################################################################################ START OF FILE: 2026-03-08 - Up over 19 hours and Thinking out loud - .txt ################################################################################ SERMON DETAILS ======================================== Date: 2026-03-08 Title: Up over 19 hours and Thinking out loud Speaker: Church: What Do You Mean By Type: Short Clip Duration: 7m Language: English URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YYVLMGDDEY ======================================== TRANSCRIPT ======================================== What's good, guys? I've been up for almost for like basically 19 hours non-stop all day because of airports and delays and stuff like that. And this puts me in a unique position cuz I'm just so tired to just see the world in a certain way before I get to crash and lose an hour of sleep. And that is this because it like channels my mind into exactly what I want to say, which is one of the main points of the whole podcast. What do you really believe? And how do you know that your way of believing is right? The word epistemology refers to the way that we look at truth. The way that we evaluate this is true or that is true. How do you know you're right? What's your standard of truth that you apply consistently across the board? And how do you know it's true? What is the message? What is the Bible? How do you know God's real? Like this idea that we're going to apply forensical forensic data to supernatural beliefs is quite possibly the most intellectually damning position I've ever seen. this idea that we're supposed to take supernatural things like prophets and go and God or whatever and select one random piece of it and treat it as if forensic proof is the standard. Where in the Bible was that so? It has never been the standard. Faith is the standard. Fruit is the standard. And if you in your life, if you can say, "Oh, I believe in the message. Oh, I believe in the Bible." Do you know anything about what you believe or do you just learn the right things to say? And I say this not because I'm trying to point out some evil thing. If you compare how Charlie Kirk talked to how I talk, it's the same thing. If you compare brother Alistister Francis to how I talk, it's very similar. We both start exposing what's wrong so that you can say, "Hey, hold on. What do I believe? And how do I know that it's true?" Because the Pentecostal thinks they're right and they both use the Bible. The Baptist thinks they're right and they use the Bible. So does the Nazarene, the Presbyterian, and all of them. How do you know? How does anybody know? And how arrogant would you or I have to be to know that? Well, the way that I look at truth is the most greatest, and everyone else is wrong but me. How arrogant would I have to be to really think that? God ordains the critic and the preacher. He does. So, what do you mean by what you believe? Do you really know? Or do you just know a bunch of catchphrases set in church camps and churches so that you get adults to leave you alone so that you can so that you can stay for free rent in your house and have all your bills paid and then just win the social game. Make the spiritual people look dumb by rage baiting them to bad reactions and then blaming them for the reactions while you live for yourself. And and I'm I'm what I'm doing is I'm breaking up the ground and I'm showing the sin. And what sin is is it's it's not like, oh, you've done some terrible thing because we're not under the law. We're under grace. Sin is actually the absence of God. It is what you feel when God's not there. Why do I preach at nursing homes? Why do I do this podcast? Why do I preach what I've been preaching for almost 9 years? Why do I do things in the way that I do them? Why am I doing this right now? Because I love it. There's nothing else I'd rather do. I've worked for five Fortune 500 companies. I have jobs I could go to and make over six figures if I wanted to. And I don't want to because this is my favorite thing to do. Yeah, I could move to New York and make that much money if I wanted, but I'd rather do this cuz this gives me more fulfillment and value than anything else. So, when I'm telling you about this stuff, this is the best life. But hey, if you want to scroll through res and win all the social games and bully people who don't play the game, go for it. But it's not fun and it's not real. To really be there for others, to really show the life of Jesus Christ to know what you believe and why gives you power. Or you can just get your identity from your fear, then go for that as well. If you know your fear and you know the things that make you hurt and the things that make you worried, there's an identity attached to it and it actually hurts to get rid of it. Fear is confidence. Someone's told me, "Oh, I'm sorry, David. I'm I'm afraid and I don't have as much confidence as you." You have the same confidence that I do, but you have confidence in your fear. I have confidence in God. And both have a cost. The cost of having confidence in God is that your flesh suffers. The cost of having confidence in fear is that your spirit suffers, but your flesh loves it. Either way, you still have confidence in a set of beliefs. Doubt. Fear is imagining future events negatively. Faith is imagining future events positively. But it's up to you what you do with them. But that can only come from the structure and from the foundation of knowing what you mean when you say that you believe in something. If you say, "Oh, I'm feeling so worried." But you can't quote a verse like, "If God be for us, who can be against us, not by night, not by might, nor by power, by my spirit, say the Lord of hosts." Uh, or and I'm real tired here. I've come before us. Who can be against us? I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. The Lord is not unto them that are of a broken and contrite spirit. Or one of my personal favorites, the Lord shall be thy confidence, and he shall keep the foot from being taken. It is up to you what you do with your life. Those verses I just gave you, those are power. But everything you say about fear or worry, like, oh, there's this, or there's that, what if this, what if that, you know, the hard part about it? You're right. You do have a legitimate reason to be afraid. That's how free, that's how fear works. But faith is faith in God. And you decide how you will live your life every single day that you live it. It's up to you. You are not a slave to fear. You are given dominion over that at Calvary. And you can claim it, but it takes consistency. And you have to give up the identity of being a victim to fear because fear gives you identity and attention without responsibility of others. It's the same thing Satan offered Eve in structure. Same thing. And it seems plausible. It seems nice. It seems almost awesome. But what it is is it is power without character. Fear is power without character. Power over your life without the character of actually being brave. You ever try to convince someone out of their fear, but they keep on giving you new things? They're brave about it. They protect that identity. power without character is satanic. We need to stop with this thing of don't do that, don't do that. We are not under the law, but we're under grace. So, anything we do is for a purpose. What what is satanic? It is the absence of God. Why is it satanic? Because it's meaningless. Power apart from character is satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. Confidence does not come from the air. It comes from facing fear. but having more confidence and faith in God than you have fear or faith in your fear. Hope that helps. Love you guys. I'm going to go crash now.