something I've been kind of wrestling with for, I don't know, 20 years. 20 years? Yeah, maybe 20 years. Maybe 20 years. Let's see. Let's go. Yeah, 20 years. I'm trying to think in my head exactly how long it's been, but 20 years trying to figure out probably 30. Matter of fact, you know what, more closer 30 years, maybe 25 years that I've been wrestling with in what role, in what capacity does God want me at? Where does He want me? What does He want me to do? Does He want me as a, maybe a lay leader, kind of assisting at a church, being part of a church? My very first ministry was kind of twofold. My first ministry was outreach ministry, going out and just sharing the gospel, witnessing the people. That was the first ministry. The second ministry was for, as a youth pastor. And I actually enjoyed both, I liked the interaction. I liked the working with people kind of in between and doing different things and just, you know, working with folks. That was kind of, you know, almost a hands-on approach. What happened was as I, a young minister in church, married with kids, didn't make a lot of money. And so it was easy to kind of get off task, off target a little bit, focus on things that I probably should not have focused on. And one of the things that I focused on was, you know, feeding my family. It's not that, that was a bad thing. But as I'm feeding my family, I'm thinking in the future. Well, I don't want to have to keep struggling feeding my family, you know, 10 years down the road, 20 years. Not at the time I'm in my 20s. And so didn't really know what to, where God was going to go. I knew the God was going to do something and something that, okay, every time something happened, or every time that God opened the door, that that's kind of guiding me, it was always something in my mind trying to figure out, what does God want me to do? And of course, I have even mentioned before that there's always someone that's going to tell you, oh, the Lord has called you to do this, the Lord wants you to do this, the Lord wants you to do that. And so that's kind of been the battle in my head. And when I went to prison, I pretty much knew, okay, yeah, that's not it. But what's funny was, once I got into prison, it's almost as though the Lord was just really just speaking to me in that area. So much so is, okay, Lord, is that where you want me to be? And if so, I'm here. So how could I be there?  So I knew at some point in time. But I don't know, you know, it wouldn't be better if I started this off as a younger pastor. If I were to go plant a church, wouldn't it be better if I started off as a younger pastor? Starting off as a planning as an older pastor, I may have a little bit more wisdom, but my body won't move like it used to. So what gives God? Now, while I'm in prison, my focus was even though I was trying to, you know, get sharper in terms of understanding the scriptures, doctrine and things like that. I didn't know though, that the most important thing was not doctrine, but it was a relationship bringing people closer to Christ, fixing, especially in prison, whatever character flaws that I may have had or anyone else. That was the most important thing. Leading people to Christ was the most important thing being an example. And then obviously teaching doctrine. Well, I'm at one of the, at my first stop Beaumont, we've got a lot of people with a lot of different, how do I put this, a lot of different characteristics, a lot of different traits that just don't really go well with church. A lot of people that didn't play nice with others. And what we did was, we started off by having a Bible study. And it started off with just me and one other person. This person happened to be the, the clerk in the, in the church chapel, and I was cool with the chaplain as well. And so the chaplain would have, have this clerk instead of us having a Bible set in the library, come over to the chapel, clean up, set up things, get ready for the Saturday services. And he said, well, do you mind if we had a little Bible study afterwards? It's no problem. Well, then as it would happen, another person would join and then another would join. And next thing we know, we've got 10 people in the Bible study. And then 20, he didn't have a problem as long as the church, the auditorium was set up. Next thing we know, we've got 40, 50 people coming to a Bible study in prison on Saturday morning. People just want to just normally just rest. And I feel, okay, well, Lord, is this, is this you? Well, it must be. And this is where we saw people who had these different doctrinal beliefs kind of coming together. And so I said, okay, Lord, maybe this is what we do here. When I left that particular place, I went to another prison. And the other prison I ended up being used quite a bit there as well. Now at both the prisons, though, Beaumont and then when I got transferred even to Fort Worth, that both of the prisons I'm being used, I'm being used in the choir, but I'm also being used to kind of facilitate service. And when the preacher doesn't come, then I would leave. I was kind of the leader. I didn't ask for, I didn't run to it. It just kind of worked its way out. And so I'm sitting there thinking, okay, well, Lord, is this you? And other people say the same thing, but again, you know, you don't always want to trust what someone else says about you or what they say they see in you. By the time I got transferred, made it down to a camp, my decision was I am going to just relax. It's almost like a 24 seven thing that I was doing in prison because they have access to me to ask, Hey, what about this verse in the Bible? What about that verse in the Bible? Can you pray for me? What about all these different things? Hey, we got somebody that just they're in trouble. All these different things. Let's try to get some Bibles in here. And I felt a little bit burned out. And so when I got to this other place, I said, you know what?  I'm not, I'm not leading anything. I am going to just study. That's all it's going to be. Well, as it would, as it would have it, there was someone, matter of fact, more than someone, a few, someone's there from Fort Worth that got transferred to the camp and in Segalville, Arkansas, not Segalville at Forest City, Arkansas. Hey, brother Corey, glad you're here. Man, listen, they can sure use you.  Nope. I'm going to sit back. I'm relaxed. I'm going to go to church like everyone else. I'm not, I'm not leading anything. Well, guess what happened? I'm leading the church there. And so Lord, I'm trying not to, but it's like I keep getting put in these places. Are you saying something to me? You know, kind of like sugar for God is trying to tell you something. There was a guy there. I can't remember the guy's name. It was funny. Me and another former inmate were talking about this guy who said he wants to be in leadership. He wants to either be a pastor or he wants to be in ministry. I said, well, listen, that's fine. But here's the advice that I was saying that you all have heard me say this before.  Look behind you. Look behind you. And if no one is following you, you're not a leader.  And so it was never an issue where I didn't have people that would actually, you know, follow or listen to what I was saying, but I wanted to make sure that my heart was right. And so even coming out, the thought was, okay, Lord, do you want me to plant a church? Now, there are a lot of churches out there. We all agree with that, especially here in the DFW area in the Dallas Fort Worth area. There are, there's a billion churches here. There's a lot of large churches. There's a lot of small churches. There's a lot of churches here in Dallas. And so the question is, well, why not just be part of a church and grow that church? Well, that's possible also. That's also an option. But if God is kind of leading me that way, and if there's something that's been kind of on my heart, then I'll do what I can do. Now I'm at a church right now. So should I stay at that church or should I become a, should I plant a church? And my thought is, if I were to plant a church, it wouldn't be here in Dallas anyway. It's more than likely it would be at a church. I mean, be in a place where there, there's more unchurched people. There's people that that could use a sound church. Now truth be told, though, even Dallas could use a sound church or two more than what we have now. Why? Well, just because there's a lot of churches here doesn't mean that there are a lot of good churches. There are some good churches here, but there's also a lot of bad churches. This is the nature of the game, right?   And then I used to always wonder, if I were a pastor, what kind of a pastor would I be? And I've had different types. I've had small pastors, small church pastors. I've had medium sized pastors, medium sized church pastors, and I've had mega church pastors. I told you that I used to be at Oakwood Bible Fellowship. That is Dr. Tony Evans. I was at Church of God in Christ, medium sized church here, and then also church in DeSoto, a medium sized church. A few hundred people, about 600 people at its height. Even small churches, churches where there's like 20 people. And so I got to kind of look at and glean some things, some things that I appreciated, some things that I'm not sure if, you know, so, and I was just sitting and learning now, unbeknownst to me that I was actually taking notes. I wasn't taking notes to become a pastor and apply it to my, you know, to me being a pastor. No, I was just noticing it because I was still in leadership there at each of the churches there, at many churches, I should say, I was in leadership. And so I still work with a pastor. I just enjoyed supporting the pastor more than I did actually being the pastor. I had never wanted to be a pastor. I wanted to be in ministry, but I want to do other things also, which kind of led me astray a little bit because I wanted to have my own business and so forth. And that was only because I got used to having the business. I wanted the business to grow, but that was never where God wanted me to be. And so it's just been on my mind. And this is something I've been praying about and praying about and praying about and praying about and praying about. And I can say praying about for the next hour, and that won't tell you how much I've been praying about this. There are some things that I have to do before I step out and, and even if everyone else says it, I want to make sure. Can I, can I put up a passage for you guys real quick? This, this is me. This is David saying, search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there be any hurtful way in me and lead me in the everlasting way. What I want to do is I want to, Lord, just try me, search me, make sure, make sure, help me to make sure because you know what I don't want to do? I don't want to fail at this. I don't want to step. I don't want to, I don't want to do things on my own accord and a pastor shouldn't. I'm going to look at what the qualifications of a pastor are and you'll kind of see my thought process. I am all but sure. I am all but sure that this is what I'm going to do. There is a, there's a, there's a chance that I might not. I don't know what God is going to have me do ultimately, but this is kind of after, after all these years of praying and then figuring out, Lord, is it, is it me or is it you? Now, what does the Bible say, by the way, about a person being a pastor? Because there's this, this statement that we always say, somebody says, take a poll. You know what? I love to know what people think because again, if you see yourself as something and nobody else sees it, hey, you know what? I want to be a pastor and everyone said, no, no, no, I don't see it. I don't see it. It's almost like this. We had this, we had this discussion at the church and people were wanting to sing and I said, well, let me just say this to you. You can want to sing. It doesn't mean that you ought to sing, right? You can want to play the piano. I think I want to praise God on the piano, but you can't play a note. You can't sing a note. So guess what you're not going to do? Sorry. It's just not where you've been gifted at. Are you with me? And so if, if I say I want to lead the choir in worship and no one else sees that or hears that, same thing with this. No, Corey, we don't, we don't see that. No, I'm, I'm sorry. That's just, that's just not you. And so, excuse me, it should be evident to somebody, somebody ought to be able to see it. Now, how many somebody's, because it doesn't matter if the church that you plant becomes and stays a small church or grows to be the world's largest church or somewhere in between 500 people, 5,500 people, 50. The issue is you've got one, someone has to be able to see that and trust in that, but then also you have to shepherd them. And so the Bible says, because there's this, this tension that we see out there. Have you been called to preach the word, the Lord's gospel? Have you been called? Well, everyone has been called to preach the gospel to, in some capacity, to their friends, family, just as a living witness. Everyone has been called. By the way, thank you, Erica. Thank you so much for super chat. I appreciate that. And so everyone to some degree has been called to share the gospel in some shape or fashion. Are you with me? But about being a pastor, that can be different. That can be difficult. And so does the Bible teach that pastors are called? Well, if it does, it'd be hard to find a pastor that says that pastors are called. Rather, what we do see, let's go to 1 Timothy 3. This is what he says. It is a trustworthy statement. If a man aspires, here's this word aspire, that's him to desire. And so if the pastor of a person desires, well, if they desire, then there are these qualifications. We're also going to look at Titus 1 as well. But 1 Timothy 3, if he desires the office of an overseer.  This is someone who is kind of over, are you with me? They are like the shepherd, so to speak. And so if a person desires that, aspires, he said, is the fine work that he desires to do. And overseer then must be and hear the qualifications above reproach. Does that mean that he, and I'm looking at these, that I've been kind of dealing with these, okay, Cory, are you this, this, this? There are some I say, okay, I think I definitely qualify some, let's make sure. And so the pastor must be above reproach. Does that mean that he has nothing wrong with him? Well, then that, if that were the case then nobody would qualify. But he is blameless, meaning that we don't find fault in this guy in the sense that this guy is totally unqualified, that he's involved in all these different things. No, no. And so could I say so? I don't know. I think, I think I could say so at least right now, but this also goes back to the pastors that I read from Psalm. What if, what if I think I'm there? What if I think I am that my heart is right that the worst of the character flaws in me are gone? What if I think that, but then here it is a year, two, three, four, five years later, and I'm not. I don't want to be on CNN. I don't want to be on the local news. Former pastor is in jail for this or that, or it's not going to happen to me. I am going to make sure. Are you with me? And so he must be above reproach. The husband of one wife. Well, you know what? I got that damn pat. I've got one wife.  That's not, I've never been divorced and I'm on my first marriage still. My baby mama is the mom of all my babies. How about that? It's my babies. I don't have a baby mama. I have a baby's mom. All my babies, they got one mom. That's her. That's sure. And so I've got that part down. The husband of one wife, temperate. Do I think I'm temperate?  I think I'm pretty levelheaded, qualified. I mean, I'm reading what else is this. I'm reading while I'm talking. So thank you, by the way, Nicole. Nicole, I thank you. I'm qualified. Thank you. I think I'm pretty levelheaded. Now, can I get to a level where I'm coming at you? Sure. And I think that's appropriate sometimes. Do I just lose my temper when I snap back at people? No, I don't, I don't, I know for a fact that I'm not the clapback king.   And by the way, I saw that someone sent it to me and I didn't know it. But when, when people have good report, whether you agree with them or not, and I do agree with this man for the most part, when they say good things about you, it also makes you feel good as well. When you guys say certain things about me, the best thing that the thing that kind of keeps me going was when you guys say kind things. And so someone said, Hey, did you know Justin Peters kind of gave you a shout out and kind of recommended you? I didn't know that. I went and saw something. It made me feel good because listen, I think this, he is a solid individual. He is, he just, he just is, even if you don't agree with this person, which I agree with, with the majority of Justin Peters believes, I do. And so because of the kind of person that he is, he just, you, it's hard to go and find something mean to say about him. I can disagree with him, but he's a nice guy. Even when I imagine, let's say he's called out Todd White. I imagine Todd White like, man, the man called me out, but he just did it in such a nice way. He's a, he's a nice guy. And so that does something to you as well. But temperament, temperate, temperate, if there are people out there that are just coming at you, well, that, that goes with the first one. That's just life anyway.  That's not, that's not me. Also prudent, I think I'm prudent. I think I'm prudent. I think I'm respectable. I've had folks on here who initially thought that I was a demon, a bad person, a wolf. And then now have I changed everyone's mind? No, there's one guy out there. I think this guy's made like eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 12 videos, I think covering me. Hey, man, listen, make, make 12 more, I guess. I don't, I don't know what to do. You said, young Don reborn, did he? Someone else said that I didn't, I didn't see it. Can y'all sit, tell me where? Young brother in the Lord. I had, I don't think he hadn't been saved very long. And so, and I don't get a chance to listen to a lot of this stuff because he comes on late. And I, oh man, I got to be, I have to be in bed by a certain time. It's just, that's just me. Why? Because I like to get up. I like to get up early. We all like to get up, right? We all like to wake up. I like to wake up early. And if I go to bed at three in the morning, I'm still waking up at five. My body's, I don't even have an alarm clock. My body just naturally wakes up at five sometimes. And as you get older, it wakes up even earlier. And so I got to go to bed early. I can't listen to him, but I have seen a lot of, a lot of this stuff or whatever. And so I admire the fact that as a young brother, we need more young people who love the Lord. I don't care if their doctrine is a little skewed this way or that way, but they love the Lord because no one can fix a person's doctrine like the Holy Spirit can if they're saved. Then that's all you need. Amen. So I think I'm respectful. I think I'm hospitable. I think I'm, by the way, was this screen on the whole time? I don't know what was the screen. I don't know if I have the, the, the computer screen for the whole time. But if I did, I apologize. But hospitable, I think so. I think I am, I think I would qualify as being able to teach now folks may not agree with my teachings all the way, which is fine. I understand, and this is the hard part to learn that nobody, you'll, you'll never bat a thousand if Jesus, Jesus did not bat a thousand and he could have, he could just made everybody believe him. Yeah. You know what? All of y'all now you follow me. And so I, I had to learn that not everyone is going to, not everyone is going to agree, which is fine, which is fine. He says you're a little hard on the KJV week. No, just, listen, I, I love the King James version. I really do. I really do love the King James version. What happened was as I began to realize how the thing was put together, you realize that none of it should kind of be placed above the others.  This guy right here. No, I'm going to ask you if you're hospitable. Matter of fact, I happen to see one of Seiko's earlier sermons. Yeah, I, I happened to see one of Seiko's earlier sermons and I don't think that I could be the kind of preacher that he was at least in this sermon. Would you all like to hear one of his earlier sermons? You would? Okay, here's one of his earlier sermons. Yeah, that, that was Seiko's one of his earlier sermons. And so you couldn't stand me. Well, you listen, you, you started it.  You got to make the hecklers not want to help you anymore. By the way, my very first sermon, my very first sermon, horrible. It was horrible. I didn't think that at the moment, but it was horrible. You know how horrible it was. First of all, what happened was this, we're in love. I was, I don't know, 23, 24, I forget how I was young. And T.D. Jakes, had he had, I'm not even sure if he, matter of fact, he hadn't even started the Potter's house yet. He hadn't even started, he was still in West Virginia, but he was kind of touring. He was in Amarillo. He was in the area. And I was scheduled to preach that Sunday. And what happened was one of the other elders in the church put up these signs, said, get ready, get ready, get ready. Now that was his, that was his theme, get ready, get ready. And so everyone thought that T.D. Jakes, is he coming? Now, this was the largest black church, at least at the time, in level. Oh, he's coming. He's coming. He's in the Amarillo area. Oh, he's coming. He's coming. So they thought that T.D. Jakes was coming. I mean, the place was packed. They were bringing in chairs because there was no more room. And then here comes me. I don't know how bad I did. I just know how good I didn't do. I preached for, I don't know, two hours. There's always say you can't tell it all. And I, no, I didn't, you know what? No more. I didn't hoop. I didn't hoop. And that was one of the reasons why I thought I couldn't be a pastor.  And so I was like, I don't have that kind of hooping, singing style of voice. I can't, I can't do it. Me and the organ player, we might not mesh. And so I'll keep doing what I'm doing, because what I'm doing doesn't require an organ. And so everyone shows up and it's just me. And I kind of, I was a little too direct. And it was about sharing the gospel, getting out witnessing. And if you say you love the Lord and you're not, then you're lying. I was a little too rough. I was, I really was. And so, you know, you're young and you learn from that. And so when I see that earlier version of say go preaching, by the way, guys, that really wasn't say go preaching that, that, let me just be honest, that was not him preaching. Although I can see you preaching that. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Say go. Anyway, go back to it. Able to teach, not addicted to wine. Well, guess what? I'm good with that. I cannot stay in wine. When I was in college, we would drink. I would have my drink in my cup and I would just hold it there because I'm trying to look cool. I do not like the taste of it at all. Or pugnacious. I got to explain the word pugnacious. I am not violent. I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm not a bully. I'm not, you know, no, I can let some stuff go. I can stuff, let some stuff go. Gentle. I don't know. Maybe, maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. I know there's one thing. I ain't too gentle. I ain't too gentle. Peaceable, I think so. Free from the love of money. You know what made sure I'm free of the love of money? 13 years of prison. 13 years of prison. I'm not looking for, you know, you want a certain house, this kind of, no, no, just give me a carpet runs, a house with a roof and electricity in the house that works. I'm good. I am good. I could do some things to try to get more money. I really could. I could do, I could just go asking and asking and asking for money all the time. But no, I'm good. God is going to take care of me. Let's keep going. He says, he must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity. But if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God? Well, so far, I think I'm good on that. Now I will say, I'm still working on my oldest child. She is, she's the, she's respectful. I'm not sorry. I don't want to make it seem like she's not because she is. When daddy speaks, that's that, but she's got her own mind and so forth. And so I want her walk to be better. I want, I want to be sure that she has a walk. The next three, they are, I believe so. As a matter of fact, one of them is a worship leader. She didn't go to church with me, the third child. She goes to church out in Fort Worth because she's a worship leader out there. She's in the worship team out there. She has a, she's a paid staff person out there. And so, amen. And so I think I've got that. I've got, of course they're all grown except for the last one. And so I'm only accountable to really the last one or the ones that are in my house. And so the ones that are in my house, I got to, I think I'm good there. Continuing. He says, and not, well, I'm definitely not in a new convert so that he will not become conceited and fall into condemnation incurred by the devil. He must have a good reputation with those outside the church so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. One of the things that I will say is that I did appreciate hearing this was while I was in prison, even the, the Muslims and the atheists and so forth who did not like my brand of religion. They didn't like Christianity, but they core your good, your good dude in prison. If they say you're good dude, that's one of the highest compliments that you can get. Good dude or he's solid. And so I don't know how obviously the whole world won't feel the same way. It's not a, it's not a 100% thing right there. If the general consensus is of those that know you and around you with an amen, that's, that's what I want to be. Looking at Titus, I want to pay attention to something else that Titus also says about pastors. He says in verse five, he says, for this reason, I left you in Crete that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you. Namely, if any man is above reproach, we cover that the husband of one wife having children who believe. So now there's the issue.  Well, at least in the household because we find out, hey, this child is a churchgoing member. We find out later. I only went because mom and daddy made me. I think this really still refers to, so that's not in contrast or in competition with first Peter, I mean with first Timothy, I think this still refers to the household having one wife who covered that part, not accused of dissipation or rebellion. I don't think that's me for the overseer must be above reproach. Now the thing is though, if you notice the difference of the word, he used the word elders, but then also brings in overseer. And so you see kind of that the person needs to be one and the word elder typically refers to someone of age. The word elder in the Bible has never referred to someone who is young, which is an issue that I again, I think we'd be careful about having 20 something, especially 20 something year old pastor. And then even the 30 year old pastors, that it can be a problem. Why? Because being an elder necessarily means that you have gone through seeing some things and come through and understand how to handle certain things. How you handle problems at 31 are vastly different should be and how you handle problems at 41 and 51. Are you with me? Anyone who was been in their 30s now in their 40s or their 50s can testify that it is a little bit different. You don't move the same way. As a matter of fact, you handle things a little bit differently. Now the only folks who have a problem with that are young folks. Ain't no big deal. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate that. It is, it isn't, age isn't is a deal. Now, couldn't it be something if you could plan a church in your 30s but have the wisdom and the experience of a 50 year old. Now everyone in 30s, I've been through a lot. No, you haven't. Let me just tell you, no, you haven't. No, you haven't. I've gone through it. Listen, even all the things I've gone through before I got them in my 30s or 40s. No, because what you didn't do was handle things from the mindset of a wiser person and you just get wiser. And so I think that that is one of the benefits folks are asking, well, where are you going to do this? I'm going to tell you where in just just a little bit. I'll tell you where in just a little bit and I'll tell you when in just a little bit as well. So going back to the overseer must be above approach as God's steward, not self-willed. There it is right there, not self-willed. I don't want to do it on my own of my own accord.  By the way, these are some things that you can also look at your pastor as well. Because your pastor is a pastor, if he didn't have to meet these qualifications, doesn't mean that he should stay a pastor or he or he should be your pastor. We've got a lot of people out there who are pastors who just should not be pastors. We do. I don't want to be one. I don't want to be. I don't want Justin Peters saying this guy, Cory Minor, avoid him. I don't want Collin Miller or someone else say this guy what he said. No, I don't want that. I don't want that. So but anyway, the whole stuff we've gone over before. But here it is. I want to read this. I want to read this. He says, verse nine, holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teachings so that he will be able to, here it is, to both to exhort and sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. I think I'm good there. I think now I don't have a problem with contradiction or refuting those who contradict sound doctrine. Don't have a problem with that. I think as a pastor, you got to be able to tell folks the right and the wrong, what you ought to do, what you should be doing, and then what you should not be doing. Now, I want to highlight this right here. This is the most important thing. In 1 Peter chapter five, he says, where am I at? Am I in the right one? Dog on it. Where is it? You know, I was sitting there playing around with this dog on thing and I moved where I should have actually put the pastor I was looking at. Where is it? Where is it at? I need to, you know what? I should have just did this right. I think it's, no, it is first, it's 1 Peter five.  There it is. I'm sorry. I moved there. I don't need your help, Seiko. Get somewhere. I don't need your help, but thank you, Seiko. Appreciate that. Therefore, I exhort the elders among you as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ and a partaker also of the glory that has to be revealed. Look what he says, shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight. Here it is, not under compulsion, but voluntarily according to the will of God and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness, nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock. There it is. A pastor should be an example. In what way? In every way. In every way he should be an example. One in obviously the way he handles the scriptures, but also in the way that he treats people, in the way that he deals with people, in the love and compassion that he would have for people. Understanding, listen, people have asked me, why do you deal with this person? Why that person? Why that person? Because I knew how long it took God to get me, how long he had to work, and still working with me. And I don't expect people to be at a level that I don't think that they should be it. I think they should be it. I've seen people who you just would have just, you know what? Let's write this person off. You know what? I'm putting all my chips in, this person's going to hell, and then I've seen this person come around. And so I want to be guilty of loving a person. I'm not going to compromise. I want to love a person without compromise. I'll tell you if need be, hey, I think you're wrong on this. And I'll let you know where I stand and why I stand, but I want to see you restored. I think that you are redeemable. I think that the one thing that everyone, the one thing that we all have in common is that we matter to God. We do. And he would love for you to know him. He would love for you to have a relationship with him. Now, will you, will everyone know? Obviously, that's not going to be the case. And so for me though, since I don't know what he's doing and when he will do it, I'm going to work and pursue you the way that God would want me to desperately that, listen, the building's on fire. I know you don't believe it, but the heat that you're feeling, that's from these flames. They're going to consume you. And my job is as best as I can. I'm not going to stay in the fire with you. I won't stay in the fire with you, but I will do my very best short of it. And in some cases probably tugging you, but I want to show you the direction. I want to show you the direction to get there. I was hoping, and I didn't want to call them because I didn't want to tell them to be here, to vouch for me. But I was hoping that maybe a couple of guys who, who were, who was there with me would say, yeah, this guy, I can vouch for the fact that he will come and see about you. He, he, and I think I will. And I think that's what a pastor has to be. I think a pastor should be, should be loving, should have a concern. We talk about the one who leaves the 99 to go after the one because he loves that one just as much as the 99. And I want to be guilty of that. By the way, the Bible says this is what a pastor should also be as well. We forget this in Ephesians 411. He says that, and he gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists. And here's the last one. And some as pastors and teachers. This last portion, pastor, teacher, that's one thing. It's not an office of pastor and an office of teacher. So the pastor has to be a teacher. The Bible knows of something, of no shepherd who doesn't know what he's talking about. The shepherd, the leader, the pastor ought to be able to teach very with me. And so in doing so, that's how you as Paul, that's how the book of Acts tells us.  And so you can't be on guard if you don't have the ability to handle the word. And so I want to be able to handle the word, but I also want to be able to deal with the emotional side when someone's crying, when someone's in distress, all those things I want to be guilty of, or say that, hey, he's got a compassion and he'll work with those people. Now, there's some things that I need to get straight first. Being more efficient. Now, am I going to do this on YouTube while planning a church? No, will I still be on YouTube? Yeah, there'll be some things that are going to show. I told you guys, I've got about two years left in this. So that tells you, when am I going to be planning a church? No sooner than two years. No sooner than two years, at least I don't think so. At least I don't think so. Who knows? God may change it. It might be in 15 years. But the goal is the plan is, in about two years or so, to look to plan a church. How's this going to start off with? It's going to start off with just a local Bible site. Well, guess what the Bible site is going to be also on? The Bible site is also going to be on here. Now, we are also on this channel going back to the Bible studies, just as I think we'll be gone in two years. Well, then amen. Because if we're gone in two years, well, then my work is done. My work is done. And so, again, this is me, if the Lord stays the same, but to plan a local body in about two years or so. And the way it starts off is just Bible study. And then once we get to a certain number, we plan to, of course, to be part of this Bible study, you're going to have to commit to also sharing the gospel, not going out on this on the street and passing out pamphlets and tracks and get a bullhorn, but no, share it with someone. Let someone know, bring somebody. And so, those are the things that I want to do now. Where? That's a $64,000 question because the truth be told, I don't know where. I doubt, I doubt it will be in Dallas. I really doubt it, but it may be. I love Dallas. I've thought about other places. Let me tell you where the place is, the place that I'm leaning to. But before I get there, let me tell you the places that I have thought about and prayed over. I have thought and prayed about Austin, Austin, Texas growing area. I think I think it's the fastest growing city in America. It is Austin is booming, which means there's a lot of folks that will need the gospel. I thought about the DFW area. The DFW area is the fastest growing Metroplex in America. It is the fourth largest. I don't know if it will ever catch Chicago, but there's a lot of folks here. There's like a billion more people here than when I left and came back. I have thought and prayed about Arizona. I've thought about Colorado, specifically the Denver area. I thought about North Carolina. I've prayed about that. I've prayed about Tennessee. Tennessee is too close to Arkansas. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I've prayed about that. I'm open to wherever. There's two places that I really don't want to go. This is just me, but this is the whole issue about being self-will. There's two places where I really don't want to go. I really don't want to go to California or New York. I just don't. I can see me getting protested every day. JD said Memphis, Tennessee. Why are you in Memphis, Tennessee? Memphis is rough. I know there's starting to kind of rehabilitate it, but you know what I mean. They need some good churches there. Wherever he sends me, though, wherever I am, I'm good. I'll be fine. Go down to 20 to Louisiana, South Carolina. Listen, I ain't going to Southfield, Michigan. That's too close to Detroit.  No, I'm kidding. My brother's actually grew up in Southfield, Michigan. So where I think I'm probably where I'm leaning to, but again, it's just me. This is what I'm in praying. That's what I'm in prayer for. And you all pray that God leads me to the right direction and that where we do is the right spot. But obviously, where I'm leaning leaning to is, matter of fact, where is it? Where are my sound effects? Where I'm leaning to? I'm leaning to plant in Indianapolis. Yep, I'm leaning to plant in Indianapolis. Why in Indianapolis? Well, one, it's my hometown and there is some support there. But Indianapolis is a nice, nice city. It's a large city. It's good business environment, so forth is growing, but it's not a very well-churched city. I think they said like 86% of the population is unchurched. Not that they haven't gone to church, but they just really don't go to church as a, you know, it's just the course of their living. You know, they just don't typically do that. Plant in church at the Frisco Star. Listen, I could not plant in church at the Frisco Star because, again, I'd be on TV. Local pastor defames a cowboy star. I'd be in jail for trespassing. You were aware about what, Indianapolis? Okay. Well, amen. You need to move back to Indianapolis. Get back there. Amen, brother. But I don't know. I don't again, it's up in the air still. I have not set an actual place. Could it be here in Dallas still? Listen, when I say I'm leaning, it's not like it's 99% likely that's where I'm going. No, it's just a lean. It can just as easily be Oklahoma City. I go to Tulsa and plant in church right beside Mike Todd's church. Yeah. And there you go. I'm going back to Indiana. If I was, if I was Pentecostal, I would say, see, that's confirmation. The Lord just said, through you, best shot. I'm going back to Indiana. That's it. The Lord just confirmed. No, I'm not going to Hawaii. That, you know what? Can I? Hawaii is expensive and it's far. Yeah, I ain't going to, well, I should say where I'm not going. The only place, the only place that I pray, I'm just not into, I'm not one of these overseas planners. Yeah, I'm not going to Africa. I'm not going to China. I'm not going to Korea. Yeah, it's the good old US of A for me, I believe. I believe. But again, who knows, the Lord may say, nope, sorry, I got some tickets for you, your wife and your child. He said, don't come to Oklahoma City. Why not? What's wrong with Oklahoma City? But I think though, no matter where I go, I think, hey man, we'll get back there. You need to get back to Indiana. But wherever it is, can I tell you what kind of church I wanted to be? And this is where the experience, Brother Beji, I mean, BJ, I'm sorry, you're not going to let me live it down. But you can't tell you what I want to be, the church that I want to plant, the type of church that I wanted to be, what I saw in prison. In prison, and this is how I know this works. In prison, you've got all these, who just texted me, somebody just text me instead of going to Florida. I sit on the screen that has a number, I don't see the name, as long as they go to Florida. Anyway, no, no, no, go to Alaska. If it's my choice, if it's my choice, it won't be Alaska, it won't be California, it won't be New York, it won't be out of the country. So, he says there's more, okay, he has more churches in gas stations. Same here in Dallas. But what I noticed in prison, you got a lot of different, from this side of that side and everything in between, those are kind of Christians or non-Christians that you would have in prison. Different worship styles, obviously different ethnicities, white, black, Hispanic, young and old, literally a captive audience. And so, how do you take all those people who have one main service on Sunday to go to, and how do you make it where they all feel like they belong?  I've got a 40-year-old Hispanic male. I've got a Pentecostal. I've got a Church of Christ. I've got a Church of God in Christ. I've got a Presbyterian, a Methodist. I've got all these folks here. How do you make it, and oh, by the way, what about the worship service? What about, and I say by service, I mean the music. How do we do that? Some folks like him. Some folks like Quartet. Some folks like Gospel. Some folks like Southern Gospel. Some folks like contemporary. How do we do that? Well, one of the, this is where how God will kind of take you and put you in places and kind of use that little experience to mold you. And so, what we did was a lot of the younger black folks did not have any interest whatsoever, whatsoever singing hymns. We had a young brother named, we called Ace. Ace could sing. He had a super soulful voice, young brother. And he had never heard the song Agnes Day.  Hallelujah. Well, half of the choir majority, a good, a slight majority of the choir were younger black folks because it's prison. I'm not singing this song. This song's from the 1800 to 1700, whenever it was, I said, okay, fine, don't sing it. So here's what we did. I said, once they hear the song, because guess what?  And so, I had Ace who had a little soulful voice, and he didn't do extra runs in it. He didn't do the extra vibrato. He just has a beautiful voice. And so he started singing. And he's saying, and I had Jimmy, the piano player, just kind of played it in one note. Don't play the chords, just doom, doom, doom, doom, just that. And he played that one time through an Ace singing. Then the next time, he played the chords. And the third time through, then the other electric keyboard kind of played the strings and the, and the, and the drums just playing the cymbals. By that time, when we rehearsed, the guy's like, oh, I want to sing that. I knew you did. And so what happened was, as we did that, some folks who had never been exposed to hymns, like, I like this song.  But when someone who you like, or just like you, sing those songs like, now all of a sudden I like it. We had white folks singing gospel, singing quartet.  Never heard of it before. And so I found this out in leading worship. And I done done some worship plays before, but really with the youth before I went to prison. And that was that you can blend it together. You can go from hymn to contemporary to gospel. And we didn't have, we didn't have a break. There was not one moment where the music stopped. And so just let everyone into it. And so it was, I mean, you got men, grown men crying and they were just into it. But then how's the preaching style going to be? Well, me, I'm more interactive. When I preach, I like now, I haven't done so in a little minute. But when I preach, I do move around a little bit. I'm not in the back of the, in the back of the sanctuary, but I'll move from right to left on the, you know, on the stage and so forth. And I like to elicit emotion, but I don't like gimmicks. I'm not flying in from a, from a, from a line, from a zip line, no. But I want to have a conversation with you. I want to engage you.  I want you to see the scriptures. I want the scriptures to speak to you the way that they would speak to you if you actually heard Peter saying it to you or Paul. That's the goal. And so, no, I don't get a lot of hooping and hollering. I don't, I don't do that. Will I raise my voice sometimes? Sure. Will I have it quiet? Sure. Will there be voice inflation? Well, that's just the only way I speak. And so I want to plant a church by, I want a group of people there who look like everyone else, white, Hispanic, black, young, old, Asian, all of that. I want every demographic that you can think of to be there. I want the other elders. I will intentionally look for elders, ministers who look differently, not for the sake of not trying to be woke or anything, but I just want, I want people to feel comfortable.  If that's the case, I can stay here in Dallas and just have an all black church in the southern part of Dallas. I don't want that. I don't want a predominantly white church. I want a church where people can see that, yeah, we can all do this together irrespective of our color. I want a church where everyone, oh, here it is. I want a church where if you were to invite your sinful friend, they felt like this is a good place to go. I'm not being condemned, but the problem that I'm dealing with is being condemned. There is a way that you can preach to sin without making the person intentionally feel like, hey, you're coming at me. I have seen, this is what I've seen before. I did not like this.  Why would you do that? Preach the word. Preach the word. When I, when I have talked to people who dealt with homosexuality, we covered their sin. We did. We don't, we don't, we don't sugarcoated. Listen, homosexuality is a sin.  And so what we, what we will do is my point is, is you, is it so important for you to keep you? Is that more important than you having a relationship with Christ and going to heaven? What's more important? You being the authentic you or you being the saved redeem you? Because it's the same with everybody. If I'm dealing with a sin and you're focused on me and my relationship with Christ, because I promise you what I can't do, I cannot, I cannot say it enough times, cleverly enough with enough music, the right pitch tone to make you leave homosexuality. Can't do it. Cannot do it. It's been tried, didn't work. I cannot speak clearly enough to make you not be greedy. I cannot say it in such a way to make you stop being angry. Know what I can do. I can say what the Lord says about it, but I want you more than anything else to have a relationship with him. I want you to, there was a song that I've listened to. Oh, the song just, just, just moved me and I want God trying me.  I want you to be more like him. How did that happen? By you getting closer to him, by you putting your focus on him, that's what I want. And then more than I can or anybody else, whoever your favorite pastor or preacher is or teacher is, more than they can do it, the Holy Spirit can clean you. He can fix you. Now, am I saying we're going to go ahead and let you just live in sin?  Well, guess what? We're going to deal with that. Okay.  But if you're struggling, that's the issue. Oh, by the way, oh, by the way, we do believe in church discipline. And if it gets a point where, Hey, we got to ask a person to leave. No problem. We are going to follow the dictates of the Bible. The, this is the kind of pastor that I want to be, but more than that, I want to be the kind of pastor that, not that the people in the audience look up to, or that someone else will look up to, I want to be the kind of pastor that my family looks up to.  We think you're wonderful.  They know your good, your bad. They know where you stick. By the way, my daughter told me the other day while I'm drinking my coffee, my, my, my baby told me hurt my heart and she was probably right.  And I was about this close to her face. And she put her head down like this. And my wife said, well, you don't want to hear what he's have to say. She said, no, he's got coffee breath hurting my heart. But, but your family's going to be honest with you. Your family's going to tell you where you stink. Your family's going to tell you, Hey, listen, that wasn't, we didn't like that. I don't like that. Right. And so that's what I want to do. I want to make sure that they have that right to, by the way, you know, it'd be cool. Can I tell you what would be cool? This is why I, this is why I need to go to Indianapolis. This is why I need to go to Indianapolis. What if the Colts have an opening for a team chaplain? I'm there. I'm there. God, I know you want me in Hawaii.  I'm going to Indianapolis and be like, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But what I could have, how cool would that be? Be the team chaplain for the Colts or the Pacers? No, he said Midhoff and listen, again, that's where I started off at though. 1981, yeah, 81, we moved out to 42nd and post. We were in these apartments called, they were fairly new apartments called East wind, or at least they were changed over. They had some some new stuff going on for, oh, we tore the place up. It wasn't, it was a nice neighborhood then. They had a village pantry over there we used to go and steal from. There was another place over there that we, we had to walk to 38th and I forgot what 38th and post was a crowbar. That's how we got our groceries. We had to walk there and back. Good times, good memories. The east side of Indianapolis is rough. It's almost like the city said, you know what, we'll just deal, we'll leave y'all over there. We'll leave, but anyway, how cool would that be? But the point is though, I want to take care of my family first. I want to then, if I've got their approval, these are the village pantry still there. Wow, that village pantry, wow, okay. But I will, I will evangelize that area. I will evangelize that area. I'll evangelize my old stomping grounds. I think they modified it and made it better over on 28th and Ruckel, over the near north side, 30th and Pennsylvania and Talbot that area. Used to live over there. Used to live around the corner from Children's Museum. Used to live off of Kessler. I want to evangelize the entire city. Do I want the church to be a thousand, two thousand five? I want, listen, if there's something good there, I want the more the merrier, but it's not going to be me. Come here, me. It'll be a picture of me on the side of the building. My name is everywhere. No, no, not going to do that either. I am not, listen, I want you to know something. I am not a person that's going to pat myself on the back and took my own horn. Nope. Kind of like with the whole YouTube stuff. I'm not, I'm not promoting, listen, I promise you, if we ever do get to the 100,000 mark, you're not going to see that, that little plaque. I don't know where it's going to be yet. It won't be behind me. It won't be, matter of fact, you won't even, you won't, you'll never see it on this channel. Yeah, you'll never see it on this channel. I don't believe in that. I think that one, if someone thinks highly of you, let them say so, but don't you bring it out. Yeah, I've been praying about Indianapolis for some time. When I grew up, church was a thing, but not for everybody. When I grew up in Indianapolis, the streets on Sunday mornings were clear because folks were at home. Not because, this is back in the day, you know, Midwest in the 70s and so forth in the early 80s, stuff, stuff was closed on Sunday. And so, but I want to, yeah. He said the name would be in Greek. No. By the way, the words that I had been thinking about Compassion Fellowship, that's been the name that we've been thinking about, Compassion Fellowship. If that's, if that's what it's going to be, I don't know. I don't know. You know, these are just things. This is me brainstorming, me thinking. By the way, because my daughter asked, well, what would you do with Smart Christian Channel? Well, Smart Christian Channel is always supposed to be a byproduct of what I'm doing. I want it to be a place where you can go to initially a website and we'll have that. And so I'm like, no, I'm like, I've always been home sick, but not so much where I got to go back.  My father's not there. My mother's not there. My brothers are grown and moved on. So I don't know. But I do love Indianapolis. I do love Indianapolis. I think, I think it is the, not even, I think it is the best city in the Midwest. Without question, Chicago, no, it's just big in Chicago. That's it. Why are you living in Chicago? Maybe because your job has you there. Better than any city in Ohio. I'm sorry, folks in Ohio, better than any city in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Illinois, or as folks in the South say, Illinois, Michigan. Why are you still living in, I don't know why you're still living in Michigan. Move on down South. Come to Indianapolis. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But all these things are things I'm praying for that I need you all to be praying, being prayer with, that God would guide me. I don't do anything on my own accord. John, thank you so much, son of John. He says, what if, no, no, no, no, what if, what if me and Seiko built, me and Seiko couldn't do a church together? We, listen, no, no. If me and Seiko did a church together again, I'm getting arrested, pastor arrested for beating up Seiko Woods. Yeah, I'm going to jump on Seiko. I'm going to be in love. Thank you. Thank you elected by God. I appreciate that. I appreciate the super chat. It's Seiko still here. If he heard that he's going, if he's still here, I'll see it because he's going to see. Oh man. Yeah, but keep praying for me. Keep praying for me.  That might be it. That might be it. That might be it. Love by God. That might be it.  No, somebody has to have here. Somebody's got to have here. And so anyway, but I wanted you all to know what I'm doing, which also I need to go ahead and while I'm there, give you an update on what we're going to do here. You'll see, I don't know when, maybe in a week. And I keep saying in a week or two every other week, but maybe in a week or two, you'll see the differences on the channel. We're actually working on some stuff. As soon as I get off here, we're doing some stuff with the website. I mentioned to you, and I'll have this probably next week. Maybe by the end of the week where I'm going to have you guys start submitting names of churches. So we can have this church search where if you're in a city and you're looking for a good church, where would you do so? Where would you go to? But it's got to be set up in a certain way because as a matter of fact, me and Chester, we're talking about this by email. He texted me this. And so the concern was folks are going to start submitting names of churches and some of the churches will be just throw it off. I don't know. I'm going to have some people, some of you guys, actually to also to help with this because I can't in fact, we may get a thousand different churches. I can't invent a thousand churches. And so I'm going to ask some of you guys here. What do you think about these churches?  Tell them what they think. Now, there's only so much vetting we can do. We're not going to, you know, we're not going to send a team of investigators to the church to find out what we're going to find out what their doctrine is. The pastor, we're not going to recommend the 25 year old pastors. Sorry, young pastors out there. I don't care if you are the next coming of the world's greatest pastor at 25, we'll get with you in another five, 10 years. But if there are no scandals and so forth and then, yeah, then we'll do that. And we'll also have a process by which we can take people off. And so there's going to be an email for you guys to send your emails to. It will be so and so and so at smartchristians.org, which by the way, the smartchristians.org will be up hopefully in two weeks, hopefully, hopefully. And so some of you guys on here, especially some of you guys that are real faithful, I'm going to ask you because I have an idea of what you think, what you believe, just by going back and looking at some of your comments. Hey, would you like to help? By the way, on the channel that we're going to need channel moderators. I mean, not channel moderators, website moderators. We got moderators here. We'll need moderators there. Why would you need moderators for the website? Well, because on the website, there's going to be different forums.  That's the cool part.  You guys talk to each other and so forth. And so we'll have on their forums where no, friendship, West, no, friendship, West will be on the mark. Avoid and pray about pray that the Lord saves from folks there. No, but I was going to say, you threw me off. Oh, but there'll be different forums. So let's say you guys want to have a conversation about, I don't know, the Trinity on those forums, you and whoever else you just have these conversations, we need moderators to make sure folks aren't just acting nuts in there. Somebody's going to show up in there. There might be five, six, seven, eight different forums happening. So there's going to be folks that are going to have to be in there just to kind of keep things under control. All right. John Bob is going off on people and call them all kinds of names. We got to get rid of John Bob. No problem. We'll do that. There are going to be other videos and lessons from other people. They won't just be me in my face. There's going to be other people out there. So you might see Joe Bob, his sermon or his teaching on there, this person's, which means we had to go to that person and ask for permission and for their teachings. We're going to go to different seminaries and ask them for their teachings on certain topics as well. That was the whole goal of Smart Christian to teach people how to navigate through, not to say what I say, what I think or what he says, what he thinks. How to find it for yourself. What are some things that you might want to consider when reading a passage, when going over something or with me? So that's the whole point of that. And so you're going to see a little bit of a shift even on this channel. There are some videos that I'm holding off of that I cannot put out just yet. Why? Because if I put them out right now, then in a week or two, I got to take them right back down so that they are conformed with the new video. There would be some old videos. By the way, if you've noticed, I think we're at 500 something videos on the channel now. If you go back and look, there's 500 something videos.  So almost 200 something videos are gone. Yeah, that, you know what he says, I'm surprised that the smart Christian channel was available. smartchristian.com is gone. If you're talking about the website, but smartchristian.org is available. Now smartchristian.com is available. If I want to pay, I'm not paying for that. Now, as far as YouTube, I guess anyone can, there can be more than one smart Christian. Now there's only one smart Christians channel. Who do you think you are calling yourself smart? I didn't say that. I never said I was a smart Christian. Never said I was the smart Christian. We're all smart Christians. Well, not all of us. There's some folks who like, yeah, you definitely are not. He's a joke. Bob is going to be reprobate. So you know what? Do me a favor. BJ, send me an email. Send me an email and I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll do that video within the next few days. I'll do that video describing modernism and synergism. All right. Okay, wait a second. As a former pastor who taught in error and out of ignorance, repeating the errors of those before me, it would be a blessing to thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate it. By the way, what I'm doing is Bishop Watson was my pastor, who I'm leaning from. Church of God in Christ. Tony Evans. Gleaming from Dr. Willie Baldwin. Gleaming from where any of them are or are any of them perfect? Now, two of them have passed away. No, but what I'm getting from them are just certain things that I would apply. Say what you want. First of all, Dr. Tony Evans is not a heretic. Anyone says so doesn't know him. Okay. And people think that he thinks that anybody can go to heaven. He does not. He does not think that. I'll cover that some of the time about that. Yeah, I've heard of Uproom Church. Yeah. As a matter of fact, what's funny is, my kids had gone there before and now they're like, they know a lot of folks here, it's like this is real cultish there. It really is. One of the young ladies that sings there is a family friend. As a matter of fact, how much she sings with Maverick City or she has. But I won't say her name. But when I say, okay, all grown up. She's all grown up. Anyway, but Dr. Evans has a concern for the community. And the way that the church, it's a model of how you run a church. It really is. And how he is, how he's faithful to his, he's a, he's a, he is one of the best examples you can find of a mega church pastor who pastors, who shepherds his flock. A lot of, a lot of pastors with large followings. They're pretty distant when it comes to their people. And he's not really like that. The other church that I was at, we had about five, six hundred people there. There are a lot of things that we could learn and didn't do right. A lot of things. But understanding how to preach doctrine, how to preach in such a way where you don't have the hoop and this and that. Now tell me you haven't done that either. But the way Dr. Bolden did, it wasn't, it wasn't no hooping and hollering, but very good preacher. I mean, and entertaining as well. Because guess what? When you preach, should the sermon be entertaining? Well, if the sermon is not entertaining, well, then you're going to have a lot of folks sleeping in your sermon. And so yeah, the, now not gimmicky. We got to have bubbles coming down out of the ceiling and strobe. No, we're not doing all that. And so you deliver in such a way where there's maximum impact. And so I learned that from him. I learned, understood. Doctor, he said, you're going to understand doctrine. You're going to understand how to go through these scriptures. I don't want to have to apologize for you afterwards. So I learned that from him from Bishop Watson. Do I agree with the doctrine? No, no, but in terms of being a man, yeah, yeah, he showed me and taught me a lot. He showed me and taught me a lot. He was a true pastor. He wasn't like a lot. Now a lot of business in church, God and Christ are different than him. He's not, he was not, and he could have been, was not money hungry. He cared for the people. He was a strong male leader. And I love that. I love that. Yeah, you're Deacon C.P. No, you've never heard of a scandal from Tony Evans. Yeah, well, what about his daughter? Okay. All right, you got that against him. I won't deal with that right now, but they have that against him. But him specifically, no, other than the issue of people say, well, he believes, he believes in trans dispensationalism. He's trying to explain something that the Bible doesn't explain. That's all. I think he's wrong on that, but okay, fine. Okay. And I've covered that. And what he, what he was trying to say, what he did say, what he's even explained, even to the church as well. But anyway, that being said, I have taken from them, I look at other pastors, their mistakes, what works well, my own experiences. And my heart is, I just want people to grow close to Christ. And I love it when people ask questions. The only problem is the hard part with this is when people ask questions on here, they come a lot. It's hard. I can't, I cannot, I've got another point where I don't even answer many questions on the email because I just can't, I'm waiting till we convert things over. But it's just hard. It is hard answering. And I hate, I hate not answering questions. As a pastor, I like to sit and talk to the person. My kids will ask a question. I'll stop what I'm doing. I love to work out, at least I used to. I'm in the middle of working out. Hey, I don't mean to bother you, but let me ask you a question. Have you heard this? And no problem. It's what I want to do. And so that's my passion. I want to tell you all thank you for the kind words, the support. Thank you. As a matter of fact, that's it right there. Let me say that, let me speak on this as well. I want to start working on ways to get more people to answer questions. Trusted people, right? Who they submit a question, the question can be viewed and then answered or submitted and then you get an answer. Because I don't want to have an answer. Now, maybe you just want to hear my take on it. And I'm trying to get, sometimes I want to get to where I can at least have people refer YouTube videos because maybe the question has already been answered in a video or in a letter. Planning this church requires help. So I've got to be able to go out and identify people to help men and women. He said women. Yeah, you got to have women to help you. That didn't mean she's going to be a pastor, a co-pastor, a prophetess, Mary at the church. No, that's not what we're going to do. No. But do women play a role in the church? Ask Jesus. Ask Peter. So yes, ask Paul as a matter of fact. Sure. Now, are they the in headship? No. No, but are they? Okay, so nothing. Matter of fact, wear long dresses, no more than six inches above your ankles, not above your knees, six inches. No matter of fact, because some of you ladies are going to trip four inches above your ankles. Can't wear red, no lipstick, and you got to have a bonnet on them. You have to have either a bonnet or a scarf on them. That's how we're doing the ladies in the church. No, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. Men, you have to wear suits. I don't care if you got one suit, wear it. I don't care if it's too tight, wear that suit. No, we're not doing that. Can you come in jeans? Sure. I have no problem with jeans. I have no problem with just wearing a slack shirt. Am I going to wear a jersey? No, I'm not doing that. But this is our fellowship. This is our fellowship. You mean as a prophetess? We were talking about having these daughters who are prophetesses or prophets. It's not in a sense of, at least I don't think it is, in the sense of them foretelling the Bible and saying enough, but in the sense of just giving a revelation.  And so they absolutely did. They absolutely did. There's no way around that part. They absolutely did. Were they in the office of a prophet? Well, if they were, they were never named. And so we would have to say no. They certainly weren't in the office of an apostle and gave leadership because, again, Paul speaks against that. So now that being the case, do we use women? Sure. Sure. So, but I forgot to have men.  I know for a fact, because I see your icons and so forth that you all don't look the same. Some of you are white. Some of you are Hispanics. Some of you are black. By the way, speaking of Hispanic, dang near black, where's Proverb 17? Wait a second. Let me check the group text. Make sure I take the group text.  It didn't come to Florida. Where's the group text at? Where's the group text? Is everything all right with Proverbs? I don't think I saw him yesterday either.  All right. So that's what I just want to make sure. Just want to make sure. So anyway, that being said, I want us to look like the church would look like you guys. Deborah, she was not in leadership. Remember, when Deborah spoke as a judge, there was still somebody that was even over her. The guy was just a chicken. The guy was just a chicken. Barack was a chicken. But God still commands him for his faith. There he is. There he is. I just want to make sure. By the way, y'all won't believe this, but it was like what last week, week before last, when I actually went and looked up Proverb 1711, I said, okay, that's it right there. Did y'all go look up Proverb 1711 and then come back into it and then now then you'll start appreciating Proverb 17 on the channel, which is why Proverbs, he would have to do something really, really bad to get banned. He would have to do something really, really bad to get banned. Somebody said, hey man, your man Proverb 17, you need to check him. I said, nope. Nope. He's got, he didn't have carte blanche, but he's got carte blanche. What does carte blanche mean? Proverb 1711, that's what it means. He said, Jesse did alive about me. Well, hey man, did he spell my name right? I mean, okay, that's fine. He wouldn't be the first. He wouldn't be the first to do a live about me, which is cool. Listen, he has the right to disagree with me and to speak to his viewers, his subscribers, whoever wants to hear. He has the right to say anything he wants to. I can't control. There's a young lady, she has a channel, and I came across some time ago. I hadn't responded about it. I thought about it, but yeah, she has a right to her own opinion, where she said, my experience on the smart Christian channel, and she's complaining about how she was treated on a conversation about tongues, and she said, I didn't know we were going to debate or I specifically sent the, fine. She said, she didn't know we were going to talk about what, yeah, you did because we covered a couple of times.  She agreed to it, and then she came in late. When she came in late, we would already been kind of having these discussions going back and forth, but just fine. We're just fine. Sweetheart, you are.  That's fine. That's fine. I'm not going to go on her channel and say, no, you're wrong. No, no. I don't want to, don't need to. If there are people out there that believe that you should be speaking in tongues the way she says, well, then, you know what? Hey, do you have, have you placed your faith in Christ? Yeah. Okay, good. Good.  Maybe God will be the one. So, yep, he plays probably, that's, that's what the pastor says. That's what problem 17 says. So, red Doritos versus blue Doritos. Either one, what's the, let's just say decryption blood Doritos baby, either, either or. I started, we'll, we'll do this on Friday, by the way, guys, we're going to have the, because I haven't done a Q and A in a while. And it's going to be a, we'll, we'll start at 1230 and we'll go for a while. Hold on. Clear up dog. If I, if I do, if I do, where is it? Someone said, okay. Oh, oh, you didn't buy his stripes. We are healed. Explain Isaiah 53.5. Okay. The focus is we are healed spiritually. Does that also bring about physical healing? It does. If you say though, that by his tribes, we are definitely always healed and we got a problem with that. The reason why we have a problem with that is you don't have to look at, listen to me or hear my explanation of it. Just simply look at the people in the Bible. Paul was Paul healed when he asked, pleaded three times from the Lord. Who's the guy king thing, the guy's name, some Greek sounding name who was sick, almost died. Paul tells Timothy to take a little wine for your stomach ailment. So he wasn't healed. That happens. It doesn't mean that we're definitely going to be healed. Okay. Not physically, spiritually. We are so healed. We are definitely healed.   Isn't your wife calling you right now? She's probably calling you. She wants you to take the trash out. Anyway, but I was getting ready to say something. I was getting ready to say something. Amen. Amen. But they would say, Dinah, that you're not a real Christian. You have no faith. Okay. Until it happens to them. These very same folks who probably got glasses, probably got gray hair. By the way, y'all, y'all, let me just, I'm not a doctor, but let me just speak medically for a second. Y'all do realize you get to a certain point in your life where the body plateaus in terms of growth and then starts dying off. The older you get, the less oxygen that your lungs and your blood can carry and hope. Y'all do understand that, right? That means you're headed down. Why can't, because we talk about the big things that need to be healed. What about that? Why can't you heal the capacity in your lungs to hold more air? We don't talk about that. Some of you guys know what I'm talking about. Some of you guys, when you get up in the middle of the night or whatever or early in the morning, you don't stand up straight quickly. Let's heal that. Your ligaments and tendons, you know what you can't do? You can't make them stronger. They can heal, but they don't get bigger and buffer. Why not heal those? They seem to be more stretched, not as strong. Heal that. What about the creaking in your knees? Heal that. It bothers me when folks want to talk about people who don't have the faith enough to be healed. When what about your whole body? You got wrinkles. You got sunspots all of you. You got growth. You got moles. I'm not just regular.  Heal that. Some of these folks are amazing. Your memory isn't what it used to be. You need a hearing aid. You don't hear it quite as well. We can't see them, but we know there's some issues. The older you get, you do realize you're dying. Heal that. The Bible tells us that every last one of us are going to return to the grave. That is unless he comes back in the middle before that. Now I'm going to live to 128 and I'm going to look. This is about as old as I'm going to look. I'm going to look the same way at 128 and then right before I'm going to pass away, he's going to come and rapture me and I won't. No, I got this figured out, right? That ain't going to happen. But the point is we're all going to die. It is appointed unto man once to die. And so we're going to die. Well, unless you get hit by a truck or a bullet, your body is going to fail you. The process of your body failing, if you're over 26, 27, 28, it has already begun. The process has already started. The countdown clock is already going. Now hopefully my countdown clock is full. I hope that bad boy says another 75 years, but I don't know. Somebody said, I don't want to live that long. I don't want to live past 100. And then you get to 99 like, Lord, just give me one more day, right? Everybody says they don't want to live to a certain age, but then when they get to that age, so. But the point is, you're on your way to dying. But if you got that much faith to heal you, you should have enough faith to heal everything so you're no longer dying, that your body is steel.  God is not trying to keep you on this plan forever. That's not it. That's not, he's only my glorified body. No, I'm telling you, I got, listen. This is what's going to happen. Let's see. 2000, no, in the year 2101, January 1st, 2101. Let me tell you what you're going to hear. January 1st, 2101, 5pm. That's what you're going to hear. Me at 128 coming to you in January 1st, 2101 with that same intro.   I'll be in the middle of, I'll be in the middle of blood transfusion. It's going to take me a while to hear and to see. It'll be like holograms now. It'll be holograms.  I'll be me with that glasses and some more glasses. Right.  So I have these glasses to look at the camera and then I'll go to these glasses and look at the screen.  I'm still kicking. That's right. And, and because I've lived so long, I'll have hair transplant. I'll decide to go ahead and give me, give me some hair and I might go ahead and see what the young folk got with what they think. And I might go ahead and put some dreadlocks on it. 128 years old. And then the rapture comes and I'm gone. Oh boy. No, no, no. Having too much fun. What'd you say? Okay. Let me see what the resident hater says. Have a box of the pens. I might, I might listen. I'll bar, I'll, I'll tell you what I will do. I'll borrow your Seiko. How about that? Oh man. Listen, the one thing I'm thankful about Kevin is there are no surviving pictures of me with a curl. I had one. Like Michael Jackson back in the day. Yeah. We all shoot. I won't have a curl in heaven. I think I'll be bald in heaven though, because I don't know what better way to be.  You don't know what you're missing. Let, let, let your wives see the natural you.  It's in, it's in the way. It's, it's holding you back. Yeah. All that extra heat. You're not cool. You are. I'm too much temperature-wise with no hair. I had a curl.  My teeth were like this. You know, they weren't, hadn't grown together. I don't know how food stayed in my mouth, but I had these openings in my teeth.   Anyway, anyway, I'm sorry. No, Vic, cut your hair. Cut your hair. Cut your hair. Way to go. I promise you, it's liberating. Yeah. Who the sun says free is free indeed. Yeah. Anyway, but you also have an idea of how I would even, when I, when I preach, this is me. I like to, I like to see people, people's emotions laugh, cry. I don't do a lot of the crying stuff here. It's not a good look on camera. Not a good look on camera. But in the services, at 20, 30% of the services, you're going to cry. I'm coming down your alley because I know you. I know you're too good. I know you're no good. I know there's nothing good that dwells in you. I know the thoughts that you have. I know what you was thinking about doing before you came on this, this live stream, what you're thinking about, you might want to do the plans that you have not to do good, but to do evil. I know you got some plans. I know you do. You know how I know? Cause you're just like me. Yeah. We all rotten, rotten, no good. And if, but for the grace of God, you just said, I look like Charles Dutton.  She just said, I look like rock. Oh man, Aaron. I love you, sweetheart, but you okay. Oh man. Okay. Well, you know what? Way man for rock. Rock's a good looking dude. How about that? But I know how bad you guys are. And I know that sometimes you don't always have designs on doing the right thing. And somebody put Seiko in time out. Somebody put Seiko in time out. Anyway, I'm trying to be, let's get serious. I'm trying to like, I'm trying to get serious here.   It's okay though. That's part of being pastoral. You should be able to handle that kind of stuff. Are you just now showing up, Mike? Listen, but what I can tell though, Michael, is, am I seeing this picture? Do you have hair on top of your head?  It looks like you don't have any hair on top of your head. I hope you don't. You haven't missed much. Just an hour and 30 minutes, which we're about to end. Post-end 30 minutes ago. Yes, call me rock and Marquette's laughing. You got hair on top of your head? Shave it. Shave it. Shave it. Listen, I'm trying to bless you. Shave that hair on top of your head. You don't need it. You don't, you don't need it. Waste of time.   Wonderful. It's just heavenly, heavenly. It's salvation, receiving the Holy Spirit, having the ball head in that order. Will we have hair in heaven? The elite people, the elite Christians won't, we won't have it. The rest of you guys will. I'm kidding. You know what? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The question is, we have a glorified body. What's the glorified body? It's going to be my glorified 50 year old body or my glorified 19, 20 year old, 21 year old body. I would like that body back, that 21 year old body. I'm cool with that body. Let's give the, and I had hair. I had options to cut it or not. So I hope I have that body. Anyway, you always kept me here too long, but I want you to do one thing, pray for me that the decision on that, we've got time. I've got a two years, at least, at least, but I pray that the decision that I make is in accord with him and not in accord with me. It really, it really doesn't say how long, like the 120 years is speaking of how long it's going to take for when Jonah, not Jonah, I said Jonah. I got all my Bible characters mixed up, mixed up. Noah, Bill's the Ark. That's how much time from Tommy says so to the flood. But then if you live 80 years, 70, 80 years, you're good. It's just that I'm going farther further than that. So anyway, but if I got 128 years old, I'm good.  But in the meantime, until I decide, until this decision is made, I pray that my decision is how God orders it. So in the meantime, we'll keep doing what we're doing. You're going to get a boatload. And when I say a boatload of teaching videos, I'll say within the month, it's like, wow, we got this, this, this, this, this, this, this. Those 300 videos that's been deleted, about another 100 or 200 are also going to be deleted. Yep, because of the quality, the video quality, the audio quality, the lighting and so forth. So that being said, is America mentioned in the Bible? No. No, which that's kind of our own way of being selfish sometimes, because there's a lot of countries we don't think of, because Haiti's not mentioned in the Bible and no one batches now. Why hadn't Haiti mentioned in the Bible? What about Mexico? We're not mentioned in the Bible. Matter of fact, some of the countries that we think are mentioned might not even be mentioned. Hold on. I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't do this. Let me see if this is a long discussion. Someone asked a question. I'm trying to see, do I have time to cover this in the name? Oh, okay. Okay. You know what? Moderators, send me a text. Y'all send me a text. I should do it. I need to do this video. She asked to cover Hebrews 5-7, so I'll make sure I do it. Send me a text, guys, to cover that. I'll do a video over that. What was the other video I'm doing? What was the other video that sent me a text? I forgot. Hopefully, who I told to will send me that text. I'll go find the scripture and I'll do that one as well. Someone just sent it to me. I'll do that video this week. It'll be a short video, but I need to cover that as well, because I think that's an interesting passage that bears covering. So it's done. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm sorry. I apologize. Let me see. Arsenal. Okay. And you've been on here a ton of times, but Arsenal. Okay. Arsenal. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I apologize. Let me get off here before I mess up stuff. People say, don't be a pastor. You don't need to know. Stay right where you are. Anyway, Arkansas says hello. And I like Arkansas, by the way. I like Arkansas. Good people there in Arkansas. It really is. I really haven't been to a place where I didn't like. Even in prison.  Anyway, yeah. Yeah, some of you guys, if you all, yeah, matter of fact, yeah, yeah. That's your fault. Thank you, Carol. If you guys put a picture on it, bad boy, you just let Google give you the A. Put a picture on there. Or do like sunshine. It's just a white dot. I don't know what's happening here with the sunshine.  I think I get it. That's supposed to be like the sunshine. Is that, am I reading to that? Maybe I don't know. But if you guys, if you guys put a picture on there, like Miss AG, I can see this is a lady. Can you do a video on how to explain the Trinity to non-believers? I will send you a link. I have the Trinity in four minutes. I think I saw that video up. If you send me an email, send me an email and I will send you the link to that video, the Trinity in four minutes. Arkansas is beautiful. Arkansas is beautiful. Hi, pretty lady. Hi, pretty lady. How you doing? Do y'all know who she is, by the way? Do y'all know who this lady is? You need to get used to her. If you notice, let's see, does she have, wait a second, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Oh, okay. I see what you did. I see what you did. I see what you did. There it is. There it is. That's her. Same person. Like, where's your, where's your wrench yet?  Who was, she is the best moderator. Yeah, she's my, she's my favorite moderator. What do you mean? Says Chess Champ. What do you mean says Darryl? You mean says that she's my favorite moderator. The reason why she's my moderator, because that's my baby girl. Although she betrayed the family and married, and married somebody. So now her last name is not minor anymore, but that's my, that's my, what number is she? Second oldest. Number two. I call my kids because I forget their name sometimes and I call them number one, which the oldest that's not, she does not mind being called number one. The last two, number three, number four, but I call her number two. And she didn't like being called number two for obvious reasons. So, but that's my baby. That's my baby, Morgan. I am, I am. Listen, let me say this so I can get up off here. I'm just going too long. Let me tell you what we're going to do. We are going through all of the 66 books. We're going to do a Bible survey. We're going to act. Some books we're going to be on longer than the others, but we're going through all of those. And so we're going to cover acts as well. We're going to go, we're going to go through Ezekiel. We're going to do a Bible survey. A bird's eye view will cover the highlights, who wrote it, why it was written, when it was written, all those things and the major things of that and see how the Bible comes together because a good Bible survey helps you all, helps us all. It helps me to put the Bible together. None of these books are just sitting out there just by themselves. The book of Jonah is not there just by itself. Who's writing, why they're writing, when was it written to? We put in order who the prophets are prophesying to. You got the prophets that are prophesying to the nations and not prophesying to Jews. You got some that prophesied during the exile, some during the restoration, some that prophesied to the southern kingdom, some that prophesied to the northern kingdom. We don't divide them up into major and minor prophets. We don't do that. Why? Because as a matter of fact, you'll stop doing that. You'll stop, soon enough, stop saying major and minor prophets. They are not. As a matter of fact, some of these minor prophets aren't some minor when you look at them, which by the way, it's a good name. The minor prophets are probably the better prophets. I think the minor prophets are the better prophets. Yeah, let's say that. But so we're going to look at how, when in one month, in one month, we're going to start the Bible surveys and we'll start, we'll start back up, probably in March, we'll start back up the Bible studies. We are going to be filling up content after content, after content to go on this website so that it can be a resource for folks to go to. You got a question about a topic, about a verse, type it in and bam, it goes there. Okay. And so it'll be topic or content after content so that we can kind of cover. It's going to take a while to cover all the basis. A lot of the Bible is a big book. And so we're going to do that. We're going to go back to the actual Bible studies as well. We'll have the Q&As, a set time for the Q&As every week. So we'll have that. We'll cover some of the cultural things that are still happening. We'll still, not as much, but we'll still do some of the, this false prophet, a teacher, whatever said this or said that or whatever. We'll expose that stuff and use the strips to cover that. And then we'll do also some more expository teachings as well. But the reason why, if you notice, we've done a little bit more of covering some of these guys say wacky stuff, because I can't do the teaching stuff as much as I want to, because I'll have to turn around and delete it in a week or two or three. So that's why. So anyway, guys, I want to thank you so much. I am hungry. I am starving. I don't know if I have any food out there yet. I'll find out. We left. Lisa, by the way, let me say that she says we left off at Ruth. Let me say this, guys. I apologize, but we're starting it back over from the beginning. There's going to be a set format where we're going to move so that it'll look the way we did it before was more YouTube-ish. The way it's going to be done is going to be more focused, more organized. But then even after that, what I plan to do, I'm not sure, but what I plan to do is have the video for the teaching and then after that, kind of about a 10, 20 minute after that Q&A that won't be part of the video that goes to the website or with me. So for that reason, we won't pick back up what we left off. We'll start back over, which is okay. Going back over the Bible again. So anyway, guys, I thank you so much. Yeah, we're going to go over. I keep seeing stuff. We have the chronological books that we'll cover, but then some of y'all didn't know that there are complementary books in the Bible. For example, Genesis and Exodus, those are chronological books. Leviticus is not a chronological book. Leviticus is a complementary book to Exodus and so forth to when we get the law with me. And so we'll have all that stuff laid out. Anyway, here's a good question. I didn't know this one. If you get to go ahead to plan a church, what is the next step? The next step is actually moving to where I'm going to be. If that is, if I have to move, then after that, it's going to be to have a local group Bible study, a local group Bible study. Then once that's done, as we bring in the folks of the Bible study, we'll be telling them the focus is for this Bible study to become the church, the foundation of the church, because we want the foundation to be learning, be understanding of the scriptures. And so then as that grows, as we go out witnessing and sharing the gospel, when folks know what's going to happen, then we'll move to the next phase. So that's kind of the starting up. There's more to it than just that. I kind of simplified it, but in the where I don't know, Ms. Galway don't know. I do not know. My druthers would be eating apples, but we'll see. We will see. Maybe Dallas, maybe Chicago. I don't think so. But who knows, this word got wherever, have we feel led by God, maybe, maybe Detroit, maybe Denver, or maybe Jackson, Mississippi. Who knows, maybe just close Alabama. Anyway, all right, guys, I want to thank you so much, but I did want to come to you, my family, and just mention that to you guys. So I hope you all be blessed. I will see you tomorrow. Got some pretty good videos for tomorrow. So anyway, guys, be blessed.


What's going on everybody welcome back to another video today. We're gonna be talking about the all-new Microsoft Fabric Now Microsoft is just on a roll they're announcing things left and right and one of the new things that they just announced is something called Microsoft Fabric now Microsoft is calling this a unified data analytics platform But honestly it covers a lot of different areas like data engineering data science data governance all in one place I myself have used Azure for many years, so I'm really familiar with the Azure ecosystem So this got me really interested right when I saw it now There's a lot to it There's a lot of things that they're changing and updating and it looks really really good But before we jump into anything I'm gonna show you the one-minute trailer that Microsoft actually released that talks a lot about What Microsoft Fabric actually is? Introducing Microsoft Fabric a unified data analytics platform one product one experience one architecture one business model Unified data is stored in one lake a sass data lake for the entire organization Data is integrated and stored in an open format Allowing one copy to be used to train machine learning models visualize data and run sequel queries on the lake and data warehouse a Unified experience brings together all the tools data professionals need Pipelines for orchestrating data movement Experiments for training machine learning models semantic models for defining key metrics and much more and For business users fabric brings together data for collaborating and doing ad hoc analysis in Microsoft 365 Unified governance security and compliance is built in for all your data And with co-pilot the Microsoft Fabric AI helps everyone be more productive Whether it's writing sequel statements building reports or setting up automations based on triggers All your data all your teams all in one place. This is Microsoft Fabric So that looks pretty awesome and at the beginning they called it a unified data analytics platform I don't know if that's exactly how I'd categorize it really is an end-to-end solution for a lot of people just in that Quick video we hit on a lot of things and I'm gonna show you a lot of things that weren't in that video as well Some of the things that I am the most excited about so let's start from the ground up with how you're gonna be able to Access your data, so you're gonna be able to access your data in just about any cloud platform Whether it's Azure or AWS Google cloud platform or another cloud service now This comes with a big change their data architecture something they're calling one lake And I'm gonna get to that in just a little bit, but they're doing this with something called shortcuts It's gonna allow you to access your data wherever it is and query it without having to migrate that data over from another cloud service That in and of itself is gonna be a huge upgrade something that every large company deals with it is a huge issue And there's a lot of really small third-party companies some of which I've worked with in the past that solve this issue But Microsoft is gonna have this natively in Microsoft Fabric now The data is gonna be read in as a virtual file from those cloud providers But if the data is already stored in a parquet format You'll be able to read it in as a virtual table and actually query that data that parquet format is actually really important in this whole One-Lake architecture that they've built now that really leads me into the next thing that I wanted to talk about Which is just one like as a whole they made some really big changes of how they're gonna actually store their data Within one like they're gonna store all of their data in something called an open Delta parquet format This means that no matter what service or tool you're using within Microsoft Fabric It's all gonna be using the same data in one like all that same open Delta parquet format So every service engine is gonna be able to access the exact same data because it's all standardized in one like Microsoft says that they chose They parquet format because it's really efficient storing a lot of data And it's also really flexible so can be used with a lot of analytics tools Something else that I wanted to show you that they didn't talk about in that promo video is that you can access this data Basically anywhere so I have one drive and I have multiple computers and devices and I can save something on this Computer and then I can go on to this computer login to my one drive and I'll be able to access it on this computer One like is essentially gonna have the exact same thing where you can put it into one like and you can access it via one like in your file Explorer now this by itself is really cool But it gets even better because like we were looking at before with those shortcuts You can access data from a different cloud provider within your one like in file Explorer So you don't have to go to your Amazon S3 bucket You can just go to your one like that's connected to your S3 bucket and view it in your file Explorer, which is just It's kind of mind-blowing now. Not only can you view files and open files You can also upload files via your one like and file Explorer So you don't have to go into one like and log in and upload something you can just go into your one like and file Explorer Drag over the file drop it in there. It's gonna upload into one like honestly to me This seems like one of the coolest things although it's kind of a small feature But it just would make life so much easier which when you're working with this kind of stuff That's really what you're looking for just ease of use not really having to log in and do all these things They're just making it really seamless and that's honestly what it's all about next Let's take a look at their AI integrations that they're gonna have within Microsoft Fabric first They're gonna have LLC built in so you can just chat with your data Especially if you're writing Python or you're doing some modeling with data science. This is gonna be really handy It's very much like using chat GPT within Microsoft Fabric They're also gonna have co-pilot in there Which they're basically gonna be integrating across all of their services and all their products through the entire company So this isn't a huge surprise But co-pilot is gonna be really great for writing things like SQL queries and just asking questions about your data So now I was digging into Microsoft Fabric and just really trying to figure out everything that it does These are some of the biggest things that I saw honestly They're a lot of really great updates and great ideas We'll see how they actually work once we're able to get in there and start testing it out But it looks really really good in my opinion. So honestly, they're not really reinventing the wheel here I mean a lot of these products are already standalone products But what they are doing is they're bringing everything together in a really standardized way Which is honestly just a fantastic thing for the end user So someone like me who's used Azure for many years I can test that you would have a lot of data in silos that you'd have to do a lot of data migration for and Something like this might solve that problem now again We have to wait and see how it actually works how well it works But if it works well, this could solve a lot of headaches around getting all your data into one place So overall this looks like a really great product. I'm super excited to get my hands on it I wish they had this three or four years ago when I was using Azure a ton But if all these things come into fruition that they all work really well I think we'll be seeing a lot of people switching or using Microsoft Fabric in the next one or two or even three years We'll see a lot of companies start to use it. So I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you learned something I try to keep you guys updated on a lot of these new data analytics related stuff because these new technologies Just rolling out here and I'm just trying to keep you up to date So you can know what to learn next or things that you might want to learn in the future with that being said Thank you guys so much for watching. I really appreciate it if you like this video Be sure to like and subscribe below. I'll see you next video