Hello everybody welcome back to esoteric Atlanta, of course My name is Bryce and I'm joined again today with my friend Jay from spiritually raw and not stick TV Which is a new platform that you're building which we can talk about at an extent at some point, but um How you doing Jay? I'm great price. How are you doing? It's great to get in the energy, right? It is, you know It's freaking hot outside Everybody's just kind of like popcorn just kind of like, you know kind of like dealing with the weather But you know here we are. Um, we we're not able to film last week We have been doing these like weekly videos to try to help people get into this like new mindset because you and I I think we have this in common. We're kind of under Personally, we're like, you know, I know one's coming to save us. We've got to save ourselves This is the and that is like really what I think the great great awakening is is that you're actually taking initiative To to prosper in all areas of your life and that's one thing I actually you know off camera I think I've said to you Jay like I've laughed and said I need a Jay in my life because you're so adaptable With the circumstances that come your way and anything in life You immediately start to adapt and you start to ebb and flow with what's handed to you and something I wanted to really focus on today Jay is you know, we get a lot I understand that when people see people behind a TV screen or a computer screen that maybe there's some misunderstandings about like What our lives are like and I get that a lot from from Subscribers who maybe you want to build their own platforms or build their own business And they often say it must be easy for you because you have a big platform Negating the fact that I actually built this platform and you did too and it does take some hustle But it's not impossible. And so I kind of wanted to start with that Jay like For you as Jay like how did you how do you motivate yourself to create spiritually raw to create? Gnostic TV to keep moving forward in this 5d economy where you're not a slave to a system a pecking order anymore You've kind of removed yourself from that system and started to generate your own abundance So, um, you know, I don't know again, you know, we talked about this on the show before I'm not exactly sure why we're here in this planet or wherever we reside So I'm gonna make the best of it and I'm gonna explore every Possibility while I'm awake and that's what motivates me. It motivates me to be like look, we're here for a specific reason I'm not gonna overthink it. I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm gonna be in the present, but I want to explore everything available to us I want to explore every possibility. I mean when you, you know, I think when you stop exploring you get bored You get sick you get, you know, you know, you just you just get complacent and things and I just don't really You don't want that so, you know for yes abundance is super important But you but you keep it all in balance and I think the whole thing about this is I look at this I've been able to conceptualize this life price as a video game simulation I really have and that's how for for my mind is, you know, everybody I always respect everybody's faith But from my mind, I've been able to break it down to What if we're in a video game and it's all about leveling up and the higher you go And the more you learn to work with the tools and the trades and who you're who you're allies are You know in that particular level you level up and what does that next level look like so you got to keep striving for that It's what keeps me going is keep striving for that I don't feel it is like I'm in a loop or I don't feel it as if I'm like this. I feel it's exciting, you know, sometimes I'm Me in April, I'll be like, oh man I wish I could take something so I don't have to sleep tonight because I got so much I want to Explore, you know what I mean? There's cool things with that. I find that the validation of that price comes Excuse me doing that comes validation of like things like like ideas like creating Gnostic TV like spiritually Ross I could get the downloads like crazy So I know like as I get closer and closer to whatever that is more and more information comes but that more about information is Very specific of what to do. It gets more clear of what to do. So it's not like a general. I'm not second-guessing myself I'm clear. I'm concise and so so those kind of things that it becomes somewhat of an addition I guess if you would because you know that you're connected and you know like okay I'm in a stream of consciousness that that's a pretty cool thing That's what keeps me going and that's so that and I agree with you 100% And that's very much like the Eastern philosophy of this life that this life We're experiencing is the Shakti of the experience and so it's the creation of a simulation a Hologram if you will for you to as the emerald tablets say from the Egyptian alchemy We only understand life because we know death like in these bodies We know that there there's a there's an expiration date And so that gives us the the juxtapositions then experience life when we're just in soul form We're just in spirit form because there is no death There is no experience of life and I love what you're saying there and I think Jay I think this is one of the biggest kind of Mind Fox if you will like that we have to kind of break through I think we've been especially in the Western world We've been so conditioned to like work work work work work work in the sense to make money to pay bills that we've forgotten That there can actually be joy in that experience and you're so right I know for me like when I started my channel during lockdown. I didn't know where it was gonna lead I just wanted to explore telling stories and doing research and when you're willing to take those chances and You do kind of have an idea of where you want to go But you're also willing to let kind of divinity show you where to go and show you that path The whole world opens up to you and I think that's um At least in my experience and probably for a lot of people watching to be able to change our mindset around I've got to do this job because I have to make this much money versus what do I get to do that? I enjoy that's eventually gonna bring in the bottom line as well with it and enjoying that abundance of the experience as well as the Financial payoff because we are in a matrix system We do have to pay bills like that and there is there is lessons to be learned with having bad jobs, right? When you got a bad job, you know, I don't want to do you know You kind of have that then you understand the beauty of that, you know And that's so when you started doing spiritually raw Did you have any idea that it was gonna lead you where it's led you today? Not even we're not even remotely so spiritually raw was really a personal journey for me in April because again, we realized that Okay, there's a lot of cool shit out there So we're not ones to sit down and break down and let me read a book about it and just cuz you know I've got to go right so I'm like, okay Well, why don't we interview people and get the best cliff notes in the world and be quicker and we'll get the downloads, right? so we actually started interviewing people and Within about a year we interviewed maybe like I don't know 1500 plus people and But it was like you're getting like so much like what is life about? We're just learning about the mysteries of life that in itself, you know Whether we knew it or not manifested into in the world. We're at today a business, right? Because next thing you know people were like they wanted to meet with us They wanted to do things so and it was and it really started with us exploring what we wanted to explore You know, I mean it was like more like I don't want to say it was accidental per se But it was there was intent and say look we got to find I think it was like this Right, it was like we got to kind of find something to do We know how to make money doing linear things, you know, I mean like we owned an insurance and money lending company Very linear you make really good money at it And but I don't know that didn't just feel like an existence if you would per se So we wanted to find something really cool to do like a really cool gig. You know what I mean? so Couldn't we couldn't find a better way to do it other than go through this thing of it asking people Hey, what do you do? Well, what do you what? What is in a cash of records reader? What does that even mean? These questions of people, what do you mean a life coach is this you mean you don't need to have a license to be that? I mean, we're literally Asking people how to in a in a in a somewhat of a way whether it was conscious or not at that minute But we were literally asking people to design us Our blueprint so we would know what path to follow and then all of a sudden light bulb started to come across like holy shit You mean we can do that. Let's do that. That sounds like a cool gig. Let's do that Let's do that. You mean you could do this. Hey, you mean you can consult with people You don't have to get a degree to do that. I mean all these things came Work came out or was there was a role to that and through that evolved in the business citizen Yeah, and that's so that and that is so following what we call in the Easter And I know you know this day because you're of Eastern descent your Dharma like every single person has a Dharma This is spoken about in the bug of a Gita and the Dharma is different from your karma your karma is your work But your Dharma is in the Christian church they would call it your divine purpose and The cool thing about what I think anyway spirit does is you kind of have these Inklings towards things you want to do but you don't quite know what until you start following that path and then slowly things start To like unfold for you and there's more fulfillment for your soul And and it's interesting as you were saying this day I was thinking in my head like here in the Western world We have our jobs and then we have our hobbies But people enjoy their hobbies more than their jobs and do you know who Alan Watts was? Are you familiar with Alan Watts? He had a huge speech where he talked about like and he even spoke about that like it's not necessary to have all these degrees I mean, yeah, if you're gonna be doing surgery on people then yeah You got to go and learn how to do that.  Everything can be we saw that happen in 2020, right? Everything can be taken from you except for who you are as a person And I think that's the resilience of human beings I think so many people watching right now are kind of in this conundrum from the emails I receive and I totally empathize I get it where they're starting to understand that my time on this earth is limited. I don't I'm not happy at my job I want to do something else, but I'm afraid to leave my job But I really like doing this other thing. How can I make sure it's gonna be be monetized? How can I make sure and and so I'm gonna say before I ask you more about this J I know I spoke to speak a lot on my channel about my time in India and studying and that's what I do off-camera now Still as a job, but before that I actually went to school for something else and I Interned in a London radio station and I interned at the Arts Theatre in the West End So I have a background in storytelling and in how to craft narratives in literature and studying Stanisławski All these different methods of presenting stories and so with like my channel That's and storytelling is big in the South like we had Mrs. Cunningham growing up She was the local storyteller she'd be so it was it was a trade in the South to we see in an Indian culture as well Listen, nobody can tell a story like the Indians like you that the native not not the Americans But an India like you look at the Ramayana the Bhagavad Gita They can tell some stories right like so this this craft of storytelling was something I personally had studied in the past but walked away from and to do something else and then it came together Once lockdown happened and I took that initiative to just start doing it on my channel And so when I when I'm saying to people is like when you find what you love There's always gonna be a path to making that successful for you and even though I know for me I work about 16 hours a day and it's hard work. It's hard work to research to edit to film But I love it. I freak love it and when I started doing my channel I had no idea that I was actually gonna be doing shows with other people Like that was not even a thought, you know And so it's it's it's fun to see how we're divinity able to take you if you're able to Release the reins a little bit and just let it take you there and so Jay you and I we I think we kind of work Well together because I'm the freaking I'm the one that's over here like let's talk about stories and theories and and You're you have that side of your brain. That's very analytical and can very much much Chart things out. So we've kind of talked about doing some things together And do you want to like talk about that some more or yeah, I do because I think the The essence of how we grow is the spirit is to help other people along the way those that want to be helped So it's not like saying okay.  So, you know, we really as a human spirit We're we're looking to really find our vibrational matches And I think people watching should also be looking for the same thing We know to elevate to another consciousness and to another level of this whole existence Call it a video game is by helping others that are right there. They feel you they're like I want to do that too and you go along the ride.  I Just can't figure out a better way other than doing what we're doing right now You got to talk this shit out, right and you learn how to do it get on a show get a podcast You know start doing it It'll it'll if you if you have that kind of burning Desire to be like, I know I have a purpose. I can feel it. It's in my dreams. I keep getting signs I know what it is But I can't figure out the door and you're sitting there journaling the whole time and that journaling in them And the pens are running out of income and you're not getting anywhere The reason being is because you're not talking it out. You're telling experience. We we do this price does it I do it. It's it's what we do. It's so therapeutic everybody To to to get to do with this. It's a true privilege to have found a What I feel like is somewhat of a solution to to try to try to access those downloads But when you when you talk do it out you you start to you start to now manifest is what happened You start to get into a position of manifesting because your speech gets clearer You start to no longer talk in Circles if you would which we all do when we don't know what we want We talk, you know, I mean But then you start to get very clear then you start to get very incised because now you're you're talking more and more It's like literally you're you're practicing and the more clear and concise you are The more the universe and life blesses you because now you are in clear alignment With your universe because you got you're like what's two plus two four You know, I mean you're you're you're in that versus trying to explain the theory of math Right Yeah, so I know you and I have been talking about look we'll help people You know, you guys got to reach out to us. I mean call to us.  He has my boyfriend's number. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I touch. We need your credit card But um, you know, I tell you call the number and let's talk I mean, let's talk about what it is and look if When we talk if you feel like we're mutually a vibrational match Bryce and I can help you. We have done this. We've we've been there. We've got the t-shirt to prove it You know, it's it's it's not a it's gone from a hobby to a real proper business if you work for So yeah, and I will say too because I can hear it in my head I think people are so afraid and you the last course we did you said something that I thought was genius You told everybody just to start practice filming themselves for like five minutes a day And I think sometimes people um, assume because what we put out or at least what I put out Because I do a lot of my own stuff is very edited.  What would you what would your advice be to them j Well, you don't have to be great to start but you do have to start to be great So at some point in time you're just going to have to start and the beautiful thing about it is Is when you're in the privacy of your own home and you record yourself and you don't like it Hit the lead and you're the only one who ever saw it. So what's wrong with that? I mean if we can't get you to that point that no one else is going to see you other than you I don't know what to tell you but we can at least get you to say look, you're the only one seeing it You don't like it. Delete it. Do it again.  I mean that you just embody that spirit, right?  We're sitting here staring with you the two of us Feel like we have a pretty viable solution And you want to make it happen and that's the thing too and that's what I respect about uj is you have a hustle And I'll never forget when lockdown happened. I had just um, so I had been assisting At a y a the big shawla here our shawla here in atlanta and finally, uh, Todd was like you're authorized There are too many cooks in the kitchen. You got to start your own program And so I started a shawla up in out of a studio in the suburb So I drive every morning early and I would teach and I was building my program was building and becoming very prosperous And I was getting a lot of students and then all of a sudden 2020 happened and everything shut down and the studio where I was You're running my program out of was a new studio so it could not survive it And so it completely had to shut down and there was like a day that I sat there having a pity party But my motivation was like well, I'm fucking bored. I need to actually create work for myself I wasn't getting paid. There was no, you know, when you were first starting there's no adsense There's no sponsorships when you first start but you have to put yourself out there To eventually start to build that momentum and I will tell you guys the very first video I shot which youtube did take down so it must means that must mean that I was Something I said was true. Um was the door to guide stones And I will never forget filming my first video. I had set my iphone up I was filming from my phone at that point and I stared at my phone and I had all of my notes ready to go I had grafted in my head and I just started laughing because I was literally talking to myself I was like I feel like it but you just get used to it and you just keep going and at this today If I film something today, it's easy.  No, they're not they're just mighty. Are they trying to compete with the appalachian mountains? No, they just are who they are That's how you should be too And so, you know, even when it comes to because I for me jay one thing that I love about the timeline that we're Experiencing right now Is we do have all these tools like you don't have to at this point You can be your own production company You don't have to go and be a part of hollywood youtube anybody can open up a youtube channel Anybody can open up a podcast I don't have fans. I have a light ring in my laptop and a microphone I have no fancy equipment. You know, like it's it's I'm in my bedroom right now Right and so so that's the questions I get to jay like well. What about equipment? What about this stuff? Do you and april use what what do you guys use to fill a uh an iMac? with a nice light on the thing and A green screen that I just popped up. I mean the the expenses of this thing are ridiculously low So money really isn't an object. Listen if you have a computer, you're in business I mean that's the reality of this thing. I mean you've seen podcasts that go viral and they have the worst background Whatever, so you know, listen, it's just a different world we're in right now people want to people want to fuel your energy They want to connect with it They're trying to find their sole tribe and someone somewhere is going to show up on some video and some time in place And that's the person you're going to be like. Oh my god, I connect with them and then you're going to hit subscribe That's what someone's looking for you to do Someone's out there looking for you you have to really think about this because we're all uh You know if there's any Belief or truth to the fact that we're all intertwined and we're all looking for each other Someone's looking for us. We're looking for that call. It's a sole cluster if you would the sole tribes, right?  You know what I mean? That's the internet. This is how you find it You know, you know, I mean you you put out your call you start getting in something like this You want to find out how to get to the next level Get out on something like this get your voice out on media Share your message with someone don't worry about how you do it talk with passion talk with conviction talk with all love you get People will feel you your tribe will your tribe will get you they'll see you they'll contact you and they'll be like I've been waiting for you.  But when you release this The therapeutic benefits of the of your mental clarity start to deflect all that So you you start to feel physically better about yourself Oh, absolutely benefits of what we do Absolutely, I I was laughing so you guys are lucky if I have pants on because I'm filming from my house So I get to be as comfortable as possible. I get to talk about what I want to talk about We get to set our own schedules. We just text each other about what times to film.  So true.  I actually love what I do now Even more and I've been able to share in your writing. I have so many awesome people that watch my channel And I'm sure watchers too that are from all over the world that um my friend Karen from uh from uh from um She's in europe. I she comes to my yoga classes a lot. I love her. She found me on my channel I would have never had a chance to meet people and I'll be and these people from all these other Places in the world if I had not opened up my channel. So there's so many endless possibilities We I have a great signal group I have I have incredible people from all over the world that joined a signal group and my moderators There are incredible because I've sal Jan all my moderators So I'm never really able to be in there, but they're all helping each other So you you following your what you love to do you following that hobby Is going to open up doors that you never expected to open and it's and that's that idea of going back to what you said in the beginning Jay about enhancing the experience Because all of this for me and for you Jay has turned into a business has turned into A way of of making a living, but that's not how it started It started as something that I just really wanted to do and it's still something I really want to do And so that's what I want to encourage you guys and it's so like and it doesn't have to be like Jay And I met through the quote-unquote truth or community whatever Whatever your platform is one of the best examples I can use is a woman named toddy westbrook I don't know if you guys know who she is Toddy westbrook is a makeup artist and she started she is like over a million subscribers She started doing makeup on youtube and now she's got her own makeup line She she's become she's used this as a way to monetize and create a life for herself And I as somebody who spent my whole life wearing no makeup And very grateful for the makeup artist because that's how I had to learn how to do makeup to come on camera So so it could just be something or maybe you're a quilter or you are you love to knit You know, there's so many different things you can do to create that that that Presence for yourself that's going to then open up more doors with people that also resonate with that if that makes sense 100% it makes sense and and and and look we we have the technology today again for you to be able to Look, look, it doesn't take much to be an expert. You just need to know a little bit more than the people that are watching you That's it That's a little bit more than the people we're people think a little spiritually raw. We're expert You know, isn't we interview people? I mean we download and we watch them and you know, that that's how it works I mean, that's it. We're all learning from each other. I mean, let's not be naive There's no there's nobody that has any exact answers here, but we have best practices We have best things and you know, we have best ways to live like you said if you want to be a quilter and that's your thing You know, there's a whole quilting community. I'm sure that would like to do that.   Look, you know The the whole essence behind this exercise is We live in a world where the world can celebrate you you can you can have an amazing Experience you can have a blessing. You don't have to feel like you're worrying You don't have to feel like this is that and there's just ways to do it part of the existence that you know again my own personal experience kind of getting back from before is It's the fun of the game if we if we treat it as if it's a game everybody It's it'll lighten the load and then you won't maybe take things so seriously You'll realize oh i got bumped down I get to put another quarter in the machine again and go again This time i'm going to get it and if you think about it In that kind of context then you'll think about it. You're not being punished and you're not being rewarded You just are you just get a chance You're just being course corrected when when something and i'll tell you jammy people are always like I don't know what to put Let me tell you guys my some of my favorite channels to watch that i've recently discovered Are walking tours if you live in a say you I love history. I'm a huge history lover I could probably do a walking tour in atlanta. Take just take my phone these people. I watched the other night I watched somebody on her cell phone She was in white chapel in london where all the jack the ripper murders happened and you know what she did She just walked around and showed you where all the murders happened and told the story of jack the ripper That thing has millions of you and she's on her freaking phone So if you if you're in paris there's a guy in paris that I follow that I started watching his walking tours Where he shows you where the moulin rouge is he shows you you know This is a lot of people dig this stuff and so you that the the the possibilities are endless All it takes is for you just to try For you just to start Yeah, and you don't want to use things like linear things like so let me help you everybody that are watching here because I Because we talk to so many people and these are the common things that kind of get people to do anything and look and Listen, and this is what we're here for because we truly empathize with the fact that there is a real fear Where there is a real legitimate fear of success What do I do to make it? What if I do go there? You know what I mean? So sometimes it's a failure parper There's a real success there. Like are you ready for this? And I think you really are I think at this point in time But don't get caught up in the well, what do I call it?   You'll know you'll have such a knowing What to call your show how to describe your show? What exactly do you do but you're only going to do it by getting through it? So don't try to do it so much and spend all this time. Well, okay Well, let me do a 30 45 day plan.  I always tell people that your life You want to get 30 45 days kick the can down the road stuff to you But if you want to take action then go you know what I mean I love how you're talking about the name too because that is literally what happened to me I have been thinking about doing what when I walked down happen doing a channel with vocal or And I was like, what am I going to call it? What am I and then all of a sudden it just came to me? Esoteric Atlanta because it's esoteric folklore and I was like and I went Immediately was just this boom and I went and I registered it made sure that it was available That was a domain that was available. I registered it I went opened up an instagram account before to have put any videos up I just went opened up that instagram account and yeah I just and once you get that you just go with it and you're right It's it's funny the psychology because we see this people. Oh, I'm going to start the diet tomorrow Or I'm going to start my channel next week or oh I'm going to do this once this happens and the psychology behind that is that when we think of ourselves in the future We're thinking of ourselves as a different person Right, so we're not so we're not living that experience. So that's why it's so important Just to start and if your first video is crap You should I mean my first video got taken down, but you should see some of my earlier videos They're not that great But the great thing about Platforms like youtube is once you start to get better Guess what you can take down those old videos if you want to if you're not happy with them, right? And everybody starts somewhere. Nobody is born Just doing stuff right you you you learn as you go and so so jay Let's say somebody is like watching right now They how can they contact they just contact the number do they text should they just text the number? What should they text your number text uh text brice text the word brice? And text the word media media right and then we're going to know what you're talking about Let's set up a console. Let's talk through it.   And that's what you want to do is you want to be at that place in your life if you're ready That's what you want to do.   You really do Um, you know, I always tell people that before we speak, let's get energetically prepared because Because if we're a vibrational match together, then we can align together even doesn't matter whether You know, I've been doing this for 10 years and you haven't even thought about it yet Or you you're 10 minutes on your radar But look if the energy is there the energy is there energy knows no time You know, I mean exactly will connect the energies together and go and then you'll be able to utilize what we've done In our years and be able to get there in like 10 of the time. It's a beautiful thing Imagine this Jay as I'm hearing you I'm thinking, you know, because so many people live with depression We know that depression and anxiety are really really common. Um, I've struggled with it I know a lot of people have and I'm sitting here thinking like Depression has become so common amongst mankind and it shouldn't be And I think you know, a lot of people then just go and if you need medication That's totally you're you're prerogative to do that but What if it was just such such a simple solution as like living your authentic self? What if that depression is your soul going? This is not why I came here It's it's gotta be I mean I look no medical advice here disclaimer disclaimer I think it's gotta be something like that.  Why don't you try on releasing your spirit? Why don't you try the shot? Geez, yeah, and I see it too jane Why I'm gonna bring this up too because I know we're on a time crunch here because you got another another zoom But I want to say too we live in a very materialistic world and I know I enjoy Getting you know having luxurious stuff too like the next person But sometimes I think that people strive so much for that materialistic gain or being able because they're so unhappy That they're they're looking for something outside of themselves to help themselves be happy But if they were doing something they authentically loved They wouldn't feel the need to be as attached to material out You know I'm saying maybe I know for me when I started to really work on myself I became more of a minimalist because I was getting to the root of what the issue was and therefore I know for me whenever I feel like I'm slumping into that Depression I ask myself where am I experiencing joy in my day? I'll tell you guys a really funny story What really quickly one thing I know when I'm starting to feel like in that depressed day I can go on very little sleep. That's the vata in me. I think you're very vata 2j But I know that I'm starting to feel more depressed if I'm going to bed earlier and earlier and earlier Well lately I've been going to bed earlier and earlier and earlier But I haven't really been feeling depressed and I was like this is weird and then I realized Oh, it's because we got a new mattress Joy laying in the mat the memory foam mattress So there's joy in that moment. It'll wear off But um, but you know so so think about that you really sit there my teacher in india This is what I love about the my indian teachers is they say things so simply sometimes There's no it's very simple and my teacher in india will say why fearing Why are you afraid? And he'll just look at you and say, why are you fearing? Why fearing? And so then that forces you to really go and say, why am I afraid to take this leap of faith? Why am I afraid you don't have to give up your corporate job at this moment? But you can start at the same time working on Eventually escaping that and creating that hobby as as as your as your lifeline And just so why are you afraid? Are you afraid people are going to laugh at you? Are you afraid? Listen, we get trolled all the time and that's one thing you do develop a very thick skin When you when you have a platform and everybody gets trolled every single person in the on youtube gets trolled It's it's not that big of a deal, right? So so you start to think about that.  So what is stopping you?   I'm doing you. I'm doing a show and then some of your people that are going to be like Well, what are you going to talk about then they're gonna you know what I mean? So Listen actions speak louder than words. Just do it. Yeah What I would do is if you're thinking about doing this Just do it get out there and show the action. Hey, look what I did not what I'm thinking about doing Let people see what action because if you when you start to talk See, here's the thing because you don't really know what you're doing yet So I want to try to give some best advice for people watching You don't know what you're doing yet.  What are you going to do? What are you going to talk about? What's the name of your show going to be? What are you going to do? Who's your audience? What about having to find it you can ask you all these linear kind of questions, right? That you don't know the answer to yet because you haven't talked it out So what I would recommend you do Is don't say a damn thing and please some people that don't even know what you're talking about because you don't know What you're talking about do a show show them the evidence of what you did Let them feel your energy and let them see you in that light Actions always speak a lot of the words everybody really don't don't don't go talking to Don't my best advice to you is it whatever business you decide to do Show them that it's done and then come back and say look what I did Not look what i'm thinking of doing because and then you're trying to defend something to people that really don't understand What you're even going through and then you take advice from people who have absolutely no experience in what you're about to go through And they have no skin in the game They have no skin in the game and there's a quote that misery loves company And so sometimes when people see a friend that's actually taking that that leap of faith it triggers them And so they react towards you to try to get you not to do it because then that forces them to have to read So absolutely jay, I would say you know that don't I mean I come from a family of doctors I'm definitely the black sheep of my family. I went off to india And I and I don't regret it at all because it is it has meant all the world to me It's really me living my life. And so you have to don't worry about making everybody else happy What's going to make you happy because yeah, you are going to go through that that metamorphosis But you are going to end up meeting like I met jay and april. I met captain edwards I met all these people that have come into my life and made my life better for it because I decided to open up a youtube channel Right. So so I would really don't why fearing. I just ask yourself. Why am I afraid? What what am I what am I fearing? Fear fear is false evidence appearing real. That's all it is. It's false evidence appearing real So anyway jay, so I know you got to jump on another zoom call. Is there anything you want to close out with today? Well, you know, it's always great to hang out with again. Thanks for always creating this space Thank you so much. I just you know when people that just just know that Life doesn't have to be hard along the way you'll meet people in your life that have figured out a lot of what You're looking for that will minimize your time And I think you're looking at two of them right now So I would just reach out and realize that things can be easy if you position and believe me This business is that I've done that I've done there, but it didn't take me having to research it It took me talking to the people that had spent the years doing it And that's all I did so I got in there 20 years ahead and learned in 20 years with what they in two hours What they would took them 20 years to do that's that's that's the path you want to follow So you don't have to feel like Oh my god, I have to do with us all again. You know what I mean? And then the energy behind everything so Find your vibrational match get get find your soul people your life will be better as a result of it And you just will just start to look at things differently.  There just isn't and you know It's just it's a beautiful life to allow yourself to be there. We're happy to help. Thank you everybody for listening to me Absolutely guys and I know I'm gonna ask right now I know we've talked about jay in the in the future doing a question and answer show So I'm gonna encourage you guys if you have any questions about this that you just feel comfortable asking in the comment section You can always ask us in the comment section And we can address them in a future show or if you want to keep it more personal You can always send me an email at esotericatlantaajimal.com and just put question in the subject for jay And I can we can address it on a show keep you anonymous And so yeah and absolutely I'd love for you guys to contact jay all that information is down in the description box below It always is I know I get questions about this a lot. You have to hit the show more button guys So if you're looking below your screen the way it's not I didn't design it this way jay did design it this way YouTube decided this way So they're not it's not going to show the full description box You have to actually click the show more button or the down arrow depending on what device that you're on Whether that's an uh laptop an ipad or an iphone Sometimes half of the description box will pull up and you have to pull the rest up too So just keep clicking those buttons and it will all it'll all pull down for you So all right, we'll tell april I said hello We'll talk to you guys all very soon. Bye everybody. Hi guys. Thanks


Thanks, it's great to be here. I love the Red Hot Preaching Conference. It's always gonna have a special place in my heart for myself and my family. We came to California for the first Red Hot Preaching Conference in 2016. So I love seeing all the new faces. I love seeing the kids grow. Like we haven't been here for several months and like the kids are like a foot taller now. So it's really cool to see that. Thank you to Pastor Jimenez for everything, for inviting us, for everything that he's done for us and our family and for our church. Obviously we came out of Verity Baptist Church, which we're very appreciative of that. So thank you to the staff here, everybody that makes this conference. Go, I know how hard the ushers work. I was an usher here for three years. So just appreciate everything that's done here. It's not an easy thing to get something like this going. I had a little bit of a crisis last night. We drove back to the hotel. I told my wife, I said, I was like, man, I gotta write some jokes into my sermon. You know? And I was like asking the kids on the way back. I'm like, you guys know any jokes? You know?  So like I can't really, I couldn't really fit that into like what I'm gonna talk about today. So Pastor Mehe is funny though. I mean, I don't know what to tell you. That's it. I mean, Pastor, that is a gift. I mean, that is a gift. So, but anyway, we're gonna talk about today for the Red Hot Preaching Conference. I'm gonna talk about everybody's favorite Sunday school lesson, Noah's Ark. All right?  No new doctrine, but just a different perspective on Noah's Ark this morning. But here's the thing, and this is why, you know, we're not really into Sunday school. One of the reasons that I don't like Sunday school, I love the family integrated church. You can see why the Bible teaches a family integrated church. I myself grew up in Sunday school. And like these stories in the Bible, they were made into cartoons.  But here's the thing, Noah's Ark actually happened. I mean, this event actually took place.    I mean, it turns out to be like, depending on how you do the math, it turns out to be somewhere between 450 and 500 feet long. Okay, this is before navies, okay? 450 to 500 feet long, 80 feet wide, and like 50 feet tall.  It's very interesting though. God gives him the dimensions of the Ark. He gives him the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the Ark. He tells him it's gonna be three stories. So you say, why did God tell him those things? I mean, the Ark is a little bit different than the temple because God gave great detail with the temple. God gave great detail with even the tabernacle in the wilderness. But with the Ark, he kind of gives them these dimensions. And what he gives them is these dimensions and it makes sense since God created the animals, he's gonna have to have seven pairs of a lot of animals and one pair of a lot of animals. God knew how much room he would need. So he gave Noah the dimensions of the Ark. He tells him, you know, you're gonna lay it out in three levels. He even gives them the materials. Of the Ark, he's like, hey, use gopher wood. You know, make it with pitch to make it watertight. But here's the thing. Like other than that, Noah built the Ark. I mean, think about that for a second.  And now we're becoming really smart. The opposite's actually true. Okay, man, I mean, think about it. Noah lived 950 years old. I mean, you give me 950 years, I'm gonna figure some stuff out. All right? So I mean, the thing is like this guy built this ship. God didn't tell him, hey, make the stringers this far apart. You know, he built this structure on his own. God gave him, look, God gave him the success factors. He gave him the design criteria to make sure that he could fit everything in the Ark. But other than that, he said, you build it. They build the Ark. He says, make the, make the Ark. So Noah built it. And look, turn to Genesis chapter seven and look at verse number six. You know, Noah lived to be, we know Noah lived to be 950 years old. But look at Genesis chapter seven, verse number six. The Bible says Noah was 600 years old when the flood water was upon the earth. So when Noah was in the Ark, he was 600 years old. Okay, so he has this big building project.  All right, in Genesis 532, the Bible says that Noah was 500 years old and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. So Noah built the Ark somewhere between when he was 500 years old and when he was 600 years old. And we don't know exactly. I mean, everybody's got all these theories. We don't know exactly how long it took him to build the Ark. But if you think about, like, what he had to do. He had to build this ship. He had to gather materials. And look, think about this. He had to get these animals together.  I'm like, the birds, the bats, everything. I mean, think about all the work that had to go with this. I mean, even if this, I mean, it could have taken him as long as 100 years, but even if it took him 20 years, this was quite a project for Noah to do. So the question is this, this morning. The question is this, and this is kind of what I want to get at for this morning's sermon. Why didn't God just give the Ark to Noah? You ever thought about that? Maybe you haven't? Why didn't God just say, I mean, God created the whole world. I mean, you could build a ship. God can do anything. You can build a ship. Why didn't he just drop the Ark right there and said, boom, could he not have done that? Of course he could have, right? But here's the thing. This is a philosophy you see all over the Bible. This is a methodology God uses all over the Bible dealing with us. He reminded me of a bumper sticker that I really like. A bumper sticker that you see every now and then. This bumper sticker, have you ever heard the bumper sticker? It's usually on like a 92 Ford or, you know, in Fresno it's a 85 Chevy. Not to get into that. But the bumper sticker says built not bought. A lot of times this bumper sticker goes along with one that's in the back of the window that says dirty hands, clean money. By the way, if you see it, here's a California tip for you for all of you not from California and pass from here to see if you agree. If you have more than two bumper stickers in California, you're a liberal. If you have more than 10, you worship the devil. I mean, look, that's not exact. And if you have a bunch of bumper stickers on your car, I'm sorry.   It's so common. But anyway, built not bought is what you see. Right, you got this guy that's got this old truck and he's pieced this thing together over years. He's making 25 bucks an hour, whatever he's making. And he's putting this thing together because you know what? It's just, maybe he didn't have the money to go out and buy the new one.  And look, if you have a new truck today, you're gonna feel like I'm preaching against you, but it's just an analogy, okay? There's a reason people go out and buy the new truck because look, it takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of knowledge. It takes a lot of sacrifice of your time, especially, to build it yourself. But that's why God does it. And at the end of the sermon, I'll give you several advantages from the Bible on why God has us build it. I mean, why does he do that? I mean, it's obvious. I'll show you in the Bible. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter six. 1 Corinthians chapter six. And look at verse number 20. This is just how God deals with us. This is how God deals with us. It's common in the Bible. So look, I mean, let's just look at our salvation here. Let's just look at our salvation. Look, your salvation was bought for you, paid for. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter six and verse number 20. The Bible says, for your bought with a price, okay? You're bought with a price. Your salvation, bought and paid for, gift. It's yours. There's nothing you could do to lose it. It's yours, but now look what? Therefore, it's saying, going forward here, because of this, it says glorify God in your body. What do you do with your body? What do we just sing? Well, what? We'll work until Jesus comes. That's what we do with our body. We work. And in your spirit, which are God's. So look, the point I'm trying to get at as we start this morning is your salvation is free. Your salvation is free, but your Christian life, this body that we have that is now saved, that is now redeemed from nothing of our own, not 1% of our own. This body, this Christian life is to be built, not bought. And that is why God didn't just drop the Ark in Noah's lap. He gave him the criteria to be successful. Sound familiar? He gave him the criteria to be successful, so Noah wouldn't go and start putting something together and realize, oh, I'm 80 feet short. No, God made sure he had the criteria to be successful, but then he said, you build it, you build it. And here's the thing, Christians get this wrong today and that's why I'm preaching about it. Christians get this wrong today where they think, hey, I'm saved and either I'm saved and I do nothing, or I'm saved and I can do whatever I want and I can just say a prayer and then God's gonna just put it all together for me. Christians get this wrong today. I'm gonna give you some examples.  Everybody talks about, turn to Nehemiah chapter four. Nehemiah was a builder. Nehemiah was a builder. Look, Christians get this wrong today and if they get it wrong, they're serious consequences. They're serious consequences. And look, you're saved. You're saved today, nothing's ever gonna change that. The problem with Christian consequences is they're usually paid by people closest to you. Turn to Nehemiah chapter four. Turn to Nehemiah chapter four. The first example I wanna give you of things that are built, not bought is the church. You say, what? God builds a church. We'll get to that in a minute. We started out as a satellite ministry in Fresno. We were a satellite ministry for two years. Verity Baptist Church, Fresno. And then we went, so for two years we were a satellite ministry, like I'm not gonna say it was easy. I mean, it's a lot of work, but who cares? I, you know, I like work. So it was a lot of work running the satellite ministry. But when the ordination happened, it was like immediately we had major trouble.  It was crazy. I'd never experienced anything like that in my life.  It's just a lot of bad people doing a lot of bad things. That's what it was.  It's like in one ear out the other. Look, it's just a spiritual battle. That was the first thing. It was just proof of the spiritual battle. But I realized, I realized aside from that, and honestly, just on a personal level, it was very valuable for me to go through some of those things personally so I can understand what some of my friends have gone through.  There's always good that comes out of those things for people that love the Lord. Look down to Nehemiah chapter four. But here's what I really realized when all those things happened and now going forward through, now that we're past those things. Nehemiah chapter four, and look at verse number six. The Bible says this. See, I realized when we started going through all that trouble and all those things that were happening, because look, I mean, we're a satellite ministry. We inherited a lot. We were given a lot from this powerhouse of a church that's here. But I was kind of like, oh, this thing's gonna need to be built, not bought. That was the light bulb that went off. It's like, oh, we're gonna have to build this thing. It's not just gonna be handed to us. We're gonna have to build it. Look at verse number six of Nehemiah chapter four. So, built we the wall, and the wall was joined together unto the half thereof, for the people had a mind to work. Nehemiah went after the captivity. He went back to build the wall of Jerusalem. He prayed, look, he prayed. He prayed in Nehemiah chapter one. I mean, he beseeched the Lord. He beseeched the Lord. And then he went back, and you know what he did? He built it. He didn't go back and stand on the borders of Jerusalem and say, God put these bricks together. No, he went back and he built it. And you know what? He built it, and the people had a mind to work. The people were, look, this, it go to Matthew chapter 16. The people had a mind to work, and Nehemiah went back and they put the bricks on top of bricks. You say, but God, but wait, God builds the church. That's true. God builds the church. But look at Matthew 16 and verse number 18. Matthew 16, look at verse number 18. The Bible says, and I also say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Why won't the gates of hell prevail against it? Why? Because it's built on the rock of Jesus, that's why. That's why. If we don't build this on the rock of Jesus, the gates of hell will prevail. I mean, we can infer that from this statement.  But you know what? Like, you build it. We have to build it. We can just two verses later. Two verses, oh, I'm sorry, go to Mark chapter six, 16 and verse number 20. I'm sorry. Mark 16 and verse number 20. The Bible says when the disciples went forth, look what it says in Mark chapter 16 and verse number 20. It says, and they went forth and preached everywhere. Are they standing around? They're not standing around. And then guess what? The Lord working with them. The Lord will work with us, but we need to have a mind to work. Look, these churches need people to work. They need people to build. Every church needs men and women with a mind to work to build. I mean, I hear people all the time, whether it's this conference or other places that I go, come up to me and I'm sure other people are the same, where they're like, hey, I'm from so-and-so and I can't wait for a church to come to my city and I'm from here and we want a church. Look, we all want that. We all want that. But here's the thing. First of all, it's not just that there's not a man. There needs to be people to work. There needs to be people to build. It's not just one man. Whole Fast Baptist Church is not just one man. It's never gonna be just one man. We need people to work with a mind to work. And then you know what? We'll plant churches all over the place. If we had those people and we had those men, we'd plant churches everywhere. We'd plant, I mean, that's the problem is the lack of people. We'd plant churches in Turtle Lake, North Dakota, population 300. It's a lack of people with a mind to work is the problem. How about this one? Things that you need to build and not buy. How about your family? You know what? You can buy this. Everybody else is doing it. You say, what are you talking about? We're being told today that you can buy your family, that you can buy the raising of your family. Because guess what? Somebody else will do it for you. You can have dual incomes and you can afford it. You can go have a child and that child could come from the hospital to the daycare center or the school or whatever they call it today. Straight to the public school, straight to the tablet, to the internet. Well, they'll raise your kid for you. You can buy it. It can be bought. University system will finish them off. But isn't that normal? Isn't that normal? Isn't that what people do today? They're buying it. No, but you have to build it. God gave it to you to build.  They're a heritage from the Lord. You have to build them. They must be built. Hey, how? Go to church, read the Bible. Yes, those are all great starts. But the whole thing needs to be built and not bought with your families. There's great danger today, folks. No one's gonna do it right for you.  And guess what? Just like that guy building that truck, it's gonna take sacrifice. I mean, look at these kids here. Look at these young ladies. Look at the girls here. You know, they're under serious attack today. These girls here. These young ladies in this church are under serious attack today. You know what? A virtuous young lady. A young lady to a virtuous woman of Proverbs 31. That's built, not bought. That takes effort. That takes protection. Turn to Titus chapter two. It takes sacrifice to raise a daughter to become a Proverbs 31 woman. That doesn't happen on accident. That doesn't happen on accident. Turn to Titus chapter two and verse number four. I think of all the things today, this infuriates me the most, right here. Turn to Titus chapter two and verse number four. And look, it infuriates me the most because I believe that even for the Christian family, even for us, it's a danger, it's a risk. Turn to Titus chapter two and look at verse number four. Talking about, you know, to raise a daughter like this, think about these words. The Bible says that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.  He's like, what? That's extreme. Okay, what's more hateful than to murder them? What's more hateful than to murder them?  Why? Because they wanna murder them. I mean, this isn't rocket surgery.  But we're to teach, I mean, you're gonna notice some opposites here. We're to teach the young ladies to love their children. And guess what? That kinda comes with your conscience. Right, some of the things that Pastor Mahia was talking about last night, like, you know, you know, covering up that gag reflex, that's written into our conscience. But you can sear your conscience. You can hammer that conscience where it doesn't work right anymore. We need to back up that conscience. We need to reinforce that conscience. To love their children, to be discreet. You know what that means? Discreet, discreet with two E's like that. You know what that means? It means prudent. It means wise in judgment. It means they should be wise.   You know, judgment means recognizing evil. That's all it means. I mean, that's how God ruled the nation with judges. I mean, that is, these young ladies need to be wise. They need to recognize evil. They need to be wise in avoiding errors. Chased, that means pure. Who values, I mean, do feminists value women? It's disgusting. It's disgusting. They tell them that they're nothing but a body to be abused. But the Bible tells us that we're to value these young women. We're to value purity. We're to value our daughters. Keepers at home, they really hate that one. I mean, but I've always been upset at this. I wasn't even, I've been upset at this before I was even saved. That my wife would stay home and raise our children and protect our children from this wicked garbage that gets worse every week and somehow that honorable task would be demeaned by people. That, that upsets me. That's always upset me. That has set me before I was saved. Why? Conscience. It's the most honorable thing because what's she doing? She's loving the children. Keepers at home, good, obedient to their husbands. That the word of God, be not blaspheme, and turn to 1 Peter chapter three. That they should be submissive to their husband. They should obey their husband. That's what the Bible says. 1 Peter chapter three, look at verse number one. The Bible says likewise ye wives, we're talking about our daughters. How do we build our daughters here? Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands. There it is again. That if any obey not the word, they may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives. It's telling the wife that she's to be pure and wise and she's gonna win her husband even if he's not saved. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Who's adorning? Look at verse number three. Who's adorning? Let it not be the outward adorning of the plating of hair and of wearing of gold or putting on apparel. Look, look, these young ladies, their value is not in their looks. Their value is not in their bodies. That's what girls are being told today. You know what your value is and how you can show your nakedness. That's your value. That's a lie. That's a lie. That devalues them. That devalues these precious young ladies that the Bible is talking about protecting here. But let it be the hidden man of the heart which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Boy, that's the opposite of the militant feminists today too. Loud mouth, wicked, murder loving people. That's the opposite of a meek and quiet spirit. So let's go back to Nehemiah chapter four and look at verse number 17. Look at, I mean, Nehemiah is building. We're talking about building it, not buying it. Go back to Nehemiah chapter four. Look at verse number 17. The Bible says this. See, it's not that we're worse off than the guy with the truck because there's gonna be people that stop us from building it. There's gonna be people trying to tear down what we're building. Look at Nehemiah chapter four and verse number 17. They would build it on the wall and they would bear burdens with those that laid it. Every one of his hands wrought in the work and the other hand held a weapon. Why? Because people were trying to come after them. I mean, they could do more work if they had just had two hands to put bricks up. But they were worried about people attacking them. Look at verse 18. For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side and so build it. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me. They were all armed when they were doing this. Look, we're under attack today. These girls are under attack today.  It's exactly the opposite. And I kind of like that they're exposing and they're showing who they are because they've always been this way. These militant, loud, obnoxious, promiscuous, violent people. You see them out protesting since Roe v. Wade was overturned. They're out protesting. They're literally smearing themselves with like hopefully fake blood. But they're literally like, we're bloody people.  We love murder. We love murder. I love situations where like you see the convergence. One of the pictures actually took a snapshot of a news article. You had this militant feminist. They're destroying things. They're hurting people. They're destroying buildings. I mean, that's violent. That's violent. And then one of the pictures they saved was one of these violent protests and there was a pride flag. Not only was it a pride flag, but in the center of the pride flag, it had the black pentagram goat head. In one flag. I've seen them flown separately many times. But that just goes, look, they're all the same people. They're all the same people. And Satan's run on the show. Look, normal people in America, please realize this. Do you want Satan running this country? Because that's who these people are led by. They're showing you. It's on their cars. It's on their flags. They literally worship the devil. But they're teaching these young ladies today to basically be harlots and murderers. That's what they're teaching these young ladies to be. They're teaching them to not be complimentary towards men, but to be in competition with men. You see, God's plan is perfect. You ever noticed, if you ever met two guys that are really close friends, and you'll notice that many times those friends are very different. Because they compliment each other. It's common with friendships. In a marriage.  My wife and I have nothing in common. Nothing. I mean, other than she loves me and I love her. In the Bible, I'm joking. But you get my point. I mean, we don't have the same hobbies. I'm like, adventure. She's like, I don't wanna go on another adventure. I'm like, get in the car. How long's the hike? It's like a half mile plus 10. But the point is, is that what they're doing is they're, and especially with the keeper at home, obey your husband, they're degrading the honorable things of the Bible. They're breaking it down. They're cutting it down. We have to defend that. We have to defend that to our daughters. I mean, as if preparing a meal for your husband would be a bad thing. As if preparing a meal for your family is like suddenly, like as if it's an unimportant thing. Have you seen kids today? I drive by a high school every day. I'm like, where are the athletes? It's crazy. It's like, as if like making sure that your family, your home is taken care of, your children whom you love are taken care of, and are living a healthy lifestyle as if that's like a small thing. What in the world? Turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 13. But here's why. Here's why. Let me show you why they're so virulently against this. Like, keepers at home. Obedient to your husband. Turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 13. Because they can't imagine, they can't imagine what we have. They can't imagine, they can't even picture in their mind what the marriages in this room have. They can't wrap their head around it. You say, why? I'll show you why. The Bible tells us why. Look at 1st Corinthians chapter 13. 1st Corinthians chapter 13 is talking about charity, our love towards our fellow man, all right? And in verse number six, look what it says about charity. It says charity. I mean, it's talking about love here. This is why they can't understand. Look, they can never understand why they can't imagine a wife that would love her husband and her children that would give hours of her life daily to teaching them. From the time she rises to the time she lies down to be that Deuteronomy 6 teacher to her children and take care of her family, they can't imagine that a woman would want to do that. Why? Because charity, love, it rejoices not in iniquity because they don't know what love is. That's why. That's the same thing that two homosexuals can't love each other. I don't care what you call it. It rejoices not in abomination. You can redefine words all you want. Look, I mean, I could lift something up here and say, look, this is a basketball, but it's not. I mean, we're talking about just redefining all these things. I heard it was 105, by the way. I mean, we're talking about genders. I guess I was talking about orientations or whatever the last time. I don't feel like I need to go and look into all those 105. It's just like natural unnatural. But here's the point. You can redefine anything that you want. It doesn't make it true. And that is the problem. They don't understand these militant feminists don't understand that there could be a husband that would sacrifice anything for his wife, for his children. Up to his last breath. They don't get it. Why? Because they don't know what love is.  They just don't know what it is. Only the Bible gives us the definitions that are real. It's just a foreign concept to them. They don't know what it is. So look, it's the opposite. It's creeping into everything, this militant feminist. You've got to stand up for it. Don't let people make comments to you.  Especially if your daughter's with a near shot and those comments. You keep that sword by your side and you defend what you're doing. Because they're trying to creep things in. They're trying to creep ideas in. We got to keep all these evil feminist influences out of our homes. And you know what? We need to teach our daughters their value. We need to teach our daughters their value. Because don't let people draw them into these institutions. The kids today, they're going to go out and they're going to play some sports today. They're going to go out and they're going to have fun and all this.  Femmism, it was invented by a man. That's another conspiracy theory of mine. It was like, oh, women's sports. So you've got to have your girl and you got to have your daughter in women's sports. But here's the thing. She has to wear underwear when she's played sports. It's crazy. It's crazy that people would do this. Kids are going to go out here and they're going to play a sport and they're going to have fun together. They're going to be dressed appropriately. Because you know why? Because we value these young ladies. That's why. Because we don't want to devalue these young ladies in our lives. Look, they're built, not bought. The value of these young ladies. I mean, keep the rubies. They're more valuable. The value of just the value of a strong, wise wife. I've got a suspicion about my wife for years. I've had the suspicion about her that she might be smarter than me.  But there'll be moments where I'm dealing with something or there's some kind of situation going on in the leadership that I'm dealing with, whether my family or the church. My wife will be like, well, that's your point me to a spot in the Bible. And I'm like, that's really good. Are you smarter than me? But you know how valuable that is to a husband? It's more valuable than any material thing the Bible says. That she's a help meat for me. You know what that means? That she's a help that actually helps me. It's not a help mate. It's like a worthy help to me. That is so valuable. It protects the family. It protects the children. There's nothing more valuable than having a strong wife that can judge good from evil in this world. It is that it gives me complete comfort every day in my life, knowing that she is there helping build these girls, these daughters. But we're the ones that value them, folks. Everything else is a lie. They're trying to degrade them. They're literally trying to turn them into murderers is what you're seeing today. What about our boys? Look, men, men, men are to run their families. Men are to run the church. Men are to be leaders, which brings us to the next thing. Turn to Proverbs chapter 20. These boys in this church are not going to become strong men on accident. It's not just going to materialize out of thin air. Look at Proverbs chapter 20, look at verse number six. The Bible says, most men. I mean, pay attention to that. That's the majority. This is true. I can tell you, hands down, this is true. Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness. But a faithful man, who could find? You know what the Bible is saying? The Bible here is saying is that most men are all talk. But a faithful man, who can find?  Like crazy, this verse. You're like, yeah, this is true. Why does it have to be true? You think these boys are going to turn into faithful men on accident? No, that needs to be built. Not bought. That's what it, look. And it's, you know, faithful men is what a church needs. You know, faithful men is what a family needs. Faithful men is what that godly wife needs. But that needs to be built. Biblical masculinity is under attack just as much as the ladies.   You know what that means, though? What is a man, what is a woman thing? You know what that means? It means there's a lack of men in this country. It means there's a lack of men that are willing to stand up and say, this is garbage. Just like the virtuous meek, chaste, wise, discreet women, if we had some faithful men in this country, we wouldn't be where we're at today. Trying to blend everyone into the middle. We're into some weird mixed up whatever. Young men need to be taught to have courage to stand up for what they believe. And we're like, how do I do that? Guess what? Yeah, well, you know, you have to show that, guess what? You have to show them. You have to show them how. You have to show them how to have courage. You have to demonstrate it. Sorry. You have to demonstrate. You have to live it. We went on a, just, we went on a hike like two weeks ago. And we were down in this river gorge and it was crazy, like the gorge walls were up like this and this river came into this big pool and my youngest son was like, he wanted to jump in the water and he was nervous to go in.  And he looks at me and he's like, you first. And I'm like, and my wife was sitting there and she's like, you did it now. I wasn't planning on going swimming, but you know what? I went first. And then he came after me. Look, we got to show him. We got to show him. You want to raise, you want to raise boys and girls who become just passionate soul winners. You got to show them. Well, like in a week, no, years. And you can't fake that. You can't phone that in. You can't fake that in. You can't fake that.  Because here's the thing, folks, we're the ones that actually care about people. That's another lie. We're the only ones that care.  Then you're going out there. It's 110. Maybe you don't feel good. Whatever. I don't feel great every time I go soul winning.  It's got to be real. And then when it's real, guess what? They're just going to like come right behind you. It's the coolest thing. It's almost like the Bible works. They're going to get that look. And you know what? Before they can become soul winners, they're going to start having that desire. They're going to start having that desire like, when can I start? When can I start? Can I start talking? Can I start giving the intro? And then you just guide them right into it. Just walk them right into it. But you got to show them. You got to show them how. See, here's the problem. They got to consistently see you do it. That's how you raise courageous young men. That's how you raise virtuous young ladies. Because you got to consistently show them how to do it. You got to consistently protect them. You can't like throw them out to the wolves for six months and then come back and be protected.  You got to be diligent, the Bible says about it. Consistency over time. But here's the thing. People will go and they just pray for their children. And that's great. We pray for our children all the time. Don't get me wrong. They'll pray for their children.  But God's like, build the wall. God's like, build the wall. He's like, I gave you the instructions. Build it. You got to have a mind to build, folks. You got to have your sword by your side, folks. I mean, it's the Lord working with us. You got to do it. Turn to Matthew chapter 7. What are the benefits? Why did God do it this way? These are just a couple of examples I gave you. I mean, it could just be infinite examples about your family, your children, your church. Why did he do it this way? Why didn't he just give us the success like he gave us our salvation? He could have done it that way. He could have designed it however he wanted. We moved to Fresno about three years ago and I was looking for a project. We moved to Fresno. I was looking for a project. I was going to join a gang because everybody was like, hey, there's lots of gangs there. Maybe you should join a gang. But instead I just went out.  I'm not four gangs, but most gang people are very nice. I'm not four gangs. We don't want people to be in gangs, but most of the time we give the gospel to somebody. I mean, it's a North Dakota thing, I think, because I don't even really know I'm talking to somebody that's in a gang.  I'm like, oh, that's cool. They're very nice, they're very respectful. Look, they're just led astray. They're just young kids that are just heading in the wrong direction in their life. I think we could probably help that. But anyway, I was looking for a project with my kids. I was looking for a project with my kids, so I went out and I bought this old boat. And I had this boat for like nothing. It was a mechanic special. And I bought this old boat. This boat was 40 years old. And I bought this thing because I wanted to be able to show the kids how to fix some things and how to do some things. I mean, nothing worked in this thing. Motor didn't work, the outdrive didn't work. Even the stuff that I thought worked didn't work. The guy that I got it from is like, I could kind of see him snickering when I drove it out of the weeds or wherever it was. But here's why I looked for that particular boat. Because back in the early 80s, there was this company in California that was a California-built boat. And it was a specific brand. And they were known for like building these crazy strong hulls. I mean, everything was overbuilt. The fiberglass was, I mean, the things, like it's super heavy. It's like a tank.  If I'm going to put my blood, sweat, and tears, I haven't cried over it yet, but there's been blood and sweat for sure. But if I'm going to put a lot of effort into this, it needs to be worth building on. So that's why I picked that particular boat. Now look at Matthew chapter 7. It has to be worth building on. Look what the Bible says in Matthew chapter 7 verse 24. It says, Notice how you have to do them. And the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon them and beat upon that house and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.  And great was the fall of it. It's a waste of time building on the sand is what this is saying. But we have, your salvation is free and we have the strongest hope. It's worth building on. It's the strongest foundation. It will never fail. It's eternal. It's worth the effort. And once built, once built, I said, why did God do it? This is my theory right here. Once built, this is why God I believe requires that we build it. Once built, you'll appreciate what you have. Because you know what they say and you'll see in your life that when you're just giving things for free, you really don't appreciate them many times. Like how many people do you know that are saved and don't appreciate that? That they've taken their salvation, they've put it in their pocket and they've just gone on their way. See, the guy with the built truck, the guy with the built truck, he has a certain disdain for the guy that bought his. Because he, I mean, he'll never have that guy that bought it will never have the appreciation that the guy that built it has. He didn't sacrifice for it. He didn't put in the time. He didn't put in the effort. Go to Proverbs chapter 17, look at verse number six. I mean, people take for granted their salvation all the time.  If you're a soul winner, you'll see that. Look at Proverbs 17 and verse number six. Proverbs chapter 17, look at verse number six. Well, I'll just quote it.  Look, that's a guy that built it. I mean, that's a guy that put in the effort and built it and he appreciates it. Because it takes sacrifice. It takes time. It takes effort to build it. Here's the last thing. Turn to Romans chapter seven. Look, that guy that built it, that mom that built it, that invested in the church, that invested in their family, that invested in their kids. Look, they'll appreciate it. They'll appreciate it more. You know, that person that invests in their church is not going to take their church for granted. It's the same thing with everything in your Christian life. Look at Romans chapter seven. Here's another thing. Here's another thing. This is why God tells you to build it. Look at Romans chapter seven. Because you know what? When you build something, you know how to fix it. Look at Romans chapter seven and look at verse number 13. You know what? When you build something, you will recognize problems quickly. When you build something, you listen for noises. My family, I've been annoying them for 20 years doing this. We'll be driving somewhere. I'm like, what is that? It's a ticking. What's that ticking? Like, dad, there's nothing. No, there's a ticking. I don't like that all the time. We stop on the side of the road. Everything's running fine. There's a ticking though. I can't keep going. There's a problem. There's a problem. But here's the thing. Wouldn't you like to know when something's creeping into your family? Look at Romans 7.13. Was then that which was made good made death unto me. Talking about the law. Talking about God's word. God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin. Wouldn't you like to recognize sin that creeps into your family? There's lots of people trying to get into your house. There's lots of people trying to get in through the wires. They're trying to get in through media. They're trying to get in through everything. Wouldn't you like to recognize when something starts creeping in that sin, that it might appear sin. Working death in me by that which is good. That sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. Wouldn't you like to know that once you learn the law, once you build on this whole, you will recognize this. This is what the Bible is saying here.  You will see it. You will recognize when somebody's attacking your family. You'll know it right away.  It never happened to me. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm not saying I'm a great parent. I've made plenty of mistakes, but guess what? This is perfect. And when you build on that and you don't buy it and expect somebody else to fill in the blanks for you, you recognize when there's things going wrong. And you recognize right away when somebody's coming after and then you know when to pull your sword out. If you built it, you hear the rattles. If you didn't build it, you expect everyone else to do something for you. You won't have a clue. And we all, I mean, I don't like seeing this, but I see it all the time.  If you didn't build it yourself. As a pastor, I hear stories of parents struggling. I mean, just all over, kids falling into traps, left and right, because look, here's the thing. Like, why is it bothering me? It bothers me because I care about children. I care. Why do I, I care about people that have their kids in the public school system. It's not something that affects me, but I care about those people. Why, why, ask yourself this. You ever asked yourself this? Why are the sodomites trying to get into the public school system? They don't have kids. I mean, having kids is a natural thing. I don't care what you redefine. It's always going to be a natural thing. Why are they trying to get into those places? That bothers me because I care. Left alone. Left alone, they'll fail in this environment that we're in. Because there's evil, wicked people coming after them. That's why the swords have to be by the side. Look, left alone, if you buy it, these people that buy it and have somebody else do it, Satan will eat these kids alive. It doesn't make me happy to report that. But that's why we're trying to, you know, tell people about this. Turn to Proverbs chapter 20. So look, I mean, that's why God does it. Because we'll appreciate it. We'll appreciate it. And we'll know when there's problems if we built it ourselves. And we built it on His word. Look at Proverbs chapter 20. We'll end here. Proverbs chapter 20 will end here. Look what the Bible says in Proverbs 20 verse 21. The Bible says, And inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed. You know what that means? Easy come, easy go. This church is going to be built not bought. This church, this powerhouse of a church here was built and it's still being built. But it didn't just become this way on accident. It was built by a faithful man, a faithful family, faithful families. It was built not bought. Churches around this country are going to be built not bought. Your church life is going to be built not bought. Go home today. Go home today wherever you go. If you go to a good church, go home and help that man build.  If you don't have a good church, you get to one. Your family is going to be built not bought. A soul-winning ministry is built not bought. No one is going to neutralize these influences for you. These kids are going to be built not bought. Virtuous daughters and faithful men are going to be built not bought. That's going to take a lot of effort and no one's going to do it for you. God doesn't operate that way. He's like, I'll work with you. You pray and then you get to work and God will work with you. And if you've ever seen God move in your life, it's because you did that. It's because you prayed and then you did and God worked with you. Build this Christian life and then stand up for it. And here's the thing, it's joyful. You're like, it's rewarding. It's joyful. It's what we're supposed to be doing even when it doesn't seem like it's joyful at the time. It's just what we're supposed to be doing. It's what we're supposed to do. But sometimes it's hard. But guess what? If it was easy, everybody would do it. So just become a doer. And you know, some things are hard. But the good things are hard. Building an ark, that couldn't have been easy. Getting all those animals, that could not have been easy. Anything worth doing is difficult. And God will work with you. Build it. Don't buy it. God will work with you.


Over thousands of years, we've been experientially studying consciousness and metaphysics. Only recently, since the scientific revolution, has a global paradigm of materialism become dominant. Industrialization has connected billions of people to electricity and the internet, plus much more. The revelation of quantum mechanics blew our minds, and now the 21st century is knocking. How can science possibly probe the most primal question of our existence? What is consciousness? If you'll join me for a moment in the game, I'd like to ask you to close your eyes and imagine you are in bed, dozing off. You immediately begin dreaming that you're in a kitchen pouring yourself some tea. You're adoring the high quality of this full immersion where you can literally even smell the aroma. You accidentally spill a little, and suddenly you snap back to laying in your bed with your eyes open. What you just experienced, we predict, is a microcosm reflecting the macrocosm. In other words, the same way we dream a reality and take a first person perspective is precisely what we are doing with this reality. It's recursive. Reality calls on us to dream for one third of our lives. Quite an obvious hint. One indivisible infinite consciousness in a dream, fully immersed in the high quality, completely forgetting it is a dream. Why we see people running around seeking objects, relationships, substances, anything is because they want to pierce the veil of separation to feel whole. The irony is, you already are what you seek. Rupert, how was that? That was pretty good, Alan. I can't hide much to that. Okay, excellent. If that's the case, then that makes me happy. I'm always happy, but that makes me especially happy because it's very important to me to take what these diverse leaders like yourself around the world are communicating and be able to try and compress the messages into the most relatable stories, basically what you do with your metaphors, and yes, you've said infinite consciousness is the ultimate dreamer whose activity is the universe. Yes, I really like that as well.


Hello and welcome to the series of video lectures on the subject digital techniques for secondary IT students. I am Dr. Rishal Gajbar and in this video lecture we are going to implement half-adductor circuit by using verilog hdl language. At the end of this session you will be able to implement half-adductor circuit module by using verilog hdl. You will also be able to write test bench in verilog to verify the correctness of the written module. The software that we are going to use for the simulation purpose is model sim student edition. You can download this software by using this link which is provided here. It's a free of cost software so you can download this install on your computer and you can simulate the verilog programs very easily. So this will be the workflow for our session. We will first discuss the verilog module for a circuit which is half-adductor in this case. Then we will discuss the test bench which is required to simulate the verilog module which we have written and finally we will verify the simulation results in model sim software. So half-adductor is a combinational circuit that performs addition of two bits, addition of two binary bits. This circuit needs two binary inputs which are represented by using the names A and B in this case and two binary outputs sum and carry which are represented in this case by using capital S and capital C respectively. The schematic diagram here shows the half-adductor circuit and in this case you can see there are two inputs A and B and there are two outputs capital S and capital C which stand for sum and carry. This is the truth table for half-adductor circuit and in this case you can see there are two inputs A, B and two outputs S and C and in this truth table you can see the values for sum and carry for all possible input combinations and one can find from this truth table the logical expressions for the sum as well as for carry. And if one find out the logical expression you will get sum is equal to A x or operation with B whereas this carry is equals to A and operation with B. The same thing is represented here in this diagram. So S is equal to A x or operation with B whereas the C is equals to A and operation with input B. So let us discuss the verilog module for half-adductor circuit. In this case this is the module definition for half-adductor circuit. So in this module definition wherever you will see the red word that is nothing but a keyword. So all the red words are here represented by using the red color. So the module definition in verilog always start with the module keyword. So the module followed by the name of the module which is half underscore adder in this case and inside the bracket you provide the list of inputs and outputs. So it is written as A, B, S, C. Here A and B are the inputs and S and C are the outputs. In the next line we are going to explicitly define what are the inputs and what are the outputs. So basically here A, B, S and C are the identifiers. So we here explicitly represent which identifier belong to input and which identifier are the output. So here we have written input space A, B and semicolon. Also you do not forget to give the semicolon at the end of the first line. So in the next line we have written assign keyword and we have written capital S is equals to A, carrot symbol followed by B and semicolon. What this statement is doing in this case? It is performing the XOR operation between the inputs A and B and the result is assigned to the S which is some in this case. So the carrot symbol in Varylog is known as a XOR operation. So in the next line similarly we have written assign capital C is equals to A and percent symbol B and then semicolon. So what is happening in this case? Here the and operation between inputs A and B is performed and the result is assigned to capital C. So thus we have implemented the Varylog module and the Varylog module will always end with the end module keyword. So do not forget to give that also. So this is how you can write the Varylog module for half at a circuit. So let us now discuss the test bench for half at a circuit. So before explaining the test bench let me give the perspective of why we should write the test benches. It is always better to write the test benches for every module that you write in Varylog. Why? There are two reasons. The first is by using test benches you can verify the correctness of your module very easily. Secondly it also avoids the manual input for your module. So otherwise what it will require if you do not write the test benches then for every input you have to explicitly give the inputs. So that manual provision of input will be avoided if you write down the test bench. So everything in Varylog is written in terms of module. So your test bench will also be a module. So it will start with the module keyword followed by the name of the module which is test underscore half at a in this case semicolon. And here the inputs will be defined as a rake data type. And why these are defined as a rake data type because you want to provide the all possible input combinations and whenever you are providing some input combination those input combination should persist unless and until the user provides some new inputs. So that is why it is defined as a rake data type. The outputs here are defined using the wire data type and these are written as wire as a keyword followed by the list of the output names which for your module. So which are essence in this case. Next the most important part is to instantiate the module which you have written. So the module name in our case was half underscore adder. So it is like creating an object of some class. So here the module is instantiated as follows we write down the name of the module. So half underscore adder followed by the object name which is h1 in this case and in bracket you provide the list of input and outputs followed by semicolon. So it is written as a comma b comma s comma c semicolon. Next we write down the initial block. So initial block is written by using the initial keyword here and initial block has the property that whatever statement that are inside those will be executed only once. Now here what is happening there are multiple inputs. So inside the initial block because there are four input combination that we need to provide here. So since there are multiple inputs that we need to provide. So it is a convention that you should provide it within the begin and end block. So that is why it is written something like this. So initial followed by begin and end and inside that you provide all possible input combinations. And here the input combinations are provided. So first input combination is provided as a is equal to 1 represent the number of bits dash b means it is a binary and 0 it is its value. So it is a 1 bit binary number 0. So the first input combination is 0 0. Then we provide the delay it is always better to give the delay between two input combinations. So the delay here it is provided by using hash 20. So there will be a delay of 20 units and the next input combination is 0 1. The next is 1 0 and 1 1. And we end this module definition with the end module keyword. So pause the video for 1 minute and write down the answer of the given question. I hope you have written the answer. The answer here is twofold. First to test the correctness of verilog model we write the test benches and secondly we want to avoid the manual entry of input values. Now let us see the simulation results in models in software. So I have already written the program. So this is the model definition for half adder circuit and this is the test bench written for the half adder circuit. And I have named this program as a test underscore half adder dot v. Dot v is the extension that we use for saving our files. The next thing we have to do is to compile this program. So for compilation go to this symbol compile select appropriate file. So test underscore half adder dot v compile and just check whether your compile is successful or not and as you can see here there are no errors and warnings. So our compilation is successful. The next thing is to go to the library and there inside this work you will find your module. So just go to the appropriate module which is test underscore half adder in this case. So I will select that test underscore half adder. Just right click on that and select the simulate option. So a test window a simulation window will appear on your screen. Then the next step is to add the waveforms. So for that purpose go to the add to wave option select the to wave option and select the all items in region. You will see a simulation window here and here these are the inputs and outputs which will be represented as a waveform. So the you can see the first name as test underscore half adder which is your module name for your test bench followed by slash a is your input and so on. So you can see a, b, s and c. The next step is to run. For running this program just select this symbol and click here. So you can zoom this also just select this one. Now here one can see that for the inputs a and b as 0, 0. The sum is 0 as well as carry is 0. For the next input combination for that is 0, 1 you can see the sum is 1 whereas the carry is 0. In the next input combination the input a is 1 whereas the input b is 0 and in this case you get sum is equal to 1 and carry is equal to 0 whereas for the last combination you can see a is 1, a is 1, b is also 1 in this case you can see and in this case you can see the sum is 0 and the carry is equal to 1. These are the references. Thank you very much.