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Date:     2024-01-22
Title:    "What do you mean by" #0063
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Church:   What Do You Mean By
Type:     Church Service
Duration: 1h 15m
Language: English
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYPu0h4bWWE
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do you mean by number 63 where I go through some knock on live questions that came in and I'd like to talk about a little bit tonight because I always try to have a a topic or something to talk about rather and tonight I want to talk about who is allowed to have opinions and qualified to say things cuz some something that I hear an awful lot from people is oh I'm not qualified to talk about that I can't talk about that I I don't I don't know and I think that's dumb in my opinion what's up F Brian how's it going so um hopefully everybody's had an amazing day I will do my best to go on as I can need to get a haircut which is why I can only make it look like this with water um but thanks to the people live that tried to get me to get a beard because it's kind of cool and it's cheaper too cuz I don't have to constantly pay for uh razors and things like that but what do you mean by number 63 I've done 63 of these I have to contact by the IGA Fontaine by the Jack Duff so we shall see but I'll do my best all that I can do anyway hopefully everybody's having a uh a ton of fun and um hope everybody is having a great day um I'm going to pray and then I'll go right into these questions anybody can ask any questions they'd like um the thing that keeps these going is people asking questions what's up Lillian how's it going welcome to the live show I'm going to pray and I'll get right into it all right um de gracious heavenly father thank you for this night thank you for the lives and the good things that's came from them thank you for the criticism from people thank you for all of Lord I ask that you please be with me as I do this live be with the people attending it help all to be a u an edifying time for everyone help it to be something that's good on a Friday night and be with those at the meetings in um Virginia and all over the world Lord ask good all these things in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen okay so hello welcome to the live I'll do my best to do all that I can do I'm honored that you guys would even want to be here at all so questions that came to the live someone asked who is the coolest kid I know now I have no idea who that would be the coolest kid I know it depends on what do you mean by cool I guess um cool I don't know the coolest kid I know I'm not sure probably my brother Thomas he is like awesome he's got a ton of guns pocket knives and World War I memorabilia and things like that he's got a A Kar from Spanish American or the Spanish Civil War super cool super awesome guy probably the coolest kid I know um probably be the coolest kid I guess it depend on how you define cool um cuz like for instance Thomas and His rooms are entirely different mine is all technology his is all um weapons and War it's pretty interesting comparing them I guess what's up L Pabo I have no idea who you are but hello welcome to live Logan Boer hello welcome welcome hope everybody's having an amazing day um so coolest kid I know is probably my brother um so let's see another question what is your biggest fear hello and I am Morris welcome to the live if I'm not mistaken your dad is brother Matt Morris right um what is my biggest fear my biggest fear I'd say is definitely being misunderstood and yeah being misunderstood because a lot of times people misunderstand me they think I'm whatever so my biggest fear being being would be being misunderstood what's up Alyssa welcome to live how's it going says the 63rd episode of this that I have done so I will certainly do my best my biggest fear is being misunderstood people have opinions about me and think certain things of me and don't want to tell me people have a bit of uh talking about me behind my back which is interesting but definitely my biggest fear be being misunderstood and also that um someone not making a Rapture would be due to me not steuding up enough or something like that before I would preach a sermon what's up Madison sannah Evan gner hello uh whatever questions you guys would like to ask I'm all for it um the thing that keeps these things going as questions we do our best to answer what's up Seth King how's it going welcome to the live marai Destiny Joel hello welcome to the live so my biggest fear is being misunderstood um let's see what else would it be um not being able to fix something that's important to me I guess that'd be another one hello Patrick Sanger and JJ welcome to the live let's see someone asked maybe you can explain this but what is the spoken word I've heard it all my life but still don't understand what it is is it different from the written word well I'm not super studied up on this but I can look up what brother Brown said about it because there's different ways of defining it and there's different ways of answering there's always different ways of answering any question that's ever asked I can look what brother the B said I got another question that came in I'll be right back someone ask for thoughts on the show stranger things I don't know I'm not sure what they mean by that question do they want to know what I think of it or if I've seen it or or if um it's a good show to watch or what I mean by good show you can get into some really big specifics on it I guess I don't know let's say spoken word r with spoken word 119 times because there's different ways of answering a question I can give you just a straight opinion or I can try to figure out what brother brandham said but I want to do things correctly there's a Spoke there's the aspect of defining Spoken Word by when Jesus by when you know God creates everything by a spoken word or there's the um Revelation 10:7 it says but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall be com to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he had declared unto his servants the prophets the key word there being voice so today in this age the spoken word was the voice of over the brandom to this age the spoken word there's also there's just different ways of defining it you could interchangeably say it with the written word and the spoken word but the B said both of it's sin to doubt either of those so I guess it just it just it just uh depends I guess it just depends let me see what bom said later on in the quotes I wonder what he said what was the last time I mentioned it I would ask your pastor for more spefic specifics I don't know I don't know spe specifics of it Hello Elijah winners hello ashin how are you guys doing back to this here there we go let me see if I have other questions that came in all right nothing else cool all right someone else asked Are You country or city probably City but not like most people cuz I live in a very small town and a mile outside of my uh outside of my house is a country so I'm not pure City but I don't like all the stores I want within a mile of me so I probably I'm probably more um more city than I am country I've never went mud go I've never drove a truck in the mud or something strange like that that people in the South do so I don't I don't know but I love shooting guns and I'll vote for Trump when I can um but yeah what's up brother Joel and sister Lori how are you guys doing brother Joel was my counselor at Louisiana Camp hopefully you guys are doing well hope you guys are doing good um someone let's see you're missing the life then oh well maybe I am maybe I am who knows so one thing I wanted to get into tonight is one thing that's always bothered me is when people tell me oh I can't talk about that I don't feel qualified to talk about that and then you know I can ask well what do you mean by qualified they say oh well you have to be qualified to talk about a certain certain subject and brother Joel says hello doing good here well that's great brother Joel and sister Lori that's great God bless you guys so who is allowed to have opinions or qualifi to say things well I don't think there's you know someone ask me well what's my opinion on the godhead I don't have one I may have my certain way of talking about it but I do my best not to have opinions in the message whatever brother brandom said that's what I'm going to believe whatever the Bible says that's what I'm going to believe and that's it basically what's up Levi Von how's it going welcome to live so you know who is allowed to have an opinion or a say in anything I don't I don't know um but I definitely don't believe that is true to you know I've had people that don't want to come on the podcast because they say oh well um hold on one second great [Music] um I'm going to get some water I'll be right back hey guys sorry I'm here I didn't go anywhere what's up Mitch alerson welcome to the live hope you guys are doing well I just needed some water some people tell me oh well I don't what is that crickets oh wonderful um someone says oh well I don't feel qualified to talk about that I wonder sometimes if that's because they really believe that or if because they just don't know anything about it that's what I wonder about so if you say oh I don't feel qualified to talk about stuff so I don't want to come on the live what do you mean by that do you think that your pastor is more qualified than you are cuz yes that's kind that is true partly but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to talk about the word of God brother Bram said any son or daughter of God takes the word of God on their lips it's the same as deity speaking and a man fully surrendered to God it is is omnipotent so this message is not just preachers preachers are not just the only the only preachers and pastors and all that are not the only ones that are supposed to know about doct be able to talk about it this podcast is meant for people to talk about the things that matter what's up um brother Shelly is it the dad that joins or is it the sun I have no idea Benjamin sh that's the Sun from one song later to another God bless you brother I salute you what's up Benjamin Browning Brown welcome to the live how's it going Thomas cross hello so what am I talking about who is allowed to have opinions or qualified to say things in my opinion there's there are exceptions when it comes to like you know women correcting men they older them or stuff like that but like in a public podcast I don't believe anyone or any guy should have any problem with coming on and talking about the word of God oh people might use what I say against it or against what I say well then why not people have done that with me and they've showed me where I was wrong and what I do I apologized and I said I was wrong and you know what it didn't actually kill me to say I was wrong and then move along with my life so I believe it is wrong to say oh I can't talk about this I'm not qualified it's something different to say oh I'm I can't talk about this because I don't know that much about it or because I'm not as good as someone else but you can make that argument any with anything oh well I'm not I I can't post my guitar playing or my piano playing because I'm not as good as Tommy Emanuel or Yuma well yeah but you can where where are you going to stop with that argument in my opinion people not wanting to talk about the things of God it's just an excuse not to want to because they can say oh well I'm happy to talk about basketball or or uh football or you know how to get a girl to like you but I won't talk about the things of the message and the doctrines of the message what cuz like people might take what you're saying use against you what do you mean by that I'm I'd be curious of the actual Logistics of a situation where someone said you said this on a podcast and I think you're wrong because of this quote of the scripture why why would you care why this message is 100% thus sayeth the Lord and I don't believe any man should have any fear to say what he thinks is right why because if I say something and someone shows me a quote or I'm wrong will it hurt my ego yeah but I'm going to say I was wrong I'll do all that I can all that I can that's just the way that I'll do it and uh sorry people texting me but I believe that we should talk about the word of God and mean it and not be afraid of what people uh think of what we're going to say or not going to say or anything like that that's why people texting me asking me something I'll putay it back so I think it's completely wrong to say oh I'm not qualified so I can't talk about relationships or I'm not qualified I can't talk about the word of God just it's a copout in my opinion do I know all about everything no I don't but it's a podcast we talk on a podcast and the goal is to bring familiarity and to bring attention to the things that we just don't talk about for instance a lot of times it's preached look for character when you find a wife but no one talks about um look for a girl that you also think is Prett because it's just not talked about or it's talked about oh we live we we believe in the greatest message ever hit the face of the planet and we have the greatest pre and we have the the greatest tapes and no one ever and you know they do preach about it but sometimes it brings out like for instance a great Preacher Brother Andrew Glover he's an amazing preacher I think one of the best preachers in the world maybe ever now if I brought him on the podcast he's not going to be the same person that he is when he preaches he is the same person but but a different side of him will come out that no one gets to see and we'll you know talk about these things that matter the same thing with anyone else and any other thing to bring out value and to talk to people to respond to them and all these different things know I had a thought and I I'll be I'll just say it in your life life is a series of communication communication with parents with your friends with your perspective mates with your co-workers life is communication and in my opinion all life is sales you're either buying something or you're selling something and I have a question you we everyone should ask themselves do I want to be right or do I want to be effective do I want to be right or do I want to be effective you can be right all the time sure but you won't be effective what is your goal and discussion what's up Joseph how's it going God bless you Joseph Anda in any discussion there's two sides to it and you're discussing something and I believe that we should figure out what do we want out of it do we want to be right or do we want to be effective so what's the goal I'm trying to convince someone of something or I'm trying to change someone's mind maybe about a girl wearing pants or a guy wearing shorts or whatever I'm not going to tell them they're a loser I'm going to talk to them gracefully and uh subtly and wisely but I'm not going to I'm not going to uh just let them do whatever they want I believe that we should be try to be effective what's up Jeremiah cockman welcome to the live so you ask yourself this question do you want to be right or do you want to be effective because it's easy just to take the side of oh I'm right all the time and how do I know about this is because I have to keep myself from doing this but do you want to be right or do you want to be effective it's up to you do you want to tell everyone else not to be a bully or not to be this or that but be the person to always say they're wrong let's see Ivan rler asks or says with a wife it's do you want to be right or do you want to be happy be right you want to be happy well it depends what you mean by right because you know when we're growing up and when we're children we tend to think oh it's just a stupid argument I'm always right when you can need to recognize there's a bigger game being played in every social interaction you have and in every part of life there is a bigger game being played and I believe life is about recognizing the bigger game recognizing how to play it how to win it and how to in how to continue winning at it what is the meaning of life I think one of the meanings of life is find what your game is in life of course find Jesus number one and Define what you want out of life do you want to be in great shape do you want to make a bunch of money do you want to get married and have kids do you want to Career do you want to travel the world do you want to be a preacher do you want to be a singer do you want to be a songer do you want to be a a musician do you want to be a loser do you do you want to go to the Army do you want to go to the Marines Marines do you want to go to uh the Air Force do you want to be a plumber a doctor a lawyer an engineer an architect what do you want I believe that we should Define that in our minds and then if you really mean it do everything we can to do it to to to to obtain it if I could preach a sermon I'd preach a sermon on being dormant because if Satan can't get us to not go to church or to not get the Holy Ghost he'll try to get us to big dormant we have a testimony of we went to uh what's up Julie welcome to the live what's up Luke Jeremiah s will do everything he can to get us to a place where what's up sister lilan welcome to life s will do everything you can to make us to be stagnant to get us to be idle I once preached this sermon called the danger of idle time and the power of a madeup mind you have to make up your mind to what you are going to do what's up brother James Cinnabon welcome to the live how's it going you want like friend instance I heard a friend say oh I want to be more courageous that's what I really need well God's not just going to give it to you he's going to give you opportunities to be courageous you do not need to feel courageous in order to be courageous you do not need to feel confident in order to be confident what's up sophy welcome to the live so no matter what you're doing decide do you want to be right or do you want to be effective because it's easy to be right how do I know this because I battle this and I need to get better at it but if I I want to really change someone's mind because I once ask someone the question of how do you change someone's mind and I would say a way of doing that is no matter how terribly they treat you no matter how mean they are to you show nothing but love to them and go the extra mile to be really really really nice to them and whenever they disagree with you instead of saying you're wrong you're wrong you say that's interesting so and so golly I really got to put thought into it but my my f my pastor preached um the other day on the world is up a world turned upside down because in the world every argument that's ever had each side doesn't listen to the other they just think of what they're going to say next and there is no such thing as trying to find a compromise it's just like either you're all the way wrong and I'm all the way right EI either you're wrong or I'm just going to fight you physically or whatever else but be effective I think we should all have like I don't like Andrew Tate very much I don't like what he stand for I respect him in some areas but not many but I do like what he said he said if you really don't can't take a he said what you really should do is take a look back on your life and think what am I doing with my life and how am I doing it and am I doing it with the most effective technique I can and if I am great if I'm not I need to change it or I need to stop lying to myself and I agree with him whatever you're doing do your best if you're going to be a loser be the best loser there ever was if you're going to be a winner win whenever I rais my kids I'm not I do not believe it all in the nonsense of oh well every child is a winner and it's not about winning it's about having fun yeah you know who says that people who lose I have never met anyone who was good at sports meaning that they won consistently who said it isn't about winning it's about having fun what a load of garbage sports are about winning life is about winning and the only people that say oh it's not about winning are the people who lose my kids aren't going to be losers they're going to be winners and also you got recognize what is winning in sports it's very easy there the scoreboard or whatever else but in life it's not always being right sometimes it's in being patient sometimes it's in saying you know what so and so maybe you're right I don't know I'm not sted up on this would you give me some time to pray about that and think about it it would blow people's minds If instead of every time anyone ever thinks you're wrong about something or you think someone else is wrong then you just like bicker at each other you think think you know what Dad that's interesting you know what Mom you know what sister you know what brother you know what cousin you know what person that's really interesting would you give me a few days to think about that and pray about that cuz maybe I'm wrong and it wouldn't actually kill you or if you're discussing something with someone it wouldn't actually kill you to say you know what that's a really good point maybe I could consider that brother brandham said I'd rather be wrong in my Doctrine and right in my spirit than to be right in my Doctrine or wrong in my spirit it doesn't matter how right you are if you're a bully it doesn't matter how right you are if you're not effective you got to be effective in this life um Ivan R says I'm sitting at a store in town while I be joining tonight or not not to be pushing you're fine Ivan um check your upload speed and see how fast it is um let me Google how fast let's see how fast should my upload speed before Instagram live okay all right you should be able to let's see okay if you're getting 20 to 25 megabytes a second upload speed then you can join Ian but anything 10 or below you can't join because it's just not usable just messes up the whole thing not that I I would love to have you on but it just won't work if it's anything less than uh I'd say 20 megabytes a second upload speed what's up sister Caitlyn Barett welcome to the live how you doing so the question tonight that I've asked is two questions who has the right to have opinions about the message or qualified to say things and do you want to be right or do you want to be effective arguments with siblings do you want to be right or do you want to be effective cuz it's easy just to argue the point but if you can recognize the bigger game being played you can win and let's see Kaylin says good how is you I'm great kayin thank you for asking recognize the bigger game that's what you really should do I says Ivan says well then I have five sorry Ian that won't work sorry love to have you on that cuz like I have you know 300 upload speed here but um what do you want out of life it's easy to be the person that's right all the time oh who are you to say that I'm the guy that's done that my whole life or had to try to not do that my whole life what do you want out life figure it out and then do your best to get it that's what I think it's a strange thing to say but you know I've had people say ask like oh do you witness to your worldly friends oh well I just live a life and I uh I just I just set it forth an example I wonder if we're saying that because that's what we mean or if really what we mean is we don't know how to witness because a lot of people assume that the witnessing is telling people all about the message there's a saying we have in sales it's telling isn't selling telling someone about the message is not going to sell it to them living it is and asking questions is you can live it and they'll ask you about it maybe show them a tape but you can also ask them questions if I want you to buy the new phone I can tell you about the Galaxy s24 Ultra coming out the 200 megapixel camera the 100 times Zoom 12 GB of ddr5 RAM and the snaptrack Snapdragon 8 gen 3 processor is going to have with probably ddr5 or ddr6 Ram no one at all other than the Nerds on this chat know what I just said but if I wanted to sell you on new Galaxy s24 Ultra that's not how I would do it I would ask you questions because you could be thinking about uh beach balls on the beach or playing volleyball while I was telling you about those specs but if I said hey what kind of hey how are you doing today you'd say well I'm good and then I'd say what kind of phone do you have oh well I have this old Galaxy sa oh how long have you had it how do you like it what are your pictures like what do you do when your phone gets really hot when you're charging it or how long does your battery last or uh how much space do you have on your phone or what do you do when you're out of storage those are questions related to pain points what are you doing talking about that sales stuff David and when you're trying to witness to someone and you want to be effective don't tell them all about how amazing the messages that's one part of it but begin it with a question with a friend you ask them a question you say hey where do you go to church where do you go to church what do you believe do you believe that religion is just a random thing that doesn't matter or do you what do you think is more important a relationship ship or religion you will be more effective witnessing by having the other person talk I'd say a good 60 to 80% of the time then you would if you talked 60 to 80% of the time because I think you can talk pretty effectively and you can really sell it and make your toneal perfect in the way that you say something you know I was actually at a I was actually listening to a guy called um Charisma Matrix there's a Charisma on command on YouTube than this Charisma Matrix and the guy said that there was a social experiment where there was a guy sitting at a table and he had a box in front of him or a box drawn out on the ground with chalk and when people were walking by it was like a social experiment where he said hey get out of my box get out of my box get out of my box please get out of my box and no one knew what he was saying and he was pointing at the Box the Box Drew in the ground but they walked right through it they didn't care so when he was saying with that tone not like that get out of my box and then when he changed his tonality to actually something that will make something happened he said hey get out of my box get out of my box people walked around the box that he had drawn on the on the pavement or on the uh concrete ground they walked around the box when he said hey get out of my box and so when I was at Chipotle uh before in youth treat I wanted them to add another serving of meat because triple meat why not um and I said hey can you add carne aada to the meat to the uh Bowl please I didn't know that you guys had carneada and they're like what and it said can you add carneada to my thing please right there and they immediately did it why because that is a technique it's a social thing and in a social situation people aren't listening to you say deepen your voice and say things directly but when it comes to the message and when we're trying to be successful what I just did is I showed you the example of a of a technique you can use in order to be successful in communication but when it comes to witnessing the message I believe that the most effective way there are two things living the message and asking questions asking leading questions if I ask you if I ask you the question of do you think religion is right or not you can say yes or no but if I say what do you think of religion versus a relationship or if I ask should you have a relationship what do you think is more important relationship or religion or if I ask what do you think about relationship ship versus religion it's an open-ended question that's witnessing you get them talking because you can't witness to someone unless you know where they're at I can't I I can't sell you the new s24 Ultra when it comes out in a couple months unless I know what phone you have how long you've had it what carry you have how much you PID how much you pay every month um how many people you have in the account whether or not you have insurance what phone case you have how long you've had that phone case what charge you you use what you use your phone for how much storage you have on your phone what your name is where you're from if I don't know all of those things I can't sell you the new phone not if you don't know where someone's at with with the message you can't really sell it to them you know what the easiest possible thing of doing is never mentioning the message to the to your worldly friends ever oh I just love it that can be the right answer sometimes but I think a lot of times it's just an excuse because you actually don't know what you believe that's what I think is that always the case no but sometimes it is I believe that if you can't tell me why brother brandham is a prophet with uh with something other than Malachi 4:5 and Revelation 10:7 you're not where you should be with God maybe you should be able to tell me why other than the cliche easy answer if Satan can't get us to not believe the message he'll get us to be Idol within the message he'll get us to be lukewarm that's what he wants us to be lukewarm to act like we really actually don't care about all these different doctrines yeah we're in the greatest message ever but you know doesn't matter best message ever we actually don't need to steady or anything because you know best message of all time we keep be no more lost than God himself is lost great and what happens is we just live carnal lives like the rest of the world the only difference between them and us is that we uh we go to church twice a week and we dress modestly I would wonder about the you know the gentleman of the message do we believe the message because we believe it or do we believe it because our parents will be pleased and we get free rent same for girls so do you want to be right or do you want to be effective you can be as right as you want but knowledge will never beat wisdom being effective is more important than being right what do you want you want to just be right all the time you won't get anywhere you going to be a stickler you won't get anywhere but I want to be effective that's what I want with life and as far as who is allowed to have opinions or qualified to say things in the message everybody is as long as it lines up with the message in the Bible it's true and I think that even if someone fears that what they're saying isn't right or if they say oh I need more courage I need more confidence I don't have confidence like you do David you guys think I just I I came out of the womb like this no I don't even think I'm that confident I Am Not Great by God's grace I've just I've literally been in sales for almost 5 years I've worked with the public my whole life I've had over a 100,000 different social interactions I've done this is the 63rd live I've done number 63 which means I put over I put almost I've done almost 200 hours of these lives probably something like that so it's up to you what do you want out of life what do you want because if you the person always tries to be right all the time you won't really get anywhere it's not going to be effective if you feel depressed what if you tell me oh David I feel depressed what should I do clean your room make it beautiful make it amazing like I am about 6 70% 75% of the way CLE done clean my room and I didn't just clean my room I reorganized everything I'm going to make it as amazing as I can we were in a war 24/7 and the real war wasn't deciding whether or not to get baptized get the Holy Ghost the real war is what happens after you decide that that's the real war the real war is to turn us into a bunch of social media addicts that don't really ever study the word of God the way that we're supposed to that's the real thing the real war is to get us to be stagnant and get us to abandon every standard where we ever taught to make the value of Our Lives carnal oh oh I can wear a skirt that barely goes below my knees oh I can wear shorts if I'm a guy all I want to oh well I can rebel against the message it'll really do good for me this message is not a set of rules it's the rules are just what you do when you believe it and it produces something do you want to be right or do you want to be effective it's up to you because I know all sorts of people listen to this podcast the people that believe in the message the people that don't people that left it and things like that someone could ask oh are am I are you really happier from leaving the message or were your lusts just F fulfilled really were you just able to do the things you were never allowed to do because I don't believe people do um people don't try to make a case for gambling or lust or for sleeping around or for sinning and then and go and do it no they go and do it and then they try to defend it because they wanted to do it all along that's what the world is but I'm thankful to be in the message and I'm thankful that God has led me to do these podcasts you know the critics that that would try to join all the time and criticize me they don't try anymore and I'm still here doing this what's up sister Ellie Andrews welcome to the live so that is the question tonight do you want to be right or do you want to be effective it's easy to try to be right all the time it's easy to bully someone you know what's hard though is to build someone else up it's to sell someone else something really really nice when they don't deserve it what's up brother Kevin weeks welcome to the live how you doing brother God bless you fellow musician topic of tonight's live was who's qualified to talk about things in the message and do you want to be right or do you want to be effective it's easy to be the person that's always right but do you want to be effective it's up to you I've been playing a lot of chess the last few days it's a lot of fun I like to play the um the three minute Blitz chess it's a ton of fun and um it's always interesting that because I'll I'll blunder my queen or I'll blunder a really good move or something like that or I'll do great it's an interesting game but you know how I could do way better and get my game and get my my chess game to go way up is if I'd stop playing the 3 minute Blitz all the time and play the 15minute rapid in other words I would do way better if I just slowed down and took my time and played a slower game and I hate saying that because I don't like taking my time that's not me but that is the more effective way of doing it what's up hello sister Olivia welcome to live another question came in um Ivan said have a lot better connection now it's up to you Ivan what's your upload speed check your upload speed for me we'll see so we're in a battle guys we're in a war these lives are to encourage and to help to bring to attention things Satan wants to do everything he can against you everything well you know I think we should be checking our spiritual gauges every day what's up Mom welcome to the live how's it going right at 10 that's not enough Ian I'm sorry unless you have a 20 we really can't I'm sorry um let me Google it just in case I'm wrong Ian hold on looking at quar right now Mom says hello son going very well thanks oh that's great mom yeah you need at least 20 I in order to do it I'm sorry the best way of doing it what's up S Joy Robinson welcome to the live so I believe that if you don't know about something say it don't know and I think I we should ever be afraid to talk about the message it was one of the most disappointing things I've ever went through when I had friends of mine tell me we don't want to join the live because we don't want to talk about things the message because people might take what we say and use it against us what does that even mean this message is the absolute and if we we can talk about Michael Jordan versus LeBron or Thor versus Superman which doesn't even have an absolute it's just meaningless basically for serious conversation but you can talk about that but you don't want to talk about things things that matter because those have an absolute it's easy it's the message we suppos to take the message seriously and do all we can for God everything we can you know anybody can ask any questions they'd like to send them my way I'm happy to answer them um but I want to do my best for God and I want to be effective I don't want to be right all the time I want to be effective that's my goal isn't actually an effective strategy to be right all the time this just it's just not going to get anybody anywhere if you feel bad about being in a bad position get out of the bad position in chess that's what I'm at I can I can I've won by God's grace a lot of games where I'm down a bunch of material but I win because I bait my opponent into overconfidence and I just back rank back rank checkm him I still win by God's grace or I'll just get crushed you I'm not a good player I'm not a very good player at all but if I just make dumb mistakes over and over and over and over and over again I won't win but if I take my dumb mistakes and I change the way I play I'll be more successful what's up sister welcome to live so I don't know I I'm going to try to get brother Jack t on here and brother iaw Fontaine maybe you know what that's actually a good idea I need to reach out to brother Ben no I can bring him on the live I'd love to have him on be good mom says what's up sister em Walkin welc to live mom says why are you growing your beard why are you not clean shaving um it's cheaper to keep it this way and also people really like it uh I may shave it off at some point I don't know I think I'm going to at some point here I don't I don't know I do missed looking younger in some ways I guess I do have baby face there we go I texted brother Ben Nora I'm gonna have him on pretty soon I'm gonna try to because conversations matter and I don't care if you're a 10-year-old or a 50-year-old if you're saying something that lines up with the message it has the same amount of significance it is a myth and is stupid stupid like I you know what I've heard my whole life is you're too young to do that you're too young to uh mom says it it's hard to make you look bad in my opinion well thank you Mom it's hard to look bad when I have the best genes ever created from you and Dad um also I have great shirts like I don't know where the shirt came from it just showed up in my closet some one day and it probably came from Mom so I don't I don't know where it came from but thanks Mom I love this shirt I guess that'd be a good a good question what are you going to take a stand on I once ask someone of this podcast what's more important predestination or Riz and they said Riz maybe they were kidding I have no idea but we should take what we say very seriously it matters it actually matters what you're saying it matters what you do people have said oh well you just say it's bad for people to bash video games because you play video games you know how many video games I play almost none and chess is not a video game I had a PlayStation 5 digital Edition in my room for the past see November DEC three months and I played it two times for about an hour each time I literally just put it in another room in the house because I don't play it ever I just like talking about things where things just don't line up um according to regular talking what's up Nathaniel cross welcome to the live what are you going to stand on what are you going to do these things matter this message matters uh mom says your shirt probably came from Sarah she is sweet like this that awesome thank you Sarah I love my sister Sarah she's the best so much fun James says can I have your PS5 no it's not mine actually it's my brother-in-law's you can't have it sorry I would if I could Man actually I probably wouldn't that's a pretty expensive device I'd sell it to you but it's not mine so I can't really do it but you say oh well I want to have more confidence you know how you have more confidence do things that make you feel not confident that's how you have more confidence oh I I have social anxiety talking to people there's an app you can download called hola h a and you can meet random people and you can make it to where only it's only girls or only guys or whatever and you can meet them and talk to them for free that's how I would do it or get a job where I'm facing the public where if if you already have a really good job where you don't face the public um I would say to download the app and just talk to a ton of people that's how you do it if you want to get more confident put yourself in put yourself in situations where you don't feel confident and you become more confident it's as simple as that someone was told me oh well David I wish I was like you and standing up for myself I'm not a special and unique snowflake I believe that God gave me talents by God's grace but it took a lot of practice by God's grace I'm not even that great of a communicator or anything I I've done 63 this is number 63 of these lives so if you want to be more effective of a communicator you want to feel like you have more courage or more confidence or more competence than uh practice mom says do you think confidence can be gained by celebrating victories no matter how small yes I do Mom and also a victory also isn't just um it isn't just a uh what's it called um a big victory it's also a a uh it's not a tangible thing it's also a a um a mindset thing you could change your whole situation ation to make yourself a thousand a lot more confident and a lot more effective if you stop telling yourself you're not confident and you're not effective I have a friend of mine who says they just can't sing but I heard them singing and they can sing amazing and really it's just a limiting belief they came up for themselves saying oh I can't sing because they've told them themselves that a thousand times when really you're singing a voice now I know some people who don't have good singing voices and they should not try to sing out loud or they should not try to sing with a microphone because they just don't sound good you know that that's fine but Make a Joyful Noise of course just not one that I can here that's mean I'm kidding but some people do and I believe that same will do everything he can to hold off a gift that God will give you Ivan says I have 20 Mbps now sweet Ivan you can join if you'd like we can get the ginger to join we've already got the brunette and the one with brown hair and a little bit of red we just need the ginger now we'll have the trifecta oh man all right Ian you can join just a request and I'll accept why not wow Ivan you've changed so much I didn't know that You' identify as a speedometer I do go fast so fast that that that spe all goes up to 120 those are rookie numbers man oh yeah well then looks I'm going to have to do it without ear how is the ginger tonight how are you um Ginger's doing okay trying to find internet so I can actually gender your name is not gender it's Ivan like you shouldn't be that mean to yourself that's not healthy I have learned to um supper with it and deal with it because it's gonna happen either way suffer well I think people with orange hair and red hair unique you know um that's not mean my mom says do you think winter is worse for depression than other Seasons think do you think winter is worse for depression than other Seasons hav it depends it is 100% more than any other season unless unless you live because it's cold and days are shorter and because no one has money and like everything is slowed down but there's and because snow there's ice places of the world you can drift a lot easier you can drift a lot easier yeah that's great not in Florida not in Tennessee it's not there's no ice here it's just cold and miserable it's depressing man just F FYI I cannot see you on my end I don't why it's all right just call me John Cena that'll that'll work I can see you sure it's probably an issue on your end with your weird Google pixel phone your Google pixel 6 Pro okay sure whatever that was fun but it's cold yeah what's wrong with the cold it's invigorating come on you mean like you can freeze to the death outside yeah it's great yeah if you're dumb enough not to put a code on you can you that was a code on too for a second Bond says uh some countries up north have night for half a year they go get light therapy to feel better so yeah it's actually a real thing yeah yeah pretty much I mean Carrot Top it's it's a correct thing Carrot Top yeah so how do we meet H how how did we meet Ivan um it was my first winter youth retreat in Lake Michigan and yeah we were um dorm Partners besides three other guys so yeah it's great thank you for the clarification Ian and you would sit by me every single service no I didn't you sat by me I always sit in the same spot and you came and sat next to me sure I like to accompany myself with um Good Company so well I try I try to set myself with the with the weirdest people you know well that's unintentional but ging the gingers yeah the gingers that's never gonna end is it no I mean unless you dye your hair which then it' be even funnier the brunette Ginger the black ginger like the way I described Thomas was I have a and we have you know every guy in the dorm we knew and then you join it's like yeah we have a short Ginger with glasses whose last name is rizzler and he loves uh jokes and practical jokes and we all made fun of each other and it was awesome some people interpret like you know I bet some people like oh he called him a ginger and katop he's being so mean and disrespectful like no this is how I show affection and respect and love if I'm not if I'm not being like verbally weird I don't like you very much yeah yeah you pick on those who you love so that's then you can just pick you know you made a pick so you can pick on yourself yeah I yeah pick the guitar pick my why do you pick your guitar so much what did it ever do to you um it's fun to pick and it makes beautiful noises if I pick it just right right you should know you have a pretty guitar too hey I'm talking about my guitar like that I have a great Guitar by God's grace what's up Levi po Levi po no I by God's grace got a good deal on it you have a good guitar you paid way less for your guitar than I did and you got a much B deal than me man is your uh yeah has a pickup on it I you paid 20 bucks for 600 guitar I'd say that's pretty good that's really good yeah it's okay yeah I I'm if that's okay what is great look like someone paying you to give to give you a $2,000 guitar that's okay what does great look like Ian um great looks like there's a they have a guitar like you have um they got it for their son but their son didn't want well let's see here their son got it they got mad at him so they're selling it and it's a 3,000 guitar but they sell it for like 20 to to nothing because yeah what's 20 to nothing is that like a NFL Zer Z to $20 in that range for a very expensive guitar that because yeah their son was honory or whatever I think I paid disobedient 1,30 for mine run that by me again $1,230 if you were to buy it right it's around 2600 bucks why my only question why because it sounds amazing and because I know I want to have I want to make it sound the best and that's why I like it it's easier to play it sounds better so Taylor 317 CE brother the Kevin weeker said had a great service tonight and Daniel Cross and family attended Daniel really needs to go live again yes he does he does it be it' be great we should ask him about his story and why he thinks God didn't create him a ginger with uh that is short and has classes and his last name is literally rizzler don't pick on my glasses don't pick on my glasses you're the one that makes the pics man I'm just I just played it I have a video but true true jokes aside I have a video of you playing the piano at 2:30 in the morning on my how do you do that how do you play the piano on a tablet it sounded like you were like Yuma over there man like how is that even possible do do you take steroids do you do you take my altering steroids is that how you do it um no God just given me a talent and I know how to use it effectively thankfully and I pray that he lets me continue to do that yeah I mean he did give you orange hair so I mean he really gave you bunch of extra confidence when he made you it's red if anything else it's brown red it's orange it's definitely not black though his I said Brown could you imagine a chinger bro that would be hard like you get double negative privilege mom says David are you wearing a red shirt because you're a jei mom come on you're not supposed to say my secrets out in public you caught me it's her job to do that man I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to give this back to the uh to the ginger I stole this from wow thanks Mom self bur those are rare oh that's what she's supposed to do she knows where I sleep so she's going to hold me accountable exactly what color are your eyes Ian Hazel greenish somewhere around there that was not an answer you gave me like the most broad answer Hazel Green somewhere around there I didn't know somewhere around there was a color what's the color hazel what green what's a Hazel a hazle oh my gosh you're hassle that's you are a hassle they are green dark green a hassle dark green or they getting more green wouldn't I like you if you were angry they green period end of story next topic how how green are they are you getting mad would you we would green dark green yes that's what I said so you're a Hazel so you're a Hassel Ginger glasses rizzler last name is literally rler so the real question is do you have Riz self-imposed none to be perfectly honest see I'm not qualified to answer that question question so how did you get so good at the piano go God gave me a gift and I expanded on that my parents helped me by buying me piano and so I've just learned and expanded my talent range I can play a bunch of different instruments okay if I wanted to learn what would I need to do I don't I don't know how how to play the piano get a more qualified teacher than me well get get a teacher get a teacher um go God gave me the talent so what I do is I play by ear which basically I can hear something and after a couple tries I can um forgive me I'm losing my train of thought um I play by ear so I can hear it and then I can practically play it if I actually play um play piano by ear yeah that's what what I just said yeah I play by ear like brother Kenny schlak um he was the piano player there at Camp um and I just get tips from all kinds of piano players on what I can do here and there and I can listen to them playing and then I can pick up chords and notes and riffs and all that kind of stuff awesome I can I can kind of do that on any instrument but it's a lot easier on the piano because I'm the um main pianist in my church so only pianist in my church oh cool how many musicians do you have I have me a bass player and acoustic guitar player that's it so do what can you play the bass guitar too yeah yeah so you tell me you could play any of the instruments at your churs that's awesome yeah pretty much that's really cool yeah for a couple for a year or two I played the mandolin on on the platform wow interesting it was fun I like them's a better option than than the Mand yeah yeah it's a lot more peaceful option Kevin week says brother the Kenny is dynamite yeah he is he is oh my goodness he's amazing all right any more questions that you want to go over or is it just off the live main focus for tonight as long as I'm on here what nothing go ahead yeah yeah fair enough okay what do you think about what I was saying what are your what are your opinions what are your thoughts and yes you are qualified to have an opinion what was the main topic again because for the past 20 minutes um before I actually got on here I was just driving around town trying to find a good connection seriously okay so refresh me again just a little bit basically it was who is allowed to have opinions or qualified to say things and do you want to be right or do you want to be effective so basically do you feel like for people some people like for instance they didn't want to go on live and talk about the message because they felt like they weren't as qualified as someone else so they refrained them from coming on and in my opinion that is a that is not something God would lead someone to do because we're not this is we're not you know we're super intellectual people like it's good to have opinions about things and if you because they're afraid people would take what they're saying and you against them and whatever but um I believe that we shouldn't be afraid of that because if we have to take something back that we said or apologize big deal we have to apologize for something so it won't actually kill us exactly speak softly um today because you have to eat your words tomorrow speak wisely what H you said to speak what speak wisely or speak softly today because if you're wrong you might have to eat your words tomorrow is pretty good saying I was kidding I said speak what loud when you said speak softly something like soft so I this is my problem I trust people way too much because so if they're joking and picking on me I I normally don't know until after I'm embarrassed or like that or last time where you froze for 30 seconds but you weren't really freezing yeah that kind of stupid stuff okay well I go through the same thing and just know I don't I only will tease someone in a fun with whatever um if I respect them and I I think something of them I don't tease someone I don't respect and like it's a sign of affection that and giving people Donuts I think giving people Donuts is a good thing because you don't want to eat yourself not too eating the other 11 yeah um back to the topic though um I don't know everybody has their opinion do you think people not should not say something about a topic if they feel like they're not qualified just talk about it if they're not qualified in my perspective Ive it's Satan trying to tell them you're not qualified where they have something that is something to say that would probably be a blessing or an eye opener to someone if they don't think they're qualified then that's most likely in my opinion Satan telling them you're not qualified like I gave the testimony and about passed out in front of the crowd because Satan was telling me you have nothing but I overcame that I had something to give a testimony for but Satan knew that so he wanted to stop me from ever sharing that and I overcame that thank the Lord yes rough but but yeah if somebody has somebody thinks they're not qualified to say something that means they're probably qualified but Satan wants to bound them in this guilt and depression of like you have nothing you can't say anything you're he's belittling you and some most people actually believe it and that's may let people go into depression I don't know I don't know what I'm saying you're fine um my mom asked what is the topic of life tonight the topic mom basically is what do you mean by qualified someone says they're not qualified to talk about something which you're a Son of God you had a testimony you know how the devil you know how you know how you know the devil is lying I how how do you know where the devil's lying what would be the most Dependable way of knowing when he's lying or when what he's saying is out of touch or out of place or not applicable when you have something to say and you know you can point it back and run it run it Through the Bible and it checks out and still what you're wanting to say doesn't check does check out through the Bible but you're feeling like you shouldn't say it um I would feel like that's Satan pinning you down the way you know when the devil's lying is when he talks if you can definitively say this is the devil telling me this he's lying I don't care if it's scripture I don't care if it's a quote I even care if it makes sense it's it's the devil of course it's going to make sense but it's out of place he's lying and then you know that you're doing something good if he's talking to you he doesn't attack someone because they're weak he attacks them because they're strong I believe that you're like I believe like you're like Nathaniel in the Bible an Israelite in whom there is no gu people can make fun of you or be mean to you and mean bad things or whatever really that's just a fancy way of saying they are threatened by you because you they have ill intentions and you don't so they play a soci game to try to embarrass you to make to make themselves feel better about their inadequacy uh mom says don't you have the right have to be the right person to have the right timing also yes yes you do you have to have the right person have the right timing um you know my specifically when I was saying about the what do you mean by qualified was preferring to when people didn't want to join the podcast because they didn't feel like they were qualified to talk about why the message is true whatever and just thinking well it's it's a conversation podcast it's not about whether or not you feel um qualified or whatever it's about whether or not you have it's about whether or not you really believe the message enough to want to talk about it I guess but what do you think s Satan's goal is in your is Ultimate yeah what do think he wants to do in your life because you've been baptized do you believe you have the Holy Ghost Ian yeah okay you have the Holy Ghost go to mess Church you're the piano player what's Satan's goal what does he want to do to you what does he want to do to you Satan's ultimate goal is most likely to keep me from being I don't know how to say this right he's fighting me right now clear in my mind trying so let's see Mom says we know the walls is God's Children Of course hi Martin welome his ultimate goal is to keep us from enjoying the benefits that God has given us that's one of them he's his major goal ultimate goal is to keep us from um going to heaven and he's killing me tonight good so one of the things you can do is whenever he does that it's what you never want to have a testimony the S can St into he's killing me tonight amen the devil says but what what are you going to say in retaliation but I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me Satan's goal is to destroy you that's what he wants there's other way way of defining it and your answer is just fine he wants to destroy you once you because once you have the Holy Ghost you could be no more lost than God himself could when you have the Holy Ghost sealed in your soul you couldn't be any more lost than God could or brother brandom or Paul or Peter or James or John or anybody else that has ever lived or even Jesus so Satan's go is to destroy you to get you to be pressure to just kill yourself or um to get you to be depressed to not be effective is go try and so like like Satan will get you to try to say oh Satan's killing me tonight I don't know what to say that's fine but have you ever heard the song Set Your Wings To The Winds of Faith well a song that says set your wings to The Winds of faith and what the song I believe means is set your conclusion to Faith yeah it's annoying it's hard Satan will try to do things against you but set your last word set your conclusion yeah yeah Satan really fighting me tonight but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and God is with me and I have more faith in God than I have fear of the devil Satan's game is to get us to be stagnant and be idle and not to care and not to steady and not to do anything else his goal make us only care when we go to church we do our best we fight yes sir true you're not you're not me lest you are not nothing you are what God made you all right so do you want a serious question a Ponder question a silly question what kind of question do you want Ian serious question why not okay okay how many chickens falling from the sky would it take to kill a hippo I'm kidding I'm kidding I'm kidding that was funny what's the hardest thing you've ever had to explain to your parents the hardest thing yeah um not sure online games would be one for me honestly so I can't pause it it's live I can't pause it I'm sorry but you have to do I can't I can't pause it it's live yeah nothing wrong with him just you know it's from a different generation they had to explain those how to use a hammer you know but um a live game would be definitely one of them I'm thinking of something else explain okay what do you mean by explain because I'm getting mixed up on that I'm trying to explain trying to tell them about how something works that they don't know about telling my dad how to work his phone yes that's that's it how to work certain things on his phone yeah that's that's the ultimate okay find one of these questions I'm G to mix it up between serious stuff and funny stuff um well perfect what there's somebody sitting next to me but I'm gonna turn this on anyway there we go that's a lot better all right uh no a dumb question you get to add a zero to any number in your life where do you put it add what add a zero probably to the amount of scriptures I know and can recite Z is still zero I'm kidding do what zero plus sorry that was an that was a very easy layup 0 Plus Z is still zero yeah I was about to say my bank account because it's zero so adding a zero to that really yeah bank accounts better interesting that could be one um I think because like it's interesting to ask someone a question like this because you can figure out I want a spiritual answer or a technical answer like what would be the most profitable the best money way it'd be like I don't know adding a zero no adding a zero to a penny stock you have a lot invested in uh what question would you ask God if you were guaranteed an answer [Music] on I'd have to think too hard for that one but I really can't ask a question and just thank him for everything so I know I don't do that enough I try to do it all I can but just thank him instead of asking a question really good you also question ask him what what uh I don't know people would ask like who do you want me to marry or what do you want me to do am I doing things correctly or where am I really doing things correctly or where you could do an open-ended question you could ask like what am I doing wrong or what am I doing right or what should I be doing differently or anything like that yep yeah where's my soul mate what's what's the best career path so I and serve you the best that's it's one thing I need to work on big deal big big time okay here's interesting question um if happiness were the currency of the world what kind of job would generate the most money coffee Barista video game developer yeah okay yeah yeah yeah the first thing came to mind is Barista be Ian thanks for being on I'm gonna end the live but I'll see you next time all thanks we will see next time sir see you later man God bless everybody bye