0:00:00 - 0:00:24 So I made a video about how it now takes 100 and 20,000 a year in income to buy an average house. And one of the comments on this was from this person doesn't have a normal uh handle. So I I won't even try pronouncing it. I'm 27 years old and work in a factory in the shipping department for 40 hours 0:00:24 - 0:00:47 a week. My W-2 says I gross 51,000 but my take home is, is a little under 30. I make over $20 an hour which is high for the area I live in. Even if I had a second full time job, I couldn't afford a home. This is with owning my my car and having no debt and low rent since I rent from family. So my hope 0:00:47 - 0:01:10 is in God and in the life to come. Not this one. All right, there are a few things to pull apart here and I'm not picking on this person. But these are things that should be discussed because I know they affect a lot of people. So this, I mean, this is obviously more particularly directed to youth and 0:01:09 - 0:01:30 more particularly directed to young men than young women. But lessons here will definitely apply to young women. OK. So here we go and I'll try to hit on all of it. So the first thing is even in this brief message and I don't know this person at all. The information I'm operating off of is is what's 0:01:30 - 0:01:55 in the comment. Even in this brief message, we have signs that the there are things in this person's life and I'm just gonna assume it's a man. So I know which pronoun to use. Um There are things in, in his life that come from the fruits of other people. So he says in low rent, since I rent from family 0:01:54 - 0:02:18 , in other words, there's a possibility that he'd wouldn't even be able to afford housing if he wasn't renting from family. But in any case, you'd have less money. Now, why does this matter? There are so many perceptions about exactly how the Lord's Kingdom will come. But I'm going to tell you that that 0:02:17 - 0:02:42 a key property of how it it is happening because it's already started is that God is going to expose people to a greater share of the consequences of their choices until the end times, it was merciful to withhold as, as much of that as possible for ma for many reasons, one of them being the necessity 0:02:41 - 0:03:00 of the end times coming, I don't wanna get too much into that, but because of the people that were coming to earth at the time, it was better to hold back as many consequences as possible. That that was the path to giving them the greatest joy that they could receive, that they were willing to receive 0:03:00 - 0:03:22 . In the end times that change, that changes and it changes dramatically and it is changing dramatically. We're in the end times in, in, in order to continue to provide people with the greatest joy they're willing to receive. God has to expose us to greater consequences for our choices. And, and what 0:03:22 - 0:03:40 happens is he opens up the top end which leads to greater joy, but he can't do that without also opening the bottom end which leads to greater misery. And then we get to choose which, which direction we're going to flow into. And I've spoken about this in other videos, although I'm not sure if you've 0:03:40 - 0:04:02 connected the dots or not and that's fine. So in our day. So it, it used to be and I made a video called Makeup for Men that touched on this particular point. It used to be that you could wake up the day you graduated high school, walk to the nearest place of employment, get a job and that's where you're 0:04:02 - 0:04:18 gonna retire from. And you're going to be for, for, against all historic measures, wealthy, you're gonna have a really nice house, you'll be able to afford getting married and having as many kids as you both want you know, you'll have a car and all these other things, climate control, plenty of food 0:04:18 - 0:04:52 , enough food to get fat on. Right. That's just not the case anymore. It's not coming back, it's done. So this is a, this is one piece of greater justice. Justice is punishment if you have acted poorly and its reward if you've acted well. So right now, as bad as things seem if you're in Gen Z and for 0:04:52 - 0:05:14 , for some millennials as well, for a lot of millennials as bad as things seem for younger people. I'm telling you, it's going to get worse. That's the bad news. There is good news but the bad news is, it is going to get worse because you have no idea how much you're still leaning on things that you 0:05:14 - 0:05:36 don't deserve things that come from other people, whether those other people are people, you know, like your family who are giving you a connection on your living space and it's not just people on the lower income side of things. Um, although this person's not lower income, he's actually above average 0:05:36 - 0:06:02 , believe it or not. Uh, a lot of people aren't familiar with the average income in the United States, but it gets a lot worse as hard as it is getting by on, on 50,000 a year. Uh That's still above average. So, um, there are people who make decent amounts of money who are still only in their home because 0:06:01 - 0:06:19 their parents paid the down payment on their house. They bought a house, but they can only afford to do so because the parent put down the down payment. So all of these things where you're getting things that you don't deserve where you're, where you're well, but you're getting things that you don't 0:06:18 - 0:06:44 deserve. They're going away, they will all go away and so people will stand or fall on their own 2 ft or if they're getting something from someone else, I have to think about how to say this. It's gonna cost a heck of a lot more than it does right now. In other words, I don't know. Do you wanna go there 0:06:44 - 0:07:05 ? Well, I'll take it in this direction. If you're familiar with indentured servitude, it used to be a really big deal in Americas. It was, uh some people say that the United States was built on slavery. I strongly disagree. I don't think that that slavery was a particularly profitable institution. All 0:07:05 - 0:07:23 things considered. That's an aside of its morality, of course, but indentured servitude, that's where people really made money. And so it was a win, win though. It wasn't a bad thing. It was a great thing because you'd give the opportunity for someone to come over to the United States, which they absolutely 0:07:23 - 0:07:42 couldn't have done without you because it was too expensive and then you give them a job for some period of time. Let's call it seven years and during that time, they get room and board paid and usually they're apprenticing in some trade where at the end of the term, they're free to go. Um It, it's a 0:07:42 - 0:08:07 contract, it's not slavery. They're free to go with some money and they've learned a trade and, and if you do it right, you can, you can start your own operation. And so it's, it's a pathway to, to great success and both parties win. So if you're in that sort of a situation, you don't, you don't walk 0:08:06 - 0:08:26 in the door and get a 4000 square foot house and three cars and you know, enough money to support a wife and as many kids as you both want to have and all these things and, and first world health care and enough food to get fat and all these other things. You're, you're basically just living subsistence 0:08:25 - 0:08:52 until you add more value than that in the world today. You, you would struggle to find anyone in the United States who has any idea what it takes to survive without all of the inputs from other people. What would your life be like if you didn't have electricity and running water, if you didn't have an 0:08:52 - 0:09:13 engine that used fuel that where you could drive anywhere you want for almost nothing even with gas prices and auto insurance, what they are today, it, it's almost free to travel compared to what it, what it would cost historically. When when the best you had was a horse. Did you know the the majority 0:09:12 - 0:09:34 of the produce of farmers in the 18 hundreds? It, it wasn't actually for human consumption. It was for the consumption of their horses. So most of what they grew, fed their horses and then they used their horses to grow the rest for themselves. So the point is is that all of these things are immensely 0:09:33 - 0:09:53 expensive and you learn it when you start working with your own hands, you learn just how expensive it all is and how we live in the depths of luxury. Even the poorest people in the United States are swimming in luxury. It's not that way in other parts of the world, but it's, it's definitely that way 0:09:52 - 0:10:18 here. So, uh well, a a case in point is this, this guy is making about 50 K a year. Look, if you're married and you have a few kids, you can make a lot more than that on welfare without ever working. Now there, obviously there's a lot of fine print to that. But, but this, excuse me, there's a thing called 0:10:17 - 0:10:41 the Welfare Cliff, which is the difference in how much welfare will boost your, your, we'll call it standard of living because obviously it's not income, your standard of living, dollar for dollar compared to working. And it turns out that depending on your situation with marriage and Children, you may 0:10:40 - 0:11:06 well be in a, in a place where you make more money by working less and, and this is a source and, uh, uh, an understandable source of frustration for people that are busting their hump. This person's working 40 hours a week, you know, in a factory setting. And, um, he's making less than single moms with 0:11:06 - 0:11:31 five kids who are on welfare. Right. So, or, or even a married family making 27,000 joint. Um, so that's frustrating anyway. So how do you escape the gravity of justice? That's the question. How do you escape the gravity of justice? Because it's coming, it's coming. There will come a time in this man's 0:11:31 - 0:11:53 life where depending he says he rents from family, he might be renting from his little brother or his little uh hi, his niece that's younger than him or something. But in all likelihood, it's from his parents or grandparents or an aunt or an uncle or an in law that's similarly older than him. So what 0:11:52 - 0:12:17 happens when they croak? Well, then he'll be out in the free rental market and maybe he can't afford it at that point, especially because inflation will have had a few more years to dig away at everything. And so likewise, everyone is going to be in a position where justice is more apparent. And now 0:12:16 - 0:12:39 I'm gonna pivot this and give you a little insight because all of these things are just touching ever so briefly on these themes, it just takes a lot of time to lay it all out completely and it's coming, but we're not ready for that yet. I haven't had time to do it yet. Um, but flipping all this around 0:12:38 - 0:13:11 , this is not something that just affects poor people. It affects rich people and the relative effect will be greater. My older brother, I grew up in poverty. Um, my older brother has a saying which I love, he says, well, we've been poor before we know how to do that. Uh And it's true. So, uh I moved 0:13:11 - 0:13:33 18 times before I was 18 and I'll tell you because this is a similar and related idea. Uh I can pack a moving truck like nobody's business and I can do it quickly. I'm an expert level at, at moving right. So much so that one of my friends whose family had a lot more money when he moved the one time he 0:13:33 - 0:13:59 did in his childhood, they hired movers and I was giving that guy advice even though, uh I'm not sure if I was driving yet, but I couldn't have been older than 16. So that's fun and funny. Um, the power just went out. So I hope I'm still recording. I think that I am because the camera light is on. So 0:13:59 - 0:14:25 , um, if there are flashes or skips here, just give me a second. There we go. I see myself. I think we're good. So, um, yeah, so I've been poor before. I know how to do that. And, and I'm not alone in that you folks who you, folks who uh have to look at your receipts when you go to the grocery stores 0:14:25 - 0:14:43 will say. So, I'm not talking about people who are necessarily in abject poverty, although it includes them. I if you're looking at receipts at the grocery store, you um and, and you have to pick and choose what you're gonna buy because you don't have enough money to buy everything you, you would buy 0:14:42 - 0:15:07 , then the adjustment down, even though it will be hard, it's not gonna be nearly as painful as it is gonna be for the rich. Now, let's get back to justice. How many wealthy people do you know who actually earned what they have? Now, this is a hot topic and it's sure to offend all sorts of people because 0:15:07 - 0:15:32 on the one hand I'm not, this is like with everything I talk about, um, I, I'm sort of slicing through the typical clustering of positions and that's what ends up offending all people. So, on the one hand, it's a popular thing to today today to say that the wealthy don't deserve what they have. Ok. And 0:15:32 - 0:15:52 there's a lot of truth to that, but we're gonna slice through that because there are wealthy people who absolutely deserve what they have. In fact, there are wealthy people who deserve far more than what they have for various reasons that I guess I'll just touch on in the briefest way I can from an example 0:15:51 - 0:16:12 that I know quite well, which is in, in tech, in tech for, for programmers, for example. But there are other specific jobs in that category. What happens is you get hired at a rate of pay that's much higher than you deserve because there's competition and that's what companies have to do to get someone 0:16:12 - 0:16:34 in the door. And I think it's absurd but that's the way it works over time. What happens is you start getting pay raises as you get better at your job. But there are curves that eclipse here where you start getting. Uh Right, right. From day one, the raises you get reflect less than the value you're 0:16:34 - 0:17:01 adding and that relationship gets more extreme over time. And so if you are a really good programmer, every year, you work, you will make less for the value you add than you did on the first day you started working. Does that make sense? And so the injustice it uh it increases over time, the rate of 0:17:01 - 0:17:24 increase accelerates over time. And that's not the only place where this happens if you're starting a business people think of the founders as the ones that make out like bandits. But um even even ignoring the fact that almost all start ups fail, and in almost every case, the founder will have lost more 0:17:24 - 0:17:46 money than they gained relative to. If, if a person with that kind of initiative and skill and intelligence went into a regular employment position. They would have made way more money if the company ends up failing. Typically, that's the case. Ok. Setting that aside who gets rich on start ups, the investors 0:17:46 - 0:18:12 get rich and they are risking their money and they should be compensated for that risk. But the way it ends up working is as an investor, you need one of your 10 investments to end up being 10 times more valuable then fair in order to compensate for the nine losses. Does that make sense? So you need 0:18:11 - 0:18:32 some company to really take off in ways that nobody expected and then you'll make a ridiculous amount of money on that one company and that's what compensates you for the loss on the other nine. So if you're the founder of that one, that means that you're the one who's gonna fund the nine losses for 0:18:32 - 0:18:56 the investor because the investor does the same work on all 10. It's a really crooked game and that's why typically the second a founder exits their first successful start up, they don't start another company, they get into investing in companies. And that's why because the risk, you just make so much 0:18:56 - 0:19:16 more money um than, than starting a company and it's a lot less work. So anyway, um so there are people out there that deserve what they made and they're wealthy and there are a lot of people out there who, even if they're wealthy have a lot less than what they deserve. I shouldn't say a lot. There are 0:19:16 - 0:19:40 people out there but who are we talking about? It's such a tiny fraction of the population. It's not even funny and it comes back to the scales of modern wealth. So the reason that people didn't have enormous houses and tons of cars and e everything under the sun, I mean, just yesterday I dug out a tree 0:19:39 - 0:19:59 stump with my tractor and it's a small tractor. It's certainly not even mid-sized. And I wish, I wish it were, were larger. I, I don't want to pay for larger. But um which is ironic that I'm saying that on a video about justice, but it's not big enough to do half the stuff I use it for like pulling out 0:19:59 - 0:20:16 the stump. It was completely inadequate. But anyway, I was thinking about it. I was, I was digging out this boulder. That was probably the, the size of my ego. Just kidding. Um But it was a big boulder and it, it was, it was bigger than what the tractor could dig out. Now, there were years where I didn't 0:20:16 - 0:20:37 have a tractor and I in uh where I still lived where I live. And it's, it's the rockiest soil known to man. And so I know very well what it costs to dig a rock out of the soil. It's, it's so much work. It's insane. Ok. And it's hard work and you hurt yourself pretty much every time you do it, you'll 0:20:36 - 0:20:55 , you'll have at least blisters on your hands. But sometimes, uh, you can inflict permanent damage or temporary damage. And it took me maybe 10 minutes sitting in a chair to pull this boulder out of the ground or at least expose it and roll it. It's actually, I'm, I'm gonna need more equipment to get 0:20:55 - 0:00:00 it out. But anyway, and I was thinking to myself, what would this work have taken 100 and 50 years ago? You couldn't live here. That's the, the, the parting blow. The culmination of the thought is you just couldn't live here. There's no way you could not spend three weeks digging out this one stump. 0:00:00 - 0:21:42 You just leave it to rot or even better. Just don't live here. Go find a place that's just arable soil. Doesn't have so many rocks. So, um, that if you look around and you see the kind of wealth that we just take for granted, like I'm just gonna go pull out the stump out of my yard and I, I can do it 0:21:41 - 0:22:05 in a few hours. Well, that's unprecedented wealth and maybe that's a terrible example because I know the fraction of people who do things like that is tiny. But when you hop in your car, your, your $60,000 car and you drive for 45 minutes to take your daughter to gymnastics. You are consuming unprecedented 0:22:04 - 0:22:28 wealth in doing that. That think of all the things in that you have the time to do something that recreational superfluous. I would say your daughter has the time she's not mending socks or something. And you, there's someone there who makes enough money doing this and has the skills to actually teach 0:22:28 - 0:22:48 it. And there's a facility and by the way, you didn't have to strap up your horse and buggy your horse that you have to grow more than half of your farm to feed and all the leather and everything else to get that all to work. You just hopped in your, your car. That, that again, in spite of the price 0:22:48 - 0:23:09 of everything is really cheap. Historically speaking, you just drove there, you've got to sit in a chair for 45 minutes to get there. It wasn't even bumpy because you have shocks and modern roads. Do you understand? And so we have unprecedented wealth and we're using it to take our daughters to gymnastics 0:23:08 - 0:23:35 . That's crazy. You know, our families are rotting from the core for a lack of spiritual substance and we're taking our daughters to gymnastics. And if, if that's your specific situation, only take offense to this, if it applies. But please take offense if some kind of lateral application applies. Ok 0:23:34 - 0:24:06 . So there are so many people who are going to experience the stripping away of unmerited blessings that's going to happen. All right. So if you're still with me. Kudos. I wish I had a cookie to give you good for you. Let me try to make my main point here and this is the, the, the positive side of it 0:24:06 - 0:24:28 . We still have the ability to hop in a car and drive to gymnastics. We still have the ability to dig out stumps and render the land. We live on more farmable. We still have the ability. Anyone listening to this video with very few exceptions, that would, would be exceptional. There'd be some weird thing 0:24:27 - 0:24:53 . Anyone listening to this can uproot their whole life and move to another state if you live in the United States anyway, there are many countries where that kind of latitude does not exist for, for wealth reasons and for freedom reasons you can move. And so my advice to this person was, it's probably 0:24:52 - 0:25:14 time to look for another job. Any able bodied man who isn't sub 90 IQ should be able to find a job making 80,000 or more. Now, given your age and presumable work history, you'll probably need an in person job, which means you'll probably have to move. And I've heard that the, the jobs in the oil fields 0:25:14 - 0:25:36 in the Dakotas, you can make 100 plus a year. That's kind of hard to swing if you're married. It's not impossible though. It's not so hard to swing if you're single, you know, and even at 27 there's absolutely a path where three years from now, you can have enough cash sacked away that you can buy a 0:25:36 - 0:26:02 nice piece of land and get a decent house on it. That, that'll be more than what you need and you'll have everything in place to if you want to get married and, and have some kids or even if you don't to have a much more secure and independent life. And so the worst thing we can do is look at things 0:26:02 - 0:26:34 as they are and ac accept that that's the way they need to be. There is still an immense amount of opportunity, freedom to improve. And that will underscore underline, it will be taken away. It's just a matter of time and as it's peeled away, the cost for every possible improvement is going to skyrocket 0:26:33 - 0:27:03 , it's going to skyrocket as a small example of this. An analogous example, look at Children, look at Children and how much time they have, how many resources they have. You know, uh a son of mine, he recently acquired a sheet of plywood, he didn't steal it. But the story is sort of not relevant. He 0:27:03 - 0:27:23 got himself a sheet of plywood and, and that's expensive stuff, but he had no concept of how much it costs because someone gave it to him for helping with, with their, their, their project, an older person. So he had this sheet of plywood and I have a table saw and he asked me if he could use my table 0:27:23 - 0:27:44 saw and I said, yes, sure. I've trained him on how to use that. And so he started making this shelf and I had no idea. And he's, he's dropped a couple of hours into this project so far. And I found out I was able to give him some advice, post hoc unfortunately. But this is the kind of things that kids 0:27:44 - 0:28:03 do. They have this, this unlimited fountain of resources and they use it and they usually use it for stupid things, right. I'm sure you've caught your kids doing some elaborate thing that was really silly. And you're like, why don't you use that time for this thing instead? And they're like, oh, because 0:28:02 - 0:28:25 they're not excited about that. Well, that's how people are right now, adults because you're swimming an opportunity and you're squandering it and the windows are closing, the windows are closing. I've talked about this in all these different facets, like spokes on a wheel. I've talked about information 0:28:24 - 0:28:42 and how freedom of speech is being curtailed and it's gonna get worse. And, and since I've said that now we have revelations all the time about this. They're the Twitter files when Musk took over Twitter and there was all this evidence of direct collusion by the US government to censor certain points 0:28:42 - 0:00:00 of view. Just yesterday. I saw an article that, uh, Amazon, the, the Biden administration has specifically asked Amazon to censor certain books, which they've complied with, I've noticed that writing book reviews on Amazon, I'm shocked by what can't be published. It's, it's not extreme perspectives. 0:00:00 - 0:29:24 Basically. If you don't either write a milk toast book review or a super woke book review, it won't get published. Uh I was trying to write a view, a book review on a book about human genius that I thought was insultingly bad and I wanted to warn other people so they wouldn't waste their money. And I 0:29:24 - 0:29:43 think it took me two drafts before my review got published. So, um, and they don't tell you specifically what you can't say. They just say you're not the kind of people that we want to hear from. Thanks. But no, thanks. You can resubmit it. But also if, if, if your review is egregious enough, they'll 0:29:43 - 0:30:04 block you from ever writing a review again. So you actually have to research what terms they'll filter out and what they don't like. So you can avoid that anyway. Um And then, uh the house passed a bill yesterday today is May 3rd. I don't know when I'm actually gonna publish this. The house passed a 0:30:04 - 0:30:32 bill yesterday on May 2nd with extremely, I'm saying this intentionally, extremely troubling new rules about hate speech. We'll put it that way that, that are contrary to the first amendment, strongly, contrary. And so I've been telling you there's going to come a time. Oh, and, and uh just today I saw 0:30:32 - 0:30:52 someone write on Twitter, that search engines have become so bad at finding what you're looking for because they filter out so many results to push their perspectives that this person said they're resorting back to looking things up in books. Now. That sounds kind of tongue in cheek and comical. Although 0:30:52 - 0:31:12 I'm, I'm, I think it's likely that person was serious. I was born in 1983 and one that we were poor. But one of the things that was a gift from someone else in the family that we treasured was our encyclopedia collection. And although we moved 18 times, every single time we moved, it was there on the 0:31:12 - 0:31:29 shelf. And I read that I enjoyed looking things up in the encyclopedia. And uh as I remember when Microsoft and Carter came out, that was sort of the first thing and you had a CD ROM with the encyclopedia on it and you could search through it. And that was cool. And there were a lot more pictures than 0:31:29 - 0:31:51 the regular the print encyclopedia. And then of course, uh eventually search engines came along and I think that kind of apex around 2014. And since then, it's, we've been in decline in terms of your ability to find information online, what you see. There's an abundance of what to see, but it's absolutely 0:31:51 - 0:32:15 filtered to, to something other than what you're asking to see. So make use of these opportunities because they are coming to an end. You know, another thing I've mentioned before is, is, and a lot of people have talked about this, but the central bank, digital currency, um those are going to come out 0:32:15 - 0:32:40 and however it looks whatever the details might be. The fact is that there will be government oversight and control over every dollar or whatever the currency is over everything you have everything you give to other people and everything you receive. So the time is very short to make use of that. So 0:32:40 - 0:32:59 if you're one of these contractors or you're self-employed and you have all these write offs and some of them are a little questionable. Or you wait till things fall off the books, tighten up your ship because the time where you can do that is coming to a close on the more extreme side. And I've said 0:32:59 - 0:33:26 this many times, but you have to get prepared for a time when, uh, you can no longer rely on outside resources. And I mean that in the full measure, if you, uh, are not completely self reliant on your property, you, you're going to have some issues that's putting it lightly. Now, I know that's super 0:33:26 - 0:33:45 extreme. And if you're just in a place where you're trying to make a couple more bucks a year, that's like just shoving her head further underwater. But you need to know what you're up against in order to marshal the resources required to overcome the challenge when David Goggins was I don't remember 0:33:44 - 0:34:06 how many, I think he was over £100 overweight. He didn't think that he just had to lose a pound or two and he could take years doing it. I don't know if you're familiar with this story, but he had to lose, I believe over £100 to join the military when he wanted to. And he just said I have three months 0:34:06 - 0:34:27 to do this because there was some kind of deadline and he did what he had to do. And I'm not sure that all those figures are exactly correct. I'm just relying on my memory here spur of the moment. But the point is he knew what he had to do and he knew that the window he had to do it in. And I, if you're 0:34:26 - 0:34:45 , if you're 18 and you're a man or you're 27 and you're a man and you don't want to be in the position where the carpet is yanked out from under you, which will lead to something way worse than what you have right now. It's time to as one of my former girlfriends, this one was from Virginia would say 0:34:45 - 0:35:05 it's time to get on the stick, right. It's time to get on the stick, get moving and do what you can use what God has already given you. And this is one of the reasons I wanted to make the video because he, he ended his comment with my hope is in God and in the life to come. Not this one. No, your hopes 0:35:05 - 0:35:23 not in God because you're not doing everything you can with what He gave you and you say your, your hope is in the life to come. Well, you should stop hoping about that and start making use of the time you have right now because you're not prepared for that time. Not yet. If you're not making the most 0:35:23 - 0:35:45 of the resources that God gives you now, I promise you that whatever the life to come entails for you, it's gonna be full of regret, regret that you can't do anything about this life is an opportunity. And if you're ever in a place where you feel like you just have to grit your teeth and bear it, you're 0:35:45 - 0:36:06 not getting out of it, what God intends. It doesn't matter how much you're suffering, how much pain you're in, how much other people have, have disappointed or even betrayed you. It doesn't matter how lonely you are, it doesn't matter how sick you are, it doesn't matter any of these things don't matter 0:36:05 - 0:36:33 . The point is still valid if you feel like all you can do is grit your teeth. You're not using these experiences that God has given you for the intent they were given. We're here to overcome, not just to withstand. So it's time to put things beneath your feet. That's a phrase from the scriptures. God 0:36:33 - 0:36:54 is putting all things beneath his feet and he overcame everything that could be overcome as a man in this life. And now he's in the process of overcoming everything that can be overcome as a God. And I don't mean that in the sense that he's facing some sort of trial right now, I mean, he's operating 0:36:53 - 0:37:16 through us to establish his kingdom once again, which is a, uh, it's a foregone conclusion, it's going to happen. The question is just where all the cards will lay when it, when the dust settles. He knows. But we are making the choices here to decide where we want to be when the dust settles. And if 0:37:16 - 0:37:35 all you're doing, you know, in a boxing match, you can either fight or defend, right? And if all you're doing is holding up your hands and blocking the punches, you're not fighting, it's time to put down the hands, take a couple of punches because you're gonna get hit. But make your goal to take out 0:37:35 - 0:37:59 your, your enemy. So, improvement is the victory. Improvement is the fight. And you've been given the tools. One of my best dad jokes. I do this every time we walk into a store and I'm with my wife or kids and there's a sign that says no firearms, it's like a gun with a no sign. I say, oh, I can't go 0:37:59 - 0:38:22 in and they're like, why? And I point the sign, I'm like these, these don't come off and uh, my kids will laugh and my wife just rolls her eyes but they're, they're pretty much trained on that. I, I can probably stop saying it now. But anyway, it's like that you've been armed by God with the ability 0:38:21 - 0:38:44 to overcome. Now, you might not have all the ingredients for that recipe yet. You might not have the recipe itself. But it's enough for now to know that you have the power. Ok? It's like masters of the universe. You have to learn to say I have the power, you have the power. And if you don't believe that 0:38:44 - 0:39:10 you're not gonna bother to search for the recipe or to recognize it when it's shown to you right in front of your face, you will not value it, you will not use it. So learn to say you have the power and don't accept things in your life that aren't the best of what you want and what you can have. You 0:39:10 - 0:39:34 don't have to accept if you're an able bodied man, things are not bad enough yet that you have to accept 50 K a year at 27 years old unless you have issues, right? And you know, there are people that are, that are, that have physical or mental struggles that are severe. You know, if you're blind, maybe 0:39:33 - 0:39:55 you could say, look, I've exhausted the possibilities of making over 50 K though. I'm still not buying it, but I probably would be less harsh. With you. Ok. And we have to explore that, see if there's another way, but this, this situation is riddled with invisible constraints. Do you know what constraints 0:39:55 - 0:40:19 are when you're solving a problem? You say something like I need to till my garden? That's the problem given that I don't have a tractor. Ok. That's a constraint. Well, can you buy one? Probably not. They're really expensive. Do you know somebody who has one? maybe? Can you rent one? Probably. What if 0:40:18 - 0:40:38 it doesn't make sense because it's just a little postage stamp garden? Ok. Do you have a pickaxe? If not, can you buy one? They're like 30 bucks. If not, can you get one used? You could probably get one for free from some old person doesn't need it anymore, right? They say, well, I don't have arms. Ok 0:40:38 - 0:40:57 . Well, that's a challenge. But let's, let's work through that. These are all constraints so often when we look at something, we say I can't have this. The reason is not what you think it is. The reason is all the invisible constraints. They're barriers that you're placing in front of you without even 0:40:57 - 0:41:16 realizing it. And so maybe the constraint here is, oh, I don't wanna move. Ok. That's a constraint. So then the question is, what do you care about more moving and uh having a path to a decent income, a sufficient income, I should say, because if you're relying on other people, then you're not there 0:41:16 - 0:41:37 yet. Um, and then the other path is, well, I wanna stay here because it's that important to me and I'm willing to accept a lower income. Well, great. If you really feel that way, great. Right. But then you wouldn't say things like, so my hope is in God and in the life to come, not this one, you'd say 0:41:37 - 0:41:57 , you know, it's a sacrifice to live here, but it's worth every penny, right? So people that choose to have kids, even though it's hard, they don't go around saying, oh my hope is in God and in the life to come. Not this one cause my kids, right? They say my kids are totally worth it. I'm glad that I 0:41:57 - 0:42:23 have the opportunity to make it happen because it gives me joy. So don't accept a path that that leads somewhere other than the joy you seek or believe is possible. Don't accept a different path. Keep cranking away to find the way to what you believe is possible. Well, it's probably enough here. I hope 0:42:23 - 0:42:29 this is helpful. Look at that. The sun rose as I was speaking. That's beautiful. See you.