 If we're honest guys, sometimes, sometimes, many times, often, a whole lot of times Christian YouTube sucks. Not just YouTube in general, but Christian YouTube. You know the Christian side of town on YouTube. Sometimes it just sucks. I know it's not a good word to use, but there's probably not a better word to choose from. Sometimes Christian YouTube sucks. You know why sometimes Christian YouTube sucks? Because sometimes Christians suck. Yep. Sometimes the Christians who create the content on YouTube, it just sucks. Just horrible people sometimes. Obviously we're not talking about me. That's never the case, never the case. Sometimes people that watch YouTube horrible suck. Not you guys, because again, as we've already demonstrated and as the United States Supreme Court has also stipulated that this channel is the exception. The greatest YouTube community in the history of YouTubedom as well as the greatest set of moderators ever. And so that makes this the great channel. So we're not talking about this channel, but by and large, YouTube can suck. As a matter of fact, you know how bad it sucks? It sucks so bad sometimes that even my monitors didn't want to act right. They just didn't want to be Christian right now. They might be atheists today. I don't know what the deal is. They just cut off. Well, I'll take it back. One was acting right, but this one right here just would not act right and I need both of them. One day I'll show you guys, I'll show you guys what I'm looking at. I keep saying that, don't I? I keep saying I want to show you guys what I'm looking at and I never do. But my monitors need the Holy Spirit in them. That's what they need to be safe. They need to be redeemed. They have not been regenerated, so. But do you all remember, I shouldn't say remember, it was only a couple of days ago, but Alan Parr made a video that, I don't know what it did to some people. Some people either, can I be honest? Some people actually rejoiced. Some did. Some folks like, hey, what's going on? He made the video and it was talking about the future of his channel. And he was being honest. Some people took that honesty as an opportunity to kind of dump on them. But I'm gonna be honest. I'm going to be honest, yeah, my clock needs winding. It says five o'clock because that's usually the time, but today, coming on early. Coming on early today, so. But today I'm gonna be honest about YouTube. I'm gonna be honest about two people. I'm going to be honest about the people that sit behind these cameras and put out little content for folks to watch. I shouldn't say little, like it's belittling, but you know. But we put out content and I'm gonna give you the God's honest truth about it, about every last one. But then also about, I'm gonna give you the truth about you guys, the folks that watch it. And by the way, everybody is part of the you guys, the people that make the videos and the people that watch it. I mean, everyone that makes a video, actually watches them and we see different things and so forth and we comment. Sometimes it moves the needle in terms of what we're going to do. Tell them we just be honest. We all are a big old ball of mess. And sometimes we let on as though we're not, but we're just, we're subjective people. As I've heard before and I also, I've stolen this and I use it. We are five pounds of dirt. Five pounds of useless dirt that God literally breathed into us. That's the only value that we have and it's his breath that's in us. Other than that, we're just five pounds of dirt and after we die, we're going back to the dirt. So it would make sense that the people that behind these cameras and the folks that are watching some dirt, and we act like it sometimes. Let's tell the truth, shame the devil. Sometimes we don't act like Christian. And so the question's gotta be, what's the biggest problem with YouTube, Christian YouTube? We'll get to that in just a little bit, but let me just throw up a scripture. I've gotta put up, this is one of my favorite scriptures. This is 1st Corinthians 1031. It says, whether you, whether then you eat or drink or whatever you do, be it making a video or watching a video, something that mean you, whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God. How you wear your hair, how you wear your makeup, the clothes you wear, not necessarily to bring attention to yourself. It's not about you, obviously. It's never about you, but can I just be honest guys? Let me scoot up closer. Let me scoot up a little bit closer. Sometimes we act like it is about us, right? Sometimes we do. All right, now that's me being honest for a second. Sometimes we do make it about us, how I want to portray it. When a person gets on the stage to preach, he is not to get up to give it how he wants to give it. He's to give it in the way that is conveyed best for the people in the audience to receive the truth of God. That's how it's supposed to be. Yeah, I understand that your personality will come out because that's how it should be. Your personality should come out, but it still should be the truth coming out. When we look at the scriptures how they're written, Peter writes a certain style. Paul writes a certain style. Luke, any of you guys that are learning Greek, when you start reading Greek, the book of Luke and the book of Acts are going to be the last books that you probably start practicing reading on. Why? Because you see his writing style and Luke writes in a far scholarly way. John, basic. John writes like he works on cars, just a regular old guy, just Joe Blummer. That's how John writes, easier to understand. And so people's personalities come out even in our sacred writings, but they also come out on YouTube and behind the desk. But it all shows should be to give glory to God. And look how he says so to us. Keep in mind what he's saying though. Whatever you do, give glory to God, not yourself. Give no offense either to Jews or to Greek or to the church of God. Just as I also please all men and all things, not trying to be compromising, but I please all men and all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many so that many will be saved. So the goal is to give something to where someone can either grow, come to know Christ for the first time or deepen their relationship or their understanding with Christ. That's the way it should be. But when you turn on YouTube, it's not that always. It's not that always. We'll talk about that in a second because there's a greedy side of YouTube. Let's just be honest about it. Alan Parr made a video and he was talking in the video, just bearing his heart. Now I've talked with Alan a few times. Let me just say this. Alan is really, he is a decent guy. He's a nice guy. He really is guys. Even when he, have you ever talked to somebody when they open their mouth? The first word comes out of their mouth. He's just like, this is a nice guy. This guy is a nice guy. Justin Peters is another one of those guys. Whatever you think about him, he's just a nice guy. When Justin Peter calls someone out, he just sounds nice about it. Me, not as nice. Now there's some folks that are far more rough rougher than I am. But he's a nice guy. He doesn't fight the fight that you, matter of fact, I actually said this to him. I said, listen, by the way, I see some people with some, she's speaking about YouTubers you like. Yeah, I like Andy Woods, by the way. And I'll cover some people that I like a little later on. But if me and Alan and, I don't know, some roughneck go to, I don't know, we go out to eat and someone's talking trash. Now I got some Christian buddies that are gonna wanna fight. I got some Christian buddies that, I'm not making this up guys. I'm telling you the truth. Who, they're still growing. They still up the Lord. And they wanted to go do something to somebody who said something. No, no, no, let's not do that. But then I also got myself, now I'll go, I'll go, but I'm not gonna go immediately. Meaning if you start something, I'm not gonna be the one that's gonna try to finish it initially, but don't go in if I have to, I will. And Alan's gonna be the guy who's gonna, you know what, come on y'all, let's go. Let's, he is going to be the more rational person. Let's not fight. I know some guys that are the total opposite. And both love the Lord. Both love the Lord. And so sometimes we want Alan part of be like everybody else. And I'm gonna get to that in a second, but Alan was, was bearing, big Arkansas, yeah. He was, but no, big Arkansas did, he did change. He did change later on. It took him about a year and he was just nice and gentle. Although one day somebody did get on his nerve and he kind of had this look and he turned and faced him and he was and walked on. And then later in the day he says, he brought Corey about to kill him. I'm about to have me one. And so people can change, but we have to set an example. We're gonna get to this whole issue, this whole point of us setting example. But again, Alan Parr is making a point about his channel. Matter of fact, Alan reached a milestone. I was cheering for him to get that milestone, which is the one million subscriber milestone. Oh, I pushed the wrong doggone button. Hold on, that's what I get. I pushed the wrong button, didn't have the thing set up. So let me, now I have to do it manually. See, my channel is, we pushed this, but is this it? Is this it? A couple of months ago, I'd say about a month ago, I had this great milestone, if you will, where I passed over a million subscribers on this channel and everybody was singing my praises and everybody was sending me congratulatory messages and all of that. And what should have been a really, really exciting time of celebration as we look at that milestone, it was experienced with mixed emotions. If I'm just... Yeah, before I go there, a million subscribers is a lot. A million subscribers is a lot. That is something that should be committed, but now he's gonna open up and I'll talk about what he's talking about even more so in a second. I'm just being completely honest with you all because unfortunately, what I started doing is I looked at the number of subscribers that I had amassed. A million people clicked that button and said they wanna subscribe. And I was like, wow, that's a lot of people. But then I allowed negativity and discouragement to kind of creep in because I started looking at my views on a lot of the videos that I was putting out at that time. And when I looked at the difference, the discrepancy, if you will, between the number of people who were watching the videos and the number of people who subscribed, I allowed the enemy to just get to me, to just get to me. It was like, man, are my people not interested in my videos? Like, how come the majority, like 80, 90% of the people who subscribed are not interested in the content, right? Now, he's being honest. If you have a million subscribers, you would imagine that you're getting at least roughly somewhere in the area of about 10% of your subscribers that are actually watching, maybe 8%, 9% on a good day, 15%, 20%, 30%. Sometimes you get a lot more that have watched it, that have subscribed. Now, truth be told, Allen has more subscribers than most YouTubers have used. It's just what it is. But he's been doing it for a while. And so people are saying, well, you should be just happy with what you got. Now, Allen has a team that helps him. He does a lot of things on his own as well. And people are saying, you should just be happy, do it for the Lord and so forth, whatever. But let me just, can I be honest? Let me just, can I just be honest? There's never been a person on YouTube that's pushed play or record and then uploaded or sent it out live that didn't want to have people to hear what they're saying. Now, you might think that that's a bad thing. Why do you care how many people watch or how many listen, how many view? Well, that's the same as you. How do I know? Every last one of you that puts a comment in the comment section wants somebody to see it and wants somebody to respond favorably. You want, when you open your mouth and say something, you want people to hear what you say and to receive what you say. You don't want someone to just imagine saying something and being ignored all the time. No human being is built like that. Not one, not one unless there's something psychologically wrong with that person. We all want to have some sort of level of acceptance. So when you take the time to put out a video, especially if it's gospel related, you want more people to see and hear it. It's just a truth that anyone says otherwise. Let me just say it right now, you're lying. If you don't care, first of all, if someone says, I don't care what people think, that person is lying. Let me say it again. If someone says, I don't care what you think, that person is lying because my response is gonna be, why'd you tell us? Why'd you tell us you don't care? Because you do, everybody cared. We all do, that's just how God made us. And so now you're the one person on the planet in all the history of humanity that doesn't care. Okay, save it for somebody else who doesn't know any better. You do care. You do care. If someone's starting making videos about you, you'd care. If someone lied on you, you'd care. And you remember that. It's just how it is. Unless there's something wrong with that person, we do care. And so when you make a video, and then with him, here it is, you're doing a whole lot. You got a lot of people watching, and then now you're seeing people drop in terms of certain videos. What he's talking about, and what he's getting at is kind of what's happening in YouTube. And so let me play this other clip about him. He makes a point, and I'm gonna prove this point or try to illustrate this point even more so. About eight years ago, I started this ministry, and I really just wanted to teach the Bible. I wanted to help people understand truth from error, to be able to discern. I wanted to be able to help people understand how to study the Bible for themselves and have sound theology. And thankfully, I believe that we've been able to accomplish that for the most part. But as of late, if I'm just being honest, I've been discouraged because what I've seen is a shift in the type of content that is being consumed on YouTube, that's being created on YouTube, and the type of content that, if I'm being honest, most of my subscribers are more interested in. So the point that he's getting at is how, when he started, obviously there wasn't very many people. And so he is, you would call one of the OGs, so to speak. And now people are not listening or watching the content that he's been known for, the teaching stuff. And let's just be honest, if it weren't for the Alan Parr's of the world, a lot of Christian content creators would not be on YouTube. A lot of folks wouldn't have a channel on YouTube because they say, okay, well, this guy has done it. And so a lot of folks just would not do it, but they see that he's done it, well, I can do it as well. And amen. But there are also a lot of folks that are just, let's just be honest, they're kind of on the jealous side and want to see him fall, or because he didn't do things the same way that others would do, then they have an issue with him. And listen, there's nobody on YouTube that gets attacked as much. Why shouldn't say that? I shouldn't say that. I was gonna say there's nobody on YouTube that gets attacked as much as he does. But no, obviously the larger preachers do, okay? Big preachers get attacked, whether they're good preachers, sound preachers or heretics, doesn't matter, they're gonna get attacked a lot more. But in terms of just strict YouTubers, Alan Parr is at the top of folks there's always a negative video about him. What does he do? He just keeps on going. He just keeps on going. Now, I would love for him to do more calling on some of this foolishness. And I've said so, but that's not him. He'll do some and that's that. But it didn't have to. You know why? Because there's enough people that call them so and so out anyway. I would just like to see folks draw more attention to some of the foolishness out there. But if you keep teaching people godly in a godly fashion, they'll get it, they'll get it. Now, what he's saying is that not so much him, cause I think people were saying, well, wait a second Alan, what is it? Is it the money? Well, no. Is it this? No, impugning him. What he is saying is YouTube has changed. And I don't wanna get in trouble with anybody. And I don't wanna, you know, I'm not talking about any particular channel, but let's just be honest. We all see it. If you put in a title, this is shocking. This is demonic. The antichrist is coming. Unbelievable. Whatever you, and you see, even if you start looking at some of the thumbnails of different channels, the thumbnails are looking alike. The thumbnails are from this channel to that channel, to that channel, to that channel, especially the ones that are really starting to grow. They are more kind of panic centered, talking about how bad it is, how horrible it's getting. Well, first of all, I didn't need that to tell me that. But then here's the other thing though. What's funny about it, all of that is that when you watch a lot of these channels, and I'm subscribed to a lot of these channels, there's no solution. There's no what you should do. It says, it's like watching ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox. There's a crisis at the border, but oh well, that's that. But then what do we do as believers? See, I don't mind you bringing out or highlighting what's wrong, but then you don't back it up with sound teaching and then what should we do as believers? Is there a solution? Is there anything we can glean from this? It shouldn't be, you know what I'm not gonna do? This is just me. Because Corey, don't you do that sometimes? Well sure, we all have to at some point in time because you just have to. For example, I covered a good friend, Pagani yesterday, Alexander Pagani. But when I cover them, I'll do my very best not to cover the exact same thing. I don't wanna do 40 videos over the same person about the same thing. No, in this case, he did something, some acrobatic stuff and I just had to say, okay, this is interesting. Let me cover that. Will I cover that again? No, I don't intend to. But we see that on YouTube. We'll run the same thing over and over and over and over and over. There were people that made four or five videos about Mike Todd's Easter program. 10 videos about it. Well, okay, enough is enough. Enough is enough. Make your point, go on, why? Because there's a whole lot that needs to be covered. I have decided that this channel, we will not go past the 85% mark. At least 85% of the videos that we do on this channel are going to be teaching, edifying, uplifting. That's the goal. And so it holds me accountable so that I don't get too, because you know what I could do? I could just cover the exact same thing. I could cover who's this, who's that, how bad this is and so forth. And the channel would be at, what is it, it said 100, what are we at? 103,000, what is the number right now? 103,000 something right now. What is the number? Let me go find, let me go find out what the actual number is right now. The actual number for subscribers on this channel right now is 103,195. It could be 200,000, 400,000 if I just cover the same stuff. The same stuff. Now, here's why I'm saying this. This is why you might wanna be careful about attacking Alan Parr thinking that he's greedy because there's no channel on YouTube that's better set up for him if he wants to go out and just make a ton of money and get a ton of subscribers and a ton of views if he just goes and covers all the negative things. If he calls out Creflo Dollar, if he calls out TD Jakes or Joel Oste or Mike Todd or anyone else, it's gonna take off. But his point is the teaching things, the things that he really wants to do, look at the number of views. And I see the same thing. I see the same thing if I go and look on my channel, if I cover what was a dog on, what was the last thing that I, okay, Cory, move this, move this over here, go over here. I'm looking at, I'm trying to navigate on this, on this screen. And let me just look at the last few videos on this channel, the right hand of God. Did Eve really live prayers that bind evil spirits and so forth? Do you have regrets? Those don't, what, 4,000, 3,000, 5,000 views. Now, lying greedy prophetess, why need to bind them? 35,000 views. All right. If I cover the more sensational things, which you have to, they just take off. Whether it be a live stream or whether it be something that's teaching, the teaching ones, the Bible studies. What are the Bible studies getting? 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 views, which is fine, which is fine. But Alan's point is that YouTube has a problem and it's not YouTube, it's us. YouTube is gonna push out what people want. Remember I said, coffee and tea, 4,000 is great. 4,000, I am not really so beholden to the numbers. I really could care less if you want more views and put out more teaching stuff. If you're only getting 4,000, 3, 4,000 views off the teaching stuff, we'll put out more teaching stuff. You know how big the Bible is, put out more of that stuff. Somebody is gonna, because you know what this stuff is? It has shelf life. If we're talking about salvation, if we're talking about something the Bible said, if we're talking about certain biblical questions that need to be answered, we're talking about being born again. If we're talking about this great fall in the way, if we're talking about tongues, if we're talking about what have you, it has shelf life. Why? Because it's not a 2023 issue, it's an always issue. And so you cover this person's Easter program, well, that's only good for one year or really for one week a month. And so you would use that in order to maybe to draw some folks in, but give them a Bible lesson, because what we need to have happen, guys, is more Christians having an appetite for learning, for being taught. If YouTube saw, and this is to our detriment, if YouTube saw that Christians were concerned about learning the Word of God, teaching, growing in the Word, two things. Two things would happen if Christians, if Christians that watch YouTube, if we by and large wanted to, as Paul says, desire the Word of God, like babes desire pure milk, if we did that, two things would happen. Two things would happen. One, YouTube would push that out more, but two, be a lot less YouTubers on YouTube. There'd be a lot less Christians on YouTube putting out content. Why? Because most of them just can't teach or won't teach, don't have an interest in teaching. A lot of Christians have more of an interest in backbiting or calling folks out or name calling or fighting and this and that. There is a point in time where you do need to call some stuff out. There absolutely is. All of us should do so. We are called to do so, but there's gotta be a balance. It's gotta be that, you know what? Yeah, I heard what you said about TD Jakes, but then what does the Word say about me living? What does the Word say about me treating my spouse or my children? What does the Word say about the Sabbath? What does the Word say about prayer? What does the Word say about fasting? What does the Word say about Israel? What does the Word say about salvation? What does the Word say about the Holy Spirit? What does the Word say? Period. And we don't have a hunger in the body. Now that may also indicate exactly how many people are actually Christians as we put that up. There's a lot of folks that would say that, but you know what we gotta do though? We ought to want to make people be thirsty. I heard it put this way, and I love the analogy so much. I'm gonna steal the analogy. I'll give credit right now for who gave the analogy, but then later on, once you guys forget who I gave credit to, I'll come back and I'll use it as my own. But my former pastor, Tony Evans said this, when you go to a restaurant, they're gonna give you some bread or they're gonna give you some chips. Used to be you go to a bar or something back in the day, they'd give you peanuts and so forth. Why? What was the point of that? The point of that was to make you thirsty. The saltiness in the food would make you thirsty. And so when Jesus says if salt loses saltiness, then what is it? It is good for nothing. And that's us. Sometimes we're good for nothing. We don't make people thirsty for the Word. Shame on us. Shame on us that might put out something on YouTube. Shame on us in the comments section. Some of us, same on us in the chat section. Shame on us on our viewing habits. Someone said, hey, Corey, I don't think you ought to allow ads to appear on your channel. Why? Well, because when I come there and I see someone who's half naked as I'm getting ready to watch this Christian video, that doesn't sound good. And I said, well, stop telling on yourself. What do you mean? Well, here's why. Because YouTube is smart. These computers and algorithms and all sorts of like that. When an ad shows up on your viewing, I can promise you whatever if I, let's say Latanya and David and I, we all watch the same video. And this video is going to have an ad playing before it. I can promise you, it's not going to be the same ad for all three of us. Nope. It's going to be based on our own viewing proclivities. So if you like watching young ladies, half naked, shaking their behinds or whatever, well, then guess what kind of commercials you're going to see? If you are interested in buying a homeowner's insurance, that's what you're going to see. I looked up, this is scary, by the way, I looked up a mattress. A mattress. My wife and I are thinking about a different mattress. I can't shake these doggone mattress commercials. If I go look at, I can go to any channel and doggone is a mattress commercial. I didn't look for it on YouTube, which is pretty scary, by the way we think about it. But that's how it is. So you're telling yourself, you are going to get what you want to see. YouTube isn't dumb. Yeah, by the way, I do have YouTube premium. So, but see, I watch stuff on the other channel as well. I've got my YouTube channel stuff and I try not to watch too much stuff on that other than some Christian stuff but then my own personal stuff. And so it's just, but YouTube knows what it's doing. YouTube is a for-profit business and it would be good if Christians actually, actually did what they're supposed to go out and look for good, wholesome entertainment. Now, as a Christian, as we're putting up certain content, the Bible says this. This is what Paul says. He says, do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind, regard one another as more important than yourselves. Do not look out for your own personal interests but also for the interests of others. Now, what does that mean? When you put out a video, you wanna make sure that you're not just trying to just, let me just get as many views as I possibly can. Let me just get, at some point in time, there does come a little bit of trust and God is gonna take care of me. Me personally, had no intent on ever doing YouTube. My kids talked me into it and I'm glad that I did but even doing it as awesome, I mean, it's awesome. I'll take that as awesome as I do it. No, as often was the words I was going for. As often as I do it. I'll take awesome though. That was not the word I was going for but as often as I do was just by mere chance. Now, I do work over in some place else but then also here and it just took off one October. It just took off. It just took off and then it really had, I hadn't looked back. And so, but now I'm grateful for it but I'm not beholden to it. And someone can say, well, Corey, but aren't you beholden to it? Well, you all tell me, when was the last time you heard me ask you to give me anything? I could ask for donations, support and put up the links for, the links for Cash App or PayPal or this or for that. I could. Matter of fact, the PayPal account that I have, I didn't even put that together. Someone else did that and then one of the moderators said, Corey, you need to attach that. I didn't think anything about, okay, fine, I'll go ahead and attach it, fine. And folks would give. I rarely, I never asked for subscriptions. I never asked for subscriptions. And every now and then I might ask for a, for you to like the video. You guys I think do a good job and I appreciate that for you guys saying hey, like the video. The reason why is because first of all, you all know what to do anyway. People know to like or to subscribe or if they want to send in, they want to, you know, if they appreciate what you're doing. So the goal is to make sure that I am doing my job. God will take care of me. No, it's not the best business ever created. I can tell you that for a fact, the greatest, well, I won't say what the greatest business ever created is, but anything that serves self or serves you is the most, is the greatest business ever. And Satan has a foothold on that. But what I do, I don't want to do for anything selfish. I mean, I want to do it just because. As a matter of fact, one of the things that we're going to do, my wife said, hey, start making these videos where people ask these questions and then also say, hey, Breanna asked this question. And so here's the answer. Make a video about that. Do far more of those. Well, you'll see far more of those. These will be the videos that'll be shorter in nature. And guess what? YouTube doesn't like to push those short videos out. They don't. I'm not talking about YouTube shorts, but just shorter videos, too many videos, three minutes. But you know what? It benefits the body. And so guess what I'll do? I'll do it. Now, one of the things that Alan said was, and I get it, it takes a lot of time to add it and so forth to these high quality videos. And his videos are top notch. His videos are top notch. Me, I take a different tack rather than doing the high quality videos. I'm just going to do the short, the low quality videos. I'm doing the low quality videos with just me, my shelf, my grandson's painting, and my coffee cup, and then you guys. You guys make it high quality, but me on this side, it's the low quality part. We're just sitting there just going through the scriptures. And so I haven't decided if I'm going to do another video today. I'm coming on early. May do two of them. I think that Alan Parr, nope, if I were you, Alan, I wouldn't do one a week. I would do two a day. I would do three a day. I would do five a week. Do as many as you can. But do it in a way to where it's in your wheelhouse. It's part of your niche. You know what? You want to cover this particular teaching and no one's watching. So what? Do it again. Do 10 of them. Do 20 of them. But I do understand, but he's got other things that he's got going on me as well. So I want to show you guys something. I want to show you guys something that is part of YouTube. And this is kind of what Alan was getting at. This right here, let's see, make sure I got this set up right. OK, this right here is my YouTube analytics page. What this is showing is this is showing what you guys watch. What the people on the channel are watching or the subscribe or the I don't know if this I think it's viewers. What viewers on the channel are watching and it changes right now. Some kind of way mark the messengers. He is his channel is a top channel right now, but it changes. It changes. Alan Parr's a second vision unsealed. Gospel of Christ Nick Jones. Let's keep going to see who else off the curb ministries. Brylan Riggs like Brylan Riggs. Mark Marcus Rogers up there. I don't know who I am. Shala Shala Shala Shala. I don't know what that came to the word. The Prince of Pan-Africanism. Ruslan is up there. Willie D is there. What's funny about this is that I was at a prison with Willie D when he was there. Henry and Monic. I don't know who Jeremy Holloway is, but here's you'll you'll see why some of these folks are some of the more watched channels of the people that watch this channel. If I drop down, I can go and see what people are watching. If I want to see what they've been consuming in terms of videos. I'll come back to videos in a second, but here's why Mark the messenger is up here. If I go to him, I think he's got a. Oh, here's that Jeremy Holloway guy. He's got 1.5 million views off this video. So a lot of you guys have seen this video. Stop assuming before asking. Okay. Where I saw the one for Mark the messenger. Was it on the YouTube shorts? Here's that. I am shot. Shalak cut Salakimia. 763,000 views on that particular video. Okay. Let's go to a to a video over here. I think Mark the messenger, he had a video somewhere that did pretty well. And so that's the reason why it's showing up. Typically Mark the messenger isn't in here, but I want to show you something though. I want to make this a little bit. Can you guys see that? Yeah, make this a little bit bigger. And I want to show you guys something. This is some of the stuff that we see on YouTube. And you all just, you take somebody's face. Here we see Vodibacum, Vodibacum, Vodibacum. Let's see if we see Vodibacum again. Nope, not yet. Vodibacum, right? So what is happening is we'll take somebody's face, a famous face, Vodibacum or whomever and use their face and then say, this is shocking. This is the end of the world, whatever, something crazy. And then act as though that Vodibacum or John McCarthy, whoever is speaking directly about that. And they're not, they're not. I'm not really feeling that. Now if Vodibacum is saying something that you are speaking and it's your main to what you're talking about, well then amen. But I'm not gonna just keep on, no, we're not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that. But these are the kind of videos people are watching. The reason why YouTube puts it out there is because if you make videos like that, then YouTube will get 200,000, 300,000 views, 500,000 views. Well, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. And so YouTube kind of tells us when's a good time to actually make videos. You see that, here's what's funny. The best time for me to make a video, most of you guys are on on Sundays between 12, one and two to six or seven. I'm not making videos. I didn't want this past Sunday. I'm not doing that. Forget YouTube. Forget you people. No, I'm kidding. I forget you guys. I'm not doing that. I may have an uploaded video, an edited video that's ready to go, but I'm not coming up on Sunday. No, I got stuff to do, right? And so it kind of guides a person on YouTube. It tells us how many people are subscribed and so forth. Hey, look at that. 55% of you guys that watch this thing are not subscribed. Okay. Okay, cool. No big deal. No problem. I wish you would. It says 61% are male. That's not true, by the way. I know for a fact that 61 of you guys are not male. I do know that most of you guys are older. That part I do know. Most of you guys are old. But now we do have an uptick in younger folks that are watching, which is cool. Which is cool. No problem. But here's the point, though, guys. You cannot have yourself beholden to the analytics. You are, well, amen, Dex, one of the 3.2% from the UK. Amen. Thank you for that. Thank you. But you cannot have yourself beholden to YouTube. What we wanna have are the folks the Christian on YouTube beholden to the book and then in doing so. And then doing so, then it can change. All YouTube wants to put out is what people are interested in. We just need more people that are interested in good teaching stuff. Not the drama, not the fluff, not the foolishness. I can do drama every day. Really good. I'm not, because I don't, nope. My favorite video. My favorite video that I've done is What Does God Do All Day? I think I like 3,000 views, but it's my favorite video that I've ever done. And so, but what does kind of hold me, keep me in check, let me go back to it one more time. What does keep me in check is this right here. Let's go back to it. When I look on my analytics, if I see, and I don't care that they are necessarily bad teachers, if it's supposed to be Christian in nature, if I can see that one, two, three, four, five, by the way, four of these five, I'm cool with. The Beat, Vision, Unsealed, Gospel, Christ, Nick Jones, Off the Curb, Brylan, you've got Mark. So the first eight are Christian. These next ones, I don't think they are. I don't think they are. If, Ruslan, Henry and Monik, those are Christian. So I want more of the people that's watching this channel to be folks that watch Christian stuff. But if most of the folks that are watching this channel are subscribed to, what's the gossip guy? Larry Reed, that kind of stuff. Or a bunch of secular stuff. And Corey, it might be because of what you're putting out. Because if you're putting out what they like and what they like, that's up over there, you got a problem. What was my first YouTube video about? Hold on, I can tell you right now. I can go to this and I can go to, you know what? Wait a second, let me just do it this way. Wait a second, I'm doing it the wrong way. Go over here to that and go to date. The first YouTube video, oh, was study the Bible like a scholar. That's still on there. Study, I'm actually gonna redo that one. Then I had, oh, oh. Then I did a white privilege in my own house. Funny, you have to see it, it's not what you think. Then the next one was Christians versus Christians, us fighting like we should not be fighting. And then why you cannot lose your salvation. So, and then I also did a channel trailer. So that was one of the first ones. And when the channels are taken off, I didn't have very many videos about other people. It really wasn't, it was really just more teaching stuff. And so God will boost you up. Matter of fact, some of the first videos I did was talking bad about me. I talked about, I hope you burn in hell, talking bad about me. Why I went to prison and so forth. One was called prison was great. When you do YouTube, and let's just be honest, if you're doing YouTube or anything else, whatever, unless you're a faceless channel, then they're watching you. And so you have to have a little bit of personality, but you need to get the folks not only what they want but also what they need, what God wants to give them. And that is the word of God. Now, again, there does come a point in time where you've got to call out the foolishness like Jude said. Beloved, I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation. How great and awesome it is for us to be saved. What God has done. But then he says, but I felt it necessary or the necessity to write to you, appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith, which was once for all handed down to the saints. There come the time where you have to contend. You gotta call out foolishness, alert people, hey, don't do this, beware of that. Why do we say that? Because that's what Paul says. He says in second to 24, he says, preach the word. Preach the word, win. Be ready in season, out of season. You know what that means? That means all the time. That means all the time. If you do so without having to worry about other stuff, you don't have to worry about God taking care of you. Now you may want to take care of you in better ways than what he's doing. But listen, he knows what's best for you. He knows what's going to keep you humble. And he knows what's going to take you to where he wants to get you to. By the way, that being said, Michael LeMay, thank you for the Super Chat and Spider Monkey. Thank you also. Would you say, you said, Proverbs, do not gloat when your enemy, yeah, when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice. Because guess what? You can fall just as much. Shamika Mutri, thank you so much for Super Chat, as well as Glenn. Would you say, do you think that Aristotle feminizes? I don't know. No, you know what? No, no, our problem, the way the church has become is the way that the enemy has always wanted to be feckless and not potent. And there's a lot of folks in the church who aren't really part of the actual church, but they show up. So, GCH, I know what you're talking about, but sometimes you just gotta just stay away. Sometimes you let folks... Do you know what we did on 9-11? Once the planes hit the buildings, what was the goal? Someone tell me. Once the planes hit the building in New York City, what was the goal? What were we supposed to do? What was the mission then? Did anybody know? Think about that for a second. Once the two airplanes hit the building, this is why the planes, while the buildings were still up, what was the mission? What was of utmost importance? Does anybody know? Cause it's important. This is what we do also. The most important thing, let's see. No, we said ground all planes, find out who did it. Nope, nope, nope. You know what we didn't do? We didn't go and call for the engineers and the architectures, any sort of structural analysis to see how we can keep these buildings up. The goal wasn't to keep the building up. The goal wasn't to save the building. The goal was to get as many people in danger away. That's our job also in the body. When something is collapsing, you don't have to stand around and watch it collapse. You don't have to take part in the collapsing. And you don't even have to keep it from collapsing. But the first goal is to remove folks that are in danger. Now, after everybody's been removed, then what do you do? Then can this thing be salvaged? Can this thing be saved? Sometimes you have to wait for it to fall. And then once it falls, you can talk about rebuilding afterwards. But if you know it's getting ready to fall, what do you do? Move out of the way. You move out of the way and then after that, what do you do? Let's see if this thing can be rebuilt. Anybody ever watch a $6 million man? You watch a $6 million man. Their goal after was to see if we can rebuild them and rebuild them better. But sometimes you just can't. And so you move. And so you move. They might be, and let me just say this also, guys, you don't have to participate in such a way to where you also going to sin yourself. Because sometimes it's not that God is concerned so much about what you're going through, but how you're going through it. How you respond. Your response matters to God. He wants to see. And here you are. You're acting like a, you're acting foolishly. And so you know what God's gonna say? You know what? Yeah, I get what that person over there is doing, but what about you? I'm going to whoop you. I'm going to deal with you. Sometimes God wants to see how you content creators are gonna behave. Sometimes God wants to see how you content consumers. And by the way, we're all content consumers. How you're going to behave. Someone saying something, whatever. Well, let me go over to that, to their channel and give them a piece of my mind. For what? Let me know how has that worked out so far? What's that? What's it done for you so far? Other than nothing, what else has it done for you? Nothing. Nothing. So the best thing is why I always say, guys, the best thing that the knee jerk response is this. It's not my words, it's God's words. He says, even a fool is considered perceptive or wise when he closes his mouth. But the person with his mouth open the most, the longest, all the time for any and everything, that person, according to the Bible, is a fool. And that's not us. That's not, that's not, are there times where you should respond? Sure, there's always time. But guess what? If today is Tuesday and I don't respond and I need to respond, well, then there's always Wednesday. There's always Friday. Now, if something changes in between now and the time that I decided to respond, well, guess what I didn't need to do? Didn't need to respond. Does that, I mean, does that make sense? And so even if I'm making videos, thankfully, I don't think I have, you all tell me, and I may have, I can't remember, I can't remember. But have I made a video responding to someone kind of like tit for tat? Now I'll talk about, I will talk, I can't do them. I'll talk about doctrine. Doctrine is, listen, if you say that, you know me, I'm for eternal security. If you say that Corey was wrong about that, well, let's talk about that. Corey was wrong about tongues. Let's talk about that. Corey was wrong about the Holy Spirit. Let's talk about that. Corey, you are a wretched, horrible sinner. Yeah, whatever. Okay. Cause see, at some point in time, you gotta realize that, well, I know what I've been through, what God has done for me and so far. If you think so, well then I pray that God shows it to me. So he says, preach the word, be ready, insist all the time. And there does come a point in time we have to reprove without question. Sometimes you gotta review. You are wrong for that. Sometimes exhort and do how you do so with all long suffering, with great patience, with and teach you. That's the main point. That's part right here guys. We lose sight of this with great with teaching. Sometimes, sometimes we're not interested in teaching. Young believers says seminary schools have even watered down, got a lot of them half, a lot of them half. Sometimes though it's not the seminary, it's the person with them. Because remember, Judas walked with Jesus and Judas sin. And it wasn't Jesus, it was just Judas's heart. But you're right, a lot of seminaries, they're just trying to get people in and out. And so look what else he says. He says, for the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching. Unfortunately, we've got a lot of unsound teaching on YouTube and folks are flocking to it. And see, I give Alan Parr credit for this again, that if he wants to do videos talking about how shocking this is or the end of the crisis is coming, or how wicked the world is, panicking people, he could do so and make and get a ton of views. He's suited for that. Or he could do calling out more and more people. Somebody put up Young Don. Could you imagine if Alan Parr would've went back at Young Don, 500,000 views, 600,000 views? Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. Depend upon on what it is now. I would say this, I would say personally for me, for me, can I put this up here? Let's see how this would look if I put this up here. Let me click on something for a second guys. I'm gonna do something live. I'm gonna do something live. Let's click a video. Let's click a video and then let this thing take me to that video. Okay, now I'll go over here. This way it'll take me to YouTube and then I'll hit pause. All right, now I'll go to YouTube itself and then from there, okay, then I'll go to my, oh, there it is, my subscriptions. Matter of fact, let me delete this off of here. This is on the wire. One of my family members that I subscribed to just be doing it. But let me go to, will this show up correctly? I think that, see, I subscribed to people just for the sake of just having good content. And I don't always watch everybody stuff. I don't have the time, but I'll subscribe to a lot of folks. I'm even subscribing to folks that aren't subscribed to me, don't like me, which is no problem, but does this show up correctly? There it is, there it is. Let me move my picture out of the way. You can even see some of the stuff that I'm subscribed to. Let me put me over here. Can I make this a little bit bigger? Well, let me just, I am, when was the last time I even looked at a Ligonier Ministries video? But vocab Malone, Alphanomint. Look at some of the folks that I'm subscribed to and a lot of these folks are, I think, good content creators. I think that you all ought to be checking them out as well. Thank you, Aaron, I appreciate that, sister. Alphanomint, that is Layton Flower. James White, but I also watch Layton Flowers. Those two go at it, but they go at it doctrinally. They're not calling each other bad-naked, let's say I don't think they are. Alton Johnson, love Alton Johnson. Andy Woods, Anthony Rogers. Hey, I'm even subscribing to Dr. Brown. Bible Munch, Bible Dingers. Bill Mounce, good teaching, Brandon Robbins. Brother Matthew, I love Brother Matthew. He's a good humble brother out of Canada. Brylan Riggs. Hey, I got, oh, I'm subscribed to BTWN by the book ministries, Caldwell. I'm gonna run down these lists, guys. Caldwell Apologetics, that's Rick Caldwell, Center for Biblical Unity, Chain Breakers. Channie Bloom, what, why? Okay, I'm not sure who these people are. I know I did Chelsea's Live Line, Young Lady, Christianity Still Matters, Colt, you know what, I gotta move some of this stuff over because I can't see all of these names. Cold Red Conversations, Eric Muldrow. Conversations that Matter, Core Christianity, Cross Examin'. Here is a good channel, Cure for the Souls. As a matter of fact, you can see her right here. She, oh, she was live. She's not live now. She better not be live. She's in the chat right now. No, I'm kidding. Sister Latanya. Kurt Kennedy, Daily Bills of Greek, Daily Bills of Hebrew, Dallas Ecological Seminary. Daryl King, good brother. Dear World Christian. Hey, how about this sister? I say she's one of my favorite because she's just her personality. It's just wonderful. Dynan Reviews, Dividing Lines. DLM Christian, Do Theology. That is a dispensational channel, Doctrine and Watch Dogs. I've even had some differences with him and I still support his channel. Dre Day for Christ. Dr. Cohn who was on here before. Let's see, Faith Base. Oh, that's the guy that's always talking about narcissism and so forth. Good brother, right there. Family Policy Institute. Fight for the truth. Best Collin Miller and fighting for the truth. Both of those names are similar, but anyway, Gary 2-8. Gimajo, love her. God, I need to get him on. I need to get God logical and he does a good work in terms of going against Muslims. Good hope. Got questions. Harrison Family, I can do all these. Harrison Family Values. Hottam, I think she took over David Wood's old channel. I think Biblically. Jeremy Collins, I don't know. This brother, he needs more subscribers because the work that he puts in on his videos is like it's just top notch, it really is. John Clash, love John Clash. Justin Peters. This guy right here, he's a bit suspect this fellow right here, Kate Uptroon. No, I'm kidding. Chris Williams, Kate Uptroon. Let's drop down some more. Living Waters, isn't that, who is that? That's very comfortable, I believe. This is one of Ruslan's 12, Ruslan has 12 channels. No, I'm kidding, he's got three channels. Matt Whitman, Mike Lacona, Mike Winger. Mike Winger is the kind of channel that I kind of see mine as a little bit, not as much, but there's some similarities where if it's focused on teaching, it's not gonna grow fast. It just isn't. Montana Viking, he's funny. Nagas Seminarian, Oakley Bible Fellowship, Off the Curb. Edwin, the proverbial life. Polite leader. Protestia, pure and simple. Red pen, I love red pen logic. Love red pen logic. Revealing truth, right response, and I disagree with him on a few things, right response, but I love him. Ruslan, this guy right here, he might need to be banned off of YouTube. I don't know if y'all can see him, but that is Senior Conrad. I might need to get written. I'm kidding, love Senior Conrad. Soteriology 101, Southern Seminary. Spencer Smith, standardized apologetics. Strive for eternity. I subscribed to TGOT, you caught me. I'm subscribed to TGOT. Funny, funny. That Christian fam channel, Alan Parr the Beat. The biblical Christian, that's my buddy from prison. Bottom line dad still, Christian lens, Christian lens. Christian lens is in here, Scott. Developing dad, love him, the church split, the gospel Christ, Marlins channel, the gospel truth, Grace message. Good channel as well. The mouth first, what is that? Is that Aubrey mouth first, the mess up church? The provisions perspective, good. Sir Walter Jones. Good man, now Sir Walter Jones comes on at 12 o'clock at night. 12 o'clock at, no I'm kidding, good brother. Standard truth podcast. The fuel project, what's the fuel project? I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. Obviously Tony Evans, Treasure Christ, Tray Van Camp. Who else? Tyndale Theological Seminary, Urban Logia, Vaughn Sanders, what do you mean? Wise disciples, woke preacher, wretched radio, wrong destroyer. I need to get J.C. on here. I need to get him on here. BRN Ministries. So, the point is I'm just rattling off. There's a whole bunch. If I go to my other channel, cause there's a bunch of, I should not even done that. Cause there's a bunch of channels that I missed. There's a bunch of channels that I missed that's on my other, I just have to go there so I can just remember those. So, but now you guys tell me who you like, but the reason why you like them should be so that you can go and grow in the word. Grow in the word. Yeah, Betsy, that's okay. It's okay. It's okay, Betsy. But, yeah, he is hilarious. He is hilarious. But that's what, now do I watch all of them all the time? I couldn't. There's no way that I could. There's no way that I could because I just don't have the kind of time, but they do not hurt what I'm trying to do, what I'm trying to see. And it'll pop up and hey, you know what? I'm interested in seeing that. Matter of fact, even if I don't subscribe, some will still pop up and I might watch it. So, but this whole issue that was brought up about with Alan Parr and other folks, and some folks, again, I think it's wrong that some folks took what he said as an advantage to kind of jump on him and you should do it for the Lord and we should do it for free and we should, all these different things and you might be right, the fact of the matter is you're not doing it if you are saying that and if you are then keep doing it, do more of it. But what we really do need more of, we need more of Alan Parr's, we need more of the Jeremy, we need more of the Daryl, we need more of the Dinos, we need more of all those folks that I rattled off, that I think you ought to be watching. We need more Christian people on YouTube. I don't care if there's a thousand, we need 5,000 more. There is no issue about being jealous. And matter of fact, if you wanna even look at it from a particular, from a selfish standpoint, the more Christian content creators, that benefits other Christian content creators. Why? Because it creates a groundswell, it creates a hunger and appetite and thirst for the word of God. Now, there gonna be those that are way over here just after sensationalism and drama, then those that are going to also be trying to teach. We just need more people focused on the word of God. That's what we need. And if we can get more of that within YouTube because even though it's a business, they recognize that if more folks are watching Christian content, they're gonna promote more Christian content. If someone is talking about X, Y, Z, if it's a Christian channel versus a secular channel and more and more folks are watching the Christian stuff, they will push the Christian content. God, it's important that you do your part and go and listen to more of the teaching stuff as well. So, no, no, no, actually I watch Alan Potter. I'm cool with Alan Potter. Other folks may not be, but I'm cool. I like Alan. I watch Ruslan. I watch a lot of different folks. Some folks who agree and disagree, I watch James White. I watch Layton Flowers. Those folks don't disagree. I watch the Armenians. I watch the Provisionists. I watch the Calvars. I watch the Dispensations. I watch it all. Now I don't watch a lot of it, but I like one supporting other Christian content and creating different Christians. Even if you've got four subscribers, no subscribers, but there's a video that's out there, I'm gonna watch it. I wanna support us as a body. Amen. I do not believe in treating a Christian like a non-Christian, or a non-Christian like a Christian. I take it back. I don't even mind treating a non-Christian like a Christian with love, but I'll never treat a Christian like a non-Christian as much as I can help it. And I think we ought to be the same way. We need more godly content out there. Why? If for no other reason, your kids need something to watch. Amen. Amen.