August 31, 2024 • 39 mins
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Morning Coffee and Bible, where we sip our favorite brew and dive into the Word of God. Today, we're kicking off this special Labor Day weekend with a powerful message that's sure to get you fired up and ready for the week ahead.
As we gather with friends and family to celebrate the hard work and dedication that keeps this country running, we also turn our attention to the timeless truths found in Scripture. Today, we're diving into Paul's words to the Corinthians, where he flips the script on wealth and poverty. We're going to explore what it means when Paul says that the poor make everyone rich. It's a concept that's as revolutionary today as it was 2,000 years ago.
But that's not all. With the NFL season just around the corner, we're going to talk about what it means to be on the offense in our faith. Just like a team preparing for the big game, we need to be proactive, strategic, and ready to take ground for the kingdom. And I'm thrilled to have a special guest with me today, my amazing wife, Jessi. Whether she's on screen or just lending her voice, you won't want to miss the insights she'll be sharing.
So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's get ready to roll. It's time to be offensive in the best way possible and make sure we're not just playing defense in our faith journey.
During this episode, we'll discuss the significance of Labor Day, the joy and challenges of work, and how it can sometimes feel like a grind. We'll also touch on the importance of feeling productive and useful in our lives, and how that aligns with God's design for us.
As we delve into 2 Corinthians, we'll uncover the profound truth that even in poverty, we can enrich others by sharing the love and message of Christ. Paul's example teaches us that our value isn't measured by our material wealth but by the eternal impact we have on others.
We also explore the metaphor of being on the offense in our faith, drawing parallels with the upcoming NFL season. Just as a winning team needs a strong offensive strategy, we too must be proactive and bold in living out our faith and sharing it with others.
Finally, we'll reflect on how the darkness in the world can make the light of Christ shine even brighter through us. As believers, we're called to be the light that pierces through the darkness, bringing hope and truth to those around us.
Thank you for joining us on this journey. Let's make this Labor Day weekend a time of reflection, gratitude, and renewed purpose in our faith. And as always, as we gear up for the NFL season, go Chiefs!
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Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Morning Coffee and
Bible, where we sip our favorite brew and dive into the Word of God.
Today, we're kicking off this special Labor Day weekend with a powerful message
that's sure to get you fired up and ready for the week ahead.
As we gather with friends and family to celebrate the hard work and dedication
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that keeps this country running, we also turn our attention to the timeless
truths found in Scripture.
Today, we're diving into Paul's words to the Corinthians, where he flips the
script on wealth and poverty.
We're going to explore what it means when Paul says that the poor make everyone rich.
It's a concept that's also as revolutionary today as it was 2,000 years ago.
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But that's not all. With the NFL season just around the corner,
we're going to talk about what it means to be on the offense in our faith.
Just like a team preparing for the big game, we need to be proactive,
strategic, and ready to take ground for the kingdom.
And I'm thrilled to have a special guest with me today, my amazing wife, Jessie.
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Whether she's on screen or just lending her voice, you won't want to miss the
insights she'll be sharing.
So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's get ready to roll.
It's time to be offensive in the
best way possible and make sure we're not just playing
defense in our faith journey let's dive in and I got to show you my dogs as
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well say see him there you go what do you want to say what do you want to say
you ready for today alright let's go this is Rose and over here this is Maverick
I got to say it right all right let's go.
Music.
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Everyone how y'all doing out there are y'all doing amazing today
is it's labor day weekend it's labor day weekend
and we're enjoining enjoining enjoying
i feel like elvis i feel that's how i feel like i need to do that to get ready
to get amped up and go you gotta see the elvis movie we saw that last summer
didn't we it was a good one it was a good one it was a really good one yeah
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who is that guy that played what's his name he's austin butler austin butler and he.
Was also in the bike riders was really good as well but i
i just think of elvis and that's what i need
to do i need to do i need to i need to change
my occupation and go to las vegas and become
elvis impersonator do you
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all think elvis is alive have you heard that before why do
people think that just want it to be true is that the
reason i don't know you always hear about different people
out there that like artists that pass away and that
die and then but like they they didn't really die because
their records make so much more after they're dead
have you heard of this i don't want to be conspiracy nut
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but sometimes i'd be conspiracy conspiracy you've
heard you've heard like tupac his i mean and
then his like sales went through the roof actually i don't know i can
fact check me on that one i don't know but have you heard
of this stuff you know i'm talking about oh man how's it going how you doing
yeah maybe we should face each other no you don't things enough but like this
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i'll remember that guy off the die hard the die hard live free to die hard he's
really funny he's like what like this remember justin is that his name.
No that's not his name justin what was he doing i don't know he was being checked
after the after he went through all that with john mclean and his daughter so
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yes today is going to be free for all we are going i'm talking about elvis i'm
talking about tupac i'm talking about
justin but that's not his real name from
dodgeball also in live free or die hard and you're gonna hear
a lot since i am free and outside you're gonna hear a lot but i she you've learned
to live with it haven't you do you all don't even know what i'm talking about
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you don't even know you don't even know nobody knows except i think we shared
this on that one episode we did,
i and i think every guy out there does this if you're if you don't do that you
ain't a guy hi, you ain't a, what?
Okay, sometimes I get, I sometimes, and she's like almost the voice inside my
head that just checks me sometimes, you know? I think you do that.
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You don't mean to, but I think I, like, I sometimes, like, oh man, I went too far.
I know you don't want to hear that. We're going to hopefully edit a lot of that out.
And so today's Labor Day weekend. Is that the day? Labor Day is Monday.
The weekend is now Saturday.
Yeah, I got to be like a lot more careful. Because a lot of times I like,
Like, oh, I'll just edit it, but then I'm like, what if I don't edit it, you know?
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What? Do I overthink? Yes. I don't overthink nothing. Don't overthink anything.
All right. So how are you doing, Jessie? Fine.
I'm putting you on the hot seat right now. You're on the hot seat.
You've stepped into morning coffee and Bible. The hottest seat in America, baby.
America. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you, that's why you can tell like only the cream
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of the creme de la creme come on this show because it's the hottest seat in America.
Right? Am I right? Yeah. Because I put you under fire.
I'll test you. Test your biblical acumen. Oh, my gosh.
Action scene, baby. Action. We don't hold anything back around here.
Something I will tell you about this lady. She loves being called a lady.
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I remember, and this reminds me because yesterday we went to high school football game.
You know, high school football game. I hadn't been to a high school football
game in probably a decade.
Game but we went and i remember whenever we were dating
earlier on i remember going to high school football game and
we were just walking back out to the car and probably you're talking with somebody
she's always talking with someone and i remember just
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she goes and it was because of something flew by her and that
was like the very first time i ever seen like i she overreacts
you saw a glimpse of it there but you do bugs make
you freak out it was a spider it's different than a bug but
what really yeah i remember but
i remember whatever it was do you know you've had no idea it
was a north platte game probably one of the because when we were dating we went
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to maybe a couple i don't know and i remember you were just talking to someone
and then you did that and you just freaked out and i was like and you're like
you're done no i i i would say i fell in love with you that day but i probably
probably fell in love with you before that i don't know sure,
so that was a bad thing you can tell it made an impression on me because I remember
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like 20 years later how many years would that have been.
Not 20 years, maybe 15 years. No, we've been married 15 years. Anyway, sorry I scream.
No, no, I love it. There's things, I will tell you things about this lady.
Do you love being called a lady? Okay.
She, I'm just going to, I'm going to spill the beans. She loves a deal.
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She loves a deal. She loves a coupon, a coupon.
I remember going to Bed Bath & Beyond when we were dating.
And you know what I'm going to say. And she had a Bed Bath & Beyond coupon.
We all did. everyone sent them out oh and bed
bath and beyond what happened especially at least
in kansas city i don't know about the rest of the country but we
were in bed bath and beyond and i remember you had that 20 off for some discount
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and it fell between the cracks of this of this some something that was in the
middle of the aisle of the store and and we were all just like oh i guess it's
gone and then but i remember walking to another aisle and i looked back and
you're trying to somehow get You're working your way in there,
trying to figure out how can I move all of these things so I can get this,
but you're, I don't even know if you ended up getting it.
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I don't think that was me. I don't remember any of that or the bug.
I, oh my gosh. Yes, it was you. It was you. A hundred percent you.
A hundred percent. I remember. Maybe there's someone else who likes a deal.
No, no, not like you. Not like you. You love a deal. You love a good deal. I do.
I do too. I do too. You know, sometimes. No, you don't.
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No you don't what do you mean i don't you're like the most expensive thing.
Do i yes do i you do
no i don't except our wedding ring you said what's the most cheapest
ring you have here oh my gosh what are you talking about which i appreciated
what are you talking about you weren't you weren't there when i got a wedding
ring yours oh when i when we got mine not when we got yours making me look terrible
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i don't know i remember getting yours and it was i I did not do that.
I didn't say mine. When we were together getting yours.
Well, I mean, why would I want an expensive ring for me?
And it wasn't expensive, really, probably for her. I mean, probably about a
thousand. About a thousand.
I'd say probably about a thousand. And that's probably nothing compared to, maybe $900.
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I don't even know. See, this is how cheap I am. I was offended you would spend that much.
You don't even know what it is. I don't even remember what it was.
How would you know? You would know how much I paid for you on that? Yes.
It was probably, if I'm ballparking it, it was probably like around $950,000, $950,000.
I'm guessing. Helzberg, baby. We are lifelong buyers. Helzberg. Oh, yeah.
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Bling, bling, bling. Okay. What are we talking about today? All right.
Well, I put you on the hot seat a
little bit, didn't I? Did you feel uncomfortable? Did you start to squirm?
Actually, I think the bug made her squirm. I didn't really put,
I didn't really, you know, but I will, I will tend to do that.
Okay. So today we are talking, I got to remember not to be loud, all right? Yeah.
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So all right so today we are talking about since it's
labor day weekend and working you know
and being thankful for our workers that have everybody's in
america you know that makes this nation just run or on all cylinders you know
and but really i mean is that really the case it's like sometimes i mean if
i'm going to be honest like i i sometimes it doesn't feel like that sometimes
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it just like it's tough because this the grind of work can be kind of i mean when you
really ask people like how happy, how happy are you with your job?
You know what I mean? I don't know. Have you ever done that?
I mean, if I, if I went out and started just taking a poll of how happy are
you, where you're at and the job you're at, like what kind of responses do you think we would get?
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Normally you think, no, I don't like it. I hate it. Just got to work at something
that's just with my head. But I don't know. I mean, to me, people love the job.
Yeah. If you're in the NFL, yeah, that'd be a pretty sweet job.
If you're in the NFL, that'd be pretty cool.
If you're a professional player yeah but if you
asked them they might be like i don't really like getting beat up every week
like nfl players yeah sometimes money isn't
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everything well i mean i'm not even thinking about i'm just
thinking about playing football for a living that'd be so fun you know
or just playing a sport but i think even like anything if
it becomes if it becomes your kind of your life what's
called your livelihood it becomes your your
work your things to put food on the table it does just
become a job and does become like even playing games
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can turn into be in a job yeah and just
suck the life out of it if but why
is that why does it got to be like that or does it got to be like that just
the pressure to keep performing as far as sports constantly staying in shape
getting heat hit and beat up and like being a professional sports player or
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like any job you just have to you have to keep doing it otherwise you don't
eat You got to do something.
Yeah. I think what makes it tough, you know, and we could take this back to
the Garden of Eden, that if...
God, work was supposed to be pleasant and fun and great and amazing,
in which it can be at times in this life.
But a lot of it is stress.
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It's just worry about how I'm going to perform and just the anxiousness of it. You know what I mean?
And I think that that comes from the Garden of Eden, the curse,
you know, that Jesus, I guess it was Jesus, God.
God said, by the sweat of your brow, you will labor.
You will work for your food. You will till the ground. and even
though not everybody's out there tilling the ground but we
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do I think it reflects on just that anxiety anxiousness
the stress that comes down on people whether you're just typing on
a keyboard you still you know what I mean I think I see that as the stress that
gets put on the weight on our heads you know it seems like the Garden of Eden
it was just there was no work almost it just grew and like I guess maybe harvesting
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it you didn't have to toil and grow it you just it grew he grew it you just
pick it and eat it yeah and now you have to actually
plant and weed and use energy
and yeah but like i think that yeah because i yeah i think whenever they went
to like probably harvest the ground or just they would have pulled out a vegetable
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or a fruit or i don't know they it would have been like it would have been easy
it would have just come like just like just.
Naturally it wouldn't have been like i gotta like i gotta exert an energy that's
just like causing me like pain, I'm trying to say, it's just like,
it would have just come just effortlessly. Yeah.
And as opposed to now we, we have to put forth effort when God made the declaration,
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he made the declaration to the woman and then he made the declaration to the
man and they were different, you know, guys aren't giving birth to babies.
And so God said to the, to the woman, he said,
you will have pain and childbirth, you know,
which, yeah sorry about that
jesse yeah so he got he gave the to the
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woman he said you you shall have pain and childbirth that it so i mean before
that you kind of think of it would it have been painless would it have been
something so it appears that way because there it was god made the command to
to adam and eve to be fruitful and multiply before the sin entered the world old.
So they were going to have children before that.
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Wait, did they have kids before the fall? I don't think so. No.
Well, then maybe there was never a pain free birth then.
Well, I mean, I think the intention of it, you think?
I think because the command before the fall happened, God said be fruitful and
multiply. So they were going to have children, you know.
Why say something then if it wasn't?
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A change from what it was, I guess. So that's what I'm saying.
I think that it was, it would have been pain free. Yeah. You think? Yeah.
And for the man, you know, it would have been working without the sweat of the brow.
It would have been joyful work. It would have been, you know,
it would have been fun always.
And I think work can be fun because in any aspect of life, whether you have
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a job or not, there's worries with it.
The worries, how am I going going to like provide for my family how
am i going to take pay the bills when i
don't but then when you do have a job it's like it's a
job and that's where i think that's where i make the difference between work
and a job i i i don't look forward to a job i look forward to work though i
don't and maybe it's just a me thing but like in a just a different outlook
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on on those two different words and just kind of a mindset i don't know like
work can be a great and blessing and doing it for good things.
I think it's just, maybe I'm, I'm pouring into the word job,
that, that word, all the bad things that I take along with it.
And I'm pouring into the word work, all the good things. And that's how I kind of almost look at it.
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I remember when I was, I had the first baby and I was home for a year without working.
It was almost torture. Cause I feel like I needed to be doing something.
Really? So I went to part, it was part-time. So it was like,
you know, I feel like useful. I think God wants us to be useful and be productive.
Now, I wonder if that's... Not that saying staying home is unproductive, but for me, I felt...
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You gotta be careful. You gotta be careful. Say something, but we're going into
the NFL season. That's a good segue. You know? But, like, for me,
personally, I felt like I need to be out.
I want to be useful doing something as well. Uh-huh.
I mean, that is interesting you say that because for me, do you see it as a
difference between a man and a woman?
Because it really makes me depressed and sad when I don't feel productive.
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You use the word useful. I think the word productive.
If I'm not making something, if I'm not getting everything out of my day possible
that could be good and I'm just wasting something, it makes me feel sick inside.
But i mean do you do you
see do you think guys and girls have that same
mindset i think i think guys would have more though
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i don't you think yes generally i
guess that like i think if i was like if this
house on the property when i was off for that year and
i could garden and i could plant my flowers and weedy and mow i would feel more
useful because i've you know but i just had this tiny little apartment i was
stuck in for a year you know which what apartment was that the first wedgwood
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oh wedgwood well we have the babies that's where i were i guess it was,
memory not so good memory not so good no so i'll go ahead i just felt like i
would have been not so boxed in or maybe it's cabin fever or something i just had nowhere to go,
and just so if you think of what would have been have had more to do even if
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it wasn't work or a job, you think it would have been better?
You think you could have got more... You wouldn't have been...
Like so down? Stir crazy, yeah. Stir crazy? Yeah.
It wasn't terrible, but I felt like the itch to like, I almost begged my boss,
my old boss, just to take me back.
Really? Yeah. I do know, and I'll say this, I got, whenever I did get let go,
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that was over a year ago or a year and a half ago, from a company.
Laid off. I would say, we'll wait until this plane passes.
So laid off, laid off, not let go. That's the difference.
That's fired. Fired is let go. Jesse says the difference between let go and laid off.
She, I say let go, but she says that that's the same way of saying fired as
opposed to, I was laid off.
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Like I was let go with a bunch of other people, you know, it wasn't just me.
So you were late a bunch. We were laid off. Yeah. So yeah.
So I guess that's, I guess that's laid off. I've been laid off a couple of times
in my life then, you know, I remember at the government job I had the prison,
you know, I'm a hard nose guy, you know, I just,
I worked at a prison and that was, that was not, that was tough.
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Working at a prison is extremely tough, you know, but, but when I'm talking
about my recently, when I got laid off that I was, and I was in between jobs
for about, uh, ended up being about a month.
And I remember I was just completely miserable.
I mean, I mean, like for the most part, it wasn't like I could have some time to rest.
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It's like, and when you don't have anything, even though you you still have
severance. You still have money coming in. You still are able to pay the bills.
It's still, it doesn't matter how much money or whatever you have.
If you, if you feel like you, there's an end to it, you, you can get that weight on you.
And I just had that weight of like, even though I have time to do this and I
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should maybe like maybe reflect a little bit more and go to a place that I really want to be.
And I'm extremely happy at the place I'm at now, but like it's.
I didn't use it as that time I use it was almost it didn't matter how much I
was aware and could remind myself of everything's okay, we're able to pay the things we need to pay.
And I have this for a little while. And I don't need to be anxious about it.
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It was just that to know that it's going to come to an end. And I have to,
I need to have something.
And I have to have that stability. And it just wears on you just the anxiousness.
And I just felt like, and I and there was that aspect of it.
I'm just being anxious about that.
But then there was also, it's like, well, if I don't have something I'm actively
doing, my mind wanders and I, I become a prisoner in my own mind.
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As people have seen, if you are that you've checked some of my previous videos,
you understand the kind of the struggles that I've gone through.
And I do go through, if I do not have something that I'm actively doing and
put my mind to work, I can almost go insane.
You know, I feel like I hate saying this, but like Jack Torrance off of the
The Shining, you know, I sometimes like, it's like, if you do not have that,
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it has probably a terrible example, but like he, you just get stir crazy.
Like you said, but he did it in a completely awful way. And the way he took
it, I am a, I'm a horror film fanatic. I love The Shining. I love Stephen King.
I don't think there's anything hiding about that.
I love that kind of stuff, but I do get, if I do not have something,
you know, all this all day makes Brandon not a happy guy, or I don't know what,
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I don't know what he says, is, but I think I need to have something I'm actually doing.
I remember years and years ago, whenever I had been laid off, that was kind of brutal.
You know, I, I don't even want to get into that really, but like,
I, yeah, it was, it was, it was a job I was at and they just churn people in and out quickly.
And I did not meet what they needed and they churned me out viciously,
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viciously from my, probably from them.
It was the hum-dum ready to go day, normal day.
But for me, That's why it's a constant reminder to myself.
When you are dealing with somebody, their occupation, their job, their livelihood,
you cannot just take it lightly because you're almost destroying that person's
life in a way sometimes when you close their means of financial stability or
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just being able to bring in money.
So I think whenever I got let go from there and I was out of work for about
maybe six months, I don't know however long it was, then I found the job that I went into.
I remember whenever I first got there and they were doing stuff on paper.
They were still doing stuff on actually pens and paper, writing stuff.
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There was keyboards and all that, computers and all that, but they had not transitioned
to the digital phase and age that we are in now.
But it was so nice to actually be able to just write.
I remember I was having to write things on folders and having to write things
on paper and it was almost therapeutic. imputing.
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I mean, if you are anxious about anything or just that you need some to get
out of your own head, just writing stuff can almost be peaceful.
And I think for me, it was, it was a way that I could almost block out the voices.
I say voices, people think I'm schizophrenic, probably as many times I say that,
but like, it's, it's not literal voices.
I don't hear literal voices, but it's, it's the feelings that my mind gets just crushed down with.
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And i think whenever i went
to there and i was actually putting my mind to use and doing
actual work and writing things down do you remember me saying this i
whenever i started there it was a friday and i
just got off work and i said i can't wait to go back on
monday and i was like do you remember you do some things
she doesn't have as great of a memory not at all i can't remember anything yeah
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i guess and i think i'm coming that way towards you but i remember i told you
that i I said I look forward to just almost being back on Monday because I think
that almost is that aspect of Shawshank Redemption where that old man,
he's been in prison his whole life. That's always known.
And then once he gets out and he doesn't feel useful anymore,
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he doesn't feel like he's serving a purpose.
And it's like, and he ends up killing himself. He ends up, you know,
ending his life because he's an old man, you know, and that's like one of the best movies ever.
And I think if we are not re-engaging our mind and putting our mind into work
and making productivity, that we will drive ourselves insane sometimes.
I mean, what do you think? Yeah, I think it's built in.
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He wants us to work and that gives glory to God. For me, I have to be doing
something. Otherwise, I feel miserable.
And I have to, and I think, and whenever I was like, the most recent time when
I was laid off, when I was laid off, and then I got the job where I'm at now.
And it's, it was like, I remember interviewing and going through kind of different
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steps within the process.
And I was just saying to the person, like, she was like, well,
how soon do you want to start? You want to start in a couple of weeks,
a few weeks out or whatever. I was like, I want to start tomorrow.
I need, I like, not only like, it's like, not that we were like hurting financially
at that point, but it was like, I just, I needed to be doing something.
I needed to have my mind, like almost that I'm making a difference. I'm contributing.
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I'm being productive. Like, and I think a lot of people can feel that way, you know?
So Labor Day is, is amazing because i i do
want to reiterate like that how important
how much i wish we had three day weekends i
wish we always had three i wish we went to a four day week i mean
that's why i would almost be happy to live in europe you know because
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in europe like that's that's more of the that's more
of the vibe that i like i would get like you know it's more laid back
but i don't know i i bounce back and forth
between that because it can be the anxiousness of you
just want to be in off off work and having peace and and
being relaxed but it's like the moment like if
i ever have a week off or from work and i
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take any significant amount of time off i start going
crazy and i and some of the my the worst points
in my life have been the the times of of
that i've taken off of work for a portion like
not just a day or two but like a more lengthy
time frame and how long like if you took a
week off for christmas would that
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drive you crazy maybe that's a blanket statement that's not exactly right
because but but i just think of the in my past
the worst times that i've had has been those those time
periods because it's like i almost need my mind being
engaged and doing something otherwise i do just get i think
it's just my makeup sometimes and i i i just i have
to have my mind occupied with something yeah i can see that and
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that's that's a lot about to say about labor day
and everything everything that goes along with that today
i wanted to talk about and bring up to you we wanted.
To dive into the poor making
everyone rich because that's been on my on my mind because especially doing
this type of videos creating content and everything people it's all for the
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most part it's all about making money in some form or angle you You know,
and that's what like this life is about.
You know, it seems like we're all about, we need to make money.
We need to provide for our family. We need to make a means and support.
And I almost can get bogged down doing stuff like this because I'm like,
I'm not making anyone money, physical money.
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But then I almost had to remind myself like.
If you're doing something for the kingdom, you can be making an infinitely more
important aspect in someone's life by contributing and telling them about Christ,
encouraging them so that they can tell others about Christ.
Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if you're Elon Musk or Jeff
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Bezos, Mark Cuban, all the richest people in the world, billionaires.
When we close our eyes for the last time, we're all on the same level.
We're all on the same playing field. No one's driving a U-Haul into paradise.
You know, you're going in there with, you know, naked I came from my mother's
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womb, naked I will return.
We carry nothing to the next age. And it's like, we don't know if tomorrow is our last day.
We don't know if tonight is our last day. You know what I mean?
So this is for me and for anyone else out there, because there is a lot of Christians
out there that are creating content and to encourage people and to help people
and to drive people to Christ, you're making a difference.
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You are making a difference, whether you don't feel it, whether it can sometimes
be like, what's the point?
People don't want to hear it anyways. And then that almost drives into the fact
that if Jesus said, if everyone speaks well of you, you know,
and he said, so did they of all the false prophets, you know?
So it's like, if everyone is speaking well of me and everyone just loves everything
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I do, I'm probably not doing a good job of it for Christ. That's what I think of, you know?
Because if I'm, if I am as much as possible being an example for Christ and
being authentic as possible to drive people to Christ and not for my own purposes
and my own pride or ego or whatever,
I don't know, my own, like my own kingdom.
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I don't know if I'm doing it for Christ, most likely not everyone's going to love it.
I just think of like all the stuff I put on like social media and everything.
I post videos and man, people just come out and they just do not like it at
all. So a lot of people do not like it. A lot of people like,
and most of the time, the people that are vocal about it are the ones that don't like it.
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And the ones that just want to just tear me down and tear what I'm doing down.
And it's understandable.
It's much easier to talk about football.
It's much easier to talk about making money. You know, what's your,
how's your portfolio, you know, kind of thing.
And like trying to build others bank accounts and tell them how they can build
their bank account as opposed to telling them about Jesus.
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That's been on my mind, being the poor making others rich, but also not everyone's
going to love it kind of thing, you know?
I mean, throughout human history, it's been like this small, like...
God has like, he redeems a whole bunch of people, but then a lot of them fall
away and it's only a very small remnant that enter the promised land kind of thing.
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And not everyone is going to get on board.
And it's not to say that everything I do, that everyone has to be on board with
me, because you can have your taste.
That's why there's so many churches.
And I'm not saying that's a good thing, because to me, that's not the greatest
thing, that there's so many churches.
Churches i mean we just were just the other day you
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just drive around we just saw a church on every on every street
you know there's a church over here there's a church right across the street there's
church over here the church church you know it's like why do we
got so many churches i would like it so much better like
the new testament the church of kansas city
the church of you know st louis i
know but it's not practical there's too many people you got to break them up
in different buildings people are why why is that there's too many people but
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why but what do you mean like because our populations are huge but why can't
we all come together that's me like i i like why does there have to be this
division you know why does it have to be protestant catholic.
Lutheran episcopal why does it have to be all that kind of stuff like and
i and i'm not going i i don't i'm not going
joseph smith and i don't i i i don't like
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even saying that like because joseph smith he had that same kind of
thing that he struggled with is that his name joseph
smith the mormon church yeah yeah and like because i
that could be its own episode in itself about
the mormons because it's that's a tough one
because that is outside of the
orthodox christian faith that's not within
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it you know and that's a tough one because there's so many good
people that i love that are mormons you know it
seems like sometimes the better people are mormons
you know just the way that they conduct their lives and that
could be its own thing of like whether you have to have perfect understanding
and your theology has to be pinpoint accurate
or if it is going to be a thing where is
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your heart at and what good works are you doing but
that's the thing i don't think we're going to get into heaven by our
good works whatsoever but we will be judged based on our works at the end of
age you know jesus will give rewards and you know we'll be evaluated but that
could be its own thing it's like i it's something i struggle with because is
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like how wonderful Mormon people are.
And that's an extremely tough thing to talk about sometimes.
Especially if you have people that you personally, you love that are, but okay.
So let's, can you pull up those two verses? I gave you two. Sorrowful.
Yeah. Not that one. Do that one second. Do the other one first.
Eight, nine. So this is eight, nine. And this talks about the poor making others rich.
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Okay. Second Corinthians eight, nine. For you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sakes, he became poor so that you
through his poverty might become rich.
So this is in 2 Corinthians And we're going to go back a couple.
Pages on the parchment And you think
I go down too many rabbit trails I
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should change my Show name to rabbit trails
You know Because I like rabbits
and I like trails Okay we're going back a page on the
parchment And what verse is it He's talking about him
and his apostles What they are doing
These are the representatives of Jesus
Christ living on earth they had the authority to speak
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on behalf of christ and he talks about
their condition and he says i'm just i'm going to spoil it though
we are he says being poor making others rich
sorrowful yet always rejoicing poor yet making many rich having nothing and
yet possessing everything okay so read that part about poor yet making many
rich again that what's that verse say again sorrowful poor yet making many rich
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and he's talking about him and the apostles him Him and Peter,
you know, and James and John, all of them, they were poor men.
Paul lived most of his life, I don't know if it was most of his life,
but towards the end of his life in prison, you know. And he was the poor of the poor.
But he's saying like no matter what he was and what kind of his livelihood looked
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like at that time, even though he was poor, he was making many rich.
All the people that encountered him, he was making them rich eternally,
you know. And ongoing for all of us.
Because we think of telling somebody about Christ, how wonderful it can be,
obviously, for their afterlife, where they're going to spend eternity.
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But put that aside. Just your own life right now. And I'm not saying everything's
going to... This isn't a prosperity gospel.
It's not everything's going to be wonderful and amazing when you trust in Christ.
But it's like everyone in this world is going through storms.
Everyone is in the boat whatever boat they're in but it's it's who has jesus
in the boat with them that makes the difference you know is going to get them
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through it through it all and so you've just all of our ancestors that have
told their children and their children and now here we are,
Maybe there are some jumps in there that someone else might have told them.
But like, look how far back it goes.
Oh, yeah. Just have to be faithful and keep it going.
Oh, yeah. And then lastly, I just wanted to end on like being offensive.
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You know, we know it can be offensive to be offensive. You know,
people like think, oh, that's offensive.
I'm talking about when I'm talking in this context, we are Christians.
We are on the offense. Satan wants to put you on your heels.
He wants to have you ice skating backwards.
You think if we're going into football season and that lineman coming at you
and just wanting to destroy you, that guard pulling and just wants to blow you
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up, you know, and you just want to get on your skates and go backwards.
No, you got it. Like my coach has said, and I'm not going to say his name, you know, but he said,
you get up right up under there, right up under there, and you just meet him,
meet him, and you just blow him up so that you just get in, you get in to destroy
that running back back there, you know.
And that's what we got to be because we are going into the football season.
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And especially of late, if you love the NFL, the teams that are winning the
Super Bowl these years, they happen to be offensive teams, people that can throw
the ball, people that can just drive it down the other team's throats.
And as Christians, we can be doing the same thing.
You know, Satan wants to push us back. He wants to think that he has everything
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high and mighty on us, where we can actually gain ground for the kingdom.
And that's why it talks about the gates of hell will not prevail, you know?
Because Satan and his minions are the gates of hell.
They are, gates are not offensive.
Gates are not offensive. They are kind of, you got to break through them, you know?
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It says the gates of hell will not prevail. It's like we are to burst through
those gates, you know? And gain ground into enemy territory, you know?
That's why we can, even though it sometimes can be kind of doomsday is,
like we think everything's gonna.
Is going in a bad direction in this world. In reality, things are getting brighter
as we near the approach of Christ.
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Things as in the church of God is going to get lit up and fired up more and more.
I mean, you think of it at the end of the age, the witnesses in Revelation,
they're going to be just fire blazing out of their mouth and just telling people about the Lord.
And that's when the true colors of believers are going to come out,
when they're under intense persecution, execution that that light,
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you just think of how much brighter a fire can be when in pitch black,
you know, it can, in the darkness, the light can shine so much brighter.
And as this world around us gets black as hell, you know, which is going to
get, it's going to get darker than anything.
You can imagine the light that brightness of the diamond on the black velvet
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or whatever is just going to shine through as in the church of God,
just rising up, you know, so that there, that That can be encouraging for everyone. There it goes.
All right. That's a good way to end, folks. Oh, my gosh. You got live footage, baby. Butterfly.
That's not the prettiest butterfly, but. Okay.
But it was on the prettiest lady. Okay.
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All right. Well, thank you, Jesse. Thank you for being here today.
All right. Have a wonderful weekend. And as we go into this next week,
I just want to say, go Chiefs. Go Chiefs! All right. All right.
Music.
See y'all. So we hold on And enjoy the ride,
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After all the ups and downs This is our time Enjoy the ride,
Can you see it? There's a distance short Getting closer We want nothing Wow,
it's a close-up, close-up edition.
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Something like that when I did that. I'm trying to, oh my gosh.
You can't do that. I don't know. You can't do that.
Don't what? Make sure you're not seeing anything. You're not supposed to.
Oh my gosh. Okay. All right. Oh, you can't do it.
Hey, thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to give it
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Until next time, stay blessed and keep shining.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Morning Coffee and
Bible, where we sip our favorite brew and dive into the Word of God.
Today, we're kicking off this special Labor Day weekend with a powerful message
that's sure to get you fired up and ready for the week ahead.
As we gather with friends and family to celebrate the hard work and dedication
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that keeps this country running, we also turn our attention to the timeless
truths found in Scripture.
Today, we're diving into Paul's words to the Corinthians, where he flips the
script on wealth and poverty.
We're going to explore what it means when Paul says that the poor make everyone rich.
It's a concept that's also as revolutionary today as it was 2,000 years ago.
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But that's not all. With the NFL season just around the corner,
we're going to talk about what it means to be on the offense in our faith.
Just like a team preparing for the big game, we need to be proactive,
strategic, and ready to take ground for the kingdom.
And I'm thrilled to have a special guest with me today, my amazing wife, Jessie.
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Whether she's on screen or just lending her voice, you won't want to miss the
insights she'll be sharing.
So grab your coffee, settle in, and let's get ready to roll.
It's time to be offensive in the
best way possible and make sure we're not just playing
defense in our faith journey let's dive in and I got to show you my dogs as
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well say see him there you go what do you want to say what do you want to say
you ready for today alright let's go this is Rose and over here this is Maverick
I got to say it right all right let's go.
Music.
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Everyone how y'all doing out there are y'all doing amazing today
is it's labor day weekend it's labor day weekend
and we're enjoining enjoining enjoying
i feel like elvis i feel that's how i feel like i need to do that to get ready
to get amped up and go you gotta see the elvis movie we saw that last summer
didn't we it was a good one it was a good one it was a really good one yeah
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who is that guy that played what's his name he's austin butler austin butler and he.
Was also in the bike riders was really good as well but i
i just think of elvis and that's what i need
to do i need to do i need to i need to change
my occupation and go to las vegas and become
elvis impersonator do you
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all think elvis is alive have you heard that before why do
people think that just want it to be true is that the
reason i don't know you always hear about different people
out there that like artists that pass away and that
die and then but like they they didn't really die because
their records make so much more after they're dead
have you heard of this i don't want to be conspiracy nut
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but sometimes i'd be conspiracy conspiracy you've
heard you've heard like tupac his i mean and
then his like sales went through the roof actually i don't know i can
fact check me on that one i don't know but have you heard
of this stuff you know i'm talking about oh man how's it going how you doing
yeah maybe we should face each other no you don't things enough but like this
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i'll remember that guy off the die hard the die hard live free to die hard he's
really funny he's like what like this remember justin is that his name.
No that's not his name justin what was he doing i don't know he was being checked
after the after he went through all that with john mclean and his daughter so
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yes today is going to be free for all we are going i'm talking about elvis i'm
talking about tupac i'm talking about
justin but that's not his real name from
dodgeball also in live free or die hard and you're gonna hear
a lot since i am free and outside you're gonna hear a lot but i she you've learned
to live with it haven't you do you all don't even know what i'm talking about
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you don't even know you don't even know nobody knows except i think we shared
this on that one episode we did,
i and i think every guy out there does this if you're if you don't do that you
ain't a guy hi, you ain't a, what?
Okay, sometimes I get, I sometimes, and she's like almost the voice inside my
head that just checks me sometimes, you know? I think you do that.
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You don't mean to, but I think I, like, I sometimes, like, oh man, I went too far.
I know you don't want to hear that. We're going to hopefully edit a lot of that out.
And so today's Labor Day weekend. Is that the day? Labor Day is Monday.
The weekend is now Saturday.
Yeah, I got to be like a lot more careful. Because a lot of times I like,
Like, oh, I'll just edit it, but then I'm like, what if I don't edit it, you know?
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What? Do I overthink? Yes. I don't overthink nothing. Don't overthink anything.
All right. So how are you doing, Jessie? Fine.
I'm putting you on the hot seat right now. You're on the hot seat.
You've stepped into morning coffee and Bible. The hottest seat in America, baby.
America. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you, that's why you can tell like only the cream
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of the creme de la creme come on this show because it's the hottest seat in America.
Right? Am I right? Yeah. Because I put you under fire.
I'll test you. Test your biblical acumen. Oh, my gosh.
Action scene, baby. Action. We don't hold anything back around here.
Something I will tell you about this lady. She loves being called a lady.
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I remember, and this reminds me because yesterday we went to high school football game.
You know, high school football game. I hadn't been to a high school football
game in probably a decade.
Game but we went and i remember whenever we were dating
earlier on i remember going to high school football game and
we were just walking back out to the car and probably you're talking with somebody
she's always talking with someone and i remember just
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she goes and it was because of something flew by her and that
was like the very first time i ever seen like i she overreacts
you saw a glimpse of it there but you do bugs make
you freak out it was a spider it's different than a bug but
what really yeah i remember but
i remember whatever it was do you know you've had no idea it
was a north platte game probably one of the because when we were dating we went
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to maybe a couple i don't know and i remember you were just talking to someone
and then you did that and you just freaked out and i was like and you're like
you're done no i i i would say i fell in love with you that day but i probably
probably fell in love with you before that i don't know sure,
so that was a bad thing you can tell it made an impression on me because I remember
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like 20 years later how many years would that have been.
Not 20 years, maybe 15 years. No, we've been married 15 years. Anyway, sorry I scream.
No, no, I love it. There's things, I will tell you things about this lady.
Do you love being called a lady? Okay.
She, I'm just going to, I'm going to spill the beans. She loves a deal.
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She loves a deal. She loves a coupon, a coupon.
I remember going to Bed Bath & Beyond when we were dating.
And you know what I'm going to say. And she had a Bed Bath & Beyond coupon.
We all did. everyone sent them out oh and bed
bath and beyond what happened especially at least
in kansas city i don't know about the rest of the country but we
were in bed bath and beyond and i remember you had that 20 off for some discount
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and it fell between the cracks of this of this some something that was in the
middle of the aisle of the store and and we were all just like oh i guess it's
gone and then but i remember walking to another aisle and i looked back and
you're trying to somehow get You're working your way in there,
trying to figure out how can I move all of these things so I can get this,
but you're, I don't even know if you ended up getting it.
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I don't think that was me. I don't remember any of that or the bug.
I, oh my gosh. Yes, it was you. It was you. A hundred percent you.
A hundred percent. I remember. Maybe there's someone else who likes a deal.
No, no, not like you. Not like you. You love a deal. You love a good deal. I do.
I do too. I do too. You know, sometimes. No, you don't.
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No you don't what do you mean i don't you're like the most expensive thing.
Do i yes do i you do
no i don't except our wedding ring you said what's the most cheapest
ring you have here oh my gosh what are you talking about which i appreciated
what are you talking about you weren't you weren't there when i got a wedding
ring yours oh when i when we got mine not when we got yours making me look terrible
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i don't know i remember getting yours and it was i I did not do that.
I didn't say mine. When we were together getting yours.
Well, I mean, why would I want an expensive ring for me?
And it wasn't expensive, really, probably for her. I mean, probably about a
thousand. About a thousand.
I'd say probably about a thousand. And that's probably nothing compared to, maybe $900.
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I don't even know. See, this is how cheap I am. I was offended you would spend that much.
You don't even know what it is. I don't even remember what it was.
How would you know? You would know how much I paid for you on that? Yes.
It was probably, if I'm ballparking it, it was probably like around $950,000, $950,000.
I'm guessing. Helzberg, baby. We are lifelong buyers. Helzberg. Oh, yeah.
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Bling, bling, bling. Okay. What are we talking about today? All right.
Well, I put you on the hot seat a
little bit, didn't I? Did you feel uncomfortable? Did you start to squirm?
Actually, I think the bug made her squirm. I didn't really put,
I didn't really, you know, but I will, I will tend to do that.
Okay. So today we are talking, I got to remember not to be loud, all right? Yeah.
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So all right so today we are talking about since it's
labor day weekend and working you know
and being thankful for our workers that have everybody's in
america you know that makes this nation just run or on all cylinders you know
and but really i mean is that really the case it's like sometimes i mean if
i'm going to be honest like i i sometimes it doesn't feel like that sometimes
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it just like it's tough because this the grind of work can be kind of i mean when you
really ask people like how happy, how happy are you with your job?
You know what I mean? I don't know. Have you ever done that?
I mean, if I, if I went out and started just taking a poll of how happy are
you, where you're at and the job you're at, like what kind of responses do you think we would get?
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Normally you think, no, I don't like it. I hate it. Just got to work at something
that's just with my head. But I don't know. I mean, to me, people love the job.
Yeah. If you're in the NFL, yeah, that'd be a pretty sweet job.
If you're in the NFL, that'd be pretty cool.
If you're a professional player yeah but if you
asked them they might be like i don't really like getting beat up every week
like nfl players yeah sometimes money isn't
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everything well i mean i'm not even thinking about i'm just
thinking about playing football for a living that'd be so fun you know
or just playing a sport but i think even like anything if
it becomes if it becomes your kind of your life what's
called your livelihood it becomes your your
work your things to put food on the table it does just
become a job and does become like even playing games
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can turn into be in a job yeah and just
suck the life out of it if but why
is that why does it got to be like that or does it got to be like that just
the pressure to keep performing as far as sports constantly staying in shape
getting heat hit and beat up and like being a professional sports player or
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like any job you just have to you have to keep doing it otherwise you don't
eat You got to do something.
Yeah. I think what makes it tough, you know, and we could take this back to
the Garden of Eden, that if...
God, work was supposed to be pleasant and fun and great and amazing,
in which it can be at times in this life.
But a lot of it is stress.
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It's just worry about how I'm going to perform and just the anxiousness of it. You know what I mean?
And I think that that comes from the Garden of Eden, the curse,
you know, that Jesus, I guess it was Jesus, God.
God said, by the sweat of your brow, you will labor.
You will work for your food. You will till the ground. and even
though not everybody's out there tilling the ground but we
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do I think it reflects on just that anxiety anxiousness
the stress that comes down on people whether you're just typing on
a keyboard you still you know what I mean I think I see that as the stress that
gets put on the weight on our heads you know it seems like the Garden of Eden
it was just there was no work almost it just grew and like I guess maybe harvesting
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it you didn't have to toil and grow it you just it grew he grew it you just
pick it and eat it yeah and now you have to actually
plant and weed and use energy
and yeah but like i think that yeah because i yeah i think whenever they went
to like probably harvest the ground or just they would have pulled out a vegetable
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or a fruit or i don't know they it would have been like it would have been easy
it would have just come like just like just.
Naturally it wouldn't have been like i gotta like i gotta exert an energy that's
just like causing me like pain, I'm trying to say, it's just like,
it would have just come just effortlessly. Yeah.
And as opposed to now we, we have to put forth effort when God made the declaration,
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he made the declaration to the woman and then he made the declaration to the
man and they were different, you know, guys aren't giving birth to babies.
And so God said to the, to the woman, he said,
you will have pain and childbirth, you know,
which, yeah sorry about that
jesse yeah so he got he gave the to the
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woman he said you you shall have pain and childbirth that it so i mean before
that you kind of think of it would it have been painless would it have been
something so it appears that way because there it was god made the command to
to adam and eve to be fruitful and multiply before the sin entered the world old.
So they were going to have children before that.
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Wait, did they have kids before the fall? I don't think so. No.
Well, then maybe there was never a pain free birth then.
Well, I mean, I think the intention of it, you think?
I think because the command before the fall happened, God said be fruitful and
multiply. So they were going to have children, you know.
Why say something then if it wasn't?
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A change from what it was, I guess. So that's what I'm saying.
I think that it was, it would have been pain free. Yeah. You think? Yeah.
And for the man, you know, it would have been working without the sweat of the brow.
It would have been joyful work. It would have been, you know,
it would have been fun always.
And I think work can be fun because in any aspect of life, whether you have
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a job or not, there's worries with it.
The worries, how am I going going to like provide for my family how
am i going to take pay the bills when i
don't but then when you do have a job it's like it's a
job and that's where i think that's where i make the difference between work
and a job i i i don't look forward to a job i look forward to work though i
don't and maybe it's just a me thing but like in a just a different outlook
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on on those two different words and just kind of a mindset i don't know like
work can be a great and blessing and doing it for good things.
I think it's just, maybe I'm, I'm pouring into the word job,
that, that word, all the bad things that I take along with it.
And I'm pouring into the word work, all the good things. And that's how I kind of almost look at it.
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I remember when I was, I had the first baby and I was home for a year without working.
It was almost torture. Cause I feel like I needed to be doing something.
Really? So I went to part, it was part-time. So it was like,
you know, I feel like useful. I think God wants us to be useful and be productive.
Now, I wonder if that's... Not that saying staying home is unproductive, but for me, I felt...
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You gotta be careful. You gotta be careful. Say something, but we're going into
the NFL season. That's a good segue. You know? But, like, for me,
personally, I felt like I need to be out.
I want to be useful doing something as well. Uh-huh.
I mean, that is interesting you say that because for me, do you see it as a
difference between a man and a woman?
Because it really makes me depressed and sad when I don't feel productive.
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You use the word useful. I think the word productive.
If I'm not making something, if I'm not getting everything out of my day possible
that could be good and I'm just wasting something, it makes me feel sick inside.
But i mean do you do you
see do you think guys and girls have that same
mindset i think i think guys would have more though
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i don't you think yes generally i
guess that like i think if i was like if this
house on the property when i was off for that year and
i could garden and i could plant my flowers and weedy and mow i would feel more
useful because i've you know but i just had this tiny little apartment i was
stuck in for a year you know which what apartment was that the first wedgwood
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oh wedgwood well we have the babies that's where i were i guess it was,
memory not so good memory not so good no so i'll go ahead i just felt like i
would have been not so boxed in or maybe it's cabin fever or something i just had nowhere to go,
and just so if you think of what would have been have had more to do even if
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it wasn't work or a job, you think it would have been better?
You think you could have got more... You wouldn't have been...
Like so down? Stir crazy, yeah. Stir crazy? Yeah.
It wasn't terrible, but I felt like the itch to like, I almost begged my boss,
my old boss, just to take me back.
Really? Yeah. I do know, and I'll say this, I got, whenever I did get let go,
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that was over a year ago or a year and a half ago, from a company.
Laid off. I would say, we'll wait until this plane passes.
So laid off, laid off, not let go. That's the difference.
That's fired. Fired is let go. Jesse says the difference between let go and laid off.
She, I say let go, but she says that that's the same way of saying fired as
opposed to, I was laid off.
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Like I was let go with a bunch of other people, you know, it wasn't just me.
So you were late a bunch. We were laid off. Yeah. So yeah.
So I guess that's, I guess that's laid off. I've been laid off a couple of times
in my life then, you know, I remember at the government job I had the prison,
you know, I'm a hard nose guy, you know, I just,
I worked at a prison and that was, that was not, that was tough.
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Working at a prison is extremely tough, you know, but, but when I'm talking
about my recently, when I got laid off that I was, and I was in between jobs
for about, uh, ended up being about a month.
And I remember I was just completely miserable.
I mean, I mean, like for the most part, it wasn't like I could have some time to rest.
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It's like, and when you don't have anything, even though you you still have
severance. You still have money coming in. You still are able to pay the bills.
It's still, it doesn't matter how much money or whatever you have.
If you, if you feel like you, there's an end to it, you, you can get that weight on you.
And I just had that weight of like, even though I have time to do this and I
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should maybe like maybe reflect a little bit more and go to a place that I really want to be.
And I'm extremely happy at the place I'm at now, but like it's.
I didn't use it as that time I use it was almost it didn't matter how much I
was aware and could remind myself of everything's okay, we're able to pay the things we need to pay.
And I have this for a little while. And I don't need to be anxious about it.
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It was just that to know that it's going to come to an end. And I have to,
I need to have something.
And I have to have that stability. And it just wears on you just the anxiousness.
And I just felt like, and I and there was that aspect of it.
I'm just being anxious about that.
But then there was also, it's like, well, if I don't have something I'm actively
doing, my mind wanders and I, I become a prisoner in my own mind.
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As people have seen, if you are that you've checked some of my previous videos,
you understand the kind of the struggles that I've gone through.
And I do go through, if I do not have something that I'm actively doing and
put my mind to work, I can almost go insane.
You know, I feel like I hate saying this, but like Jack Torrance off of the
The Shining, you know, I sometimes like, it's like, if you do not have that,
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it has probably a terrible example, but like he, you just get stir crazy.
Like you said, but he did it in a completely awful way. And the way he took
it, I am a, I'm a horror film fanatic. I love The Shining. I love Stephen King.
I don't think there's anything hiding about that.
I love that kind of stuff, but I do get, if I do not have something,
you know, all this all day makes Brandon not a happy guy, or I don't know what,
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I don't know what he says, is, but I think I need to have something I'm actually doing.
I remember years and years ago, whenever I had been laid off, that was kind of brutal.
You know, I, I don't even want to get into that really, but like,
I, yeah, it was, it was, it was a job I was at and they just churn people in and out quickly.
And I did not meet what they needed and they churned me out viciously,
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viciously from my, probably from them.
It was the hum-dum ready to go day, normal day.
But for me, That's why it's a constant reminder to myself.
When you are dealing with somebody, their occupation, their job, their livelihood,
you cannot just take it lightly because you're almost destroying that person's
life in a way sometimes when you close their means of financial stability or
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just being able to bring in money.
So I think whenever I got let go from there and I was out of work for about
maybe six months, I don't know however long it was, then I found the job that I went into.
I remember whenever I first got there and they were doing stuff on paper.
They were still doing stuff on actually pens and paper, writing stuff.
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There was keyboards and all that, computers and all that, but they had not transitioned
to the digital phase and age that we are in now.
But it was so nice to actually be able to just write.
I remember I was having to write things on folders and having to write things
on paper and it was almost therapeutic. imputing.
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I mean, if you are anxious about anything or just that you need some to get
out of your own head, just writing stuff can almost be peaceful.
And I think for me, it was, it was a way that I could almost block out the voices.
I say voices, people think I'm schizophrenic, probably as many times I say that,
but like, it's, it's not literal voices.
I don't hear literal voices, but it's, it's the feelings that my mind gets just crushed down with.
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And i think whenever i went
to there and i was actually putting my mind to use and doing
actual work and writing things down do you remember me saying this i
whenever i started there it was a friday and i
just got off work and i said i can't wait to go back on
monday and i was like do you remember you do some things
she doesn't have as great of a memory not at all i can't remember anything yeah
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i guess and i think i'm coming that way towards you but i remember i told you
that i I said I look forward to just almost being back on Monday because I think
that almost is that aspect of Shawshank Redemption where that old man,
he's been in prison his whole life. That's always known.
And then once he gets out and he doesn't feel useful anymore,
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he doesn't feel like he's serving a purpose.
And it's like, and he ends up killing himself. He ends up, you know,
ending his life because he's an old man, you know, and that's like one of the best movies ever.
And I think if we are not re-engaging our mind and putting our mind into work
and making productivity, that we will drive ourselves insane sometimes.
I mean, what do you think? Yeah, I think it's built in.
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He wants us to work and that gives glory to God. For me, I have to be doing
something. Otherwise, I feel miserable.
And I have to, and I think, and whenever I was like, the most recent time when
I was laid off, when I was laid off, and then I got the job where I'm at now.
And it's, it was like, I remember interviewing and going through kind of different
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steps within the process.
And I was just saying to the person, like, she was like, well,
how soon do you want to start? You want to start in a couple of weeks,
a few weeks out or whatever. I was like, I want to start tomorrow.
I need, I like, not only like, it's like, not that we were like hurting financially
at that point, but it was like, I just, I needed to be doing something.
I needed to have my mind, like almost that I'm making a difference. I'm contributing.
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I'm being productive. Like, and I think a lot of people can feel that way, you know?
So Labor Day is, is amazing because i i do
want to reiterate like that how important
how much i wish we had three day weekends i
wish we always had three i wish we went to a four day week i mean
that's why i would almost be happy to live in europe you know because
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in europe like that's that's more of the that's more
of the vibe that i like i would get like you know it's more laid back
but i don't know i i bounce back and forth
between that because it can be the anxiousness of you
just want to be in off off work and having peace and and
being relaxed but it's like the moment like if
i ever have a week off or from work and i
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take any significant amount of time off i start going
crazy and i and some of the my the worst points
in my life have been the the times of of
that i've taken off of work for a portion like
not just a day or two but like a more lengthy
time frame and how long like if you took a
week off for christmas would that
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drive you crazy maybe that's a blanket statement that's not exactly right
because but but i just think of the in my past
the worst times that i've had has been those those time
periods because it's like i almost need my mind being
engaged and doing something otherwise i do just get i think
it's just my makeup sometimes and i i i just i have
to have my mind occupied with something yeah i can see that and
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that's that's a lot about to say about labor day
and everything everything that goes along with that today
i wanted to talk about and bring up to you we wanted.
To dive into the poor making
everyone rich because that's been on my on my mind because especially doing
this type of videos creating content and everything people it's all for the
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most part it's all about making money in some form or angle you You know,
and that's what like this life is about.
You know, it seems like we're all about, we need to make money.
We need to provide for our family. We need to make a means and support.
And I almost can get bogged down doing stuff like this because I'm like,
I'm not making anyone money, physical money.
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But then I almost had to remind myself like.
If you're doing something for the kingdom, you can be making an infinitely more
important aspect in someone's life by contributing and telling them about Christ,
encouraging them so that they can tell others about Christ.
Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if you're Elon Musk or Jeff
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Bezos, Mark Cuban, all the richest people in the world, billionaires.
When we close our eyes for the last time, we're all on the same level.
We're all on the same playing field. No one's driving a U-Haul into paradise.
You know, you're going in there with, you know, naked I came from my mother's
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womb, naked I will return.
We carry nothing to the next age. And it's like, we don't know if tomorrow is our last day.
We don't know if tonight is our last day. You know what I mean?
So this is for me and for anyone else out there, because there is a lot of Christians
out there that are creating content and to encourage people and to help people
and to drive people to Christ, you're making a difference.
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You are making a difference, whether you don't feel it, whether it can sometimes
be like, what's the point?
People don't want to hear it anyways. And then that almost drives into the fact
that if Jesus said, if everyone speaks well of you, you know,
and he said, so did they of all the false prophets, you know?
So it's like, if everyone is speaking well of me and everyone just loves everything
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I do, I'm probably not doing a good job of it for Christ. That's what I think of, you know?
Because if I'm, if I am as much as possible being an example for Christ and
being authentic as possible to drive people to Christ and not for my own purposes
and my own pride or ego or whatever,
I don't know, my own, like my own kingdom.
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I don't know if I'm doing it for Christ, most likely not everyone's going to love it.
I just think of like all the stuff I put on like social media and everything.
I post videos and man, people just come out and they just do not like it at
all. So a lot of people do not like it. A lot of people like,
and most of the time, the people that are vocal about it are the ones that don't like it.
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And the ones that just want to just tear me down and tear what I'm doing down.
And it's understandable.
It's much easier to talk about football.
It's much easier to talk about making money. You know, what's your,
how's your portfolio, you know, kind of thing.
And like trying to build others bank accounts and tell them how they can build
their bank account as opposed to telling them about Jesus.
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That's been on my mind, being the poor making others rich, but also not everyone's
going to love it kind of thing, you know?
I mean, throughout human history, it's been like this small, like...
God has like, he redeems a whole bunch of people, but then a lot of them fall
away and it's only a very small remnant that enter the promised land kind of thing.
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And not everyone is going to get on board.
And it's not to say that everything I do, that everyone has to be on board with
me, because you can have your taste.
That's why there's so many churches.
And I'm not saying that's a good thing, because to me, that's not the greatest
thing, that there's so many churches.
Churches i mean we just were just the other day you
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just drive around we just saw a church on every on every street
you know there's a church over here there's a church right across the street there's
church over here the church church you know it's like why do we
got so many churches i would like it so much better like
the new testament the church of kansas city
the church of you know st louis i
know but it's not practical there's too many people you got to break them up
in different buildings people are why why is that there's too many people but
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why but what do you mean like because our populations are huge but why can't
we all come together that's me like i i like why does there have to be this
division you know why does it have to be protestant catholic.
Lutheran episcopal why does it have to be all that kind of stuff like and
i and i'm not going i i don't i'm not going
joseph smith and i don't i i i don't like
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even saying that like because joseph smith he had that same kind of
thing that he struggled with is that his name joseph
smith the mormon church yeah yeah and like because i
that could be its own episode in itself about
the mormons because it's that's a tough one
because that is outside of the
orthodox christian faith that's not within
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it you know and that's a tough one because there's so many good
people that i love that are mormons you know it
seems like sometimes the better people are mormons
you know just the way that they conduct their lives and that
could be its own thing of like whether you have to have perfect understanding
and your theology has to be pinpoint accurate
or if it is going to be a thing where is
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your heart at and what good works are you doing but
that's the thing i don't think we're going to get into heaven by our
good works whatsoever but we will be judged based on our works at the end of
age you know jesus will give rewards and you know we'll be evaluated but that
could be its own thing it's like i it's something i struggle with because is
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like how wonderful Mormon people are.
And that's an extremely tough thing to talk about sometimes.
Especially if you have people that you personally, you love that are, but okay.
So let's, can you pull up those two verses? I gave you two. Sorrowful.
Yeah. Not that one. Do that one second. Do the other one first.
Eight, nine. So this is eight, nine. And this talks about the poor making others rich.
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Okay. Second Corinthians eight, nine. For you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that though he was rich yet for your sakes, he became poor so that you
through his poverty might become rich.
So this is in 2 Corinthians And we're going to go back a couple.
Pages on the parchment And you think
I go down too many rabbit trails I
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should change my Show name to rabbit trails
You know Because I like rabbits
and I like trails Okay we're going back a page on the
parchment And what verse is it He's talking about him
and his apostles What they are doing
These are the representatives of Jesus
Christ living on earth they had the authority to speak
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on behalf of christ and he talks about
their condition and he says i'm just i'm going to spoil it though
we are he says being poor making others rich
sorrowful yet always rejoicing poor yet making many rich having nothing and
yet possessing everything okay so read that part about poor yet making many
rich again that what's that verse say again sorrowful poor yet making many rich
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and he's talking about him and the apostles him Him and Peter,
you know, and James and John, all of them, they were poor men.
Paul lived most of his life, I don't know if it was most of his life,
but towards the end of his life in prison, you know. And he was the poor of the poor.
But he's saying like no matter what he was and what kind of his livelihood looked
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like at that time, even though he was poor, he was making many rich.
All the people that encountered him, he was making them rich eternally,
you know. And ongoing for all of us.
Because we think of telling somebody about Christ, how wonderful it can be,
obviously, for their afterlife, where they're going to spend eternity.
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But put that aside. Just your own life right now. And I'm not saying everything's
going to... This isn't a prosperity gospel.
It's not everything's going to be wonderful and amazing when you trust in Christ.
But it's like everyone in this world is going through storms.
Everyone is in the boat whatever boat they're in but it's it's who has jesus
in the boat with them that makes the difference you know is going to get them
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through it through it all and so you've just all of our ancestors that have
told their children and their children and now here we are,
Maybe there are some jumps in there that someone else might have told them.
But like, look how far back it goes.
Oh, yeah. Just have to be faithful and keep it going.
Oh, yeah. And then lastly, I just wanted to end on like being offensive.
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You know, we know it can be offensive to be offensive. You know,
people like think, oh, that's offensive.
I'm talking about when I'm talking in this context, we are Christians.
We are on the offense. Satan wants to put you on your heels.
He wants to have you ice skating backwards.
You think if we're going into football season and that lineman coming at you
and just wanting to destroy you, that guard pulling and just wants to blow you
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up, you know, and you just want to get on your skates and go backwards.
No, you got it. Like my coach has said, and I'm not going to say his name, you know, but he said,
you get up right up under there, right up under there, and you just meet him,
meet him, and you just blow him up so that you just get in, you get in to destroy
that running back back there, you know.
And that's what we got to be because we are going into the football season.
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And especially of late, if you love the NFL, the teams that are winning the
Super Bowl these years, they happen to be offensive teams, people that can throw
the ball, people that can just drive it down the other team's throats.
And as Christians, we can be doing the same thing.
You know, Satan wants to push us back. He wants to think that he has everything
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high and mighty on us, where we can actually gain ground for the kingdom.
And that's why it talks about the gates of hell will not prevail, you know?
Because Satan and his minions are the gates of hell.
They are, gates are not offensive.
Gates are not offensive. They are kind of, you got to break through them, you know?
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It says the gates of hell will not prevail. It's like we are to burst through
those gates, you know? And gain ground into enemy territory, you know?
That's why we can, even though it sometimes can be kind of doomsday is,
like we think everything's gonna.
Is going in a bad direction in this world. In reality, things are getting brighter
as we near the approach of Christ.
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Things as in the church of God is going to get lit up and fired up more and more.
I mean, you think of it at the end of the age, the witnesses in Revelation,
they're going to be just fire blazing out of their mouth and just telling people about the Lord.
And that's when the true colors of believers are going to come out,
when they're under intense persecution, execution that that light,
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you just think of how much brighter a fire can be when in pitch black,
you know, it can, in the darkness, the light can shine so much brighter.
And as this world around us gets black as hell, you know, which is going to
get, it's going to get darker than anything.
You can imagine the light that brightness of the diamond on the black velvet
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or whatever is just going to shine through as in the church of God,
just rising up, you know, so that there, that That can be encouraging for everyone. There it goes.
All right. That's a good way to end, folks. Oh, my gosh. You got live footage, baby. Butterfly.
That's not the prettiest butterfly, but. Okay.
But it was on the prettiest lady. Okay.
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All right. Well, thank you, Jesse. Thank you for being here today.
All right. Have a wonderful weekend. And as we go into this next week,
I just want to say, go Chiefs. Go Chiefs! All right. All right.
Music.
See y'all. So we hold on And enjoy the ride,
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After all the ups and downs This is our time Enjoy the ride,
Can you see it? There's a distance short Getting closer We want nothing Wow,
it's a close-up, close-up edition.
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Something like that when I did that. I'm trying to, oh my gosh.
You can't do that. I don't know. You can't do that.
Don't what? Make sure you're not seeing anything. You're not supposed to.
Oh my gosh. Okay. All right. Oh, you can't do it.
Hey, thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to give it
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