Do I see God right away when I die? 10 Qs with Mike Winger (Ep 65)

She's back The cat just jumped on my lap as I was starting the stream you guys haven't seen her in months She just never comes up during the stream. She wanted to say hi apparently

No, she doesn't know you exist, actually. She's just bored. So, the first question for today is going to be about whether or not I can get this cattail away from my nose. No, it's going to be about whether or not you see Jesus...

Right when you die like the moment you you die. I don't mean the millisecond You know what I mean, but but you die and you see Jesus. It's not like a long delay It's not like you wait till the second coming or something like that. You're actually going to experience the presence of God Upon death is that what happens and I think scripture actually does answer this question for us and I think it also matters Because of the way it affects our hopefulness about our future So I'll show you that

First question, do I see Jesus right when I die? And Philippians is the first passage we're going to go to to talk about this because I think Paul gives us the details there because he actually talks about his own potential death. He gives us some answers on this so we can think biblically about what happens when we die

And this does not depend on your, you don't have to be premillennial, postmillennial, amillennial, eschatology, rapture considerations. None of that matters in relation to what I'm talking about here. So Philippians 1.18, it says, And just for the background, this is where Paul is talking about how he is persecuted, how he is attacked, how his life is actually in danger. So he may be killed for his faith in Christ, and he's okay with that. In fact,

He's very okay with that. We don't want to be martyred as Christians. You're not supposed to try to get martyred. There's some people have an unhealthy fascination with it. That's not the issue here. But look at what he says. Try to understand why so many Christians go, I know that I will be right with the Lord when I die. Not hundreds of years later, 10 years later, not a year later, just when I die.

So it says here, Philippians 118, I'll read the section to you, then I'll go back over it again. Yes, I will, and I will rejoice. For verse 19, I know that through your prayers and the help of the spirit of Jesus Christ, this will turn out for my deliverance as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now, as always, Christ will be honored in.

my body, whether by life or by death. I love Philippians because the attitude of optimism and hopefulness that he has, it's just a side issue here, but it's not. The kind of optimism that says everything's going to work out fine. It's the kind of optimism that says even if everything goes horribly, I still have reasons to rejoice because I know that God is working and using it to glorify his name. And that is an impervious.

Invincible optimism that Christians can actually have and should have because we live in times where, you know, you lose your optimism. Verse 21. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Now, he's talking about his death would be a benefit to him. Okay, I'll go back over this in a second. Let's read through it. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which... i shall choose i cannot tell i am hard pressed between the two my desire is to depart and be with christ for that is far better but to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account

convinced of this I know that I will remain and continue with you all so that he might minister to them and he goes on and talks about that so Clearly, Paul is discussing here, he's torn between two different things. One of the things is staying and doing ministry. And catch this, that Paul's greatest desire, and this is a good example for us, his greatest reason to stick around in this world is to bless.

minister to others. That is a high and lofty thing. That is a wonderful thing. Usually when we think about Like, what if the Lord took me today or I was to die today? We think about the things that we would miss out on that we would want to do. Places I want to visit. Maybe you're not married. I want to get married first or have kids or maybe I want to whatever.

see this happen in the world or experience this vacation trip type thing and paul's like i i want to stick around so i can bless other people that's a christian mentality that's a beautiful thing but this tension where paul says i would rather be gone than be here and help you guys out like i'm hard pressed like that would be far better that that would be the thing that i would would want the most that only makes sense if

when he dies he sees jesus right away because if it's one of those things where uh like say soul sleep some people believe in where um

A person dies and then years go by, maybe thousands of years go by, and then Christ returns and you're resurrected and you get your new body and you're in his presence. And during that interim time, you're basically unaware. You're basically... out of it you know it's like as though you fall asleep and you're not dreaming and you're just kind of there if that was the case then dying would not hasten paul's appearance before christ it wouldn't make it any quicker because he would die and it would

It would still be the same number of years away. It wouldn't change anything. It would only change his awareness of the passing of time and his ability to influence and impact people during that time. So it would basically be only a negative thing, not a positive thing.

but he presents it as though it's quite positive. Let's look at it again. Then we'll go to 1 Corinthians, the other passage I'll take you guys to on this topic. I think it's really, really important. So he says, whether by life or by death, he knows that Christ will be honored in his body.

amazing encouragement for us. And he says, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. He has immediate gain if he dies. And he talks about it here one of the gains one of the gains is that he will glorify jesus that's a gain but he has another immediate gain and that is

If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose, I cannot tell. I'm hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ for that is far better. That's what death means to Paul. It means I depart from this body. I'm no longer in this shell.

I no longer need this corrupt body. It will be replaced one day. And then he is in a disembodied state with Jesus. He does not yet have his resurrected body. That's a future thing. The eschatology of that is future. That resurrection. and that the resurrection of the saints when christ returns he brings with them their spirits basically and unites them into a new body a reconstituted glorified body that would be my understanding of that that

future event that we will all be experiencing in Christ, but immediate presence of Jesus. Second Corinthians chapter five talks about this as well. So in verse six, it says, so we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. Now this is a really interesting thing theologically, because obviously Jesus is... is is in a sense is is with me he's in my heart right metaphorically he is but the holy spirit is

in me okay i have if you are a christian you have the holy spirit and this is how christ has made his home with you even the holy spirit's even called the spirit of christ though i know that that seems challenging to people at times um it's not it shouldn't be but it but that's the terminology that scripture uses as well

right so in a sense christ is with us where two or more are gathered you know there i am in their midst this is there's a sense in which jesus is with us but you can have greater and lesser experiences of the presence of god And obviously the greatest experience of the presence of God would be just being in heaven with God, right? Or when heaven and earth meet, there'll be a constant ongoing in the future.

Perfect relationship with God perfect incredible overwhelming presence of God such that revelation says there's no need of the son Because God himself is the light like that. That is obviously a greater experience than what I'm having right now So he says, we're away from the Lord in that sense right now while I'm in this body. For we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, he says in verse eight, we are of good courage and we would rather be away from the body.

and at home with the Lord. That's, for this to make any sense, I think for us to make any reasonable sense of it, we have to see this as we interpret, try to interpret scripture thoughtfully, right?

i when i die in this body i am directly with the lord i'm in his presence i'm experiencing his glory and it is greater than anything i've ever experienced in this world even with the indwelling of the holy spirit it is actually next level right this is this is so much better and so this is something he's he's like and i would we'd rather this would be better i'd rather be that but of course i'm not going to be suicidal that would be an evil and murderous thing and it would it would uh

That would be a lie from the enemy to get people to think down that path. But this is something every Christian gets to look forward to. The worst you can do is grant me my greatest wish. In a sense, when someone's like, well, we'll kill you for that. The worst you could do is grant me my greatest desire. I'll go be with the Lord. It will be bad news for others who maybe I care for, who I provide for or protect or minister to, but it's not going to be bad news for my experience.

So verse nine, he goes in and he says more. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. So we have this consideration. Like I am absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Have you heard that phrase before? This is the phrase that you'll often get.

from individuals and it's, it comes from verse eight of second Corinthians. The, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Now, a lot of people say this as a mantra, especially like in Calvary chapels, which I love Calvary and I was in Calvary for many years.

Still very much similar in my thought process about how I approach scripture and ministry. But the phrase that you'll hear often in those circles is to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So people ask this question, where do I go when I die?

And the pastor says, well, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. But then someone turns to 2 Corinthians 5.8, and I had a friend that did this, and she goes, it doesn't say to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. It says that Paul would rather... be absent from the body and be present with the Lord. And so here we have to distinguish between what scripture is saying and our interpretation of scripture. Scripture is saying, Paul, and not just Paul, right?

Paul and his companions collectively, so it's not just a special grace on Paul that he gets to be present with Jesus. Rather, him and his companions, the general truth, they prefer to be absent from the body. and to be present with the Lord. Now we draw from that the interpretation. So therefore it's true that when a Christian is absent from the body dead, that they are then with the Lord and therefore application or doctrinal truth.

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. That's how that works out. It's not a misquote of scripture for those who may have... thought that it was. All right, that's the first question for today. My name is Mike Winger. I'm here to help you learn how to think biblically about everything. That's my agenda. That's my goal. I've been devoting my life to this for years and years, and I'm hopefully getting better at it over time, as hopefully you are as well.

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It comes from Kyle Carella or Correa. Should churches publicly promote local events involving alcohol? It seems unwise and inconsistent toward those with weaker consciences. Some say we shouldn't legalistically refuse to advertise these opportunities for fellowship since drinking in moderation isn't sinful thoughts. Definitely have some thoughts about that.

as I drink my coffee, which, which some other people would be like, you shouldn't have the coffee and, um, would be concerned about me stumbling someone with a weak conscience because I just had some, um,

So yeah, there's a biblical precedent in 1 Corinthians 14 that talks about... Is it 14? Romans also talks about convictions and... that the basically the precedent is this be loving towards each other um the short version of this is hey if you have a liberty in an issue like say alcohol is a question of liberty and moderation liberty meaning

If you can do this in good conscience before God and thank him for it, go for it. In moderation, meaning don't go for it, go for it. You know, it has to be in godly moderation if you're going to drink. And the same is true for a number of other things in life.

So when those types of issues are there yet We know even back in the day there were people who were like I will never touch alcohol I maybe they had a family problem with it a personal problem with it and so you don't want to stumble them So you don't drink around them

And you don't flaunt, you don't go out of your way to flaunt your drinking around them either because that would be unkind to them. But what's often overlooked is there's also instructions about the person who has the restrictions that they're not supposed to be judging.

the person who doesn't have those same restrictions. And this is in a specific area of issue where there's liberties, as in these are not sinful behaviors inherently. They can be sin. Anything could be. They're not inherently sinful. So don't judge people for them. This is also an instruction in scripture. And it's important that we remember this as Christians that I don't want to create an environment in my church where it would be so.

We are so cautious about not stumbling people that we actually create a situation where we're judging everybody who does enjoy a liberty that God says you can enjoy unto him. Does that make sense? I'll give you an example.

you're hanging out at your church. Um, and your, your, your friend tells you a story. Um, and people are listening into the story and he goes, yeah, I went out with my, uh, with my, uh, my neighbor and we went out, uh, we went out to the bar and got a drink together and then i was sharing the gospel with him and he was really open for the first time ever he's going to come this sunday to church and he's telling all this great story and then the only thing people heard was

You went to where? And you had a what? You had a drink? That's all they heard. And then that church has gotten an environment where they're so reactionarily cautious about alcohol that they're actually sinfully judging. the brother who is just engaging in a liberty now he's not trying to flaunt it here but he also doesn't have to like keep it hidden like it's like it's golem with the precious you know that would not be a healthy environment that christians are to create

So let me read through quickly Romans 14 and let's look at this. Because this is the passage ultimately that... talks about this um and i'll just i'll describe terms here because this is one of those passages where paul writes and people go wait what what is he talking about what is weak in the faith he's using terms i'm i'm not sure what he means by that so i'll do a really quick interpretation as i walk through but i have a full teaching on the romans 14.

In my Romans series, you could just put Mike Winger Romans 14. Google will give it to you. But hold on. There we go. All right. It says here, receive one who is weak in the faith. The weak in the faith, by the way, is the person who say, I can't drink. uh i can't uh i could never play a game of cards um if somebody said i'll i'll bet you i'll bet you a quarter that that such and such is going to happen i'd be like i can't do it if they can't do any of those types of things

It's not, they're not sinning, but the Bible does describe that as having weaker faith. Okay. I didn't make up that term. I'm not insulting you, but that is what Paul means by the passage here. So he says, receive one who's weak in the faith. but not to dispute over doubtful things. Let's not focus on arguing about the areas of your weakness. Let's just say I accept you as you are. Let's try and work together and not... I don't need to change your mind. If you go, well, I think I'll...

All gambling, every single piece of gambling is always evil. Drinking is always bad. There's tons of Christians that hold that view. I don't want to sit and argue with you about that all day long. I want to have fellowship with you if I can. But I know what scripture teaches about it. So if it comes up, I'll defend that. But it says here, for one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Okay, so the limited one doesn't...

Doesn't feel like they can eat all things. Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat. Okay, this is the one thing. The guy with the liberty looks down and he goes, oh, he's one of those guys that can't even have a...

Can't even have a beer. And then you look down on him for it. Don't do that. The Bible specifically says you can't do that. You can't do that. Do not evaluate people based upon these types of conviction issues. And it says, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats.

Okay, so this is the one who abstains. I'll take the alcohol example. They never drink and they're told don't be judgmental towards the person who can engage in a liberty unto the Lord. A judgmental thing would be this. I have a teaching on alcohol.

that i did that some of you guys are familiar with um where i go through all the passages the bad ones and the good ones every verse related to the topic of alcohol we go through it all so it's both it's positive negative it's all of the things um in that teaching i had a pastor who commented he was a pastor and he said in in the video somewhere there's like i don't know how many comments are on there he said that nobody drinks in moderation

It just doesn't exist in reality. Everybody who drinks, they all abuse alcohol. Nobody drinks in moderation. And so I know that that's not true. I know plenty of people, you know, especially. After I have a teaching like that that goes public, then people are a little more open to me about whether they drink or not. But I know plenty of people who absolutely drink in moderation. I also have in my life known many, many people who drink.

not in moderation at all. And I'm speaking mostly of unsafe people that I know, but it's just not true. But if you believe that, you are doing what? You are judging him who eats, right? Or him who, in this case, drinks alcohol. You're judging them all. Someone goes, I like to have a glass of wine every once in a while. And the guy says, nah, liar. You're an abuser. You're a sinner. This is exactly the thing the Bible tells us not to do. Why? Because God has received it.

Okay, God, he's not my servant. He's not your servant. So it says, who are you to judge another servant? To his own master, he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand for God is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day above another. Maybe you observe the Sabbath. Maybe you think Easter is the most important day of the year. Another esteems every day alike. Someone else doesn't. They don't esteem one day above another. And it just says here,

That's okay. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. This is not you having your own truth because the truth is that it's okay if you want to do that and it's okay if you don't because it's an issue of liberty. So it's not you having your own truth. It's you getting to express your liberty.

Let each be fully convinced in his own mind, he who observes the day observes it to the Lord, and he who does not observe the day to the Lord, he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks, and he who does not eat to the Lord, he does not eat and gives God thanks.

So just let them have those differences. For none of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord. And if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. This is installing the Lordship of God. over um the lordship of my convictions in other people's lives that's that's the emphasis here i think so i could go on uh but the dangers here are um you know judging your brother

or showing contempt. Those are the two dangers. The one with liberty shows contempt towards the one without it. And the one without liberty shows judgment towards the one who does have it. And he says, who are you both? You're both wrong. Just stop. You're all going to be judged by Jesus. So just let that happen on conviction issues, on liberty issues. You'll stand before God. So how does that translate to your question? Okay, I did all that so I could try to answer your question about church.

And you said, I'll read it again for anybody who may have forgotten. Should churches publicly promote local events involving alcohol? I don't think churches should have some restriction on that. I think that individual churches may say, hey, we've got a lot of individuals who are recovering alcoholics who have come out of substance abuse you know maybe we have a really active evangelism system going on in our church that's outreaching to people and part of those groups and we just

we think for their sakes we shouldn't do this like it might actually be dangerous for them i totally respect that that's good you should you should follow that wisdom as a pastor but if your thought is Our people are unhinged on the topic of alcohol. They're really judgmental towards anybody who drinks. And so we can't promote this event where there will be alcohol. Let's say.

I'm trying to think of an event. I've never even seen a church promote an event with alcohol, but I'm sure it happens, right? But let's say there's a, oh, let's say there's a debate. I've seen these happen, okay? So there's a debate where it's happening at a local pub.

and it's a debate on the existence of God, an atheist and a Christian, and then the church is like, hey guys, let's go out and support, yet it's going to be at a pub. I would not have a problem with the church doing that and saying, look,

Drinking is a liberty you have. You can make the decision yourself. You can control it yourself. You can go there and have a drink. You can go there and not have a drink. I don't have a problem with that. And I think that this question would be really foreign to the early church because... Like most of them actually drank. It was really culturally normal. I think, to my knowledge, the majority of them drank. Jesus, when he instilled communion, right, they were at a meal with bread and wine.

And Melchizedek brought bread and wine out to Abraham. And I know all the arguments that this wine wasn't really wine or that it was watered down or that because it was, here's an argument I'll give you guys. Because this wine was the new wine that was for...

the the Passover celebration therefore it was basically fruit juice but that's not true because the actual harvesting of the grapes came months earlier this was wine this is wine wine and it doesn't really actually take you can make wine in days you know so These arguments don't work. Jesus definitely drank. And the Bible, in effect, was promoting an event that involved alcohol from day one because of communion. Now, in your church, you probably have grape juice.

That is entirely a tradition. That is not something that the Bible pushes on us. Now, I also am not one of those who makes a big deal about this. I don't care, okay? I don't think that you would say, Well, it's still grape juice, but there's no alcohol content. So now it's not as powerful of a symbol in communion. And I'm like, I don't see that. I don't see that. And we know that even then...

There was a danger for Corinthians can help balance this out. They would get together and they would have these love feasts. It's called where some people would just get totally drunk and others would wouldn't even get food. And so this. changes the way the church is supposed to function. And in Corinth, Paul tells them, hey, how about you eat before you come? And then, in other words, don't make communion this entire big meal that's being done with recklessness and without moderation.

And so it changed the policy of the church. And so the church has to respond to what's happening. Like if you promote an event and then people are going there and they are getting drunk, then you have a major cultural problem in the church and you should make a change. There's some thoughts on that.

I know it's controversial, especially in the US where we've had prohibition. Prohibition may have been pragmatically useful in some ways and may have been harmful in other ways, but it's not a biblical mandate and you can't make it a biblical mandate to tell people. that all alcohol is is bad or to Make a church environment where Everybody's judging anybody who actually does drink That would be unhealthy. We need we need churches where people who do and don't

can fellowship together and not despise and not judge. That's the biblical standard in Romans 14. Question number three. This one comes from Jake Gentile, who says in Psalm 139 verses 21 and 22. And verse 5-5, or Psalm 5-5, it seems to imply it is good to hate evil people who oppose God, but Matthew 5 seems to encourage the opposite. Where is the proper balance between these things? Thanks. Let's read these passages, okay? So we got three of them. First one, Psalm 139. 139.

And I'll put it on your screen. And it was verse 21 and 22. I'll back up a little bit here.

I mean, he's talking about the evil here. He shifts from what was a beautiful psalm about God and his providence and creation and then shifts topics as he gets further down and... suddenly says in verse 19 oh that you would slay the wicked oh god depart from me therefore you bloodthirsty men so bloodthirsty means he's talking about people that are they're like murderers they lay in wait for people they kill people

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate you? Do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. I've seen this recently quoted. as a support for a blanket hatred of Jews. Have you seen this? If you're on X or Twitter, you know, maybe you have. I've seen this recently quoted for that. Is that...

Is that what we're supposed to be doing? Is that our heart? Let's think about this. Go to the other one, which was Psalm 5.5. The boastful shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity. God hates all workers of iniquity. You shall destroy those who speak falsehood. The Lord abhors. the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. Yeah, God hates him. So, there it is. I guess we hate, we hate.

a lot of people now actually to be honest if if that's the whole story if that's the whole story so let's look at matthew chapter 5 verse 43 and then i'll try to round this out with some other other ideas in scripture You've heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Wow. That...

It could seem like a contradiction to somebody. I don't think it is. I'll explain. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. You're actually being asked to do something that God does here. That's one of the key elements. You're being asked to...

walk in the footsteps of God, that Jesus is the one who loves those who hate him, who prays for those who spitefully use him and persecute him. He's the one who does good.

to those who hate him he has blessed those who cursed him jesus is the one who has loved his enemies now you might say but but isn't god like angry with the wicked every day and here's where i'm gonna i'm gonna say my this is my answer to this and i haven't heard many other people provide the same answer so you should consider it like with a grain of salt all right anytime you have like that's really what you think mike yeah that's fair maybe i'm wrong i'm open to that

Someone show me where I'm wrong here. I believe that people can have hate and love in different ways towards the same individual at one time. I think that God does this. And I think that that's why I can do it. So. Allow me to elaborate. God is angry with the wicked, yet he creates a path for the wicked to be saved. He is wrathful towards the evil people, but he also pours that wrath out on the cross.

And then offers them grace and forgiveness and wants them to come and return. We see this in the prophets constantly in the Old Testament where God's telling them how wicked they are and that he's going to come and destroy them. Like actually physically kill them.

And then he'll say, repent, repent, repent. Like in Isaiah where he's like, your whole head is strong. Everything's messed up in your whole body. This is a metaphor for Israel. The whole body's all messed up. And he goes, what more do I have to do to you? Just turn and repent. You'll be washed and clean and white as snow. And so God shows his hatred in a sense of evil and evil people along with his love for those same exact people. He demonstrates both of these.

And both of those are on the cross demonstrated as well. And so he's calling us to walk in the same stuff. So I can look at the person who's doing wickedly and I can say, I hate that. And there's a sense, and this is where maybe you're going to disagree with me. There is a sense in which... A sense in which I go, I hate them. But I'm going to be really careful because if that sense doesn't involve me also going, Lord, I want to pray for them.

I want to see them come to repentance. I want to see their lives changed. I don't want them to experience the judgment of their sins. I'd rather them experience the salvation that comes through Jesus. If I don't also have that feeling towards them, towards the Jews, The J-O-O-S Jews. The online world right now is insane. This is why we need to be grounded in scripture so that we know where our compass is pointing.

But if I have that kind of hatred towards people, or towards Hamas, or Islam, which is evil. I hate Islam. I should. But it's also evil to Muslims. But I hate terrorists. I hate the Islamic terrorists that are murdering and rampaging and plotting against the rest of the world, basically. I do. In a sense, I hate them. But man, that, that sense is overshadowed with love because I'd rather them come to repentance. And if you ask like, well, does God, is it more hate or more love?

Well, there's just different things like I hate all the evil that is present in you and the things that you're doing and you represent and you embody those things. So I have to hate that. But because my preference is for your salvation, what you would say is there's actually more love than anything else.

Does that make sense? There is more love than anything else. I desire for you to be saved. I desire for you to be restored, forgiven, transformed, filled with the Holy Spirit, experiencing the grace of God. And then I'll put my arm around you and talk to you about how forgiven you are for all the things you did that were absolutely hateful.

that is the preference. And that is God's preference, not desiring that he should perish. And this is where even the old, this is not just new Testament, old Testament. God says he takes no delight in the death of the wicked and yet he'll destroy them, right? He'll, he'll be the one to bring them death. But There's a preference, and this is my view, and I don't know if you could say this in Calvinism, for instance, but my understanding is God would rather...

them turn and be saved i think that seems actually very clear in scripture his preference would be for their salvation which means you can't just be like i just hate him i hate him i hate him you know and that's like the whole story there must be a preference for their restoration and their forgiveness

and their salvation but there is such a love for god there is such a love for god that if they do continue to reject jesus you will look upon their judgment by god and you will say god you did what was right you did what was right i don't take a sinful glee in that

But there's a justness and a goodness to even your wrath because you do hate in a proper and good sense. Um, that's how I balance those two things for you guys to think about. I think it seems consistent with scripture and I don't know a better way to, I don't know another way to do it.

To be like, well, no, God doesn't hate anybody. Well, depends on what you mean by hate. You know, when 1 John talks about hate, it's obviously speaking about it in a different sense than the psalm is. When Jesus says, you know, you've heard it said, love your neighbor, hate your enemy. I don't think that word hate is being used in the same sense as the psalm is using it. I just think there are different contexts. And that's just...

studying things carefully you have to do that all right go to question number four jonathan nudson says what's the difference between being a double-minded man james 1 8 and being a sincere Christian struggling with sin and the flesh's love for sinful things. Romans 7, 14 to 25. Can you draw a distinction?

All right. So Romans seven is where he's like, you know, um, the things I desire to do, I don't do. And there's like this, this like law, this like rule inside myself, whatever I want, I don't do it. I do the, I do the wicked thing instead. And Oh, wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of death.

You may not know this, Jonathan, but there's like a huge debate about whether that Romans 7 passage is talking about Paul before he was saved or after he was saved. And it's a big debate. And so some people would be like... would just say, well, that was before he was saved. No Christian could say that about themselves. But I take a, some people might find this annoying. My view of the passage is that it's, Paul's talking about prior to salvation. However,

He's talking about the flesh, which we still are affected by after salvation. Okay, so it's not like the flesh is just... Yeah, I crucify myself, but I have to daily die to myself. I still have the flesh. I still have to walk in the spirit so I won't fulfill the lust of the flesh because the flesh is an ongoing threat. So that sense of me, of this draw and desire towards sin is in me still as a Christian.

So that's the Romans 7 one. And then James 1, 8. Let's look at that together. James 1, 8 says...

I'll back up a little bit. Who is the double-minded man? That's what we're going to try to find out. Who is the double-minded man of James chapter 1? Is it the Christian who... waffles like they do good and they do bad they blow it they have like some real stronghold of sin in their life that they're really they're really battling is that the james 1 8 double-minded man so it says here my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials

knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God. Right? This is the main thrust right here. you're lacking wisdom, there's some understanding you're missing out on, then ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith with no doubting.

For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. So the doubter is a double-minded man.

It's the one who is doubting. What are they doubting? They're doubting God. This is what they're doubting. They're doubting God, his goodness, his care for you, his existence, the truth of Christianity. These are the things that they're doubting. That person has a deep... seated, double-minded issue. They're kind of Christian, you know? This doesn't mean that we want to condemn them for it.

This is, this is a diagnosis. Oh, this is a problem. You're unstable in all your ways. Like this is going to be a real problem for you, for your kids, for your friends, for whoever you influence, because you're a doubting person and this doubt should be dealt with. Now we handle doubters with grace.

And there are two different kinds of doubters. There's those who are sincere and who are struggling. And there's those who maybe have, let's be real, they have other motives. There's a desire to doubt because it helps justify something that I want to do. The ones that are sincere, I think should be handled with amazing grace and kindness. Like Jesus with the Father who says, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. He handled them so gently, you know, and so well.

that and he accepted and received him even though the guy had some doubts he still received him just fine but then there's the one who the doubts are different and that person should be treated more on the level they're at which you go hey we got to confront this issue this is sometimes it is

You're a sin that makes you doubt. And if you trace back to someone who goes, I'm really struggling in doubt. And you ask, you know, pastoral, you could say, well, when did this start? When did you first start having these real doubts? Not all the time.

Okay. But sometimes for people, that moment where the doubt first began can be traced back to when a sin got in control of their life. That's just reality. And if you deal with a sin, often the doubt just goes away. So that's why you have to target that to help the problem.

But, uh, but your question, yeah. Um, which one, which one, you know, are you or are someone else hypothetically, you know, which one is the person who's double-minded? That's a doubt issue. Um, sincere Christian struggling with sin describes. A lot of Christians, we all are dealing with sin issues and continually needing to come to Jesus. And so John, first John was written for that person. And it's, it's.

And it's like a hard pill to swallow first, John. It's super encouraging and helpful, but it's also like really scary too. It's just both because to be honest, when you're talking about people who are in that zone of I'm dealing with overwhelming amounts of sin in my life.

You go, well, I don't know if you're Christian or not. And you don't maybe know. And that is scary. And I want to comfort you if you are. And I want to warn you and bring you to Christ if you're not. And 1 John is trying to thread that needle and do both of those things. So I'll just read a couple of verses.

My little children, these things I write to you so that you may not sin. And if, Christian, anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. When you're struggling with sin and you think, am I really Christian? You can start to slide into this thing where you think, I'm going to earn my salvation through obedience. And then I can say, I'm definitely really saved now.

But actually, the way you handle sin is always the same. It's always with the grace of Jesus. It's always with the intercession of our advocate. He is the one who's paid. It's his blood that is still more than enough to pay for anything, including what you did 20 minutes ago. Absolutely.

So you don't want to slide into that. But then 1 John does the thing that you didn't want it to do. And it says, now by this, we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. And it just says, hey, your confidence. about your own real relationship with God is connected to your obedience to Jesus. But your forgiveness is not connected to your obedience to Jesus. Your forgiveness is connected to his intercession. Your assurances, your assurance is connected to...

When you look at your life and go, my life looks like I'm a real Christian. That does matter. And that is something biblical. And every time I say this, people make videos to tell me that I'm a works of salvation person. And you're not listening to me. Your works do nothing to save you, nothing to contribute to your salvation in any way, shape, or form. Your salvation and your assurance are two very different things. And this is just a demonstration of your sincerity.

your life of following Jesus. Now, I think a Christian's life can go like this. You can have times where you were down here and times where you were up here and things can change for us. That's just reality. But I'm not going to take away from what scripture says here because I have no right to do that. All right, question number five. It says here, oh, by the way, all the questions are already full.

And Sarah, she's my assistant who helps with this stuff. She tells me a lot of the questions you guys are asking in the live chat that I'm not answering today. Some of the reasons for that is because there are questions I've answered many times.

We have that clip search feature, BibleThinker.org. Go to the search button, then look for clip search. Click that, type your question in there, and I've already answered it. So I can still answer you, but that'll help you out. Andrea W. says, do you think...

wrathfulness is an attribute of God or that wrath is just a practical outworking of his attributes of justness and holiness. Thanks Mike. I pray for you and the ministry often. Thank you very much for those prayers, Andrea. Super appreciative for that. And I appreciate anybody out there who's praying for this ministry. I know a lot of people are. I get messages all the time. And I'm so grateful for you. I know it's needed. It's absolutely needed. I need it.

And I need so much mountains of wisdom right now for all the things that I'm planning for next year. So appreciate your guys' prayers. Is wrathfulness an attribute of God? I... Okay, so maybe someone who's a better theologian would answer this differently. I don't think so, and I'll give you one example of why that would be. So, wrathfulness is something that could not... exist in god in eternity that is here's a fancy term sans creation or without creation before

This is why you say sans creation, because if you say before God created the world, well, is it even before? Because there's no time. So how do you say before? So you just say sans creation, like outside of creation, without there being any creation, no created creatures, no created. substances, none of that stuff. Is God wrathful then? Or in that state? Then is even a weird term for that. So is he wrathful in that state? And I think the answer is no. It seems obviously no.

Is God loving in that state? Well, yes, God is love. And within the Trinity, there is a mutual love that exists within God and the persons of the Trinity. God's loving. Is he holy? Yes. Is he just? Yes. Is he true? Yes. Is he wrathful? I don't think so. I think wrath is a, now wrath, God's wrath is good. My wrath is bad. Okay.

My wrath does not work the righteousness of God, James says. So I have to be careful with my wrath. I always get it wrong. I always overdo it. I think it's selfish. I get blindsided or blind spots rather. And then I look back later and go, oh, and that was. I thought I was right. My cause was just. But as soon as I let my wrath control, I did things I shouldn't have. And that happens, you know, often. So I always, always exhibit self-control. But God, his wrath is perfect.

His wrath is right. His wrath is just. His wrath is good. But it seems as though it's always a response to sin. It's always a response to wickedness. And certainly, sans creation, there is no wickedness. There is no sin. Unless you're thinking God is just... angry about the potential sins or the sins that will one day come. You could argue for that and then maybe you could suggest that wrath is an attribute in that sense. But yeah, there's my thoughts on it. I don't know if...

God is described in the Bible as having wrath. He's described as being wrathful or acting in wrath. But I don't know off the top of my head of any time where... God's described, wrath is described as like an inherent attribute, like holy, God's holiness. Or God is love. That amazing statement in the New Testament. God, it just is love. That kind of thing. So there's another.

point for you all right number six this comes from dan dart art dart art says how much planning should you do before starting a christian channel how do you know when you're ready and it's time to post your first video and thanks thanks for all uh, you and the mods do. Yes. And thanks again. Thanks to the mods too. You guys don't get enough. Thanks. And I'm grateful. They, they deal with the live chat and man, it is a, it is a, it is a wild, it's the wild West, man.

And so you guys deal with that stuff and try to always keep it a positive environment. I'm grateful. So how much planning should you do? In a sense, I want to say not too much. And here's the reason why. If you're... When it comes to like social media, that's so easy to produce. It's so easy to just make a video and put it out there. If you wait till it's perfect, you will be waiting years before you put your first video out.

And a lot of what you have to do is on-the-job training when it comes to social media ministry. You know, if you're doing documentaries, okay, yeah, you're going to work for a year and make a video, okay? But if you're doing like... more casual like things that take less time to create i think the more practice you get the better so my first video on youtube was me uh because i used to teach guitar lessons

And I would always teach the students, one of the first things I taught them was how to get a pick out of a guitar, a guitar pick, how to get it out. You center it around the hole and you flip it over a certain way and the centrifugal force gets it out. So I made a video about that.

it was like less than a minute probably here's how to get a pick out of a guitar do this do this and then i did not think that was a good video it wasn't even an attempt to be a good video i wanted to see what would happen when i clicked upload on youtube

i was it was an experiment i want to see what does this do what does it look like what menus do show up on screen what do i what do i think as i see the video um as i play it back you just need to like learn this the hard way because it's not intuitive you don't know how to do youtube well Naturally, you need to learn or podcast well. So I would recommend just go for it. Now, that being said, you need if you're going to have a go for mentality, which you kind of need, you need to have like.

Real good self-awareness on the things you don't know so that you don't overstate and overstep. And if you don't have this self-awareness, the comments will provide it to you because all of a sudden you experience this when you go online. You have so many people who have strong opinions about everything you say that you are exposed to things like a pastor in church never knows.

the kind of things people think about their sermons that they would never say out loud but the but the same pastor who puts that sermon on youtube he'll read all about it in the comments. And it's also divorced from relationships, so it's often more harsh or more judgmental or more one-sided where they saw something they didn't like and they just assumed a bunch of other stuff and then blah, blah, blah. But that's not entirely bad.

This creates in you, you should read your comments. Okay. Try to get the thick skin to be able to read your comments and learn from it and learn to discern what's going on in the comments and how people are applying because you will become more self-aware. I say all this because. When I first started uploading online, I was under a lot of scrutiny and still am that helped me to get better at scrutinizing myself. And that was a healthy thing. So there's a few thoughts for you. Yeah.

causes you to slow down to not assume too much to not maybe be as bold and other times to be more bold because you realize you should all right i probably gave you more than you asked for but i'm hoping that helps more than just you because i really want to see more christians creating content online

Andrew's bad theology says could, that's funny. That's funny. Um, could Genesis five, five mean Adam's 930 years began after the fall. So he and Eve lived much longer in the garden. Romans 5.12 says death came through sin. Did Adam start dying then? Interesting. Let's look at Genesis 5.5. Is this dating Adam's 930 years?

from his, not his birth, his creation moment or from the fall. Okay. So I think the answer is right here in the text. So we're going to read it carefully. Read this one verse and read it really carefully. Okay. All the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. Okay, the key word I want to read really carefully here is lived. This describes what the 930 years consisted of.

The 930 years consisted of years Adam lived. Was Adam living in the garden before the fall? Yes. It's not years that he was dying. It's years that he was alive, was living. So that would seem to answer it. Also, we have the greater context, which is all of these other people that are talked about in Genesis 5. There's name after name after name and all these different dates.

Those dates go from their birth. They don't go from some later time in their life, like maybe hitting puberty or something else like that. It's just meant to encompass the whole time they've been alive. The whole time they've been alive. So Adam lived 130 years. There it is again. He lived. Then he fathered his son in his own likeness after his image and named him Seth. So I think that answers that question. Good question. Awesome to just see.

paying attention to the verse really carefully answers these questions a lot. It's surprising how well written the Bible is that it just answers our questions with stuff that's built into it. Okay, question number eight. This is anonymous.

How do we deal with a family member, a brother who is actively teaching a false gospel Hebrew roots, but Jesus is not God. Okay. So Hebrew roots. So he's this, for those who don't know, I have a series. I've like a series of videos on Hebrew roots, which I.

randomly mentioned earlier in the stream um this is a movement that is varied okay there's some who are believers in it or some who are not believers in it um but some people who get involved i don't think it's i don't think it's right i think that we shouldn't be holding this view but

I would handle people differently depending on where they're at in the movement, right? This is my brother, we disagree, or it's like, that's a heretic. There's a difference. Many of them end up rejecting Paul, not all of them, but some of them do. And in this case, rejecting Jesus as God. Because what they do is they often get fascinated by Jewishness and enamorated by it. Enamorated? That's a word. Enamored? That's the word I'm looking for. Enamorated.

So they get just sort of obsessed with copying Judaism. And then you start to see Jewish people as more of an authoritative source for understanding. Religious and spiritual things and then that slowly turns into you embracing Jewish anti-christian beliefs anti Messianic beliefs anti Jesus beliefs, which Is a real tragedy So we're not Jews, guys. We're Gentiles. If you're a Jew, you're a Jew. And if you're a Jew who's put his faith in Jesus, the Messiah, then...

You're you're a Christian. Okay, you may not use the term Maybe you prefer a messianic or I'm a completed Jew and I don't care what term you use but we're we're brothers in Christ But but you don't Gentiles don't become Jews and Jews don't become Gentiles. That's not what we get in the New Testament. So you're like, you have a brother who's actively teaching a false gospel or someone has a brother. Hebrew roots, but not Jesus. Hebrew roots.

But Jesus is not God. They're adding that element to it. He has started his own group in person and is also sharing online. This is... So you have to try to thread a needle that may be impossible, okay? But you attempt to thread the needle. So you have a couple different... I hate people use the word tension too much, but you have a couple different truths that you need to...

do both of these things. And one of them is you've got to love your brother, be gracious, be kind, be praying for him, be desiring of his salvation and for his good. You have to also Romans 14 live. In as much as it's possible, is it 13? In as much as it's possible with you, live peaceably with all men. And so try to live peaceably. Can you seek peace between you guys in your relationship? Do that as best you can.

as best you can it may not work but you did what you could then you have the other side which is that you must contend for the faith once and for all delivered to the saints like this is an actual thing we're told to do here let's look at it It says here, Beloved, although I was very eager, this is Jude 3, I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation. I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered.

to the saints and this doesn't just mean in your own heart you're trying to have good theology it means you're dealing with creeps right creeps because it says for certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only master and Lord Jesus Christ. Ah, so contend for the faith.

This is super interesting. Jude is not writing this to just elders or pastors or something, right? He's writing this just to Christians. He goes, Christians, every one of you is to contend for the faith. And that means confrontation of false teaching. of wrong theology. And you, in a sense, you level up the confrontation more depending on how many people they're influencing and hurting. And so you've got to try to do both of those. You won't do it perfectly, but...

If you're in America... Well, I'll put it this way. You'll most likely be drawn towards... one side or the other i'll live peaceably and you know just kind of like be a good brother or sister who just loves this person and tries to have a relationship with them or you'll be pushed to the other side where you actually don't care about them you just see the theology you want to defeat

You've got to do both. Try to do both. And when you do both, it will change the way in which you do the confrontations. And may God give you wisdom in it. If it's you, maybe it's somebody else. Okay, I cannot pronounce this next name.

Uh, I can't even try. I'm going to call you, uh, gel it. Okay, so when we pray, should we be specific or is that trying to control God? So I get the feeling like you want to respect God immensely at all times. And so you feel like a sense of, this is not bad. You feel like a sense of trepidation in prayer. Lord, I don't want to be overstepping in any way. But the way in which we submit to God in prayer is not by not asking for specific things, but it's, I think, by not asking for carnal things.

James says, you know, you ask a miss that you may spend it on your pleasures. So not doing that. I'm not asking for things to spend on my pleasures. I'm asking for things that are, to my knowledge, part of me seeking first God's kingdom and his righteousness. And so I'm asking for those things. But we have so many examples in scripture of specific prayers being asked.

over and over again like Gideon he's like hey let the fleece be wet and the ground be dry no I'll let the ground be wet and the fleece be dry this next time that's like a very specific prayer but it's for the purpose that he might do what that he might respond to what he thinks might be a call from God to do

something really big and scary. So he's doing this so he can confirm and move forward and serve God. So that's a real specific prayer. We have lots of specific prayers in scripture. We have the... The specific provision of God for individual things as well, where God just, he just does real specific stuff. We know that, you know, the hairs on your head are numbered by God, that he cares about you. He really does.

And so specific prayers are fine. Now, it can become, I think there can be an unhealth in praying for God to just make your life convenient constantly. Lord, I'd like it to be sunny today. I think it'd be nice to have a sunny day. Can I have a sunny day today? Oh, Lord, I just...

I pray that I get a good parking spot so I don't have to walk very far to get to the store. And I pray I run into a friend today. I'd just like to see a friend. It'd be nice to run into a friend. And if it's good, and oh, Lord, I pray that...

the manager of the restaurant comes up and says my meals on the house. And I mean, this is, this is like weird stuff. So we're not doing that. We want to pray in a way that seeks first God's kingdom and his righteousness, but it's okay to pray for specific things. We have good examples of that.

Number 10, last question for today. It says, oh, okay. I got to tell you guys, hold on, hold on before I go to 10. This is the name I couldn't even attempt to pronounce. I'll tell you guys what it is. He told us in the live chat. So it's P-N-U-T-B-U-T-A-G-E-L-I-T-Y-M-E. I was like, I don't know what that is. Maybe it's something sketchy. I was like, I'm not going to try to say it out loud. It's apparently peanut butter jelly time. No, I love it. Peanut butter jelly time. There you go.

Next question. Simple Bible Truth says, in a generation that grew up scrolling, how can we overcome it? It's not inherently sinful, but it sucks up so much of our time today. Biblical advice on this. Love your ministry. Big help to me. Thanks, man. So, or woman, I don't know if I have the best answer for you on this. So let me just talk to you like it's one brother to another.

Anytime you have something like this that is like an ongoing behavior that you feel may not be healthy, you have a category for this in scripture. Hebrews talks about this. I actually just did a men's retreat with my church, and I taught at it a couple times, and I was going through this very concept. And I think I was talking about screen time as well. And I went through this verse in Hebrews that mentions this category of...

Not just sins, but things that cause weights, weights, like heavy things that weigh you down. And this could be that, right? It says, therefore, since we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, Hebrews 12, 1. Let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely. And I see these as two different things. Okay, that's my understanding of this Hebrews interpretation here of Hebrews 12.

There's sin and there are weights. And these are not the same thing, although weights can become sin. But when you have a category for, it doesn't mean it's sinful, but it might be weighing me down. it gives you the ability to make some good decisions about things like your screen time so in a generation that has grown up doing it if you're aware it's a problem Back off until you're aware that it's not a problem. There'd be like a good piece of advice. You may find this to be really challenging.

So I know there's apps. You can limit your screen time with apps. You can create some kind of accountability that's there. What you need more than anything though is just the willpower, right? That says, okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this regardless of how hard it is. I'm just going to do it. That's an important step you have to take.

But yeah, if you want to set aside something that's a weight, it's for a purpose, as it was in Hebrews there, so that you can run with endurance the race set before us. So if you're setting aside a weight... Do something else instead. Instead of being on my phone, I'm going to go and spend some time with my family. I'm going to go and read the word. I'm going to go do this other thing, this other positive thing. I'm going to take care of the chores I should be doing. I'm going to...

Start applying for jobs again. And I'm actually going to mean it this time and not just use it as a stall tactic. That's for someone out there. Take away the thing that's distracting you, but then go do the thing it's distracting you from.

that's that'd be the important thing but this is something we all have to be concerned about you know you say you're a generation that grew up with screens i didn't grow up with screens like that but it's affecting my generation and the people older than me i think just as much okay just as much

Because it's just so easy. And you just find yourself, I found myself doing this, reaching for my phone and I don't even, I don't consciously know why. And that to me was a red flag. I don't even know why. So then I get in a habit where I get my phone.

And I pull it out and I don't know why. And then I just don't I don't turn it on. I just realize that and stick it back in my pocket. And I was like, OK, no, no pulling my phone out without reasons. There's a nice little rule to try to have in my life.

But I need to get better at this as well. So this is all good advice for me too. And we want to lay aside those weights. Let me close with this verse and then we'll pray. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin. which clings so closely. And let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross.

despising the shame and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Let's do that. Let's do that. We have work to do as Christians. We have incredible, great work to do. You're the literal light of the world.

Right? Jesus said that about himself. Then he turned and said it to us. He goes, yeah, because I'm making you the light of the world now. I want you to be a city on a hill, be about it, be about ministry, lay aside the sin and wait so that you can serve the Lord and push forward his kingdom in every way possible. All right, let's pray.

Father, we thank you for your truth. We thank you for your word. We thank you for the grace of Jesus Christ that sustains us. There's no way we could stand before you or even pray to you, Father, right now, except through Christ who intercedes for us. is our perfect advocate who clothes us in his righteousness and brings us to you, washes our sins away. And we pray Lord that you'd open our eyes to see sins and weights.

And that you'd set our feet on the path to run with endurance, not just to cling to Jesus. We want to do that, but we want to run for Jesus too. And we ask that you would stir up more and more of that because the world needs to see Christians running in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. All right, guys. Sometimes I give you a little update. I'll give you a little update here at the very end of the video. I'm still working on a video on Todd White. And uncovering some stuff that needs to be uncovered there. This is not about gossip. I have plenty of evidence. I've got plenty. Too much evidence, actually. That's why it's taking me so long. I've got a file.

basically a project of 10 hours worth of content that I'm trying to pull out just the stuff I need because it's so much. In addition, there's emails and there's other things as well, but that's still coming. My goal here is not to produce drama, is not to titillate the ears, but rather there is, I believe, again, I'm going to harp on this a little bit longer still this year and maybe even a little bit into next year. There's, I believe, a culture of cover-up.

that isn't particularly bad in the charismatic church. I know some of you are thinking, Mike, it's elsewhere too. What about the SBC? And it's like, well, I thought that was pretty well publicly exposed, wasn't it? But I obviously can't expose everything. I'm just one guy. But it's different.

In the charismatic world. Because when you add. I'm also a prophet. I'm the anointed of God. I have a prophecy for you. And you add those elements into an abuser. And maybe if someone's really doing that. That's great. If those things are true. Then serve the Lord. But when you make those claims and you're actually an abuser and a manipulator, it empowers your abuse and manipulation to go to levels. You could just never go if you weren't charismatic. It's just a sad reality of it.

Um, and people go there and then others hide it or at least refuse to expose and help, help expose the bad guys and help the victims. So these videos are to try to help change that culture in the church because I think that it can be changed and I think that charismatics would want to change it if they just knew about it. So I'm going to help you know about it. For examples in particular where there is big time...

leaders, influential leaders who are behind the scenes networking in ways that produce this cover up culture and prevent accountability while they continue to hurt individuals. Just another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust. And Todd White.

is one of those guys and others around him have helped empower him and I would give you their names but I'm going to wait for the video to come out and then then you'll get their names because some of them might try to stop me so it'll just be surprise all right that's about it i will see you guys uh next next friday i think is the plan um i don't think i have any other live streams planned before then oh wait

We're going to be out of town. Is that Thanksgiving? I guess I'm out of town. I have to look at the calendar. Alright, I'm out of town next week. So two weeks from now, maybe? I don't remember. my calendar. I'll see you in some point in the future. That's it. I'm done. Sayonara.