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Date:     2026-02-11
Title:    Stories From 02/11/2026
Speaker:  
Church:   What Do You Mean By
Type:     Short Clip
Duration: 10m
Language: English
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJplm6Ub7mY
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What's up, guys? Hope you're doing well. So, uh, I recorded an episode with brother Alistister Francis about dating, narcissism, strict parents, going to the gym, and it was about 3 hours long. And uh, we're going to do two more episodes coming up. And then we'll do another episode or three two more episodes that are full length and then another episode where we just do a two long didn't read version of each episode. Make a 30-minute version of each one for you guys. Anyway, hope you're doing well. That's what I've been up to. Pray for me. I got to go preach at the nursing home and sing. Not got to. I'm going to. It's not a requirement. I like doing it. It's a commission, a calling from God. And then I preach at my church tonight. So, love you guys. What's good? How you doing? I'm doing good. Uh what am I telling you today? We all have pain, different pain in life. Embrace the pain cuz the pain is good for you. Without it, you don't grow. You don't learn. It's good for you. We all have pain. We all do stupid things, right? And uh don't talk to the police. It's actually you can get there's a really good video on YouTube I listen to called uh don't talk to the police but through my lawyer. He talked really I thought I thought I talked fast. I thought Ben Shapiro talked fast but no this guy talks really fast and uh just it was really don't talk to the police. In other words, don't talk to the accuser. When you feel the negativity negativity coming into your life, don't talk to it. focus on what Jesus has to say. And you can say, well, what about when I do actually do something that was wrong and that I shouldn't have done and I and I feel conviction and I need to repent. Maybe I committed iniquity or I need to feel shame about something. Yeah, that's normal. You know what the solution also is? Don't talk to the police. Cuz like you know who you you know what you say? I will not talk to the police. I'm waiting for what? My lawyer. The lawyer comes in and says, "Hey, his debt's already been paid. It's already been paid for at Calvary and I paid it." The lawyer, Jesus Christ, paid it, so he's free. And also, the lawyer is also your husband, your father, the person you're in a relationship with. And you don't go and say, "Okay, cool. Thanks, lawyer. I'm going to go do it again." No, you spend some time with your lawyer, with your God, with your savior, with your king, with your husband, with your best friend. So there you go. Don't talk to the police. Wait until your lawyer gets there and talk to him because anything you say canon will be used against you by Satan sometime. And if you have a desire in your heart to where you're like, "No, I'm the bride of Christ. There's nothing I do wrong ever." You're fooling yourself. As far as sin, yeah, there's nothing you do wrong ever. But as far as being accountable for your stupidity and your dumb decisions, you are 100% accountable. Not with sin, but with the consequences of doing something dumb. And also with the consequences of not talking to God. If you talk to the police instead to Satan, you will bear those consequences. Doesn't mean you'll go to hell or that you miss the rapture, but it means you bear the consequences. And it's it's this too. It's not a law. It's actually the consequence of the absence of the presence of Jesus Christ in your life. When you live your life and you don't talk to God and you don't welcome in him into your life with atmosphere and you don't have a relationship with him, even if you're sealed in Christ, the con like the consequences of because si sin is unbelief. It's the lack of believing in God. Darkness is the absence of light. So what is conviction? It's the it's the absence of intimacy with Jesus Christ. That's what it is. That's all that it is. It's the absence. So conviction isn't Satan perverted that thing into a lie. Like you did wrong, you're wrong. That's just culture. No, conviction actually is the feeling you have when Jesus isn't there. It's feel it's similar to if you say something mean to your wife or your husband or your girlfriend or boyfriend or you just don't talk to them like you know you should and then you feel something missing. That's what Jesus feels when we don't read his word. Pray to him and talk to him. That's how that works. Conviction is the absence of the presence of Jesus Christ. And so when you know you've done something wrong, do not talk to the police. Do not run to the person that wants to accuse you. He's the accuser of the brethren. Say, "I will not talk to you. Will not acknowledge you. I I only talked to my lawyer and that's Jesus Christ and they says, "Hey, I already paid that for you, but uh why did you do that? Where have you been? I'm I've always been here for you. I'm your savior. I'm your lord. I'm your king. You haven't been reading your Bible lately. You haven't been praying like your life feels so terrible. Jesus, save me." Like, read your Bible. Like, like, he's going to save my child. You are sealed in me. There's no possibility of you not of you going to hell and missing the rapture. And if you don't talk to me and listen to my word, you're going to feel like trash. It's not going to change your salvation, but you are going to feel like trash. Like, well, Jesus, I want to have a six-pack, and I want to have no double chin, but I don't want to work out or eat good. Could you do that for me? No, he's not going to do that. Why? Because then it would be meaningless. It'll be power without character. A six-pack without work is meaningless. And that's satanic. And it's satanic not because it's, oh, it's wrong. That's the legal side. That's the That's actually Satan's perversion from God's law, which is actually a relationship. So, I hope this has helped. I love you. Don't talk to the police. Talk to your lawyer. Hey guys. So, I believe in just pressing record even when you've been crying. It's a good thing. I just preached and sang at the nursing home. Went really good. There's a a girl, a lady there. She was new. Her name she said that people call her Cricket. And she had both of her legs cut off. She was around in a wheelchair. And uh at the end of the uh sermon, she she said, "Would you please pray for me? I've been through so much." And I don't think I have much faith left. She is crying. And I talked to her and prayed with her and I spoke with a guy named Dennis. I've had the most of a connection with him. I actually have his guitar in the back of my car. I'm about to tomorrow, Lord willing, head over to the guitar store and put new strings on it and get it cleaned up for him and put strings on there. So, it's I don't know where it cut me off, but I'm going to have them put new strings on it and clean it up for him and make the strings be the easiest possible to play cuz he has Parkinson's and he can't hardly even play. And he told me he said because it just changes perspective so much. He said, "I wake up every day and I," because I asked him, "How are you doing? How are you feeling?" He said, "I wake up every day and I try to look in the mirror and smile and have a good day because I He said, "David, I've got strength. If I needed to, I think I could run 100 yards if I really had to." Cuz he's about 76 years old. He said, "But I think I've I think I got about 3 or 4 months left in me before I uh before before I go home." And I asked him, "Well, is there a certain thing that anything that I can bring to you or give to you or anything like that before just now?" He said, "Well, David, I'll tell you, there's nothing better you can bring than you. Just bring you whenever you're here." So, it certainly put things into perspective. And then he he invited me to eat with him and they got me a plate. And I said, "I'd love to. It's an honor and a privilege." He says that what he likes to do is walk through the halls and sing songs, Christian songs, as loud as he can to help others. And it helps him. And he can catch himself getting grumpy and yelling at the nurses. And he has to remind himself they're just really here to help me. So, I just thought I'd share that perspective with you. Pray for me. I got to go prepare and preach again tonight. So, I hope that perspective impacts you somehow. I'm preaching the message to them. They don't even know it. And Jesus came to restore us to a relationship. The happiness and joy and peace and fulfillment you're trying to find in what you think of yourself is found in the way that you forgive and treat others that don't deserve to be treated nicely. and the way that you forgive yourself. The problem isn't others. Just let go. Look to Jesus. Look at the perspective. Pray for me, please. I put all this together. What's good? Just finished preaching. Preached on uh the title was don't talk to the police. You have the right to remain in a sentence. It's 30 minutes long.