 Excited as I could possibly be. I don't know why I know why actually I know I know a very good reason why one there's several reasons One reason why I am extremely excited is because I have not seen you all live in Four days, which is kind of unthinkable but since Namely because we tend to go live what every day every other day or at least four or five times a week Had what was it December 29th was the last live stream and guys I am rested. I am fully recuperated even though. I was sick over Christmas got better Sunday, no Saturday was the first day that I was healthy completely healthy. No symptoms. No nothing So I feel good and then I missed you guys. I missed you guys. I'm happy to be back But there's also some things that I've been waiting to kind of do Wanted to get some things straight nothing is always Perfect or the right way or as good as you want it in many cases, but It's time that we go ahead and do it and so That being the case. I want to cover three things today Three maybe four who knows them maybe five, but definitely three things three big things I missed you to see this I missed you and your your glasses and your beautiful bald head and even you people who are unfortunate to have hair Missed you guys too. Missed all of you guys a whole lot has happened over the last few days hadn't it a lot in the Christian atmosphere or should I say the non-Christian fake Christian atmosphere, but we may talk about that later But I want to cover a couple things By the way Over the break my dog bit me. I mean she bit me good. I Listen almost killed her I want I wanted to kill her but that would have been wrong to report back to you that One of the dogs is no longer with us, but she bit me and it's always been my thought that if you bite me You can't stay here anymore, but she bit me and if it wasn't for the fact those kids were down the hallway Rosie would have been gone not coconut Rosie So anyway, but she's old. She didn't know any better. So anyway, but there's three main things that we're going to cover the first thing the first thing people ask Corey I want one of those shirts Corey where can I get one of those shirts? Corey? What about the website? Well dog on it? We got the website up for you. Here it is. The website is Finally Finally up and running now there might be there might be some hiccups because again, it's the first time I'll tell you why the why the whole delay in just a second But you can go on here You can go and catch some of the videos that will be updating videos more and more as we as we go And so also one of things you can do we you can cover different doctrines This part is going to be added to as we go as well So different ways obviously something about salvation and Eternal security and the Holy Spirit and the Trinity and so forth. So many other things will be added such as an end times part to it The Bible study is going to be offered as well We may or may not stream live the Bible studies here. We may or may not do so Also, by the way, this one is going to be updated every day when I say every day Oh, don't allow every day. It's gonna be updated every day. What is this? This is the church sir. So if you are looking for a church, just go ahead and zoom on in Let me sell it if I can figure this thing out dog on it. Here we go Currently we don't have any churches in Cuba Zoom in Corey. I'm not even I'm not even doing this thing problem using this little trackpad over here but anyway We're gonna be adding more churches What was funny is you click on one of these things? Let's see which one. Oh, okay, but I didn't mean click on that Okay, Bible fellowship. What is this one bright star Bible church in Glenpool, Oklahoma? Here's a church in Arkansas first in LR Bible church or whatever this is and so we've got that we've got that going Well, I just did something done. Okay, and then also The shop part if you want to finally shop the shirts, there are different shirts by the way These shirts are going to be Can you tell I'm excited by the way these shirts are going to be the different shirts and so forth are going to be updated So if you want to order for yourself or your children and so forth whatever God said this one right here is Jesus Christ his preferred pronouns are I am Let me go back a little bit. I haven't actually haven't gone. There's all myself the sweatshirts and so forth What are they and by the way? the way this is done is the way she set this up and It may change But you go to the different designs and then you add the designs on there They are you add the different designs and pick your own little color scheme. So There you go. Now, they're gonna be updated. They're gonna be changing so forth there's some changes that That we have already talked about in terms of what we're going to do with with the designs and and even the The store that we go through So there and listen there may or may not be some hiccups in the very beginning or not. I'm not we're not sure we We're just now testing it ourselves. So but then here's the other thing now You all know that I have never Never ever ever asked you guys I feel like I feel like Miss Celia in the color purple I've never asked you off for anything. I've never I've never wanted to ask you guys for any donations I've never wanted to ask you guys to subscribe What wouldn't win the channel first started because that's a YouTube thing to do ask folks to subscribe to like and just And to share but I don't usually do that. I don't usually ask folks to subscribe I every now and then if that's someone else says it in chat to them to like I'll tell yeah Go ahead and like the video. I don't think I've ever told you want to share the video Maybe I've done it once However, that's gonna change here's the reason why because one of the delays and also something else I've never wanted to ask anybody. I've never wanted to ask anybody to give something to me I just I feel guilty about that now people have been people have offered donations and support and so forth Well, whatever and so forth. However, that's going to change If a person still wants to donate to let's say me personally you still could but Primarily the links that you'll have to donate are going to be to Smart Christians the actual organization. Here's why I would ask you to donate to support for a couple of reasons one To support what's done offline. Here's what's done offline providing Bibles and Bible studies and Bible study materials to people who are in other countries who do not have access to it People in different countries who cannot get a Bible or prisoners here and abroad in America and abroad who need Bibles you would think that in an American prison People would have Bibles. They don't or they might have old ragged Bibles But they can get from the from the church or the chapel library But then return those unless they get permission to have them and so in this way You can help support inmates or people to actually get the word of God in their hands and to get study materials also what what what your support and donations are going to go to is to support youth throughout the country but primarily locally Through different youth ministries to make sure that these kids can grow up knowing the Lord and growing in the Lord That's the whole reason not to give to me But to give to them and so there's a couple ways you can go about doing it as you want if you want to you can go On to the page. Let's go back to the page as well There's three ways you can do it or a few ways you can do it one You just hit the little give link and I think this deal work By the way, there's a little video of me telling you what you're giving for and then you can give either through PayPal You can give through your through credit credit card or debit card. However, that works. You can do the cash app Smart smart Christian You can go through Zell or or guess what else you can do guys you could also go through Patreon why because now we have a patreon account now the patreon account There are different tiers. They're actually five tiers. There's the the $10 $20 50 and 100 but guess what there's also the free. Here's the reason why I Feel guilty about asking someone to give and there might be someone who can't give or they want to give or someone Who can give more than the next person? I don't want them to give something or not or want to give something But miss out on what those who could give and so being a part of patreon. There's gonna be some benefits to patreon There's going to be one There's gonna be times where I sit down and go through a study What you guys see oftentimes is me going through it with the notes and everything are prepared But what about actually going through an actual lesson and looking things up? What about going through studying the Greek just basic bare bones Greek or Hebrew study that will be there also There are things that you cannot say and publish and put on YouTube talking about the LGBTQ community or talking about the presidential election or That covert stuff. Yeah, that'll get you in trouble on on patreon We're gonna we're gonna go as far as we can go. So we'll do all of those things He says it's Cory KD or Ruslan minor. 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It is going to be almost exclusively Dockery thing now there'd be sometimes where we're going to have Some things that will kind of kind of cross over. Let's say the whole issue with with TD jakes or William Murphy, whoever else that will be on the other channel smart Christian life Which by the way, the name is probably more likely going to change so it doesn't look totally like this one But that channel is going to be more of this So we'll still have those and we'll still do live stream that one will be kind of the more fiery me I think this one will be almost exclusively just doctrine if you want to say it's boring fine You'll hear more Greek and Hebrew over here than you will over there You won't see as you might see someone's face on a thumbnail over here But it's to go over a particular doctrine or study and then you're we're going to see an increase on guests on the channel for example Layton flowers is going to be joining us sometime soon. Not sure well iron that out. There's going to be another brother who is an author He's a dispensational author talking about the history of dispensationalism and so forth So they're going to be some people they're going to come on and they'll be over here as well as on patreon And then someone as layman says will there will I have a discord? I absolutely will not have a discord because my time is stretched But what I will do is I will try to I won't say prioritize before the lack of for lack of a better way of saying prior to a prioritize I Will try to deal with the with the chats and so forth over on patreon More so than I will why because it's a it's just a hodgepodge of people that leave comments and so forth on YouTube YouTube you just never know who it is Patreon you have to you have to take concerted effort to do so and so to go over there and to leave a comment I'll I'll try to go over there and answer the questions over there Also, let me go back to the to the website. Where's it? Let me click back on it And I want you to see something two things are actually being are being fixed up one The search topic this week we just discovered we've got to fix this a little bit But if you go to the search up to search and you type in let's say salvation Well, then you're going to get a drop-down of different topics dealing with salvation well, it's going to take a bit of a bit of Undertaking to get all of those things up and going Okay, all of the different videos and so forth all different topics and so at some point time you'll be able to You'll be what did I say you'll be able to type in a particular topic you'll be able to type into I Don't know Greek you'll type in Holy Spirit. You'll type in Creamation you'll type in whatever topic and they'll eventually show up Then we're also going to end up putting up other people's articles and videos not mine But others who have something worthwhile to say on it as well All right, so you're going to see that and then also if you drop down let's go back to the to the website If you want to send it well first of all if you have an issue a question problem Go ahead and type in your name Your email and then your message and then hit submit and it will come right to info at smart Christians Or okay, so now that's that's how that's going to work. I think there was something else I'm not sure just yet what it was. It'll probably click in my head in just a little bit, but That's that so I'm going to as often as you hear me say it I'm going to push the the whole patreon and the website and so forth And then you'll hear us ask for support if you never do you're fine if you never do I promise you I'm not bothered if a person does I don't want to I won't be pushy about it because I'm fine. I'm fine financially. I'm fine, you know now if someone wants to Send something directly to me and they want to go over to the other channel and do a super chat or super Thanks over. Hey have that I'll never ask you do so but over here I will ask you for the sake of other people getting the word of God the gospel and sound teaching and just for other kids to Young folks teenagers people in junior high and high school and younger to learn and grow and have fellowship with other Teens who are desirous to learn more of God and growing. Amen. So that's that is so again I encourage you all to do just that I would love it would do me wonder if by the way if you go to patreon There's only one thing up there right now. There'll be about five or ten in the next couple of days Matter of fact, let's go back over to patreon real quick. If you go there You'll see where is it? There's there's only one post right there only because I wanted to see How this thing worked and so there's one post, but you're gonna see Some posts in the next day. You're gonna see several posts. And so I'll I'll be intentional About doing that. Okay, and so I'm gonna ask you guys to please Join the patreon for free for 10 for whatever you want to do as well as Subscribe to the to the website by the way when I say subscribe There's going to be a newsletter that's gonna come out each month now whether it be this first month or not We're not totally sure But there's going to be a newsletter that's gonna come to you with other different contributors as well So that being the case That's the first thing I'm excited about and so Let me take a breath second thing This entire year has been a year So the third thing we're gonna do the second thing we're gonna do the second thing out of the three things We're gonna talk about is this year specifically my year my year has been a wonderful year and People don't realize this when I say this they don't realize when I say that I Don't have any real worries Any problems I have problems and I have things that concern me I do but They don't move me like maybe they would some other people or Like they used to in the past and this is what I want you guys to hear This is this is me and my heart. There's always gonna be something I Learn I'm like I'm like I'm like Joe and Joe gets this especially when you're down When you're when you're down and out when you're when you feel like God has got a thumb on you and he's putting all of his Weight on you you begin to see him and hear him clearly, right? It's like little kids you call them two three four times They don't answer when you yell at them or you or you throw a shoe at them now you got their attention. Yes. Yes, ma'am Yes, sir. Well, that's how it was with me and and God and so After going through that I was like Joe Shall shall I only take the good from gut from God and not the bad Whatever I get from God is from God and I've learned to appreciate. I'm like Paul in whatever state I'm in I have learned to be content. How content am I so content? Listen My kids have asked hey daddy. Are you are you are you gonna get us a new car? No, I'm content I'm content in the in the little car that we that we have why it works It gets us to where we're trying to get to I'm content with was just living. I'm content with life You know why because I've seen a whole lot. I've seen some trash Some I've seen I've had some wounds some self-inflicted some by others I've gone through enough not just the last year, but previous so that 2023 didn't stand a chance in terms of getting me down. There were different obstacles But when I look at them, I had no big deal as a matter of fact The way I look at obstacles now is that it's gonna be something to smile it and laugh at in another few weeks Another few months another few years. That's how I look at that even even when when mama died You know what? I can sit back and smile one because I know I believe she's in heaven But two I think back on the memories and what she taught me and that I finally got it The fact that she placed her faith in Christ and that she didn't have to be here things just don't get me down like they used to things don't get me down like other people want to and That is just something that I have learned by the way have there been people that have tried to get me down Yes, and my my my response is still the same. Oh, well You have a problem with me. You can do one of two things One you can come and talk to me and let me know or to My daughter will know this when I say this I said I don't I don't normally say this other other people So I'm gonna say this now the second thing you can do you can just kick godly rocks You can you can kick you can kick devil rocks You can kick rocks you can move on because if you don't want to say it to me well, then why should I address it? I'm open for you to speak something to me and kiss my grits all of those things and If you say it to me, I have the option of one doing something about it Addressing it hearing you out or depend on how you say it I might just ignore you because there are folks that have said things to me in just the most ungodly or just idiotic fashions It happens. That's the world we live in people are going to do and say some crazy things, right? You all know that I know that and so because of that I have learned to deal with people There have been matter-of-fact me you all know there's a certain person that has made several videos about me What did I do? Can I be honest with you guys? It cannot out without saying the person name because the person name doesn't bear mentioning Especially the fact that the person talks tough, but will not call me or Do you all recall over the last several months the last few months? I would have these live streams and put the link out on YouTube and Just say hey anyone that wants to come on come on even if you're making videos about me What have you come on? I won't know you're coming on until you come on, right? And I've I've sent out subtle shots to his people tell them come on You want to talk to me? You can come on. You know why because it doesn't matter one I know he's lying to I know a lot more, but do y'all do y'all want to know something about this? This is how I move. I'm not the same way Do you know this this person someone sent me this person's I'll say this He may not even know this. He'll know now Someone actually sent me someone actually sent me his a federal background report on this person federal background report Man, it's not as crystal clean as as folks might want to be I could share that I Could I could but I'm not I'm not I'm not gonna do the same thing That's not me. I'm not I'm not into those things I'm not for the tip the tit for tat back for it, but I did want to hey Come on. Let's let's say if you want to have this conversation have a conversation or call me Call me if you want to meet up face to face which Certain people don't want to do that which is fine I'm not I'm not gonna do anything. Let's just have a conversation if you think I'm if you think I'm this person If you think I'm vile if you think I'm lying think okay fine But what I what you know what what what made me feel good this year In spite of people saying that even my testimony was fraud it was a lie Do you know the people that were actually there that's gone through it? They came on and said differently they the folks that kept kept with me I Don't know who he's talking about the folks that know me who know my good my bad the dirt so I Don't win the reason why I'm saying so you guys is that you cannot worry about what the enemy wants to do And oh by the way, sometimes the enemy will use a brother or sister or you someone who looks like a brother sister or just Let's use an actual demon himself And so I have learned not to be bothered not to fret not to be upset No, none of those things have you seen what has happened in my life the more it's almost though the more that people have tried to Do things to me say things about me all of those things the more that they've tried to curse me and get me in All these things the more that I've kept my eyes on God. Do you know the more God has blessed me? The more he has blessed me. We're not rich, but we haven't missed bills We haven't we haven't missed eating we've been able to do things Can I can I take a trip to to Hawaii when I feel like it? No Could I get on one of those virgin galactic ships and go to the outer space? No, I can't do that I don't have that kind of money, but I have I have enough to pay the light bills We got enough to do that. I'm fine The channel is doing fine matter of fact both channels are doing fine So we're good the grandkids are healthy the kids are healthy Dog on it the cats healthy and the dog that bit me to help is healthy the other dog coconut She's got some allergies, but she's fine too the whole how everybody's fine What should I complain about and I'm saying this about me for your benefit? What in the world is there to complain about cuz somebody said somebody had the audacity to say something about you Huh perishable. I'm 51. Do you know how long folks have been saying something about me? Well, since I was one, I guess as far as I can remember my brother says something about he called me all kind of names When I got the kindergarten kids talked about me when I got the first and second grade kids I talked about other kids. I've been talked about. I feel like the song been lied on mistreated talk But I've had all these things happen and I'm good. I am good Ask my children ask my wife ask I listen People will say Corey You don't my wife will act mine. She'll tell you I don't seem to show as much emotion as you want That's just me. That's that's just me and now are there times where I want to you know what I would like to see you Sir, there's this thing that we used to do Most people Most people will go and and do a whole lot of talking and this and that or what have you and so while I was in my federal tour Now we we kind of did this but it's really hard to do it in prison because the ramifications can be different But when someone goes to running their mouth and saying this and saying that in front of a bunch of people You kind of see the telltale signs that they're just running their mouth and then you ask them why they're by themselves. Excuse me What were you saying? And they said no listen what I was saying was and then alright, okay, so I Have learned not to be bothered by them as a matter of fact I have learned not to repay evil for evil and boy it gets listen There are some times you want to there's some times you want to go to type in There's some times you want to go to emailing go on the on on the Facebook machine and the Twitter machine and so forth They're just going to go to slang and mud There are there are times But then you got to lay your head on the pillow You got to lay down and you have to face God you have to deal with God Cory, why did you do that? Because God he said this about me Cory. Why because she did that a book but wait a minute wait a minute That the scripture says that you will be you are going to suffer some persecution Hopefully is for your sake. Hold on. Let me see what Hopefully is for God's sake and not for because sometimes you get persecuted because you deserve you You are you're an idiot you did dumb stuff and so that's not God That's not you being persecuted for his sake. That's just you just yeah, you're getting it right now Let me see what hold on let me read this thing I got to read out of this part of the glasses not this part of the glasses because I'm 51 But you have to face him not the other person Because all the people that have something to say about you if that person goes away I can promise you the enemy's gonna replace that person with someone else and so you know what keep this person Let's let let's let this person say something all they want They're over there let them keep sense matter of fact the more they're barking the more I know I'm doing alright And so like I said, I'm fine. Let me tell you I am so fine How fine are you Cory? Well, I'm so fine that Cat is doing good The cat is a nut by the way. He is he is he just he is something else. He's amazing The dogs are doing good except for one, but she's still doing good The grandkids are doing good We got one little little grand kid the little one year. I think he's I think he's he might get into a couple fights His big brother is more What's the word he more under control more comforting more orderly? Whereas his little brother he'll fight you Fight just as as a one-year-old even my grandchildren my granddaughters They are eight and one of just her 1313 Lord God pray for society because she's a another 13-year-old girl is on the loose My children are doing well. They could be better obviously But I love my death and then my wife is doing well They are they my wife is dedicated to her to her job. I Wish she I wish she would leave because I don't I don't like people I Want everyone to treat my wife like she's the greatest thing since life's bread I want everybody look at my wife as though that there's a trinity And then her right that's how I want you to treat her. I don't want any extra Stuff I don't I don't want her to be bothered I don't want her to be upset and that's really the biggest the biggest concern that I have That's how good my life is. That's how great things are are there some things that could be better. Yes, there are Yes, there are but In the grand scheme of things only what you do for Christ will remain That's it. Yes, love you will Only what you do for Christ will remain and so that brings me to the third thing that I want to talk about because Everybody is talking about Everybody's talking about, you know, all these things are gonna happen in 2024 can I get can I while I fix this by the way I got a watch for No, I got a watch and I've never been a jewelry-wearing person But I got a watch and I'm still trying to get used to this thing. Hold on. Hold on. Let me there it is I got a I got a watch. I Can't use it yet It okay. It's doing something. I don't know what it's doing. I have no idea what this thing is doing It's this little Apple watch. I don't know how to use it yet, but I think it looks cool I don't know what it's doing. I can make it tell time that part. I could do I'm gonna figure out how to answer this the phone with this thing eventually But I tried before and I've hung up on some people but Yeah, I'm still I'm still figuring this thing out, but it can tell time so I'm good But you see everyone having all of these statements about 2024 Prophecies from 2023 the ones that failed the ones that didn't can I just tell you this can I just tell you this? Let me let me give you a prophecy Let me just I want this to be abundantly clear to you all It is a brand new year New year no question But it's the same guy New year But the same Jesus New year But the same word Nothing about him has changed The year has changed God is not turning his huh. I'll see is 2023. Let me change the count. That's not God He is not doing that. He is you know what? God is not celebrating at the stroke of midnight of 2023 now and no that's not him the Lord is not certainly not at one of those Atlanta dream center church watch parties that the great bishop William Murphy had no no no no he's got things said already He's the same God as the Bible says the same yesterday today and forever more and so the day doesn't change now We do that because we feel like it's a fresh start. No, it's not. Let me just news flash 2024 it's not a fresh start Hello Jeremy, how are you doing brother? It's not a fresh start It's a continuation of The last year the last week the last month Whatever consequences are going to be brought forth from what was happened 2023. They're not gonna stop because the calendar changed Whatever rewards or penalties are gonna come they're gonna come The Lord is still sovereign as he was in 23 22 21 2019 do y'all remember when I don't know some of y'all over there, but I'll never forget when Prince's song This is an early 80s came out 1999 this so 2000 zero zero party over it's out of time. I mean my brother set on the on the porch one night Just thinking about this just pontificating What is life going to be like in? 1999 just could not fathom life in in the future now. This was the early 80s We're talking about a good 15 16 17 years from that time gonna be a long time to 1999 Where is it? I had this little thing. Oh, here it is This this was this when I was in 19 with that song come out 82 83 I'm not sure I can remember the song came out, but we were listening to because he's always played around New Year's Eve But I'll remember I'll never forget. This was you know a technology what gaming looked like back then This was this was my game. I haven't opened this thing Any of you all remember this? Some of the fellas might remember this this the and it still works. It's still in the box the electronic football game before they had Nintendo and Tecmo Bowl and and Sega what do they have now? Xbox PlayStation what up? What am I missing those little video games? Yeah, this this was it So red dot that's moving around and you go up and down. There's a few other dice I can't get you that was and you sit in the back seat or somewhere. You just playing this thing I'm a little little red Corvette. So this was it. You know, I got this by the way My mother bless her heart when I'm in my federal tour. She says what can I send you something? She wants to send me this game mama, you can't send that in that's contraband You gonna get me you don't get me in trouble. You can't send this in. She's saying why not? I why can I mama you can't send this and that's not it's not how prison works One day I'm gonna take it out and play it. I'm gonna take it out and play it, but Yeah, I had a yeah. Yeah, kind of right. I had that Prince poster over my head Some of y'all know that story Had the Prince poster in our bedroom. We moved into the apartment and the Prince poster was still there somebody put it up and We're looking at it and it is the weirdest it's the weirdest Prince picture boy should not have this Prince picture girl shouldn't either but still We are looking at this picture one day in the room and I looked at him and he looked at me and And We just came to the conclusion to tell each other listen brother. I'm not gay I'm not gay with me neither. Why do we have this poster up? I thought you like the post when I thought you like and we took that poster down mama came in and asked Why where's the post that we took it down? Well, I take that because we're not gay Well, I thought you liked it. No, she said I don't like it either So here we've got this poster up and nobody likes it. We just thought all the others I'm so glad that pictures gone. It's a go up and look at this. It's a Prince poster He was it's from the early 80s. He's in the shower. It's just it's it's a weird No boys should ever have his poster And so you're kind of remember that I can't believe you remember that so you're kind of right, but yeah, that was I'm so glad I'm so glad so but The reason why I want to you that because we're not gonna come on here and not go go through the scriptures. I Want you I want you. Yeah. Yeah, friend Prince was Prince was different Prince was something else Prince is a category all unto himself Prince versus Michael. It's not even close. You look what he just said. He said Prince versus Michael Listen, can we just let's just settle this here. Let's just settle this here Michael Michael it ain't even close Yeah, what were you guys doing? What were you guys doing in 1983? October 1983 October 31st to be to be exact 1983 Yeah, Prince couldn't shut down a whole date Everybody was waiting for that for that thriller video to come out and this man make two Pepsi videos and everybody can't wait to watch the Yeah, that was this guy Bailey. Yeah Yeah, that's Michael. That's the man. So yeah Anyway We're gonna have fun. We're gonna we're gonna have a good time of night. Let's celebrate Some Yeah, somebody don't know who that is cool in the game celebration. Anyway The coke Pepsi debate the Pepsi debate was someone said I don't know if this is true or not that Colored folk drink Pepsi and non-colored folk were partial to coke I don't know if that's true or not, but in our house We drank we drank Pepsi and then once we moved and we got bused out to The the white schools we that was a time where you know, he had a lot of bussing That's where I got a chance to meet the Klan by the way Some of these folks talk about racism. I got a chance to meet the Klan. How's that? well, they bust us out to this white school this all-white township and the the good members of the Ku Klux Klan And that part of Indiana did not want us there and so they had a rally they had the stakes I mean the cross was burning and they got around the bus and did not want us to come in and the police came in and we Got in so yeah, I got a chance to see the Klan up close and personal but Good times good times. Anyway, I want to say something though about God. I Must say something about God Though and keeping with the title of this being a new year same God what God has promised What guy? Okay, wait a second. Hold on newsflash. No, hold on my wife my wife my wife. She says My wife is just gonna throw the whole thing out blasphemous. She says no, baby Dr. Pepper and Coke in the South That's why the South lost a war. That's why the South lost a war. How about that? It takes us northern folks move down here and kind of set things straight. I can't believe I came to sleep Anyway, anyway, all right, let's get back to it. Uh-oh somebody said don't start Barry Barry. Don't start today Don't start whatever whatever chess champ says don't start today Yes, Wendy I'm off script This is what I do sometimes Now I'm back on script. This part will probably cut off cut out and made into its own section And this is the most important thing and then we'll go to other things that you want to since it's being our first time back in the New Year's Yes, do not be inappropriate moderates will see you to the door By the way, I haven't said it today Haven't said it in a few days We have the best moderators on YouTube all 36 of them all 36, you know, it's like a it's like Having a big family reunion one day We're gonna get the whole gang back together get all the kids the grandkids a great grandkids in and have a big photo Yeah, all 36 or 37 or all however many there are But we do have the best moderators people get core. I don't like your moderate We're fine. We don't like you if you don't like me if you don't like the moderators got a problem because they're fair They are fair. They'll warn you and if you act out of line with them dog on it Why would you act out of line? How it I've never understood this who gets put out of a live stream chat? What are you? What are you doing? What are you saying? Now this is the channel where you can just you know, long as you say something you gonna get put out if you say something critical You could listen criticize me You can do it in a in a respectful fashion, you know, even sometimes I even let you go if you call me names You can't call them names. You can't call other folks and then but we're adults, right? So Best moderators on the planet and then and then and then Can I get a man from a chat? We have the best YouTube chat? Yeah, you guys I don't care about I don't care. What are the channels you guys watch? That's fine. You can watch Alan pars of the world you can watch the the Layton flowers of the world You can watch the James whites of the world you can watch whoever you want to watch. I don't care Nobody beats the live stream chat over here not not even close and let the church say man now Back to the more serious serious matters this God Who I think is vitally important that you understand who he is There's two points that God is trying to get out in the Bible Two points and two points only not only but for the most part. There's two points No, really three 2.5 the first point is That God is God all by himself doesn't need anything from you Doesn't depend on anything from he is the only true sovereign being ever to exist What does it mean that he's sour because again we say above all else God is sour What does that mean that means that he can do whatever he wants to? With ever he wants to whomever he wants just cuz he wants cuz he's God The air that you have That's God Yeah, the heart that's beating in you. That's God. He supplies at the breath that you have. That's God the gravity That's keeping you down That's God Yeah, the the one that made sure that you didn't die last night. That's God The one that upholds everything That's God the God that was there in the past that's here right now will always be in the future That's God everywhere at the same time evenly distributed cuz he's God Yes, he alone is sovereign you ain't and so rule number one is God is sovereign He wants to get that point across of you. He wants to make that abundantly clear Unfortunately us as knuckleheads We tend to and we want to push back a little bit We want to show that yeah God your God, but I'm right below you. No, you're not No, you're not because again, what is your value about $5 worth of dirt and that's with inflation Once inflation shakes down a little bit and drops back you might be worth 275 maybe 317 worth of dirt and the value have is only the Holy Spirit is in you as Paul says The wretched man that he is there's nothing good that dwells in it save for the Holy Spirit So one thing that the Bible is trying to make abundantly clear is that there is a God and he is supreme He is holy. He is sovereign. Amen. The second thing that he's trying to get across to you You need God There is a God in number two. You need God. Well, why do you need God? That's why I said there's 2.5 because you are falling you're right And you're not very good. You're not you're not very good at being good The only reason why you're good at being bad is because that's just really all you are is bad You need God. He is God. And so he brings about salvation through him That's it and So he takes painstaking efforts to get that point across to us He does so not because he asked us or felt like let me get their opinion on me saving them Because what God does God offered mankind the opportunity to live holy and the rules were simple Do what I say don't do what I don't say and it was even simple in fact. Don't eat that fruit That's it and We think yeah, you know what if it were me if it were me I would have eaten the fruit if it were you or me We would have dug up the tree and pre planted it somewhere else That's what we would have done We would have dug up a tree and took that fruit and made fruit juice forbidden fruit juice out of best What we would have done that's how sinful and rotten we are us if Adam and Eve can sin in the best place possible the most pristine environment So too would we because we do it now even with the Holy Spirit And if there are those that think that they don't sin because they are saved You might not be saved if you think that you don't sin because you're safe You're probably not safe. There's a good chance that you're not safe But God has decided that I'm gonna give you an opportunity and we will fail every time So what does he do? He makes a plan He makes a provision for us to be safe and he offers it to us in the history that we see of mankind Absent God doing anything This is just the Old Testament absent God doing anything We'll still stray away We can literally be in the presence of God the moment that we are out of his presence We're back to doing what we want to do. We're back to taking care of number one. That's us That's us the moment that he stops look at the Bible when God is in their presence They fall on their face they bow down they worship him He can lead them out of Egypt If he's not leading them out of Egypt, they won't make it. Will they When he's not leading when he's not going before them in a pillar of fire in a pillar of cloud They stop going they stop doing they just stop they go back to being who they are Matter of fact Even in the midst of that when when they they're not focusing on him and they see danger Man, we should just went it would have been better to go back to where we were That's mankind and so we have this pattern Paul says in Romans 15 that we have these writings to go back and learn from And so what does he say he's going to do and he didn't notice he didn't ask Abraham I say this this is one of the most important passages in the bible And I will make you a great nation and I will bless you now This is this this is naturally Abraham and his posterity his actual physical descendants But notice what he's going to say and I'll make your name great now this part can mean I would take this literally to be his posterity But we're gonna actually have someone can make a claim that he's also speaking of us I won't I won't argue that that point just yet. He says and you shall be a blessing now. How so? Well, you shall be a blessing. This is why I don't take this to be Us he's speaking of but his physical posterity because he says and you Abraham not just him himself, but his descendants you shall be a blessing To whom to those that are not part of your family and I will bless those who bless you And to the one that curses you I will curse And I do believe for a fact that he's speaking of isra And by the way, there's an important reason why this is important Um about them specifically who is not us and by the way, I would not want to be a jew I would not want to be israel. No. No. No. No. No, I absolutely not. I'll show you that in a second But here it is and in you All of the families of the earth shall be blessed No, I'm sorry. Hebrew israelites not just the jews not just the israelites. Whoever you think are the true jews It's fine. It's a silly argument To decide who are the true jews because the bible says that that group of people Will have their backs turned on him Until a certain time in the future that has not come yet We'll talk about that probably maybe as we go And so it's a silly argument But those who place their faith in christ be there be they jew or gentile Those are the true sons of god That's what the bible says anyone disagrees with that You're not a christian You're not safe if you think that salvation is only for the jews. You are my friend with all due respect are an ideo It no i d iot. I misspelled. I'm the idiot. You are and by the way, that's a word in the bible idiot That's literally a word in the bible In first crimson's 14 When this person comes in the un gifted or the unlearned man comes in the word that's literally used is the idiot when the idiot comes in so that's a biblical word, but If you think that You can't be saved because you're not saved based off the words of this book How and how if you got saved from some other teaching you my friend are not saved But he says i will bless all the families call mishpaq with all the families of the earth Therefore salvation is made available. The problem is we just won't deal We won't take it not not how he wants to now what i want you to understand this pastor I'm going to put up we don't cover it a lot We've covered a few times, but this pastor is vitally important This pastor is something that you should it should make you smile It should make you feel good and it should also make you not worry about what god is doing with anyone else This is in regards to his word and what he's going to do. He says in psalm 89 34 He says my covenant i will not violate Nor will i alter the utterance of my lips once i have sworn by my holiness I will not lie to david now He will not lie to anyone appear, but that's what he says. I will not alter this word that she was here this word excuse me Shana this word he will not alter. He will not change Uh, he will not do anything to to make it fit In other words, if god says he's going to do something. Let me just pick a person's name If god says i'm going to do something for wendy There aren't there's not going to be a spiritual wendy or someone to stand in wendy's place in proxy of wendy He will do it for who he said he will not alter or change His word We all understand what it means to alter in other words So what he has planned for anyone in this case israel There was not a person that he's going to alter to fix that for oh what i did mean was for israel No, he means what he says for israel and for us Why is that important because if he is going to make a promise as he says Once i have sworn by my holiness i he's not going to lie He swore by himself He didn't have to fix anything to make it fit for us for us to understand We are the the old thoughts we're the idiots who are trying to let me see god houses work No god is who he is whether we understand him or not just like gravity may not understand how it works But i know if i jump off this building i'm coming down and the higher i am the faster i'm coming down I don't have to understand how this car works But i know if i stick the key in the ignition or push the button it's going to work Amen, I don't care how long you've been driving cars. They still work don't they Matter of fact seem like the older ones drive better, but that's another story Now what does he say he's going to do god has determined he is going to save some people Has he determined he's going to start save everybody No anyone with an ounce of biblical understanding know that god is not going to save everyone He has not determined himself to save everyone if he if he begins a process of something It shall come to pass if he decides that he wants to save somebody Who he decides to save who he says will be safe will be safe if god begins it It will be completed That's why paul says i've got this confidence that he not me not frank not barry not not not mendy not sue No, the he is god if god is the one that began this work in you Then he's going to complete it. I don't care what happened in 2023 I don't care that financially things were a mess. Maybe your relationships were all over the place Maybe you had three or four relationships and none of them worked out. Well, maybe that's a sign I'm gonna say this is somebody help someone else Maybe that's a sign that you ought to stop dating stop trying and just grow closer to the lord Maybe just maybe You're not the right person to make dating decisions for yourself Matter of fact, none of us are how many times especially folks that are single have you been dating and you are batting zero Why because maybe you ought to focus on your first Relationship if you get that right well, then he'll make sure that he'll get the other part right Let how about if god was the one that swiped left or swipe right or swipe up or swipe down for you What if it was god that brought you someone how cool would that be he wouldn't make a mistake? I don't care what you think her little idiosyncrasies are god will make it so that that is the one for you but if you get closer to him then he'll get closer to you And she or he are soon to come But if even if they aren't you will be comforted in him Because what's the song say can't nobody do me like jesus I feel like clapping can't no button anyway That's how it works That's how and even the ones that you got If you got him They are the right ones the ones that you have might get on your nerves She might get in your nerves. He might get in your nerves, but if you got him and I promise you you get on his nerves I'm the inferior guys don't make a video about that I promise you if you do that Then you'll probably realize maybe she or he ain't the one that's doing wrong. Maybe it's me Maybe it's maybe it's me. So what does god do god has determined To make atonement for us Both then and now You can't it's morgan still in the chats I don't know if it's morgan. She should be it's morgan still in the chance I've told you all this story before if morgan is still in the chat morgan used to ask all the time as a little girl Daddy when are we gonna eat? Daddy, what are we gonna eat for dinner? daddy that She lasts her mother too mama went when we're gonna eat Morgan it's one o'clock in the afternoon You just had breakfast and lunch I know but what are we gonna eat? When are we gonna eat? We're gonna eat at five o'clock. Maybe six And she would just wonder And so morgan Have we ever Have we ever gone a day without feeding you? No, well then why are you asking? I just want to know And when she say that when she would say that it just made me feel good. You know why? Because she didn't go across the street and ask the neighbor What are we eating today and when we're gonna eat? She didn't do that I recognize she's asking she's asking the source me or mama that Get to that point Get to that point to where you're asking the source and you are going to the source But also get the point to where you depend on him You know for a fact that he is going to be the one that's going to bring about what all you need my god Will supply now is he my in other words? Is he yours? Is his pronoun possessive of yours? Meaning that you can say he's my god So what does he plan to do? What does he do? He decides That i'm going to make reconciliation. I'll fix this I'll fix this because you can't all I need you guys to do is get me a lamb Get me another a male offering And a toman shall be made and I need one man I need one man a priest And so what will I do? I will use this to because I I am god not me not me, but god God will say I'm god and I determine how I will be satisfied how my wrath will be satisfied I'm going somewhere with this how my wrath will be satisfied my wrath will be satisfied I won't take all your sins and put it on him So when we look so when I look at this this scapegoat I see your sins That's what I see though. I know you have sin Not that god has forgotten that you sin We they say he's removed our sins as far as the east is from the west It's not that god doesn't know god knows that you sin He's just not holding it over your head. I know that Let's say one of my child one of my kids uh wet the bed I don't know one kid wet me up Actually, all of them wet me up pretty good. Am I gonna hold that over their head? I remember that I'm not gonna hold over your head something what god does and so what god will do is find all the sins I will make the scapegoat the object of the sin Not like Mike Todd or Todd Todd white Todd white He became Pornography or whatever he said on the that's no no no no no. He just became The object of sin That's all Like john says look the lamb of god who takes away the sin of the world That's what he does And then we've got the sacrificial offering who shed his blood on the on the altar And then god accepts it and then all you got to do is recognize the bible says that they would have to Humble themselves afflict their souls In doing so recognizing man. I'm horrible. I'm rotten God gives me we at least we see from time to time we might see a miracle or two We see the man of god and then he gives us these offerings Throughout the year and this big this big day of atonement and I still mess up I still mess up And it's not the mess up That I that I need to focus on it's the fact that he keeps coming back And trying trying to save me redeem me atone for me Even in spite of my mess ups what kind of god would do that not me If I were god If I were god Oh, man, you all get one shot if I were god now me I'd get 30 shots I get I get I get 45 50 a thousand bites the apple Because if I was god, I'd be a selfish god. Thank god. I'm not god, right So what does he do? He says if this happens I god a just god a righteous god will declare you to be in right standing with me And he said I'll do so for a year But I want to sell something again. This is one of my favorite verses I think this is an awesome verse It isn't awesome I cover this verse all the time and you know, I may have to actually put this on a t-shirt We may have to love me said. Thank god. You're not god Yeah Although although lovely I will say something me and god have in common What's the one thing that me and god have in common? We don't have here. That's right. That's right. I don't see any verses as god has here But what about jesus what about jesus well because he came down in the form of a man So he had to come down in lower form. That's all I'm kidding. I better stop but this particular passage This particular passage. I love it because it you It never gets old because of what he's implying what he's saying for the life of flesh Yeah, he's not a cowboys fam. Mark curse it. Amen for the life of the flesh is in the blood And I have given to you on the altar and we've covered this before We covered this before so much you all can can I ask you guys a question? When we read this passage, you all know what it means, right? What does leviticus 1711 mean? We've covered the Hebrew to understand what the English is saying What does it mean for the life of the flesh is in the blood? And I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls What is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement? I've said this so many times I've said enough times where I don't have to look at I put up there for for the sake of those I've never seen this before But but I want you guys to see what what's being stated here I'll answer question just a second steve because today is the right day Amen, cg says and I I have given what does cg mean cg said and I I have given Huh, what does that mean? Well, what that mean is what that means is Here we have in the Hebrew this word and I I have given What I need why which is the va or why which is and and I need I but then right here We have not that team which is I have given we really don't need the I need the I But there's a reason why we have the I I have given I have given suffices It covers what the state what it's saying. We don't need the I but why would you say that? It's because he's saying I I have given why I need not that team Which is the Lord is saying I I have given he says I myself have given. What does that mean? I I I me I am going to give I myself have given this Not to say that I'm giving it for someone to bring it to you Not the so I'm not having someone else to do it for me. I myself have given Dina says I said the cowboys won't stop playing Cowboys are feeling themselves right now cowboys fans are feeling I can't say anything about it. So amen. Amen But it says I myself have given I'm the one that has given this Why is that important? Well before we go to that let me just let me read the passage Let me put it on the screen. I'm gonna have to change his back because I didn't mean to do this but That acts 20 28 That's what he says He's speaking to the shepherds. He says be on guard for yourselves And for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers Here it is to shepherd the church of God, which he Purchases with his own blood. You mean to tell me God has blood. Yep Yep, you mean to tell me God has blood. Yep, and yep again, which he purchased with his own blood And someone can say well. No, that's just no. He says which he purchased with his own blood How could that be? Well, we also understand who God is that is Jesus Gee, why is that important? Well, let's go. This is why it's important John 1 in the beginning was the word the word with God and the word was God And the reason why we have this in the greek kaepheus and halagos, which is and why we have the word God thrust before the word Lagos or word Is to give credence and to show definitively who the word is the predicate nominative God Describes what the subject Lagos is meaning it shows that Jesus is God and since he was in the beginning with God all things came into being through him And apart from him nothing came into being that has come into being In him was life and the life was the light of men the light shines in the darkness and the light did not Comprehend it. God has always been there and what has God always been doing doing God stuff God has always been here just doing God stuff and the Bible says that he came to his own Well, who's his own? Literally the jews He came to his own And those who were his own the jews not spiritual jews the jews there's no such thing as spiritual jews by the way Went to the jews And those who were his own the jews did not receive him But as many here it is, but as many this word hasoi that's us That is us hasoi say say that hasoi as many As many us as much all of us us sheep us sheep assist as many as received him He gave the right to become children of God Even to those who believe in his name or namely to those who believe in his name The the word the word is used by the way the word even is not actually there But it's toys pistol soon pistol sin, which is to those that are believing the believing ones We've covered who believe in his name. Let's what it says who were born out of blood They weren't born of the will of flesh They weren't born of the will of man None of those things cost us to be born again, but born of the will of God and that very same word became flesh and dwelt among us And we we saw his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of grace The same glory that jesus as he's getting ready to die comes and says father I have glorified you now glorify me give him back the same glory that I have with you at the very beginning You can only make that statement if you had the glory if you are God the very same guy Who will not share his glory with anyone else the same guy who says my name is the lord That is my name the lord is God according to moses in deuteronomy 4 35 and 39 That's who he is. That's why that leviticus passage means so much the same God That made that statement was the same guy in 2021 22 23 and i'm gonna go out on the limb I'm gonna prophesy I should have a prayer shawl over my head. I should have a prayer shawl over my head like that one lady and prophesy I prophesy The lord has told me That he'll be the same guy in 2024 as he was in 2023 Now you want to speak in tongues speaking tongues now The same guy that we've always had is the same guy we're always going to have That just makes me feel good That makes me feel wonderful to know that that same guy that I've trusted him The same guy that was there when I was going through my worst moments The same guy when it felt like everybody was gone He was there The same guy Who uh kept my family together the same guy that kept my sanity the same guy that kept you The same guy that kept the person wanting to kill you the same guy that kept the person from firing you From from who wanted to fire you from not firing you or the same guy that allowed you to be fired The same guy that brings the bad and the good to grow you that same guy From when you were born to make sure that no one aborted you the same guy that made sure no one left you The same guy that kept you And your ancestors because think about any one ancestor that's in your link in your lane I mean in your lineage could have died and you wouldn't be here That same guy that preserved you before there was a you That same guy was going to be there in 2024 And what will he do what will he be doing in 2024 god stuff? I don't know what you're going to be doing god. I just know you're going to be doing some god stuff And you know what why why that's important do you know why the god stuff that he's doing is important Because inside the god stuff Are the god people He's doing god stuff to the god people. That's that's me and you That's me and you And so if he knows me and has daily concern the bible says that he knows us so much so that the hairs on our head Are number I know what you're thinking you're thinking quarry. You don't have any here You are aerodynamic you are you're smooth god has blessed you with a wonderful hairdo But there are from time to time some little bitty hairs that want to pop up God has those number two Even before i'm getting ready to do the godly thing and to erase him or shave him god knows those two That's what that's god stuff. That's what god does god keeps an account of me. He keeps me He does the same for you So 2023 would no problem. Some of you all were bothered by 2020 Let me just go ahead and say this some of you guys were bothered upset by 2020 Let me grab this because I have to I have to drink this water I have to stated that i'm gonna drink more water. So I got this big old thing of water that I got to drink It's not coffee, but it works. It works Some of you all thought that 2020 all this is I I used to sit and watch people Just panic over what was happening in the world My my my only was uh statement was what are you gonna do about it? Other than nothing, what are you gonna do about it? I know if somebody's in control by the way, that sounds how the how the lord says the world's gonna end 2020 was a wonderful year for me 2020 was a wonderful year for me Where's the coffee cup dog on it? Where is joey? He's over there. He's over on the shelf. I left him over on the shelf because I had some coffee and and I think I had some dishwashing liquid in it as well. They had a funny taste So I had to I didn't want to poison myself for 2024. So I had to set it over there. Just had a weird taste, but 2020 was a wonderful year for me Because this is when the lord opened the door core get out get out of this prison and go back to your family I enjoyed the people people talk bad about 2020. Hey, watch your mouth. That was a wonderful And that's just in that funny how god will inspire all the stuff that's going on will still bless you And some of you guys have gotten blessings um Even in spite of that matter of fact some of you guys and I don't want to sound like one of these people I don't want to sound like one of these people that are just, you know weird overly Spiritual and so forth. I don't mean overly spiritual in the back. I mean the good way I mean since that they see everything god is blessing you this way god's doing this god's doing that But the fact of the matter is y'all do recall daniel prayed a prayer And then was concerned about not having heard about the prayer And what did god say? I actually dispatched this angel to bring this message to you 21 days ago Because you didn't get it doesn't mean that that that the message hadn't been sent And so the point is this guy just because you don't see it or understand it or know it doesn't mean anything But I use the example of morgan my daughter asked these questions When are you gonna eat when we're gonna eat daddy? Well dog on it You're gonna eat you're going to eat and you know what morgan would do after I say or after her What would even say the same thing? We're gonna feed you. You know what morgan would do Go back playing with her sister doing. I don't know what it whatever she was doing Matter of fact, I found out that her and her sister was going down to the creek and walking around and you know, they were doing that There's all kind of snakes and stuff poisonous snakes and stuff like that in raccoons and stuff down at this creek But all right, you're gonna feed me good enough good to know daddy Good to know and I'm gone kicking rocks. I'm bouncing. I'm bouncing daddy They go they go in the backyard and there's a fence to go out and they're gone. I didn't I didn't even know so That's what you ought to do Lord, are we good? We're good. Amen. And I keep moving And so what does he say? Nicodemus goes to Jesus by night Now his question had nothing to do with the Lord's answer or his statement Jesus just says to him unless you are born again You cannot see the kingdom god. The first thing that has to happen is you must be born again You must be born Hmm I got a question in lord. Here's my here's my question How can I be born again? What do I have to do guys? What do you have to do to be born again? There's two answers something Or nothing. I don't know why it is like that What do you have to do to be born again? Well, the answer is nothing You don't have to do anything to be born again. Let me say this again and pray that someone would even make a video in response to this You don't have to do anything to be born again Let me say that again. You don't have to do anything to be born again. That's not you That's not well. Wait a second. Cory. I thought being born again means you say no Being born again causes you to make a profession of faith. But no, that's not you You were born again literally means ganete anothem, which means be born of above Born again this word of ganete and ananotha Born of above born of the spirit He says it three ways born again born of water in the spirit and then born of spirit Which means born of above. That's the lord's doing. How do I know because we drop down If we drop down to verse eight, he says the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it But you don't know where it comes from and where it's going So it is everyone who is born of the spirit and what does peter say in first peter one three He says god caused us to be born again You don't do anything What does that mean? Well, let's go back to what we said the two main points you need to get from the bible Two main points now, obviously, there's some more details to it But two main points one god That's the first point god is supreme god aside and all by himself to you need god So if you have to be first born again to place your faith in christ That would cause you to place your faith in christ Well, then that's god's doing you need him absent god. You will not do anything good You might do something temporarily You might you might say I believe in the lord temporarily You might go to a new year's eve party and just kick up dust and do all this stuff And and what do they say walking out and swagging surfaces like that and and and say i'm a christian For that day For that day, what do you say a hundred and fifty people came? I don't know how he knows that I don't know how he knows that and they came to christ and that it can happen But again The christ you give It's the christ they keep And I don't I think that was a pretty Poor representation of why can't the gospel be enough Why can't the gospel be enough? Why can't his word be enough? Well, because it's not if a person is let me just say this also if a person is preaching If a person is preaching And the gospel isn't enough for them to preach. That's because the gospel wasn't enough for them That's what that is If the gospel isn't enough for you to preach then the gospel wasn't enough for you to be safe It's it's really that simple It's what he gave you that's what he has for you his word. Is there more to it? Sure But those are the two things and so he says that we are born of what he does And here's the good news Dog gone and here's the good news as a matter of fact is actually in the most famous passage ever Which says for god, this is how god shows his love for the world. He shows his love for the world He gave his only begotten son. Why did he why did god give his only begotten son? People are gonna say because he loved the world. Nope. That's not why he gave his only begotten son That is not why this word that I have underlined and highlighted this this greek word henna It tells us the purpose It's what's called the introduction of a purpose clause in order that posa pistuan Y'all've heard that word before posa pistuan Y'all know all of the believing ones so in all in order that all of the ones that are believing Would never perish. That's why he came That simple if anyone says different you don't have pastors to back you up The reason why he came the reason why he died is so the person that's believing Will never perish Yeah, that's why I have a problem with people that will say that you can't lose it find it Find it as a matter of fact, I might be a little bit more harsher A little bit more dogmatic a little bit more fiery when it comes to this topic Because as of yet as of yet as of yet for those in that crowd They might think that somebody scored some points, but they've never answered the question They've never answered ezekiel 36. They've never answered ezekiel 11 19. They've never answered jeremiah 32. They've never answered Ezekiel 30 and 6 they've never answered John 3 they've never answered john 6 they never they've never answered john 10 Versus 5 or 28 they never answered revelation 13 5 or 3 5 what they do is they put a spin on it and put in a condition That's not there They never answered those questions Instead they'll go to other passages, but let's just be clear God said this let's put it up up again My covenant I will not violate nor will I alter the utterances of my lips if he said he's going to do it He's going to do it I don't care if you believe it or not if you feel like it or not You're not god if he said he's going to do it. He's going he is sworn by his own Holiness not yours not your ability. Let me just put it this way. I don't care how cute you are Don't care how handsome you are. Don't care how smart you are Don't care how tall you are how strong you are how short you are How wonderful you how creative you are. I don't care how well you can sing I don't care how well you can fight None of those matter you can't out fight god you can out cute god you can out sing god You can out think god you can out smart god. You're not tall in him. You're not better looking in him None of what you got is going to get you to heaven But because of his mighty hand he will That's why paul says i'm confident this very thing that he who began to get working you he Is going to complete he's the one that not you God we don't find in the bible god is just saying you human beings you christian You guys are so faithful. No god is the one who is faithful And so we see that in john 3 he makes his statements in john 6 I don't understand why people don't get this. I never understood why folks want to have either themselves Or others and really let's be honest Can we tell the truth? Shame of devil. Keep it a hundred. Keep it a buck. Keep it crystal clear. Let's keep it right Most people that i've encountered and probably you that will say that someone can lose their salvation. They mean them They mean somebody else not themselves When I say you can lose your salvation, I don't mean me Of course not me Obviously, I can't lose my salvation, but you can There's no way I can lose my salvation. I'm too holy. I'm too good I know the lord. I love the lord. He heard my cries in my witty hueson voice But you guys You can lose your salvation I've never lost mine I can't lose mine What makes you so special? Well, let me tell you about how holy I am. I pray and fast every day I've gone on 40 day fast Okay Okay Me and god know you know, you're sorry Me and the lord know you're sorry. You do too. You know, you're sorry too. You're not as good as you think you are That's why that's why nobody likes you I'm sorry. I'm being mean But I've noticed something that this just be the people I run into that that that make those claims about how good and perfect they are Why don't you have friends? Why is it everybody that used to hanging around you is flocking just In droves, they're leaving you fast and then people leave in california That's how fast your friends are leaving you, but you're so perfect. So wonderful. Well, they don't like how how holy I am The fact that I keep it real. Okay Okay Okay, your last mistake was when? No, about an hour ago Let's just let's just let's let's keep it real Let's keep it real But let's just see what god says Let's what see what jesus says jesus says, but i said to you you have not seen me yet. You have seen me I'm sorry. I said to you that you Have seen me and yet do not believe You do not believe but look what he says all I shouldn't say the buck is not there all That the father gives me There's that word again pond All the ones the father's given to me The father to me They will come Now this is a present. I mean future to active indicative jesus says not quarry jesus says they will come They will come they will do this they will get to walk and they'll come Not might maybe but they will come And to the one who comes to me So all the ones that now notice this is just basic math Basic math put in words all the ones That the father gives to me here all the ones the father gives to me Then he goes on to say that all of those that the father gives to me They will come So all of them they will come And then notice what he says they will come and the one that comes, you know these guys He says I will certainly not or not even certain that he says who may Ekbalo I will never ever ever under any circumstance because this is this is a double negation of a heiress active subjunctive Therefore the possibility of you being cast out is gone The possibility of you being cast out is gone That's what jesus said not me, but jesus he says for I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him Who sent me You know the him who sent me the him who said that I will give my own blood for this Yeah him he says this is his will who sent me that of all That he has given me who's all these right here these right here I'm using this as an example all of the ones that he's giving me that will come all of them He says all of them I won't lose any of them But I will raise me but now as we says I will not lose any of them I will not lose any but I will Raise and guess what guys this is also Uh, he's telling what he's going to do, but in the last day, uh, raise him up Not lose any but raise them all up Yeah, but you gotta go to another verse and another verse another verse to prove that that's not what that means Well, I know what this means I know what this verse means The high pistol on the ones that's believing he says he says Uh, and the one who believes in him who sent me has eternal life He has ecke has it right now life right now going on and does not come into the will not be judged But has passed out of death into life Does not come into judgment, but what has he done he has passed from death into life Let me just go ahead and put it up here because this is the beginning of the year I I need to go ahead and Cover this passage. Why not? When he puts forth all his own Jesus he goes ahead of them and the sheep follow him because they know why do we follow because we know Here it is. This is my new favorite verse A stranger they simply will not follow. Why is it my my favorite verse? Because it's umay Akalu Thesucin They will never ever ever ever ever ever the most emphatic way of saying it And so the way i'm saying it is what this means in the greek will never Follow a strange voice. Why won't they do so? Well, i'm glad you asked jesus tells us because Hattie Oedasin they do not know the voice of the stranger They will not follow him They it's impossible For the sheep to follow him Well, yeah, court, but 20 years ago I was saved and I and I left the faith and I started to go I was I became a muslim then I became a buddhist was that what they eat one or two things are true You didn't do those things or I don't know. I wasn't there or you weren't a christian But I know my I don't care what your experience is. I know what this word says And if this word is wrong, well then throw the whole bible away use it to burn a starter fire Because it's no good, but the word is true And if the word says that you will never ever ever follow the strange voices, that's what it means Yes, but I felt like I was saved then I don't care what you felt like you felt like you was in love seven different times Doesn't mean anything It does not mean anything and then of course the still cheshire is still the undefeated passage But you do not believe why because you are not of my sheep That's the reason why he says you don't believe because you are not my sheep Now he says my sheep There's no condition then say that if you if you keep being my sheep if you remain my sheep if you keep following No, he just says my sheep will follow me If you know it's not there. There's no if there's no condition So don't let anyone say that if if there's a condition that is a person's adding to the text And a lot of scholars are doing so but he says my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me So what does he say about sheep the sheep follow me? They won't follow a stranger and then he says and I give them eternal life and they will never appear Who may I belong to? Again undefeated text You find the doctor you find the scholar they what they will do is let's go to another passage. Let's not deal with that passage Okay, I know there's one passage the bible tells me that Having cancelled out the certificate of death Consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us and he has taken it out of the way having nailed it to the cross The debt that was owed He paid it Who paid it? Remember what we were reading in Leviticus we didn't cover 16 But if we were to and then 17 there's a debt being paid and now we are declared righteous The word that we'll use will hear is justified Roman says who can bring a charge against God's elect? It's he who justifies. What does that mean? God is the one I think people need to understand is he is the one that has declared you in right standing So if God declares you in right standing somebody that believes you can lose salvation doesn't have it Can't hold a camera that this guy believes you can lose salvation, but God has declared me in right standing for how long forever Forever, let me just put it this way so you guys can just forever knucklehead Forever, you will never ever ever be declared unrighteous. Who or what will cause you to be considered unrighteous No one No one No one And then he literally goes through this was was baffling This was baffling He goes through a litany of things that could possibly separate you says none of those things will separate you None of those things And that's why he makes it. I won't go through it in in Hebrews 9 and 10 He literally goes. Yeah, I will now these things having been so prepared The priests are continually entering the out of but not Jesus verse 7 the second only the high priest enters once a year Not without taking blood which he offers for himself For the sins of the people the Holy Spirit is signifying this that the way into the holy place has not yet been Disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing. This isn't kind of giving an understanding of what's happening With the Jews in the day of atonement. And that's what he says But when christ appeared as a high priest He plays all three elements as a high priest of the good things to come He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not a creation And not through or not through the blood of goats and calves But through his own blood, you know the same blood that he spoke of in In uh leviticus 70 11 the same blood that was purchased of his own in ax 20 28 His own blood. He entered the holy place How many times guys once for all once for all having obtained eternal redemption Don't gloss that over having obtained eternal redemption for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of heifer sprinkling those Who have been defiled? I'm sorry defiled sanctified for the cleansing of the flesh How much more with the blood of Christ? I just said something pretty important here. Let me break it down and then we'll be through If the blood of bulls and goats Could make you In put you in right standing There would be no need for him What did the blood of bulls and goats do? It would put you in right standing For one year temporarily Jesus's blood is different How much more will the blood of christ through the eternal spirit offered without blemish to god cleanse Your contents from dead works to serve a living god how much more and notice what he says um Once for all having obtained eternal redemption guys If Jesus's blood Does the exact same as blood as the blood of bulls and goat? The writer saying what will be the purpose of him coming? There is no purpose Stop as chapter 10 says don't trample underfoot the blood of christ Cheapening it Making it the equivalent of the blood of bulls and goats. Yeah, the blood that was only good for A year temporarily you could be atone for today and then next month next year not be atoned for That's what that blood did this blood is unlike that Which is why I say did it once for all and because he has paid the debt There no longer remains a need for a sacrifice Are we getting Unfortunately, some folks don't want to get it because some people want others to lose their salvation not themselves I'm convinced that the majority not all but the majority of people Who say that you can lose your salvation only want you to lose your salvation not themselves Because again, do you have you lost yours? No No No, not me Won't happen won't happen. I know it won't Because what does the bible say going to Ephesians? And this is where we end Blessed be the god and file of our lord Jesus christ was blessed us with every spiritual blessing and having places in christ Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we would be holy and blames That's what he did the reason why he did so and then notice what it says which i've done in verse 13 in him Important in him It's not saying you have to be in him Are you following he's not saying you have to be in him Wait, wait a minute. Cory. What do you mean? It's not saying that you have to be no It's not saying that you have to be in him What he's saying is you are in him If you are saved you are in him and how did you get in him? Well, he chose you For that before the foundation of the world in him you are in him. So let's go back to it So in him you also after listening to the mess of truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed And that's what he says the chi the chi Pistols tantes that that is the heiress active part of this is kind of this is ongoing. That's why it's a participle You were past tense sealed In him with the holy spirit of promise Here it is Who has given A pledge this arabon. He has given this place. This is what we call like a down payment On something he's given this pledge with a view to the redemption of god's own possession to the praise of the lord. What does that mean? God has literally given a down payment For your salvation It's an earnest money down payment Just the literally the same way that you would put money down in a hotel A rental car A airline ticket to hold your hold a house that you're buying or what have you Yeah, Cory, but you can go back and forfeit that you can go back and forfeit a down payment. Yeah, but god that Again stop equating you and people with god God you mean tell me god is going to put the holy spirit down as an arabon as a pledge And then forfeit that does that even begin to make sense? No So why is all this important? because That very same god who said that is the same guy that we have now the same guy that we'll keep having Um, he's not changed. It's going to be some crazy stuff in 2024. There's all sorts of who listen The election stuff that's going to get crazy. There's going to be a whole lot of fighting in this net And who knows what's going to happen with people in the church? because god has told us that As the day draws nigh You're going to have more and more foolishness Amen now that been the case a couple things um I thought faith comes by Hearing the word of god faith is not the word faith comes by hearing Is not the verb hearing. It's the noun hearing faith comes by the gospel It's something powerful in the gospel faith comes by what was done on the cross. That's the gospel Here's the good news that salvation has come permanently because of what he's done And you placing your faith in that that's a work of him. You cannot make yourself be born again. That's god And so and how does he do so through this gospel through hearing this report? Amen Steve thank you also for the super sticker. Thank you so much. Shariah. Thank you as well Um, scatterbrain. Thank you also for the for the super chat Uh, datacus maximus, how do we reconcile james 412 with the command uh to judge? Okay, hold on one second. Let's go to james 4. You threw me a curve ball, but I can handle it I think I can james 4 I hope I can There's only one law giver and judge the one who is able to save and destroy But who are you to judge your name? Well, let's go back and look at in context Uh, do not speak against one another brother. He who speaks against a brother judges his brother speaks against the law And judges the law, but if you judge the law, uh, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge of it There is only one law giver and judge the one who is able to save and to destroy But who are you to judge your neighbor? Do you think that he's speaking of different? Let's say sins or errant doctrine? No, he's speaking in terms of their salvation because what we do sometimes we condemn people And that's why he says there is only one uh, law giver and judge the one who is able to save and to destroy And so he's not he couldn't be speaking because it'd be a contradiction to say that We could not judge others because he says we are to judge those in the church Now we can make a judgment call on sin Is smoking crack is that illegal? Yeah, I make that judgment call because it's true. I can judge what the truth is Okay, but in terms of condemning other people we're not called to condemn anyone That's not what we're supposed to we are we are called to make a judgment. And so it's how it's used Okay, and so that's how that's how we reconcile that. Amen spider monkey. Thank you so much for the uh, the super chat I'll provide for himself. Amen And steve steve asks a question. Where did you get your shirt? What's all going to steve? I'm glad I'm glad you asked. Here's where you get this shirt from you go here To the smart christians website You go here i'm sorry you go over to the section where it says shop And on this section you go down and what you're going to do is you're going to scroll down just a little bit more You're going to pick your own design And now my favorite one happens to be where's it pick one from one of these designs There'll be more designs that come pick your design And let's say whatever god said that's this one and then you can pick your shirt pick your color if you're a girl Or if you a fellow that likes pink No, i'm sorry don't do that we do have the pink from in I don't know. Maybe it might be breast cancer awareness month. How about that? If you want the the hoodie if you want the hat the the cup The mug and so forth. So that's where you can get those from. Amen. And again, I said it only to those people The whole point in purpose of this is Not to enrich myself. I could have I could have done this Well, I don't know two two years ago I can't tell you how often folks have called and said hey, kory. How come you don't this? How come you don't have membership? How come you don't this? How come you don't that? Well, because the whole point is not to try to Get something for the sake of getting you let me let me enrich myself I'm I don't have a problem with that by the way people asking for donations and so far I really don't have a problem with that It was just something that I was uncomfortable with doing just for me just for the sake of doing it for me And so there needs to be a benefit. So what this goes to Is back to the outline ministry it goes to people receiving bibles and study materials In prison and in other parts of the world who can't get access to it and it also goes to help For some of these ministries that are geared towards youth. Amen. That's a that's the point of that. So All right guys That was it That that was it by the way Not only not only this particular website, but you can also go to to patreon, please again Again that I will push that for you guys to go ahead and sign up on the website as well as Be members of patreon There are really five tiers. There is the big tier 150 20 and 10 dollar tiers and then there's also the free tier So there's no reason not to be a patreon member You get all you get the exact same thing The only benefit in doing the hundred or fifty or what have you is just because you want to bless You want to bless The the people that will be getting the bibles Um If in case you're wondering what are the youth groups one of the one of the youth groups that will will be Helping to provide for or support will be young life and wildlife. They have them all all throughout the country Um, it's like everybody in my family is involved in young life and wildlife for the youth And so that's the reason why so if the person you know, I want to do this And I want the youth and I want more teachings by the way So what's going to be on patreon one one last time one patreon? There'll be videos that cannot be on youtube. So there'll be one tomorrow definitely on Something about the lgbtq community. I cannot put on youtube because that's youtube didn't want that If we have something that deals with Politics or what have you that youtube might not want If you had something I guess in the past if you want to system about the about the virus the pandemic You couldn't you can only say one side of it. You could do that on on on on this patreon But and also there will be different studies. For example, we'll take more In-depth studies And you will just take our time and run through it. That won't be on on the youtube channel They'll be a little bit slow, but to be more in-depth We're gonna actually go through the languages hebrew and greek and so forth do some do some of those basic studies So that you could have enough I guess enough to be dangerous things like that and certain interviews and so forth So that's the whole point So again, as often as you can as often you as I can say it I'll ask you to Do your best to support This doesn't go directly to me it goes to To the actual organization again if you want to I'm not against you. I'm not against you doing it for me That will be on the other channel if you want to support me and give a super chat or something like that On the other channel that goes towards me the super chat and so forth go to me over there Over here a super chat or a super sticker or anything like that or super. Thank you That goes back to that. Amen. So guys, I love you so much We're probably going to do since I took four days off four days off We're probably eight straight live streams. You know, I'm kidding But we'll also do live streams on the other on the other channel as well And so on that channel you might see Stuff dealing with let's say if a tdjx something happens That's pertinent to the body if someone says some those those would be more for Commentary and response and so forth over here. It will be for the most part Bible study if you see a person's face on the thumbnail it is to bring in a teaching that they brought out and then to Talk about that the only time that I will say that you might see us Give commentary on something it's one of the biggest things that I think that church is going to have to deal with And that is this issue of demons in the body I think it's a horrible teaching To teach that but that being the case, uh, you'll see less and less of the stuff that gets I guess provocative or what have you that'll be over on the other channel If that channel might end up growing faster than this channel more than likely will I just I could see that but That's what this channel is going to be for. Amen. So that being the case guys I love you so much and I look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow What is tomorrow? I don't know what that tomorrow is But tomorrow I'm not sure tomorrow is the the q&a or the day after but either way, I'll see you guys again. God bless you