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Date:     2024-01-22
Title:    "What do you mean by" #0062 "Choices we make"
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Church:   What Do You Mean By
Type:     Short Clip
Duration: 57m
Language: English
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRLTyb2TR2I
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do you mean by number 62 where we go through choices we make and uh would be great Lord willing ask anything you want hey guys what's up I'm going to put in this comment and have a great live Lord willing just wait for people to join what's up Thomas cross zoy Wallen hello hello welcome to the live hope you guys hello sister ly Harwell welcome to the live hope you guys are having an awesome day um sorry I've been away a little bit I haven't really done this uh lives very much but in no way am I at all going to stop just been busy um but I am back now hello everybody Welcome welcome Amber W wants to join okay cool sister am did you mean to request to join is that what you wanted I had someone else's mom uh not intentionally click uh request to join and then when they join they didn't want to stay so did you intend to request to join if you did of course you can come on just making sure before I bring you on if you want to come on just put in the comments yes and then I will uh add you you did not mean to join I was I was thinking probably not fair enough all right cool what's up Josh Rya Sanger you're a good sister Amber don't worry about it so how is everybody doing on this uh Sunday night hope everybody's going awesome what's up sister Ella juwes hello how's it going hope you guys are doing really good um so I I'm going to go into the questions and the uh the content of tonight's live people can ask whatever they want a lot of this is just me bouncing off everybody so it'll be great Lord morning what's up Pablo how's it going all right so I'm going to pray and then go right into it what's up sister Addison all right dear gracious heavenly father thank you for tonight thank you for everything Lord thank you for the life that you've given us and the opportunity in our lives to make choices father we ask that you be with us as we do this Live help it all to go just the way you want it to we ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen all right let's have fun guys what's up Pablo Pablo says hello everyone hello Pablo how's it going all right so choices choices we make um brother the brandom said in Redeemer Redemption he said that's where every man has to come in life sometime is to make a decision you have to make a choice you had to make a choice whether you was going to have an education not or not hi John um you had to make a choice who was going to be your wife you had to there has to be decisions and choices made in life and this may be the night you'll have your final call to make your choice whom you're going to serve maybe your final time laying here Dad on the stretcher you mother over there young lady it may be your final time to make your choice what's up brother Gideon welcome to the live man how's it going so choices we make and uh where I had a coffee bring it over here sorry I'm still setting up my room because I got a new computer so everything's kind of everywhere but it's fine um but choices we make love you David I love you too Gideon hi Natalie Pinkston welcome to the live the choices we make we make all sorts of choices I made the choice let's see Faith Johnson says what are your thoughts on the Ten Commandments they're good what do you I don't what you mean do you mean l my thoughts on the Ten Commandments and how good they are or if they're not good I I don't know what you mean by that Faith what's up Isaiah brother Boaz Joshua buts hey what's up guys how's it going so choices we make guys I think brother Donnie Reagan preached a multiple part sermon on this I I'll will have to look it up but everyone we make choices in our life the movie oh the movie oh the movie's great but you know but it's one I think it might be the only movie that brother brandom ever said hey T commandment is a great movie you should watch it what's Ivan what's up Ivan rizzler um what's up Elijah Evans welcome to live yeah t it's great movie you should watch it every message believer should watch it I they should I mean if you listen to brother the bandom saying that he likes it and you don't want to go and watch it then what else are you watching but it's really good it's a great movie but you have to make decisions in your life and everything we do is a choice these lives me continuing to do these lives is the choice I don't always feel like I want to continue them or that I want to do them but I do and whenever you try to do anything I believe if you try to do anything people will come against you and you decide what you want to do if you uh let's see I got a question they're not going to lie I did not it was just notification okay but everything you do is a choice you have a choice every day um Ivan says um I can't join tonight sorry it's okay Ian don't worry about it maybe next time but everything we do do we have a choice you have a choice um you have a choice what everybody here you can you can ask yourself the question did I read my Bible yet today did I listen to part of a tape did I pray other than praying for my food or a church choices you make and and sometimes our choices aren't even um something we intend to do but it's just our lives are repeat of what we decide to do over and over and over again and we don't want our lives to be you know repeated just doing whatever feels good all the time when they actually have some value otherwise you're just a uh programmable person that doesn't actually have any value what's up Jefferson welcome to the live how's it going so you can make your choices do I forgot to respond to someone what's up Jay what's up Nathaniel cross how's it going this will work join what's up sister welcome to live sister home Quest I'm shipping out your husband's charger tomorrow so Nathaniel I'm trying to have you join what's up Ranna how's it going is this work is it not going to work be great if it would just work once this works neth cross be live so be fun what's up R Rya however you pronounce your name welcome to the live Nathaniel I'm trying to accept you to come on let me see if I can do it this way actually what's up let me see here what's up sister ashon how's it going well it didn't work it's not working theel you have to leave and come back I guess I have no idea choices we make guys everyone makes choices did it work there we go what's up D up Tom other guy brother Andrew hello how are you guys you didn't know you were getting the whole Squad no I didn't I got the whole I got all the boys tonight whole restaurant oh nice everybody's the Daniel every's there well I wish I was there I can't I can't get it to work David hi what hi hey guys how's it going what's up doing tonight David uh just doing the live I haven't done one in a while so I forget i' do yeah I didn't know if you still did him anymore I still do Brother David what's up brother D greetings my precious brother greetings how's it going I'm here with our all-time favorite brother Andrew Glover where sweet we're dining and Heavenly places did he preach tonight what I'm sorry did hee tonight he did preach tonight did a wonderful job good don't ask me when he preach I gotta go see God bless you brother God bless you whate do you have a good service yeah yeah we did say hey Chad hi Noah come here no what's up no how's it going hi God bless brother God bless no what's up guy at the table with Daniel who looks like Anthony star hold on David what's up okay yes well oh all right hold on hold on I got you David no way up hey guys I didn't know thing I said I had Christmas and win youth treat two weekends in a row but I'm I'm still doing them what's up Eli how's it going we got uh what's up Kate how's it going welcome back hey buddy what's going on not much how are you oh just chilling here with my my Suga I'm not asking anyway how are you doing tonight Bub I'm good how are you oh dude I'm just thriving buddy just thriving basing the joys of the Lord you sing aight huh did you sing a special tonight I did I did did you I sung Lo this morning so I guess I sang that is is sp to hear it good to hear it oh I'm getting the phone I'm getting the phone taken from me all right sweet what you Noah what did you want hold up Dan you want is our friend hello somebody said Kade oh my gosh everybody came to see us all y'all all missed out on a wonderful church service where is the is that brother Sean Martin's meetings right now going on no we're we're in uh we're at my church or we were at my church oh I see cool are Daniel and Britney Martin there no they are not it's just uh just brother Andrew he was preaching at um brother Junior Stanley's you out last night and this morning so he came and preached for us tonight what are you uh what are you talking about tonight David choices we make but I can ask you a question how do you think Humanity will go Instinct Nathaniel how do you think how how how do you think Humanity will go in extinct uh um by God burning the Earth but that's technically right yeah well Humanity will Qui we'll still be alive in heaven but well Humanity kind of I mean it really depends on what you mean if you're counting that as Humanity then Humanity will probably never go extinct yeah I guess I guess it depends on what you by Humanity um G to figure out a question to ask you Nathaniel um what everyday activity would be torture if you had to do it for eight hours straight everyday activity would be torture yeah which everyday activity would be a torture if you had to do it for eight hour straight probably take a show an eight hour shower yeah that would be that' be annoying yeah you're brushing your teeth yeah okay here's a good question you're surviving a zombie apocalypse who in the room that you're at right now would you want on your team and why um you thebr I'm gonna have to go with either my dad because he's my dad Chad Harvey because he's a Chad or Andrew Glover because well it just be pretty funny why would it be funny I'd love to watch Andrew fight a [Laughter] zombie well he'd be bigger than most all of them you know he's like what 67 or 6'5 or something brother Andrew's he's probably like 62 or 63 6'3 I'm 63 at least that's the how tall are you yeah he's he's 63 we're talking about you fighting zombies right now he said if I was in a zombie apocalypse who in the room that I'm in I don't trust you if Andrew's telling you no I don't trust it play a basketball game one battle the Giants David versus Andrew Glover basketball game has he ever played basketball Andrew have you ever played basketball you ever played basketball he said before he started preaching he was headed to the NBA that's 12 years old I don't know if I believe that but they true not until all right well I'm gonna hop off here spend some time with the church fam all right cool man see you later see you bye bye that was fun that's cool miss all I miss all those people I might try to make make it to a um depending on how work I might try to make it to one of our brother Shawn Martin's meetings because I believe um this week uh brother Andrew GL brother Wayne Lawson and brother Sean no brother Andrew Glover brother Wayne Lawson and brother um what's the other guy I forgot three different guys are going to be preaching every night um from this week on so I may try to go to that I don't I don't know it's just four hours we shall see but um choices we make what questions you guys have you guys can ask really about anything I bought this game on Amazon called uh hypothetically fun um Josh Bennett That's the other one so Josh Bennett Andre Glover and when LW so um hypothetically fun and it's like a a game where you uh start conversations with people it was only like 12 it was only like $15 on uh on Amazon and it's design to start conversations with in groups it's pretty cool there's different questions like there's uh different categories like silly Ponder I asked Nathaniel the silly ones of course you know in another dimension humans are now pets what would be our treats you can do a single thing without worrying about the consequences what do you do Levi do you want to join and answer some silly questions from this board game you can join if you want that'd be aesome le actually that'd be that'd be perfect we can answer questions from this uh dumb game still here if any or if anyone else wants to join there's like 370 of these um but there's like uh you can do a single thing without worrying about the consequences what do you do what animal would be the the most terrifying with the addition of human arms hi a Sanger what's up welcome to live let's see what is the most useless superpower that is still beneficial in some way um being able to write things on a piece of paper with your mind I guess what's up zoy black welcome to the live how's it going as far as where live is going uh when I was at wi youth at trate I talked to some people and brother I Fontaine is going to be coming live pretty soon here Lord willing um brother keny SLA might be coming on I'm I'm him and I are going to talk about it and but the Jack Duff might be coming on as well so it'll be cool Lord willing what's up Ben Jackson how's it going welcome to the live so brother jacku brother IA and maybe brother Kenny Slack are going to come up live um I'm going to follow up with brother Barry coffee too and uh maybe even brother Paul laain who knows maybe Gideon La whatever else the goal is to have conversations goals to have conversations that is the goal wsg is that I don't know what that means Ben I'm sorry what's good okay well well the lives hopefully hope they're okay I know some I know sometimes they can get a little boring but um I'm working on getting people on these I mean once you do 62 lives there's only so much material that you can have and for you can only go for so long I guess um but I'm going bring people whenever I can as much as I can I'll do my uh I'll do my best um but what do you guys think what what are some ideas that you guys have for the lives things you want me to talk about uh guests that you want me to bring on um because ultimately I'm the one that's going to be messing these people and trying to get a hold of them to bring them on it's really up to you guys while people are thinking of that what's up with the Kevin weeks welcome to the live how's it going as I say brother Jack Duff what's up sister Brian brother Jack Duff um brother and brother I will be coming on pretty soon here Lord willing and I'm talking brother Barry coffee and brother Kenny Slater about it as well so should be pretty cool should be awesome maybe I'll get brother Andrew Glover on sometime too I don't I don't know um maybe even brother Kevin if he wants we could talk about music that'd be cool that's what we're going to talk about that's what I'm going to talk to with a keny about actually that could be awesome I brother Kevin and brother Kenny so brother Kevin if you don't want to come on just you maybe you could come on if I bring on brother Kenny SL as well I don't know pretty sure you probably W know who that is um but that was the point of the uh live tonight or the title of it was choices we make make all kinds of choices and we we decide what we're going to do with our lives what's up sa how's it going choices we make one day sa made a decision to study vent ventriloquism or whatever it's called and then she got better better and better every day and never stopped and now she's really good at it and she performs so it's awesome what's up Elijah Winters how's it going welcome to the live what do you mean by so someone that says I guess what do you mean by choices we make well what I mean by that is we all make choices in our lives they can be choices for good or choices choices for evil and we continue to make choices is based on what we really want you can say one thing and you might do something else you can think well have I read my Bible yet today have I listened to a tab yet today have I prayed other than um what's up Jonathan silent have I prayed other than reading my Bible or or have I prayed other than for a meal today choices we make and a lot of times our minds in our lives we'll just live on autopilot and we'll do whatever feels good in the moment whenever we have a course of action for the rest of our lives but I believe we should and that's a choice we make it's it's it's the New Year New Year's resolutions people everyone's deciding well what am I going to do with the rest of my life or what are my changes for this year what's up up Alysa Stevens how's it going topic of life is choices we make choices we make I mean you can talk all you want about how successful you want to be or where you want to be in life but ultimately where you are is the result of consistent choices that you have made if you're in bad shape it's because you made consistently bad choices if you're in good shape it's because you made consistently good choices and I think a lot of times we have to not lie to ourselves that we are making consistent good choices when we're not choices we make life is about choices so I think you should consider your life and decide what you want to do with it why do why do I play the guitar because when I was 13 I decided I'm going to try to learn to play the guitar by God's grace when I have kids I'm going to try to get them to play some kind of instrument because I think it's the best the best decision one of the best decisions you could make growing up is to play an instrument because you you only get better and um it can be used to a lot of people by God's grace um I put some notes down today while I was in church and I'm going to talk about a few things that I thought about because the point of one of the points of this podcast is what do you mean by to go through commonly spoken things that we say in the message that it's easy that we can say Amen but we maybe not all may not may not always know what exactly we mean by that so I wrote down a few so what do you mean by feed your experience heard someone preach that recently and it's really good but maybe we're wondering what do we mean by feeding our experience one thing I would say is when you go to a camp and you receive the holy ghost or you get a refilling of the Holy Ghost and you feel just amazing after the camp God wants you to stay in fellowship with him why do we feel feel amazing in a camp well for one because there's just so many people praising God and it's easier to when a lot of people are doing it but also because it's actually God moving and it's not rocket science if you wake up eat breakfast and then go to a church service and then go to lunch do some activities with other people that believe the same as you do and then go to church again or then eat supper and then go to church again and then hang out with and then spend time with people that believe just like you do chances are you're going to be on fire for God because because you're consistently spending time with God now in no way do I think in order to maintain and feed your experience you need to spend you know 6 hours a day in service or listening to tapes or something like that but when they say what do you mean by feed your experience I believe that means you should do something every day I believe every mess believer should do something every day simply to spend time with God that is out of their day I believe that you should spend 15 to 30 minutes with God just you and him every day and that doesn't it doesn't count when you just get up and you're praying for your day doesn't count when you go to bed and you're praying as you go to sleep it doesn't count when you're praying for your meals it doesn't I would say it doesn't even count when you go to church because that's anybody can go to church that that's a good thing everyone should do it but we really should be feeding our experience and spending time with God why I when I preach I use uh athletes as examples and maybe some people will say you shouldn't talk about sports and preaching I think you very much should why was Kobe Bryant so good at basketball it's because he woke up at 5: in the morning and then he ate breakfast and he worked out from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and then he rested for 2 hours from 9: to 11:00 and then he worked out again from 11: until 2: p.m. and then he rested ate a meal and then at 4:00 from 4:00 to 7:00 he worked out again and then rested for two hours and then went to sleep and did the same thing over and over and then and did the same thing the next day over and over and over again you know how Michael Phelps has won Gold Medal after gold medal after gold medal and he's won the most gold medals ever you know he never Skips a day in exercise he works out every single day and you could say well why are you talking about that David I'm saying feed your experience if if if an athlete in the world can show us how to feed our uh our our ability we should feed our experience because Michael Phelps and Kobe Bryant are a lot more dedicated to basketball and swimming than a lot of us are dedicated to God and that's true because they spent way more time on it it was their entire life what would happen if we if if if one of us woke up at 5:00 a.m. and then stady and listened to brother brandom tipe from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. took a 2hour break and then listened again from 11:00 a.m. to 2: p.m. and then took a 2hour break then again from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. then took a 2hour break then did the same thing again a lot of things would change but we don't do that we live our lives from from Sensation to sensation me included I mean one of the main things I have to watch out for is that I don't scroll through reals or Tik talks or YouTube shorts or whatever in the world they're called these days or Facebook reals um I have to be careful that I don't do that for 45 minutes straight I have to I have to be careful that when I go to bed my nighttime routine is actually a routine not just sitting on my phone scrolling through reels for for two hours and then going to sleep the world wants to make it all about sensation to sensation to sensation but when we say feed your experience we got to actually spend some time with God some specific time with God just you and God because we can at the end of the day we might feel depressed we might feel lonely might even feel suicidal and we're wondering what's wrong with me and then we check well did I read my Bible yet today did I pray yet today I mean it's easy for us to understand why Kobe Bryant might be missing a basketball shot if he's not practicing Kobe said that he was the greatest player ever and then he only uh played basketball two hours twice a week he wouldn't be the best ever can you see the comparison so it really is up to you us choices we make do you want to keep the same Revival from Camp feed your experience what does that mean spend a lot of time every day with God I don't care what it is I don't care if you're reading your Bible praying listening to a tape whatever it is do something with God that is specifically for the sole purpose of spending time with God because if you don't you will live from church service to church service and camp meeting to camp meeeting and you will live on rations in the greatest battle ever fought how do you know about this David I'm not preaching against anybody or saying anything against anybody I'm saying it about myself I've went through this I need to do better I I wouldn't want everyone to know how many times I've read my Bible within the past 14 days because I need to do better what's up brother Elijah welcome to the live so the world wants us just do go from Sensation to sensation and to make the value of Our Lives how much money can I make and how how much of a great uh naturalistic life can I live or how carnal can I be and that's not value feed your experience what does that mean that means spend time with God consistently what's up brother elah says Hey brother how are you I'm doing great how are you hope you're doing awesome feed your experience now I would would say this you cannot live your life on the high on the spiritual feeling of a high that a church camp or a meeting gives you it's not realistic you will never do that you'll never be that because in order for a high or for a great feeling of service to be valuable you also had to have a low and if we change your mindset and make a choice and say hey I'm not going to allow the devil to talk to me so much it's a choice Elijah says good yes sir just go home from church that's great brother Elijah how is your uh how is your service feed your experience choices we make there choic that we make when I was going on um my dad and I went to pick up a puppy from somewhere in Arkansas and on the way back we wanted to visit the David moris and we made the choice we were going to visit him we're going to spend time with him no matter what now we saw him in the hospital bed we got to spend about 20 minutes with him but it was a choice we made choices we make I made a choice one time time to uh not plug my phone in because I thought it would last all night but it didn't it died I missed my alarm and I was late to work choices we make and I could have blamed everything else but at the end of the day choices we make it's really up to us um but Elijah says it was really good very good service about not giving up well that's great brother Elijah that's awesome so in your new year what are you going to do I think we should all ask ourselves that what am I going to do differently in this new year I I like New Year resolutions and I like like changing things but I also believe in being effective I mean do you want to be oh I made the most I I don't want to brag and say oh well I made the most New Year resolutions I made the most things I said the most things that I'm going to do in this new year like no that's not realistic it's not actually going to happen make a realistic change a realistic I once heard a guy that was a fitness trainer that said he never started telling people go out go and work out five times a week or six times a week he would start with one time a week just for 15 minutes and everyone could do it and then he built his way up so I'd say whatever your resolution is if it's a massive thing if you told yourself if you never worked out last year and you said I'm going to work out five times a week this year don't try to do that at all cut down about two times well that's easy anybody can do that yeah of course but can you do that consistently because I'd rather do two times a week for a year than five times a week for the first two months and then barely do it the rest of the year whatever your choices that you make whatever the resolutions that you want to have and the and the ways that you want to do things this following year make it purpose ful make a choice like this is what I'm going to do because if I and every everyone else that watch and people that are on the social media if I continue to live my life where I go from Instagram real to YouTube real to Facebook real one after another and I spend I I actually I have a group chat with Thomas and some friends where we send clean memes to it I count on one week I sent 100 I sent 176 memes to the chat 176 yeah I did in one week now is that wrong I don't know but I could have spent my time better so choices I make what are you spending your time on I think it should be like a budget we can budget out our money say I have this much money I'm spend it here I think we should do that with our time I have this much time put God into your time and I would say don't make it to where I'm going to put God on my schedule and I'll schedule some time with him and then I'll go back to the rest of my life I wouldn't do that keep God in your thoughts because he I I have a lot to say against someone that says the only only way you should ever talk to God Is by oh dear gracious heavenly father I come to your throne of Mercy I know that I'm just worthless before you Lord but I ask that's true and that's right for a prayer but he also wants to be your friend he also wants you to talk to him directly and say hey God look I feel really depressed that's why I want you to talk talk to him ask for big things say God I don't know what to do what should I do instead of like a lot of times in the message us message kids that were raised in it we know the right things to wear the right things to say the right times to get up and say amen and clap our hands to put on the outward appearance that we're actually praising God when really we're dying inside so be genuine this year and if you want to change something don't try to change everything all at once change something little because if you make that choice to change a little something and do that consistently that's better than making a big change cuz what's better for me in a diet to lose weight intermittent fasting consistently or just don't eat or drink for 5 days intermittent fasting consistently even though the other one will be will be more effective faster not long term though we make decisions based on where will I be a year from now do all that you can for God the Bible says and you shall find me when you search for me with all of your heart F your experience so your what was your experience at Camp you consistently spent time with God and you were around around people that believe like you I'm going give you a big hint if you go home and you don't read your Bible consistently and you only spend time with God at church and you just spend the rest of your free time with your worldly friends you're going to lose a lot of your experience that you had a camp I'm not saying don't spend time with worldly friends but do you know why I don't have a bunch of worldly friends I hang out with all the time because whenever I'm with them eventually I'm going to tell them about the message I'm going to tell them what I believe I'm going to ask them what they believe because it is is the most principal and it is the most important thing by far nothing's even close and so I'm saying be purposeful be straightforward the whole point of this podcast is what do you mean by I believe that we should be able to take a lot I we should be able to take the the doctrines and the principles of this message what's up sister Lauren welcome to live that are preached and be able to put them into simple terms because if you don't Albert Einstein said if you don't understand something if you can't explain something simply you don't understand it well enough I believe that every message kid let's say eight uh any kid that's not married should be able to take the message doctrines and explain them simply not in some big deep thing that's like super intellectual but simply because if I asked for instance random kid that's in the message who are the members of the Justice League and who are the me members of The Avengers and they can answer but then I ask for instance um how is Jesus not his own father except he was God and they can't really give an answer that's a problem because the like the the Marvel and the DC those are stories those are literature those are things that that uh tell stories of good versus evil and give a value and entertainment the original story was Jesus dying for our sins that was the original that was what God created and a lot of these stories are based off of his good versus evil sacrifices made and stuff like that so I believe we should know about the message good afternoon sir what's up Ian I believe we should know about it I believe we should know the the ins and outs of it we should know we should be should say yeah I've listened to the church age book like how many of us can truly say yeah I've listened to every uh tape brother brandom ever preached or at least all the tapes he preached in let's say 60 to 65 but can but if you can say you haven't listened to every sermon brother the brandham ever preached but you can say that you've watched every Marvel movie ever made that's a problem who are you talking about me I haven't watched all of them but I need to do better but the the world is it's so appealing and it's so easy just to watch a show or to watch a movie in instead of reading a Bible listening to a tape because you know the the they can there can be a big debate like people ask like what is your position on the tape on the tape only movement and the preaching movement my position is don't just listen to tapes at home and don't just listen to tapes at church listen to tapes out all the all the places in church if they play them if they don't whatever that's really up to the pastor who it doesn't really matter to me she preach the message um but whether you listen to them in church at your home in your car I don't care where you listen to them the point is listen to them and I think also we should listen to sermons preached by message preachers as well brother Ron Spencer I believe that every message believer should listen to brother Ron Spencer preach and his testimony I believe every message believer should listen to um brother Barry coffee or brother uh the B coffee son brother Steve coffee or brother Andrew Glover it'll change your life they say oh I only need the tapes well would you tell Paul that Paul's like yeah go listen to Timothy or go listen to barabus or go listen to uh ananas or James or Peter or James or John Jesus didn't say hey go and take my writing just read them Don't Preach at all he said go preach the message to the people his 12 disciples I think we should listen to all of them and be purposeful about it so choices we make but why did I like when I was about 18 I went from about 243 lbs to 2113 PBS because of did intermittent fasting for about two months and then the any desserts I'd wake up I'd work around from like 11: to 8: I'm going say my my schedule was like 12:30 to 9: or 11:30 to 8 and like 1 one day a week I work like 10:30 to 6 or something like that and or 10 to 6:30 or something like that and and uh I was stand at 6:30 and I would only eat once a day so I'd eat maybe around 6:00 or 7 until I was about 80% full and i' stop after 2 months of doing that I lost 30 pounds by God's grace now how did I go from 213 when I was 18 to about 270 when I was um what's up brother shell got about you how did I go from 213 to 270 from when I was uh 20 was I 22 uh 23 was I 23 22 when I was 22 because I consistently made bad choices with food I went to Taco Bell at 3:00 a.m. a whole bunch that's why choices we make feed your experience if we can understand that in the natural how much easier should it be in the in the spiritual you want to be good at basketball practice you want to be good at fighting temptation and Devils practice listen to the tapes read your Bible it's easy it's not rocket science what's up sister sarth PR welcome to the live and by God's grace now why am I down from 250 to or two from 270 to 250 because I made consistently good choices with food and I'm working on it and I exercise it by tennis twice a week for like three and a half hours each time so make good choices feed your experience spend time with God that is the value of it that has been my goal with these lives is to Define what's not defined in the message not not not that it's not defined but that there's certain parts of it that aren't talked about very much not that it's wrong that they don't talk about it but that for instance my next point is look for character a lot of times what's preached is look for character not Beauty and that is important but if you're not I'm G to make a statement people may hate me for this but I believe it with all my heart and soul if you're not attracted to the person you're dating don't marry them because character is number one of course but you know why your mom liked your dad because she thought he was good-looking he liked her because he thought she was pretty and that's true the Bible says marriage is Honorable among all and the bed undefiled nevertheless it's not for good for man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid fornication let a man have his own [Music] wife but the bandham said what is adultery he say it's the right act perverted what is fornication he says the right act perverted so when you're looking for a wife yes look for character but if she's not if you don't think she's pretty I don't think you should marry her and if a girl doesn't think her husband is good-look she shouldn't marry him now is that number the number one most important thing no but it is important it's like this um you want to drive a car do you need a good engine and transmission yes without that you won't be able to drive without care character you can't you should marry wife but if the car looks nice and is comfortable then it's better cuz like if it looks just terrible on the outside and it's not comfortable on the inside the seats are all ripped and all that it doesn't matter how good the engine transmission is you don't want that car but if it looks real pretty on the outside and it's also really pretty on the inside and it has a great engine and transmission then you will want to keep that car if you're not sexually attracted to your girlfriend or your boyfriend don't marry them because we preach about character a lot but you should also be attracted to him attracted to him is wrong that's not wrong it's part of life it is human instinct it is straightforward I've never seen someone that preaches look for character with a wife that wasn't pretty it's important but it's not number one they're interconnected character is the most important but also there's other part too that is very important it is people tried to bait me into talking about fat people by saying what do you think about fat people and I just said well what I not fat being fat isn't the problem it's the symptom of the real problem why did I blue ups and get so heavy was because I made consistant bad unhealthy choices choices we make so if you go after just a sex Queen that's that shows what you want if you go after modern rickon that shows what you want but if you go after someone with character that shows what you really desire I may mistakes in my life but we do our best what's up sister God bless you welcome to the live so yes look for character but also if you don't think your if you don't think your boyfriend's good-looking you don't think your girlfriend's pretty don't marry them because it's a disservice to your to your wife because that's important it is it's important care what anybody says it is important it is not meaningless the only important important thing is not character character is the number one important but it's interlined with the other parts too it is there you go I mean the whole that's what I wanted to say is because like we we can if it'd be like this if I preached against the Trinity all the time but I never preached against the Oneness that's not balanced if I preach all the time and say believing in three Gods is wrong believing in three Gods is wrong the Trinity is wrong but I never take it the other way and say hey it's wrong to say Jesus was his own father then I'm not balanced I'm not doing it correctly because there are two no matter how thin you slice a piece of bread there are always two sides to it there's two ends to it the yin and the Yang the way that they go forward you can have your side that wants to fight and get really violent really fast but that doesn't mean anything unless you also have the ability to keep it sheathed one of the definitions I believe Jordan Peterson said it was um the meek shall in heart the Earth being Meek doesn't mean you're quiet all the time and that you never can fight or you never you're just to push over no it means having the ability to fight and having a sword but keeping it sheathed like Jordan Pier a lot of love what he says I agree with now I don't agree that he can't say that he believes in God but still a lot of what he says is wisdom because all good things come from God wisdom is from God what's up Grant welcome to live so when he said um you should make yourself into a monster and then have the ability to tame it you could take that and say that I don't believe in that it's not what they meant what do you mean by make yourself into a monster what I think he means is is make yourself really effective I think every guy should learn some form of martial arts to be good at hand toand fighting just in case you need to defend your wife or something like that or get a learn's permit or not a learn's permit a uh a handgun permit have a gun on you all the time and learn how to use it because if you don't when s when uh things happen which they inevitably do you won't be able to protect those that you love every guy should know some form of martial arts and he should also have the ability to be subtle and to be wise in social situations I believe that is correct Jesus was a complete person he was very wise in the way that he dealt with people socially so I think that if we're going to talk about finding a wife we should talk about both parts of it finding one with character and also finding one you think is pretty so beauty and brains or a great heart because brother brandham said one time I pulled up here you say David that's not in the message well the Bible says the marriage is Honorable among all and the bed undefiled and brother brandom said see if I can pull this up here brother brandham said in Hebrews chapter 7 number two he says some little old girl here not long ago this ain't a joke cuz I don't mean to tell it as a joke but the people knows that this is no place a joke but a little little girl here she there was fine boys here Christian boys a long time ago when I was pastoring here we used to have young men's classes and I'd speak to the young women on Sunday afternoon about sex and things then the next Sunday afternoon speak to the young men and try to get those things curbed out there's two sides to it if we only preach about character and we only say look for character and doesn't matter what the guy looks like it doesn't matter what the girl looks like ever not in any circumstance the only thing you need to look for is character and you and you shouldn't even think about whether or not they're pretty or whether or not they're good-looking that's wrong it's wrong are you saying's doing that no I'm just saying it's wrong to do that specific thing if all I ever do is preach against the Trinity I'm not balanced you need to preach against the other side because is it wrong to say that there are three Gods yes but is it wrong to say that Jesus was his own father also wrong yes there's two sides to it no matter how thing you slice it so that's what do you mean we're taking common things that we say and putting them into the context of what do you mean by that because we say things so much but we never really Define what we mean by them into words be beyond the uh cliche words feed your experience that's a good thing what does that mean and why does it mean that and why is it important look for character what does that mean and why is that important I've heard heard a phrase said never if you're at a camp and they're saying we and they said at a camp I was that one time that said we want we're so happy and Lord we pray that these young kids would be freed never to be bound again and that does not mean you'll never fail God again and you'll never fall again it means never be bound again so bound definition I wonder what that means the definition of bound is this a different word I need tied in bonds abound prisoner so you're tied in bonds so I think after you go to a camp and you get home you make mistakes say wants to get you Bound in your mistakes and think oh I'm just the worst person ever but never to be bound again again because you'll make mistakes when you go home but keep on serving God keep in your post of Duty keep on reading your Bible keep on praying because you never get to a point where you just never feel God again what do you mean by these things if you can't really if if if you're a message kid or message adult or anybody in the message you're claiming to say we're in the greatest message ever why what do you mean by the greatest message ever why is this message the greatest ever why do we need brother brandham why do we still need the Bible why do we need a message sent from God why because it's e easy to say yes we're in the greatest message ever and yes every word brother the said was thus say Lord or whatever the next uh the next message saying is but what what does it mean why does it mean something because so because the saying is Hard Times create strong men strong men create hard time create weak men weak men create hard times and being strong message sometimes if you don't care if if a kids if we're not careful as message kids we'll become weak in this word you want know if something if I have a bunch of people on and we're just talk we're just making jokes and we're talking about drama or LeBron versus Jordan I might have 75 to 100 viewers but if I bring brother Trevor Eman on and I'd have him talk about the message of the hour I'm lucky to get 10 if I brought someone on made this live all about drama I'd have 100 viewers but that's not what I'm going to do what's up sister Melissa weeks welcome to live when we we say the message brought the opening of the word do you even know what that means what does it mean oh not everyone was raised at the p as a pastor as their father well yeah but we've all heard great preaching you have a phone all of us have a phone I guilty too I I last week I spent an average of two and a half hours a day on Instagram I need to work on me I need to get better and and the point of this life is choices we make and being honest with yourself hey I have a problem and I need to improve and the way that I can fix that is not deleting Instagram and never using it again because I'll just reinstall and use it again it it's spending extra time with God it's a lot separate time to spend time with God when I say what are the Seven Seals do you even do we even know what those do you even know what those are do you know why they had had to be revealed do you know what the seven seal was and why it was revealed if I asked you what are the church ages can you tell me what they are if I ask you what's the ad adoption of sons can you tell me that or serpent seed what is that and can you explain it by the Bible I believe we all should be able to do that but if I if you can't answer what if I can't answer what those things are but I can tell you every member of the Avengers and the Justice League and um every cool new movie that came out there's something wrong you are those movies wrong I don't know what you mean by wrong I don't think they can send you to hell but you know what Satan wants I believe that if s can't get us to not receive the Holy Ghost and not you know be baptized all that the next best thing is to you know if I were the devil If I Were the Devil I would let people become saved of course let them go to a camp and get the Holy Ghost and then they can receive they get the Holy Ghost you baptized with the Holy Ghost and their soul or Spirit whatever and then I'll make them feel so comfortable and I'll tell them doesn't matter how much or how little amount of time you spent with God you were you're saved you were no more lost than God himself could be lost you're in the greatest message ever so you can just sit at home scrolling through reals and spending all your time on social media watching movies and TV shows and hunting and fishing all the time and never dedicating any time to God then you'll be just fine because you have the Holy Ghost so you could be no more lost than God himself could be lost you don't need to still spend time with God that's what I would do if I was the devil and that's what he does is to get us to live on rations to get worth the only time we ever spend time with God is at church and I'm not preaching any I'm preaching as myself here say things I need to work on this stuff you think you wonder like how does brother how do these preachers have such inspiration to preach against the problems people are going through it's not because we're perfect and we're noticing the faults of others it's because we're going through hard things we're going through struggles we can put if I can take these struggles that I'm going through and try to turn it into a platform and a way that can help someone that is the intention of these lives is to take things that we say in the message and we take for granted and put them into a simple straightforward uh doable workload or doable uh thing I guess what do you mean by the message January 19th Lord willing brother Trevor Ean will come on the live and he will explain to us what the message is why we needed it and why we believe it by the Bible I believe we should be able to prove the message we should be able to prove that the Braham as a prophet with scriptures other than Malachi 4 and 5-6 and Revelations 10 7 I had several kids um months ago that want to join live and I said tell me and the test that I would do is to see if they were just goofing off or if they were actually serious and the test was tell me why you think brother Brandon was a Prophet by telling by by doing something other than quoting Malachi 4:5 or Revelation 10:7 some of them could do it some of them couldn't and those are the main scriptures yes but those aren't the only scriptures and those not the only reasons this message is not just it's not an intellectual thing it's a message of power these things matter hope you guys have enjoyed this live I've certainly enjoyed it but I'm going to end it here um I'll read this quote Again by Brother Bram then I'll end it in Redeemer Redemption 1955 brother brandham said that's where every man has to come to in life sometime is make a decision you have to make a choice you had to make a choice who is going to be your wife you had to there is to be decisions and choices made in life and this may be the night that you'll have your final call to make your choice whom you're going to serve maybe your final time laying here Dad on the stretcher you mother over there young lady maybe your final time to make your choice another place brother the B said the decisions you make now will impact where you will be in 5 years from now you know if you uh put $22 a day aside every day for this year if you start putting 22 bucks a day into an account automatically you would have um let's do bring out a [ __ ] believe it's over 8 Grand saved up but let me let me check so 22 bucks times 365 days yep you would have 8,000 and 8,3 so if you put 22 bucks a day aside every day you would have 8,030 bucks and if you put put aside 22 minutes a day let's say for God by the end of the day you have 8,030 minutes spent with God but if you don't you won't choices we make so New Year's resolution make a choice to change and not a drastic change a small change and you will keep it all well God bless you guys thanks for being on I hope you guys enjoyed it God bless