something like a little cross or a reminder.
They can take back in school, a little Jesus,
you know, the little little Jesus everywhere.
So many of those around everywhere. Literally.
Yeah. It's a little weird because you'll be doing
something. Look over and he's looking at me.
You know, it's right there. He's up on a ledge
right there at the restaurant or something. He's
in my car, the dashboard. I've got them all over
my house. So anyway, they do stuff like that.
And then the teachers always report back to us,
to our team. Saying is these are the best days
we've ever had whenever you guys come we have
the best days. Yeah, there's less Behavioral
issues. There's less fighting. There's just huh.
It brings a calm place and They get they lead
worship from a stage. We set up a temporary platform
portable system Lead worship Jonah leading that
Jonah from young faithful podcast cool. He's
just getting better and better. Oh, yeah, it's
only 14 He's practicing though. I see him practice
all this. I know isn't it great. Mm -hmm And
then either Naomi or a guest, I did it last year,
Pastor Brian Haley, our student pastor, they'll
bring about a 10 -minute gospel presentation.
And every time students are like, yeah, I want
Jesus. Every time. That's so cool. It's just
wild. It's one of those things that this was
something Naomi brought. She tried it once or
twice, I think, in Nashville when they were living
there. And then about the time it looked like
it was about to take off there at their school,
we brought them here. And then she said, hey,
I've been sitting on this, but I think I'm supposed
to do this here. So last year they started it
and they just had their biggest group ever. What
they're doing though, it's building it because
they're there consistently. The teachers know
who they are. The students know who they are.
Now the students are like coming. They're like,
okay. It's become a thing. It is. Yeah. And I
think this is the third time we're talking about
it on this podcast. So that's good news for us.
We're still here. We have not faded. No, we're
still in man. I'm all in. I get excited about
this. Even though I never felt great. I woke
up feeling really good yesterday. You said you
had like a allergy. So what happens, my eyes
just start to Just start to drain and drain and
drain right that gets into my sinuses and then
last night shoot My left ear just closes up got
a little ringing little tinnitus going on it,
which is the official pronunciation everybody
I know I keep correcting people they look at
me like I'm I gave up, I gave up, tinnitus. You
might as well just say tinnitus or whatever.
Go with the flow. And it was just ringing and
then not like really bad, but closed up and you
kind of want to like hold your nose and blow
your ears out. And it really just, you know,
the other one goes, you know, and then I can't
understand Tina, especially if she's turned away
from me. I'm like, oh Lord, why, why, why, why?
I feel like I'm in a tunnel. And that the sound
like I'm not hearing right. It's like the sound
is it's a little better now I've got the cans
on but before we put these on I'm like This by
the way is my secret strange my secret is if
this hat whenever this happens to me I'll either
go into the studio put Headphones on talk and
then play some music or put my ear. I got my
earbuds with me I'll put them in if you just
put one in It sounds like a broken speaker, but
then you put the other one in and then your brain
starts to change and adjust it. Yeah, that really
does help. You know what this is? Old man problems,
brother. No kidding, man. Let me tell you about
my right knee. Yeah, brother. It's a little stove
up. God the world and other things on this broadcast.
If you are listening to this anywhere, consider
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Church and you'll find our podcasts and other
podcasts and lots of live streams. Hello, Fred.
There's more and more coming each day. And I
wanted to thank you so much because your message
on Sunday was... Thanks, brother. I mean, I think
I even texted you like, brother, I needed to
hear this. You did. Thank you. Do you get those
on the pulpit on the stage? I do. He pops up
in my little banner at the top and I'm like,
I'm on the fly. I should probably time it better.
There it is. Yes. I can watch it live. Watch
and pause. What's a pause? Thank you. But it
was delayed does not mean denial. And wow, this
was so good. And it's kind of come up in our
Wednesday night, walking with Jesus discipleship
journey. how some people have prayed for their
prodigal wayward children or grandchildren for
20 years, and then they come to Jesus. But it's
not just people coming to Jesus, it's just things
that we pray for, things that we want, that we,
I guess, hope for or pray for. For me this I
have so many things I'm praying for like so many
things I want to happen like God I think I'm
doing what you want me to do them I think I've
heard the call and I know where you want me to
go and give me a sign show me something And we
all, it's so easy to say in God's perfect, His
perfect timing, but His perfect timing can take
a little bit. And you really, really laid that
out in a beautiful way. And I encourage everybody
to go watch it. The most recent messages are
also in the Godcast wrap. It's actually fun to
listen to it. I love listening to it more than
I enjoy watching it, you know, like on a replay
of the video. Just put it in the car and you're
so much more aware of the acoustics of what people
are, you know, the amens and the, come on now,
you know, hey preacher, I love that. Is that
Mel who does that? Probably. Come on preacher.
It could be anybody. But yeah, I would say more
than likely Mel. I get mailed every week. Maybe
just for the people who might need to hear this
now, just give a little replay of that because
it was just spot -on, man. So kind of the main
idea of this is basically this, God's timing
isn't about our convenience. It's about His glory
and our growth. Another way to say it is when
He seems late, He's setting up something greater
than you imagined. And I quoted an old pastor
that I heard many, many years ago who used to
say this, And I just totally, I don't even, I
shouldn't even quote him now. I should, I've
said it so many times, but this setback, the
setbacks that come are actually a setup for a
God kind of comeback. And a lot of times we get
caught in that setback mode and the setup hasn't
appeared yet. And so we're praying and it feels
like God's just delaying, like there's nothing
happening. And so I just talked about the dynamics
that when we think nothing is happening, something
is happening. I told the story about going to
the beach as a West Texas boy, not having a clue,
hopping out in the water, riptide. I looked up.
I'm a mile from where I started. I didn't even
realize I was moving. But that's the same way.
You can't see a riptide. It's just happening
below the surface. And God's constantly working.
And so His delays feel like, here's a great scripture
on that, Galatians 6, 9, let us not become weary
in doing good for at the proper time, and there
it is, the proper time, we will reap a harvest,
and then here's the other big part of that, if
we do not give up. And we so often give up right
before we cross the goal line, you know, we get
the touchdown. It's just because we get tired
and we feel like God's not hearing us, or maybe
it was a no, but what I found It's rarely a no,
it's typically a not now. How do you know if
it's not a no? I mean, this is, I know it's a
pretty loaded question. It is. I can give you
a short answer. Okay, I'll take it. Because when
we are in alignment with His Word, that means
we're in alignment with His ways, which means
we're in alignment with His will. His will, His
ways, His Word. All that's interconnected. And
so, I rarely pray about things that I don't believe
I've got the Word on, so to speak. And I don't
ask for a lot anymore. I just pray really different
than I used to. It's mostly gratitude, honestly.
I'm a broken record. Here I am, Lord. Thank you.
Thank you for not answering that prayer, the
silly one I asked. So I'm very careful to make
sure that if I'm asking or declaring, or confessing
something that it's based out of God's Word.
So there are a lot of situations that happen
that you might not be able to just put a template
of God's Word over, but you kind of can if you
think about it. You have to think logically.
It comes back to, you know, part of making disciples
is really learning to think like Jesus thinks
and be in alignment with that. And so, you know,
we asked the question, what would Jesus do, right?
We've talked about that. It's the same thing.
If I'm praying for something that I think is
in no way in alignment with what I think Jesus
would do or care about, I just don't. I don't
have big expectations over it. But the kind of
things I pray for are for someone I know to come
to Christ. Do I believe that's in God's will?
Do I believe it's His Word? Do I believe that's
something that is about His ways around that?
Absolutely. So I can pray for that with great
confidence. Now, if it's taking a long time,
then I have to trust that this delay is for a
reason. So a lot of us live not in the know,
but we live in the not now because of this delay.
And, you know, with God, thousand years is as
a day, days is as thousand years. That's what
people don't realize. It's hard because we're
so temporally oriented. I mean, I was talking
about AI, you know, it took three seconds to
get an answer. I was like, what is going on with
this thing? By the way, just bogging down on
a little separate track on the it's amazing.
Any of this stuff works at all. True. I believe
that the world goes from. centralization to decentralization
and back again. And it's not just technology.
It's, it's, it's all kinds of churches. I think,
you know, you get mega churches and then you
get a lot of smaller churches. You just, this
always seems to be the case, but in computing,
you can see it really, really well. Excuse me.
We had such a good example of centralization
awareness this past week. If you were using Chad
GPT, if you were using X, if you were using My
Lord, I can give you so many examples. Just go
to downdetector .com and you can see it. Cloudflare
had a bug. And conservatively, 20 % of all major
services use Cloudflare. We use it for the podcast
index and for Godcaster. And that went down and
just, it was like, it was this perfect moment
where I just wanted, I couldn't because there
was nothing, no communications really. I wanted
to yell, grab your box. do something else with
your time, stop refreshing, stop it, stop it.
And just like, come on people. So these are lessons
we're gonna start implementing. We're gonna start,
I think you'll see it with podcasts too. It's
built decentralized by nature, but people still
kind of think, well, I've gotta be here, gotta
be there. No, no, no, don't worry about all that.
Don't worry about it. And I think everything,
is we're coming to a point where it's all going
to have to flow back. But coming back to what
you were talking about, and I had written down
the setback is the setup for the comeback. That
hit me real hard. And Romans 8 .28, you know,
for God makes all things work together for good.
I think you said, you know, you're here. Well,
I wish I had made clips of it. But the whole
idea is that sometimes you're ready, but the
other pieces aren't in place. The other people
aren't in place yet. And for me, it's really
helpful when I look at it that way. It's like,
OK, I know I'm ready, but these two people over
here, that organization that has five people
in it, they've all got to be brought into alignment,
and then things will start to happen. Well said.
And the way I say that, and I always use this
simple illustration uses of a thermostat. You
go set the thermostat, the temperature. You're
already there, right? In your mind, you're like,
okay, I've set this to 68. But it's foolish to
think in five minutes or in 20 seconds, it's
going to automatically be there. The system has
to go to work. And you think about all the moving
parts of HVAC. systems or just Preheating your
oven, you know, that's another set of 375 and
then you throw your stuff in there and you're
mad at when it didn't come out done in six minutes
It's it's like what's going on here same way
with microwave popcorn, you know It used to take
eight minutes now It takes three and a half and
we're upset because it shouldn't take that long
It's it's so relative and like you said we we
we've ebb and flow on expectations with this
stuff I think AI has created such an expectation
for instantaneous, massive knowledge. There's
a new version coming out. And this is actually
Grok, but don't worry, everyone will be doing
it. We're excited to introduce Grok 4 .1, which
brings significant improvements to the real -world
usability of Grok. Get ready. Our 4 .1 model
is exceptionally capable in creative, emotional,
and collaborative interactions. It is more perceptive
to nuanced intent, compelling to speak with,
and coherent in personality. So these are the
things, and you can look at their website, they
give you examples of how it used to answer you
and how it answers you now. And all they're doing
is fine tuning the human portion of it. We've
had these ongoing conversations. And there is
so much usefulness in this while it still lasts
because just look at what the markets are saying.
It's definitely wobbly around who's really paying
for all this stuff. So enjoy while you can. And
I also think that will decentralize. We may have
a large language model for our church in the
near future that our church uses and that is
not connected to anything else. And it may cost
us $10 ,000. I'm just throwing a number out there.
Could be four. But then we could all use it.
And we wouldn't be beholden to things going down
or being corrupted, et cetera. But the talking
to the AI, this is the only thing that I really
want to warn people for. Stop talking to it.
You've been pre -programmed. We've all been pre
-programmed for decades and decades and decades
of entertainment and culture and film and television.
Don't talk to it. Treat it just like a computer.
and just say, give me this. Don't say, would
you please? Thank you very much. But it's built
in. They do that purposefully. It's built in
for you to use those common kind of human words
to get attention where it could just be like,
computer. It could be that, but it's not that.
And you can't change that, by the way. So that's
all I just want to say that this is coming at
us. from all directions. And you know, I'm, I
love looking at, we're just talking with Tina
about what the, what her text groups are sending
her. And of course, you know, Oh, look, I'm Chinese
woman got married to her AI. Very extreme, extreme,
but you know, still. I didn't hear that one.
People are surprised by this. They're like, wow,
that's really happening? Yeah, it's really happening.
There's a lot of lonely people out there. That's
true. And now more than ever, we got to find
them, recognize them, grab them, sit them down,
have coffee with them, play chess with them,
do whatever we can to lonely people. Because
this will create more isolation. If I don't need
another human being, I was already lonely to
begin with. Now I really don't need them because
I've got a replacement. And I think it's... Ooh,
that's scary. And it's young men, it's young
women who don't know how to... I've been getting
an education on dating these days. No kidding.
I saw a stat of how many young men in Gen Z have
never actually engaged with a female. Yeah. Remember
us? Remember the trial by fire? Do you want to
go out? Would you ever go out with me? I mean,
the awkwardness. I like your dress. I like those
shoes. It's so awkward, but it trained us. It
trained us how to engage and how to talk and
how to, and we got better at it. Some of us got
too good at it. We're being stupid with it. But
you know what I'm saying? That was part of a,
that was a rite of passage. for our generation,
and now you've got guys that are in their 30s
that have never engaged a female, except for
online. Exactly. Which is why you see so much
success with Gen Z, younger generation, who are
going to church. Because this is where you have
interaction with humanoids. Pendulum is swinging
again. It is. Or decentralizing, so to speak,
as you use. That's a different way to say it.
But to me, it's the pendulum swing back to, it's
kind of what happened with music. I mean, the
grunge of the nineties. They were like, we got
to get back to real music. They trashed all their
processors and went right back to old vintage
amps and old guitars. The older than beat up,
the better. That was their way of saying, we
got to get back to something that's real. Because
there was this massive pendulum. We see this
in every arena of life. And so the big concern
for me, as with you, is this hyper isolation
that, wow, I don't need another human being.
I definitely don't need a church or a group or
a community because I've got whatever. Name your,
pick your AI. And you'd be surprised. There are
young people listening to this podcast. Because
they want to hear their their uncles talk about
the good old times believe it or not. It's really
true pastor Jimmy It's really really true that
there they are listening. They're hungry for
it They it's like why can't we have this you
can and yeah all that and then some man You know
You were raised in a village. I mean a sense.
I mean yes where everybody If your parents didn't
know you got in trouble, somebody else did, and
then they got back to your parents. I live in
a town like that. I couldn't get away with anything.
The police would call my dad because my dad was
a firefighter. They had this bond, this thing.
I saw your kid doing donuts in the band parking
lot in his super sport. We had one cop in the
village and he had a Honda 250 motorcycle and
he had a big mustache and everyone knew him and
he would do the same thing. He would just go
over and ring the bell and say, hey man. Take
me to jail please, it would be a lot better than
what I'm going to face. It's different days,
right? really, really good. The two things that
I want to bring up today, one, I have some clips
of the second one, but the first one, I keep
hearing more and more and more, since we talked
about in the last episode, you know, the mark
of the beast, we're in the end times and whenever,
and this is, people love sending this to their
friends, on the text groups, it's everywhere
on social media. Now, the way I look at it, we
have the tribulation seven years, but there's
a pre -tribulation rapture. So first of all,
I'm not that worried. If the mark of the beast
is apparently here, then how come I'm still here?
You know, it's like, what can we give people
just to simmer down and not worry about it? Because
it's all, it all comes back to AI. It all comes
back to crypto. And I'm just not convinced that
any of that is really what we're seeing right
now, nor should we even worry about it, because
even Jesus didn't know any of this stuff. Well,
there's three nuanced views, and then there's
another view called preterism. And preterism
means that everything that had to do with the
prophetic things of the end times has already
happened. The fall of the temple in 70 AD, that
was... That was what they were talking about.
Preterism can be blown out of the water very
quickly. It doesn't line up. But there are people
who believe it, that, oh, no, that's all happened.
Well, then why are we still here? And what's
the point? So you've got pre -trib rapture. That's
where people, and you can find scriptures that
absolutely substantiate. You have mid -trib rapture.
There's just things where God didn't make it
so clear. He made it just ambiguous enough that
we would be so dependent on him. Thank you. At
the end of the day. That is the answer I was
looking for. So pick your theologian, pick your
eschatology guy, because eschatology is what
it's called. It's the study of the end times.
And man, I pray like we're going to be through
the tribulation. I prepare my heart and my mind
to endure to the end no matter what. But I hope
and believe, I pray like it's going to be at
the end, like a post -tribulation rapture that
means we got to go through some stuff. But in
my mind, I'm hoping the pre -guys are right.
I'm ready to go up. I mean, whenever. So to me,
it's like, if Jesus didn't know, he was just
straight up. He's the son of man and the son
of God. And yet he doesn't know. He says, I don't
even know the times. So why are we trying to
blow our minds figured it out? Well, you just
gave the key to it. It was purposely made ambiguous
when this is going to happen so that we couldn't
know and, oh, I have to worry now. I'll prepare
later on. It'll be good then. Right. That makes
so much sense that God just said, you know what?
Don't stop praying. But you're not going to know
exactly when this is going to happen. And I'm
not making it clear to you so that you won't
sit there and figure it out. But brother, there's
a lot of people out there who are convinced and
will tell you. And there's podcasts and radio
shows and people I like. Good people. These are
not bad people. These are just people that that
think they got a figured something out. It depends
on which calendar you're looking at. I mean,
there's so many calendars. It's just, God, I
don't think He's doing it on our calendar situation.
You know, you've got the Jewish calendar. I've
got all those. So anyway, I don't get real spun
up about any of this stuff. Here's the thing.
I know we're one week closer than we were last
week that we sat here. That's it. We're closer
to whatever that is. But here's the thing. Let's
take it back a step. What's critical is that
you live each day like it could happen. Are you
doing today what you would want to be found doing
by Him when it comes? That's it. It's very simple.
If I'm about the Father's business and I'm doing
the life, I'm in communion with Him in terms
of just practicing His presence. talking to him
all day long about different things. I'm reaching
out to friends. I'm continuing to do the work
he's called me to do. And if I'm doing that,
then the day or the hour is not going to matter
to me. I have friends that get much more worked
up about this stuff. We had a guy show up, wanted
to meet with Pastor Brian because he liked 95
% of his sermon. That's a compliment. Hey, I
like 95 % on what you said today. I don't always
agree with everything you say, but please don't,
please don't agree with me. We even had a staff
member that would do that. Every time he'd try
to give me a compliment, he would preface it
with, you know, I don't agree with everything
you're saying. I'm just like... And I'm supposed
to feel good about this. Don't say anything if
you can't say something weird. He's no longer
with us. So he needed to move on. But anyway,
so this idea that, oh, this guy, 95%, I liked,
I agreed with 95 % of your sermon. Brian's like,
okay. And he goes, can we meet to talk about
the 5 %? And so they met. guy brought him a 20
page document that he had written on why he believed,
think of what the actual issue was. This was
so funny about it. What it had to do with, oh,
can't pull it out of thin air. This is where
you need a net to jump in and say, who is this?
Yeah, but it was like five, you know, the one
thing he, oh, it was with replacement theology.
Oh, okay. Our support of Israel. He does not
believe, he said the church, is the new Israel.
The church has replaced. Well, let's go over
to Romans chapter 10 and 11. Let's see. We were
grafted in to the olive branch, which is not
the vine. It's the branch. We're not even grafted
into the vine. We're grafted into the branch,
which is Israel. It's clear. There's no doubt
that the olive branch. But hey, man, this was
the Schofield Bible that confused everybody.
And it did. And I had one for years in the early
days, because it was one of the first commentary
Bibles that had notes in it. And it hijacked
a lot of theology. It was still the Bible that
they printed. It was just all of their interpretation.
His interpretation. But people don't even realize
that. They think that's in there, that's the
Bible. Well, they thought what I hear people
who've never looked at it maybe never looked
at a Bible. They'll say, well, no, it was all
change in the Schofield Bible. No, the words
of the Bible, the scripture were there. It's
the interpretation. It's commentary. Yeah. It's
tiring sometimes. At some point, we have to sort
of push back from the table and say, all right,
Lord, I'm going to come back to you with a childlike
faith. I trust you. I do not have this all figured
out. And I'll be real with you and whoever's
listening. The older I get, the less I really
know. I have more questions than answers the
older I get. And they're not bad. Nothing's bad
about that. I'm more rested in Him. The thing
I do know and trust is His sovereignty. He really
is in control. Nothing catches Him off guard.
This is what I've realized from... I'm almost
a year now, so I'm starting to reread Every daily
chapter every daily page of Oswald Chambers my
utmost first highest and that's basically that's
his his message over and over again is He's got
this he's in control Give up Stop trying to stop
trying to do just give it up give it over and
he just does it in different ways Yes, and but
it's one of my favorite Devotional is it a devotional?
I guess it is so good, but it's all it is kind
of the same and it took me at least half a year
to kind of get into it. Because I'm like, man,
you're depressing me, Oswald. Why am I not happy
about what I'm reading here? But think about
when he was writing a lot of that was during
World War II and he was in the desert. Was it
World War II or World War I? 44. Oh yeah, two.
Okay. So he died young. He died at the age of
43, 44. Right. And he was serving in Egypt in
the desert with the British armies as a chaplain.
Yes. and he was preaching all of his sermons.
His wife, being a court stenographer by trade,
was taking copious notes. Isn't that beautiful?
I love that. So what we're getting is spot on.
So good stuff. But you have to understand those
times are influencing his writing. So he was
speaking to soldiers and guys that were coming
off the lines. So that's why it's so heavy and
so intense. So I guess that for me, knowing because
this comes right back to scripture and understanding
of God and what He's doing. When the internet
really started to have an impact, and now we're
talking mid -90s, but really a little bit later
than that, people were saying, this is great.
The media won't have control over us. We have
freedom of speech. Yes, but it actually made
it easier. for governments and entities to exhibit,
exert mind control, psyops. Absolutely. Move
people in certain directions. The amount of bots,
I mean, it's really incredible. And they're pretty
sophisticated. I miss it all the time. You know,
I'm like, where's this coming from? And if you
see someone... who's been a member of a social
media network since 2014, has no followers, bot,
okay? Bot. And the last four digits of their
name is a number. There's that. Yeah, there's
a lot of that. But so what you're just saying
about Israel and, you know, and that theory.
So within the period of a month, we have gone
from Epstein, Mossad, Israel, A pack. Zionist,
Zionist. That is almost dropped off a cliff.
We have a little bump right now with with Epstein,
which as predict as was completely predictable,
like, OK, we don't actually see anything. All
right. We'll see what comes out. And just as
I predicted, President Trump flips on a dime.
All right. Release it all. It's too early because
he's a political guy. He wanted to hold it back
until the midterms. Everything you are seeing
right now, if there's any political tincture
to it, it's political, and it's all about the
midterms. No doubt. And the one that has come
around, I've been doing this for a long time,
so I'm going to take us around and show you what
is old is new again. Where have I heard that?
Or nothing under the sun is new. There it is.
And this is the incessant social media sharing
of The Muslims are taking over. We're all going
to be—it's Sharia law, Islam, everything—ah,
hair on fire! Literally, I'm seeing there are
42 mosques opened in Texas in the past two years.
Absolutely not true, but that map is convincing
where you see all these things pop up. Whenever
you see a social media post that has a screenshot
of some proof, but no link or even a mention
of where you can find this. Please, antennas
up, antennas up. And this is 100 % political
because now we're supposed to be afraid of the
Muslims. And I want to talk with you about Muslims
and Islam specifically. Just by starting it off,
this is Rare, R -A -I -R. They are a anti -Islamic
group. They're based in New York. have a pretty
big social media presence, being shared a lot.
And here's just an example of rare TV, by the
way. They call themselves a TV station. By the
way, I don't even know where she got that from,
that the First Amendment protects Islam as a…what
does she say here? That claim sounds… We expose
a dangerous misconception spreading across America
that the First Amendment protects Islam as a
political system. That's not even factually true.
And spreading across America, these are people
doing subversive things. very subversive things.
That claim sounds noble, until you understand
what Islam's governing code, Sharia, actually
is, and what the Constitution actually protects.
The Constitution safeguards freedom of conscience,
the individual's right to believe, pray and worship
without coercion. It does not protect systems
of government disguised as religion. Islam is
not a religion. Islam is a system of governance.
As a Muslim, we're supposed to see Islam as an
alternative to all the different systems of governance
today that are ruling the world. The laws of
the land, the laws that should configure society
should only come from Allah. If you do your job
by basically being Allah SWT and give Allah's
deen victory, then Allah will give you victory.
This is the true meaning of Islam. It's not gonna
come to us when we are not working actively towards
it, period. Democracy is silly. It's the idea
that human beings come up with the laws for their
society. God, the creator of mankind, should
legislate for mankind. And that's what the Qur
'an is about. That's what Islam is about. That's
what La Ilaha Illallah Muhammad Rasulullah is
about. As Allah subhanahu wa ta 'ala says in
the Qur 'an, إِنَ الْحُكْمُ وَإِنَّ اللَّهِ.
Legislation is for God alone. So I want everyone
to understand what you just witnessed. Now you
didn't even see it, but sometimes not seeing
it is better. You heard the music. There's all
kinds of music that works on your nervous system.
It's quick clips. Even the one about God having
the ultimate rule over law is probably taken
out of context. This is not me clipping it. This
is what they do. This is not truthful. Islam,
I know so many Muslims and all I can do for them
is pray that they find Jesus. We are being moved
once again to be afraid of a group of people,
just like we have been told over the past three
years to be afraid of Jews and Israelis and APAC
and Zionists. Before I continue, your view on
Islam and how we should even look at Muslims.
First of all, we need to pray for them. Yes.
We need to trust that the Lord wants them to
come into a relationship with Jesus Christ and
come to Him through Christ, because that is the
only way. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except
by me. So we know that to be true, John 14 .6.
So I'm refusing to set my hair on fire. I want
to keep it for one, but I just, I literally am
not going to allow myself to get spun up on this.
I want to be aware where I need to be aware.
But because so many people have jumped on this
bandwagon, it's caused me to take, it's given
me pause. It's not making me want to run chase
and start talking about this. It's actually making
me take a step back to say, all right, I'm trying
to listen to all these voices. I was just looking
at a quote from Bill Fetter saying, Muhammad's
three steps. were immigrate, increase, and eliminate.
That was his way of spreading his version of
the gospel. I'm seeing this everywhere right
now. I'm seeing it from guys I like, but I'm
not ready to run down that track yet because
when we start picking up torches and pitchforks,
we turn into the same mob mentality that crucified
Jesus. crucify Him, crucify Him. Some commentators
don't believe this is true. Some do that a lot
of the people that were in that crowd were probably
a lot of the same people that were laying down
palm branches the week before and saying, Hosanna,
Hosanna, King of glory. Now, I don't know if
that's true. I don't know that you can know that
honestly. Scripture doesn't give us enough to
know if some of those were the same people, but
knowing humanity and being around a little longer
than a minute in this world, and seeing how quickly
a mob can turn based on hearsay, based on perception,
based on Psyop being driven by something, I could
totally see that happening. So I'm going to cut
through it right away and show the political
part because this is what it's... all about,
and when did this really start? When did it ratchet
up? What was the political thing that happened
in the United States where all of a sudden this
started to become a thing? New York Mayor Mamdani.
On rare TV, we are naming the threat plainly.
Our enemies have placed a dangerous foreign infiltrator
inside New York's government, and his name is
Zoran Mamdani. a dangerous enemy, our adversary,
she hasn't named them yet, we'll get to that,
but this is, if this guy is anything, he's not
really a Muslim. Socialist, Marxist, theater
kid, actor, yes. A full on... Islamists? Jihadists?
No. There's no evidence for that, but they're
going to try and string it all together. And
under federal law, he has been eligible to be
stripped of his citizenship and deported. The
question is, why is our government not acting?
Mumdani became a U .S. citizen in 2018. Under
federal law, specifically 8 U .S .C. Section
1451A, citizenship can be revoked if it was obtained
by concealment or misrepresentation, or if, within
five years, the individual affiliates with communist,
totalitarian, or terrorist movements. Mumdani
did exactly that. He publicly defended the Holy
Land Five. The men convicted on 108 counts of
financing Hamas. No evidence of this. It's just
a picture and they just say it. He is a card
-carrying member of the DSA. The DSA is not a
political organization, so there's no card to
carry. They are just a nonprofit who go out and
recruit people, train them, and then get them
elected into office. card -carrying member. These
are all very, very tricky words that are being
used. Is it Muslim -based? No, no, it's socialist,
complete socialist Marxists. They got AOC and
she, you know, AOC auditioned. She literally
auditioned for the role and then the DSA got
her ready and wrote her scripts and everything.
And now she's gotten really good at it. But this
has nothing to do with Muslims. The largest Marxist
operation in America, openly aligned with foreign
communist parties in Cuba, Europe, Asia, Africa,
and Latin America. He expressed allegiance to
the Communist Party of India in 2020, well inside
the five -year window. And he glorified Hamas's
US finance arm in a 2017 recording before he
took the oath of citizenship. Interestingly,
no recording, don't play any of that. So they're
just saying stuff. This is a political hit. This
is a political hit job. And it's kind of working
because now we see our own governor, Governor
Abbott, taking action with a proclamation. Proclamations
are just that. A proclamation is not law necessarily.
He says, hey, we're taking a stand on something.
And Governor Abbott is under severe attack by
political foes who want him out. And that's why
he's doing this. I don't believe he sees any
horrible threat. I'm not convinced that this
epic near Plano, Texas. I mean, the plans look
good. It looks really vast on the AI rendering,
but it's really just a mosque with a couple hundred
Muslims who attended from around that area. But
you'd think that they had a Disneyland installed
that said Muslim land, the way people respond
to it. Not saying we don't need to be aware,
but this is politics, and this is about putting
Abbott on notice, and he's responded. This is
from CBS from yesterday. All right, let's stay
in Texas because Governor Greg Abbott made news
this morning by declaring two groups as foreign
terrorist organizations. Let's go to our breaking
news correspondent, Chanel Call, who's been following
the story for us from the newsroom in New York.
Chanel, what did the governor have to say today?
And this is important because there are only
two names you have to remember, CARE, C -A -I
-R, the... Communist? No, no. the Center for
American Islamic Relations, which basically Casey
Kasem belonged to, just to put it into context,
and the Muslim Brotherhood, which I will explain.
Well, he made this announcement Mugo this morning
through this proclamation Essentially now designating
two groups the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council
on American Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist
groups and transnational criminal organizations
So this announcement came to us in the form of
this proclamation. That's interesting that she
says transnationalist criminal organizations
That's important because there is something there.
There is something there. That's different than
saying they're ideologues who want to kill us
and get rid of us and run everything. So I'll
just show you a bit of it on my computer here.
If I scroll down, you can see it's a couple of
pages long. And in this proclamation, Mugo, the
governor is explaining which groups we're talking
about here and why he chose them, also what the
impact will be of this proclamation. So I spoke
to Ahmed Mitchell, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, who
is the deputy director of care about this. today
to get his perspective on this proclamation and
his reaction to this announcement this morning.
Take a listen to part of that conversation. He'll
sound a lot like a political operative. So, Edward,
I want to read you part of this proclamation,
which I'm sure you've already read before. But
part of it says internal documents plainly identified
Kare as a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And a federal court eventually found, quote,
ample evidence to establish that Kare was associated
with Hamas. What's your response to that? Completely
false. In fact, Mr. Abbott knows that another
court later ruled that those claims were completely
improper, should have never been made in the
first place, and were made against dozens of
American Muslim organizations when the Bush administration
was going to great excesses in the years after
9 -11. So what he's done is cherry -pick information,
bottle them up into conspiracy theories, and
then regurgitate them for this publicity stunt.
CARE is an independent organization. We're not
an agent, offshoot, partner. any foreign organization,
period. It's partially true, but it is a political
organization. This is who got who's the Elon
Omar. And yeah, they're bringing people in. And
there's no doubt that we have to be very wary
of who is coming in to different elected offices,
because I've seen this with Europe, and absolutely,
if you don't do anything about it, then all of
a sudden, you're not necessarily being represented
by someone who you want to represent you. However,
instead of reposting and freaking out and sending
to all your text groups like, they're taking
over, they want Sharia law. Run for office. Run
for school board. Run for county commissioner.
Activate people in your community. Don't just
sit there. This is the mistake we make. You just
wander around and go, this is bad, it's bad.
Well, yeah, it's okay. It's really bad if it
happens. SIOP has been used many, many, many,
many times. So first let's understand what the
Muslim Brotherhood really is. Let's give you
a bit of background as well, Mugo, about these
organizations that we're talking about, including
the Muslim Brotherhood. It may sound familiar
to you. This is a group that was founded in Egypt.
It really rose to power, rose to influence after
the Arab Spring. But important to note that it
also became something that Americans grew to
see as a threat. Egypt, the ideology within the
Muslim Brotherhood also spread to some other
groups that you'll now know Hamas and Hezbollah
as well. But important to mention here that there
has really been no material tie from the Muslim
Brotherhood to care. Also care, which is an American
based group, has never actually been charged
with crimes like aiding and abetting a terrorist
organization. Okay, so she debunks it pretty
well, but let's find out where the Muslim Brotherhood
really came from. from before the Arab Spring.
This is George Galloway. He was member of parliament
for the Labour Party in the UK for many years.
Of course, like all good former politicians,
you become a podcaster. This week, he said it
out loud, what I have known, because this is,
if you understand... the royal families of Europe,
and particularly the British crown. They're still
mad at us. We just got... They're still mad at
us for, you know, breaking away 250 years ago.
This is not how they want the British Empire
to be. This guy just says it plainly. Indeed,
this has a long and inglorious history. The British
invented it, as in so much else. We helped, found,
and nourished, nurtured. the Muslim Brotherhood
in Egypt in the early 1950s so that we could
use them against the Arab nationalist leader
Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Nasser. We invented
the Muslim Brotherhood. It was invented in London
and it was its first outing, though not its last,
was to undermine the pan -arabic message of the
Nasserists and well we've fallen out with the
Muslim Brotherhood from time to time, but Occasionally
they can still be useful to each other if you
get my drift. No kidding Wow, so and so this
is being relaunched Because when did we hear
about the Muslim Brotherhood before in our recent
history? 13 years ago President Obama And this
was 100 % political, as it is now. And it's being
used for different things. One, to fracture the
conservative base into, you know, no different
really from the Christian Zionists, you know,
oh, America first, the MAGA, to confuse, you
know, divide and conquer. At the same time, to
congregate certain groups all on the right to
kind of bring it all together. Yeah, because
there was a fear that there was such fracturing
within the GOP that we needed a common enemy
to bring everybody back together. This PsiOp
is played over and over and over. So let's go
back at shorts, my final one. This was 13, 14
years ago. This is CBN, Christian Broadcast News.
Here's the story of the day back then before
we were really all nuts with social media. Oops.
Whoa. It's the end of the show, everybody. Sorry.
Here it is. White House is moving toward developing
ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist
groups in the Middle East. National Journal reports
the president believes he has no choice but to
cultivate the Brotherhood and other groups. This
is about Obama. He believes are relatively moderate.
One State Department official tells the magazine,
quote, The war on terror is over. And now the
Arab world may find a route to democracy through
Islamism, but those moves may hurt the president
politically. CBN News terrorism analyst Eric
Stackelback joins us now for more on this story.
Eric, you attended an event earlier today, I
understand, about the Muslim Brotherhood. What
did you find out? Lee, very timely event with
what Wendy just described. The Obama administration
is obviously openly now embracing Islamist groups
like the Muslim Brotherhood. Well, today at the
National Press Club here in Washington, D .C.,
the Center for Security Policy had a really eye
-opening event, Lee. They are releasing a 10
-part online instructional course, online video
instructional course for the average American,
all about the Muslim Brotherhood. It's called
the Muslim Brotherhood in America. It breaks
down this group, what they're all about, and
why they're so dangerous. And we spoke to Frank
Gaffney, Lee, the president of the Center for
Security Policy. Let's look at that now. Jihad.
which is commanded by Sharia, takes more than
one form. We are not winning a war that we honestly
are not even recognizing we're in against jihadists
that are using not just violence against us,
but civilization. jihad as well. And Lee, I think
that was a real takeaway from this event today,
what Frank Gaffney just said. There are many
forms of jihad that our enemies are using. And
not only violent jihad, for the Muslim Brotherhood,
it is a stealthy type. Frank Gaffney called it
civilization jihad. Their philosophy is, hey,
we don't have to blow you up now. We can win
through elections. We can get jobs in the media.
The government slowly, slowly infiltrate. And
then the final stage is, yes, violent jihad.
Brother, this is the same message they played
15 years ago through the same Christian -loving,
Jesus -loving people, we cannot fall for these
psyops. Do we have to be aware and do things
about our culture? Absolutely. But this is not
the way to go. I get this picture of just pitchforks,
torches. Running up to Frankenstein's castle,
banging on the door, demanding to see the monster.
I just get that picture because we tend to be
very alarmist and we're more so now than ever
because of social media, because of podcasting.
People are taking everything I pull up, which
I've been pulling up less and less, so much so
I'm having to go, okay, I probably should look
at the news just to see if there's anything.
And it all is the same thing over and over and
over. And my thing is this, is we've got to,
as believers, followers of Jesus, first of all,
do we trust that God is in control? At the end
of the day, if we trust the sovereignty. Now
that doesn't mean we're inactive because we partner,
we co -labor with Him, we cooperate with Him,
right? But the key is with Him. Not us in the
henhouse whispering into each other's ear, and
then by the time it gets to the third chicken,
It doesn't even sound like it started. You know,
this is the telegraph game and I'm seeing it
happen. I'm seeing people I respect, people that
have had impact in my life. Just I love your
description, hair on fire, because that's really,
you know, if you watch somebody's hair for caught
on fire, they're losing, you know, they're out
of control. And I'm seeing this, this massive
alarmist. Now flip side of that coin is we do
need to be aware. We do need to be strategic.
But I like what you said. The strategic piece
is Don't go running off trying to set fires everywhere.
How about go off and run for office? How about
go off and serve on a committee? Or help somebody
run for office? Help do a voter drive. Do the
things that move the needle. And a lot of this
stuff isn't moving anything, but just noise.
It's attacking people's nervous system. They
become literally blind to what they're seeing.
And wrapped with fear. Here's the documents.
Look, they're showing the documents. They're
scrolling something on an Instagram reel. That's
not proof of anything. They're showing you clips
of this and that, and that could be from 10 years
ago. It's not proof. And we need to ask the question,
what really moves the needle in the world? Is
it just these podcasts and these news clips?
I got a kick out of they called her a Breaking
News Correspondent. I didn't even know there
was a title for that. I want to be that. Breaking
News Correspondent. And you got noise in the
background, telegraphs going off, faxes, fax
machines, you know, that busy buzz of a newsroom
because there's so much coming in. It's hilarious.
I was listening to it and I had this mental image
of her in an old New York City newsroom, you
know, with teletypes, top writers going on. And
yeah, I thought, wow, they can just create this.
And they're doing all of this for attention,
for listeners, for subscribers, for people who
will give you likes and subscribe to your whatever
it is you're out there for. That's what concerns
me more than the news that's coming out of it
is what is driving this need to be noticed and
paid attention to? The enemy. I'm going to just
tell you right up straight up. Yeah, because
that's what it is. It's attention getting and
I'm like, because I feel the pool. I get it.
I've mentioned this before that whenever there's
a breaking news moment, you know, you don't want
to be the last guy to the party, right? You don't
want to show up late. Now that would be horrible.
Oh, I'd be a loser. Oh yeah. FOMO. FOMO. Fear
of missing out. And it's like people are so living
with FOMO right now. Fear of missing out. that
they will jump on the bandwagon and start saying
something they know nothing about. And that's
my biggest concern here is that if I'm a follower
of Jesus, but I'm pulling this first thing that
comes off of the newsfeed and repeating it and
reposting it or sending it back out and then
talking to others as though I'm truly informed,
that's a form of falsehood. And the Bible is
pretty serious about that. That's why I'm very,
you know, I used to get up and do these cultural
briefings. Have you noticed I've backed off of
that? And because if I'm going to give a briefing,
first of all, it's got to be true. I don't want
to participate in this. So I've taken a step
back on that. The things I'm trying to share
are like I've got this from CBN News, God is
at work. Hundreds flood the altar to choose Christ
in an outreach at the site of Charlie Kirk murder.
So Greg Lowry, from California, Calvary Chapel
pastor, very well known. They did an event there
and thousands of people showed up and hundreds
gave their life to Christ. That's what I want
to report on. I want to report on what God is
doing in the world. I want to overwhelm the world.
overwhelm the news, the bad news, with good news.
Because the gospel is good news. It is the good
news. It is. It's not the old news. Old news
doesn't matter anymore. Breaking news! The gospel
is good news! It's good news, and good news is
current. Good news moves the needle in the world.
This stuff just keeps us all spun up, chasing
our tails, chasing ourselves around a tree. Going
around the same mountain, which we see in Scripture,
the Exodus, 11 -day journey, it took them 40
years. An 11 -day journey took 40 years because
they couldn't get it right. But they just stayed,
just chasing themselves. And I feel like that's
what I'm seeing. But when I look at this, I go,
now this I can get excited about. Now again,
that doesn't mean as... prophetic voice in the
world there are times we got to say whoa whoa
wait of course okay this this could be real this
is a real thing something's up here and I'm okay
with that but this chasing off after every news
feed on your social media platforms and just
trying to get more likes and more attention I
just don't like being used or people I love being
used for political gain when they don't even
know what they're doing, that they don't even
see what is really happening here. Do we have
a problem with socialists and Marxists trying
to change our country? Well, yeah, that's for
250 years. That's been going from the beginning.
Yeah, there's nothing new there. That doesn't
mean we stand down and are ignorant. It's just
let's get truly authentically informed and then
let's get strategic. on what we do about it.
I don't think strategy is running off on social
media and just spitting off the latest, what
you think is information. It's the ability to
be at peace and at calm when the world is on
fire, because you trust God. Or when you think
the world is on fire. Exactly, where it appears
to be. We watched two Christmas music movies
on Pure Flix last night, which is basically soap
opera actors with a cute story, but it's, you
know, the stories are, they're just heartwarming.
There's a lot of God in there and a lot of faith.
And man, you just feel so good after that. Of
course. And then you flip over to, let's see
what's on Netflix. You watch House of David and
it's war war and more war Little heavy on the
war in House of David for sure But yeah, man
I get that and that knob we've been The kind
of things that we're allowing ourselves to diet
on territory media is just things that are gonna
be life -giving. Yeah, I'm just Whether it's
all real or not in the world It still gets you
spun up the same way. Your brain doesn't differentiate
between good news, bad news, or is this true
or false news? It just takes it in and then processes
it, much like AI. It just takes it in, processes
it, and then spits out something. Life is too
short to live that spun up. You don't have to
live that way. Maybe that's the heart of our
message is to help people make a decision, a
quality decision. I don't have to live like there's
a five alarm flyer going off 24 hours a day.
This is what John Eldridge was trying to say
back in 2019, before COVID hit, when he wrote
the book, Get Your Life Back, because he realized
he was living that way. And he realized, oh my
gosh, and what the Lord spoke to him, which I
love, is you're doing things I didn't tell you
to do. trying to capture everything. He was in
the know on everything. And he was like, realize,
God didn't tell me to chase that. God didn't
tell me to chase that. But what's happened is
that pastors, I was telling that I said pastors
today are so different than what I grew up with.
You know, when I went to seminary, I looked around
and, and, you know, we didn't have social media
back then, obviously, but the diff, it was a
different caliber. These guys had a sense of
call. on their life to preach the good news of
Jesus Christ in the highways and byways, on the
porn mission field, home missions. I went to
school with all those guys and gals. And there
was such a, it seemed like a greater deal of
purity about it. They weren't young. I mean,
they were young, but they weren't hip, cool,
you know, wearing the latest styles. I mean,
we were nerdy a bunch, you know what I mean?
But we were out preaching in country churches.
doing our reps. We didn't have a social media
platform to boost us into what appears to be
celebrityism or stardom. There was none of that
existed. And there was, I think, a greater purity
about what was happening 40 years ago than what
I see now. Now you see pastors growing churches
based on their social media impact. That scares
me a little bit of, whoa, what are we valuing?
Oh, they have a million followers. They must
be somebody. God's not impressed with size. No,
He is not. That seems to be a recurring theme
that we keep coming back to. Yeah. And you get
churches in America that now, you know, it used
to be the average size church in America was
70 or 80 people. Do you know that? No, I didn't.
Now it's like 40. You know, we've seen a diminishment.
One third of the church did not come back to
church after COVID. One third. Wow. Yeah. 30
something percent did not come back because now
they can watch it online because everybody went
online. Right. So now, you know, we're just tired.
Let's stay home. Yeah. We'll watch Pastor Jimmy
or Pastor Brian on TV, you know. We'll get involved
that way. Not to say that's all bad, you know,
for shut -ins and people who can't or you're
traveling, that's great. But if that becomes
your new normal. Your go -to. Yeah. It's sad.
So anyway, a lot of things have changed and I'm
seeing And a lot of these young pastors, and
I'm cheering them on too, man. I want them to
touch the world with the gospel, touch the campuses.
I want to see that. But I'm afraid that if we
chase off, chase after what the world is chasing
after, which is internet stardom, getting the
title of an influencer like that, some banner
of honor, badge of honor, chasing this celebrity
-ism. It takes on different forms in every generation.
And that's just what it is now. I just think
it's dangerous because you can find yourself
worried about your likes and your followers.
And that begins to influence the way you do what
you do, as opposed to your prophetic voice carrying
a message. So to wrap this up, to land the plane.
Shoot your approach. Really? You're going to
out -aviate me every single time? That's good.
And I know nothing about flying, per se. Well,
stick with me. Just on demand, please, because
I know that you know the entire Bible by heart
and don't need anything. When we go to post that
meme to our text group, when we go to comment
on on that reel or that TikTok or whatever. What
would Jesus do? What would He be thinking? What
is the proverb? What is the psalm? What is the
scripture that we can think about, put into our
heads that gives us a moment to pause and think,
am I doing this? So what would Jesus do? Am I
doing this to warn people? Am I doing this to
be part of the group? Am I doing this to raise
my social clout, which I think is subconscious.
Am I doing this out of pridefulness? Can you
give me... I'm asking for me. Now, I don't really
post anything anymore, but I'd like to help others
when I can. You've got to get the why behind
the motive. Everything about Jesus was so about
motive more than what's being done. It wasn't
always about... the outward expression, what's
driving you. And there's Bible verses on this,
keep your heart with all vigilance for from it
flow the issues of life. That's Proverbs 423.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart be acceptable in your sight. Oh Lord,
my rock and redeemer. Psalm 19 14. I mean, everything
goes back to motive. Galatians 1 10, listen to
this, talk about relevance. For am I now seeking
the approval of man? or of God. If I were still
trying to please men, I would not be a servant
of Christ. He didn't write in verses, he just
wrote. I like that one. But that one, for am
I now seeking the approval of man or of God?
If I were still trying to please man, I would
not be a servant of Christ. How many have forfeited
the banner over their lives of servant of God,
servant of Christ, because they have folded?
And you can't tell me that everyone's inoculated
to the pressure of social media and inoculated
to getting those followers and more likes. Then
suddenly somebody wants to sponsor your podcast.
Wow, I've made it. It's almost akin to back when
you'd get a record deal. I got signed. It makes
it official. It validates you. Still does, by
the way. Or on their podcast, you see the little
YouTube plaque. That's my favorite. You get that
little - Placed. Placed. I think you actually
have to - pay for it for them to send it to you.
I think it'd cost money. I was noticing that
on one of my favorite guys. I was like, Oh, I
see you got your plaque back there. Product placement,
you know, moment. They're like, I'm valid. That's
why I have a cross in the back of my, whenever
I'm doing an interview, I got a cross in the
background, man. If I'm in my office, I've got
a guitar behind me. That's all I've got in my
office for decor. I have no decor, but I like
Galatians 1 and 10. Here's another one. This
is a heavy Reve. Philippians 2, 3 and 4, do nothing
from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility
count others more significant than yourselves.
Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
but also the interests of others. There it is.
Again, it comes back to You're not pushing yourself
down. You're just elevating those around you.
It's not to put yourself down. It's just you
want to elevate those around you. Recently, standing
in a hallway, a doctor from our town who goes
to our church, great guy, I love him, comes up
to me and Brian. He's just chit chatting. And
he goes, man, you know what I've noticed? He
goes, Pastor Jimmy, there are people that like
Brian better than you. And I say, okay. I was
hoping there was something else. And he goes,
And Pastor Brian, there are people who like Pastor
Jimmy better than you. And we were going, is
this a compliment? And he meant it as a compliment.
He said, what I'm saying is that you guys are
both making a difference. I mean, he meant it
as a positive, but it was a bizarre way to say
it, right? But at the end of the day, so I said
to him directly, I said, if more people like
Brian than they like me, then I'm doing my job
as a leader. And I'm raising up the next generation
to go further than I ever dreamed I'd go. I said
it straight up. I didn't even hesitate. You also
are two different people, two different styles.
We're going to reach different people. I can
see where he meant it as a positive. He did.
As we say in the old country, this means... It
came, it came rottenly out of his mouth. I love
the old sayings from the old country, man. Those
are the best. I'd be disappointed if you didn't
give us one today. So I learned heavy Revi. This
is, this is the term I've learned. Heavy Revi,
heavy revelation, heavy Revi. I like that. I
like, I like it. Feel the weight of it. All right,
brother. Thank you so much once again. I can't,
I already can't wait until next week. I know.
We got so much to talk about. God, the world
and other things. It's all here. We get to do
this. Go find us in the Godcast wrap. See you
next week, everybody.