 I wonder just ask yourself just ask yourself why are there so many women pastors why are there so many female pastors why are there so many women taking the place of men I heard someone say something and it made sense here's what they said that she was wrong but it made sense see if you can follow me she said the reason why we've got so many women pastoring teaching leading is because there are so many men not pastoring not leading not being charged not being what God called them to be and so somebody must take up the mantle well she's wrong but it also made sense there is let's be honest there is a vacuum of actual men and when I say men I mean male not males there are males a bunch of people walking around here who have two chromosomes an X and Y chromosome that is not what I mean I mean men I mean men who know how to be men I mean men who know how to be firm now how to be strong I don't mean be bossy or be almost in a domineering or narcissistic way that is not what I mean I mean men who are godly men but you can tell that they're men here's a trick here's a key you can tell their men without them saying so I'll probably say this again today but fellas this is for the males the males not the man for the males now in that category of males you might be a man you might not I'll let you determine but here is one thing that I want you to practice doing it's gonna bother some of you guys it's gonna be hard for you to do again I'll mention this again but if you have to tell somebody that you are a man there should be a big question mark in the face of a person who you're saying it to you should never have to tell somebody that you are a man as a matter of fact one of the greatest compliments that could ever be paid to you is when someone without you prompting them tells others that that's a man more to the point that that is a godly man now there was a comment made by Paul wash actually like this comment so I want to play this about the lack of men if a man eating lion escaped from the zoo it would probably starve to death because there's not enough men in this world to eat men tend to want to nowadays it didn't used to be that way it didn't used to be that way matter of fact some of you and you all you have to do is really be over the older than 20 and just look at the men that we see on TV some of you are over 40 or 50 or 60 and what we saw on TV was obviously what we see in the world sometimes and you saw men you all you saw the thumbnail two of the men on the thumbnail or two of the characters James Evans from Good Time and Charles Ingalls from Little House of Prayer love both of those shows and both of those men were the kind of character they are were examples of what a man should be not necessarily the biggest the baddest the toughest Charles wasn't what the toughest guy but Charles was a man he took care of his family whatever was required he knew when to be quiet he knew when to speak James also now there were times where you saw James a tough side of James but he was a man struggling to do the best for his family but the point is when you look at the persona of those characters that kind of embodied man there are different types of men with different personalities and different characteristics but there are certain things that are just normal to a man but what do we see today we see men today like if you see on the other part of the thumbnail men who are just so focused on their looks their hair what's going on around them and so forth what other folks think about them what are my biggest problems one of my pet peeves you all have heard me say this before I have a huge problem with the way that males males not men males dress when you look and see them you see how you got some of those young fellas who are kind of slouchy always sagging got a little behind showing now that's one extreme can't stand at it all horrible but then you've got the other extreme like you see this young brother here or these men focused on their hair their look they might put a little extra if your male putting makeup on we had a talk their clothes tight fitting colorful and so forth they just it just doesn't scream to anyone else that's a man it doesn't it doesn't scream you know what if I'm in trouble if I'm in need let me go to him this this fella can help no we've got a huge problem with that the biggest problem that we have with men is that let me just run run down a couple of things one men are today I'm sorry having a hard time not saying men because it's sometimes easy to confuse men with males so let me just get in habit at least in this video saying males now when you see me or when you talk to me this is just for the men and there might be one of two of you males in the in the chats I'm sorry in this case men in the chats who've actually spoken with me over the phone and I talk to you and treat you like a man because when I deal with or interact with a male I assume him as if he's of age to be a man if he's young in his early 20s or teenagers that I'm going to treat him like he's is a aspiring man I'm gonna hold him accountable not the same degree as I would a 30 40 50 year old man no but I want him if he's around me to be in his mind thinking what is a man how does a man act move think what to say what not to say all those different things and so if you talk to me over the phone you're gonna find out how I speak well first of all when you talk to me before you're gonna find out a couple things one the way I speak now is the way I speak to your the phone the way I am in private is the way I am in public now some folks might think differently which is fine you are more than welcome to have an opinion about me now that being the case that goes into one of the problems that we see today with today's males one they are overly vulnerable to they are overly emotional or fragile three to concern with their image and what do I mean when I say overly vulnerable I mean that they they will change because of outside pressure they feel someone feeling this way or saying this or the prevailing thought is this this this and you know what let me make a course correction let me let me change because I well no because dependent on who's saying it you might I need to change anything now it does that mean that you never ever take the heat of someone else's opinion or what they think that's not what that means at all there are times where you do there are times where you do with one caveat it depends on who it is that thinks that it depends on for example for example Satan's opinion that matter to you okay what he thinks that matter or the world how the world feels about you if there's a lot of pressure for people on the outside who feel that hey you're too you're too you're too much about this Bible well we're not changing it now that didn't also mean that if people say hey hey Corey listen you're just too rude you're just too rude or you're just too wishy-washy and that's kind of prevailing thought if the majority of people if people keep telling you and it's a prevailing thing that you are x y and z whether they be friends enemies whether they be co-workers people from a distance well there's probably you it's probably in that that's not what I'm speaking of when I say overly vulnerable and changing it because of pressure because some people who may not even know you are saying this and that and so you know what okay let me change now we see this creeping into the pulpit because we see men who aren't being mean in the pulpit where they're supposed to be where they're going to take a stand on the scriptures and not succumbing I want to show you guys a preacher this particular person is there's some issues with him let me let's let me just say it up front before I even push the button to bring him on not on live but before you see the video there are some things about him that are just for me this is me glaring I look at and these are things they just that they just end out how their voice sounds not you don't have to have a deep very wide voice to impress me that doesn't do anything I mean if your voice is what it is you can't control that the tenor if you are a first tenor second tenor third if you are a base bearer that's not what I'm talking about but you can tell just the softness the sweetness that comes out of his voice almost like Michael Jackson who by the way wonderful when he was in Indiana but he left Indiana and hold another story but that kind of voice and it's almost like you're trying to be extra sweet or soft with you with your voice but then you also see just the way they dress but then you also see kind of how they put this together the phase how they I'm not now and when I say this I'm not saying that a man should not be manicured I'm not sitting there is a problem when he is to focus on his looks on if all of this if his beard is lined up just right if his hair which by the way he really didn't need hair but another another subject another time but if he's so concerned with how is it he's got to be just right he's got a mirror he's always in the mirror he's got he's got more chemicals in the bathroom than the woman does red flag to me I don't care how good you try to look that that's just me and I'll talk about hair in a second but see if there's some things that just jump off the page but what he's doing is this particular pastor is making a defense for women as pastors just as the man has to be a bride in a certain level of revelation to access a different dimension of relationship you also have to capture the revelation of sonship even though you're a female this is why Galatians amen this is why Galatians says in Christ there's neither male nor female this is why little religious devils women can preach because in Christ there's no male or female there's no male or female listen if you don't get all of that sweet sugar out of you young man that's an issue that's a that's an issue first of all he's doctrines horrible a godly man ought to be able to hold himself accountable to the scriptures be able to rightly divide the scriptures and so forth he's not doing so because again here's here's what's funny there literally are qualifications to being a pastor to being a preacher there they're literally are why do we avoid or ignore these qualifications I don't know and I don't know who I don't know who this guy is I just happen to come across it and just like wow okay but his clothing was bothersome to me it just it just was could have been a little looser his hair now Corey why do you have a problem with hair I don't have a problem with hair in and of itself at one point in time before I matured I had hair so I'm not against hair but it's just when you use your hair to make a statement when you use your hair to stand out when you use your hair to be seen now we've got a problem there is a reason why the army the armed forces now if they still do now they used to I used to be in the armed force one day I'll tell you guys about my story in the armed forces it's really funny and at that point time I was not a man I was of legal age but was not a man was not a man then when you hear how I got out of the army wow yeah Corey you were not a man at that time and I'll agree and so they want you to not bring attention to yourself they want you to be about this big cohesive unit Paul says that whatever you do whether you eat a drink whatever you do do it all to the glory of God now he says eating or drink to the glory of God well that also necessarily must mean your hair your clothing but is the glory that you're seeking out of your hair and your clothes for yourself are you seeking your own verses are you seeking God's glory to glorify him that can be an issue but then this whole issue about women being pastors and I'm trying to make this between women being pastors men and also just men and males in general and the qualifications of a pastor will put those up but someone said you know what why not even if you are strike aren't striving to be a pastor why not make these qualifications the qualifications for you as well as a man look what he says it's a trustworthy statement that if any man aspires the office of overseer is a fine work he desires to do an overseer then must be above reproach what does that mean that means he cannot be he cannot be a noam sinner he cannot be in sin he cannot be the town gossip the town drunk he cannot be the the murderer that he can't be that that means that he's he's completely innocent or or can never have been blamed for any sort of sin or anything like that in fact that means that nobody would qualify but then he says the husband of one wife and the word this use there is the word which is only for a male a woman cannot qualify for that temperate huh temperate yeah he must be able to control his emotions his mind his mouth his heart his urges his impulse we'll talk about that just a little bit he must be respectable he must be hospitable able to teach obviously not addicted to wine or pugnacious now these two go together but this is a violent person a person who's always ready to be who's always ready to just jump on folks and not and I don't even mean physically but I mean even verbally that goes here hospitable able to teach down addicted wine or pugnacious but gentle peaceable free from the love of money he must be one who manages his own household where why because if you're gonna run the church if you're gonna be the head over church well then you're not a you're not a very good example as the head of your household well then we don't want you and he says keeping his children under control with all dignity drop down to verse 6 and not a new converse so that he will not become conceited now if you're a male and you're a new convert that's that's not a problem because again if you want to make these if you want to see how many of these you can qualify for just as a man not being a pastor it's a good thing to shoot for so that he would not become conceited and fall into condemnation incurred by the devil he and he must have a good reputation with those outside the church so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil let me just say this uh no ma'am there is no such thing as an online pastor a pastor if you are shepherding you you are shepherding actual live bodies now if you're shepherding bots you know what they call them online bots if you're shepherding bots if you're shepherding views and clicks and so forth which you cannot do you must be actually involved in the lives of the people that you shepherd they're just there's no such thing but one of the things that i that i like that i that i would shoot for there's never going to be the person when we look at this last one that has a good reputation amongst the outsiders there's no such person who has a hundred percent across the board good or impeccable reputation amongst outsiders they just look they thought bad about jesus they thought bad about jesus but by and large especially of the outsiders who know you and so for that reason just as a man one of the things that i wanted to make sure even at my worst that at least the people that knew me i'm not talking about the folks because there's there's a lot of folks that say all sorts of things i think last at last count at last count over a hundred over a hundred videos some been taken down some some it's hard to find but over and some people just sent me clips over a hundred videos that i've seen of someone who had something bad to say about me i'm this i'm that whatever okay fine that's fine it really doesn't buy it i listen i promise you it really doesn't bother me that's why you don't see me making a lot of response videos of someone who had something to say about me that's that's fine but what i like the most is when i talk to the people who are around me most and i'm talking about the worst of the worst what do they think about me core you already do you okay then hey amen amen that's what i want that's why i want a good name is it going to be a hundred percent across the board no do i am am i am i bother that everyone doesn't feel the way that i feel about me no how how could they how could they but now this passage here says blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me now the key is if they insult you and persecute you the key word is falsely pseudominoid which is they they are doing it falsely why because of me because of christ now only you and those close they they'll know others might no no no that guy cori that guy frank that guy bob that that guy uh joe nasty but the folks that are closest to hey man listen this guy here so now that being the case one of the issues that we have are people who are again overly vulnerable also that leads to the next thing overly um thank you vital for the super chat that leads people who are overly emotional or fragile what does that mean when have you guys ran into a person male or female who's just emotionally fragile they run hot and cold you can set them off with anything they can just go to crying go into depression go in anger fits of rage they're quick they're always defensive me around a person who is defensive it's not going to be a good day for you because if i know that you're overly defensive might be a bad quality but we're going to deal with that we are going to deal with that because now what you're doing is now you're making me hold back from saying certain things no no listen if you are in the lgbtq community and you want positive affirmation you might want to get on google get on do they still have map quest get somewhere and find out where quarry minor is that's where you don't want to be because i'll tell you now i'm not going to go out of my way and just insult you hey you uh person let me just tell you why you're going i'm not gonna do that that's not even wise that that's not even wise but if you want me to affirm sin or affirm you know i'm not gonna do that i my children get bothered me sometime because i tell them this is how it is and they but daddy you should have said no no you should have heard it the right way this world is not as as as um carrion loving about you as you want to be unfortunately we got a lot of pastors who want to be we got a lot of pastors who just want to be loved what's that there was a saturday night live show a skit on a saturday night live where the guy would say i just want to be loved is that so wrong yes it is if you just want to be loved especially by them that is so wrong because you'll do the different things and then you have to find folks that want to play k to you and not say certain things or else it will send you off into a tizzy and so forth and so you don't want to be around those folks these people get depressed quickly or get on a high quickly they always want to say something by the way let me just say this let me just say this it needs to be said if all you can ever do is give your opinion you always have to say something let me just say this in the name of jesus shut up have you ever just wanted to tell someone and i've said this would you please shut all the way the excuse my language the hell up why would i use that term because what you're saying literally comes from hell it's literally of the devil you have got to say something about a buddy i'll even use his name maybe maybe he's watching buddy reggie good dude good dude frustrating dude couldn't take reggie and do you all know someone you just can't take anywhere he's always got something to say always like reggie would you just be where we're we're at mcdonald's got something to say with the gas station got something to say we're in the office he used to work for me got something to say reggie would you would you please stop that good guy and i'll never forget i'll never forget reggie did something i guess he had some tickets or something like that and he had to go to you know in texas if you have too many warrants then they'll come pick you up other states they'll let the warrants go but one warrant one ticket is a warrant if you don't pay it so he's in he's in jail he calls me and says listen he wasn't working from at the time he was doing something else and he said i'm not gonna be able to make it um he had you know i guess a quarter or whatever it cost to call and he's not gonna be able to make it i said where are you said i'm in i'm in no no i knew where he was because the thing said he's in he's in um this place called loose there it's where the where you go anyway he called me he said i'm gonna go ahead and stay here and just let the fines run through and i'll get out um in about a week or two i'll take that really yeah he he owed a lot what happened was he ended up writing me a letter the letter was he kid he couldn't talk because someone had wired his mouth shut someone hit him he said in this letter i guess i do talk too much and someone showed me there are some people that just wow you don't have to always talk you don't you don't you you really don't i don't know if you realize your opinion isn't as valuable as you think nor is mine now someone's asking you if you talk for a living uh if you're if you're on your own youtube channel what you got core you why are you always talking well because i'm on youtube but how how weird would it be if i push the button and i just stood there afterwards that would be weird matter of fact what would make it even weird is if you guys are actually sitting there watching me be quiet but once it goes off i'm not i don't talk i don't talk a lot i i talk i don't talk a lot for what for what don't you know what i think don't you know what i want don't you know what i'm trying to do and so that's one of the other things about a male who has not reached manhood but it also always concerned about their image always concerned about their image that's let me just say this let me just say this because it needs to be said we have a lot of males who have a social media presence and social media skills but have no real social skills or civil skills yeah there are thousands millions rather i'm sorry i under i undercut the actual number but there are millions of people male and female but in this case males so let's just say hundreds hundreds of thousands of males who would much rather talk about you than talk to you who would much rather text than talk that's an issue that i talked to a friend of mine these are he's an actual friend of mine who said some stuff i won't say his name he does he does show up in the chats from time and time i won't say his name um and i said x y and z i called him back later and apologized because i felt like and my wife also felt like i might have been a little too rough i said listen i apologize if i was a little too rough i meant everything that i said but if i said it in a way that may have hurt you but then i apologize but you'll know next time i try to mean what i say does that mean hey in my in my demeanor that i'm perfect no but this is the standard i'm gonna hold you to it you hold me to it and there's another young fellow another young boy i'm sorry not young boy he's a he's a younger male who is just making videos making videos and making videos and and saying all sorts of things and he said something so what did i do i called him you know you call somebody when you call them and they they they push the button to send it immediately to the to the voicemail you know they saw it and they sent it immediately there kept calling because i want to make sure that it's not just me call it different times even once i saw that he was actually online called him because i knew he was online and boop goes e-mail all right fine send the text because that's all i can do send the text have i have his number he has mine send the text no response wait a day and a half call him back lift the message listen try and talk to you you need to talk to me he sends a message i really don't think it's it's a good time that we should talk in this and that wait a second wait a second wait a second you're the guy that was just no it's not young don you just you're on your you just you you're texting away you're you're this and you're that you're this and you're that everything quarry minor this quarry minor that wait a second do you want to know or do you just want to talk you just text and take okay fine fine fine fine i tell you what i tell you what that's that now i don't block people for that reason or ban or if you've been voted that's another reason but there's no need for me to talk to you if you don't want to talk to me you call me every sort of name in the book and i'm not going to go out and just tell everybody who you are or what it is whatever and by the way guys do not go to thinking that you know who this person is you don't you don't know this person do not think of oh i know that is no it's not that person but i will say this though i will say this that every single person on the planet that has ever spoken about me negatively that i have their number i can promise you this i've called them they haven't called me so that's cool but no so but i don't want you all to think that you know who i'm talking to you all don't know what i'm talking about so and i'm not going to say this person's name notice i called me a young person so it's a it's a younger person so but that's just me it's how i was raised that's how i hold people i hold folks accountable that's how men should do we have a what's the word a dearth of men what you say we we got smoke call me okay someone said we were having a conversation with me and buddy that if if if and it's not a no it's not a woman i'm not talking about a woman no it was not bagani i you all don't know who this person is you don't know who this person is you haven't heard from this person i don't believe so but if a man acts like a man people who aren't used to seeing a man act like a man are going to be cut off guard and have no idea what to do because it's not used to it that's why we have this issue in the pulpit where we have men or males who are up there who people are thinking that guy is preaching that guy is that guy is that because how long has it been since they've seen an actual man in the pulpit and i'm i don't mean a male but a man somebody who is going to hold themselves accountable and stay true to the word of god stay true paul makes a statement he says in first crimson 1613 he says be on alert stand firm in the faith obviously and he says look here what he says act like a man be strong act like a man act like men i'm sorry and the word that's used here is derived from the greek word i'm near so he's talking about males he's not saying act like human beings or act like tough no he's saying to men to males to those with the x y's chromosome makeup act like men be strong let all that you do be done in love wait a second so you mean to me act like a man be strong that necessarily mean to be loud and violent and voiceless no it doesn't it means look what he says he says let all that you do be done in love so what you do you do it for the benefit of the person do it for the benefit of the body for the gospel that's what you do but the guy that we saw early on no his his focus is to appease people possibly women one of the things that that a person like a td jakes has done is td jakes intentionally would preach to and towards women and he would use words that they could relate to saying that someone is pregnant with purpose or what have you got a birth something god you're getting ready to birth your victory well okay it's never been a man in history of the planet has ever birthed anything and so he's speaking to his women he's speaking to you go to this church the overwhelming majority of people that go to this church are females or women which would be no shock for you to find out that he's got a lot of women that are also in position at the church but when you look at td jakes i don't know what you think about his demeanor what have you but a godly man who holds himself to the scripture is not what you would get as a matter of fact a couple things the bible says in first crimson sixth i want to cover this off i want to cover this again he says or do you not know that the unrighteous will not in here the kingdom of god do not be deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers and look at this word here nor effeminate nor homosexual now with this word homosexual is uh arson equitide we don't want to get into that we've covered this before but this word right here effeminate feminine which is a sin the person that wants to have this feminine behavior or this demeanor this feminine look by the way and yes i mean a feminine look as well i'll show you in a second but this word that's used for the word effeminate or effeminate the greek word is melancholy it is melancholy no i'm not no i'm not i'll be quite after this i'm not going on i promise you i'm not i'm not i promise you i am not i promise you i am not i promise you sometimes though people think that when you say this hey you talking about me i'm not talking about you i i am not by the way if you all saw i think i put up one time before how many emails and comments and questions and so forth that i have that i cannot keep up with it's even worse now it's even worse now it's even worse now like three thousand i'll never be able to catch up that's not counting the comments that i randomly go through on youtube in the comment section i can't and so i'm never i promise you i am never speaking about any one person if i am guys i want you all to hear me and hear me clear if i am speaking about a person i'll tell you the person's name specifically if you ever want to know how i feel you never have to guess i'll tell you i'll always tell you what i think i'm not going to just um slide with innuendos but and folks say hey this video was about no it wasn't it was about you i'll tell you about you there's not a person on youtube or a person on the planet that i fear not one and i do i believe i mean that now someone may think differently what i which is fine which is which is fine you are entitled opinion that you have but he says this word malachi someone who's effeminate now that you're right there are times when the shoe does fit because if i make a blanket statement and it happens to fit you and it bothers you well then there you go it might be you might fit it but it's not necessarily talking about you the bible doesn't say your name the bible doesn't say you specifically the bible doesn't say monkey moves doesn't say jesus lover 122 it doesn't say chess chamber doesn't say jeff but there are times when the bible is speaking that it does refer to you you would be the fool to think that it is referring to you to be upset or biased that's talking about them no no sometimes you need to take what it what was given to you anytime someone says something about me let me ponder that for a second maybe there might be some truth to that maybe there might be some truth to that okay and again i see you guys know i'm not dishing out any subliminal messages but listen that just means you don't believe what i say which is fine you don't have to you don't have to i don't have a i don't have a problem saying what i think i'm saying what i think right now and i'm saying it in a general sense i really am but that being the case look what he says about melancholy what he says now where do we see that i said that this also applies to if you are feminine not in just your mannerisms but also in your dress let's go over here to matthew 117 jesus is speaking to the rulers he says as these men were going away jesus began to speak to the crowds about john john just to let you know is a real man by the way jesus is also a real man a man's man so to speak and look what he says he says what did you go out into the wilderness to see a reed shaken by the wind but what did you go out to see look what he says a man dressed in soft clothing this word for soft soft out soft clothing let me pull up so you guys can see this word for soft clothing is the same word here it is again melancholy the exact same word that was used of a feminine now that's not how john dressed how john carried himself no that's how you leaders did not you know nothing but as jesus is speaking to those who wear soft what he says those who wear soft clothing malacad same word are in king's palaces in other words maybe you're wearing these clothes you're dressing this way because you're trying to get somewhere with it you're trying to you maybe you're not in king's palaces now but you're trying to get there and so even dressing a certain way can be sinful well wait a minute core you mean tell me if i wore a bright yellow shirt that no i'm not i'm not saying that's wrong but you all know what i mean you are yeah being said soft clothing with soft hands um it'd be cool if men knew all men knew what calisthenics were uh but having calisthenics doesn't necessarily make you a man but it's still good to have some calisthenics if you listen if you can take a file i don't have it in here but you take a file and just start filing your your fingers and doesn't hurt because you got some you know some history if your hands have some history amen amen that means you might be able to handle yourself i'm i'm kidding but being this way effeminate that is not godly that's not a man certainly not a godly man and so i would say i would say i'm in agreement with uh with uh paul washer but even this i'm in agreement with when it comes to what vody bacham says about jesus being a he is the consummate man he is he shows us what a man should be it's the picture of jesus who walked around with bare feet and callous hands it's the picture of jesus who turned over tables in the temple picked up a whip and chased people out listen if jesus looked like the pictures that we paint of him with the perfect hair and the perfect skin who could be a hand model and a hair model all wrapped up in one trust me people would not have been running out of the temple but laughing at that man you want to know my jesus you go to the other end of the book where he shows up with fire in his eyes and with a sword on his thigh that's my jesus somebody said i would not want caro said i would not want my surge my brain surge in the half rough hands that's fine that's fine you wouldn't want your police the other one that's coming to protect you you're the soldiers to have soft hands i can promise you that so that being the case though but he shows the example of a man now let's be honest especially all of you males that are in the chat all of you men that are in the chat it's hard being a man it is hard i don't care it's hard enough being a man period but even more being a man of god but jesus is the perfect example jesus was the perfect example sometimes you want to hit back and sometimes you want to respond sometimes you want to do something when someone insults you comes at you what do you want to do because this goes back to the point that i was making that you always gotta you feel the need to kind of stand up for yourself that that happens a lot there are times where okay you said something now i got to give you something the calluses on my hand i want you to feel that let's be honest there are times where you want to give somebody now of course there are also times where you want to do something and you look at the size of the guy like okay let me do let's just talk it out here you are you're five one and you talking to shack shack done called your mother all kind of names you want to hit him but now go on and he's two feet taller and 200 pounds bigger now all of a sudden now all of a sudden you want to talk now all of all of a sudden you want to pray yeah what happened to the other energy when you thought he was five four when you thought he was five six when you thought he weighed 140 now you see that you had you had two feet off and 200 pounds what happened all that energy no consistency now and i admire men who is the way he is the way he says he is but i'll never forget there was a guy i told you guys in prison there if you are a sex offender they have a huge problem with your life could be in danger especially depends upon the prison and the guy said well listen because you couldn't be a sex offender in the tv room and so i hear a guy doing all this tough talk i said let me ask you a question so i notice all the sex offenders you pick on they're always smaller they're frail kind of nerdy looking what happens when the one comes in who a whole lot bigger than you same thing okay i didn't think anything about it until one day we get one guy that comes in he is six three six four about 260 two feet and and built he has a sex offense charge what do you think they did nothing yeah you did all you did all that talking in now now now the guy that i was setting the hypothetical guy i was telling you about he's here because maybe you really what maybe what you were saying you was trying to get someone to to see something in you that wasn't really there i don't need even want to see anything that's not really there whatever whatever is there that they need to see they'll see it and if they don't see it it's because it ain't there and so i don't need you to i don't need me to lift myself up i don't need me that's just a man men you should not be looking to gave miss cornbread men you should not be looking to lift yourself up i'll cover that in just a second but if jesus is the picture if jesus is the picture but no it's not just keyboard warriors it's these folks that will say something in the project around their homeboys but then when they get up by themselves are quite yet what jesus says jesus now stood and i want you notice what jesus did and didn't do now jesus stood before the governor and the governor questioned him saying are you the king of the jews and jesus said to him it is as you say and while he was being accused by the chief priest and elders he did not answer then pilot said to him do you not hear how many things they testify against you pay attention guys i want you to see this and he did not answer him with regard to even a single charge so the governor this pilot was amazed this word here for maze is this word for marvel to wonder to admire wait a second wait a minute wait a minute pilot you are you you admire him being quiet there but now the question is did jesus defend himself did jesus respond the answer is yes and no what did he respond to and what did he not respond to let's go back to it again i want you all to see a let's see if you can see something he says are you the king of the jews and jesus answered him and said yes it is though you say but then when he when they have these allegations these charges against him he says do you not hear how many things they testify against you and jesus didn't answer what was pilot marveling over he defended the integrity of the word as far as we're concerned because this is jesus so we equate him with god the king the word this is the whole basis of the gospel right here right but then the personal accusations and insults what did jesus do nothing do you all see this the personal accusations yeah whatever don't you see how many things they testify against you and so when he said when he didn't say anything pilot was like wow huh what's the implication we can take well men men men do likewise are there times i've said before are there times when you do have to for sure sure you you do have to there are times when you absolutely do again hear me what they used to say the uh the two guys on on saturday night live hear me now and believe me later hear what i'm saying there are times where you will just don't make that your default position look what he says here but sanctify christ as lord in your heart always be ready to make a defense to everyone who asked to give you an account for the hope that's not always be ready to give a defense of yourself but always be ready to give a defense of everyone else now i've got a i've got a standard if you call me text me email me asking hey kory x y and z can you answer sure however however however you all know i don't respond back this now now you can all assume who this is or others folks a lot of folks have done this of late let me just say this of late this is happening you all can think of some some a few people a few people have said hey kory what about this what about that and i'll give a response now if anyone knows me i don't respond quickly i don't respond quickly to text i don't respond quickly emails i don't respond quickly to facebook or wherever else um if you call me if i don't catch it i'll respond but it's not going to be bam right now you know why because i might be a little bit busy i might be busy but i will respond and so before i respond you take you take something that i say to you and go share it with someone else well oh you weren't interested in my response then you weren't interested in what i was going to say you weren't interested in that you were interested in just saying something or having something say it well then fine keep talking keep doing what you're doing stay over there do you i'll be over here but kory there's more things come fine fine keep saying fine if it's something doctrinal we'll talk if it's something about kory we may or may not but that's not prevalent in my mind the issue that we have guys is that we have we don't have an example we don't have an example for boys male to follow we don't have an example ladies can testify we don't have an example of women to follow we don't have an example of girls to follow and then we go to church and they don't see that they see the mites of the world they see the tdjakes of the world they see all of these things let me address this because i think it's pertinent but isn't saying that you are not responding acts responding says who can i ask you guys a question katrina and everyone else let me just cover the names that i see right here senior conrad is equal 1820 jeff ben monkey moves can i ask you guys a question let me ask you guys a question do you all know how many people said something negative about me this week do you all know how many people said something negative about me second question do you know how many people said something negative about you this week how many people said something negative about you this week well the answer is the same for me and you I don't know. I don't know. So what do you do with that? Nothing. Hey, this guy is over here because let me tell you the truth. And ladies can also testify to this, too. By the way, by the way, by the way, how come? Matter of fact, you all tell me, you all tell me. Why is it that most of the drama nowadays, YouTube, Facebook, at the job, wherever, it's now more men than women? What has happened in the church? Most of the drama is now from men. What has happened? And so you can chase it down if you want to. You can respond if you want to. Now you respond to this one. You got to respond to that one. You got to respond to that one. You got to respond to that one. You got to respond to that one. Listen, there were channels with 400,000 subscribers or 600,000 subscribers or 700,000 subscribers that said something about me. And I'm not talking about, I'm not going to speak on that. Fine. So, no, that's not responding. Doesn't mean that it is a response. That's just not, no. Because then you got to be consistent. You got to respond to everybody. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to do that. You know how tiring that would be? I want to watch a movie. I can't watch a movie because this person is like Club Nouveau, some of you. I don't know who that is. So heavy on my mind. Can't, cannot do it. Cannot do it. Now if you call me, hello? Oh, you got a question you want? That's different. That's different. This is the problem with a lot of marriages today. This is the problem with a lot of relationships today. This is the problem with a lot of the world today. It's not the women. Let me say that again. It is not the women. It's not women. Excuse me. Let me get closer. It's not the women. Let me say, let me lean over this side. It's not the women. Let me lean back. It's not the women. Let me come in closer. It's not the women. Let me strike a pose. My intelligent pose. It's not the women. My grandson, we say, we say, hey, three. Can you show us your adorable face and does this? Let me do the same. It's not the women. Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the women. Women out here acting a certain way. It ain't, no, no, no. Macquarie, Macquarie, Macquarie, why? When are you gonna ever get on these women? Every time I start talking about men, women, I mean, men come back and say, what about the women? What, there's something to chat. What about the women? What about the women? To you who keep saying, what about, don't do that as a screenshot, Cairo. Don't you dare do that. But to you who want to say, what about the women? You need to get on these women. I've got something for you. Shut up. Say it again. Say something else. Say something else. Say something else. Yeah, say, please stop it. Stop bringing up women. Stop, stop, because what you can't do then is just start saying, I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a man. But you're talking about the women. By the way, I'm playing some of my more favorite clips. I'm playing some of my more favorite clips. It's us. It's us. It's us. It's us. It's us. It's us, oh Lord. Men. You're right. He did make male and female both accountable, but who did he make more accountable? The wife in the house, she didn't cook. Is she at fault? Yes, but who's accountable? Who's responsible for it? The man. You better figure out how to get, you better figure out how to get this straight, man. And I know, listen, I'm doing you ladies a favor. So that you look at this man. Now that doesn't mean that you don't need that. That does not mean that you don't act accordingly. That does not mean that you don't act accordingly. That doesn't mean don't try to overstep your role or understep that you are so helpless. Some of that means. But the problem in the world today, I promise you, is men. It is men. It's always been that case. Oh, I can't show them the video clip again, because it just wouldn't make any sense. But it's always been men. In the church, men. Even lack thereof. The home, men. On the job, men. Running this country, well, it's always been men. So yeah, men. Men, men, men, men, men. And we've got a wonderful example of a man in Christ. Now he says some things about men. And this goes for, now he, okay, fine, you're right. He didn't say this about men. But let's apply this to men. Because we talk about the lack of fathers in the home. Y'all do realize the fathers in the homes that we're saying that aren't there, they're men. I don't know if you all knew that. I understand that the world is trying to portray a different picture that anybody, this is your con right now, that anybody can be a father. No, they can't. It's got to be a man. It's got to be a man. And so if we want men at home, well, we've got to do something and deal with men. Hold men accountable. Well, men have it tough in this world. Stop being soft, you big sissy. I'm talking to you men who are complaining. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Women can't do anything that men don't let them. That's true, that it, yep. And women, you can demand, you can demand an actual man. Demand that the male that is interested in you, demand that he's a man. Before he wants to kiss on you and hug on you and do other stuff after you're married, demand that he be a man. Carol said, my husband is a man. I told you one of the best things that you can ever have as a compliment is when someone else says it. My wife has said the same thing and thankfully, now she hadn't said to you guys. Because if she did, if she did, if she did, she would get upset. She would get upset. And it's always dependent on how you hold men accountable. You know what you can't do, liberating truth? You can't hold men accountable from a distance. That's what you do, because men don't do that. I don't know if y'all get this. This wasn't something that was difficult, that was not understood 30, 40, 50 years ago. This is a new phenomenon, one calling other men out. What do we spend time calling men beta males and this and that or whatever? Who does that? Who does that? I know someone who is beta themselves and all that. There's an old saying by, it was actually, was it McBeth? I believe it was, was it a fellow? It might have been McBeth. In the Shakespearean play where he says, me think that thou doth protest too much. The guy that's always yelling something out does so because that's him. You calling folks beta weak, soft, this calling somebody coward, calling somebody, that might be you. Telling you guys having witnessed that. Hey Corey, can someone who denies Penal Substitution be saved? Amen. Can someone who denies Penal Substitution be saved despite going against such a, if you deny something so essential but ignorant, I'm not sure, they don't understand. No, they can, they can. Why? Because children, I've seen children do the same thing. They just don't get it. But over time, the Holy Spirit is gonna grow then. And so yeah, I would probably say I would case by case basis, I would say yes. But again, you don't hold somebody accountable from a distance. Does that mean that men are less accountable to answering for sin in the afterlife? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're gonna be held accountable at judgment. All of us will give account for everything that we say and do. All of us, male and female. So, well, that's a cop out. That's a cop out. Why do black men say you'll never know what it is to be a black man in America as the excuse? Because again, we've got people that are looking for excuses. America, let me just say this towards my darker men. The world wants to hand you excuses. Why? First of all, you should be insulted. If someone's gonna hand you an excuse for something that you may or may not do is because they think less of you. I used to pick on guys and I'd say, listen, you messed up, but it's okay, it ain't your fault. You couldn't help it. We don't expect much from you. We don't expect, well, that's an insult. If I told you Tyrone, if I told you Tyrone or Cameron or Brian, who else? Scotty, Ben, if I told you, that's okay. I don't expect much from you. Wouldn't you be insulted by that? There's my man, Alton. Alton, let me ask you, Alton. Alton's a man. Go check out his channel, by the way. Alton, if I say it, man, let Alton do what he wants to do. Who cares? He can't help himself. We don't expect much from Alton. Wouldn't that be insulting? That's extremely insulting. And so when someone comes back and says that about men, specifically black men, that's insulting. I can think, I can read, I can write, all that stuff. I don't need you to come and defend me. I don't need you to come and help me. All I need you to do, you can do two things in my life. You can do two things in my life. Number one, get out of my way, or two, stay there. Either way, I'm coming. One of two things you can do, get out of my way, or two, stay there. Either way, I'm coming. Either over you, through you, around you, but I'm getting to where I have to go. I'm not focused on you. But Corey, what about this? But Bob, what about that? What man does that? What man does? Men, think about the kind of man that you want to be. Not the kind of man that you are because the kind of man that you are isn't the man that you want to be just yet because we all, if we're honest with ourselves, we're trying to grow to be something better. So think about where your shortcomings are and then what kind of man you want to be. How you want to be with your wife, with your children, with God, obviously, first and foremost, how you want to be when you interact with people, when things come your way. Do you want to be the man that's always responding when someone gets on your nerves, the guy that someone can't even cut you off and you want to go grab a gun and go and chase him down in roadways? You want to be that kind of guy? You want to be that kind of guy that cannot control himself? No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't. You want to be the kind of guy that God can judge you purely and look at you and say, you know what? That's my man. That's my man. BJ says, I thought our judgment as believers was reward ceremony. Now we're stepping into tall cotton. We're not sure about how the rewards are gonna look in heaven. We don't know. It seems to be rewards because Paul is making this statement. But all of us as well are going to be judged before the Lord. Ultimately, there's a judgment to go to hell and then there's a judgment to go to heaven. So you want to make sure that, but for us, we have already passed from that sort of judgment if you are saved, okay? So when, amen, Kairos. Thank you, Adam. I appreciate that. And I say this, hold somebody. Now, there's nothing wrong with holding people accountable. I want to make that statement early to the brother that asked that question. Or says, I'm not sure it was a male or a female. I'm not sure. But to the person that asked that question, hold folks accountable, but hold yourself accountable as well. And if what you, because sometimes you don't know everything that you think you know. And so, hey, the guy that I was speaking of earlier, that again, not the person that you think I'm thinking about, but this young fella, just go to, all right, made him mad. Made him mad because we don't need to be communicating. We don't need to be anything. This particular person. Not who you all are thinking of. If it were, I would say so. I would say so. So, let me read something. Let's pretend, let's pretend. What is the Kevin Samuel's theory? I have no idea what the Kevin Samuel's theory is, which probably so because I never really respected kind of how he did things and what he would say. You yourself had to get put down by other men in prison. How did you experience, let you see yourself in it? That's a good question. That's a good question. While I was there, they come at you. They come at you hard from day one, especially the place that you go to, the prison you go to. I went to Beaumont, Beaumont, listen, it's rough from day one. I don't have tattoos. I had glasses on, wooden sagging, no golds in my mouth, no gold teeth in my mouth. And so their question was, what are you here for? Are you a sex offender? No, I'm not a sex offender. You gotta show your paperwork. Yes, this is what I'm here for, that's my deal. And they wanna try you. Now, they try you, you better push back. And they'll try to put you in a position and they'll try to pitch and hold you into what kind of man they want you to be on the compound, no, that's not happening, no. My name is Corey Miner, my daddy was Jimmy Miner. I don't recognize any of you. And so when they give, sometimes you gotta push back to let folks know I'm not that man. That guy that you've been kind of pushing around or whatever, that ain't me. And so I'm one of the guys that, I think I can walk any compound. Why is that? Because I don't care what your position is at the prison, I don't care if you are, there were killers there, there were drug dealers there, there were white collar criminals there, there were sex offenders there. And I was good with every group because I would try to treat you fairly when I thought I saw my buddy. I got a few buddies that actually come on on the live stream chat that were there at different prisons. And so maybe you guys can actually ask, I'll let you ask them at some point in time that you asked them. They'll tell you, I'll let them say so because maybe coming from me, it might ring hollow hats, that's what you're just saying. A pair of lips can say anything. And so that's, which is fine. But I hope that what you see here is what you get. But I'm glad you made that a lot. My mother, I called her, she said, Corey, are you sure ain't nobody messing with you? Baby, you can tell me, you can tell me if somebody's messing with you. Let me know if I gotta get you some help. Mom, I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine. Matter of fact, when I forget Gino's channel, but when he comes back on, he'll tell you, when I go to the wreck yard, there are, you got some huge guys in prison. You got some huge guys in the prison. I'll go and hey, I'll talk to the bigger dude. Is that it? I'll pick on you. I'll mess with you, just kind of see where you are. That's it? Wow, you, man, listen, get up, leave, man. And I don't know the guy yet. When you talk, get up, get up, man. You're not, let somebody else who's gonna work out and get ready. What's the dude? And so that's kind of me just mess with the guys or whatever and just, hey, that was just me. But they knew I didn't mean anything by it. Just kind of, I wasn't trying to, I can't bug folks in prison. There's some huge dudes in prison. So, but they push, sometimes you do have to push back on certain things, but most days, they're looking for a rise there. They're trying to put a key in your back and turn it. They're trying to just, as we say, be it off or you say something and try to make a joke. And so I walk in, especially the Muslims, I go in the TV room and just, I'm sitting there. Hey, Corey, what about that? All right, whatever. All right, that's funny. That's funny. Now, when I do swing, I'm swinging. And so if I make a response to somebody, I'm swinging. I'm swinging, but until I'm swinging, I'm just, I'm cool. Now I'm not some killer. I don't want y'all to think that either. I'm not trying to betray me. Now there are some guys that, yeah, if somebody has to go tell you, hey, listen, you quit messing with that dude. You see why he's quiet? This man is literally fit for that. This man is literally figuring out what he's going to do to you. You might want to pull that back a little bit. There are some guys that, all right. So that's how it was for me in prison. You know, then there was some folks that didn't like me because they just, whatever, all right, no problem. No problem, no problem. So some guys were mad at me because I didn't go, there was one guy named Maniac. That was his nickname, Maniac. He got mad at me because there was a sex offender in front of me to the microwave. This was when we got Fort Worth and there's sex offenders there. If I don't treat them the way they wanted me to treat them, they got mad at me. So Maniac said, hey, I gotta stir myself. Y'all can go ahead and go into the microwave. But the guy, the older guy who was a sex offender was in front of me. He got mad at me because I left this, I didn't go, he said, why don't you, I said, because he's in front of me. He said, the derogative term in prison, he's a chomo. He's a chomo. I said, he's still a man. And he's mad. I said, listen, I'm not gonna kill him because you want me to kill him. I mean, I'll tell you what, if you want me to kill him, you kill him. Tuffy, you kill him. You want me to be mad at him like you are. You want me to hate him like you had. You want me to kill him. You kill him. You're not gonna give me to do your work for you. You kill him, tough guy. I'm not gonna do that. The man is a man. I'm here to get me right. I'm here to grow. I'm here to become the person that I was not out there in the world. I'm here to be the man that God would like for me to be, to be the man that my wife would like for me to be, be the man that my children deserve me to be. That's what I'm here, not here to punish this guy. And if this guy wants to come around to Christ and so forth and have someone to partner with him and work with him and well, amen, amen. I'm not gonna do you evil bidding. You do it. But let me give you some, let me give you some scriptures, guys. This is, let's pretend that these scriptures are just for the man. Was that Craig or Smokey in prison? Okay, now I gotta think about which one, okay. I was probably, I guess, I don't know. I don't know, maybe Craig, I don't know. I don't know. I wasn't Smokey. I wasn't Smokey. But let's pretend like these passages that I'm gonna put up are for Christians. I mean, for men, they are for Christians. I'm gonna, duh, duh, Corey. Let's pretend like they're for men. Men, hold yourself, govern yourself to these. He says, now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity. That's hatred, guys. You always wanna do something. Strife, no bueno if that's you. Jealousy, outbursts of anger. Disputes, dissensions, factions, in being, drunkenness, getting drunk, getting high, either one, carousie, and things like that. Men, don't do that. If there's a hint of that in your life, stop it. Find someone to help you. Find someone that loves you and holds you accountable. Amen. Just as, look he says, just as I have forewarned you that those who practice, who are doing such things, will not inherit the kingdom of God. That didn't mean that if you succumb to those things from time to time, but if that's what you do, you're practicing those things, then we have a problem. Don't be a practiser of those things, right? Then he says, but the fruit of the spirit, the man fruit of the spirit. We're applying this to men. Obviously this applies to all believers, but men, cause I want to make this for men. Men, the fruit of the spirit is love. A man can be loving. Not just his family, but the others as well. Joy, I told you I haven't had a bad day since I came home from prison. Matter of fact, a year prior to coming home, hadn't had a bad day. Joy, peace, wow, peace, patience. That's a hard one, patience. Had to learn that one. Kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things, there is no law. Against those things, people will know that you're a man. If you're in the pool pit, if you're serving in church, if you're at work, if you're at home, those things, those things stick out. Douglas Ray says, thank you again for the super chat. He says that I met women before. You are saying that in life, a woman's fault, I'm sorry, a woman's fault is men's fault and the afterlife. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, I'm not saying that right now, the woman messes up that it's our fault except at the house. It might be her fault, but you're responsible as the husband. That mean that if the woman messes up across the street, that you are the blame. No, I'm speaking in your own household or what you govern, what you're over. And now she messes up, she has these things, these hiccups in life, even as your spouse, God is not holding you accountable to that, to what she did, but God is gonna hold you accountable to what you did or how you led. Are you with me? Did you try to help her? Did you try to undergird or help her in her weaknesses? Are you with me? She is supposed to respect you as the man, but you're supposed to love her. And what did I tell you guys? Whenever you see the word love, take that word, put a line through it and supplant it for this word, that way you'll understand. You'll understand. Take the word, love, and put in the word commit. You are to be committed to her. Committed how? For her good. For her good. Okay, liberating truth. I think that was you that asked the question before. What was your question? What was the question that was so burning that got you put in time out? Go ahead, moderators, let him ask the question. So I can see that way. I'd love to see your question. Matter of fact, I could actually go over here, click on this thing right here. No, I can't scroll all the way back up. I could go over there and then look for your question and highlight that's just too much work. But tell me, what was your question? Let us see. But now let me ask you guys a question. Irrespective of whatever you think is happening in the periphery, you know what? There you go. I like the way senior Conrad put it. Lead your wife, sucker. That's not biblical, but it's biblical. That's not biblical. It's not how the text says it, but that's biblical. But let me ask you guys a question. Irrespective of the periphery, what's what you all think or may think it was happening and so forth or whatever, whatever you all think there's folks like, hey, Corey, you okay? I wouldn't be, listen, I am tickled, but I'm wonderful. I really am wonderful. Tomorrow night, the draft, not tomorrow night, Thursday, you've got the draft, the debate discussion with Dr. Michael Brown, wonderful. I am feeling good. Amen, amen, Carol. Don't go on. That's why you are, that's why we love you here. Look what she put up. Finally, brothers, sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable or admirable. If anything is excellent of or praiseworthy, think on those things. Think on those things. That will help you throughout the day, guys. Where's this question? I wanna see your question. I wanna see your question. I hope you haven't talked about it again, did you? I wanna see your question. Am I doing a live Sunday church sermon? No, not this Sunday. Not this Sunday. My dog on notes. My notes on the sermon, guys, messed up. The scripture that I was working with on the iPad messed up. And you wanna know how dumb I am? This is just, I got back home and said, Cory, you idiot. Y'all see this blue book behind me right there? It's the Greek English Bible. English on one side and Greek. So what I was trying to do was compare that the audience couldn't see it anyway. I just need to make sure that I'm saying the right words. I didn't. That's what I get for relying on technology. Oh, he is in technology. And so I didn't have my notes. I didn't have the right scriptures. And so, okay, Lord, help me through this sermon because I don't wanna mess up. So, amen, good question. What is the first step a man can do if he wants to change his life and his behavior? Submit, submit to the Lord. What Carol put up, all these things, think on those things, principally in the scriptures. So you wanna think about what, first of all, recognize that you're not that great. That's number one. Recognize even as a man, nothing special about you. As my former pastor said, you just, $5 worth of dirt with some God-breathed air in you. $5 worth of dirt with some God-breathed air in you. That's it. And so if you recognize your own frailties, your own weaknesses and so forth, then what does it require you to do? Like Paul said, when I'm weak there, I'm strong. So I end up leaning on him. A godly man is always a humble man. I don't wanna hear about you saying, I'm a man. I'm a man. First of all, stop saying you're man. That's like when people say, I don't care what you think. Well, why'd you tell us? When people tell you that, I don't care what you think. Yes, they do, because you told me. But a godly man, a godly man is a humble man. Does the comment about black men in America differ from where you were raised or the black man's experience? Are men in the South warranted for saying, this is, no, no. And I've lived in both. I've lived in both. A man is a man and his requirements and responsibilities are the same. The only differences is how from the north to the south is how big the buildings are, how fast folks drive and so forth. But no, it really is the same. Life in the South for a black man is no different than life in the South than life in the North for a black man. And it's truth be told, it's really no different for life as a man. Again, someone keeps telling us that, hey, you black folks got it bad. I don't, I don't. Where is this guy? Okay, you said you were timed out for your question. You didn't put your question back up. Okay, so I'm gonna assume that, did I wanna put the question back up? I was looking for the question, I was gonna answer it. So, but again, how, but how do you do this? Be humble, submitting to the Lord. And then secondly, have some principles. Have some principles about yourself. Don't take your cues from Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate, or the Kevin Samuels and the like. Don't, no, don't do that. And so when you deal with an actual man, folks, they might be shocked. Hey, wait a second, this is a little different. Don't take your cues from them. Don't worry about him, focus on you. You're not trying to pull him down so that you would look better. That's high school stuff. You don't have to be intimidated. Don't try to intimidate others. Don't do that. Don't wear your emotions on your sleeve, even if it's bothering you. That's where the patience and self-control comes in. When someone does assess something to you, it bothers you. Cause we got a problem in this country. And the last place that the world is coming to to take away the manhood of males is the church. And you see this in the pulpit. What's this that women make up 30% of the pastors in America, 30% and it's growing. And it's growing. What does that say? 80% of Americans are comfortable with a female pastor. 62% of Christians are comfortable with a female pastor. But we literally have a word here. We literally have the Bible with the qualifications. Right? So if you want to know how to do it, what I just read in Galatians five, the first half don't do that. The second, do that. If you want to be even better, even though you're not a pastor, apply 1 Timothy 3 to yourself. This is not on topic, but it's a good question. It says, I'm not sure about my baptism. Should I get baptized again? There's no rule against it. What are you gonna do? Sorry, Henry, you've been baptized one time too many. You can't get into heaven. No. The point of being, the point of the water baptism guys is so that other folks would see it, but clearly other folks won't see it. All the people that you want to see won't see it. It's a public affirmation is what it is. That's really the whole point of it, that you are publicly making this declaration and you want others to see it, or you felt like that when you did it, your heart wasn't right and so forth, or you were in a better place, then go ahead, by all means. You're making a public affirmation again. How many times is it ever wrong to make a public affirmation about Christ even if you've done it again? No. Do it again. Do it again. If you're in the DFW area and you want somebody to come watch you, let me know. Don't everybody do it. Don't everybody do it. Because I can't come watch everybody. And you know what's funny though, at least I actually thought about it myself. I've actually thought about it myself. So, and I might. I might. If I figure out how warm the water is at the church. Yeah. Yeah, super bad. Men worry about other men and their manhood and how much of it, stop it. Stop it. When did we start doing that? We did as kids. We called other guys all kinds of names. Why do I have an emptiness of numbness towards the Lord God Almighty? There's two reasons. One, because you're not saved. Or two, there's some guilt because you are saved. Either way, you need to fix that. The guilt could be because you're engaged in something, you're behaving in a certain way, or you are not meeting the standard that God has required you. And what God does is, God has literally set up to help you to grow, to walk with you. But what you can't do, have any other, do they still have them? The little conveyor belts, people get on and walk, like you go to the airport and, which by the way, how lazy are we? I'm sorry, there's some folks that might need that. But you get on the conveyor belt because it's going that way. Well, think of that as the Holy Spirit. Don't get on the conveyor belt going that way. You start walking this way. Don't do that. Now you're working against it. And so, what is happening spiritually speaking, you will feel some regret. You will feel bad about that. You will feel like, man, I'm doing something wrong. And cause you are. Now, truth be told, we're all doing something wrong. We're all doing something wrong. But if you just, instead of doing this, stop, turn around and go the other way. Watch how the Lord is working for you, with you, in you, through you. God is going to get glory one of two ways, either through you or in spite of you. The guy that's going against, he'll get glory in spite of you. Even if you're a believer, because God has no problem with killing Christians. I hope y'all understand that. God has no problem with killing Christians. He's going to kill you at some point anyway. But as Jesus says, you are good for nothing. Okay, well, gotta go. You're in the way. That's not good what heaven says. Hey, you know what? You're in the way. You're in the way. Let's replace you. Let's call for a substitution. No, I would at least, I would not get on a conveyor belt. Would I? I might. I'm not gonna lie. I might. I might. Like a kid singing a new toy. I might go to the airport and see it. And let me just see it. Let me just see it. Let me just roll with it. Let me have fun. Especially if I got the kids with me. Especially if I got the kids. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it because I like having fun. Although I've recognized that I can't have fun like I used to have fun. I told you that one time I had my coffee kept in my hand. I was seeing my wife off to work. And I tripped over something. And I'm trying to be cool and athletic with it. And I'm falling. It was an eight second fall. You know how hard it is to fall or how silly you might look falling for eight seconds? Cory, how do you fall for eight seconds? Well, we had our lawn chairs out there in the back and I hit this one. They weren't even all, they were lined up. I hit this one, that one, that one. Made my way back over that way. I'm trying to hold this coffee cup up because I don't want to. I just made this fresh cup. I do not want to spill it. Now let's stand up. I'm halfway down. I'm looking at the ground. I'm halfway down. I'm like this. Got my cup up. And I'm smiling because I haven't dropped my cup yet. I hit something else and flip over and I got coffee all over me. And my wife was in the car. She looks up. Baby, I fell. What happened? The dog. Yeah, the dog got in the way. Dog on dog. Gosh, dog it. The dog got in my way and made me fall. I couldn't catch myself because the other dog got in the way too. I'll go back in that house. And I laugh at myself because you ain't got it no more. Y'all, that country song, I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm good once. Well, sometimes you ain't even good once. Sometimes you're not even good once. So you don't have the same level of balance. And you don't say what you want to say. That same level of coordination. You said that thing, yeah, I can jump. I can grab the rim. I can dunk. Yeah, okay. All right. You are this close to going to the hospital. Just blink. Just move a little too quick. Lift your leg up. The wrong, not the wrong way. Just at the time that your body don't want to be lifted up. Oh, you're going, you're going. You're going. I hurt my back, guys. I didn't tell you guys this. Hurt my back. How? What'd you do Corey? Nothing, I was sitting in his chair and just moved and uh-oh. I pinched a nerve or something like that and my muscles began throbbing and yeah, it was rough. I go to the church. I'm sitting there, I'm standing up. So yeah, I'm not as good as I once was. Yeah. I'm not ready for life alert yet. Thank you, Mr. D.T. Richardson. I ain't there yet, but. And you know what guys? I still have not, I saw the other day. I still have not opened up my ARP letter. Not gonna do it. Not going to do it. Wow, you feel that way already at 34? I'll never forget what it hit me though. Did it hit you when you lost your hair, Corey? Nope, that's not what I felt like I was older. It hit me one day we were at the wreck, we called the weight pile and I was doing pull-ups. And a young fella said, he said, say school, you almost through? I said, yeah, I'm almost through. Then I had to stop. Who are you calling school? For some of y'all, school means old school. Who are you calling school? Oh, my bad school, you did it again. Quit calling me school, I ain't that old. My bad OG, all right then. Wasting OGS, that ain't no, that ain't better either. And then it dawned on me, I tell somebody, he said, Corey, you 40 something, man, you are. This was then, yeah, so okay, fine, fine, fine. If I'm getting old, if I must. So that's also part of being mature. You just recognize that I ain't like who I used to be and so now I enjoy it. I enjoy it. Yeah, if they, oh, I thought you said brain insurance. Wait until they start sending burial insurance. Yeah, that's when you know it's feeling bad. They send you burial insurance. I'm not dead yet. Can I drop my email in the chat? It is, which I don't know why you wanna email to me because I told you I literally have 3,000 emails but I do see some, I do see some of the emails. I really do. I can't get to all of them though but the email is smart, there we go. Smart Christian channel at Gmail. The email is going to change real soon. I don't wanna tell you what it is because it's actually, the email is actually operational but if I did, you guys will fill that up and so I don't wanna tell you that just yet. By the way, Brian, have you finished my church list? I need to ask, have you finished my church list? So I might get my AARP card. I don't plan on it. I don't think I do, I don't know. I might, I might, I might, who knows, who knows. I'm too young for AARP, yeah. Even though I took me eight seconds to follow, I'm too young for that. Do you think Solomon was a believer, had to do an assignment for seminary on that curious, your curious thoughts on it? It's a hard one because the Bible doesn't let us know. The Bible doesn't let us know and he did some stuff like, wait a second, Solomon. And we can also attribute that, wait a second, this, the break in the kingdom, going this way and that way. That's on Solomon, because of you, we have a divided kingdom in the Northern Southern Kingdom, so, because you know what the Bible doesn't say? The Bible speaks of other people's faithfulness and so forth, but it doesn't really speak about his. We know where David is, but his son, don't know. Don't know, can't really speak on it. So, brother, you have your work cut out for you. I would, if it's me writing the paper and how many words does it have to be, how many pages? That's how many times I would write. I don't know, we don't know, I don't know, can't know, no way to tell. As many times as I could and fill that up. So, anyway. I thought it, what'd you say? I thought it took eight seconds, but he dreamed six seconds of the fall. It could've been, it didn't take eight seconds, but it wasn't a quick fall. It was not a quick fall. Father, son, spirit, I have no idea. I have, I have no idea. Oh, no. I thought about checking into them and doing more of a study on them, but I said, no, no, way too much to do. If you all saw the list of study videos that I have that crank out, it's a lot, it's a lot. What do I think about the book of Enoch? I don't think anything about it. It is not canonical. So, when you see a lot of these apocryphal books, even if there's a book that we have that was called Extent, meaning we have copies of it still in existence today, they're just words on a paper, there can be some benefit to them, but they're not at the same level of any of the books that we have in the Bible. Matter of fact, those apocryphal books we see they even tell themselves that there's a silence from a prophet. Why do they say that? Because if a prophet is not writing or New Testament, an apostle, then it's not to be considered from the word of God or apostolic authority. So like we see Luke writing or we see Mark writing, they are literally compiling this from the words of the apostles themselves. So anyway, guys, let me just say this again. And not guys, but just men. Because I wanted to initially talk about women being pastors for the most part and why that is. But you can't deal with that unless you deal with the fact that there are not enough qualified men or men stepping up. And so now the issue is, what's the issue with men? And so let me just say this. Do your very best to be the kind of man. To be the kind of man, yeah, Brian is coming, to be the kind of man that other peoples, other people talk about. Be the kind of man where other men, other women will speak highly of you. I said before, and I'll keep saying it, let your first response be to defer defending yourself. You might defend yourself at some point in time, but what was the picture of Jesus? How did he do it? He defended his reason for coming. So in our case, doctrine. And then as far as the accusations against him, quiet. Quiet. And because of that, the Bible records that pilot marvel. He admired that. And so most often than not, most often than not. And some of you men can testify of this. Some of you ladies can testify of this. People will admire you more for what you don't say than what you do say. People will admire you more for what you don't do than what you do. Anybody, any fool, any child can react. The difference between a mature male and an immature male. Like when Paul says, when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. Well, let's not do that. An immature, a boy is open to the whims of his emotion and his friends, but a man is only subject to him being self-controlled by the spirit and the wishes and dictates of the Lord. Amen.