Austin, Austin, Austin! Wake up bro, come on. You good? He was out for a minute, he was twitching and talking in his sleep bro. Let's go bro, we got work to do.  Do you know a guy called Austin Godsey? Is he just the average scammer who's trying to get your, I guess it's about $300 money? He's a fraud. His job is to post the most insane lifestyle and tell the most incredibly fake origin story to convince you if he can make it investing in forex? So can you. I've looked at his Instagram for years and find it almost satire. What makes it sad is how many people fall for it. Maybe I'm too old and they're all young but it's laughable. Investing isn't easy and I wouldn't really call it passive. It takes a lot of research and knowledge to know where to invest, when to get in and pull out. Some people get lucky by taking advice off of Reddit like GameStop but you can also read stories of people who've destroyed their life.  The power of image. With social media how others perceive you has become something you can completely control. You can carefully craft and compose your own image and you can use this carefully crafted image to deceive and to hurt others. A wolf in sheep's clothing. You can even use this image to scam, deceive, and manipulate kids. You can make them relate to you and also admire you and you can do it all for personal gain while hiding a much darker truth.  People say I don't have the money. If you don't have the money that's why you should join the company. If you don't have time to buy you should join the company. Guys you're gonna make more than $15 a month all this product. No guarantees. I saw that need in our society right now with a lot of people going out there just not knowing what to do when they come out of high school and so on and so forth. Let's expose a scammer.  Instead, today let's expose a good scammer. Austin Godsey is what one could call the definition of a 21st century snake oil salesman roping college and even high school kids into a pyramid scheme. Praying on their interests and carefully navigating the ways in which he goes about his deception. And the worst part one could say for a long time he's been really really good at it. The story of Austin unpacks the psyche of many scammers. The rags to riches storytelling, the lies and fake persona, the charisma and friendly attitude that ropes you in all just to take from you. So in today's video I'm gonna try and unpack everything that is Austin Godsey. Ever since my video on forex scams when I first stumbled upon Austin Godsey there's something about this youth pastor little peep wannabe that has just stuck in my mind. Maybe it was his quality YouTube content. The best video that I came across just pure gold is from this one distributor. Someone who looks very similar to little peep to convey how big of a market iMarkets Live is. He shows all of these different liquids and by the end of the video he's just sitting in a room full of liquid and it is amazing. You know it doesn't matter if you're broke. Years ago when I saw this information I didn't have money but it's not a lack of money that inhibits you it's a lack of motivation. So I decided to feel my curiosity and dive a little bit deeper into Austin Godsey and who he really is. And boy is there a lot more than meets the eye. I want to shout out always Marco who's a YouTuber on here that did a deep dive into iAM Academy. I'll link his two YouTube videos on iAM Academy down below so that you can check those out. And before we get into this video if you like this video then give it a like if you want to. And if you like this type of content don't forget to subscribe and let's get into the video. So who is Austin exactly? Austin Godsey is an MLM rep. The business that I really came up in was you know network marketing. I know a lot of people have like a nomenclature and a stigma around it's you know a pyramid scheme or a scam and I feel like people that call things scams they don't really understand what it is. They have a lack of education. I feel like scam scam stands for still confused about money or still cooking at McDonald's whatever it may be. So get back to your upline if you haven't already guys. Get back to your upline. That is pretty much all he is but he is a high-ranking rep of iAM Academy. The company that I got involved in was 4x education the current education. Currently right now our company has almost 100,000 customers. My team doing over 10,000 customers eight figures in revenue and he's definitely been able to brand himself as the not like other MLM reps of MLM reps. Before we can understand Austin Godsey and some of his more sinister aspects we have to understand the scam that he's selling. So what is 4x? Luckily I had an opportunity to sit down with a YouTuber on here called Trader Nick who's more versed in the trading world and was able to answer some questions I had. 4x is short for foreign exchange. People also call it currency trading. There's all different names for it but the main idea is you are actually trading currencies relative to each other. So you've got the Euro, you've got the Great British Pound, you've got the US dollar and in one way or another it impacts all of our lives because we all have money in some sort of currency. 4x is like stock trading but instead of trading stocks of various companies, you're trading foreign currencies based on the currency's usually minor fluctuations. What is 4x? You buy a certain amount of currency, hold on to it while the exchange rate moves then change it back making money along the way. 4x by itself is not a scam. Most people when they hear 4x they think scam. Scam SCAM stands for still confused about money or still cooking on McDonald's. Because most people who are introduced to 4x usually come through a MLM. Who here ever had a hater in network marketing? Some of you said it's not going to work, too good to be true, you're not going to make money in those things. A bunch of my friends were like, it's a scam. You know what I would say? A scam? Scam SCAM? Oh you're still chilling at mom's.  So when you combine the two it's like clashing like the two worst people in the room and into one person. It just makes them worse. The stock market is a mix of elusive and complex and it's fascinated particularly young people for quite some time mainly for its ability to make a select few very very rich. And for decades scammers have profited off of stock market scams through preying on people's desires to get rich off of the stock market. What do you think about the prevalence of stock market scams especially nowadays? I remember when I first started getting into like stocks and trading and investing it wasn't really like the cool thing to do but now it is. Some good things come with that because like there's honestly a good thing about getting people involved in learning to invest and learning to manage their money and there's that good side that comes with everybody being interested in this stuff but then there's also the negative side where it is ripe for scams and for people getting taken advantage of but here's what I will say on the subject. We like my team and I that we put out a lot of content around this stuff and our goal is to give out probably 95% of what we do for free not holding back anything about what we know. That's what we do we create content for free educational material informational material coverage on what's going on the world and I know a lot of other creators who do stuff like that so just knowing that you don't need to go buy expensive stuff. I didn't pay for anything and I learned what I know which I don't know everything but I know enough to feel like I get buying so if I can do that so can you at home? Enter I am academy. Now I want you guys to think about I am master academy like an extremely prestigious university the Yale of trading of the Harvard of forex right we don't touch your money we don't take investments right we're an educational platform that's going to teach you how to do that on your own and just like any other prestigious university there's a tuition right so in order to get started here it's 234 initial investment 175 month but as promised you guys are going to learn how to get this thing for free. You see in order to receive a tuition free scholarship here with an I am master academy you introduce the content to two people they get started here they become your accountability partner that monthly subscription is now waiting. How is this not a pyramid scheme? I am academy is an MLM that preys on people's desire to get rich off of the stock market through selling them overpriced forex trading courses. To get involved simple it is a hundred ninety five dollars during the company people say well why why why can't I just go learning online or why can't I just go learn from somebody else if you try to go learn forex it will cost you thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars people say I don't have the money if you don't have the money that's why you should join the company well I don't have time if you don't have time that's why you should join the company and I think it's crazy that people say well I don't have the money I don't have two hundred dollars if you don't have two hundred dollars to invest in an opportunity like a change your life and you work at the same job for a year or two years five years that's the real scam to me 15 dollars a month guys you're gonna make more than 15 dollars a month all this product no guarantees no income claims but that's just so it's basically all the buzzword scams out there it's an MLM company or a pyramid shaped company it's a get rich quick course basically that they're selling to people and it subtly promises riches off of making money off of the stock market so kind of all of those scammy things roped into one so how do you feel about I am academy itself I get messages in my DM just because I am a person in this space and I share content I get a lot of people who DM asking me you know what about I am academy or I am out or whatever they're going by nowadays everybody I know personally who has dealt with them has gotten stung pretty bad forex and just trading in general has a very very low win rate very similar to MLMs when you combine I'm not I'm not a mathematician but when you take a very low probability plus another very low probability that's terrible probability so when you combine the two it's just it's just scary because you're talking about something where people inevitably you know almost certainly fail in in multi-level marketing and you combine it with forex most people who get involved with trading they lose money for at least a year two years maybe even longer and so you're losing money from trading if you're if you're really trying to get into it because there are mistakes there are issues that every beginner makes then you're paying for the membership and you're struggling you're spending a bunch of your you know your opportunity cost of I could just go get a job and make money I'm spending all this time trying to recruit people instead that that also kind of points out the fact that you have to split up your time into two once again very low probability or low success rate things and MLM and forex and so how are you gonna you know be able to really be truly successful at either of them a few months ago I did a deep dive on IM Academy and its founder Chris Terry but the most important things to know about IM Academy is the company has gone under fire numerous times and changed its name due to so much bad publicity that it was getting I'm about to kick you out IM Academy was once called iMarketsLive the company is also known for targeting college kids primarily black college students off of promises of making it rich off the stock market they not really here for you to leave the company and grow as a trader they're not here for that they here for college students that are broke this book they here for poor people iMarketsLive target all the colleges around uh United States they just went to like almost all the black colleges i'm gonna be honest they went to all the HGUs down south they went to my college many went to so many colleges right and then they start growing there are a lot of college students who are well versed in stock markets and trading but it is something that a lot of college students are known to be interested in which kind of makes college students the perfect demographic to prey upon with a stock market pyramid scheme what questions would you kind of suggest people ask if they're being recruited by someone for a forex MLM telling them oh i'm making all this money on forex and you should you know buy my course or you know uh join my team i would ask them probably two main questions the first one is what are they teaching you in there that's not on youtube first of all because hit me up i got videos self self shout out or whatever yeah but there's there's lots of great creators so like first thing i would tell them to ask is like what are you learning in there that is really that unique the other question i would probably ask is like can you show me your account like if you're really my friend like show me how things are going and you know a lot of these people they don't show real results they don't they'll show you screenshots but you can't trust screenshots i'll say like honestly the only thing to really trust uh is probably like a track record or broker statements those are the things to look at and they will never show you those things people people in the industry who really trade usually will show you that um i've put up my track record it's not the most it's not like it's going to be like the most amazing beautiful thing ever but it's real and you know that's what i think is is valuable but you won't get that when talking to people in i am they'll tell you about you know how much so-and-so is making but they'll never talk about how much they are actually making uh in the business a comment on iamacademy posted on truthandadvertising.org reads forex isn't something new yet these guys are charging 185 dollars per month just for training that you can easily get for free on youtube it's a complete rip-off i got invited to a meeting and when i asked where are the headquarters they literally told me they don't have an actual office that the owner runs the company remotely from his hotel room in los vegas one of those distributors is austin godsey top leader and rank his rank chairman is 50 oh by the way it's impossible to hit that rank just trading forex you must recruit yet they're selling people the fake dream that the big bucks come from trading not recruiting if you research most iml reps they are pretty much doing the exact same thing vima distributors did with social media leading with height they also started a movement just like vima's ypr aka young people revolution called gv aka global visionnaires just look them up on facebook and youtube this company is misleading to the public and it's likely to be a scam there's not much that you can find on the company or brand global visionnaires it seems that global visionnaires is a front of sorts for iam academy to make it sound cooler and also more professional it's very clear that austin is either behind global visionnaires completely or is at least very involved since all of austin's videos are branded with the global visionnaires logo and all of the global visionnaires videos on their website are through austin's youtube channel i believe that global visionnaires was created as a way to make the mlm scene more legit as if it's austin's own company that he's running and not part of this larger mlm company so that when he presents people with an opportunity through global visionnaires it's not as easy to look up global visionnaires and find red flags there's also reddit testimonials about global visionnaires there's one post that was posted five years ago called global visionnaires in iml my 30 day experience where the user says to summarize my experience with the quote unquote product it is 99.9 percent stalling and wasting your time with crap like this and hyping up their own products dudes acting like what and showing phone screens with profits do yourself a favor and unfriend anyone who tries to sell you this shit because they are not your friend and they view you as a 35 dollar a month paycheck if you sign up i was curious about global visionnaires so i looked into it and found global visionnaires.org there's very very little information on this website practically no information on who created the website or who created global visionnaires the other two pages on the site besides the homepage are hidden and you need a password to view them which is something that austin godsey seems to be fairly good at keeping things hidden deleting things that might cross the legal line and covering his tracks he gives enough information on all of his social medias to hook you in and keep you interested but not enough information to reveal what's really going on and what he's trying to sell you what are people's favorite radio stations w i f m what's in it for me i'm not talking about one of the five words i'm not talking about network marketing i'm not talking about business i'm not talking about opportunity i'm not talking about forex and i'm not talking about money i keep it short and simple k i s s keep it super simple because if any of these iam academy guys were upfront and told you that all they're doing is selling people courses on how to trade forex would that really be that exciting or that interesting who would be that excited about selling a course if you think about it it's kind of lame so that's forex trading and iam academy though recently austin has also been posting a lot about cryptocurrency cryptocurrency you know i know all of us have probably heard of bitcoin ethereum ripple you know what is this cryptocurrency wave so guys this is digital currency markets and it's becoming one of the you know most globally known trends and a global form of accepted currency you went from homeless to creating a multi-million dollar business bring yourself the life you love congratulations first of all what an incredible story would you take us back to the beginning i was homeless warns for my arrest high school dropout worked at mcdonald's outback steakhouse there's been quite a few articles that have reported the rags to riches story of austin godsey you know when i first started this business guys guys i went to 13 schools in 12 years i grew up with a single mom i was a high school dropout i was in and out of jail guys i was working at mcdonald's outback steakhouse as a bus boy i was homeless living in my car a 2001 Volvo with my girlfriend eight months pregnant when i heard about this business from homeless to multi-millionaire austin godsey's secrets in two years austin godsey went from living on the streets to becoming a multi-millionaire from troubled beginnings to now guiding thousands of people in forex trading godsey harness the power of network marketing to make his own mark on the world austin godsey is home for business top 100 earners he went from homeless to millionaire in two years and has built one of the largest youth movements in the entire industry of network marketing getting the youth into network marketing exactly what the world needs godsey has helped tens of thousands of people profit in the forex markets and has helped 30 plus people hit a six figure income godsey has spoke in front of tens of thousands of people in the pasty two years he's young and just getting started i travel the world speaking at events filled with hundreds of thousands of people teaching the success of utilizing the various strategies i've used in business i'm one of the most sought after youth marketers in the game right now serving a greater purpose knowing it doesn't matter how much money you take to the grave it's about how many people show up to your funeral because you made an impact on their life austin godsey who was born to a single mother in a city called landcaster grew up in extreme poverty his constant switching of schools 13 schools in 12 years made his life even more unstable the last nail in the coffin for godsey was when his girlfriend got pregnant and they were still living in his 2009 volvo it was terrible that was four years ago with no job no income no credit no nothing it all changed when a friend of mine introduced me to network marketing and i got involved and never looked back i jumped out of high school and um you know struggled for years and then a friend of mine actually introduced me to it i saw him making some money off of this smart phone and um he looked at me and he told me you're not making money off your smart phone then it's a dumb phone i was homeless when i heard about network marketing and i was watching videos of this kid named alex morton while living in the back of my car during the winter with my eight-month pregnant girlfriend my friends laughed at me when i talked about making 100k a year i called them back years later when i was wearing that for months starting small and hoping to make only a few extra dollars that would help him make ends meet as his baby was on the way austin never expected that his achievements would succumb to what they have now to the present day currently austin operates a team of 13 000 customers across the globe teaching them how to trade forex and cryptocurrencies through his platform as austin godsey says i laser focus and get locked into my goals and eliminate everything else that can be a distraction anything or anyone negative in my life for the past four years has got the boot had to go austin's history as well as his history with mlm's is not as simple as he portrays it to be it seems that back in 2014 austin promoted an mlm called wake up now which was shut down i was in san diego i go out there and the company was a part of literally shut down the very first week i moved in but we stopped getting paid i feel like my confidence level might have transitioned to cockiness and i lost it all i actually lost my whole entire business i built a multi-million dollar business lost it completely had to come back and rebuild from scratch again then in a podcast austin claims he made a million off of a v drink which seems to be austin insinuating that he was a vima distributor another mlm company that got shut down my boy hands me an energy drink and he's like bro which one the v the v word nah vima i mean bro that's where i made my m's vima yeah the vima connection does make sense considering iam academy has a lot of connections with former vima reps but the story that austin claims is that he went from homeless to millionaire pretty much through trading forex but isn't even possible to do that with forex trading nix sent me some information that shows projection breakdowns where he shows that for austin to have turned one thousand dollars which is more than austin even claims to have started with to at least one million dollars before taxes he would have had to generate roughly 300 per year which is better returns than almost any professional money manager in the world so is it even possible to go from homeless to a multi-millionaire through trading forex and starting with very very little money the likelihood of that is pretty much impossible unless you are the best money manager in the world that concept of starting from having nothing when it comes to trading you don't get to make money if you don't have money that's an unpopular opinion but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna like fake it or whatever like the truth is if you don't have a lot of money and you are trading you're not gonna make a lot of money it's just like any other business it takes money to make money when it comes to forex if you have a hundred dollars to your name to trade with it is simply not enough like like for me a good yearly return would be 20 that'd be great that'd be a really great return if i spent a lot of time it's an unpopular opinion because i get a lot of flak on my channel for that people like you can make a hundred percent or whatnot but for me it's realistic it's sustainable it's you know it's not yeah well because i'm also you know i'm not trying to like stress myself out and see my money go all over the place like i'm trying to be semi-conservative with it so um when you hear these these people who are like i came from nothing and then i made a ton of money from forex you definitely did not like mathematically that's not how compounding works you know so so that rags riches it definitely came from recruiting people it definitely came from the other side so there are many many holes in austin's story and a lot of things that just don't add up which leads me to believe that much of it is a lie but why would this guy lie why would he claim he went from homeless to millionaire in two years if it's not true what reason would he have to tell this bizarre rags to riches story though at first glance austin's story seems very inspiring when you kind of look into it it kind of sounds like someone prayed on austin when he was at his most vulnerable in life austin's story works so well because it's that rags to riches story that everyone can relate to in some capacity but let's actually look at how much money most people end up making in i am academy the people that make under 500 dollars with an average 12 month earning of 165 dollars and a median 12 month earning of 137 dollars is approximately 68 percent of people the amount of reps that make 500 to 1500 dollars with an average 12 month earning of 870 dollars and a median 12 month earning of 800 dollars is 17 percent then you have around 10 percent making 1500 to 5000 dollars and then only 3 percent making 5000 to 10000 dollars still less than minimum wage less than 2 percent making 10 000 to 25 000 dollars with the average of 14 951 dollars still less than minimum wage and then less than 1 percent of reps make more than minimum wage in i am academy less than 1 percent make more than minimum wage and the thing is this isn't even including the monthly costs that you have to put into i am academy so let's reimagine austin's story and put it a little bit more into context when austin was homeless at his most vulnerable desperate to make money because his girlfriend was pregnant in and out of jail in trouble someone recruited him into an mlm company at that time which means that this friend of his asked him to put money into an mlm company where less than 1 percent of people make more than minimum wage my boy hands me an energy drink i drank it and then my brother's tastes weird he said because you've never tasted money before i said bro shut up don't talk to me about it i told him no don't talk to me again this kid was so persistent can you imagine this kid put my name on a piece of paper i was homeless warrants for my arrest high school dropout and this was a good thing don't get me wrong i'm glad it worked out for austin but literally for 99 percent of people it will not work out that way and when they're out there most vulnerable and struggling they will also end up being roped into something where they end up losing money aka something that i like to call a scam like even though it worked out for austin imagine how many other people at their most vulnerable in life who are struggling were told that same rags to riches story or promise of rags to riches only to end up losing money and get in an even worse situation than when they started imagine how many poor or possibly homeless people have been targeted like this by i am academy reps or better yet imagine how many vulnerable struggling people austin himself has targeted by telling them this story of his as a way to say see i did it too that means that you can even though he already knows that there's an oversaturation of i am academy reps and that none of the people that he's recruiting will be able to get to the status that he's currently at austin also speaks at a ton of motivational mlm conferences and self proclaims that he's one of the most sought after youth marketers in the game right now this event doesn't matter i could care less about this event he's branded himself as the cool young and hip mlm rep and well that doesn't really leave much room for the imagination to guess what age demographic austin god see targets so what's the problem with targeting kids and young adults well i'll answer considering i'm sort of one of them and that's that we're stupid not all the time but a lot of times we're stupid i've seen a lot of gems years primarily talking about how much of a problem it is that their schools never really taught them much about finance things like taxes saving and investing seem to be things that you learn maybe a little bit about through college but mostly after college when you're fully out and in the real world unless you grew up around family and parents who had knowledge in these things and taught you about these things growing up you're not likely to know much about the stock market so when someone presents you with a way to get rich off of the stock market you're not always going to be able to tell as easily that it's a scam which is why i'm personally willing to bet serious money that the people that are buying into these random pump and dump cryptocurrency schemes are all kind of high school to college age aka kids basically the same kids who idolized wolf of wall street and don't really understand why pump and dump schemes are bad or dangerous or even what pump and dump schemes are so they're getting roped into literally hundreds of them right now as we speak i put my entire net worth into into chode coin because my favorite fitness influencer told me we'll go to the moon and it went to zero and austin godsey knows this about his targeted demographic which is why he posts about crypto buys into the hype and is very active on social media austin has a pretty large following on social media too with fairly decent engagement usually when people buy their followers their follow number will be different than their engagement number but he seems to have a fairly consistent engagement number so either he genuinely built up a pretty strong social media presence or he's buying followers likes and comments which is quite a bit and would be very funny if he was doing that so for now we'll just assume that he's not doing that and that he has a fairly authentic following and if that's the case then austin seems to know what his audience wants to see which is apparently not any real obtainable valuable information on trading it's more like look at me in a city look at me on a plane look at me with my girlfriend and this fancy bag placed slightly off to the side but i definitely made sure that you could still see that i had this expensive bag even on his instagram highlights for trading there's not really any actual trading information it's all random numbers and look at me hustle whereas if you go to someone like trader nicks page you can see that he's actually giving permanent valuable information on the practice of trading but you mean to tell me austin is the one selling courses the dude that's giving no information on trading that can actually be valuable is the one selling trading courses interesting on youtube is where you can actually find most of austin's educational content and i say educational very lightly very lightly so um let's look at some videos of his and see how much we can learn about whatever it is that he does i fall asleep every night to an old man's voice and show you that this represents two trillion dollars per day this is two and a half trillion dollars per day traded within the foreign exchange market leaving it at a six point six trillion dollar per day market this company will become a multi-billion dollar platform with or without us only question is will you be a part of it when i would work at mcdonald's i had to learn the system before i started getting paid my real money i had to learn their learning their demo now we go live i tell them our goal this month month three we're getting you a withdrawal from your account you've already gone to the imel tv you've already gone to the imel academy and now we're using all the other products from like matt there's a purple donkey in my bathroom he's in it like wait there's a purple donkey at austin's bathroom right now embrace your haters haters simply means having anger towards everyone you're due to success you know you know maybe in a year or a month i'm gonna be you know build a little bit and tell some people and i'm gonna do this and that's not gonna work i'm not making money in this thing yes but if i help two of my friends want to do this thing with me i break even and i'm committed to doing this thing for one year but i'm gonna give this a shot and i really encourage you to because you heard from me and you know i'm not gonna put you in a position to fail and what i also saw is if you do this and you fail you not only hold me back but you're also wasting my time on austin's instagram posts he rarely has an income disclosure something network marketers are kind of supposed to have like legally so why doesn't austin have one instead of telling you how much he's making he shows you shows you how much he's making through photos that are supposed to show this wealthy lifestyle so he never really has to make an income disclosure statement because rarely does he say how much income he's actually making instead he performs his success on instagram with flashy photos that are supposed to inspire you and make you believe that he's all that he visually shows you the illusion of how successful he is and leaves you to draw the conclusion of how much he's making austin godsey has made inappropriate income claims in the past and has gotten in trouble for it hence why he no longer makes those same mistakes godsey removed several posts containing inappropriate income claims along with the phrase seven figure earner from an instagram account at work with austin godsey that he hasn't posted on since march of 2018 but godsey continues to show off an extravagant lifestyle and insinuate that he's making a lot of money through forex trading and iam academy austin also apparently enrolled his five-year-old son as a distributor in violation of section 2.2 of iml's policies and procedures which states that applicants must be 18 or older godsey announced that his young son cracked the chairman 100 in an instagram post that included a photo of dad sitting next to iml ceo christopher terry austin says aidan his son is smashing chairman 100 at five years old guys 500 customers on your team and you're earning $10,000 per month guys my son's five years old and he hit chairman 10 his first 90 days and i'm not saying that's a braggart post but i'm saying that's a braggart post there's also an archived post posted on truthandadvertising.org where austin makes a lot of income the post reads and just like that we in madrid spain i'm so happy and grateful now that gv has 37 chairman in the world which is his quote-unquote company global visionnaires i'm serving at least 7300 clients on social blur and there's no competition for instagram marketing companies at all there's only one article i could find on social blur and it seems to be an instagram agency slash marketing company that austin godsey created where people pay him money to grow their instagram taking that into account you have to wonder how much of an authentic following austin godsey has since part of one of his businesses is to portray that he can help you get lots of instagram followers i've traveled to 50 plus countries and aidan has traveled to 20 plus once again a five-year-old traveling 20 plus countries sounds like a lot but you know aidan aka his son has chairman 25 i've enrolled over 1000 plus customers in iml through my career i've cleared 3 million in my career in iml aka an income claim my book the blueprint has released and sold over 12 000 plus copies and gone best seller which by the way i looked into his book the blueprint and it doesn't seem it's being sold anymore and there are zero reviews on any bookselling platforms the only income disclosure i've seen personally from him is on his instagram stories whenever he shows those random number screens and it's always something silly like results typical don't be typical results not typical previous profits don't determine future earnings we don't guarantee results and it takes hard work and dedication not for the lazy in super small letters in super super small text income disclosure previous profits don't determine future earnings must put in work to see results extremely small text we do not guarantee any results or income previous profits don't determine future earnings the biggest problem with almost all iam academy reps is that most of them subtly insinuate if not outright claim that they gained their riches off of forex trading because their mlm company is selling a forex trading course they can't recruit people unless the product they're selling also works because if the product is useless doesn't work and isn't even valuable then the only purpose that their company has is for recruitment aka they're running an illegal pyramid scheme so they have to act like they're successful off of forex trading too because that's an aspect of the company but are they as successful at forex trading as they claim you know there's a lot of the the top reps or the top 50 reps of iam academy that you know really show that life of oh i'm living the high life i'm super super rich and they've been doing it for a long time do you think they really are making as much as they portray themselves to be making through forex trading uh so no uh definitely no because so so i have a business where i have youtube channel obviously we have some sponsorships with like tradingview.com which is a really popular like trading platform and i've said this in my own channel like i make more money from the business side than my own trading and that's you know just the truth i try and just keep it real on my channel and i could tell you from if i'm doing that i know that they are the same way now you can still make money in trading and even if those top people are great at trading which is unlikely but like if if possible even if we assume the best about them and that they are great traders they're probably not making all of it from trading and again there's not really like anything wrong with that if you have like multiple in multiple sources of income that's cool but it's different when you're when you're like selling people the idea that you're making a lot of money from trading when you are not you're essentially selling somebody something that you're not even doing yourself like a lie yeah you're selling a lie for sure another huge part of austin's persona is his faith and religion hence the little peep turned youth pastor vibes before the interview we asked you know a little bit about titles and stuff and you said i'm a child of god yeah so clearly your faith has played into all this tell us a little bit about that you know there there there is a high of power um i do believe in god i do believe that in the universe god bless and honestly i'm not here to question anybody's religion or faith or spirituality if you feel like you found god and that's what's helped you more power to you i applaud you for trying to better your life and live by a moral code but but if you're using this god first persona to manipulate people through trying to convince them that because you believe in god and you put god first that must mean that you live by a moral code and therefore would never scam or manipulate people or take their money if you're using that persona as a facade as a way to appear harmless and let people's guard down well according to your own beliefs i think we both know where you're going it also looks like in a few youtube videos austin god see has also kind of exploited his mom's death or talked about it as if it's like some inspiration for him to continue in forex and watching those videos just left a really bad taste in my mouth doctors called me the morning an hour before i spoke and told me that you fell into a coma not knowing that was the last time i'd ever speak to you again i left convention early and flew back to see you spoke at another event i had committed to i kept on the tour i was on i was a coward i couldn't sit and watch you die so i kept running i missed so many birthdays and holidays i can't even count because when you go chairman you can live every day like a freaking birthday or holiday my first year in the industry i missed my rank by one person and mommy and i got evicted and i know where to go i was homeless when i heard about network marketing and i was watching videos of this kid named alex morton while living in the back of my car during winter with my eight month pregnant girlfriend my friends laughed at me when i talked about making 100k a year i called them back years later when i was burning that for months and uh remember in those articles when austin mentioned how he'd been arrested a bunch well you guessed it that's not the full story and that's not something that he reserved just for the past self and before i mentioned this i do want to put a trigger warning this does deal with the topic of sa on march 6 of 2020 austin was arrested in south florida miami day jurisdiction for cell battery slash threaten bench warrant safety equipment requirement vessel registration certification not on board you can also find other arrests dating back further and further but this arrest was definitely the one that concerned me the most first off because of how recent it was and second off because of the first category of arrests reason for arrest um yeah that's concerning for obvious reasons and overall just not very positive and godly of you austin so who is the real austin well after making it this far in the video i hope we all know or at least have a clear picture on who austin is in my opinion austin is a wolf in sheep's clothing carefully constructing his image to prey on young people and making money off of being a snake oil salesman people like austin well their time always ends up running out eventually they will get caught or the scam will run its course but not before hurting people in the process my greatest regrets for sure is losing people money absolutely if i could have done if people say when you change anything i said i just wouldn't lose people money what would you say to the victims wow first of course i'm sorry for what happened and um that not a day goes by in my own life where you know i in some way don't pay for it so if you or anyone you know feels that they have been scammed by austin godsey i'll be leaving a link to the f tc report page down below so that you can report your specific instance with austin and that is all for today's video if you made it this far in the video comment a wolf emoji or hashtag forex fraud and i'll see you soon bye


Hey man, so we're starting a new series tonight. We're starting a series called Baptist Basics and the first sermon in this series is covered in quite extensively actually in John chapter 6. So Jesus here in John chapter 6 is going over He's using you know one thing about Jesus that that I love a lot of things I love everything about Jesus But one of the things about his intellect that I really appreciate is that he uses everything as a teachable moment So he can hear at the beginning of John chapter 6. He feeds the five thousand I mean he literally does a miracle where he literally feeds bread to five thousand people and then he launches into this major teachable moment in John chapter 6 about how you know comparing physical actual bread to you know the spiritual bread of believing on him and how one you know if you eat bread you have to keep eating bread and keep eating bread And if you don't eat bread, you know you'll die and even if you do eat bread and eat bread and eat bread You're eventually gonna physically die anyway as he uses that example of the manna in the wilderness But he says me the bread of life He said when you eat of this bread and you know He knows that there's people that don't believe what he's saying and you know He's just in one of those situations where he's just teaching a truth To even people that aren't believing so he says but if you eat of this bread of you know of me He's talking about the bread of and he says these two words over and over again in John chapter 6 of believing on Believing on him if you if you eat of that bread you will never die. You will never die. You will have everlasting Life so this evening. I want to talk to you about this doctrine Which is basically the fundamental of our faith and it is a very separating and you can see even in John chapter 6 How this doctrine this teaching was a separating teaching what did it say? It said after Jesus taught this many of his own disciples didn't follow him anymore It was a very separating doctrine So we're gonna talk this evening about this doctrine of eternal security this evening in John chapter 6 That is exactly what Jesus is teaching.  So the question this evening is this Can you lose your salvation? We're gonna look at this in detail. I hope you have a Bible. We're gonna be flipping through your Bible And just let me say this There's no way we can get to all the Bible on this there is so much Bible on eternal security What I want to do this evening if I had a title for the sermon it would be the logical case for eternal security I want to think through this this evening using some very simple Bible Philosophy and just think through the logical case for eternal security. Can you lose your salvation? This is Protestant isn't today. This is the Protestants today will say, you know, it's faith in Jesus belief in Jesus But you can lose it. You can lose it by doing x y and z or whatever fill in the blank It depends on who you talk to you'll get different answers on what you have to do to lose that salvation Look Protestantism in my opinion is worse than Catholicism in many cases because of the fact that at least Catholics will come up to you and say yes, you're saved by your works It's by works you must do works Protestants are so wrapped around the axle with this faith plus works Theology that it is very it's very tough sometimes to unwrap them from that axle But we're gonna we're gonna start this evening by giving you the logical case for eternal security It's this strange mix of faith versus faith mixed with works that we have trouble with out there Or some people have trouble with the Bible doesn't have any trouble of it But here's the thing the Bible has a lot to say about this doctrine Turn to back to John chapter 6 if you're still there. This is the teachings of Jesus himself Look at John chapter 6 Jesus is using this idea of the bread of life to teach eternal security here Look at John chapter 6 in verse 31 He says our fathers did eat manna in the desert as it is written He gave them bread from heaven to eat then Jesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but my father. Give it to you the true bread from heaven He's talking to the Jews here the unbelieving Jews For the bread of God is he that cometh down from heaven and given life under the world This is where they get all offended right like you said he came from heaven Isn't this the carpenter's son right so they get all offended because he's basically claiming to be the Christ Look at verse 35 and Jesus said unto them. I am that bread of life He that cometh to me shall never hunger and you say what does cometh to me mean? Well, then he explains it right here and he that believeth on me shall never thirst But I said unto you that you also have seen me and believe not so these people do not believe on him and the father that giveth me shall come to me and And him that cometh to me. I will in no wise cast out so he says look You know if you believe on me you will never hunger He's like you will I am that bread of life and I will never cast you out So much for this idea that God can give up on you or walk away from you He says here I will never cast you out for I came down from heaven not to do my own will But the will of him that sent me and this is the father's will which him that sent me that he that Sorry that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but I should raise it up again that last day And this is the people that say you have to do the will of God You have to do the will of God to go to heaven well Here's the will of God verse 40 right here Okay, the will of God is what and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone that seeeth his son and believeth on him May have ever lasting life I mean he just breaks it right down right there and I will raise him up at the last day So what I want to do is I kind of want to flip this thing on its head This evening and I just don't want to go through Bible verse after Bible verse on eternal security I want to try to see if we can make some sense out of the arguments against eternal security The things that we see out there soul winning. So here's the first one Here's the first one that we'll hear from a lot of Protestants And this is one actually before I got saved that I actually used to believe and it's this it that maybe it's eternal security after you die So, you know, you have eternal life It's eternal life after you physically die then it's eternal life But you don't really know that you have it and tell just just hang with me here All right, it's eternal life after you die. So look we only have really one ruler criteria here We're Bible believing Baptist. We believe everything in the Bible. So the whole Bible must be true That's the only criteria that you need to have this evening. Okay, the whole Bible must be true the Bible look the Bible cannot contradict itself if you believe something in the Bible and it Contradicts something else that you read in the Bible Eat look it's either one of two things if you're reading a verse here or a Verses here and you say these two things don't match up either you're interpreting it wrong Either you are misunderstanding one of those verses or the Bible has a contradiction in it Look the problem is you I'm just gonna tell tell you right now The problem is you if you are reading something in the Bible that you believe contradicts something else in the Bible You are misunderstanding one of those verses. So that is the only thing because look if one thing look if one thing in the Bible was wrong The whole the whole thing is out the window Because if I tell you that this book has one error in it, but I'm not going to tell you where the error is You can't trust any of it But there is no errors in the Bible. I've not found one yet There is no errors in the Bible So the fact that it's without error is the biggest miracle of the book itself Okay, so look the whole Bible must be true. That's our design criteria for this evening, okay? So let's say somebody could believe on Jesus They could trust in Jesus turn to Ephesians chapter one. What does believe on mean? Let's just define the rules here. What does believe on mean turn to Ephesians chapter one You see this again and again. You see believe on believe on believe on sometimes it's believe in But what does this mean turn to Ephesians chapter one and then keep a finger in Ephesians chapter one We're going to be coming back there later on in the sermon. Look at Ephesians chapter one in verse 12 What does believe on mean when Jesus says this in John chapter 6 John chapter 3 many other places in the Bible What does it mean Ephesians chapter one look at verse 12 that we should be to the praise of his glory Who first trusted in Christ in whom that he also trusted? After that he heard the word of truth. What is the word of truth the gospel of your salvation and whom also after that he believed So here we see the word trusted and believed used interchangeably so to believe means to trust To believe on means to trust and then it says after that look it says after that You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promises other places in the Bible You know it uses believe in in John 3 16 you know but most other places it's believe on okay Ephesians chapter one is showing us that that means to trust in Jesus in the word of truth in The gospel okay, that's what it means. So let's say back to the the sermon. Let's say that someone could trust in Jesus Someone could trust in Jesus and through actions of their own or look Misactions of their own they trust in Jesus at this point in their life And then through misactions or actions or sin or whatever in their life. God would take this away from them He would take this life away from them and you say okay, you know I'm tracking you I could I could trust in Jesus and then do all these bad things You know this sin and this sin and this sin and then God would take that away from me okay, so The question I would immediately have to ask is okay. What are those sins? What are those sins that I could do that could make me lose my salvation? So I can avoid those things like the plague Right, I mean who wants to lose their salvation? I mean raise your hand if you want to lose your salvation anybody we want in the world It's terrible. We got to stay away from this stuff. So let's look for this list of sins First of all, you know, I don't know the only place I could really find anything that even comes close is revelation chapter 21 Go ahead and turn there. Let's give that one a shot It talks about a list of sins that will get people to the second death a list of sins that will get people into hell In revelation 218 look at this list The Bible says but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and the murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters Pretty bad people there Pretty bad list and all liars. Oh We got a problem here.  Remember our design criteria here that the whole Bible has to make sense So if you're gonna read revelation chapter 21 verse number 8 and say if you do those sins You lose your salvation and you're gonna get the second death You're gonna have a lot of problems with other parts of the Bible I'll just give you one example. Just look at the front of your bulletin John chapter 10. Look at verse 28 This is the words of Jesus. If you have a red letter Bible these words are read John chapter 10 verse 28 and I give unto them eternal life first of all, what does he give you?   Well, that's interesting. I Give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand He basically said the same thing three times there you get that he says I give unto them eternal life He could have stopped right there.  That's it But then he says again and they shall never perish. What's kind of the same thing is having eternal life If you have eternal life, you're never gonna get the second death If you have eternal life, you're never gonna die And then he says it again almost like we're dense Almost like we're thick-headed Neither shall any man. Maybe they'll think maybe they'll think someone or even themselves could do something That could make them lose this eternal life. No, no man No man Can take this away from you and he says my father which gave them me is greater than all Why why can no man take it away because because my father God the father's more powerful than any of you people Including yourselves No matter how great you think you are my father which gave them me is greater than all and no man. He says it again He says it again is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.  He gives you this salvation and God holds it You don't hold it turn back to Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2 Ephesians chapter 2, I'm gonna give you I mean you probably read this verse as a soul winner Maybe a million times I'm gonna give you something else to think about here Ephesians chapter 2 you say I already know this Well, you know, I just want to give you maybe some better Thoughts some different thoughts on how you can explain this to people look at Ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace Are you saved through faith and not of yourselves? It is the gift of God Not of works lest any man should boast look at verse number 9. Don't forget verse number 9 The reason for salvation being not of works in Ephesians chapter 2 Verses 8 and 9 and in verse number 9. He gives the reason for it is what? What is the reason?  He doesn't want you boasting about it.  What could you if that's the case? What could you say when you stood before Jesus? At the judgment seat of Christ. What could you say? You know what you could say? Look at that wonderful works that I've done You could say Lord Lord Look at all the things that I did in your name From the time I was 32 years old to the time that I was 90 look at my wonderful works. I hung on to it You could take credit could you not To the time of your physical death you could take look that would be quite an accomplishment that you could talk to Jesus about Think about it Kind of sounds like these people turn to Matthew chapter 7 Well, you say wow well well the Bible covers these people The Bible leaves no stone unturned Look we people haven't changed. It's all the same thing folks Look at Matthew chapter 7 Look at Matthew chapter 7 and verse 21 Matthew chapter 7 verse 21 not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven These people are calling Jesus Lord folks But he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven. What's the will of my father which is in heaven? Let me read for you John 640 and this is the will of him that sent me that everyone that see at the son and believe on him May have everlasting life Many will say to me in that day back to Matthew chapter 7 many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name in that I name cast out devils in thy name done many wonderful works and Then I will profess unto them.  They knew him But that doesn't matter.  Here's something that is of works Here's something that is of works. You know what's of works? Damn nation is of works Damn nation is of works look at Revelation chapter 20 and verse number 11 These are the people that did not believe on Jesus These are the people that are standing at the great white throne judgment And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away And there was no and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was open Which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books those books were the law Those books were the law the commandments the Bible according to their works They were judged look folks if you're judged by your works turn to Isaiah chapter 6 if you're judged by your works You're toast if you're judged.  I'm sorry The Bible says in verse 10 I will great really rejoice in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God for he had clothed me With the garments of salvation Don't forget that he had covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments as a bride adorneth herself With her jewels look folks being saved doesn't mean you suddenly become a great person Being saved means someone else puts a nice garment on you They quote look your clothes with somebody else's righteousness when you're saved We wear his righteousness It's not suddenly our own We wear his it's a garment that we put on it's like it's like the bride and her jewels The bride is made beautiful by the jewels I'm saved so I'm this this great person now, and I'm gonna keep my salvation. No folks It's not only not biblical, but it's not logical The Bible does not contradict itself in words or in philosophy It's not logical either. Let me explain this to you turn to 1st John chapter 5 turn to 1st John chapter 5 this idea that you could get saved That you could you could believe in Jesus you could trust in Jesus But then at that point you got to be good or not do these sins or you'll lose that Go to 1st John chapter 5 and look at verse 13 The whole Bible is true. The whole Bible is true The whole Bible is true Every word every verse look at 1st John chapter 5 and verse 13 these things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God there it is again Who is he saying he's talking to people that are saved here? He's saying people that have believed on the name of the Son of God that you may what? That you may be pretty sure that you have eternal life and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God that you may Think that you may know that you may know That you may know look if you could believe in Jesus and trust in Jesus But then you had to keep yourself from certain sins you had to turn from certain sins all your sins whatever Until you died physically look you could never know and Don't tell me you could because you're a liar if you say that because you could never know You know why because there's no specific list of sins in the Bible It's not there you would actually and look you would actually look I'm an engineer you would actually need more than just a list you would need I mean You would need like charts graphs I Think about like performance analysis. I mean I need I mean if you're gonna tell me that there's certain sins They can take away my salvation. I need some charts. I need some performance curves I need you know horsepower versus flow. I need head versus flow I mean we got to figure out the efficiency of this thing. So I make sure that I'm in the in the in the green I mean, I don't want to drive this thing into the red. I mean that's risky territory. I Mean you would need a time frame. You would need seriousness of sins in there I mean you would basically need a chart that shows seriousness of sins on the y-axis and then like time on The x-axis to be the simplest you could do it. I've thought this through But there's no charts in the Bible. There's no lists of these things look Here's maybe one the teenagers will understand probably not the teenagers in this church. It's like a video game Probably not the teenagers in this church. Thank God If you like a video game where you have like salvation, that's like your life and Every sin like takes away some life And then like some sins take away more life than the other sins But then every time you go to church you get more life And then every time you get baptized get more life Every time you give money to church more life depends on how much money more life But I mean you would have to have like you see how confused I mean look Some sins take I mean we know all sins aren't equal We've already done that so some sins would definitely take away your salvation faster than other sins And you know, here's the thing everybody's understanding of what sins are bad and what sins take away their salvation is different You know why it's different because it's not in the Bible I met a Pentecostal lady one time. She told me she's like, yeah, I'm saved. I believed in Jesus and I'm saved Could you ever lose that? Yeah, as long as I don't commit 12 sins a day like what in the world? You know, I mean, but here's the thing. It's not in the Bible. So where are they getting these things? They're getting it from their preacher They're getting it from some false prophet that tells them what sins that they can't commit or they'll lose their salvation I mean, I don't know.     This is the Reformation. I Mean this is Protestants today So let's go back to the logic part So we know look we're told we can know we have eternal life right first John 5 13 that you may know It's very clear. I mean that's not a complicated statement That you may know that you have eternal life people that you know And people believe it operates by this weird game these rules are not in the Bible and these people where they're getting them They're getting them from some false prophet that's teaching things that are not in the Bible It's that simple Your pastor or whoever is telling them what will send them to hell There you know how much they must come to church and do all these things whatever so look Here's another one on how you can keep your salvation that you'll hear many times a lot of times from Protestants I believe this myself or half my life and it's this you can keep your salvation by confessing your sins You can keep your salvation by confessing your sins by you know asking for forgiveness You'll hear this at the door many times What if you sin we just have to ask for forgiveness Now here's what the actual reality of these people is I've run into these people so many times Most people that believe this let's think this one through Let's think this one through most people that believe this ultimately believe that everyone is going to go to heaven Okay, the more people and you just you say I'm not sure it was trust me People that believe that all you have to do is ask for forgiveness And then you'll be able to go to heaven or you'll be able to keep your salvation or whatever first of all Asking for forgiveness is a work that you do It's a work. It's you doing something. Okay. Look, it's a good thing to do. Don't get me wrong Nothing to do with your salvation. So you have to ask for forgiveness But people that believe this Think everyone's going to heaven because I'll always say at the door. I'll always say so whenever somebody gives me a Work-based answer. I'll always say to people. What if I don't do those things? So when they say we just have to ask for forgiveness and then I'll just say what if I just never asked for forgiveness What if I'm just a horrible human being and I never asked for forgiveness and those people will almost always say well I just think God's going to forgive you anyway. I mean, so the question is the question is Are most people going to heaven? Turn to Luke chapter 13. I mean look, I mean, that's a good question I mean if you don't know the answer to that question, let's answer it for you right now Let's just take a rabbit trail and find out are most people going to heaven. I mean, it's a nice thought I wish most people were going to heaven. I mean, I would like most people to go to heaven Would you not?   Look at Luke 13 and verse 23 The Bible says then one then said one unto him Lord I mean, it's a pretty direct question right here. Are there few that be saved and He said unto them Strive to enter in at the straight gate straight meaning not straight as an arrow straight meaning narrow Like a canal like the one that the ship got caught in that's a straight gate Okay, the ship got caught in the narrow gate for many Look many ships could not go through that that canal One ship blocked it up So many could not go through it. It was just one at a time So I say to you many will seek to enter in it She'll not be able he answers it in more detail in Matthew 7 13 where he says enter in at the straight gate For why does the gate the opposite of this and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and Many be there with that go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth until life and Few be that find it few there be that find it look most people are not going to be saved folks. I Hate to break it to you But most people and if you become a soul winner, you will understand that most people are not saved Most people are not saved you say you say that's terrible Well, I agree. That's terrible. Will you help us do something about it? Will you help us preach the gospel to people?  I mean, that's why we're doing what we do here. Those are the first works right there Turn to 1st John chapter 1 Let's get back to this idea of confessing your sins to keep yourself saved To keep your own salvation Look at 1st John chapter 1 The Bible says in 1st John chapter 1 in verse number 9 the Bible says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness aha I've got it There it is. If you don't confess your sins. You're going to hell Not what it says Let's look back a couple verses and let's look forward a couple verses The Bible says in verse 6 if we say that we have fellowship with him. Oh, there it is This is about having a relationship with your Heavenly Father 1st John chapter 1. It is that simple But look they will say see you have to confess your sins or you lose your salvation But look 1st John chapter 1 I just showed you from the Bible was about having fellowship with your Heavenly Father But let's just walk the logic of this one through. This is a great one Just just just look up here and just just think through this with me Okay, let's say if you don't I have to operate this way. I must confess my sins. I Must which confess means to be truly sorry and to ask for forgiveness Okay, that's what confession means now turn to Proverbs 24. I Need to operate this way or I will lose my salvation. I must confess my sins or I'm done You'll meet people that believe this but they really believe everyone's going to heaven So they make no sense in what they believe themselves. Well look at Proverbs 24 Let me just walk the logic of this one through the Bible says in Proverbs 20 more 24 9 The thought of foolishness is sin. Oh man The world the thought I mean having a foolish thought is a sin So here I mean I got a couple questions. These are things that I used to think about as I was a confessional Lutheran Until I was in my 30s Meaning you had to confess your sins to wipe that slate clean, but here's the thing I would always think about this What if I miss one? What if I miss one and here's a really big one because you can put some claws in there It says oh god forgive me for all the stuff that I forgot about Then that gets rid of all that you know, what if I miss one, but look here's another one What if you're disingenuous about one? What if there's a sin that you know you're not going to stop? What if there's a sin that you know you're actively in and you're confessing it on Sunday morning?  You think you're fooling God?  What if I just do this thing? We're okay Let's just say that is what God believes that as long as I confess a Vayne repetition Are you following me? But let's just let's give it the benefit of the doubt we confess a chant every Sunday morning It's like a salvation extender think of an extra sketch Right, you guys even know what that is you younger people an extra sketch you shake it and it's all clean You can draw on it again, right? So you go there Sunday morning you shake the extra sketch clean So good, right? How long are you good for? If a foolish thought is a sin and Confessing your sin shakes the edge of sketch. I don't know you're good for like a few minutes. I don't know You know what if I have a foolish thought and then get hit by a car sometime between Sunday and Sunday Look, nobody's going to heaven on these rules. I Mean you certainly can't know I Mean do you think I mean how long do you think that your salvation slate stays clean? After you successfully reset it Think this through people it makes no logical sense.  Once saved always saved it matches everywhere. I remember this I remember this when I got this and then I started reading the Bible and the Bible was not confusing to me anymore I was like man. It all makes sense now It all makes sense because everything matches together perfectly. Look. Here's a simple Here's three main tenets of this that I like to think about look as far as the timeline of your salvation Go back to Ephesians chapter one go back to Ephesians chapter one Here's three tenets of eternal salvation that I like to think about the first one is this you're sealed You're sealed think about that word. You're sealed Think of the timeline this timeline of I got saved at this moment And then I have this whole life to live and tell my physical death, but the Bible says that you're sealed Go back to Ephesians chapter one look at verse 13. The Bible says in whom you also trusted after That you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after look, there's a time There's a sequence of events happening here After that you believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.  We're a two ton epoxy love this stuff. We got this porcelain chicken It's been broken like 17 times it never breaks in the same place because I use two ton epoxy all the time It's great glue, but it's not going to keep your salvation Okay, look here's the thing you're sealed with what? The Holy Spirit you're sealed with the Holy Spirit of what of promise Verse 14 it gets even better, but wait, there's more Which is I mean look with this stuff with eternal security Jesus is just slamming this stuff home. The Bible is just slamming this stuff home. Look you're sealed with the Holy Spirit That's enough for me. I don't need another verse, but here it is Which is the earnest of our inheritance? Until there's that time again the redemption of the purchase possession until the praise of his glory if even if you say Even if you say that eternal doesn't begin until physical death You're sealed all the way up to that time by the Holy Spirit, which is the earnest You know what an earnest is it's a down payment or a promise When you put an earnest payment down on a house that you're thinking about buying it means I'm gonna buy this You know what if you back out from the deal, you know what happens? You lose that money turn to John chapter 3 From this moment of trust let's go back to the moment of trust From this moment of trust you are sealed turn to John chapter 3 and verse 36 one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible John chapter 3 verse 36 one of the most simple to understand verses in the entire Bible The Bible says he that believeth on the Sun half everlasting life Just stop there Look he that believeth on the Sun look who's the son? It's Jesus. We all know this half everlasting life It means you have it. It's an older word for have are you currently possess it?   I mean forget you God's not walking away from the Holy Spirit Turn to Roman 623. So that's the first one you're sealed from that moment. You believe you are sealed With the Holy Spirit The second one is this and I mean it's it's so simple. It's just beautiful that salvation is a gift Roman 623 for the wages of sin is death But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. You see that word gift You don't earn a gift. You don't work for a gift. You don't pay for a gift Look, it's a it's the very nature of this simple term that makes salvation and the gospel itself so beautiful If I mean every even of the smallest child understands what a gift is Even the smallest child Understands that a gift once it's given to you you didn't pay for it the person that gave it to you in this case It's through Jesus Christ.  That's the simplicity of the gospel folks and It makes perfect sense because what if God made the gospel so complicated that it was this twisted Version I mean, there's a million different doctrines out there twisting work since and faith But now you have to figure out which one's right What if the gospel was so complicated only the most studied scholar in the Bible could figure it out? Is that I mean Now it makes sense that it would be simple It makes simple it makes sense that it would be, you know It's almost like God said that he he he preferred the meek Over the proud, you know who have a heart You know who has a hard time with the gospel being a gift and being eternal and having nothing to do with themselves It's nothing to do with you to get it. It's nothing to do with you to keep it You know has a really hard time with that proud people That's why the you know the more money people says and you know have and the more successful people have in general The more resistant they are gonna be to this simple gospel. Oh It being a gift and here's an here's the next the last one Not only is the gift yours Not only is it a gift and it's yours, but it's eternal It's literally eternal. God cannot lie Titus As a matter of fact that you know when you logically look at this thing as we did here The only thing you know, here's the thing the only thing that you could know If you believed that it wasn't eternal and that you could lose your salvation the only thing that you would know if you thought you could lose it to sin or Not doing something or whatever the only thing that you are not confessing your sins The only thing that you would know is that you don't have it. I Mean if you are honest with yourself and you believe that you could lose it through these things that we talked about this evening The only thing that you would know for sure is that you don't have it folks It's the only way look this Believing that you're saved by believing on Jesus is the only way the Bible makes sense It's the only way the logic of it makes sense. It stays simple Eternal life is eternal It happens in a moment and you're sealed in that moment God puts a down payment on you With his Holy Spirit and then all these things all these things look your works Confession Following the commandments all these things that the Bible does talk about They're all good things turn to John chapter 1.    I said on this earth you maybe But not eternally on this earth Maybe because you continue doing the things that you're doing and God you're not getting away with anything anymore Simply put look at 1st John 2 and verse 3 and hereby we do We do know that we know him if we keep his commandments does that say he knows you No, it says we know him if we keep his commandments In Matthew chapter 7 he says I never knew you In Daniel chapter 11 that I read you this morning. What do we say? Who are they gonna do who are they that are gonna do those exploits?  It's like here's the best gift anyone could possibly ever give you and you're just like Thanks. See you later But that's what everybody does That's what everybody does it's a character thing We do know him if we keep his commandments Verse number six as he that he that say if he abideth in him ought himself also to walk Even as he walked it's like you should do these things Romans teaches the same thing you should do these things you are no longer a slave You are no longer a servant to sin you should walk this way. It doesn't say you will You still have the flesh in you You still have this desire to sin. You are still going to sin, but you ought not to There's nothing to do with salvation.