 there are so many different views and interpretations about the Bible. And I'm talking about just between Christians. And why do we fight over all these different views? We don't even seem to be godly when we have disagreements about the Bible. We're divided over so many different topics such as one saved, always saved, tongues, baptism, even over topics such as homosexuality and abortion. It's got to the point to where we're even divided over whether we can even trust the text of the Bible. But wait a minute. Shouldn't we as Christians be in agreement over the Bible? Shouldn't we be able to read and to understand God's Word the way God intended us to? Surely he didn't want it to be this complicated. Surely he didn't want us to be this divided. But did you know that God gave us his Word so that even the least of us could understand it? I mean, think about it. Since God is a God of sins, surely he would want his Word to make sense to all of us, even those who are full of nonsense. Does that make sense? Hi, my name is Cory Minor and I want to welcome you to the Smart Christian YouTube channel. The purpose of this channel and ministry is to not only teach God's Word, but also to equip people to understand it for themselves so that they will be able to one, live out God's Word, but also to, and just as importantly, effectively communicate the Gospel to the world. On this channel, you will see in-depth Bible studies that will teach you how to develop sound doctrine. Also we'll have short videos that will cover a wide variety of topics, some theological, some political, many controversial, but these are designed to encourage you and to build you up in your walk with God. So I pray that this channel is both a blessing and a resource to you and others. Man, was that an awesome intro? That intro, I think that was, I think that was probably the second, I think the second video I did on YouTube. Matter of fact, when I did the video, I didn't know anything about YouTube. Had no idea, I didn't know what I was doing. You can't really tell when you look at the video because, well, because there ain't a little camera. By the way, there was no camera. It was my daughter's cell phone. It was her. I had an iPhone, I don't know, five or six. I don't know what that was. It was horrible. I called my iPhone one or two. So I had to borrow her phone just to make a video. Did not have a laptop or anything. I would use my wife's work laptop to do it. Y'all see that awesome editing? Did you see the awesome editing? I mean, listen, the text that went by, that was amazing. Listen, it was top-notch. It was movie quality. All of that was just top-notch. Had no idea what was going on with YouTube. No idea whatsoever. What you still see, listen, the more things change, the more things say the same. Did you notice the awesome haircut was still there? I don't know if y'all saw that. That should have caught you. Like, yep, yep. He's been bald for a long time. So I saw that video. I said, you know what? I want to play that. I want to play that. That video, I think, like I said, the second video that I ever made had no idea about YouTube or YouTube community. I didn't realize that a lot of folks have supplemented what's on their phone or what we used to watch on TV. It's now been supplemented for the phone. The phone or the computer, laptop, iPad, what have you, is where we get our information from. And so there are people that don't want to really watch and understand why. There's not a lot to watch on ABC, CBS, and NBC, and so forth. And so they'll watch something that's online and try to find a Christian community or Christian information to kind of consume, which makes sense. That makes perfectly good sense. Problem is, though, when you're watching Christians on YouTube, sometimes you're not really watching Christians on YouTube or you feel like you're not watching Christians on YouTube. And let me just say this, somebody's going to be upset, but it's okay. It's okay. We'll pray for you. Sometimes Christian YouTube sucks. Christian YouTube sucks sometimes, not all the time. And the reason why I say that is because there's some things on YouTube that, when you go to YouTube and you go to different videos, you're going to see some folks on YouTube who are just completely, without question, non-confrontational. They want to be as positive as possible. And I understand that I get that, but that's not biblical. Then there are those who are too confrontational. I mean, everything is a fight. Everything is calling everybody out. And if you don't like them, then they're going to call you out. If you've got an issue with them, well, then now I've got to, I'll make a video about this person and I'll make a video about you. And there's this social media, it's not just on YouTube also, but there's this Christian clapback culture for some people who just want to just go after anyone that says anything. You know, that's a miserable life. Let me just say that. Whether you have a channel or you have a Facebook page or whatever, or Instagram or Twix, that's Twitter next combined, Twix. If you use that to lodge complaints or shots at other people, you might want to just do a heart check. Check your heart and see what's going on. People are going to, you all are old enough, you're grown to know that some people are going to say something that you don't like and the adult person does not want to keep coming back at the person. Sometimes you might need to, but in most cases, guys, honestly, in most cases, you don't need to. In most case, matter of fact, you can make them upset by letting them, by making them think that you didn't see the post or the reason responding. Just let them go, let them languish, let them languish in and just wondering, huh, I hope he, yeah, when I push sin, that's really going to show them something. And then they don't get a response back thinking, wow, I did all this time for nothing. And so you've got certain folks on Christian YouTube who are either non-confrontational, they'll let any and everything pass. You've got some folks who are too confrontational, who won't let anything pass. There are people that call everybody a false teacher. Everybody's a heretic. Everybody's this. Everybody's that. Then you've got some folks who are kind of a select kind of confrontational. They are confrontational towards certain people, but not their own group. I'm going to do a video, I'm going to cover a video on, I'll just give you heads up. It won't be on this channel, it'll be on the other channel, the channel that's reserved for more commentary, but on Tony Evans. There was someone that, I don't know why, we had a little run-ins about two years ago and he wanted me to respond to our run-ins and am I still upset? This is like a year or two. Brother, move on, I've moved on. I'm not upset with you, but he thinks that our issues were over Tony Evans. Another folks that I have an issue with Tony Evans, I don't. Again, he was my former pastor. I still love Tony Evans. Do I agree with Tony Evans? No. On everything? No. On most things? Yes. Guess what? You do too. The issue is though, on Christian YouTube though, we tend to in many cases allow for other people to shape what we think. We tend to allow for other people to shape what you think. So if this person doesn't like Tony Evans, I don't like Tony Evans. If this person doesn't like Vodibacca, I don't like Vodibacca. If this person don't like John McCarthy, I don't like John McCarthy. If this person don't like this, I don't like him. What are we for? I don't like Mary because Bob don't like Mary. Me and Bob are friends. And so we power our lips out like little kids. And you can't be our friends if you like her. You can't be our friends. And I'm going to cover the issue that Tony Evans brings up. And I've been asking people. I've asked people, all of you folks that have this big issue with and again, again, again, I disagree with that point. But come and tell me that I'm wrong for not saying what you think. By the way, we also get upset because other people don't hate someone as much as you hate them. What do you mean you don't? What do you mean you haven't called out this person, condemned this person? I have. What's wrong with you? Well, maybe you're an idiot. I don't know. Maybe you're slow. Maybe you're just too, too quick to start a fight. Maybe you're not thinking. Maybe you're too rash. Maybe you're not safe. Maybe you are. Maybe you're an immature Christian. Maybe you just don't know as much as you think you know. Maybe you can't defend your argument or maybe you can be saved and stupid. Treat that. You can be saved and stupid. That just never gets old. But maybe that's what it is. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe you have no business whatsoever teaching anyone or giving commentary on YouTube. Here's why I say that. There are a lot of people on YouTube. And someone asked, was this in response to Young Don? I have no idea what Young Don said. So I don't know. Why are you guys watching Young Don? This guy is on a spiritual, emotional, and mental journey. Let's talk about Young Don in five or 10 years when he comes back around. He's young in the faith. That is, if indeed he's in the faith. And so stop giving credence to what this young fellow is saying. And he is young. He's young. I'm not trying to son the man or whatever, but he's young. He's younger than most of my children. So stop following him. Stop going to somebody just because you're trying to, you know, get wet your appetite on foolishness or drama, what have you. Now there's plenty of drama out there. And we do comment on drama. We comment on things that we need to because they are pertinent to the body. But you shouldn't make the same video over the same person over and over and over and over again. If this person comes back and does something else that's kind of harmful to the body, well, then fine. But if he says ABC, and then you do a video on him saying ABC, don't do five videos on him saying ABC. Just move on and because I promise you if he's that bad, they'll say something else again. There's other things that are happening. And I've said that I'll keep saying this. I'll keep saying this. If on your channel, if you have a channel, and by the way, the problem with Christian YouTube, the biggest problem with Christian YouTube isn't the Christian YouTubers. It's the Christians. We'll come to that in a second. But if you've got a channel and you call out people, which by the way, you should call out bad doctrine, you should call out sin, that's what we are commanded to do. We won't listen to people say that you shouldn't judge. Who are you to judge? Matter of fact, how funny is it when someone puts in a comment section, who are you to judge? You shouldn't judge. You're judgmental. You're hypocritical and judgmental. You're judging me for judging and you're doing it hypocritically. We are called to judge the household faith, to judge believers, those inside the body. But we're called to do it rightly and not hypocritically. And so the biggest problem that we have with Christian YouTube isn't the Christian YouTubers, though that's a big problem, but it is with Christians. We'll come to Christians in just a little bit. But if all you do is call people out, if all you do is call people out on your Christian channel, then you don't have a Christian channel. I just solved the problem. I helped somebody out. If all you do is call people out, that's all you do, then you don't have a Christian channel. Now, if you do so, but at the same time, someone can go to your channel and find issues over a particular doctrine, cover different things. Well, then you, that's, that's our issues. Listen, this is really easy. This is really easy. What we say to people before they get safe is the same thing we're sending people after they get safe. We want to do two things. One, give them the gospel. Two, reiterate the gospel. That's that easy. Give them the gospel and then reiterate the gospel. Now, the gospel is just not, not just his death, burial and resurrection. It's everything that centers around that. What's the purpose of that? What's the meaning of that? Why do we need that? All of those things. And so we do that before they get saved, after they get saved. So guess what it does? It takes the guessing game out of your channel. Yeah, but I need to get a banging video. I need, I did a video two weeks ago and it had 200,000 views or 100,000 views. I need to give another video. Well, just the wrong motive. Most of my videos that I, that I do are going to be in someone say, well, wait a second, you're always talking about somebody. No, I'm not. You just only come when you hear that because YouTube knows you better than you know yourself. You only come to the, to the, to the videos that it's Jamal Bryant or it's TD Jakes or it's Creflo Dollar, it's Benny Hinn. Those are the ones you go to. But you don't realize that 85, 90% of the videos on this channel have to do with something docking, some sort of teaching, some sort of scriptural issue. But you don't see those. And those videos might get 5,000, 10,000, what have you. But the other video, that gets 100,000, 200,000. One day I'm going to get a video that gets a million. One, one day I'm going to get a video that gets a million. I haven't gotten one yet. I have recently had some videos that have been somewhat viral. But I really, but previously this year, I could say that I've never had a video that went viral. And it's okay. The videos that I want to have, I want them to have to be what I call evergreen, to have shelf life. That if you have a question about it today, other folks will want to revisit that same topic next week, next month, next year. No one cares about Mike Todd's Easter service this year. Now last year would it happen? Fine. But now no. But what about cremation? Or what someone asked the other day, do I have, I heard you mentioned about something about Proverbs 22.6, since that video, dog going as she was sick, congratulations on the 150. Let me say this also, because that's also part of the problem. I asked your question. Me, Al, it's Jenny. Oh, okay. Me, I was Jenny. You guys are killing me with my eyes are bad. I'm having to look me out. It's Jenny. Okay. Ask your question. Put a cue or put a question in front of your question. And I'll try to see it and get to it. If I'm not seeing it, I will have the moderators to flag me as well. I'll do my best. But one of the moderators in particular, other moderators, other people say, why don't you, why don't you, I think you ought to put your, your 100,000 plaque out. The, the, it's, I think it's, I think it's back there. Pull your plaque out. Pull your, pull your plaque out for what? I don't, I don't care about that plaque. I promise you, I asked my, I asked my daughter if she wanted it. To my wife, I said, go put it in the classroom. Put it, go put in your class. I offered other channels. Listen, I'll send it to you. You have, you can have it. You can hold on to it. Matter of fact, take it on a tour and then take that plaque, take that 100,000 subscriber plaque and then you, you put it on, you, you put it to good use. You take it, put it over your channel and then pass it along. See what that does. See what that does for your channel. See what it does for the king. It does nothing. It does nothing. So I don't, I don't really care about it. I really didn't, I saw, I just happened to be pushing something I saw when it went from 149, 98 or 80 something and then to 150,000. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. Nobody got it. And it's really not an issue. Why? Because I said before, this is not my goal. I could do a couple of things. I could do two things. No, it's not in the trash can. It's not in the trash can. It's right there. I should do that. That way I'll know where it is. But I could do two things to just, well, actually three things, three things to grow the channel. One, I could just forget about doctrine, just say anything and say, God is going to bless you and do all these great things or whatever. And whatever your problems are, they're not you. They're a demon and God is, God is going to cause you to have your best day, your best, all of that stuff. Zoom to a million, two million. And man, just sit back and just watch the dough roll in and just kick back and don't even worry about it. I'll mention the Bible every now and then mention Jesus and then just, you know, watch the subscriber if you count go up. I could do that. But there are really two things I could do. One, I could only call out people and when I say call out, I don't mean just call out people. I mean, call out things. This is bad. That's bad. This is bad. That's bad. Yeah. If I was Prophet Corey, if I was Prophet or Apostle Corey, if I say what's wrong with everything or what's happening, then it would just zoom. I'm not going to call out any names. I'm not going to call out any names. But I did a video about, you know, you see those videos where the thumbnails have an arrow pointing at somebody and there's a circle over, there's a circle and this is demonic. This is evil. This is wicked. You wouldn't believe it if it wasn't captured on TV. This is shocking. This is super shocking. This is all, this is, this is more shocking than the last 20 videos that I said were shocking. And then you put other people's faces in it who, as though they're commenting on what you're talking about. Jay-Z says something. I'm trying to think of some rappers now. Jay-Z says something. And then Vodibachan comments on that. Well, no, he didn't. And it's getting really bad when it says, you know, Charles Spurgeon responds to Jay-Z. What are we doing? And then you, and then you delve into them. It's kind of the same old retread and there's no scriptural digging into it. There's no, what I will always do, I'll do my very best to do it. If I cover someone, if there's something that was stated out there and requires commentary, I think I do a good enough job, at least I want to do a good enough job where we're going to go through the scriptures and see, because you don't want to just say this stuff. You want to make sure this stuff is related to people, how people could understand this and use it for their lives. That's the whole point. But this is, this is wicked. This is demonic. This is this. This is that. Or, or, or the other thing is instead of calling everything out is just to be non-confrontational, just to be really nice. Everything is wonderful. This is amazing. Did you see the move of God? I'm going to go into more of what I'm talking about in just a second, but let me, let me stay on that for a second about being non-confrontational, about being non-confrontational, wanting to be nice with everybody. Listen, I want to be as much as possible with, with me. I want to be friendly with everybody, but friendly doesn't mean forsaking or compromising anything. That doesn't mean that. And I won't, I won't call you out. I won't say, listen, if I can talk with you, listen, I want to understand why this, why that, why don't you this? So I don't know if you all remember this and some people made some videos about me, like Corey, you are a hater, you're this, you're that. And, and I'm like, wow, this is, this is the problem that we have in the body. Before I go there, before I go there, I want to play something. See, I think that Christians can sometimes be too, too passive. You just let anything go. Now, do you all know who smiling Joe is? Does anybody, let me put your comments on the side. You all know who smiling Joe is, Joel is. Anybody who's, who, who is smiling Joe? Smiling Joe is the person that we affectionately call him smiling Joe. He is Joel Austin, pastor of one of the largest, if not the largest church in America, Lakewood church down in Houston. Now, smiling Joe doesn't have anything confidential to say. Everything is going to be wonderful. Everything's going to be great. I want you to listen to this message and tell me, tell me guys what you think. Uh, bitty boom, boom Elizabeth, I like that name. Tell me guys what you think about this. Because of our own selfish reasons, we go through this to get a testimony of how far God has brought me and it was never about me. I thought about me why I'm going through this, but God says just back up, he wants to know who are you going to inspire? Who are you going to tell? Are you going to tell somebody about the glory and the grace of God? I don't ask him for a lot. I just say, give me my, my portion for today. I don't want a lot of things. Just give me enough that I can deal with life. And he said, I'll give you what you need and also greater than you can ever ask for or desire. You know what I need. And so Lord, give me my portion and I can be grateful. So I can be thankful. What do you think about that? What do you guys think about that particular video? And it's important to know what you think about it. I want to know. I'm just, he's that homegrown idiot. What do you all think about that? Did he say much of, he's regurgitating. Yeah, did he say much of anything? That's kind of nice. But did he, did he say much of anything? Was it hard hitting? Let me ask you a question. Was that, was that gospel mumbo jumbo? Was that, was that the greatest sermon you've ever heard? As a matter of fact, let me do something real quick. Let, let, let me do something real quick. I want you guys to let me, let me fix this over here. I want you guys to, I want to show you guys something. I want, I want your comments there, but I want, I want us, I want to see something. Yeah, there it is. Okay. Now I'm going to do this on the fly. I'm going to do something on the fly, but I want, I want to keep hearing motivational speech that is not the voice of the set. Amen. Now I want to do something real quick on the fly. I hadn't planned on doing this, but I'm going to do this on the fly. I'm going to add something. Yeah, let's, let's see if I can do this correctly. And then come over here. There we go. Now, do y'all remember this? People call it the greatest. If you just type in homeless man preaching, look at, look at some of the things that we're saying. 10 minutes to change your perspective forever, homeless preacher, former homeless man, greatest sermon you'll lever here. You see that? He went up former homeless man, greatest sermon ever. Do any of y'all remember that? The greatest sermon ever. This is, this is awesome. This is, y'all remember that? Now I made a comment. People were absolutely impressed. I was not. I went and listened to it. That was not. Now, the reason why I brought that up, the reason why I said all that, because of our own selfish reasons, we go through this to get a testimony of how far God has brought me because that wasn't Joel Olsen. That was, that was Joel Olsen's voice done by AI, but it was this man's words. Here's his word. It's a testimony. Once you go through what you go through, it's for us to inspire somebody else. It's for me to pull a wick was up. It's for you to pull a wick was up. We don't go through this because of our own selfish reasons. We go through this to give him a testimony of how far God has brought me. It was never about me. I thought about me why I'm going through this. He say back up man. Who are you going to inspire? Who are you going to tell somebody about the glory and grace of God? If you don't go through it, get out of yourself. And once I step back, I've been seeing the deep things of God. And so I don't play with him. I don't ask him for a lot. I just say, give me my, my portion for the day. I don't want a lot of things. Just give me enough that I can deal with. He said, I give you a, but fulfill your bond greater than you can ever ask. I know what you desire. I know what you do. Now, when I said that was nothing that he said, it wasn't the greatest sermon ever. It was, it was nothing. There was, there was no gospel. He mentioned the name or the word God, but it was not about God. But everybody ran with this video. It was the great matter of fact. Let's see. This was three million. Let me put it back on the screen. Where is that? Where is that? Let's put it back on the screen. Let's go. Let's just look at some of the views that they got. And so what happened was other folks jumped in. This 476,000, 3.1 million, 570,000 views, 359,000 views, 25,000 views, lying. I'm not saying, I'm not trying to impugn these brothers that did that, but you went with something that was sort of feel good, but the man said, if everyone, if everyone on the planet heard that gospel, everyone on the planet would not have heard the gospel. That's the problem. And other folks, I saw two videos of folks getting upset with me because I had a negative response to that video. I said, he didn't say anything. But if you take everything that that man said and, and change the voice, yeah, AI, I went to, I had the AI deal do that. And AI gave it Joel Olsen's voice. And it's like, yeah, that's nothing because it's Joel. You know, he's not saying anything, but we're so in a hurry to find something heartwarming and wonderful. The greatest, if that was the greatest sermon ever, if your life was changed by that, you're not safe. You're not safe. You're not a Christian. You couldn't be a Christian if that was the most memorable, the greatest sermon you've ever heard. Wow. Wait, do you people actually hear the gospel? If that was the greatest sermon you've ever heard, wait till you actually hear, yeah, people are just hungry for something, anything, whatever. And I see, you know, I'm going to hold off on that. I'm going to let everybody who has something negative or whatever to say called me a hater, call this, now say something. I want to play it early. I said, you know, and it's been what, six, five, six months ago? Yeah, six months ago. But that was absolutely nothing. But that's what happens. This is the problem that we have with Christian YouTube. We're serving up junk. We're serving up trash and calling it the gospel. We're serving up stuff and saying this is God. God is, God is doing something. No, he's not, not that, not that. God understands how absolutely utterly stupid we are. Or let me just put this way, make somebody upset. God understands how much as a people we suck. Yeah. Listen, if you don't realize how much, how much you suck as a person, then you not saved. Corey, you shouldn't use that word, safe space. I'm getting triggered. I'm getting triggered, Sean Johnson. There's that word again, safe space. But we saw, we're horrible people. We're not good. And then for someone to give us something that I don't want to hurt your feelings. I don't want you to feel bad. This will make you feel good. No, no, no, if you hear that or the, or the lot of things that we're hearing, a lot of folks are leaving in the same condition that they showed up. That's it. They heard something. It didn't, nothing was, there was, there was nothing to prick their heart. There was nothing to convict them. And that's the problem. And so when someone says, Hey, what you just said, that doctrinal stances you just made, whatever you said that, I don't, I don't, I don't agree with that. But you're wrong. If you call some of these people will never want to have somebody else to call them on it. Now, by the way, have you all, have you all do me a favor on some of the videos, especially the doctrinal videos, not the ones where it's about, I don't know, Mike Todd or Vinnie here or whoever, not on those videos, but on the videos about doctrine, especially those about women and tongues and salvation. Go look at the comments. Go look at the comments and notice which ones that I tend to respond to. I tend to respond, I respond most often to those that are negative, those that say, Hey, you're wrong. Okay. Well, tell me why you're tell me why. Thank you. You're my safe place. Tell me why I'm wrong. I'm open to that, but you cannot say, Hey, you're wrong. And that's that. Or, or here's my favorite. Here's my favorite. This guy I know he's talking about. I'm unsubscribing. Why are you telling me you're unsubscribing? So I'll just say, God bless you. I want to say bye. I guess the best thing for me to do is just delete the comment that way. There's no, there's no residue. There's no memory of them ever being here in the first place. People want you to know how they feel, but they can't tell you why they feel. If you can, and it's fine. Listen, it is fine if you cannot articulate your biblical stance. That's fine, but don't give a non biblical response in place of what should be a biblical response. Don't give your opinion in place of where a biblical response should be because that's what you command to do. The whole point, if you go back to the video that the intro video, the promo video, the channel, what do you call it? The channel video, the channel intro video. What have you called that thing? The whole point then is what it is now. Everything is, let's play it. For those of you that are joining in late, let's go back to the Corey Miner of three years ago, about 10 pounds lighter, still, still, still a wonderful hairdo though. How come there are so many different views and interpretations about the Bible? And I'm talking about just between Christians. And why do we fight over all these different views? Now a couple of things. That paint job was horrible. That paint job was horrible. It was a, I don't know, a hot pink because it used to be my daughter's room. And I don't know what was going on. There was a whole lot of stuff going on. Back then I would, I put music at the very beginning and then after I say, you know, I'm not doing this music stuff. Now, there are some times where I would like to do some, you know, some music on some of the videos kind of, you know, to kind of add, you know, an extra little flair or, you know, make the things sound interesting because you're talking about this part of doc is like, ah, so, but I didn't know anything about YouTube. Still, still, though, I just listened. I push play and, and my excitement in the word, I hope it would come across. But let's go listen to young Corey. We don't even seem to be godly when we have disagreements about the Bible. We're divided over so many different topics such as one saved, always saved tongues, baptism, even over topics such as homosexuality and abortion. It's gotten to the point to where we're even divided over whether we can even trust the text of the Bible. But wait a minute, shouldn't we as Christians be in agreement over the Bible? Shouldn't we be able to read and to understand God's word the way God intended us to? Surely he didn't want it to be this complicated. Surely he didn't want us to be this divided. But did you know that God gave us his word so that even the least of us could understand it? I mean, think about it. Since God is a God of sins. Listen, that is video editing. Yeah, YouTube freshman Corey, that was, that was, that was, I don't care what you say. That little text right there that everybody should do that. No, this wasn't an iPad days. You know, this was all of them says it's the iPad days. No, you know what this video was edited on? Uh-oh, what do I do? This video, this video was edited on Oh, on the cell phone. It started from the cell phone. And you know, the iPhones have iMovie. That's, that's where that came from. Awesome. Awesome. But my whole point, I was muted first. I didn't know what I had in the video. It didn't automatically unmute me. But the whole goal then is the same now. The goal then is the same goal now. Whatever we cover, whatever we talk about, the goal is to still cause people to go into the text, to go look at the text. Let me give you something that I said. Let me give you a few examples. Yesterday, I did a video on, yesterday, on something that, what's, what's the young lady's name? Jackie Hill Perry. And people said, well, well, I don't hear, I hear, I hear a little bit of a difference, but I don't hear much of a difference. Do I have to do a video where I've got to give a difference or I'm just, all I'm doing is going through what she said. I pointed out some things she said that was incorrect and then some things that I agree with. Matter of fact, I actually said in the beginning, there's some things that she's right on, some things she's wrong on. I didn't say that she's going to hell because of this video. This video is to say, stay away. That wasn't the point of the video. And I think the problem is too many Christians look for that. If you see a person's face, you're either going to say, this person is the best ever or the worst ever. Or why can it just be something in between? I did a video on inspiration. Do y'all remember the video? I know y'all hope you did. The video about who's inspired. Are the apostles or prophets inspired? 95% of people said, yes. And I said, no, they're not. They are not inspired. Biblically speaking, scripturally speaking, they are not inspired. I disagree, Corey. God breathed his breath into the nostrils of man. So that means every single person on the planet is inspired, huh? Since we have the breath of God. Not in that sense. You can be moved by God and not inspired to be God inspired. God breathed means that this is God over you, that what you do, how you act, how you behave. That is God ordained. Paul was not God ordained in everything that he did. Nor was Peter. Nor was John. Nor was Moses. Nor was Abraham. Every last one of them needed to be saved. Now, Biden is God ordained. Biden is God breathed. Yeah, Biden is a gift. I'm kidding. Y'all pray for our country. Y'all pray for our country. But I said, okay, fine. These people, you disagree with me that not only are the scriptures inspired, but so too are the apostles and prophets fine. Give me a scripture that says they're inspired. That's all. Give me a scripture that says the prophets and apostles in the Bible were inspired. Well, you know what you're going to have? None, because there are none. There are literally no passages to say that. And the danger with that is that if you can claim that they were inspired, then you see today people saying that they are, they to themselves are inspired. They get these meetings with God all the time. The Lord comes and speaks with them all the time. No, no, this is why we put the word of God before everything else. And so what you, in the whole point of what we do on this channel is to make you to think about the word. Even if I'm wrong, make me think about it, but I want you to go to your scriptures and look it up. Even you got to Google, Hey, why is Corey wrong? Google that. I don't care because one, it helps me. It helps other people. It helps yourself. If you have a Christian channel or if you go watch a Christian channel and the Christian channel does not make you delve into the scriptures, then stop watching that Christian channel. I know, I know some people are going to get upset, but I do not care. I do not care. If Christian YouTube is entertaining, listen, if your Christian YouTube preferences are more because you want to be entertained, go watch HBO Max, go watch Netflix. Now I don't have a problem with them being entertaining, but the point is the scriptures. I want to have, I want to have fun when we're talking. We say, you know, little things, whatever. And oh, by the way, that's just kind of my style. If I'm up preaching, I do want emotions involved. I want to put us there in the text as much as possible. And then I want to be relatable. And I want, listen, if you can laugh and have fun while you're there, amen, who wins? God wins. And so does his word and people that listen to it. And so that's just, it's naturally me. I do, I like to have fun. I don't see a reason for me to be too upset. I don't take myself too serious. And so you call me names. Hey, man, listen, I'm as dumb as they get. I just look better being dumb because I'm bald, unlike Alton who has hair, unlike Dutch, the Bible Thumper too, because he's got hair and facial hair. I don't know what he, I don't know what he's trying to hide. Yeah. So we can have, we can be, we can be Christians and have fun, but we can have fun going through the text. But what we'd rather have is this, we'd rather have what Paul brings up. For such men are slaves, not of the Lord Christ, but of their own appetites. And by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. That's what we have nowadays. He says, I hate this crazy. That's what we have today. People just want to say something nice. People just want to be talked to smoothly and maybe feel good, be cajoled and cuddled and coddled and just hugged and squeezed and kissed on and so forth. And it's going to be all right. No, it ain't the world is going to hell. And you're going to see a whole lot of it. I don't know how close to hell we're going to get before we all die, but I can tell you this. The plane is at the terminal right now. We're boarding. I don't know if, if in our lifetime we'll see this plane get to its final destination. I don't know. Personally, I hope not. I don't want to be here when the world gets as bad as it's getting, but it's getting pretty bad. It's, it's getting bad, but it's expected to be bad. And so if the world is getting bad, what do you think people's handling of the word of God is going to be? And we've got too many Christians who don't care enough about the word of God. We got too many Christians who care more about, by the way, Christian channels who care about their own emotions. We got too many Christians who are just simply easily offended. Someone asked me, how come you having this, this, this, and this after some of these people that have come after you? I said, well, because some of these folks are just too easily offended and I'd rather leave them there. I'd rather leave you twisting and squirming and upset and bothered because I won't talk to you when, guess what? Can I ask you guys a question? Let me put it back on the screen. You all tell me. You all tell me, have I made myself available more than most Christian YouTube channels to speak to me? I think I have. I think I have. Now, could it be better? I guess it could be. Have I answered every single question or comment or email? No, I have not. I can't. You guys have no idea how many comments and emails come in. And so I try to be available and I try to cover stuff over and over again because that's what we're going to have to do anyway. Whatever topic we cover in the Bible, we'll cover 50,000 more times before we die. And it helps us to get better at it. It helps us to get better at sharing with other people. And it helps us to kind of be more, I don't want to say entrenched, but more understanding of what we actually believe and we've got to change something. We've got to change something. That's what we have to do. Do you know what I can do? Matter of fact, let me put it back on the screen. Let me ask you guys a question. If I said, you know what? Now, I'm in the DFW area. Yay, Dallas. I'm in the DFW area. I'm in Dallas. By the way, in Dallas, do you all realize in Dallas we call everybody, the whole city Dallas, we call four. It's to the point now Dallas is so big, we just call everything Dallas. You live in all of Dallas. Now I'm in people in Dallas, maybe it's a Dallas thing. We say everybody else lives in Dallas too. If you live in Arlington, live in Dallas. If you live in the colony, you live in Dallas. If you live in, if you live in DeSoto or Garland or Grand Prairie, you live in Dallas. So, but if I said, y'all tell me I could be delusional. I've asked some people that, even some people that are critical of me, asked this question. What if, what if I said, you know what? Starting in, I gave a countdown in 60 days. We're starting a Bible study not online, but a live Bible study at this location every, I don't know, Tuesday night. Count it down. 60 days left, 40 days left, 30 days left, 14 days left, eight days left, two days in one tomorrow. Do you think people after broadcasting it on YouTube and Facebook and so forth, do you think some people in Dallas would show up? What do you, I think some people will show up. How many? I have no idea. How many? I don't, I don't know. Do you think some folks would show up? I think some folks would show up. Then if I said after that, six months from now, 40, 40 days from now, four months from now, three months from now, two months from now, church, the way it's meant to be done will open up. Not that there are no good churches here because there are a bunch of good churches here. But if I put out no, no proclaiming, no decreeing, no declaring, no naming, no claiming, just the word of God, do you think some people would go and attend that church? I think so. I think so. Because I think there's a hunger for people who want to actually get just the word. The reason why I'm saying that is because I want you to know that I am not beholden to YouTube. I think YouTube is what I think. YouTube is awesome. It's wonderful. You can actually go and talk about the word of God and a lot of folks will listen to it. I think it's awesome. I really do. Now, am I a fan of YouTube, the organization? No, they do some things that make you scratch your head. But the platform, I get what I'm saying is the platform itself. I think it's a tool that you just use it to. Just like, just like if you use a school bus, it'll pick up people. I don't care about the truck, the company that made the school bus. But the fact that you can get this vehicle and pick up folks to bring them to be educated in school, I think that's awesome. So the whole point that I'm getting at is that if you are on YouTube and you have a channel, don't let that be your main thing. You really should have an end game, a goal that's not like other folks on YouTube because it might change. The whole platform might change. Who knows? What if they go to something where everybody has their own little personal little internet? I heard a guy talking about this and they're kind of like, wow, you have your own little internet and it's not where you go to see people. It's not through YouTube. It's so dependent on who you are, what kind of neighborhood commission you have is going to draw folks to you. Now, I don't know how that's going to work, but my goal is not to be on YouTube forever. Now, as we, if we, as we plan a church, will those things be on YouTube and the teachings and so forth and the Bible? Sure. There, I will still do something, you know, because I can never leave you guys. Don't know what I would do without CG and monkey moves and David and Jeff, Kathleen. I don't know what I would do. Don't know. Don't listen. I would, if I did not see DW Connolly, I don't know what would happen. I'd be lost. Rashaan, not so much. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But my goal is still what my goal has always been, and that is just to, no, I'm not trying to leave. I'm not trying to leave. I'm just going to do what God, what I think God would like for me to do. And that's just to share his, share his word with people in a more intimate fashion, but also still to the, still on YouTube. Again, YouTube just won't be the main thing. So will I cut back? Sure. And then I want to bring other folks on who are also teaching to utilize them on the channel. Now, how this is going to work? When it's going to work? I don't know. But my point is, I'm not trying to build a YouTube brand. I'm not trying to, you know, YouTube is not, is not going to comfort me for the rest of my life. Best on my goal. And I think what we see on YouTube are too many Christians who look at YouTube as though it is the source instead of a resource. And they offer, they would much rather give commentary without scripture. If you're giving commentary without scripture, then all you're doing is giving an opinion. If you are hesitant to come, I have seen people call out other leaders, but won't call out their favorite leaders because that's my favorite leader. I've seen and I said, I'm doing the deal on, on Tony Evans, but I've seen folks say call out Tony Evans, but wait a second, the guy that you're promoting, he's also has things that, that he needs to kind of fix up. Everybody has. I don't care if you're Tony Evans fan, yeah, the trans dispensational thing, that's an issue. The trans dispensational thing, that's, that's an issue. But does that mean he's a false teacher? No. The John McArthur deal with the, with the blood or the, the marketer beast? That's an issue. Is he a false teacher? No, he's not. What about Charles Stanley? No, what about Andy Stanley? Yes, he is. But the point is, we're so quick to throw folks out that are teaching, but what about you? And the whole goal is, is that because everybody's going to, everybody is going to get something wrong at some point in time. Everybody is. But as long as the person is trying to promote the gospel, a healthy understanding of the gospel, and then use that to kind of examine yourself, if when you hear the word of God, it doesn't make you feel bad. If when you hear the word of God, it doesn't cause you to look at yourself. If when you look at, that doesn't mean that you're going to always go away hearing the scriptures and then decide, yeah, I'm not, that's not what it means. But it does mean, it does mean if you hear the word of God, it should cause you to look at yourself. Because at some point in time, what's being covered in scriptures is right down your alley. Unless you think you're perfect. There's, there's some issues about you. If you can come, if you can come to grips with that, you realize, you'll realize, well, first of all, if you come to grips with that, that you're just a rotten person, a bad person, this and that won't have you. You'll be at, you'll be at peace even more so. Why would you be at more peace? Because the biggest issue with Christian YouTube isn't the Christian YouTube, it's just the Christians that are watching YouTube. Because a lot of these folks are actually, you're pushing them, you're driving them to create content that they think that you like. Okay. It says a lot about them, but also something about you as well. But if you can come to the conclusion that you're not that great, then you know what can happen. If you know you're not that great, you won't have to keep up this appearance before people who also know you're not that great, you don't have to keep pretending like you are that great. You ever, you ever, you ever just, all right, all right, I'm this, I'm that. And then people say, yeah, we know. We know. Hey, listen, I got a, I got a drinking problem. We know we can smell them. Glad you finally, I'm glad you finally came out with it. I'm glad you finally said something about it. I'm glad you finally came clean. It's just helpful. Told you all about the story when I was, I forget how we were. Me and my brother in our little room, we moved into apartment that had a Prince poster there. And this poster was bothering both of us, when we didn't know it, if we would just said something early, we would have gone a few months without having this super gay looking poster of Prince with his Speedos in the shower. Like this is, this is, as a little, as a little fellow, what was that, eight, nine, ten? I'm not sure how we were, but it was, it was bothering me and it was bothering my brother, Chris. It was just bothering both of us. Chris, I'm not gay. I'm not gay either. Well, why do we have this Prince poster up here? Well, let's take it down. Mama comes in, we have to do the Prince poster. We took it down because we're not gay. She said, I'm glad you took it down. I didn't like the poster either. Here we got all three of us thinking of something. We don't, neither one was like the Prince poster. Sometimes just being honest with yourself, it just helps because no one thinks you're that great anyway, especially God. So if where you go to, there is no promotion of the gospel, if where you're going to, there is no promotion of the gospel, then leave. But it says something about you. It says a lot about you. Yeah, Donald, listen, Donald said the mental image is bothered. Just do, do you have a favor? I want you to suffer in my pain. I want you to suffer in my pain. I want you when you get a chance, just go Google and just type in Prince posters. There's an old poster. I guess all of them are gonna be old, but it's an old poster. And you'll see like, wow, that is, that's horrible. That's child abuse. That is child abuse. My mother, my mother should have had us taken away from her with that. But if you find yourself going places and it's always drama, it's always talking about somebody, well, that's because you, that's what you like. But now YouTube will let you know. YouTube and Facebook, they'll let you know because they'll keep sending this up to you. Yeah, all you got to do is grab somebody's phone and just look up just, you don't have to go to their history. No, all you got to do is just go to their phone, go to their home page and just see what YouTube or Facebook is sending there. Why is YouTube and Facebook sending this stuff there? Because that person likes it. They've been, they've been watching, they're counting and measuring how long you've been watching this stuff. So when you come in and you say, Hey, why are you always talking about this person? And everybody on the channel knows that I don't spend a lot of time talking about these people all the time. 90% of the videos on here are not talking about other people than all you've done was telling yourself because YouTube knows that you like that kind of stuff and they'll send it. So I just send them, I sent one person about 30, I was, I was mess with, I sent somebody 30 videos one day of just teaching. And so here, watch some more of this stuff. You've been missing out. You've been missing out. There's somebody in the chat who that, that was that person. That was that person. I didn't even, I didn't even know all that was there. Yeah. The videos that I do, someone said, why, why are you even doing, I think you're just making this video, just making this video. No, the videos that I make about certain topics, 90% of those videos, someone asked about that topic or about that verse or about this question. That's why I'm not, I'm not, I promise you, I'm not just making videos just because, no, I turned on a lot of videos. I do. But I want YouTube, me on YouTube, you put this way. Me on YouTube should be reflective of Christ in me. However you see me on YouTube should be reflective of what Christ is in me. And if you see me covering a whole lot of different topics, Cory, why are you, you cover this many topics in this, how many videos? It doesn't take much for me to do a video. I can, I can just pop out a video. So when I ask a question, if I'm not that busy about this passage, about that passage, well, Cory, and someone says, well, Cory, you covered too much. I think you're confusing people. Nope. No, I'm not. I'm giving as much information as I can. Sometimes I can give more, sometimes I don't, but you're bothered because we went in depth with the video. You're bothered because I covered more about the particular topic. You're just confusing people. No, you're confused. Or they'll say, well, I think you mishandled that text. Well, fine. Explain to me. I have no problem. I think I'm the easiest person on you, not the easiest person. You're not the easiest person, but I'm pretty easy to get you to, especially if you have a channel, especially if you have a channel. Come on, let's talk about it. Do you know how many times I've asked folks who have made comments and statements about what I've said on YouTube who have a channel? Hey, come on. Let's have this conversation. And they're not contentious. I've had one contentious conversation on YouTube. One. That was with Crock's Move. By the way, guess who else thought that the guy that was preaching, the homeless guy, that was a great servant. Guess who else Crock's Move did too? So, but it tells you what kind of company these other folks ran. And I'm not necessarily here I'm not here to make enemies on YouTube. I'm not necessarily here to make friends either. Listen, I'm friends with everybody and I'm as up front as I can possibly be. But our problem with YouTube, the Christians and the content creators, is that there is a serious deficit in people's desire for more of a gospel. Do you think Christians are calling out people because they are genuinely concerned? Or is it all for attention? People love the conflict. Well, I think it can be either or. It can be either or. I think what you have to do is go look at that person's channel. If you go to that channel and that is what they do, well then that speaks more to them and not the people that they're calling out. If that person that they call out is doing something new than they man. But if they're just kind of retreading that that person, if a person on YouTube, let me just say this and somebody might get upset, but hey, listen, get upset, give me a call, give me a text, we can talk. Got therapy for you. But if your channel is always about this person's confrontation, it's about this, it's about that. If the majority of your videos or your channel is confrontational, talking about people or talking about other preachers or talking about other people, clap back videos, incidental, whatever. Do you know what it tells me? You all tell me if you can agree with this. If your videos are more about responding to people or calling out other people, if that's the majority of what you do, do you know what it really says about you? You don't have much depth. You don't have much to talk about. What's in you is ultimately going to come out. So if this text, if that, all of that stuff is going to come out, all of that stuff is going to come out. Do you know why is Corey talking about Smart Christian Life channel? No, that channel is, that channel is more for the commentary. People, I don't, I want this channel, we'll do some commentary on this channel, but that channel is just specifically for commentary. But even in the commentary, I want to go as deep as I can with it. Someone says this, well, this is what this pastor says, this is that, this is that, right? And so it's just an extension of this channel. So when you talk about that channel, we're talking about this channel as well. So that channel is going to be overwhelming majority. That's what it is for commentary. This channel, I wanted to kind of separate the commentary and have more teaching. We do some commentary, but not nearly as much as we used to. But if all a person has to say is that, well, then guess what? They don't have much to say. You need to be, you need more depth, you need more, you need more variety in your food. What is my stance on polygamy? Well, it's ungodly, it's unbiblical. But the Bible doesn't speak about polygamy. Well, what did Jesus say? What did God say? For this reason, a man shall leave his mother and father and be joined to one flesh. Now, because the allowance was made, that means it was appropriate, having more than one wife. What did, think about this for a second, guys. Having more than one wife or more woman in the Bible, just like the day, what did it do? Think about that for a second. Abraham, more than one woman. God didn't tell him to do that. You guys got to thinking for God. You try to help God out. I can't get pregnant, so maybe you should go get with Hagar. What did that do? Thank you, Islam. Or Islam will say thank you. Think about, think about the infighting with Jacob and his wives and concubines. Think about the infighting there. Think about, as we go forward, think about with David. David, the Lord chose you, but with these extra women, too many cooks in the kitchen caused a problem. As a matter of fact, this sword and this violence will be perpetually at your house. And then here comes Solomon. Solomon wants to outdo everybody. So, yeah, all of those extra wives and so forth, it's not what God called for. So as a believer, what do we want to do? We want to do what is fitting to the Lord. We want to do as what's most honorable to the Lord. So if this government said that, you know what? Yeah, it's okay to have multiple wives. Would that be the godly thing to do? No. Now, in America, it's even more ungodly because it's illegal. So, and it's not fair to the women. It's not fair to the women. So, because what if you're in a culture that says that the women can have extra husbands? And there are cultures like that. I can't do that. I can't do that. I understand why. I understand why. Why won't I have debates? I've had some debates on this channel before. I've had so. I'm never going to do a formal debate again. I don't think I will. I don't think I will. I'm pretty sure I won't. But I'll have an informal debate. No problem with that. No problem with that. My church has female elders. How should I address this? You confront them and say, ask them to show you what the qualifications are for an elder. If you're not totally sure, I've got several videos over this. The Bible is clear, the role of women. It has nothing to do with her ability, but it has everything to do with the right of way. It has everything to do with what God has ordained. And if they don't accept that, my suggestion, if they don't acquiesce to what the scriptures say, leave. Now, we're going to have more women preaching. I think at some point in time, then we're going to have males. So, I would like to see you do an interview with an SDA church member on the Sabbath. I believe it's important to know that it's still binding yet. Well, okay. Are you a southern dead venice? If so, if you would like to have a conversation, I have no problem with it. I have no problem with it at all. The Sabbath is not binding. The Sabbath is not binding on us as Gentiles. And again, the Jews violated it. And what did God say? If the scriptures matter, then the scriptures matter. Now, by the way, what does that mean? What does that mean? Keeping the Sabbath. What does that mean? Does it mean going? You know what it doesn't mean? It doesn't mean going to church on Saturday. It doesn't mean work. No, it means resting. So, if you want to, let me know if you want to, or you have someone that you would like to bring on, you would like for me to have this conversation with. So, yeah, there's a lot of bad on YouTube. There's a lot of good. There's an awful lot of good channels on YouTube. There's an awful lot of bad. You guys have to have the ability to weave through it. I would like to see more Christians on YouTube. I would like to see a lot of Christians on YouTube, a lot of Christian YouTube channels. But at the same time, I'd like to see good Christian channels. But I think we need more. I think we need more. I think that, okay. What are your thoughts on? I knew you guys were going to do this. I knew you guys were going to do this because you always do it. Dog on it, Wayne. What are your thoughts on when Paul said we will be judged? You guys are trying to turn this into a Q&A. We have Q&A tomorrow. But what are your thoughts on when Paul said we will be judged? Romans 2, 16. How do you even get to go over the passage that I have set up? How do you even get to go over the passage that I have set up? I'm going to cover those passages in just a second as well. Spending all this time putting these passages together. On the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ. Hold on. Let's back up. Let's back up. Let's keep this context. For all who have sinned without the law, we'll also perish without the law. And all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hears of the law who are just before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the law do instinctively the things of the law, these not having the law are a law to themselves. In that, they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternatively accusing or else defending them. On the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ. Now, he's speaking about his gospel. I don't want you to take it as though his gospel is different. Some folks might say, well, his gospel is not different. If anyone tells you that Paul's gospel is different rejected person, it's not different. There's only one way to be safe, that you place your faith in Christ. That's it. Be they Georgian time. Now, under the Old Testament, under the Old Testament, were folks required to place their faith in Christ, but they didn't know Christ, but their faith in God, six in one hand happens another, but their faith in God is required. How do I know? Ask Abel. Ask Enoch. Ask Joe. Ask Abraham. So all he's really saying is that according to his gospel, according to the gospel, will these people be judged either for good or for bad? What did you say? I got thinking about it and wanted to make sure my recent response to a disagreement in the comments. Pastors can't forgive sins was property. I didn't see it. What did you say? Pastors can't forgive sin. When we talk, when we look at what Jesus was saying to the apostles, now the question is, was he saying you had to adjust them or for anybody I would say is to just them, but he wasn't even saying that they forgive sins. He says that they, because he used the perfect tense, that those sins will have been forgiven by heaven. They didn't say by heaven, but who else? They will have been forgiven and they will have been retained, just like binding and loosening, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound. Same perfect tense that's used there. And so he's not saying the apostles have the ability to forgive sins. How do we know? Because when Peter, who was one of the apostles that was there, is confront or he confronts Simon the Sorcerer in Acts 8, what does Peter say? Does Peter forgive his sin? No. Peter says, pray that God, that the Lord forgives you sins. So it's not that they have the right that they just have, they will be able to confess or state what has been forgiven. And the point is really in reference to the gospel. If you place your faith in Christ, that seems what he's talking about, about being forgiven. I know Catholics were pointing out that you have to go through absolution to some priests and so forth would have known. That's wrong. That's wrong. But it's a Catholic thing. What's wrong with Christian YouTube Christians? What's wrong with Christian YouTube Christians? A desire to either be non-confrontational or too confrontational, not being balanced. All we do, I heard someone say just as angrily as they could put it, going off on people who have these altar calls, I'm not promoting altar calls, going off on people who treat these younger kids who go before the church and we treat them like they're saved, going off on them. I heard his points. I get that. I get that. I got you all, need Jesus. I got you. I'm gonna ask you a question next. I get that. I don't want to see little kids or people going up thinking that they're saved and they're not. But this is what we don't think things through. This is what we don't think things out a lot. What COVID did was cost a lot of people to sit at the computer and hear other folks rant about stuff and it also brought a lot of people who have no business giving us their opinion, who can't back it up. If they can back it up and find it. But our altar calls bad. What about little kids who go before the church and we're not totally sure these kids are safe and we treat them like they're safe? Is that bad? Well, it's not good. But what's worse? There's a question. What's worse? Kids who think they're saved and the church and everyone else treating them like they are with the expectations that goes with that or the kids who we don't treat like they're safe. We don't think they're safe and they're still living unsaved. Well, neither one of them are going to be saved. But how many of you guys, by short hands, how many of you people thought you were saved before you were actually saved? I'm going somewhere with this. How many of you guys thought you were saved before you were saved? Is there anybody that can say, you know what? There was a time I thought I was a Christian, but I wasn't. And I'm doing something here. I want to show you something here. How many of you guys, if my thinking here is popular, there we go. Okay, good. A good number of people thought they were saved before they were saved. Do you know what thinking you're saved before you're saved can do for you? Keep you exposed to the gospel because what you do then, what you do then is you're exposed to the scriptures. And you like, wait a second, if I'm really saved, I shouldn't be acting this way. Now take that with the people who are not saved. Don't think they're saved. Don't want to be around, save folks at church, whatever. What are they being exposed to? Not the gospel. So it's going to sound bad, but this is my explanation. Kids in church who think they are saved, and we're not totally sure they are, fine. They keep getting exposed to it because the result is still the same. You still have to, I don't care if you're saved or you're not saved. What do we give you? The gospel. How long do we give you the gospel? How long do we give you the Word of God before and it stops once you get saved? No, afterwards. The Word of God keeps convicting. And so, you know what? I thought I was saved and I realized I was not saved. What is the, is there a benefit to an altar call? Sure there's a benefit to the altar call. Now, altar calls are not biblical. They're also not anti-biblical either, meaning that the Bible does not condemn them. If a church has an altar call, meaning anyone who wants to give their life to Christ, what have you come on up? Well, guess what? Now the church knows who placed their faith in Christ versus you all are in your in your in your pews in your seats and we have no idea who made profession. Now there's different ways to go about doing it. I'm not saying one way is right or one way is wrong. What I'm saying is what we do is we get this little herd mentality because this person, let me just use Paul Washer. Paul Washer made videos condemning it. So now you know what I like Paul Washer? So since he's against it, I'm against it. Well, I don't I don't recall Paul Washer writing the Bible. And so could he be wrong or right? Because I saw a video that he did about about kids, young kids thinking they were saved. Who's more likely to actually get saved? Oh, by the way, Paul Washer believes in predestination, I believe. And so in election, a lot of folks are elected, believe, have a mental belief in Christ, but haven't actually made that actual acceptance. Well, when were they saved? When were they ordained to be saved according to his doctor? So my point is, whether this person is accepting of or whether we're having these altar calls or whether young folks are eight different times coming up and giving their life to Christ or whatever, all you keep doing is keep giving them the word. Isn't it amazing how the word is the key? Given the word. When should I give them the word before they get saved? When should I give the word after they get saved? Yeah, keep giving the word. Which word? The same word. People need to know how you are saved once they're saved and after they're saved before they're saved. Keep giving the word. Yeah, exactly, DT. By the way, think about Paul's Gospel and so forth, and really everyone else is in the Bible. You don't have to have a whole lot of fluff. You tell folks that, hey, you're bad, you're right, you're this now, and then, you know, they, yeah, you know, me too, me too. This Gospel is for people like myself. All need Jesus asked a very good question. He says, Corey, when is Jesus coming back? I can tell you exactly when He's coming back. I'll tell you guys exactly when He's coming back. Y'all thinking, no way, second Corey, there's no way in the world you could know exactly when He's coming back. I know when He's coming back. New slash, put it all over YouTube, make a video about this. I know exactly when He's coming back, when the Cowboys win another Super Bowl, when the Cowboys win another Super Bowl, which is, I don't know what, in the year 2130. Yeah, that's when, as soon as they win another Super Bowl, that's when He's coming. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I am kidding. The altar call, Anela, however a church uses it, if you want folks to come forward for prayer, if you want them to come forward, if they want to place their faith in Christ, which they've already done so before they walk down, if they truly have placed their faith in Christ, they've already, by the time you, the decision for you to place your faith in Christ to believe in what He's doing, and I trust in what He's doing, you walking down from the second row, or the fifth row, or the balcony would have you, you're saved. Now you're making a public affirmation of that, and that's not a bad thing either. Didn't say you, you're gonna get it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to all my Cowboy fans. Man, you guys have a question though. If, it's a stupid question, if that's what it was tied to, how many of y'all would be wishing for the Cowboys to win Super Bowl? I don't know about the Cowboys winning Lord. I don't know, but that would be a hard day. At some point in time, the Cowboys are going to win. That is going to be a hard day, a hard week, a hard month for me. I've got to come up with some sort of excuse as to why they won. The ref cheated, it was conspiracy, all that stuff. I got to, at some point, at some point in time, they're going to win, and I don't know what, I don't know what I'll do. Yeah, go blue, go Wolverines. They did it. They did it. I was cheering for them, because I got tied to everybody in the South, acting like no one up North plays football. I was so happy, a non-ACC or SCC team won. So, if Washington would have won, I'd have been fine with that. So, yeah, but you might be right, Corey. But anyway, let me go over these passages. We are called to do what? To contend for the faith. So, being overly nice about something, overly happy about what's happening in the world, that's good, but our job is to contend for the faith. Again, every writer in the New Testament, except for Philemon, covers calling out either a false teacher or false teaching. Paul says this, and we cover this, but before we do this, he says, all scriptures inspired by God, and again, all scriptures, not all the writers, but the scriptures are proper for teaching, for reproof, for correction, so that nobody would be lacking anything. But that's what he says. So, therefore, I charge you, I'm saying, guys, I want you to preach the gospel, preach the word, win, end season, and out of season, which is all of the time. For the time will come, which is now they will not do it sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves, teachers in accordance with their own desires. So, we'll say that this guy, this is the greatest sermon ever by this homeless man. We don't know if this man was saved or not. He didn't present the gospel, which makes me wonder if he actually is indeed saved, because he didn't say anything about Jesus. Now, we've got folks out there that won't, will not, will not call out what's wrong. Paul calls those folks arrogant. He says, you have become arrogant and have not mourned, instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst. You know what? Let's leave them alone. Let's let God deal with them. Let's let God deal with them. We won't, we won't, who are we to judge? The problem with Christian YouTube is the same problem with Christians, period. We haven't made or determined that we're going to have a strict fidelity to the scriptures, to the text. So much so that if someone disagrees with us, we don't want to defend ourselves with the text. We're not willing to listen to someone else as though we got it right. When you start saying, I think, to me, those are some of the more damaging things that you could ever say. To me, the Bible says, I think, like he said, you'll like this. One of the cool parts about DTS, really, hopefully, I would say any seminary, but every seminary that do this, is the goal is to move you away from your thinking and to make you rely on what the text says. So when we start going over some of the things that we're doing at seminary and some other stuff that I've done in the past on Patreon, which you'll start seeing this weekend, we're going to go over and make you just look at a passage. I may even actually do the one, LaKesir, are you still there? I may even actually go over one of the assignments in one of the classes. I'm going to take a couple classes right now, just so I can get myself acclimated, just so I can get myself used to doing all the other things that I'm doing plus seminary. There's a lot of reading, a whole lot of reading. What do you think? I'll let you decide. Do you think that Acts 1-8 observation we should do? What do you think? What do you think? Should we use the Acts 1-8 observation? By the way, I got this dog collar thing, so when the dog goes barking a pushy thing and she shuts up. But what do you think? Do you think, LaKesir, that we should use the Acts 1-8 deal? Let me tell you what it is. I'll give you guys a heads up. This way it works. You've got to do 25. We may not even, we're not going to do Acts 1-8. I don't think so. But I'm going to give you a certain number of observations to do. Just not an interpretation. I'm used to this stuff because, again, my former pastor, my mentor, he was a professor of DTS. This was always him before even going to DTS. But just what does the text say? And you can't put any interpretation. It's like Acts 1-8. You've got to give 25 observations. And you can't say, no, no, no, I'm not zapping the dog. No, I've got three. I've got the one for the the sound. She hates that sound. Then I've got the vibration. And then I've got the shock part. I have not hit the shock part yet because she hates the, once she starts barking, you push this, the little beep, beep, beep. She stops. She stops. So I'm not going to zap her. She's too old and she is calm. Oh, she's been a sweetheart. She has been a sweetheart. I don't think you all have seen Rosie. Rosie is, she's stubborn. She's sweet. She's old. But anyway. But so the assignment goes like this, 25 observations for Acts 1 and 8. You can't interpret. You can't say why I think, you know, just what it says. Then after that, what are they going to do? What are they going to do? Look, he's going to tell you, come right back and give me 25 more observations, just things that you see from a text. Like, wow. But now you do that for all the scriptures. You do that for all the scriptures. That's why when we go over something, we look and say, okay, this is what it's saying. And it helps to eliminate. That's one of the things you can do to help eliminate preconceived notions, but they still, they still creep in because what's the tendency that you still want to, you still want to interpret what you've observed. And we do that. You walk into a room. Let me give you an example. There was a man who you see running into a house. He runs out. You run behind them and there is a person. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got the wrong. You see a man run to the house. You run behind them. When you get there, he is standing over a body. He has a knife in his hand. The body has a big gash in his back, where the knife presumably was with blood coming out and persons dead. What we tend to do is we tend to interpret the scene rather than just giving an observation to the scene. What does that mean? We might say the guy that's standing over over the body killed the person, stabbed the person, but you can't make that, you can't make that interpretation yet. You can't, you can't make that leap because it could be that he got there and saw the knife on the floor and picked it up. It might even be that the person was not even killed by that knife. So what you do is with the text, you just look at this is what it says. This is what it says. This is what it says. Now, in the grand scheme of things, you can make obviously interpretation based on other observations that you made, but it also has to kind of go along with other observations or interpretations about the scriptures. So we'll do that, but that's going to be on Patreon. Again, Patreon is free, guys. Can Satan read your mind? The jury is out to what degree Satan can understand us, right? Here's what I mean. Satan doesn't speak English. Sound like he speaks English, but he speaks whatever. It's not that he is fluent, he's fluent in whatever language is, right? But I'm sitting there thinking, I'm on this, I'm on that, and where in the world that thought come from? I think what we really can understand now, I don't think he can read your mind. He knows your intimate thoughts because the Bible says that he does not know that. The Bible says literally only God knows that. But what Satan can do because he's not dumb, Satan knows you. He sees your pattern. He knows what you like or the demons around you, and there are demons around you, not that they are in you, but he knows what you like. Satan knows. The demons know you like watching porn, what kind of porn you like. He knows what kind of cigarettes you smoke. He knows that you think Terry or Mary or Bob or Frank, that they look nice. He knows that because you've made it up. He can see you. Here's the word. He's observed you. So it's not him reading your mind. It's like just no more than your spouse can read your mind, but your spouse, they know you. I know you. Because guess what? You're not that deep. Newsflags, you, sir, you, madam are not that deep. I'm not reading your mind. I'm just reading your behaviors. You have a pattern. You have a pattern of doing things. I know when you get up, the first thing you're going to do is such and such and such. He knows that too. It's what you always do. December says, Corey, could you please answer my question? I sure will. Loretta, oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much for the, for the super chat. Thank you so much. And Cliff, also, thank you as well. By the way, I don't know if you, if they got that December, I sent that in. You know what I'm talking about. Oh, I already have that saved though. I do have it saved. I don't know. Oh, no, I saw it. I didn't save it. Yeah, I do. Oh, is it true that Romans eight, one, that what it said after the comma was added? Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Let's go to Romans eight, one. Well, let me just put it this way. In the earliest and best attest to manuscripts. Let me put it that way. Someone's gonna come back and say, no, it wasn't Corey. Therefore, there is now no condemnation of those who are in Christ Jesus. And then other pastors will say who walked not after the flesh or something like that. I forget how that goes. Hold on one second. Let's do this. Let's put up the, let's put up Sigla. Let's put up, let's take that out and put up Sigla's back on screen. This is Sigla. This, this has the two, three, four, five. This has the different variants. And so, and I won't go over these, but may kind of Sarka, Perpetusan, this is and not according to the flesh. Are they walking? If y'all can read the little bottom part right below or right below the screen right there. Okay, there are a couple of A and D. Okay, there are a couple of manuscripts that do have that. But most scholars, most textual critics will believe, they believe that that was added later. So, and I kind of go, I didn't go with the experts. I'll go with the experts. How about that? All right, ladies and gentlemen, but that's all I had today. I just wanted to say what, what the problem with Christian YouTube is, but there's got to be a solution. Because if you say this is a problem, shouldn't you at least ask or ascertain or say what you think might not be correct, but what you think is a solution? What, what can fix Christian YouTube? Only I, this isn't there so that we can say or figure out how to fix it. But I'm saying this so that you can figure out you, make sure that you be guilty of, did I say that? Was that grammatically correct? You be guilty. Make sure that you be guilty of being a good Christian and that as close to God as you can get, you'll start visiting sites, start going to channels, start going to pages that are also in line with that. If I go to a channel, or if I go to, if I, if I watch a TV show, you know how they do it now, everybody's got to be gay. If I see two men kissing or getting ready to kiss, I'm gone. I'm gone. Nope. Nope. You have messed me up for the day. Can't do it. Cannot do it. Same thing with us spiritually. You go someplace and they're just not in tune with what you're doing. The scriptures aren't at the forefront. I'm not saying they have to, they got to put on the Greek or they got to put on the Hebrew. They got to go through. I'm not saying that. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying they need to go through the scriptures and want to go through the scriptures. They need to want, you need to want them to give you more of scriptures. And if they're not, well, then buy adios. I'm thankful. This is what I'm thankful of, that a lot of you guys, most of you guys will go to the, to the, to the other videos and watch even if the video, I don't know, maybe the video is boring, but it's covering the text, it's covering the scriptures and you, and you like that stuff and you're asking questions because you know what I can tell. Let me, let me use Jeff as an example. Let me use Jeff. Matter of fact, let me use Jeff and Devante both. I can tell for a fact, really the overwhelming majority of you guys, I can tell for a fact, how you guys have grown in the world. You know how I can tell? Because your questions are different and also your answers are just like, wow. It's getting to the point where some of you guys, I don't even want to answer your questions if I'm, if I'm pressed for time because your questions are deeper or just like, wow. And I like that. I do like that. There, let me just say this about Jeff. Like, oh Lord, here comes Jeff's question. Jeff wants that. Jeff asks, and it's good though. Jeff asks, Jeff's questions now versus, I don't know, months and months and months ago are just different. Devante, just different. Can I, I'm just saying this about Devante. I love Devante. Devante is one of the few folks that have, that he has my number. But let me just say this about Devante. If y'all can't see Devante's growth, if y'all can't see Devante, and Devante used to be worried about his growth. I'm just, I'm, I'm picking on Devante, but this is me saying something good about Devante. And I think everyone in the, in the chats understand this about Devante. Devante, if y'all can't see this brother's growth in the Lord, he ain't watching. Devante was, he was always in the chats and it's like, okay, Devante gonna make it. Now Devante is rebutting folks with scriptures. Devante is giving a stance for the God. He is, Devante is, Devante Pendleton is a defender of the faith without, without question. And I hope Devante can see it because I can, I can see Devante's growth. And there's a lot of other folks like, I'm just using these two guys. That's what I'm most proud of. That's what makes me happy because you guys aren't saying, there are some folks that say, Hey, did you see what Soso said? No, I cover some of that stuff. But most of the time, it's this or that. It's this or that, you know, over the text. Thank you. You helped me get through my master's thesis. Thank you brother. Thank you. Now, if I can just get you to change your doctoral view, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But that's the kind of stuff that, you know, we, you go back and forth with someone. Disagree or let me look this up. By the way, the little end time stuff that we talked about, we're going to do that. We're going to cover that. I promise you, let me say this on the way out. Bible studies are going to change. They will not be on Saturday mornings. More than likely, more than likely, I'll let you guys know tomorrow when I make the final decision. But more than likely, they'll be on Monday, more than likely. The reason is I'm too burnt out. I am too burnt out. It's a good burning myself out. It's a good, I'm killing myself. Thank you, Daryl. I'm killing myself. Someone says, cover this, cover that, cover this, cover that. And I'll let me, oh, okay. But now I've got school. I've got other things to do. I've got so many. And so if I, if I just give myself my Saturday mornings back for my family and for rest, but I think I'm going to make, put the Bible studies on prop, more than likely, don't, don't, it's not settled, settled, but more than likely on Monday's because I can just rest. Amen. So I'll let you guys know about that tomorrow. And also more stuff on Patreon and on the website as well. So I've got to make sure that I don't kill myself. Like, I'll go too hard. But, but here's the good news. They've got this stuff with the similar where they want you to, they want you to do time management. I don't do time management, but I do now. I do now. I do time management. And I've got, I've got myself a little scheduled. I've got a schedule. Now I've got to adhere to the schedule. So I'll get there. I will, I will get there. But let me just say this. What's wrong with Christian YouTube? I don't, I personally don't feel like it's a problem here. I feel like we, I, you guys love the word so much that we keep this going. By the way, there's no, there's no channel. I can say this for a fact. There's no channel on YouTube, Christian YouTube that does more Q and A's than this channel. There's no, not, not, not even a close second. That's because you guys, your desire, your love for the word, you guys turn a regular video into a Q and A, because I mean, let's cover this. What about this? What about that? And I think that's awesome. I think that's awesome. Sir, it will be, it will be 6pm Eastern. It will be. So anyway, to all you folks with hair and some of you folks without hair, love you guys so much to Carlos, who's still, Carlos, you still in Iowa, to Dutch with his, with his magic sideburn beards, his Dutch with the magic sideburns, Jenae, Neelan, Steve, Sheila, Monkey Moves, Daniel, DT, Chaplain Trey, Chante, Holy, Woman of God, Tina, I'm doing a little roll call, Jeff, Shiny Rivers, Dick and Chris, all need Jesus, Daryl the man, Titi, Michelle, Cephas Rock, Neelan, Catherine, Devante, obviously, Jonah, Wendy. Hello, Wendy. Roshan, the boxer, the killer, killer, Roshan. Guys, I love you all. You all are, you all helped to make what we do here on this channel go. Those of you all who I've missed, A. Renee, Robert, who else? Scott, I'm sorry. Cindy. Orange, I don't like saying your whole, your whole deal. Orange and slinky. I like just saying orange because it's easy for me to see. Midwest BGH. I don't know what that means. Muppet, Berry, Berry, I don't know what it is about Berry, Berry drives everybody crazy, but I think Berry just grows on you. Spider monkey, Krista, CG, Denise, Denise, FA, KD. I don't know why I like that beaty boom, boom, beaty, bum, bum. I like that. That's cool. That's cool. The Trump Reaper. By the way, I just, I just, did anybody listen to the Supreme Court hearings today? I think the Supreme Court was just like, why are we even here having this conversation, guys? What you guys doing just wrong? Kelly, Dick and Chris, Joan. Melissa, I thought I was going to, I cannot, I cannot, I cannot forget senior comrade Rodney, Derek, doing a roll call. I'm not, I'm not going to do it the old, the way they used to do it in the, in the 60s and 70s with black folks. I'm not, I'm not going to do it that way. I'm not going to do that way. What did you miss, Yantin? You missed us doing a roll call, abiding you. Who else am I missing? I want to get everybody. Jenae, LaQuisa, I said you. I didn't, I didn't see you that time, but I said anyway. I know I said Sheila. I did, didn't I? Bernardo, I like that. Bernardo. That's a cool name. Patricia. Hey, Patricia. Shaq. What is Shaq for? What is Shaq's there? Is it, is it, is it Shaquille? Is that long or is that, or just, I don't know. What is Shaq's there for? Jose. Who am I missing? Who else am I missing? There are some folks in there. I'm missing a bunch of people. I just want, I just want to say your names. I'm doing the YouTube thing. So anyway, uh-oh. He lives in mid, okay, Midwest BJ, BJ's lives in Indiana, the greatest. I don't think I'm incorrect. I think Katrina leans on the charismatic side, but she's shown enough goes back and forth with the scriptures, which is why I love her, which is why I love her. Both manuals are here. El Boogie, Royal, Regina. Hi, Regina. Uh, who else am I missing? Hold on. You've been here that long since 3000? Have you really? Well, you've seen a whole lot of changes. You've seen them. Oh, you've seen all the different lights and stuff like that. Yeah. By the way, who has been here the longest? Let's go out with that. Who here has been here either subscribing or watching this channel the longest? I'm just wondering. How long have you guys been here? I just, I know, even though he's not on the on right now, I know, um, no, it couldn't have been the mid 220s because I got on in the end of 220. So you came in 220, Darryl. Who else came into or you said 22? Who came in 220? CG came here in 220. So did Darryl, Catherine, brother, Brimstone, like 68, but it, but it feels like you've been here forever. Feels like we grew up together, brother, Brimstone. Uh, 21 since 58,000. I'll tell you something. This is funny. This is the YouTube junk. When I started off, I hit a thousand in July, 2021. Hey, Dinah, I hit, I hit, I hit a thousand subs in July, 2021. From July, 2020. Oh, I'm getting trashed right now. Well, praise God. Praise God. Tell them to call me. He won't do that. You can trash all you want to do. That's fine. Um, 2021, July, 2021, by the end of the year, it just, I mean, it just took off and went to 10,000. I think, I think at the end of the year, I said 20,000 in six months went from 1,000 to 22,030. I'm not sure. And at that time, people was like, Hey, I want to talk with the choir. I want to talk with the choir. They said, I don't want to talk with me then. Hey, Karen, and you uniquely made Isaiah. Oh, okay. Oh, you said JP is trashing me. Tell me how that marked more from Harrisburg PA. But people would say, they would say things. Hey, I want to get you on. I want to get you on. I'm not, I don't mind collaborations. I really don't. I really don't. Oh, Janae came when I had 3,000 subs. Okay, cool. But anyway, guys, I've got to run. I've got a, where is it at? I've got a bunch of reading to do. I've got a bunch of reading to do. And I'm going to go push this button and, and tagging, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going, I'm not going to tag him as a dog. I'm not going to tag him as a dog. So anyway, guys, I love you all so much. And tomorrow we'll have our Q&A. And I look forward to seeing you all then. In the meantime, God bless. Winner, winning me and Alan Parr. I don't know. I don't know. We exchanged some texts today. We're going to see what the schedules are like. That'll be interesting. He's actually in the same city. So, so we'll see. Anyway, in the meantime, guys, God bless you. I love you and see you all tomorrow. God willing.