 Trying to turn to God y'all. I'm not trying to put like my pinky toe in no more I'm not gonna just be sit on the edge of the pool. I want to jump full in I want to dive all in chat A famous youtuber named JD on who's known for his pranks and somewhat outrageous content Recently announced on stream that he's turning to God that he's giving his life to God And you'll never guess what was the cause of this turn So that's all I'm gonna say but you know, I don't want to just talk to talk I want you guys to like see it in my actions. You feel me? I was with my girl We were ubering back from her college and then right when we got back to the crib the Uber driver She looked back at us and she asked us a question my aunt me answer in it made my heart sunk But she asked she said if you guys were to die right now, would you go to heaven or would you go to hell? I had to be honest with myself I like had to look into myself and I was like the way I'm living right now if God was to take my breath away Right now. I'm going to hell. I couldn't even lie about it chat. You feel me? Now this takes guts big time I don't know if you guys have ever shared the gospel with somebody shared the gospel with a stranger, but it is a nerve-racking Experience your hands are sweating your heart is just beating out of your chest and also for this uber driver You another thing comes into play. You're thinking about your livelihood You don't want a person to have a really negative reaction or feel like you're you know pushing something on them And then they give you a negative review and that impacts how much money that you're making and that affects how you're able to provide for your Family a lot of things are at stake here, and I don't know if it were me honestly I would have a hard time pushing through those excuses I would have a hard time pushing through those things that say, you know what? Hey, no, I need to be responsible here I shouldn't share the gospel. I shouldn't compromise, you know my work here But this person they saw it as more important that they shared the gospel with JD on and maybe they didn't even know it Was you know famous youtuber they didn't even know but it was just what they were called to do because they valued What was eternal over what is temporal to choose love for them? Even though you might get rejected when you trust that God is going to bring growth out of that He's going to take that little seed and he's going to build his kingdom one of my favorite verses here is 2nd Timothy 4 to it says preach the word be ready in season and out of season Reprove rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teaching be ready in season and be ready out of season What does this mean basically just always be ready to give an answer for the hope that lies Within you and how can you be ready? Well? We don't have enough time to go into all of that today But what can we begin with we can begin with a good question and you know? Jadion was asked a really good question It's if you were to die tonight, would you go to heaven or hell? That's a good place to be because a lot of people will think hey, you know what I'm a good person I'm gonna go to heaven and then with them you can say hell You know have you kept the God's law have you been a really good person and they come to find out? No, actually, I haven't been such a good person, but the proper response is not okay Well, I've been a bad person. Let me just fix up my life Let me try to walk more old ladies across the street so I can be a good person because what that person turns into is a Hyper-religious person I think of Jesus parable when he talks about the Pharisee that went up to pray and he says God thank you that I'm not like other Man these tax collectors these you know extortioners these people that do all this bad stuff. Thank you that I am different That's the kind of person that tries to clean up their life and becomes this religious freak But what we need to be turning to is to say hey, you know like the tax collector in the parable This is God have mercy on me a sinner have mercy on me a sinner I have nothing to offer you God. I know I can't change my life enough for me for me to earn your love But I'm just I'm here in humility and I'm laying down my pride and I'm asking you for forgiveness and that's the kind of heart that God wants He wants the humble heart now back to Ginny on he didn't stop with that. There's more You know it's crazy chat. I'll be letting so many worldly things Dictate how my days gonna go you feel me you got people out here that are battling cancer Having horrible like you know being victims of horrible crimes and all kinds of stuff, right? Hey, they still have the ability to put a smile on their face and be genuinely happy I get a strike on my channel and I'm not able to post for a week. I'm over here in the slumps You would have thought you would have thought my dog died chat the way I was around here acting when I was gone for that week Bro, just pouting Being moody being rude to people the only reason why I was acting like that is because I'm letting worldly things Dictate how my spirit is and like, you know, the Bible talks about it all the time You know, you you can't be moved by the world. You have to hate the world chat like it's crazy Like Jesus is telling me that I have to hate the world But the world loves me you feel me when your heart is focused on what is eternally Significant the things of this world the temporal things they hold less weight It doesn't mean that they hold no weight because they definitely do but when we know that hey I'm ultimately gonna spend eternity with God that I know how this story plays out God wins in the end the things that get you down on a daily today basis Like when you're when you're not thinking about God when you're not thinking eternally Then yeah, they can just destroy you right but when you do think okay, man God has me he has me in his hand cares for me and I know I know how this works. It works out I know how the story pans out so I can be at peace knowing that God is in control That's a huge weight that is lifted JD on said something interesting He said that it's it's hard to hate the world when the world loves you That's such an interesting place to be because he's not saying that he wants to hate people of the world But the worldliness of the world right that what the Bible calls the flash there's a worldliness of sinfulness So it's hard to hate that when it loves you when the whole world the sinful culture They love you and they love what you do and they support you and they cheer you on to a lot of this Immorality right the sinfulness. It's hard to say. Oh, I'm gonna pack it up and all of a sudden not receive that praise anymore But JD on is realizing that there's something more much more important than people's praise now Jesus did say that the world will hate you because they hated me first And if JD on continues to preach the gospel and speak up about his faith Then it won't be much long longer before they begin to turn on him before we jump back in I just want to give a huge shout out to everyone on patreon Thank you so much for supporting what I'm doing and equipping people to follow Jesus daily guys This is my full-time gig. This is what I do. This is my mission. This is my heart I've been doing it for about five years just gone full-time recently and I'm not gonna say that it's not scary It is scary sometimes when you realize, okay, hey I'm doing this full-time and this is how I support my family and this is how I pay my rent But at the same time God has provided for me He continues to provide for me and provide for my family So thank you for being a vessel of that providing as well by supporting me on patreon and donating on PayPal That is a huge blessing now back to the video if I'm gonna follow the spirit I'm not gonna have a problem put in a way worldly things And I just had to like look at myself chat and I had to just think if I do follow Jesus If I do follow his word to tooth and nail of what it is Front to back then I'm not gonna be Judean anymore. I'm not gonna be Popping I'm not gonna be on your guys for you pages with edits I'm not gonna be having the ASAP Rockies and the Mark Warburgs hit me up I'm not gonna be having The NBA asked me to do stuff like and like for the longest chat like I've been pushing this off for like the last Year and a half two years, but I was like I'm not ready yet like I don't want to do it yet I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it yet, but I thought I let he got done talking to me It was like if I were to die right now with me chopping it up with ASAP Rocky with me chopping it up with Mark Warburg or Mark Cuban or Going to the Simon charity match with any of that really matter chat No, it really it really wouldn't just me like really talking to y'all like doesn't mean trying to just be So 100% transparent But God tells us that a bird doesn't have to worry about where he's gonna get his next meal from and then he said are you not better than a Bird I'm way better than a bird. So why am I tripping? Why am I okay? I think Mark 8 sums up what he's saying really really well. Let me grab my Bible. I Found my Bible. I found it mark 8 and calling the crowd to him with his disciples He said to them if anyone would come after me let him deny himself take up his cross and follow me for whoever saves his life Will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake and the Gospels will save it for what does it profit a man to gain? The whole world and yet forfeit his soul look some people might say Gideon you can keep posting content Just make it more consistent with your Christian world view and stop posting, you know Appropriate stuff and you can do you know still do that But what Gideon is realizing here and what he's revealing is that it's an idol in his life That if you were to continue on this path that would be a disruption between his Relationship with God and because he cares so much about that because that's everything to him Or at least it appears that way based on what he's saying. He wants to give it up He's willing to give it up Even though he's giving up millions of dollars like millions and millions of dollars and maybe you'll never be put in a Position where you have that decision where you're you know You have the decision to give up something in your life that is an idol, but then you also have to give up millions of dollars That's a hard decision for a lot of people But for him it's not hard because it means nothing to gain the whole world and yet you lose your soul now in your life Right now, what is it that's keeping you from God? What are those things those hangups those idols that are in your life that you've chosen over God are those things? Really worth the price of your soul are those things really worth it. They're not they're not you already know they're not So what do you do about it? Well today? I'd ask you to cry out to God for him to free you from those things So you can lay those things down and you can repent of them and you can find freedom from them And he will he will provide you freedom look in my life personally. He's provided me freedom from lust He's provided me freedom from pride He saved me in so many different ways. That doesn't mean I don't struggle with sin It I still struggle with sin But it means that I see things so much more clearly now because God has given me eyes to see these things that are Eternal and and him and delighting in him and enjoying him are so much more fulfilling are so much more all Satisfying than these things that we used to think were fulfilling and for Jitian I hope he's beginning to realize and sounds like he is that even you know The massive YouTube following will not satisfy him. It is only in Christ that we can find satisfaction and Salvation I hope this video has been helpful for you I hope it's been beneficial if you enjoy this content subscribe because I'm putting out new videos all the time until next time God bless