Thank you for the high calling it is to be a woman and I thank you for our specific roles and I pray Lord that if there's any in the audience or any that are listening that have heart and hearts towards your word especially in this area that you would open their eyes to see truth that you would soften their heart hearts that you would help them to see that the role that we have in the church is a good role because it's been ordained by God and that it's what he has called us to do and it is a privilege. So Father give grace I pray for teaching and for listening and for obeying what we know to be true because it is your word and I thank you in Christ's name. Well when I was growing up in a Baptist minister's home there was a popular book called Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives and Women Preachers and I remember that book sitting in the foyer of my dad's church and the title was certainly a catchy one but I'm telling you the content was far from biblical. What is the role and specifically what is the role of the woman in the church? Thankfully we don't need to purchase I don't even know if it's in print anymore but you don't need to go out and purchase Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives and Women Preachers for the answer but we do need to read 1 Timothy 2 9 to 15 to figure out what the answer is regarding the woman's role in the church and how she should conduct herself in wisdom. So let's read the passage together and we have an outline of where we'll be going. In like manner also the women adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing but that would just proper for women professing godliness with good works. Let a woman learn in silence with all submission and I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed in Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived fell into transgression nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if she continues in faith love and holiness with self-control. So we're going to be considering the woman's clothing in the church the woman's character in the church the woman's conduct in the church the woman's created order in the woman's calling. Now again we're going jumping into the middle of a epistle a book and if you know anything about 1 Timothy the purpose of 1 Timothy Timothy gives or Paul gives his purpose statement in 1 Timothy 3 15 where he says I'm writing to you so that you will know how to conduct yourself in the house of God the pillar of the living God and so he's writing this epistle so they'll know how to conduct themselves in the house of God and in the beginning of this chapter 2 he's talked to the men of the church verses 1 to 8 how men are to conduct themselves in the worship service in the house of God and now he's turning the corner and he's going to address the woman what is the woman's role in the church well first of all he deals with the clothing that she should wear in church as a woman who belongs to the household of God and so he says this in like manner women are to adorn themselves in modest apparel now in like manner means in the same way and it could mean two things and both are true it could mean that women in like manner are to pray like the men that he talks about in the previous verses as they pray they're to pray without wrath and doubting they're not to doubt God's goodness they're not to pray angrily or anything like that or it also could mean in like manner in other words how she conducts herself in public worship in this same manner then the she is to conduct herself in this way and so both are true and so you can take whichever view you want to because both are accurate and I'm not going to die on that hill so I will die on some other hills but not that one so Paul says that women are to adorn themselves in modest apparel the word adorn means to arrange in order and so it would indicate that our clothing should be arranged in some sort of order and the word modest means shame or a sense of shame so it means that as you as a woman as you come to worship the Lord there should no be no shame in what you are wearing you don't want to cause anyone in church to stumble because of the way you are dressed okay you want to arrange your clothes in a fashion in the order of fact we were at the airport yesterday and I had to take a double take the night I said Debbie look at that lady's pants I mean one part was lime green the other part was black and it was the same everything seemed out of order there and you know you should go to the airport sometime if you want to see some strange the things I was just like whoa Lord help me but anyway we don't want to come to church and cause anyone to sin because of the way we're dressed in fact the word apparel here means a long flowing toga now I'm not going to tell you to go out and you know find a store open and I and go tomorrow come in with a long flowing toga even though somebody confronted me one time told me I was a false teacher because I didn't teach this that women should wear long togas for public worship but it does mean that a woman should dress for church with a thought in mind she's going to worship the Lord have you ever thought when you get dressed on Sunday morning that you're coming to meet the Lord you ever thought about that you're coming to meet the Lord so dress in a way that is pleasing in fact Paul goes on to describe the way we should dress he says with propriety and moderation propriety means to be of sound mind good sense moderation indicates women should not be extreme in their dress we should not try and show off our body or the latest fashions by how we are dressing we don't draw attention to ourself when we come to church and indeed the women in paul's day did just that they draw drew attention to themselves and he says how braided hair gold pearls and cloth costly clothing so the first way they overdid their adornment was the braiding of their hair and you might be saying I see a lot of you have braids in your hair my granddaughters have braids you might be saying oh am I in sin am I not supposed to braid my hair that's not what paul's saying you can braid your hair in fact peter says let it not be merely the braiding of hair but a meek and quiet spirit when he addresses this same topic so it's not saying that one man helps us here as we can kind of understand he says no expense was spared to make clothing dazzling they actually sparkled braids were fastened by jewel tortoise shell combs pins ivory silver or the pins were of bronze with jeweled heads the more varied and expensive the better the pinheads often consisted of miniature in images like an animal a human hand a female figure braids in those days often represented fortunes they were articles of luxury the christian woman is worn not to indulge in such extravagance in fact in some churches they would actually have these hairdos that were you know piled high like this and one man said it looked like a tower of something you know because she had so many tears to her head and braids in paul's day were the things they would put in the hair they were expensive and they were gaudy and paul is saying don't come to church to draw attention to yourself don't come and worship the lord and be addressed like that and draw attention to yourself now this doesn't give license either to us as women to come to church with our hair looking like you know we just stuck our finger in the electrical socket and you know we come looking like a fright you know god god knows the hairs on your head he's numbered them all but uh you know have your hair as best as you can with what he's given you to look becoming but not to draw attention to yourself the second outlandish adornment was gold and pearls again the same man helps us he says similarly a woman who's a believer must not try to make herself conspicuous by a vain display of ornaments of gold she shouldn't yearn for pearls from the persian goal for the indian ocean he says these are often fabulously priced and way beyond the purchasing power of the average church member in order to obtain a pearl of great value a merchant might have to sell all of his possessions in fact he talks about the wife of an emperor covered with emeralds and pearls gleaming all over her head her hair her ears her neck and her fingers to the value of over a million dollars i mean that is ridiculous right that's into that quote aren't you glad again this doesn't mean you can't wear jewelry to church that's not what paul's saying that's not what peter's saying in first peter but your jewelry should be worn in such a way as to not draw attention to yourself it should be a bit attractive be becoming but you know as you walk in the back door that's not the first thing that people see is your jewelry lastly paul mentions that women should not wear costly clothing some women in those days wore dresses that were seven thousand cost seven thousand an area which is a hundred and forty thousand in american u.s. dollars now ladies if any of you have a dress or any type of clothing a hundred and forty thousand dollars you're you're that's crazy i'm just telling you that's crazy i don't even think my whole wardrobe is worth a hundred and forty thousand dollars ladies when you come to worship the lord we don't want to show off our bodies we don't want to show off our clothes we don't want to show off our hair our jewelry when we dress in the morning for worship we need to be mindful of dressing to please the lord right don't dress to attract the attention of men but dress to show the inner attitude of your heart i know when my daughter and at that time her fiancee which is now her husband of 15 plus years i can't even keep tracking anymore of my kids and how long they've been married but they were out in california he was going to seminary and they were in a good sound church and they actually had to quit going he said i cannot worship here because the the girls that would come to church when short shorts and halter tops you know and that was worship and he said i can't worship here it's a stumbling block ladies don't allow your culture to dictate to you as a believer what is appropriate for your dress don't worry about what other people think of you i gave that up a long time ago i don't care if i'm fashionable or not and then most of time i'm not so uh in fact you know when we moved several years ago and a young man in our church helped us move in our new house and carried my clothes into my closet he goes miss heck do you wear all these clothes and i said yes i do germane if you keep them long enough they come back in style and besides you know i'm all sizes at different times you know and uh i don't you know doesn't really matter to me we dress to please the lord right don't be like that woman in proverbs seven ten that salomon says there was a woman who met him with the hot attire of a harlot and a crafty heart ladies your outer dress reflects your inner heart your outer dress reflects your inner heart by the way i think we should be conscious of how we dress in other places too i know we're talking about church but we need to be careful how we dress we were out last night with some of these girls here they took us out and and i was talking with one of them we were walking down the wherever we were some fan someplace they took us winter park or something like that and i looked over to her i said you see that girl's t-shirt it says virginity rocks and i was like yeah that's good but she wasn't dressed very appropriately and i was like she's she's asking for trouble there so but we need to be conscious of how we dress everywhere right not just at church so paul moves from the clothing women wear to church to the character they should wear to church and by the way this is also the character you should wear at all times to do only this in church is hypocrisy charles hatton's virgin says what you are at home is what you are so if you don't have this character at home don't try to just do it at church because it's hypocrisy notice what he says he says but which is proper for women professing godliness with good works the butt here is a word of contrast so instead of dressing provocatively i am to dress properly instead of dressing ostentatiously i'm to dress moderately paul puts it like this we dress in a way that is proper for women who are professing godliness we are to dress as women who are god fearing women right right women who fear god women who are walking in wisdom in the church in fact the word professing here means to convey with a message that is loud and clear women today are dressing with a message that is loud and clear but it's a far cry from godliness right do you agree with me if you don't just go take a walk or go to the go to the airport come to the airport with me tomorrow really sometimes i don't know i don't know i'm kind of glad for one thing i mean i started making a list of all the good things that came out of covet 19 but uh one of them is i'm not out that much anymore and it's kind of good because i don't have to see all this but sometimes i would dread to go out to places just because of this one thing seeing how women dress knowing that there will be women who are not appropriately dressed i feel for the men in our age uh i my grandsons i you know i have five grandsons and they're all teenagers now most of them one's almost there and i fear for them because they have to deal with many women who are inappropriately dressed and they're flaunting their bodies and dressing seductively now having said that i will also say that a godly woman should look nice at church but she doesn't again have to have the latest fashions in order to do that you don't have to shop all week spending money on jewelry and the latest trend that's sure you can shock everyone at sunday you know with your new outfit ladies realize do you know those clothes you're wearing them burn up one day you know what peter says everything in this world is going to burn up right ladies your heart should not be set on your outward appearance but on your inner right your inner attitude of a meek and quiet spirit which is precious in the side of god in fact paul puts it like this notice what he says as women who profess godliness with good works notice very carefully what he says not good looks did he say that good works not good looks good works ladies it should be our good works that is our endowment that should attract the attention of those we worship with not our clothes when they see you coming in the door on sunday morning oh there goes so and so look at her great clothes no here comes so and so you know she's a servant of the lord you know she serves the lord all week she comes here she's got ministry here at the church she's full of good works they don't they don't want to be looking at your jewelry your makeup your hair that's not what should attract the attention it's your good works remember dorcas when she died in luke chapter nine and peter goes and the women are weeping and crying and you know showing all of her what all the things that she made and it says this woman was known for what her good works dorcas was known for that ladies a woman of god will focus on her good works that's what she spends her time on one man says this it reflects a right attitude of mine for paul was shrewd enough to know that a woman's dress is a mirror of her mind a woman's dress is the mirror of her mind a woman's adornment and short lies not in what she herself puts on but in the loving service she gives out end of quote ladies as peter says in his epistle do not let your adornment be merely the outward adorning of braiding the hair and putting out of a pair but let it be the hidden man of the heart a meek and quiet spirit which is precious in the sight of god that's what we need to focus on well paul now moves from her character to her conduct in church in verse 11 and 12 let a woman learn in silence with all submission now paul also addresses this when he writes the church in Corinth which was a man of mass he writes in first Corinthians 1434 and 35 let the women keep silent in the church for they are not permitted to speak but they are to be submissive as the law says and if they want to learn something let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church now before you get upset and throw your candy at me which you can throw the Reese's at me that'll be just fine I'll take all of your Reese's but before you get upset we need to study what this means right okay what does this mean we need to understand New Testament times their church services were a lot different than ours if you read first Corinthians they were standing up while the speaker was speaking one would stand up and do this one would stand up and do that that's why at the end of first Corinthians paul says let everything be done decently and in order why because the church service was you know kind of chaotic at times and so they would dialogue with each other they would challenge the the speaker whoever was preaching and we also need to understand something else as we think about this in the biblical world it was unheard of for a woman to come to church they were discouraged from learning they were to remain at home did you know women in the biblical world were never allowed to appear alone in public I mean it was a very restricted life they led and so those that call paul a male chauvinist have no idea or at least they haven't studied biblical history to know what was going on in the church at this time so listen ladies paul is actually commending us as women to learn in the church service there's no male or female right we're all one in christ jesus now with that in mind there are roles for us roles for men roles for women that we must adhere to so paul says let a woman learn in silence now learn here means to listen be taught what does silence mean does it mean she's muzzled no the word silence actually means to remain calm remain calm women should come to church to listen to listen and as they do that they remain calm she's to do it with all submission and the utmost respect to those that are in authority over her she should not be rebellious in her heart interactions that are calling in life as a woman she shouldn't be rebellious towards that now can a woman teach ladies can she teach children can women talk to people we had somebody recently that you know said well I don't think we should talk in you know the lobby or the parking lot and so already draw the line here you know you can't talk at all of course you can't women can teach women women you know what is tightest to say the older women teach the young women right I don't know how then you can teach you can teach children you can talk to people at church you can sing you can there's a lot of things you can do in the public assembly however ladies our limitations have to do with men as explained in this next verse I don't permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man but to be in silence one of the questions I'm often asked when I go speak at women's conferences or retreats is this what is the woman's role in the church why can't a woman be a pastor and I've often received a lot of angry looks for my answers but I've even actually had places I've been where I've said I'm not speaking until these men leave and I have made men upset with me but I usually end up saying something like this is what the scripture teaches I don't know what they think when it says if a man desires the office of a bishop he desires a good thing my bible doesn't say if a woman desires the office of a pastor she desires a good thing right it says if a man so I don't know what the problem is but I usually end up saying these are my spiritual convictions I usually take them to this this passage and the other one I just quoted and then I also if that doesn't suffice them I say well I'm under the submission and the authority of my husband who says I can't do this and my elders right and I am to be submissive and to them and so sometimes that silences them sometimes it doesn't now Paul says I do not permit a woman to teach a man so I'm not sure what the opponent's issues are with this verse this is a command it's not an option remember Paul is writing so that we can know how to behave ourselves in the house of God right which is the church of the living God the pillar and the ground of the truth so he's writing on how we behave in the local assembly how we conduct ourselves we're not to have authority over the man in the church in fact the words have authority means to play the master we're not to be the master we're not to interrupt the preacher by the next words he says we're to be in silence remember they were standing up and spouting off things so what Paul is saying here as you sit and listen to your pastor on Sunday you're to be calm you're to listen and you don't stand up and challenge him we actually in our church had a woman that did this several years ago she's passed away this last year I think she went to a christless eternity but she actually did this in our worship service she would always challenge my husband or didn't it didn't only happen once actually well maybe twice I don't know if it happened once or twice I can't remember a couple times but she was church disciplined put out the church not only for that spouting off and trying to challenge my husband as he was preaching but she was also using legal and illegal drugs oh abusing those but that's the idea we are to listen and we're not to challenge the preacher as he's preaching we're to be in silence we're to listen with all respect and again remember the history of what was going on in fact my husband has told me recently because on every pretty often about once a month we'll have a Q&A on Sunday night where he opens it up to men and women who can ask theological questions or counseling questions or any kind of question they want which he loves to do and the people love it but he says that you know I'm kind of thinking maybe with at least the women because some of them will then kind of try to challenge him and he says I really think it's a violation of this passage because it'd be wiser to talk to him privately afterwards instead of in a public assembly no no harm in them asking questions of him publicly but not to try to challenge because it would be a violation of this passage so the question might come to your mind can a man learn from a woman of course he can do you know in all the passages where Priscilla is mentioned there's six of them in the word of God do you know four out of those six passages she's mentioned first and especially in one in Acts chapter 18 remember when Paulus was in error about the about baptism and it says Priscilla and Aquila her husband took him aside and explained to him the way of God more excellently and the Greek order there is that Priscilla did most of the talking many believe that Priscilla was actually a stronger believer than her husband and knew more and so it's very interesting that she's mentioned in the Greek when somebody's name is mentioned first they're more prominent and so she's mentioned first four times out of the six times men can learn from women men can learn from women but women are not to teach in the public assembly of worship in fact this is the second time the word silence is mentioned so it must be important and again it doesn't mean you're muzzled it doesn't mean you have to wear your mask and not talk it doesn't mean you need to be peaceable you need to be quiet you need to be calm and not challenge the preacher in the pulpit now you might say well Susan Paul is a male chauvinist and he's really making me angry I don't like this passage well he's not a male chauvinist I'm sorry he makes you angry but I remember he's writing by the power of the Holy Spirit right these are God breathe words ladies God breathe this out but he gives a reason why why in verse 13 why do we behave this way in the church of God and it has to do with our created order notice what he says for this is the reason this is the reason why women do this in the church why because Adam was first formed then Eve ladies the first reason women are to be silent in the church is because Adam was created first not Eve Eve was not created first he was this was the order of creation the head of the home was created first and if this isn't enough Paul says in first Corinthians 11 3 I want you to know the head of every man is Christ the head of the woman is man and the head of Christ is God in fact later on he says for man is not from woman but woman from the man nor was the man created for the woman but the woman was created for the man ladies man woman was taken out of man's side right not to be his Holy Spirit not to be his mother to be his helper right to be his helper well Paul gives a second reason why women should not teach men in the local assembly besides of the created order look what he says in verse 14 Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived she fell into transgression ladies the second reason she's not to usurp authority over a man in the local assembly is because of her because she was deceived in the garden in fact women are more easily deceived the word deceived means here completely deceived she was seduced holy look at look at Jenna turn back to Genesis 3 I'm already getting looks from some of you so I won't see you tomorrow but that's all right I wonder why this is so hard for us Genesis 3 I don't know about you I'm glad God made me a woman so wait till we get to tomorrow and talk about husbands loving their wives you think you got it bad love the wife the way Christ loved the church that's a challenge isn't it now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden the woman said to the serpent oh we can eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God has said you shall not eat it nor touch at least you die and the serpent said to the woman you won't die for God knows in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good from evil so the woman when she saw the tree was good for food and it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one why she took of it and she ate it she gave it to her husband with her and he ate it then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings ladies Adam disobeyed willfully the woman was deceived by the serpent in fact Paul says in another place 2nd Corinthians 11 3 I fear somehow as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness so your minds are corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ in fact in 2 Timothy chapter 2 Paul writes about false teachers who come into women's homes silly women laden away with lust who are led astray by false teachers why do they pray on women because we are more easily deceived than men that's why for 40 years now or 30 or how long ever I've been teaching I have been saying the same thing to women get into the bible get into the word of God know what God says why we are more easily deceived we need to know the scriptures right you need to know the word of God you need to be discerning ladies what Adam did he did on his own with a willful choice he knew what he was doing Eve was deceived and she fell into transgression ladies as a woman recognize your weakness you know I'm a very strong woman I really am I'm very in fact you know my husband will say strong as an ox dumb as a bull not really that used to say that when I was pregnant and I'm a very strong woman I understand that I am independent I'm strong I mean I am under the submission of my husband and see that as freeing and a blessing but even in that we should recognize our weaknesses I'm so thankful for the many many times that my husband has helped me in an area where I could see where I could be more easily led astray or deceived men are just built different and wired differently than we are and Satan knew she would be easier Eve would be easier to tempt than Adam and so he tempted her and she fell into sin remember Peter says we're the weaker vessel ladies women should realize Eve was the one who was deceived and because of that she should take a humble attitude now maybe all this sounds pretty bleak to you but it's not it's really not Paul leaves us with a wonderful outlook in verse 15 as he gives us the woman's calling nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if she continues in faith love and holiness with self control I will say this is one of the most difficult verses in this epistle to interpret there's some really weird interpretations out there about as weird as those spirits in prison that are in chapter three but it's really not when you look at it look at it carefully Paul says she will be saved through childbearing now ladies we know this is not salvific because women are not saved by bearing children right we are saved by grace alone through faith alone through Christ alone right we are not saved by giving birth to a child and so we know that's not what it means but the Greek word salvation can mean several things in Scripture and here it means to be delivered it's not salvific in the sense of salvation to be delivered or to be set free ladies in other words listen very carefully women can be delivered from the stigma of Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden by being set free through delivering children and raising them to the glory of God John MacArthur says this the pain associated with childbirth was the punishment for the woman's sin but her joy and privilege of childrearing delivers women from the stigma of that sin in fact Paul writes later on in this epistle I will that the therefore the young women marry bare children rule the household why so she gives no occasion for satan to be spoken of reproachfully ladies a christian's woman role is not to be a female pastor but to be a female parent by raising children to the glory of God and I hope you see your role is that I am so thankful God only gave us two children but I'm so thankful that I was able to raise my children for the glory of God both of them are in both of their spouses and them are in the in full-time ministry and raising my seven grandchildren in the nurturing admonition of Christ however we must just like a man we must continue as Paul says in faith and holiness and self-control we must continue in that in fact it's interesting this triad is what Paul began this epistle with in 1st Timothy and chapter 1 verse 5 he says the purpose of commandment is love from a pure heart a good conscience and faith and faith so what does this mean when he says she must continue in these things well faith would be her faith in the Lord love would be her love to everyone in holiness would be just that she is set apart and she does this with all self-control which means to be sober minded ladies this is a high calling in fact Paul reiterates this in Titus 2 where he mentions old women teach young women and the first thing that that I am to teach you as an older woman is to be self-controlled to be self-controlled so what is the woman's clothing in the church from verse 9 women are to dress in modest clothing and jewelry that is becoming the profession of her faith in Christ what about you what about the way you come to dress to worship do you stop at look at yourself in the mirror and ask if what you are wearing pleases the Lord would you dress in that manner if Christ was going to visit your church this Sunday he is he's going to be there he's here right now right since he's omnipresent he's everywhere right are you secretly drawing attention to yourself by the way you dress do you purposely dress seductively and tight fit clothes and low blouses to attract the attention of men are you wearing clothes in a way that a man would desire something in you that you cannot righteously fulfill ladies for those of you that are married you might ask your husband before you leave the house and honey am I dressed appropriately and for those of you with daughters please make sure they're dressed appropriately before my daughter became a believer we went round and round and we'd go clothes shopping I'm like you're not buying that no you're not buying that you're not buying that either and so you know Mark the piece has a great book out called clothes it's more than just modesty so you might pick that up and go through that with your teenage daughters the woman's character in the church from verse 10 women are not to focus on their good looks but their good works how much time have you spent this past week focusing on your inner heart how much time have you spent in the word in prayer and with God's people this last week in comparison to the time you've spent on Pinterest Instagram Facebook Twitter and I can't even name all the other Google and you know there's new ones every day coming up how much time is spent on your inner woman versus the outer woman what good works have you done for the master this week and the woman's conduct in the church from verses 11 and 12 women are to learn with all calmness and submission to those in authority over her are you guilty of overstepping your boundaries do you secretly wish that you could be the preacher in the pulpit the woman's created order from verses 13 to 14 have you embraced the God given truth that the woman was created second for the purpose of being a helper to her husband do you dwell on the untruth that you're a second-class Christian do you joy in the fact that God has created you to be a woman and what is the woman's calling from verse 15 we are called to be delivered from the stigma of Eve's sin by rearing children to the glory of God and by continuing in faith love and holiness and we do all this with a serious mindset do you take your parenting seriously and are you rearing your children in the nurturing admonition of Christ does your life exhibit faith love holiness would others say you have a sense about you that you are sober-minded and calm in your spirit well instead of being known as women with bobbed hair who are bossy wives and women preachers how about we be known as women who properly dress perform godly and produce children my friend this describes a woman who is walking in wisdom in the church let's pray lord father god we thank you again that you have called us to be women we thank you that you have placed those in authority over us who are godly men who teach us and train us who have nurtured us through the years we do thank you that we as women can encourage and teach one another and help one another we thank you for the children that you allow us to raise for your glory we thank you father that we live in a culture where we can come to church and learn thank you that christ comes in and changes the culture that we live in and i thank you for that i thank you for the good churches that are represented here father where women can go and learn and i thank you for women who teach other women the bible so father we pray that this would not discourage us but encourage us in the things in the ways that you have called us to perform as women i pray also lord for this evening that as we go back to our perspective homes and places that we would reflect on these two messages walking in wisdom in the world in the church and prepare hearts tomorrow lord as we think about how we can walk in wisdom in our home and in our in those that are single and then lord in our calling as we think about what type of wisdom we need to possess so give us rest i pray bring us back tomorrow refreshed and ready for another day lord of learning and growing and fellowshiping with one another in christ's name i pray amen


I went too far. But having your walnuts smashed tends to harden you. If you like true revenge stories, you found the best place for your vengeful needs. First, a bully mocks an elderly disabled woman. So he gets spammed with fines, for years and years, adding up to thousands of dollars. Next, big bully gets owned, when his victim orchestrates his fake affair, in which he cheats on his girlfriend. Followed by a controlling bully cheater, who cheats on his girlfriend, but finds himself getting deported. Teenage girl gets bullied because of her body, until a vengeful sibling gets revenge by sending the foreign exchange bully home.  Naturally, viewer discretion is advised. These revenge acts, might be disturbing to bullies. This is a story about a piece of doo-doo. Receiving their deserved karma several years later. Many years ago, I worked in the lovely career of retail.  But there are also those that are so horrific, that what they do, is burned into your mind forever. Fortunately, one of these unforgettable moments allowed me to extract my revenge. I had only worked in retail for one year in this newly built store and was starting to settle in. Getting to know the great customers, and understanding that some people shouldn't be allowed outside. Which wasn't the best for me, as I'm a shy person who hates conflict. But at least one of my customers was an absolutely adorable elderly lady, who always made time to talk and was an absolute joy to be with. It had been some weeks since I had last seen her but one morning, I see her car park into the disabled parking bay, as she already has a blue badge, only this time she hobbled out of the car on crutches with a pot on her leg. I didn't have a chance to talk to her before I saw a company truck pull into the disabled space next to her. She didn't have the blue disabled badge. Outjumped an early 40s builder with their teenage kid. Well, this little old lady was having none of this and must have absolutely massive balls of steel. She stood up to this ignorant builder and politely informed them that they shouldn't be parking there, as it's for the disabled and he doesn't have a badge. What happened next I can't forget, this builder decided the best course of action was to humiliate and insult this poor elderly lady in crutches, accuse her of faking her disability and claim the cast on her leg was a fake. He added that she probably milks the benefit system for as much money as possible, then walks off putting on an over dramatic fake limp, laughing away with their teenage kid whilst the old lady stood there in shock. Sadly, being one who lacks courage, I did absolutely nothing about it and that would stick with me forever. I tried feebly to ask a manager later to do something about it, but they didn't care or want to get involved. For years, I worked in this store always seeing this scum builder come in and out. Fortunately, I never interacted with this scum builder, but I saw them often and every time I did, I would always remember what they had done vividly. I would still see them park in the disabled bays, and even got to the point where I would recognize them by the large bloom Mercedes they drove. Seven years later, I was still working in this store, and this bully scum was still parking in disabled and looking like an absolute dirtbag. I was blessed with good fortune and our store was outfitted with some absolute joyful equipment. Due to the high number of complaints our store had received, we set up an intervention to deal with the parking violations. But instead of having external parties coming in and ticketing cars, the staff of the store were given the ticketing machine and it was our duty to go to the car park and record any cars that violated the parking rules. This was all done digitally, and there would be no paper tickets upon the cars. This was brilliant. As soon as I found out, I knew what I was going to do. It didn't take long for me to learn how to use the machine, and it certainly didn't take long before the opportunity presented itself. And so, the revenge began. There were three rules for parking and if you break these rules, you'll get a lovely 80 pound fine in return, for each time it happened. The first rule, no parking in disabled without a badge. And I know very well that the scum builder is certainly violating this rule. It wasn't long until I saw him next, and as soon as he entered the store, I quickly scurried out with the ticketing machine. Low and behold, there it was. The oversized bloomer Sadie's in the closest disabled bay, with no badge. I smashed the car details into the machine with some well shot photos and sent the report off. All that was needed now, was some time for the lovely letter to arrive at their doorstep. That's not enough though, but fortunately it takes weeks for them to finally receive the ticket, which grants me the opportunity to constantly ticket their parking violations. I'm counting on this because as you would expect, the bully scum would always park in disabled, and as I worked at the front of the store, I would always know when they had parked. After ticketing their car dozens of times, the bully unfortunately learnt their lesson, as their oversized bloomer Sadie's no longer appeared in disabled parking bays.  Of course not.  That brings us to rule number two. Park in child parking, without a child. They haven't learnt their lesson and continue to be a complete dipshit in park in the child parking, which we didn't have many spaces for. At this point, I knew all their car details by heart, and would gleefully fill out the ticket machine as I skipped over to their car violating the child parking rule. I would take photos of the inside of the car, including shots of their cat seats that bear no child seats in them. And as it became routine, this once again carried on a few weeks more of tickets being created and eventually they start receiving the fines. Fortunately, me being me, I am completely invisible to others and often looked over and I have yet to be seen or caught. But as all good things must eventually come to an end, when the scum came into the shop, their blue turd automobile was no longer there in child parking or disabled.  Would you be surprised if they had not? As it didn't take me long to find them. Rule number three. You must park inside a marked bay.  They would park over the line, taking two spaces up. I'm not kidding or over exaggerating. Well guess what? That's a job for me and my ticket machine.  Boom, that ain't inside a marked bay. Ka-ching, another ticket and fine to your name. Have one single wheel slightly over the white line of a bay? Well, guess who technically broke the rule? That's right, scumbag did. And there goes a few more weeks of fun, until eventually scumbag runs out of ways that they can possibly break the rules and our company hires an external party to start ticketing cars. So my beloved weapon of justice goes to rest. Now I know what people are probably going to say, that all these fines are not enforceable because of blah, blah, blah, but I honestly don't care for a few reasons. Firstly, I'm being paid to do this. So either way, my time or money isn't wasted. Secondly, it did have an effect as they repeatedly changed their parking habits.  Overall, if all the fines are counted separate and added up, they would have received thousands of pounds worth of fines building up over time for being scum. Cherry on top about three years later, I walked by this piece of scum on the car park and watch as they scream at some innocent dude in a high-vis jacket, accusing him for being the one giving them all parking fines, which put me at peace, knowing this must have seriously got to them and cost them enough to still be raving mad after three years. A long time ago, I was a young man in an all-boys secondary school. I was about 14 for any international readers and my friends and I were regularly bullied by a large group of older guys. Being typically nerdy boys, we were prime candidates for bullying. The only saving grace was that we were quite a large group ourselves, so no one person was targeted more than any other. Unfortunately, that didn't matter as the bullying was brutal. On our school grounds, there was a small cabin that belonged to the local boy scouts. We used it to hang out around on our lunch break.  For daring to not hand it over, I was singled out for punishment, so I was grabbed by four of them. One each grabbing an arm and a leg and carried around the corner to a small courtyard with a flagpole in the middle. After a few punches for struggling, I was swung backwards and forwards a few times before being swung legs apart and full force into the pole. Any attempts to describe how painful that was wouldn't do it justice. Thankfully, one of my friends had made a run for a teacher. They were spotted coming towards the bully group by a lookout just before they had a chance to take another swing and they dropped me and ran away. I was carried to the school office nauseous and in tears and my mom was called. She found me with an ice pack between my legs and bullies the size of oranges. As she was talking to the receptionist and teacher, my friends ran up to me and passed me a mobile phone. I was confused as I didn't own one and it was at a time when they weren't nearly as common as they are now and they didn't even have games on them yet. It was an early model Nokia with an LCD screen. I looked at my friend and asked who's it was. He told me one of the bullies had dropped it as they ran off and he thought that I should have it as a small way of getting back at him. I took the phone and left with my mom. That evening I was in my bedroom feeling sorry for myself and I'd forgotten about the phone in my blazer pocket until I heard it go off. I took it out and saw he'd received a text message from his girlfriend. This was before phones had sophisticated locks and the bully hadn't set a passcode. I had no idea which bully had owned the phone but I had his name now at least. I decided to mess with him. I was off school the next day but when I went back and I talked to my friends about it and we came up with a plan. One of my friends with a mobile phone was going to message him pretending to be a guy he'd met recently. We were going to make it look like he'd been having a relationship with him and they were meeting in secret. We carried on sending messages for the rest of the week and I was also replying to his girlfriend. Although I deliberately made my replies shorter and less intimate than they had been before I got hold of the phone. I'd arranged for my bully to meet his girlfriend in the local town that Saturday but was planning to stand her up, obviously while simultaneously having my friend text the phone about ditching her to go over to his town instead. I replied agreeing and said I'd tell her I couldn't make it but here's the catch, I didn't. I waited in town where we were supposed to meet and saw a girl walk up and wait for a bit. She then got out her phone and typed a text. The phone went off in my pocket. I left it alone. She waited a few more minutes and texted me again. This time, I walked around the corner out of sight and messaged her back, asking who this was.  I told her that I had found this phone on the floor of the bus station in that town and if she knew the owner, I'd come and give it to her so she could give it back to the owner if she was nearby. She told me where she was and I waited five minutes before walking around the corner and started looking around for her. Eventually through texting, we found each other and I gave her the phone. She thanked me and we went our separate ways. On Monday I told my friends that we'd pulled it off and we just had to wait and see what happened. It wasn't long into the week when gossip started spreading through the school. The bully's girlfriend had read his messages it seemed and had dumped him for having a gay affair.  When he denied it, she pulled out the phone and read out message after destructive message. His claims he lost it over a week ago were ignored and I was not suspected. In response, his parents went biblically mad and pretty much disowned him and he was taken in by his uncle who was a little more understanding. He lost contact with a lot of his friends as his uncle's house was a lot further away so hanging out after school or at the weekend was almost impossible. And the combination of his cheating and his preference for men was so well known and accepted by now that no girl seemed interested. As far as I know, his parents never took him back and he moved to London to go to university to escape his reputation at home. I had only expected to break him and his girlfriend up but that was an unexpected bonus. I'd say it went too far but having your coconuts smashed off a flagpole tends to harden you to the plight of your bully. This story is told from the female perspective. My story happened about 10 to 15 years ago it's been a long time. It's the sweetest revenge. I was born in the States but my family members are immigrants.  He and his dad saved all their money so they could get the rest of the family here. I say this because I understand the struggles immigrants face coming here. Starting a new life without any support is rough. Before you judge me remember that I would never do this to someone actually trying to better their life.  The story is about my best friend's boyfriend. He lived with her in her family's house renting a room driving her car to work and using her cell phone that her parents paid for. She was 19 at the time. I was about 21. I was working at a club with my boyfriend. I worked really late and I had two kids. I asked my best friend if she could come over and watch them while they slept. Basically just come hang out at my place. My son was about six to seven years old. The little one was less than a year old at the time. She asked if she could have people over so she wasn't bored. I said sure as I didn't mind. I asked that she just not throw any parties. We laughed as she agreed. Everything was fine when we got back. I thanked her and she left. Later that night I saw a cup with a cigarette butt in it. So I text my friend and asked her if someone smoked in the house. I'm a smoker but because my son is really little and the older one had asthma, I didn't smoke in the house. I always went outside. The reply I received didn't make any sense. The text said, what kind is it? I said I didn't know. In my mind I'm like, there were only two other people here. How could you not know if one of them smoked inside? She's not a smoker so I knew it wasn't her. I started receiving more questions instead of a yes or no answer. The replies also didn't make much sense.  By this point, I knew I wasn't talking to her. Instead, it was her boyfriend. My best friend is white and he's Mexican. He was trying to fool me so I would tell him who she was here with.  I disliked him even more now. I never liked him before. Not for any specific reason, he just rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning. They have been dating for about a year or two. During this time it became more clear that he was controlling and abusive. I didn't see her as much anymore because I had gotten into an argument with him at her house earlier that year. We all wanted to go out to a friend's place. He didn't. He said she couldn't go either. She wanted to, but he said no. I told her we were leaving as it was really late but this Venuschnitzel made a big deal about it. He decided it was a good idea to wake her dad. So her dad would force her to stay home.  He lives in their home and he can't even let her dad sleep. Besides, she was an adult, not to mention her dad never cared if she was going anywhere with me. Her parents knew if she was with me, she was safe. After that minor blow up, I decided to not be around him. I wouldn't be able to hide my contempt of him. This is why she didn't come over to watch my kids with him. I didn't understand why she stayed with him, especially after she told me that he forced himself on her. I just put up with him for my friend. I knew if I was around, he wouldn't dare to mistreat her in front of me. But I digress back to the texts.  He then said he was going to come over, blast up my house with my kids still inside. I basically laughed to myself as I didn't believe him. I replied with a threat to get him deported. I got in touch with a mutual friend who happens to be my best friend. She knew more about him and told me he had a warrant out for his arrest. The cops had gone to pick him up one day, but they didn't find him. The family hit him, they hit him next door. My best friend's neighbor was her grandma. I didn't know any of that. I also didn't know his full legal name. She gave me all the info I needed and some more. Apparently, he also had a side chick, so he was also cheating on my friend. I told her what I was going to do and asked her to keep it a secret. I called the cops and gave them his location. Everything they needed to know, so they wouldn't miss him this time. They actually picked him up the same night. I then called ICE and updated them on the situation. So he was put on ICE hold on. This hold is a request from immigration and customs enforcement to a local jail, asking them to hold the person until they have an opportunity to take a look for a potential deportation. He couldn't get bailed out of jail now. Once in custody, the only way he was getting out was when he reached Mexico. I felt bad for my friend and their daughter. I knew she would probably never see him again, but I believe I did her a favor. I ended up telling her what I did not long after. I didn't want her to find out through someone else and get even more upset with me. It's been so long since then, and fortunately, she never said she was mad about it. I'm sure she was mad in the beginning though, but I think she also sees that I did her a favor. Her life has completely changed when he was out of the picture, in a good way. Her daughter has a better father now. Someone who takes care of both of them. He knows it was me, as I didn't hide what I did. And I wish I could deport his booty again. I've moved and when he came back, he was in a different state because he has no immediate family here. I'm not afraid of him. He got what he deserved. He was a leech for using her personal phone to talk to a side chick and meet up and have sexy time in the car that she owned. He also lived in her family's house and more. He would call dips on everything she owned and control her if she needed to use it. The prick lost everything he owned. Lost his girl, side chick and was arrested and deported. Worst of all, he also lost any chance of having any real relationship with his daughter. I did hear that he came back, but it took over 10 years. Their daughter was less than a year old. She's about 13 now. I believe he has met her once since all this happened.  My sister was bullied relentlessly in high school for something she had literally zero control over. Specifically, it was a certain part of her anatomy. Without going into details, she felt terrible about it and it more or less ruined her life as an insecure 15-year-old girl. The girl responsible for most of the cruel bullying and the one who gave her a particularly cruel nickname related to her physical issue was called Nadia. Nadia was a foreign exchange student at our school. Nadia was as beautiful as she was cruel and she didn't give any fricks about anyone else but herself. I wasn't mispopularity myself, but I had to protect my sister from having her life ruined and I felt a very strong urge to get back at her tormentors.  So that's what I did. I learned that the father of Nadia was very conservative. Her whole family back home was. So, I started spreading rumors about her being very promiscuous and ensured these rumors reached the family she was staying with. This apparently caused her some trouble, but I wasn't done. I threw a party one night when my parents were gone. I invited Nadia, who gladly came as I was a cooler older girl somehow and she never said no to a chance to get hammered. I have to emphasize, there was a lot of liquor. I made sure of that.  That same night when everyone left, I put it on my Facebook. Tagged Nadia on it, she was my Facebook friend. She had this option turned on where everything she is tagged in is automatically allowed on her timeline. So a picture of her, shit-faced drunk and very skimply dressed, made its way to her page. Because of it being the middle of the night, she must not have noticed until the next day in the morning, so it stayed on for hours. But due to her parents' time zone being vastly different, I was sure they would see it before she had a chance to take it down. And they did. I wasn't there to see the fallout. Obviously, but she was gone the next week from school and flown back to her home country. Apparently, her parents had to save her from being corrupted or something. So, she was gone. And my sister saved from ridicule. Even save from other potential ridicule, as word of my involvement spread and let's just say, people didn't really wanna mess with her after seeing how far I was willing to go to protect my little sister. You stay till the end, which means you're the one I make these episodes for. I wanna take this moment to thank you. I really appreciate you because you bring me a great amount of joy. Subscribe for future uploads and show your vengeful devotion by tickling the like button without mercy. Do you have any experiences surrounding the topic of this episode? Share yours below. I'll join the conversation and I'll be seeing you in the next one.


So everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta of course my name is Bryce usually on Thursdays you see me have a coffee chat with our friend our mutual friend Catherine Edwards but she's traveling right now. So I have Jay today which is so fun and so awesome because we've got some really fun things to talk about how you doing this morning Jay. I'm good Bryce thanks for having me as always.  No you're not surrogate we're all one big up we're one big up I was actually having a conversation off air with a friend the other day how other corners of the internet they get real possessive with guests and that's just not how we are on this corner of the internet we all share that's kind of that five dimensional thinking that it's there's abundance for everyone and we all we're all just what all friends and so you know and that's the beautiful thing about this YouTube platform is we get to share ourselves with other people and try to motivate other people and help other people on their journey as well as they help us to my audience helps me as well. So Jay we I'm talking to my audience now we've been kind of talking behind the scenes about helping people help themselves so do you want to take it away. Yeah we have been and you know we've been taken and people have been watching this kind of play out as far as the journey about ways for them to become abundant but then there's also the mental health benefits of what we do and we don't talk about that enough we talk about you know we're prosperous through different things but the mental health benefits which are so critical is to be able to you know we're always around all day long around always energy and that energy is going to be up and down good or bad whatever but it is what it is right we're just we're just there and most people don't really have an effective release or a healthy release let's call it you know what I mean and they usually goes into you know whatever they do their lifestyle not judging but it's what it is but it doesn't always work out well. You know they're talking about you know and it's interesting because more and more people are trying to find out there's something really powerful in finding your voice and we were able to meeting you and I we were able to really get a lot of our voice found by having a show and really getting out there on the internet starting to talk through the stop and and not always not always knowing what you know how to can speak for us we're not always knowing what we were going to say when we turned on the power button or the or the record button but you start talking and then what happens is you start talking and eventually your spirit catches up with the with the words coming up and they start to meet and next thing you know you're starting to say stuff they're like where'd I come up with that from you know what I mean so there's a lot of there I think you know you and I would you were saying you know gosh people right now that are that are tired of work or working for someone or you know they're at that age in life where Bryce they you know look in your 20s 30s maybe whatever you know you kind of need to learn the ropes I guess a bit but there's a point in time where you you know you you probably would be good just to answer to yourself as much as you can you know yeah I and as you're taught as we were talking about this I'm going back in my head to like corporate jobs that I had before I went to India and just your energy and your thoughts and your feelings are so precious and I've had jobs that I literally hated like driving up to work every day was like going to my own execution and in those time periods of being as heavily and dated with stuff that I absolutely was what just hated doing it was hard for me to get up in the morning it was hard for me to find joy outside of work the weekends came and I wanted to just soak it all up and just party hard and just because I knew I was going back to work that Monday and that's no way to live your life when you're living a life where you love what you're doing it's easy to get up in the morning I mean we were texting at six o'clock this morning Jay about the show yeah we were you know and so it's easy to find that joy and get excited to get up in the morning you know having to put your go to bed at night because you need to get sleep and and you start to exercise more and you start to take care of yourself because you're in a good place and so I know we were talking Jay about this with like the media side of this and I just want my my audience to know that your hobbies can become a marketable tool you can change the way that you generally we all have to generate an income we all have to make money we have to pay to live but that doesn't have to be labor intensive it doesn't you don't have to be enslaved and yes you're right having those crappy jobs having that that stuff when you're in your early 20s and you do need that experience because that's what's giving you the friction to know what you don't want and it kind of also you learn from that you learn how to manage business all that kind of stuff and so yeah it's it's your quality of life changes when you start to actually have a quality of life you know and the other thing too is that people that are have not here's what happens is is people are they don't really get happy or they don't feel fulfilled when they're not finding their purpose so like you know if you're at a certain age in life and you know who you are you know when you keep showing up and you know you get ready you go and you leave and you're like a machine yeah you know when you feel like a zombie you know that's not existence that's not finding your purpose but when you find your purpose you feel alive and I can tell you you know as a business person if there was a different way I pretty confident would have figured it out but I'm telling you there's no better way to do it than what we're doing right now is to talk the shit out I mean you got you know get on a show start talking start interviewing people and I really I tell you if in today's world 2023 if people want to really saw a chance of preserving their mental health to know medical disclaimers here but to really find their purpose but really joy in life to feel like hey you know I could text a friend at six in the morning and it doesn't feel like work it's just we're just so excited to experience life kind of thing like that that you know you want to really consider doing what we're doing I mean to put a very point blank to you which you want to consider having your own show having your own voice because it again you know yeah there's the business side of this where you can you can actually make a really good living you know really as much as you really want out of this thing it's up to you but the therapeutic benefits of just being able to release all that comes along that energy and you know what I mean it's like all that comes along that is I don't know if you can ever put a price on that it's so healing you know and then you meet people Bryce you know what I mean you just meet people that are it's like it's like I was reading something it's like your voice was your voice is meant to be heard by your soul cluster your soul tribe so yeah you want to find them you got to speak it you know I see here I am yeah guys and you know to what work with like work I think so many people especially in like the Western worlds I have this idea that they have to be like at work eight nine ten hours a day when literally it's not quantity but quality like my boyfriend only works like four hours a day and he does really well he does financially really well because he's putting so much into that's what he wants he doesn't have so it's possible and I was thinking to like how many people I know I always use accounting as a as a it just seems like a very mainstream job like say there's an accountant out there that hates his job but comes home in the afternoon and loves tinkering with cars well we can take that hobby for you and help you create content create something where that can be your job is what you love to do and to watch how that shifts your life and to watch how that energy shift of actually being excited every day to go to the garage for example and even with the with with YouTube if you're someone who are podcasting if you're someone who is shy and doesn't want to put your face out there do you know how many channels there are people that you never see their face or know their name it's just them doing up it's them crocheting it's them you know and so we can help you figure out how because YouTube rumble these these these free there if anybody can open up a YouTube channel what's going to happen to is when you start that journey of finding your voice and finding what you love to do and really putting your emphasis into that so much is going to things that you haven't even considered yet are going to start to open up for you because all of a sudden you are in alignment with what you you that there's a reason why not everybody has the same hobbies because we all have specific things that we're supposed to do in this world and and so it's it's a beautiful thing to put yourself out there in that way you know there's universal laws of of being there's universal laws of living and that's part of what we'll we want to help people with is so they know is like is how to how to find out who you are like you're like what's your spirit about you know what are you what's your message supposed to be about crocheting is it about it's about helping we don't know you know whatever that is for you is what it is for you but at some point in time we're all meant to make an impact in someone's life and in a good way you know what I mean and now into you know it's interesting it's like I was talking to someone Bryson said well you know the internet so well everybody's doing I'm like now you know listen it's not about that people start to think in terms of linear like oh well I have to have this or there's got to be so many things you have to start to be great you don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great and then when your voice gets out there it's it's like the it's like it's like the angels singing if you would you're going to draw in your soul tribe and then they start to they're like they've been waiting for you yeah so imagine a world a consciousness we call it the fifth dimension if you would and we don't think you have to die to get there you know but is is that but imagine that universe where you speak and then there in comes your soul cluster waiting for you like they're waiting for you and then they come in and then all of a sudden you start to collaborate with them and next thing you know you start to come up with these really cool business ideas together next thing you know you're making money together next thing you know you're you're having these you're having these connections that you would have never dreamed of having in your life that are so fulfilling you start to look at our videos you start to live younger longer because you're tapped into a source you don't feel like you're aging like that because you're not going through this painful existence of let me jump on that rat way that that clock and this this is great you know listen you may be like god bless all those that I tell you I'm I was champion at cause but those those parents out there that are homeschooling looking for things to do I mean if you did there's no real strict operation that says you have to have a certain scenario to make this work you have to have two things you have to be able to speak in most cases and you have to do I mean I'm on a I'm on a laptop right now right yeah I'm on a 2016 laptop my boyfriend laughing that my computer must be protected by the gods because it's still working but yeah I'm on a we're on zoom we're filming on zoom and and so um and as you're talking James yeah because my first when I opened up esoteric Atlanta in 2020 I had zero subscribers my first video I put out I had zero views it wasn't until my boyfriend watched it that I got my first view and I just kept going you just keep going you keep going you all these big channels that you watch whether it's in our community or another community they started with zero they started with zero subscribers and they just kept doing it and kept doing it and so no you don't have to start with the following already that's not I didn't have a following when I started you know like it's it's that you build that because you start to connect with other people all the sudden the algorithms pick up and yeah we I absolutely and that's what I love about what's you what your ideas Jay because I would love to help somebody figure out what it is they love to do and then figure out a creative way to make a living doing it so that they can walk away from that which makes them miserable and that which is weighing them down you know when you're in a bad situation when you're in an awful job you feel heavy you feel like you're being that energy is heavy but when you start to do what you love it's like you're breaking free of that bondage and I know in our community we have a lot of people talk about oh the white hats are going to save us the white hats are going to save us but even that alone waiting for somebody else to come and rescue you is a heavy energy to carry and when you start to do what you love and when you start to be able to put that energy out there you start something very magical happens inside of you where you realize you are the white hat you are the one saving you and that is so powerful and that's part of that great awakening that taking your sovereignty back is being authentically you you know I get to wake up in the morning exercise do my practice and then put cut off t-shirts on and come film all day how cool is that you know and make a living doing it and so um and so yeah that that opportunity is out there for anybody who wants to take it it'll change your life I mean I tell you it's it's the best life changing experience I tell you I'm 52 and and this is the coolest thing I feel like I've ever done it really is it's uh it's it's so nurturing you know it's it's it's my business you know what I mean so we do it you know here's another thing people think well you know what they don't ship careers or they don't do anything because they don't want to quote on quote let's say sell a product or try to do something else or something here's the thing in this in this particular version we're talking about this reality you're the product how about that how about you being the product imagine a world where you're the product people are showing up to buy you that's a cool thing imagine that you you're the one doing that you're the one people want to people want to know what you're talking about people are looking to hanging on waiting for you to say the next thing you you're they're empowering people you're getting you're getting paid to do what you love to do this is how it's supposed to work it's it's literally like this I mean there's a you know I don't know people say there's always this linear well those at the top goes are there yeah there's people that make it but they I I my my inherent belief price is that we were all given when we came here we were all given a set of rules yeah and there's a certain percentage that mastered the hell out of it a lot better than a lot of other people you know what I mean then you call them the top one percenters or whatever you want to call them but at the end of the day instead of like you know sitting there complaining pointed fingers throwing in daggers let's figure out the rules you know what I mean let's figure out the rules that they really want because because they you know we get we get rules we get let's understand the rules of the universe so when we get together we want a couple of things we'll talk about as a is the linear part of it which is help you to get set up but also the universal laws of success you know what I mean like really what how do you how do you attract this how do you how do you really attract people to you how do you make it where it doesn't feel like you're doing another job again you know what I mean because it really can be a very beautiful spiritual experience if you allow it to be it's an energy exchange and I think sometimes we get so bogged down with the with the work and that we have to labor and be in pain in order to get paid from the job but no everything's an energy exchange and that's all money is it's an energy exchange and so like for me off-camera I get paid pretty pretty pretty decent money to teach people yoga and Eastern philosophy so I'm people are paying paying for my time because I've spent so much time in India so much time with my teachers that I paid them for their information that now I'm able to give you and work with you one-on-one and so it's a paid there's it's a cycle it's an exchange of energy right and yes you are the product because let's say for example I'll give another example my aunt is in real estate and before I when I was just thinking about starting my channel she told me about one of her clients that she was selling land to this guy was a youtuber do you know what his channel was he was making millions do you know what he did on his channel clean carpets he just showed people how to clean carpets like oriental rugs very expensive carpets and he was making millions but he loves it he I love watching I'll tell you guys when I need to relax I love my reality tv but when I need to react relax sometimes I watch cleaning channels I watch people clean their kitchen it's relaxing and I learn tricks about you so there's there's there's anything anything that you have you've done that you know a lot about that you a hobby you've been studying or something people will people want that information from you and so if you create something like a platform or a podcast or a youtube channel it's going to start you in that in that direction of people really paying you for your time and what you know and how cool would that be to be able to work all day doing something you really dig doing that makes you happy but then also getting paid for at the same time you know I had a I had a you know I get calls and messages come in but I was listening to one of them and this poor lady was freaking out about apparently some sort of system activating whatever blah blah right so so some some sort of emergency system that's happening so freaking out she's like I need someone to call me right away I don't know how to handle it I don't know what to do right so you know my my first thought was to be able to say well you know someone needs to talk this lady off the ledge right but then but then I was like you know what why don't you start talking get a circle call it a show whatever but get ahead and get in a zoom call like this and price to tell you she did exactly this as a get a get a zoom call going talk it out talk out what you're what you're thinking with a group of your people and watch it all go away and then she texts me back and she's like hey she's like within 10 minutes it's all gone I don't have that nervousness anymore you know what I mean she's like I don't have any of that anymore and and I felt really bad because it was literally on my voice no she's in tears about something that we don't emergency broadcasting system like what is that you know what I mean don't know but I mean you know if it is in them if it's gonna be there it's gonna be there let it be there when it's be there and that's okay then nothing to get freaked out about it you know we're just it is what it is right um so anyway but but what I'm saying is that because of the fact that she was able to talk it out even with a small group of people like you and I are doing right now she was able to start to release all of that yeah you know in a matter of moments and that's what happens there and when you release that anxiety and you release that that that that stress that that drama that all those external forces and I'm not here about what the what you're saying what should or shouldn't believe but whatever it is that gets you through the day but you take you you gotta find a way to get rid of that energy you have to find a way to get rid of that energy or you'll you'll you'll feel like that so again you know by embracing having your own show talking it out you know look here's here's your triggers right now do you not feel it optimum performance mentally you know are you making the money you want to make you know what I mean are you working for someone that you feel like you shouldn't be working with someone half your age telling you when you should take a break and go to lunch I mean are these things like that I mean if you got any of those triggers it's time for you to step up all your big boy fans and girl boy fans and do something about yourself and don't complain about it because there's there's solutions out there we need your voice you know what I mean we need voices out there I mean are you tired of waiting for somebody else to come rescue you for somebody else to tell you when it's time when you're okay when in reality you are the keeper of that you are the person you are your savior and so Jay so we're gonna be running like a course to help people with this so again I want to reiterate what if you want to regardless of even if you don't even know quite what you want to do but you want change we can help you I can help you with that as I've said before my background before I went to India before I just said screw the world and went off to India for a while I studied this I studied storytelling I interned literature I interned at a radio station I've interned in the West End I know how to handle filming I know how to how to create interesting content and so I can help you with that on during this course I can help you figure out what it is that you love to do and then we can figure out together a creative way to to let that be what you do and what I have that become that thing that you love so much you would be shocked about what you might be sitting here thinking well I really just love to needlepoint who's gonna you'd be surprised we can figure out a way to film it for you I can help you with the editing I can help you with everything vocal warm-ups how to how to pronunciate all that kind of stuff I can help you with that and Jay you have your set of I mean I was laughing the other day I keep saying this like I need a J in my life because you are very good at organization and all this so so yeah so you would have both of us helping you create this for yourself yeah absolutely you know like you're saying like you can help them come up with the concept of what it is they want the technical aspects of how to turn on the monetization on YouTube and coming up with their and and you know you know I've been blessed with the gift to help people make money you know what I mean and that's what I do you know what I mean that's what I love doing and I love being able to work with you work with your spirit so you can prosper with it and then I think people should reach out you know it's it's so so nurturing from both sides we hope to you know fuel your soul and let you get let you get what we're feeling but just we we also understand when we're talking to it does the same for us it's very it's very therapeutic all the way through you know absolutely and there's your it's you know I think we do have this feeling that they're they're rich they're the haves and they have nots and I believe that we all can be haves we all have you are your own prosperity package you are your own savior you are your own white hat and your voice is valuable and your spirit is valuable and you are here for a reason and that reason might be people might you got you have I mean listen there's another channel I watched where it's a cleaning channel and what you know what the girl did she went all these books from like the 1950s and the 1920s and she lived for a week like a 90 it's the it's the most fantastic video I've seen where she it's just the possibilities are limitless because they're infinite because the truth is infinite and so and I know people get insecure and they get scared and stuff and that's why J and I are here to help you take that first step so that you feel like you have the tools that you need to continue pushing yourself forward so yeah you that you know how to do stuff like set up your AdSense you know how to do stuff like set up your you'd make a thumbnail like these little stuff that we that you have to do with that we can help you with that and so is there anything you else want to you want you want to add to that J yeah I think people just really like I said you know they know who they are they're looking for a reason and you know we're always here trying to help provide a solution you know as far as what works for people and you're watching out there because and so you know watching this I mean the people watching as you know this works because you watch these shows and you know and you see what the the shows that you're watching what they're doing what they're what they're doing and why and how are they how are they showing up every day and not being feeling like they have to go to work and that's what we want to share with you there's those kind of ways out there so you can be the haves and and don't have to live in this have not kind of scenario I mean that was that was very well said there's a lot of money and a lot of abundance to go around just grab your share I don't think there's a better way to do it where you know instead of focusing on what product is going to make you wealthy or give you freedom think about what you are going to do that's going to make you wealthy and give you freedom because you're the product ultimately if you love what you do you will never work a day in your life so that's right buddy all right so for anybody who's interested in your and you this is really calling to you and you just fed up and you want to make that change you guys can text Bryce Media B R I C E M E D I A to J's number which is<PHONE_NUMBER> I always laugh I only know my number and J's number I don't even know I know my mom's number but I don't even know my boyfriend's number nowadays but I know J's number now so you're just going to text Bryce Media and that will all be in the description box as well guys and then J will get back with you and we will start from there all it takes is just that one text you're not by sending that text you're not committing to anything you're just you're just curious you just want to know more about which is very awesome so it doesn't hurt to just sit send that text and again you'll get both J and me off camera where we will help you help you help yourself so that you feel confident once you're done with the course you'll feel confident and you'll be able to go out there and really own your own sovereignty and own your own voice and and I mean think about it guys like all you guys that are getting up at the crack of dawn miserable putting your work clothes on going to a corporation imagine your life if you could get up in the morning J's in beautiful Florida go outside walk on the beach for a moment get some fresh air you know and then come in and film some videos do your you know how much better quality of life are you gonna have it's the best it really is the best and I gotta tell you you know Bryce oh man it's like every morning we wake up and we're like we love what we do it gives us so much freedom the money's the end money out you know money comes in different ways and it is what it is so it's not all about that but the freedom yeah you can't put a price on any of that I mean work out when you want to work go when you want to work work for your want to work work for you don't want to work and that's it and you do your thing yeah some more time to get your animals you get better be better prepared for your children like you deserve to be happy and you don't deserve to be miserable and you are you are your own white hat you are your own savior you are you hold the keys I mean that's what the Emerald if you guys were with me through our whole Emerald tablets reading you are the key to your own magic yeah yeah so we and we will help you with that so again text Bryce media to<PHONE_NUMBER> that's directly to Jay and he will get back to you and we'll go from there and any other questions you guys have feel free to ask them down in the comment section below and I will answer them to the best of my ability well thank you so much Jay this is always good I appreciate this that's a lot of fun it's it's it's it's good to just like getting meet other spirits along the road you know what I mean is what right yes and and hopefully Jay you'll be more joining us for more coffee chats and I'm gonna have you back on my channel coming up for some some some surprises as we have coming up with some other platforms soon but um but yes you guys and I will put all of Jay's links too to his spiritually raw channel all of that kind of stuff as well so you can check out what he and April have done on YouTube as well so anyway guys have a wonderful Thursday and a great weekend ahead and we will hopefully talk to a lot of you guys very very soon bye everybody


Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Commodity Snapshot with myself Jasper Lawler. We're going to be looking at Brent's Crude Oil. Now the price topped out around May and has been in a steep downtrend since. Just hit around $50 per barrel, which is a level a lot of people look at, so we just want to try and determine whether this downtrend is likely to continue or whether we may be in for a bit of a correction. Now there's a few things to keep an eye on with Brent Crude. I would argue a couple of the main reasons why this downtrend has taken place and some reasons to think it may continue is just the general supply-demand picture of actual Brent Crude Oil, Middle Eastern countries, particularly OPEC, are producing record amounts of oil and it does just seem that the oil produced in the US has not massively expanded but just hasn't really contracted, which many people thought it might have done given the decrease in the price of oil in the past year. Now it's been a steep downtrend and it's never a good idea to catch a falling knife. Part of the reason for the downtrend is the supply dynamics that we mentioned but also just that there are rising expectations that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates for the first time in many years in September and that's been supporting the dollar, obviously because all commodities are generally priced in dollars, these commodity prices have been heading down. Now that has slightly shifted in the past few days. There's been some disruption in the Chinese currency market and the Chinese stock market. A few world headwinds which may be caused the Fed to delay hiking interest rates at least until perhaps December and so for that reason there's a chance that maybe the dollar is topped out for now. We're seeing dolly yen around 125, the pound and the euro both nearing the tops of recent trading ranges potentially going to break out so perhaps some reason to think the dollar is topping out and so this could be supportive of oil prices. Now taking a look at the chart, what we've got in front of us is the daily candlestick chart for Brent Crude Oil. Just got the one moving average on there and you can see that's the 200-day moving average so showing us alongside the steep decline in the candlesticks that we're in a downtrend what we've also had is a fairly consistent downtrend on the RSI beneath the price chart that has just recently been broken so that alongside the $50 per hour level alongside what you'll see at the far left-hand side of the chart was a bit of a consolidation which took place in January. Couple of reasons there to suggest that maybe this isn't going to be just a correction maybe there is going to be a bit of a longer, bigger bounce here in Crude Oil. What we do have to keep in mind though is that this shaded area above you see in the chart is a sort of supply area that a lot of people will be looking at. It's been supporting prices for a while, we've got a break through there so it's entirely possible we've just got a little bounce up to that level before declining again perhaps even to new multi-year lows. So that's it for this week's CMC Markets Commodity Snapshot. What we're really looking at here is expectations for the Federal Reserve, signs that maybe the dollar has topped out and just signs of a breakout out of this recent $50 per hour type zone in Brent just to give us an idea that maybe we put in a short-term bottom and there's a chance for a pop higher in Brent Crude


It's beautiful here in Rocky Mountain National Park. I teach a class in the geology of the national parks and we talk about questions like why are those huge mountains there and why are they made of rocks that were deep in the earth not that long ago where it was really hot and they were sitting under some volcano. And then we talk about volcanoes and earthquakes and things that matter to people and we talk about these great convection cells deep in the mantle that drive the drifting continents and the pectonic plates and that ultimately responsible for the volcanoes and the earthquakes that people worry about. We talk about the sun heating that mountain and later in the afternoon that heat will cause the air to rise and it will be causing big poofy white clouds and those clouds may lead the hailstorms and tornadoes and things that matter to people and when we talk about these circulations in the earth or the circulations in the air most people say yeah yeah yeah get on to the exciting stuff the volcanoes and the tornadoes that we're really interested in. We also talk about the fact that the sun shines through the air and heats the mountain but the mountain is radiating longer waves infrared back to space and because there's CO2 and water vapor in the air we are warmer than we otherwise would be because they are blocking some of that heat that the mountain is sending back to space. That CO2 in the air we are raising because we're burning fossil fuels and at that point a whole lot of people who are very happy with convection currents in the mantle or in the atmosphere start to say wait a minute how do we know there's CO2 in the air? How do we know the CO2 is blocking heat? How do we know that humans are raising the CO2? Does that matter to us at all? And we get off on a discussion of technical points of science that people are very happy to accept similar things when it doesn't matter to them as much. Now the physics of the atmosphere are in many ways easier than the physics of what's underneath our feet. What's under our feet our understanding of these convection currents in the mountain building is based on work by hundreds thousands of scientists working over decades proposing new ideas making predictions that differ from predictions of other ideas and seeing which ones work throwing away what doesn't work keeping what's left as a provisional estimate of the truth and moving forward in that science. The physics of the atmosphere is based on work probably by more scientists working longer. The greenhouse effect of our CO2 has been understood for more than a century and it's really based on physics that was refined by the Air Force right after World War II. Now the Air Force wasn't doing global warming. They were doing things such as heat seeking missiles. You can see the infrared coming from the hot engine of an enemy bomber and if you have the right sensor on your missile you can follow that and shoot down the enemy but if you have the wrong sensor CO2 blocks that radiation. There's a little bit of radiation comes down from enemy bombers. There's much more comes up from the sun-warmed earth. The CO2 in the air doesn't care what made the radiation. It interacts with it and so the physics of how greenhouse gases warm the earth of how our CO2 warms the earth is really really solid and it's been known for a very long time and that plus the fact that we in the US are putting up something like 20 tons of CO2 per person per year is really all you need to know to realize that this matters. So let's go and take a look at the really solid physics and what it means.


I came and I was speaking to you. Did you understand your professor? He did not. You said that I'm going through the same things my father did when he was young and that you need to pray for me because you saw like chains around me and I'm trying to move forward in life, but that's like holding me and you need to pray for me for me to receive breakthrough. You understood it? Yes. Okay, I thought you did not. You understood it. It was loud. It was hard hearing you. It was what? It was hard hearing you. The music was loud. It was loud. Okay. But you got it. You got a message. Yes.  Okay. You see, we have a lot of people who they don't know why. You know, there are people who are living, who to them, they may not see there's a problem, but at least to be comfortable that's what it means to your destiny. Some people are living comfortable, but that's not their destiny. The fact that we're home, you are sleeping and you have one car and that doesn't mean that's your destiny. Where's your father? Who's my father? Where is your father? He must be at home. All right. I think so. You know, I'm so much interested with your father because I see a background of your father. Okay. Is there anything like Antonio or something? That's my dad. That's his name. His name is Antonio. Let me write something. Give me a pen. I want to write something for you. Just give me a paper. Come on. Just a greeting. This man, there is God will use this man to be a foundation to set free the whole family, the whole family. Are you not surprised what I just told you now? Yeah, you're surprised. Oh, what I wrote on the paper. You're surprised, right? Yeah, too, yeah. And it's true, right? Yes, true. Now, as Louis comes up on the stage, for those of you who doesn't know who this man is, he's a prophet of God and God uses him mightily in a detailed word of prophecy. And on Monday he spotted Louis and he started to prophesy to him. And now we want to hear from Louis the confirmation. And what did he tell you? Yeah, so on Monday I was sitting on the pews and he came up to me and he said, as I'm walking towards you, I see there's chains around you symbolizing that you're trying to move in life forward, but there's something holding you back. He said that I could see in your family similar things are going like this, like people try to move forward financially or just in general, trying to succeed, but there's always something holding us back. He said that what I'm going through right now is kind of like what my dad was going through when he was young. He said, so what I need to do, I need to pray for you right now for you to receive breakthrough.  So what he said that your father went through the similar things when he was younger, can you confirm that to be true? Yes, well, now that I think about it, I mean that whole night I was just thinking about what he said, not to think about it. Yeah, I see my family, my siblings, they receive either certificates or degrees and nothing happens with them or they try to get jobs and it doesn't happen. And me personally, myself, I try to apply for different positions or promotions and I don't receive them. And just like I said, I ask myself why I'm just probably unlucky but it's true, there's always something trying to hold you back in spiritual life, it's not just of coincidence but sometimes you don't know why things happen but it's spiritually and you need to know and be aware of those things to fight against it and be aware and know what you're trying to fight against. Yeah, and he also said that you're going to become like a foundation for your family to receive freedom. Can you confirm that to be true since you're actually the first one who gave your life to Jesus Christ out of your family? Yeah, so as many of you guys know a little bit about me, we were raised in Catholic religion. So I was the first one to receive Christ and be a follower and that's one of my prayers ever since I came here was to bring my family to Christ and seeing, hearing that from him. I mean, I didn't know, I'd never talked to him about this or anything like that so having him telling me that, that was pretty cool because that's always been one of my prayers to see my family come and receive Christ. Amen, amen, let's put our hands together for God. And we also saw in a video that he asked for a piece of paper and a pen. Can you tell us what did he write and told you afterwards? I don't think he has it ready for that, you guys don't hear it? It was something simple, he just wrote down April and he's like, what is this? And it was my birth month. So I thought that was pretty cool.  Luis, do you believe that through this prophecy that God sees you and you will receive a breakthrough and doors will be opened to your family and to your personal life? Oh yeah, most definitely, you know, I'm gonna put it to test. I don't know, I guess you could say that. There's gonna be things coming up forward that I'm looking forward to and I know now what was holding me back and now I'm gonna pray for it to, for me to receive all these breakthroughs and I do believe that it's gonna happen. Amen, amen, let's put our hands together for God. Thank you Luis so much, thank you.