 this is one christian's perspective on the movie soul get ready for it hey guys what's up it's isek david and this is the daily disciple where i hope you follow jesus daily i know it took a little break for the christmas holidays and i really thank you guys for coming back and joining me once again for 2021 i hope you're having a great start to your year and i wanted to kick things off in 2021 with a movie review i know i'm not a movie critic and i don't claim to me i'm just a christian guy who watches movies and uh has thoughts about them so i figure hey why not come on to the old youtube channel and share what i think about soul in case you think you want to watch it or maybe you have watched it and you want to hear somebody else's perspective here is mine so i can't give you like a full rundown about this what this whole movie was about i'm gonna expect you to either watch the movie or read the description but in general it's about this guy who has this dream of being a performer um jazz musician he's a pianist and uh he ends up actually like quote-unquote dying this is an animated movie and he goes into the great beyond right and he's on this kind of like i don't know rainbow treadmill thing where it's leading him to what the movie is calling the great beyond he ends up getting his way out of there and then he meets this other person it touches on some big questions questions of what happens to me when i die do we have purpose or is purpose just whatever you want to make it like do we actually have ultimate purpose something we're supposed to do and it also talks about and it touches on dreams like in terms of dreams of like i have a dream to do this and goals and things we want to accomplish that think that we think will satisfy us it touches on that too and what i think is so interesting about this movie is that you know you often think about Pixar movies or at least i do as good for adults too like great like i love pretty well every Pixar movie pretty much but you're often thinking okay these are more directed to children in different ways but this movie hey it like it touches on something like the dude literally like quote-unquote dies in this movie and he's trying to find a way to get back to earth and then there's this other person in the great before that's what they're calling and they set up this whole structure where they have the great beyond and the great before and how they're saying that you know the afterlife for the before people are born like they set up this structure this world view where they're trying to convey these ideas to people and it really tells me you know we all for Pixar movie to set up something like this people know there's something more right and that's that's something that it's played out through so many stories and fantasy and and just all that kind of thing it's people know there's something more they know it's just not they're not materialist they're not just like this is all there is we just die we're just worm dust most people don't think that they know and i think it's god who's placed this thing in us this this knowledge of him this knowledge that look we're more than flesh and bones like there is something that happens to us after we die there is uh like a spiritual world now just on the movie itself there are a couple things in the movie where it was like getting into weird like um what would i say like mysticism some stuff with like star signs and and a lot of that weirdness and i'm like uh that's not my deal i don't like that i don't appreciate that and when they're trying to fit that into although i do think it's interesting when they're trying to fit it into this obviously fictitious world view system of the great before and the great beyond and and all these different like funny characteristics of this world they built they do incorporate some of this like uh mysticism and all that and i'm like yeah that's true that is not true either so i'm okay with that i have no problem with that but you're watching a story and you think well actually this seems like it could be true no that's not like the star sign thing all that stuff it's a load of garbage the bible makes that clear so that i'm not in favor of that at all overall what does the movie conclude i think some of the biggest points of this movie and the most powerful moments of this movie was when the main character realizes that happiness or purpose or what makes life worth living is taking every moment as a gift and enjoying every moment even just simple daily things and and to me there was this moment where he's he's just stepping onto the he's just playing the piano for you know he his world is kind of rocked and he's experienced fulfillment of his dream to become kind of a a stage performer of of jazz music and yet he feels still like he's missing something and so he goes back to the piano and he starts playing and and in those moments it's just this powerful like flash like of all the montage of all these different moments in his life of just ordinary moments that that you know the movie's telling you like this is what makes life worth living and so i think in that way the movie gets some things right right like i think that's kind of a common grace to all of us that god gives us this idea of common grace that even those who don't believe in god or don't belong to him as children they still experience a lot of the beauty that god has put on this earth and just the wonder of living life and and so that's something that that really gives life meaning in a lot of ways that kind of common grace but what what it misses obviously is it misses the peace of what our ultimate purpose truly is we can see some glimpses in the movie that they're trying to tell us like our purpose here we don't just have one purpose like our purpose is often built on like circumstances and what we need to do or what are you know how our life you know what happened in our life and and then we kind of like adapt and that kind of thing and i think that's true in terms of kind of our general adapting purpose but we got to remember our ultimate purpose i think the bible makes this really clear also the west mister confession of faith talks about um enjoying god forever loving god enjoying him forever i think i'm quoting that a little bit incorrectly but it's this idea of enjoying god forever that's our purpose that's our like that's the overarching thing that that in every day that makes life worth living that we can we can see the ordinariness of every day and see god's beauty in that in the little things and so i mean the movie comes to some i would say half big conclusions like yes the beauty and life and purpose and all that is not in in like reaching the the goal that you've always wanted to it's about every single day being a gift and and and taking that in and enjoying that and being grateful for that and that's true but i think now like as we're looking at this movie in this piece of art and we're like okay this is cool now as we're filling in our worldview we're like okay well what are we doing now well we see jesus right we see jesus and we see who we are and we are broken people we are all sinful people and it doesn't take you too long to realize that that you know even little kids right they have a propensity to do what is wrong and that just shows what the bible states is obvious that we have a sin nature and the sin nature we've we've all sin we've all fallen short of the glory of god that's what roman says because of that sin we are all deserving of hell the movie doesn't talk about hell or heaven or anything like that it doesn't even really allude to what the great beyond is but if we're actually grounded in reality here there is a place called hell and there's a place called heaven and because of our sin we're deserving of hell but that's why jesus came maybe you've heard of jesus and this idea of jesus coming to this earth it's never really clicked for you perhaps but jesus he came to this earth to live the life we couldn't live he lived a sinless life and then he died on the cross to take the penalty for our sin the bible talks about jesus fulfilling the wrath of god so we could be free we could be free from from the eternal punishment in hell and we could also go to heaven and that is like an amazing destiny that we can all look forward to that is that is the reality of the soul the soul that our soul has been pulled towards what is wrong but jesus has bought us back and made us new in him that our identity would no longer be in what we do but in who we are in him and i think there was so much good stuff in this movie about you know this guy finding and of trying to like fulfill this dream that he had for his whole life and he's he's working towards all this stuff and he feels like his life meant nothing but then he looks back and through the eyes of kind of another person he sees that look all of that was meaningful not because he accomplished something but because he was able to live that he was living like that was a gift and that every moment was something something beautiful that he he didn't realize at the time and i think as christians and maybe you're not a christian but as christians we look at each moment we say thank you god for this gift of life thank you god for this gift that i'm able to breathe in and then i have meaning and then i purpose that there's not just just not a materialistic world where i have no soul but no there is something beyond what i can comprehend and through your word you've given me the answers and that doesn't mean we still don't have questions about oh man spiritual realities and all that kind of thing but it means that we can be grounded in god's truth and that is something that man like that is so amazing we can watch something like soul and say hey this is a really fun cool interesting movie and these people that are are writing this movie they have interesting existential questions that we're all having and now like as somebody that knows the truth you're able to step into those spaces and say hey that is really interesting it does prompt these interesting questions and we know the answers because of jesus because he said i am the way the truth in life no one comes to the father except through me to me that makes like watching any kind of piece of content so much more exciting so much more interesting because we're grounded in truth and yet we can explore these new these these ideas that these these different concepts that other people are coming up with and we're able to import just like process it through the biblical worldview to me that's so fun that's so exciting overall i really enjoyed the movie soul um as i said there's a little bit sometimes a little too kiddy for me i really enjoyed the moments where they really got like existential and philosophical and like i'm like oh this is really fun and interesting for a animated xr movie to do this i hope they do more of this in the future this is my first uh video back so you guys can tell me what you think about it if you've seen it if you want to see it what movies you've seen over the christmas break that interest you that maybe you think i should watch let me know this isn't turning into a movie review channel i just enjoy movies and you know i'll be back with more content before i go i just want to give a huge shout out to all my patrons on patreon there are 26 of you on patreon right now and i can't tell you how much of a difference that makes it pretty much enables me to do everything that i do on youtube instagram tiktok and uh i'm so grateful for you providing me with the ability to share the gospel online and help people follow jesus daily so thank you for supporting and if you want to help support me in my ministry it would mean so much um head on over to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple and sign up five dollars a month it would be 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