Hey guys, do you want to watch a scary movie? Sure! Scares me. Thank goodness I'm with you guys. No one can hear me screamed. Well it is almost Halloween and everybody just hears one that's scared. So do you guys want to play a game? I can't. I shouldn't have gone out tonight. I haven't even reached my fiscal year 2024 goals. And I promised myself I would do that in seven days. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.  That was just it. Well, please, it was an accident. Thank you, thank you. Yes, there are logical explanations, why a delay, but there's also a thing that can't be explained. Fiscal year 2024 goals, I just get so scared thinking about the new year. I mean, I'm afraid, like very, very afraid. Here, Johnny! Oh, it's just Jeff. Oh, thank goodness. Hello ladies. You don't need to be afraid and certainly don't hide in the basement for the month of October. At Fort Worth Employee University, we invite you to rise above the scary and sore with the wise. Join us for classes such as calibration, resume workshop, servant leadership, navigating difficult conversations, and driving your success. Whatever you do, don't fall asleep on continuous improvement in October because losing opportunities to improve your future and your mind are terrible things to waste.


A little clip from a trailer from the first film you did.  Yeah. You have a clip from the trailer? It's just like a little bit from the trailer, but I just wanted to show it because you were a serious theater actor and instead you stayed home and did a local film. So this is just a clip from the trailer. The racial crossroads of Detroit. Ladies and gentlemen, we have here one letter of acceptance. Columbia wants you. It would be the most twisted episode in the continuing misadventures of Nap and Jay. I can't, wow, that's 20 years ago exactly. 20 years ago exactly. I did that. I made that movie instead of going to join the company at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. So I just graduated with my master's degree at Penn State and I got a job offer to go perform at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and so instead of doing that, I went home to Detroit to make, at the hell out of Hampton, a seminal film. I can't believe not everybody here has seen it. But it's a fascinating town. Hamtramik is a little town. It's an enclave, it's a little city. It's a municipality inside of Detroit. It has its own fire department and mayor and police and everything. And I lived there for seven years after school and my friends had written this script. And so I did the movie.


How many times have you received a compliment and later doubted whether or not it was truly sincere? It's always good to assume that people have good intentions, but the sad reality is that this isn't always the case. Sometimes people are just pretending to be nice to us and it's important to know the telltale signs of this behavior. Are you wondering whether or not the people around you are genuinely kind? Here are 10 signs of fake nice people.  This is when people exhibit false modesty. They pretend to downplay their own accomplishments while suddenly bragging about them at the same time. An example would be someone who says, I hate being beautiful because people flirt with me all the time. According to psychological studies, it's actually better if you go ahead and fully brag in these situations. People like genuine bragging way more than humble bragging. Passive aggressive behavior. You'd be surprised how easy it is for some people to be extremely aggressive while maintaining a guise of positive and nice behavior. This is known as passive aggressive behavior, and it's one of the big signs of a fake nice person. According to research, this behavior is common with people who have suppressed their rage and want to maintain civility and sophistication. When they do let their anger out, however, they can only do so by being passive aggressive. For example, someone might give you a compliment, but it seems rather sarcastic and backhanded. Ghosting Another big sign of fake nice people is ghosting. This is when people completely fall off the radar, refusing to answer your calls or reply to your texts. Ghosting often occurs right after the relationship is seemingly going pretty well. The other person might even seem nice and polite. Then all of a sudden they completely cut you out of their lives.  Crocodile tears. The phrase crocodile tears is used to describe people who fake emotions. Usually sadness and remorse.  Research has shown that people faking emotions like remorse and sadness tend to exaggerate these emotions. They also show a wide range of different emotions, which don't always make sense. For example, they might switch suddenly from being sad to being hopeful. How to spot a fake smile.  But how do you tell the difference between their smiles and real smiles from generally happy and nice people? According to psychologists, real smiles almost always use more facial muscles. Specifically, you should be on the lookout for wrinkles around the eyes. These are key signs of a real smile. Fake nice people can't listen. Genuinely nice people are always ready to lend an ear. No matter what you're going through, they can sit and listen to what you have to say. Fake nice people might have a hard time doing this, however, because they're usually very self-centered people. To put it simply, it's all about them. Fake nice people might act apart, but they'll try their best to sway the conversation towards topics that involve them, not you. For example, you might be explaining struggles you have at school or work, and then someone cuts in and starts giving you a long story about their personal experiences in that area. They always seem to want something. There's usually a reason behind why fake nice people are acting so kind and considerate. In most cases, it's because they want something from you. This might not be immediately obvious, but eventually, they'll start slowly steering the conversation to their needs and desires. Usually, they'll ask you to do something, or you'll discover that you have something they want. They're only nice to people who have power. Another big sign of a fake nice person is that they only act in a positive way towards those with power. It's always good to judge people based on how they treat people who are less fortunate or less powerful than themselves. If their nice behavior seems directed solely towards those with power, then that nice behavior probably isn't genuine. They like to gossip and criticize others. It's always easy to laugh at other people's expense, and you might even be fooled into thinking that nice people do this as well. But if someone is bringing other people down in an effort to get close to you, then you know that deep inside, they're not very nice people. Fake nice people love to gossip, and they might do so in a way that seems nice. They might act with a false sense of concern over other people's misfortune. For example, they might talk about someone else's substance issues with a gossipy and unsympathetic tone while pretending to be concerned. Sometimes it's hard to spot this behavior, but it's a big sign of fake niceness. Fake nice people are actually pretty rare. Although there are many signs of fake nice people, they're actually not very common. For the most part, when someone is acting nice towards you, they really mean it. In fact, people have a tendency to view themselves as less likable than others see them. Fake nice people do exist. But people probably like you a lot more than you think. That's why it's always a good idea to assume the best in people, because you might be irrationally fearing the worst. Do you have any experiences with fake nice people? Let us know in the comments below. Be sure to subscribe to our channel or watch our videos on topics like depression or anxiety.


Good morning, John. So a couple of months ago, I posted a video of me making Hanklerfish art for Project for Awesome donors and there were a bunch of people helping me. Right here, this person is Monica Tronell. The reason she's there is that she's running for Congress and I wanted to maybe talk to her if I could and so I emailed her and she said let's have coffee and I said let's make fish. So that was the first time I met Monica Tronell but over the last few months I've met her a few more times, mostly because I said I would like to rent out some rooms and interview you in them publicly. Time for some honesty. I don't know how to be a person with a big audience who also doesn't like the way that the world is. Obviously different people have different views on the way that the world should be but I have mine. I don't like a lot of the way things are. We've had an audience of some kind for a long time. I remember celebrating the election of Barack Obama with you, like the first one. While we were on tour I think? We've been doing this for a while. But most of what we've done over the years has been pretty nationally focused which makes a lot of sense because our audience isn't even national, it's international. So focusing local, like very few people here are going to have the opportunity to vote for Monica Tronell. Some of you though and you better because she's great. But in general I've started to feel like the relentless focus on the biggest possible scope of all conversations that always being national isn't good. I live in Montana, a state that Trump won by 16% in 2020 and by 20% in 2016. But in 2016 we also elected a Democratic governor and we have a Democratic Senator, John Tester, who is amazing. I don't think anybody would expect that. I think most people don't know that because it doesn't fit into the national narrative. We are a very red state that does a lot of pretty blue things. We can only really tell ourselves simple stories when we don't let a lot of data in. Now I understand not letting a lot of data in. It's very complicated and we want to tell simple stories so that people will believe the thing. But these simple stories are starting to rend, rend. So when Joe Biden's team emailed me and they were like, do you want to come to the White House to hang out with the president? I was like, yeah, I do. But I really only have so much time this year and I'm focusing a lot on what's going on in my community. I want to think about that. I want to be aware of that. I want to know how amazing Monica Tronell is and she is amazing. And if she doesn't win, it's going to be because of a focus on national politics. Like her opponent isn't very popular but Democrats are unpopular. She's like 50,000 miles on her minivan traveling across what is one of the largest districts in America talking to people in 16 counties and two tribal nations. And she keeps telling me every chance she gets that she just wishes that I and everybody else could see the America that she sees when she goes out there to listen to people. What those conversations are telling her is that people are a lot more complex than they get credit for. And that seems wrong to me. But her perspective is actually backed up by the research, which shows that people see themselves as being pretty 60 40 on stuff. But they see their opponents as being very 100 zero on everything. In fact, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't fit into broader narratives. And because it doesn't, we just don't ever think about it or talk about it. That true fact feels unintuitive to me, but it feels intuitive to Monica, because she's the one out there doing the work. That is why we hire other people to be our leaders, because they get to know more about this than we ever will so that we can focus on doing the other things. The problems are very big, but this country is messy and it is led in a lot of different ways. And the ballot that I get is a local ballot with local things on it. So this election with the time that I had, I decided to go local. And I feel really good about it. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. And if you can vote in this election, you're going to go local too. If you aren't sure how to vote where you are, or whether you're registered, et cetera, you can check out youtube.com slash how to vote in every state. And I will tell you everything you need to know.


When you discard the narcissist Watch out for this When you discard the narcissist You need to be very careful Because the narcissist will try to sabotage you They will deliberately try to destroy something of value that you have Because they hate it when you discard them before they get the chance to discard you Which is why when you do discard them first They will become very obsessive They will stalk your social media Because they want to see what you're doing They're very envious and jealous Because they saw you as their possession They saw you as something that was under their control Which is why when you choose to distance yourself from them They will have a strong desire for revenge And some of you may already be aware of this So you may try to end the relationship amicably You may try to end it in a calm and peaceful way But when you do that You're just giving them ammo You're giving them the opportunity to disrupt everything you're planning to do Because they're not going to let you leave unless it's under their conditions They have to be in a position of power and control But if it's not because they no longer wanted to deal with you Or if it's not because they wanted to be alone They will seek revenge If you manage to get away, they will stalk you They will try to cause disruption Because in their minds you're not meant to leave them You're not meant to think for yourself You're not meant to make your own decisions So when you try to leave They will put on a show They will love bomb you again They will try to pull you back into the relationship They will tell you they've realized what they did wrong But they're just saying it so that you will take them back in and then that gives them an opportunity to get revenge Because when you try to leave them It caused a narcissistic injury It made them very angry Because it made them feel as though they're not worth anything As though they don't look ahead and used to you As though there's someone better than them In their minds you made them feel that way So now you must suffer the consequences of your actions They will lie to you They will act as though you were so important to them As though they're sorry for what they've done Because now they understand how it affected you They will tell you whatever they think you want to hear And they can be very convincing They will do anything to get you to believe that they're telling the truth But they're only doing that so that they can come back to destroy you If they manage to get back in with you They're only going to make your life hell They're only going to make you miserable Because then they will expect you to suffer the consequences of your actions Every time you break up with a narcissist It will only get worse and worse It will not get better Because when you show them you don't want to be with them They realize that at some point you're going to leave Which completely destroys their fantasies of you You're no longer this perfect person to them So you will begin to see them acted out more and more You could have an argument with them about something insignificant And then they will go and fool around with someone else You won't know about it But it makes them feel better when they're doing it behind your back Something that you wouldn't be able to deal with Which is why you will notice that the next time you have an argument about something They will find it amusing They will see it as a joke Because they just engaged in sexual activity With someone else They already got one over on you But you may not know anything about it You just see that the narcissist is laughing Or it seems like they don't care Because without your knowledge They've already done something that you wouldn't stand They've already made you a fool But even if you catch them They're just going to deny it Or they will deflect it You will always end up feeling confused Or as though you don't know what the truth is Because you're accepting standards That are lower than what should be desirable But they don't really believe that you can find someone better than them Which is why they may even give you the opportunity to try But they will be watching your every move They will want to see how you're doing So that they can plot a scheme to disrupt it Because they're not thinking about how good you were to them They're not thinking about how they can make things right They're just thinking about ways to ruin your life After you've left them Because they're very angry They want revenge They want to see you fall Which is why you should hope that the narcissist will just move on And be willing to accept someone else That's what you should want Because then their attention will be off of you And you won't have to deal with them anymore Some of you may still be seeking validation from the narcissist And while I can understand that You need to realize that you are expecting someone Who is messed up To recognize what kind of person you are You're expecting it from someone Who isn't right in the head Someone who doesn't know anything about relationships Someone who doesn't know anything about life So you're not going to get the answers you're looking for From that type of person It's just not going to happen You can get it from someone else But you're never going to get that from the narcissist Thank you for watching I hope this video resonate with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe If you would like to donate My PayPal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coachingatnarksurvivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


All right, welcome everyone back from that tremendous lunch and Today we're going to talk a little bit about how to that lunch make it to our plate we're going to talk about the division of labor and the social order and to get things started like to set before you sort of to contrasting and conflicting views about the nature of the Mark division of labor and one comes to us from Herb Thompson Who is a professor of economics at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia? At least he was when this was Written he writes rather than seeing conflict as an anomaly. It is concluded that conflict is essential Is an essential and inherent? component of the social relations found in capitalism, so capitalism equals conflict Mises on the other hand in his great work Socialism writes the greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying Influence it leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare Rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies peace out of war society out of individuals Now to understand how the division of labor contributes to society And to the social order we need to understand the nature of production You have already been discussed This has already been discussed a Little bit in earlier lectures production We know is an action and all laws of human action then apply to the act of production Well, why do people act as you heard from dr. Herbner they act to attain an end What do producers produce? Why do producers produce they? produce to attain their end Economic profit and to do so Producers seek to economize just as consumers do they don't just Produce willy-nilly they make decisions about how to most effectively attain their end of reaping profits by producing goods in the most economically wise way and this helps us understand the relative Productivities of Two main modes of production and there are two the first mode of production. We could call Direct use that is where people are producing So that they can use the products themselves it none of the production is directed towards the market It's a production of self-sufficiency. I don't know if you've ever seen the old British TV show called good neighbors the focusing family in that TV show it was all about being self-sufficient and They seem to be happy, but it didn't really work out that well That was not the goal of the show, but it didn't work out that well in a direct use production It's simpler in that there is a direct correspondence between what people want and what they produce People grow a garden so that they can eat their own vegetables People build a hut so that they can live in the hut people raise a cow to milk and they raise a steer to eat People make a few pieces of clothing to wear themselves. They're not making these things to trade. They're making them to use and This mode of production is found primarily in poorer less developed countries The other mode of production is what we call production for exchange Production for exchange it is a mode of production where production is oriented toward what can be sold in the market People produce goods not because they want to consume them But because they think that they can trade their Products for something that they want more and of course in a in a monetary economy they produce and trade it for money and then they use their money to Spend on other things that they want what they really really want right the zig a zig ah so to speak production for exchange is production in the market division of labor the market division of labor and this is the mode that's found Primarily in more developed wealthier societies, so there is a Empirical relationship between the mode of production and societal prosperity and We find that the more Well-developed the division of labor is the more prosperous society is as well So let's talk about what we mean by the division of labor The division of labor's can be defined as the specialization of production according to efficiency the specialization of production according to efficiency and There are two important words in that definition one specialization and the other efficiency and we're going to take them in turn specialization simply means that each person produces a particular good or a set of goods in excess of his personal consumption So you're producing more than you want to consume yourself even if you do consume a little yourself My favorite example of this is mr. James Jim Snee Jim Snee or James P Snee to be exact He is the CEO of Hormel Corporation I don't know if you know what Hormel is Hormel is a food processing company My uncle worked for Hormel retired from Hormel after probably 25 years of service and They're probably I would say well, they've got a number of Poster products, you know, they're big on bacon and who isn't You can look at me. I enjoy my bacon from time to time They're also big on spam. Their flagship product is spam and James P. Sneed Produces a lot of spam. In fact, it's estimated that over the last year They produce at least 94 million cans of spam 94 million cans of spam now I submit to you that mr. Sneed did not produce all of that spam so he could consume it himself Which is probably good for him because if he did he would no longer be with us He would have died of a stroke or something else No, he he did this he produced this spam because he could sell it for money. He could exchange it so without exchange it with other people for things that he could use then to buy He could use to buy the products that he wants to buy He exchanges his product for money in the market economy and at the same time then his Consumptive ends His consumptive ends are satisfied are met by others Who exchange their excess supply of whatever goods that they have produced and? In that way both he and the people that he trades with benefit one another So that's specialization Specialization is each person producing a particular good or set of goods in excess of their personal consumption Now what who produces what in this market division of labor who specializes in what within the division of labor will be determined by efficiency Of the different tasks are taken up by the efficient producers Well, who are the efficient producers the efficient producers are those producers who? Enjoy the lowest opportunity cost of production for a particular item While economists call this principle the division of labor it actually applies to all factors of production There is a division of capital goods according to efficiency as well as a division of land according to efficiency So that's what we mean by the division of labor now Mises in discussing this Social phenomena in human action on page 157 identifies The division of labor as the fundamental social phenomena. It's the fundamental social phenomena is the division of labor and human cooperation and The division of labor is socially Fundamental in two senses in the first sense we could say it's fundamental that it seems to have been here As long as humans have been here It's been here since the beginning of human history As far back as we have written history. We find evidence of at least some division of labor It shows up in the ancient Near East in Mesopotamia We find evidence of it in the history of ancient Greece ancient Rome The early chapters of Genesis the earliest people mentioned in the book were identified According to what they did right Abel was a keeper of sheep Cain was a tiller of the ground the descendants of Cain Of which there were several were all enumerated interestingly Enumerated by different things that they did right Jable had cattle Jubal was a musician to ball Cain was a metalsmith I thought if you had a heavy metal band to ball Cain would be to ball came You know would be an excellent name for a heavy metal band I'm not really into that thing, but just you know those ideas are you're getting that for free So so it's socially fundamental in that way. It's always been with us It seems it's also fundamental in that the division of labor is the great impetus for the formation of society The reason people come together in society Beyond their own families is so that they can move and integrate with that region's division of labor Society is in other words people you know I moved to Grove City because I wanted to participate in its division of labor I wanted to be part of Grove City College and do and do my thing there People moved to different communities so that they can integrate into that region's division of labor and so it's the impetus for coming together and forming society and Mises notes that society is only possible society is only possible because of the fact of the greater productivity of the division of labor and People's recognition of that fact so people recognize that the division of labor Specialized in according to efficiency is more productive and therefore they begin to participate in it and as they do so They become dependent on other people to produce other things for themselves Just as people become to depend on them for the thing in which they are specializing Now people Find it in their interest to specialize in making those goods as we said is what they're most efficient At which they are the low opportunity cost a producer And they do so because the division of labor is more productive than production for direct use and We can find this in in the standard Quantitative relationship we can first look at a what are the relative efficiencies of two different people and we can look at Groucho and Harpo Groucho and Harpo could produce either mangoes or beef and If we look at Groucho He can if he spends all this time and resources producing mangoes He can produce 300 mangoes if he produced spends all this time and resources producing beef He can produce 600 pounds of beef Right, so those are his relative production possibilities Harpo on the other hand if he produced if he spends all this time and resources and energy producing mangoes He can produce a hundred mangoes on the other hand if he Spends all of his time and effort and energy and resources producing beef He can produce 400 pounds of beef and so if we look it's able who's better at which good well from an Opportunity or from an absolute advantage perspective we could find that in terms of proficiency Groucho is better Than Harpo at producing both mangoes and beef Groucho can produce 300 Harpo if he specialized only produces 100 in terms of beef Groucho produces can produce 600 The best Harpo can do is 400 right, so Groucho has what we call an absolute advantage in both goods right and Of course and Smith identified there will two different people have absolute advantages and different goods It's beneficial for them to specialize and what they have an absolute advantage of but what if Somebody like Groucho has an absolute advantage in both goods what then well, that's where it pays to specialize according to efficiency and It turns out right that Efficiency here is what we call some some people call comparative advantage Who is the efficient producer of mangoes who is the efficient producer of beef? How do we know we'll determine by the opportunity cost of production? So we look at mangoes and we look at the situation of Groucho if Groucho produces mangoes he can specialize in producing 300 mangoes in a period of time on the other hand To do that to specialize in mango production. What does he have to do? He has to give up the opportunity of specializing in producing beef So it gives up 600 pounds of beef to produce 300 mangoes And so his cost of producing mangoes is two pounds of beef The opportunity cost for Groucho producing mangoes is two pounds of beef Harpo on the other hand If he specializes in mango production, he can produce a hundred but he gives up the opportunity of producing 400 pounds of beef and so for every mango that Harpo produces he gives up four Pounds of beef So the opportunity cost of producing mangoes for Groucho is two pounds of beef for Harpo. It's four pounds of beef Now if we look at the other way What about beef production? Well, if Groucho produces specializes in beef production He produces 600 pounds of beef If he does that then he gives up the opportunity of producing 300 mangoes And so it costs him a half a mango for every pound of beef that he produces on the other hand if he If Harpo produces four pounds of beef, he gives up the opportunity of producing a hundred Mangoes so it costs him a fourth of a mango to produce a pound of beef So now we have different opportunity costs and we find that if we if we take a look at the opportunity cost We find that Groucho I'm sorry the Harpo is the low-cost producer of beef Groucho is a low-cost producer of mangoes It only costs Groucho two pounds of beef for every mango he produces where it costs Harpo four pounds of beef for every Free for every Mango he produces so Groucho has a lower opportunity cost producing mangoes Well, what about beef? Who has a comparative advantage producing beef? Well, how much does it cost Groucho to produce one pound of beef? It costs him a half a mango How much does it cost Harpo to produce one pound of beef? It costs him a fourth of a mango and Even in the new math, I think one fourth is less than a half Outcomes based education doesn't change right one fourth is less than a half And so Harpo is the low cost the low opportunity cost producer of beef and Once we identify who is the opportunity cost of what then we can say okay Then what happens when people specialize what happens if people specialize according to efficiency? They specialize in those items at which they are the low-cost producer and Let's suppose that we do this and we can look to see the benefits of The productive the benefits the production benefits of the division of labor by looking at the case Okay, let's suppose that they produce for direct use and then compare that where they are specialized in according to efficiency and We can say okay Let's suppose that they are producing for direct use and they divide their time evenly So Groucho divides half his time and resource of producing mangoes And then he spends half his time and resource of producing beef and Harpo does the same thing And if Groucho does this if Groucho does this then he can produce 150 mangoes and 300 pounds of beef And Harpo does the same thing he produced 50 mangoes and 200 pounds of beef so total output Total output becomes 200 mangoes in 500 pounds of beef now let us suppose that Harpo and Groucho specialize and produce according to efficiency and in this case We're gonna say Harpo completely specializes. It's a not as it in his interest to produce any Mangoes at all and he completely specializes in beef production Groucho partially specializes Spending three quarters of his time in resource of producing mangoes and one fourth of his time and resource of producing beef He does this Groucho can produce 225 mangoes and 150 pounds of beef Harpo remember completely specialized so he produces zero mangoes and 400 pounds of beef And if they do this that they produce in this pattern note their total productivity of both goods increase The total number of mangoes include it goes up to 225 and beef increased to 550 and so both are able as a Society specializing both together are able to produce more right now of course Producing more is good But people don't produce just for fun right they're not producing for production's sake The great benefit comes they get to consume more right they get to use more of these goods They are producing and so that's the key benefit both parties not only benefit benefit in terms of total production They benefit in terms of consumption both are able to consume more of each Given the total Quantity of mangoes and beef that they are producing Groucho and Harpo can come to an agreement On an exchange ratio, and if they come to an agreement and exchange beef And mangoes at a ratio of one mango for three pounds of beef They can arrange exchange so that they can both consume more Harpo can trade a hundred and eighty pounds of beef to Groucho for sixty mangoes Harpo can trade a hundred and eighty pounds of beef to Groucho for For sixty mangoes in return so Harpo so Groucho Groucho who produced 225 mangoes trades away sixty of them to Harpo So Groucho is able to consume a hundred and sixty five Mangoes that's that's a lot of mangoes. I know but he likes mangoes. He's a he's sort of a simple carbohydrate kind of guy and And at the same time Harpo can also consume sixty Mangoes right he was producing zero, but he received sixty in exchange in terms of beef Groucho was producing a hundred and fifty pounds of beef and then he can receive an exchange a hundred and eighty pounds So he can consume a total of 130 Harpo specialized in beef production he produced four hundred pounds of beef, but he traded away a hundred and eighty So that leaves him at a total of 220 Pay no attention to that total column to the side I don't know what happened there, but in any event in terms of the gain Let's look at the bottom the bottom column of the gain right Groucho gained in consumption 15 mangoes and 30 pounds of beef Harpo gained in consumption 10 mangoes and 20 pounds of beef Important point here an important point here both parties benefited right in neither case Do we have Groucho benefiting at the expense of Harpo or Harpo benefiting at the expense of Groucho? right there's no you know Strong powerful capitalist, you know grinding poor Harpo Into the ground both parties benefited and this improved productivity This proved this improved productivity Benefitted not only the party that was better at both goods But importantly it benefited Harpo who was less proficient at producing both goods right and so note that the Market division of labor the phenomenon division of labor benefits not only the very productive But it also benefits the relatively less productive right it's one of the great It's one of the great blessings that we get from society also It's important to note That improved productivity is not the result of specialization per se It's not just as if we have something the wheel of specialization And I don't know what I want to specialize in when it spin it Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do and then Harpo it comes out you know Shazam beef right no Harpo You know or or mangoes if it comes up mangoes, I'm going to specialize in mangoes You imagine what would happen if they did it in the opposite what happened if Groucho specialized in beef production? Harpo specialized in mango production if they did that total productivity would fall right compared to even direct use production and so It's not just specialization per se that leads to increased productivity Well that makes the question that what accounts for the differences in the relative costs of production for different people What what accounts for that? Why why is that the case? Well we find That there it's differences. It's the varieties the diversity in the world that opens the door to the benefits of the division of labor The differences in the suitability of natural resources matters You don't find for instance a lot of King crab harvesting going on in the sandhills of Western Nebraska and I Haven't done extensive research on this, but I suspect it's because there are no king crabs in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska right there's no salt water. There's no habitat for them. What you do find is Miles and square miles of open space open grassland upon which a lot of cattle graze There's a lot of cattle that is raised in Western Nebraska Why because the natural resources are very suitable for that, right? likewise in you know in the Alaskan coastline not a lot of cattle being raised there And so differences in the suitability of natural resources helps explain why certain people in different regions specialize in certain things Also the differences in the given cattle are different capital endowments Differences in given capital endowments helps explain the pattern of who specializes in what? You know if if you know in the old days right can imagine people's names Like Cooper and Smith There were family names because there were people in that family that did the same business generation after generation, right? You know, it's not uncommon to hear people in the old days talking like you know Looking at something maybe looking at their business or taking out and looking at the back 40 and say someday son This will all be yours, right? In other words, you're going to inherit this right if I'm a blacksmith and I Or I'm the son of a blacksmith and I inherit my father's shop. I inherit a lot of Equipment a lot of capital goods that are suitable for blacksmithing Not so suitable for harvesting king crabs or engaging in cattle ranching, right? And so that is going to make it relatively less costly for me to Become a blacksmith also, especially if I have the skills to be a decent blacksmith, right? especially if my save my father apprenticed me as a blacksmith and so the differences in given capital endowments will have an impact on What people are relatively? Efficient at producing now, of course if we have an active capital market The capital endowments are somewhat less fixed right now I mean if you inherit certain capital goods if you can trade them away because you just don't you just don't like blacksmithing You know, it's I said you're not a you're not a two-ball cane kind of guy You don't like the clang clang It doesn't remind you the trolley Then you're you know, you'd be more likely to sell I'm gonna sell this and I'm going to do what I want to do I'm gonna be a painter. I'm going to be engaged in watercoloring or something You know you're gonna do something else something different And so, you know having an active capital market actually helps facilitate The moving of capital from people that don't want to use it to people that do want to use it because it's more valuable in their hands but in any event capital endowments do have an impact on The pattern of the division of labor Thirdly the differences in the skill and desirability of labor right the differences in the skill and desirability of labor Some people it's simply just better at something if you know Groucho may have had sort of a green thumb and made him good and at raising mangoes Whereas Harpo, you know, he touched a plan and just it died, right? it was it was like the he was like the grim reaper of You heard a culturalist, but he was great at animal husbandry, right? And so he was an excellent excellent rancher or something and that also will have an impact It's somewhat interesting. You think of the basketball player Michael Jordan There's a period in time where Michael Jordan sort of retired and then he turned to something else Remember what he turned to? Yeah, baseball right turned to baseball because his dad sort of always wanted to be a baseball player and And And most people know I know what he was horrible or he never made to the major is horrible. Well, he was Wasn't major league quality wasn't horrible. I mean the vast majority of people can't even make it to the Myers, right? So he's not horrible He's just a whole lot better at being a basketball player. He's a whole lot. He was not dominant playing baseball He's dominant playing a playing basketball. So the differences in skill and desirability of labor also then will affect how these patterns play out Also, we could say too that it's not just the Sort of the differences in the quantity of capital or the differences in the quantity of resources But it's the it's the quality and the diversity of resources that that sort of help determine Or or a show you say open the door to specialization according to efficiency Now the example we went through It was what we could call an example or an illustration of what Mises calls the law of association Love association says each factor of production is efficient in some line of production Essentially it says each factor production is efficient in some line of production If this is a development and universalization of the law of comparative advantage by Mises As I said before sort of imply before it doesn't apply only to labor but the law of association also applies to land and capital goods and The point is simply that as each factor is utilized according to its efficiency People will reap the most output for the resources utilized And so as people specialize according to efficiency according to the low opportunity cost together People will reap the most output that is possible for the given resources utilized in any society and One implication of this is that employment can expand indefinitely There's always some place Where labor can be employed in a low opportunity cost situation as long as land is relatively abundant There are things that can be produced upon that land with labor as labor specializes The only limitation then and what we could call Technical limitations right if if in other words, there's no economic Limitation per se but but if for instance the population would increase so much so that every inch of land Is taken up by production with people left over Then it would be hard for people to find a way to participate in the market division of labor But as long as we don't have that as long as we have not used up every square inch in Production and then have people left over there is still a place for people to find their way in the market division of labor Producing something at which they are the low opportunity cost producer now one of the Contributions of the Austrian school through Mises is his Identifying of a number of social effects and emphasizing some of the social effects on the division of labor As People specialize in production according to efficiency The initial differences that contributed to the pattern of specialization Become even more pronounced That in other words as people specialize because of relative differences those differences can become even more pronounced Specialization think of specialization within the division of labor according to geography given the natural resources we talked about as People specialize in say cattle ranching in Nebraska or king crab harvesting in Alaska as that happens The The investment in capital goods they make the the alterations to the geography that they make um Intensifies the differences right so if you We're gonna do cattle ranching you do need a fence you put up a fence You put up a fence with certain types of gates that make it more even more efficient to produce cattle than than than it was before or if you you know Alter the geography some way in Alaska that makes it more easier to get King crabs from the water on to the land and to market You know the development of even sort of infrastructure those things those alterations of the geography will intensify the relative efficiencies that lead to the pattern of the division of labor a Specialization also increases the inequality of skills over time as more people spend more of their time doing the same task They become more skillful in that task I've told the story before my dad who worked at a meatpacking plant for the first 20 years of his life And when he moved from a beef plant that they got sold to somebody else to a pork plant You know you go in and then he went in the new guys on the lowest rung of the I've run the ladder in terms of you know time of time you spent working there and And those people tend to get the jobs that are least attractive and so for the first. I don't know a couple years he was a tongue trimmer and It is What it sounds like he was trimming pork tongues. He did that eight hours a day so that I could you know someday go to college and not have to be a tongue trimmer and He the whole operation was on a timed chain Production chain so he was standing he'd stand at a table and every four and a half seconds He would get a pork tongue sliding down the chute landing on his table And he would have to trim the spit glands off of the pork tongues And when he first started he told me that he was not that good at it He was okay, but there would be a pork tongue backup. Shall we say not as bad as sewer backup, but still backup and So when it when the bell rang or the whistle blew time for break dad couldn't go to break He had to continue to work through the backup and so he would go to break and maybe two minutes later than everybody else But as he did that job He got better and better knowing how to just how to work the knife How to turn the turn the tongue and the flight white right way to make the right cut He became so proficient that he never had a backup unless it was desired He when that he wouldn't have a backup the whistle for his break would hit he would go off and to break no whistle Sounds for everybody to go back to work He could stay for another couple minutes and enjoy a little bit longer cup of coffee Then he would go back Seeing that there is of course two minutes worth of tongue backup But he came so proficient at this task through specialization that he could work through the Backup and there to the point where there would be no backlog of tongues by the end of the day All right, and so that's just a simple example of how specialization Increases one's labor and skill as you continue to do it again and again Now of course you can't just say all I want to specialize and I want to specialize in being a major league baseball player And you'll click your heels and you know, there's no place like Cooper's town No place like Cooper's town, right? You can't do that. You have to have skills and abilities to begin with But an interesting point that Rupka makes along these lines, too Is that it's the division of labor that allows for the development of the professional? It allows for people to so specialize their talents Specialize their time in in practice in rehearsal etc that it can elevate the level of skill Beyond that of the amateur, right? We would not have Professionals if we did not have or to that extent if we did not have the division of labor And so that that matters another important social effect that Mises likes to emphasize is that this increased productivity that results from the market division of labor is a the key factor that allowed mankind to escape the Darwinian struggle for survival this idea that there's limited resources and I want some and you want some I think it was I think it was Van Halen says everybody wants some I want some too and And how are we gonna settle this? Well, we're gonna fight right? We're gonna duke it out and the fittest wins, right? The market division of labor allows us to get past that to move away from that type of thinking why? Because in the market division of labor each participant Groucho Harpo you and I Both serves one another and is served by one another each participant both serves and is served by other people and So contrary to what the enemies of the market want you and everybody else to believe a Market economy does not promote atomistic individualism. It does not And understanding of the market economy does not lead one to think that I'm the only person that matters No, it promotes community because the market division of labor means that I rely on everybody else specializing in other things that I want to consume Like they specialize in what I do if they happen to want to consume economics lectures, right? And so the greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence It's a unifying influence It leads men to regard each other as comrades in the joint struggle for welfare Mises uses this term in socialism. I think it's kind of you know, sort of like a nice little ha ha ha ha comrades In the struggle for welfare, right? You're not you're not comrades in the sense that you're struggling to get more of whatever the government gets to give you, right? You're you're comrades in arms Helping the other people you sort of you're not comrades of arms even you sort of comrades of production helping other people and So as Mises says it leads men to regard each other as comrades in the joint struggle for welfare Rather than competitors in a struggle for existence It makes friends out of enemies peace out of war society out of individuals Even if you don't even know the people really, right? it puts you in a situation to help each other through production and exchange and so it opens the eyes for us to see that the market division of labor in the market division of labor the Fundamental relationship is a cooperative relationship. It's not fundamentally competitive. It's fundamentally cooperative Now there are limits to the division of labor, right? There are limits to the division of labor Probably the best single statement written by Adam Smith was the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market What that means is it only it it's only beneficial to Specialize in the production of something for which there is a market, right? again specialization per se Doesn't help you, right? You have to specialize if you can't trade What you are producing you're not going to be able to benefit and participate in the market division of labor let's suppose that that Chico comes along you have Groucho and Harpo specializing in mango and beef production and Chico comes along and he is always like science and He particularly loves rocket science. So that's what he wants to specialize in There's an island with Groucho and Harpo and they're specializing in beef and mangoes and And they've had to make their own makeshift lean twos rocket science Given the primitive nature of the island not probably the most highly-demand skill or good in that society and So Chico decides well, I can't do that. Maybe I can make huts or butter He can do those things too those things are in demand and so it benefits him to specialize in those things Right, so the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market Now what that means is then to extend the division of labor to allow for more it's more development It's expansion. It's extension and they're there by benefit by increased productivity We need only to bring others into the market. We need to allow people to participate in the market That's the number one thing that We can do in a more developed country if we want to see less developed countries become more prosperous the number one thing that they can do is to plug themselves into the global division of labor to help them to To encourage them and allow them to be participants in the the the market division of labor because as the extent of the market increases that allows for more specialization and according to efficiency and So that allows for an expansion of the division of labor as that happens Everybody becomes more productive right groucho and harpo no longer. You need to even spend any time building a hut now Chico can do it. So Chico builds the huts groucho and harpo specialize even more in mango and beef production So they become even more productive and so Chico Can make his huts and then he gets more mangoes and beef as well And then that then sows the seed for even we should say even more purchasing power They can trade even more huts and more mangoes and beef to somebody else. It comes along Maybe gummo comes along producing shoes zeppo comes along producing. I don't know Broadway shows or what have you you know little bits of entertainment or what have you And so production increases the extent of the market expands even more allows even more division of labor Which allows for even more production which expands the extent of the market even more Which encourages even more division of labor etc etc and see we have this sort of germ of a seed of a theory of economic progress Now this whole ball of wax the whole ball of wax Related to the market division of labor Is dependent upon the ability to exchange right we must be able to exchange what we produce without the ability to trade We have to produce everything we consume ourselves Now we can only engage in exchange in an environment of private property People have to have the right the ability and the right to trade what they produce To others For there to be specialization and production according to efficiency hence in order to take advantage of the division of labor And all the blessings that come from it society must embrace private property People have to have the right to property and it needs to be recognized and Defended in society And as we have then the proper social institutions That allows for the development of this market division of labor. We find that the division of labor integrates The society into an economic order. This is not an anarchy. It's an economic order That requires coordination Coordination dare I say that requires entrepreneurship that dr. Klein mentioned earlier today Production in the market division of labor is more challenging than production for direct use in a particular way Producers do not know exactly what other people want right if if I'm producing for myself I know well, I want to I want to I want to grow some lettuce I want to go some retishes. Why because I like lettuce. I like retishes and I know that because I am me Uh, I don't necessarily know what other people like Even if you ask them right they could change their minds And suddenly you can't just sort of look in your eyes and sort of intuit. Ooh She's a lettuce person He's more of a radish person Ooh, rutabaga. No, I mean We don't have that ability right and so how does all this production all the production in the market division of labor How is it all coordinated? Well, the producers the entrepreneurs Need to make objective production productive decisions about the future subjective preferences of other people um and uh even more uh, should we say even uh Even what makes it even more complicated is that the specialized production of high-order capital goods Requires a corresponding quantity of complementary factors That allows all of these high-order goods to be used together to produce whatever it is we want to produce So there's a whole lot of coordination going on to quote, uh, jerry lee louis and um Coordination does not just happen It requires economic calculation as you will see Later on as well or have seen It requires monetary prices market monetary prices Economic calculation then requires a medium of exchange So the prices of goods that entrepreneurs use to produce this good or that good in the market division of labor Are all enumerated in the same unit right the monetary unit And for the calculation to be meaningful in other words So that people will use calculation produced goods that are profitable And for the profitable goods to actually be the goods that society prefers more than other goods Those prices must be arrived at through voluntary exchange. The prices must be manifestations of people's subjective preferences Voluntary exchange there we're back at private property. We're back at private property So private property is a key Social institution that allows this unifying process of the market division of labor to flourish And sound money also and we'll be lectures shortly on money sound and unsound perhaps um sound money is important because you need prices that are not You know ridiculously volatile because of manipulation by the state Because if the entrepreneur is going to use prices to calculate profit and loss to plan for the future If the government is manipulating the money system hither and yawn those prices become less meaningful and therefore the decisions made based on those prices will be More or less an error and the whole system can get snarled up and what could have been A very prosperous market division of labor could get snarled up and become An economic disaster and with that I will stop and uh Time for break


Hello, David Digger Hernandez here, and you are watching Spirit Church here on the Encounter TV Network. I'm going to do something a little bit different. I want to have with you a casual chat. I'm just going to share from my heart. Of course, there will be some teaching. I have a couple of scriptures ready to share with you, but I want to share my personal testimony about what Jesus has done in my life and what he is accomplishing through my life. Of course, all glory goes to him. And as you listen to my story, my hope is that you're inspired. My hope is that you say, if God can use him, God can use me. And I want you by the end of this to be praying and saying to the Lord, Lord, use my life too. And I know this with certainty. Not only can God use your life too, but I believe God can use your life in greater dimensions. I'm going to share my heart in just a moment. But first, Stephen Mock, the Zoomer, is here with me. He's going to lead you in some very unnointed worship. And then we're going to get right into this testimony. First, let's go now to Stephen Mock, the Zoomer. I'm just going to share a portion of scripture with you, and then I'm going to get right into this. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verses 26 through 29 say this. Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you.  And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God. I love the way the King James Version words it, that no flesh should glory in his presence. As early as the age of seven, I battled heavily with anxiety. Now, I believe that the anxiety that came against me was purely demonic. In fact, generations ago, my family had a very high position in the world of the occult. And so there was a spiritual demonic influence that tried to re-enter at every generation. Now, I don't necessarily believe in generational curses. I believe that when you come to Jesus, every curse is broken, and you don't really have to do anything special to break that. But of course, generational curses do apply, I believe, to people who are not saved. Now, I was not a born-again believer as a child. Obviously, you're not born a Christian. You have to accept Christ at a certain age that you recognize that you need him. But this anxiety followed me everywhere. Listen, I would have visions of demonic beings, and I would see them physically manifest in my room as a kid. I would see them in different places. I would hear demonic whispers. I would also hear audibly the voice of God. And I knew that he had called me, and I knew that there was something hovering about me. There was a lot of spiritual activity that surrounded me. My family has stories about this and different things that would happen.  I must have been around that age, six or seven years old. And I remember lying down on my bed, and I looked over at the floor, and the floor opened up, and I could see this pit. And it was a cave-like structure. Along the walls, there were all of these people. I knew they were lost souls. They were embedded into the walls, reaching up at me. I was terrified by this. I rolled over and I tried to ignore it. And I remember when I turned my back, I could feel the heat coming from that pit. And to this day, it's a memory I have. Now, I don't know necessarily where the influence of the Holy Spirit began, but I do remember constantly being sensitive to the spiritual realm. My parents prayed a very special prayer over each and every one of their children. For my older sister Raquel, they prayed that she would be a worshipper. And to this day, she is a worshipper. She passes the church with her husband in California. They prayed for my younger brother, Michael, for a spirit of boldness. And believe me, he's very, very bold. But what they prayed for me was that I would be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Now, I didn't realize this till much later, but that prayer has impacted everything about the ministry. Think about how the emphasis is on the person of the Holy Spirit. Well, that was their prayer all along. But you see, when you're sensitive to the Holy Spirit, people who are sensitive to the Holy Spirit are also sensitive to the spiritual realm in general. So as a young boy, I was very much susceptible, I should say, to demonic assaults. One of those demonic assaults was anxiety. And the way anxiety manifested in my life was a very, very terrifying fear of hell. I don't necessarily believe that that fear came from God. I think it was more like along the lines of what he did with Job, where he somewhat allowed something, but it all worked out for his plan. We know that God sent an evil spirit to Saul. We know in the book of Kings that the prophets were tested with evil spirits. But aside from all of that, to simplify it, all I know is that overall, the guiding hand of God moved me along the plane of his will. But still, I battled heavily with anxiety. And this, again, as I said, manifested as a fear of hell, fear of the demonic, a fear of standing before God. And one day, I just picked up this book. It was a thick book that my father had. It was like a biblical commentary. And I said, Lord, you have to speak to me about my fear of hell. This is, I kid you not, this is exactly how. And I said, Lord, I need you to speak clearly about my fear of hell. I am tired of battling with this. And I opened the book and literally the first phrase there that I opened to was highlighted. It says, it said that we don't serve God simply because we're afraid of hell, but because he loves us. And I believe that was one of the first ways God tried to get through to me about his love. He wasn't calling me with his wrath. He was calling me with his love. The scripture says it's the goodness of God that leads men to repentance. Yes, I believe in hell. Yes, I believe sin leads there, but God's love is what calls us. And yes, there is wrath to come. So don't think I'm not preaching that. That's the true gospel. But fast forward now, I'm sitting in a hotel room. It's a Bible conference. My whole family had gone there. And I remember I stood out of the service. I didn't want to be inside of the church service. I believe there was some demonic influence there. I didn't want to be in the church service. I was 11 years old. I stood in the hotel room and I was lying on the bed staring at the ceiling while my family was away at the conference, which was just down the hall. And I remember sweating because I was so afraid of hell. And I said, I don't want to deal with this anymore. I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to face the wrath of God. And I remember as soon as my dad comes into the room, I told him, Dad, I want to give my heart to Jesus. I want to be sure that I'm right with him. Now, I believe it was the demonic that was harassing me in that way. God calls with his Holy Spirit, but he doesn't torment people. But God used what the enemy meant for evil for good. And so I remember my dad sat across from me on the other bed. There were two beds in the hotel room. He sits across from me and I said, Dad, I want to know Jesus. I want to receive him. He asked the rest of the family to leave so that it could be more personal. And he took my hands and I began to pray with him. And as we were praying, I could sense Jesus walk into the room. I just knew it. I sensed this loving, caring presence. It was such a contrast to what was tormenting my mind. And he comes into the room and as he enters the room, I felt all the anxiety, all of the torment, all of the shame, all of the guilt completely lift from off of me. It was as if a light was shining into the room and therefore expelling all of the darkness. And I remember my dad is trying to leave me in this prayer and I was sobbing so uncontrollably as I was praying that I couldn't even get the words out. But it wasn't the words that he needed to hear from me. My heart was surrendered. And from that moment on, I knew Jesus. And my prayer life began to grow. Many of you know that story. Some of you, that's where I tell the story. It takes off there. My prayer life begins to grow. For the next two years, I'm locking myself in my room, four to eight hours a day in the word, 20, 30, 40 chapters, sometimes 50 chapters of the word a day, just totally immersed in the word, totally obsessed with the presence of Jesus. It was during that time that I also was introduced to the Holy Spirit. Now my prayer life began to grow. And I remember praying this prayer right at about the peak of what was that, what I would call a personal revival. I prayed this prayer, Lord, let my hands be your hands. Heal through them.  Allow me to see things, people and situations the way you see them.  I want to hear your voice.  I want to speak your word.  Take me wherever it is you want me to go. Let my heart be this one with yours. Let my being be your being. Crucify my will. And in its place, resurrect your own.  See, I didn't really have anything special to offer him. And that's why I read that portion of Scripture. I chose the foolish things. I was just a young Hispanic kid from the South Bay who would tie his shoes too tight, who had too much gel in his hair, who didn't really dress cool. I wasn't one of the cool kids. I wasn't on the in-crowd. I didn't have really anything I could point to that I could say that's special about me. All it was was I surrendered to God.  And this is where I want to read to you another Scripture. This is found in Genesis chapter 5 verses 22, 23, and 24. Listen to this. This is powerful. And Enoch walked with God after he begetten with Thucila 300 years and begetten sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were 360 and five years. And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. You see, there's not something special about me. There's someone special about me. Enoch walked with God and simply was not. That's what I want to be. I want to be a was not. I want to be a portal through whom God can move. You see, when we worship and we pray, that's a portal into the heavenly realm. But when we surrender our lives, we become God's portal to the earth.  And that's all he's looking for. He's not looking for special talent. I used to have people make fun of everything about me. I mean, people made fun of the way my voice sounded. It's got this different sound to it. I know. I've had people stop me in stores and go, I recognize the voice from across the room and we watch you on YouTube. I used to not like my hair because it was just it's so hard to do. I felt like it was just this helmet I wear on my head. You looked at me and you saw me. You wouldn't say there is somebody God will use. But you know, it's interesting. All those little things about myself, the way my voice sounds, the lightness of my skin. Yes, I understand. It's a little sickly looking sometimes. And the look of my hair, the sound of my voice, the look of my skin tone, all of it. I used to get made fun of for it all. But it's funny how God uses some of those things. You realize this voice is what God has used to preach the gospel to nations, to millions, literally millions of people. And it's funny, believe it or not, and I don't mean to be insulting. I have some Asian in my blood. But believe it or not, this hair has open nations to me, because they say you look like some of us and they'll accept you a little better. And because of that, I've been invited places. I used to be insecure about being Hispanic because in certain parts of the country, people treat you differently.  My last name, Hernandez, I actually had people who would make fun of me and say, well, your name is Hispanic, so you're lesser than. They wouldn't word it that way, but in so many ways they would. But there was a season in my life where God used the last name to give me free airtime on a TV network. And I said, why are you giving me free airtime? They said, well, we have to meet this requirement. And because your last name is Hispanic, you get free airtime. It's amazing what God will do. He wants to use every little thing about you. He wants to use every quality, every character trait. Every look, everything about you, every detail he's worked on. Now, of course, there are some things that have to conform to the image of Jesus. But this is what I pray.  Let me be you. Just take me, overflow, and it begin to happen. I ask the Lord for the gifts. I ask them for the gift of healing. I ask them for the gift of the word of knowledge. The first time I used it, I didn't even know I was using it. And I was just hanging out with some friends at church. And I just got this thought in my head. And I told this girl, very casually. I didn't even realize I was prophesying. I said, hey, do you have a friend at school who wants to commit suicide? And you were talking to her on Friday.  She said, yes.  And the girl said, yes, how do you know that? And I said, I don't know. It just flowed. It was natural. It just came out. And that was a result of meeting Jesus and spending time with Jesus. And it just flowed from there. So the overflow begins. Never once, please hear me, never once did I have to call a pastor and say, hey, have me at your church. Never once did I have to pass out a business card and force my way through a door. I simply ministered to the people in front of me. I ministered wherever opportunity I had. And every opportunity to minister that came my way, I took seriously. I used to pray before stepping out on the platform. And to this day, I don't necessarily pray it all the time, but I think it and I feel it and I know it. I used to say out loud because I'd be so nervous.  Otherwise I can't do this. So I was 14. My first book was published at 16. We shot our first television program and it was for local cable and charter. It failed miserably, but we continued in 2007. I launched a YouTube channel and started doing live streams before live streaming was a thing. So it was very difficult to do. In 2011, that was my first television interview that aired all around the world. In my early 20s, we built our first television studio in Laundale, California. And each step of the way, I said, Holy Spirit, go with me. Each step of the way, I was just saying, Holy Spirit, help me stay out of the way. Annoyed me, used me. I laid it all down. You realize that there were passions and ambitions. I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to be a businessman. I wanted to go into politics. There were so many other ambitions that I had that the Lord said, you have to lay them down. I wanted to go to college and study philosophy. I wanted to be counted among the intellectuals. But God called me. God called me and I laid it all down. There was a season in my life where I had like a crossroads and it was either pursue a professional path or pursue what God had for me. I wanted to go the professional route because it was security. It was certainty. It was all based on my ability.  I don't regret a thing. But I will say this to you, salvation was free. But the anointing will cost you everything. John chapter three, verse 30 says, I must decrease. He must increase.  I'm a was not. I'm a portal, a porter for the glory of God. It means I just stay out of the way. Let him live his life through me. And he grew the ministry from there. And every step of the way, he continues to grow the ministry.  I still have moments with him that are special. And God wants to do the same with you. God wants to use your life. Feel just lay it down at the cross. There's nothing the cross can't handle. There's no one, not a person exists that God can't use. God is looking for the one who will yield and make themselves available. I want to pray with you now. Father in Jesus name, I pray for that one being inspired by your spirit now. And I ask you to touch them, anoint them, and draw them into the depths of the spirit. In the name of Jesus, we pray, use them for your glory. One more thing I want to say, when you spend time with Jesus, instead of trying to grow the ministry in your own strength and power, God will do it for you. When you spend time with Jesus, you're aligning yourself with his will, instead of trying to get God to align himself with yours. What happens when you spend time with Jesus is that God begins to trust you. And from there, he puts more into your hands. Well, that is it for the lesson. I want to welcome now the new members of Spirit Church. There you are up on the screen. We love you, and we are praying for you. I always say that because I always mean it. If you'd like to join the Spirit Family 100% free, go to davidhernandezministries.com slash Spirit Church. When you sign up, you get a brand new fresh teaching from me every single week and a worship cover from Stephen Mock to Zinua. The best part, when you sign up to Spirit Church, you can reply to that email for prayer support from our ministry staff. Join the Spirit Family today. Now almost 8,000 members strong. Now to your comments, and these comments are coming from last week's video, how to know you have the Holy Spirit, seven signs.  Even if you're not that person, go and watch this teaching so that you can help others who are struggling in this area. That's where these testimonies are from, and by the way, if you'd like me to potentially read your comment next week, then go ahead and leave a comment in the comment section right now. And don't forget also to subscribe, and when you do subscribe on YouTube, click that notification bell so that you're notified of when our new content is released. Okay, so here are the comments from last week's teaching, how to know you have the Holy Spirit, seven signs. Cappy Cappy writes, character, not charisma, is the standard of the Holy Spirit. Wow, that had me. Thanks, Lord. I'm glad you were blessed by that. This person was quoting a portion of the message, and I encourage you to go watch it. Kid Paver and Wife writes, I am bawling. I know I'm saved. Thank you, Jesus, for loving me. Yes, many people wrote to us saying that they were moved to tears as they heard the truths coming out of that message. Alma Michi writes, Hey, Evangelist David, I have been searching for the Holy Spirit inside me. Thank you for you are building me spiritually. May God bless you and please thank Stephen for the beautiful music. He has helped me with my spiritual growth as well. Be blessed. Well, we know it's the Holy Spirit who's building you, but Stephen and I get to serve you, and we're very, very privileged to do that. Kim Lee writes, I am a newborn Christian, and I used to be very confident that I had the Holy Spirit within me. But lately, I have been afraid and doubting. Then this video popped up in my thread. Thank you for posting this video and reminding me that continuous growth is still evidence of God being in our lives. We aren't perfect, but we are striving for perfection. And finally, Quentin Evangeline writes, Praise be to God. It was a confirmation from Jesus as I was praying and asking him for the same. Thank you, Brother David. He has used you to tell me that he has given me the Holy Spirit.  Well, these are just a few lives that are being impacted. Look, the world needs the gospel. And I mean the true gospel, not the prosperity gospel, not the watered-down gospel, not the gospel where there's no power. Look, there's this idea right now that it's no longer cool to pray for the sick or it's no longer relevant to believe for deliverance from the demonic. Listen, the gospel of Jesus Christ has not changed. Our methods may change, but the message does not. Truth never changes. We have to preach the gospel, the cross, the blood of Jesus, repentance from sin, the wrath of God, the mercy of God through the cross, all of it. We have to preach it and it has to be backed by demonstration with the power of the Holy Spirit. We cannot just preach the gospel message without the signs and wonders following because that's not how God designed it. This is a supernatural message. So we need both the gospel and we need both the demonstration of the Holy Spirit to come together. That has to come together. So if you believe that it's time to show the world the power of God, if you believe that they need to be told that Jesus is Lord, if you want someone who's going to proclaim that truth boldly and stand up and not, look, I'm never going to apologize for preaching the gospel. I'm never going to back down. I'm never going to water it down and so that the world can be accepting of me. Look, they can take us off their platforms, they can bully us all they want, but I'm going to preach Jesus even if it means giving my life for it. And if you want to be a part of that, you want to see a difference made in this world and I need your help. We want to spread this message further than ever before and my goodness is this ministry experiencing growth. We're literally reaching millions every month through media and our events are growing rapidly. Most of our events now are standing room only and we need to move to larger venues. In fact, we're looking at some convention centers soon.  Attach yourself to where there's favor. Attach yourself to this.  Then let God use you first to serve in someone else's vineyard. When you support the gospel, God pays attention to that. When you do for others, when you want others to do for you, God pays attention to that. So here's my challenge to you. I want you to sow into this ministry. Not for me, not for Steve, for the gospel. 100% of what you give goes to the gospel message and I will not apologize for taking an offering. So those of you who have comments about that make your comments. I'm just going to ignore them. The gospel needs to be preached. The world is in desperate need and we cannot be bickering about all of these things that don't matter. We need to fund the most important message the world has ever heard. There is no greater cause than this. This is the greatest cause in the world. There's nothing you can support that's more important than that of eternal matters. Souls hang in the balance. Urgency must be felt. We must tell them that Jesus is Lord. We must tell them that only Jesus is safe. So I'm asking you, give a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter right now. Don't wait. Go to davidhernandezministries.com slash donate. Go and do that now. One-time gifts of any amount will help us and monthly gifts of any amount will help us. 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The Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, and yours truly, Don Wilson. Now when you stay at Old Town and leave work to be called in the morning and the operator says, 7.30, time to get up, well, 10 to 1, you just yawn and feel sort of grumpy. But if that operator said, 7.30, time for a delicious Grape Nuts breakfast, well, I bet you'd jump out of bed with a grin. Yes, sir, crisp, crunchy Grape Nuts or toasty brown Grape Nuts Flakes make a mighty, cheerful start for any morning. For both Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes have a moldy, rich, sweet as a nut flavor that sure hits the old spot. And both bring you important whole grain nourishment, iron, niacin, vitamin B1, plus protean. The kind of nourishment nutrition experts say you need is a part of your adequate breakfast every day. So eat a good breakfast, do a better job, and for good cheer and good nourishment, feature moldy, rich Grape Nuts or Grape Nuts Flakes to swell breakfast treats. Gentlemen, Jack Benny's troop has been away for five weeks during service camps throughout the Pacific Northwest. Jack arrived home late last night and went straight to bed. It's now morning and Rochester is entering his bedroom to awaken him. Come on, come on, Birdie. You have to get off of Mr. Benny's head. I got to wake him up now. Wait a minute, Birdie, take it warm with you. No, Rochester, when I get in the arms of Morpheus, Old Morphe sure holds on. Say, I'm pretty sharp this morning, eh, Rochester? Yeah, you not only tonight o'clock and your gang will be here pretty soon for rehearsal. Yeah, stand back, Rochester. I want to do my exercises. One, two, three, four. Bend down and touch the floor. One, two, three, four. Up again and down some more. One, two, three. Rochester, pick up my two pay. One, two, three, four. Did you pick up my two pay? One, two, three, four. Quarter. Two, three, four. Tomorrow I'll do a little more. Gee, boys, you're doing your exercise much better these days.  Now help me up off my knees.  That's what I call a swell breakfast, Rochester.  What do you mean? Well, after all, boys, soft, boiled, great nuts. Rochester, they're good any way you fix them. They're toasty brown, they're malty rich, they're sweet as a nut, they're a whole grain cereal, and they're a basic seven food. And they're all for... Boss, stop reading off the box and talk to me. Rochester, I'm really trying to show you that you need a whole grain cereal every day, and you should eat them. Oh, boss, I do, I do! I'm glad. I'm glad. Glad because, uh... Now answer the door, Rochester. You straighten up the kitchen. Uh, if you wish, I'll answer the door and you can... Never mind. We'll do it my way, today. Oh, what a beautiful morning for days. Hiya, Jackson. Well, Phil, rehearsal isn't for an hour yet. What are you doing here so early? Well, I just couldn't wait. I had to tell you. Tell me what? Well, you remember when we were in Victoria, Canada and all the newspapers printed stories that me and Alice had another baby? Yeah, what about it? Well, it's true, it's true! I know, I know! Come on in the house. And say, Jackson, my new baby is the cutest thing you ever laid eyes on. Yeah?  Yeah. The guy she's beautiful. Well, I can understand that, Phil.  Ain't I, though?  What? Little babies are so young. Yeah, especially the young ones. And my kid is so tiny. Of course, all babies are tiny when they're first born. How about Don Wilson? Look, Phil, Wilson wasn't born. He was assembled at Lockheed. Speaking of the flying fortress, here he comes in for a landing. Wilson is the only guy I know that comes in on the beam and brings the beam with him. Hello, Don. Hello, Jack. Do you mind if I have time for rehearsal? Oh, sure. Mary isn't here yet. Say, fellas, while we're waiting, would you like a cup of coffee? Yeah, I don't mind. Well, thanks, Jack. I'll have a cup. Oh, Rochester! Yes, boss! Oh, Rochester coffee for Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harris. Okay, sugar and cream, gentlemen. Yes, thank you. Sit right down here, fellas. Would you like some toast with your coffee? No, thanks. Sweet rolls or doughnuts? No, thanks. Oh, Rochester, turn on the radio. Would you like some music, fellas? Oh, it doesn't make any difference. Oh, yes, it does. With music, there's a 30% entertainment tax. My fault. It's a government regulation. Now, turn on the radio and let's have some music. And as our metal de-express rambles southward and approaches New Orleans, our quartet, High, Low, Jack, and Shapiro will entertain you with...  Hey, fellas, that's a pretty good quartet. Yeah, I wonder what program that is. Ladies and gentlemen, when you wake up in the morning, do you feel tired, worn out, dull, listless, and logy? You do? Well, don't expect any sympathy from me. I'm a louse. But you can get sympathy from my sponsor, the makers of sympathy-soothing syrup. Remember, folks, sympathy spelled backwards is yetapopous. Hmm. So, folks, if you can't remember sympathy, just think of ytapomous. Y-H-T-A-P-M-Y-S. Ytapomous, ytapomous, ytapomous, got your booze away. Turn off the radio, Rochester. Ytapomous. I'll have to try some of that. Oh, hello, Mary. Hello, fellas. How are you, Mary? How'd you get in the house? The door was open. Am I late for rehearsal? No, we've got plenty of time. I overslept. Rochester, get Miss Livingston a cup of coffee. Yes, sir. No cream, no sugar, no radio. Okay, okay. Say, Mary, how do you feel after a long trip? Oh, fine, Don. And, say, fellas, I must tell you something. I had the wildest dream last night. What was it, Mary? Well, I dreamt we were all flying back from Seattle, and Jack was the pilot. Me? Yeah.  Really? Yeah. And if it wasn't a dream, I'd have broken my neck. That's a silly dream. Me, a pilot, trying to force you to kiss me. And that's not all. When I stepped out of the plane, I kept falling, falling, and falling. And just as I was about to hit the ground, another plane came along, and I dropped right into it. And guess who the pilot was? Who? You again. Me? So I jumped out and fell right into a wagon load of fish. Hey. Oh, that's terrible. Yeah.  I'll make sure I'm making up the whole thing. I am not. Come on, Jackson. Let's get started with our rehearsal. We're going to be late for the broadcast. Okay. Wait till I get the script. Oh, say, Jack, before we start, I want to call home. My trunk is supposed to rod today, and I forgot to tell Butterfly about it. Okay. Operator. Oh, operator, get me Crestview 67071. Oh, no, you don't. What? You heard me. Now, look here, operator, will you please? Oh, I forgot, Mary. Mary, give me the phone. Hello, operator. Yes. This is JB, okay, one local. Put it through. Yes, Mr. Betty, and welcome home. Thank you. Thank you. Here you are, Mary. Here's your number. Okay. As I know.  How do you pronounce that name? Butterfly, COD is not a name. It means cash on delivery. Like OPA means Office of Price Administration. And FBI means Federal Bureau of Investigation. My goodness. You have to go through all of this? Just giving an example of what certain groups of letters mean. The only letters I know are A-W-O-L. Exactly what I'm talking about. Do you know what A-W-O-L means? Yes, ma'am. Well, what does it mean? Now, Butterfly, let's forget about Jerome for a minute. I got with another girl. Oh, that's too bad. I wouldn't mind. Oh. But I'm not half as pretty as she is. Don't worry, Butterfly. Jerome will come back to you. Maybe Jerome isn't himself right now. You see, Butterfly, everybody has two sides, the good side and the bad side. And once in a while, the good side weakens a little and the bad side predominates. Do you know what I mean? I think I do, Miss Livingston. When Jerome brings me a box of cash... That's right. But before I... You see, Butterfly, Jerome has two sides. Now goodbye, Butterfly. Don't forget to pay for the trunk. I won't. You know how to handle her. I certainly got a hand out of you, Mary, giving Butterfly all that hooey about the good side and the bad side. Well, that's not hooey, Jack. Mary's right, Jack. Everybody has two sides. Don, you've got four sides, but that doesn't prove anything. Two sides. Well, now, this is just what I mean, Jack. You know, everybody has a split personality. It's called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia? Yes, it's... Is this like your tap-a-miss or something? No. Schizophrenia, it's... Well, it's that little man inside of all of us that subconsciously governs everything we do. So, you see, Jack, everybody has really two persons. Oh, I don't believe that stuff. He's right, Jack, and even you have a dull personality. That's duo, duo. Maybe you believe in that, Phil, but not me. Well, certainly I believe in it. I got two sides to meet, too. Oh, fine. There's one side to me that everybody knows. Harris the show-off, the guy that loves himself, the guy that always wants to be in the limelight. That side I know. Now, what's... What's the other side? Harris the genius. Fine genius. You're the only guy I know who sent flowers to Flattop's funeral. Besides one girl in the time. Now, let's cut out this silly talk about people having two sides and get started with our rehearsal. Jack, it's not silly talk. Even you have two sides. Oh, what do you mean?  But on the other hand, look at the way you treat Rochester. I never saw anybody get so much out of a butler for so little. Mary, are you suggesting that I overwork Rochester and underpay him? That's what she said. That's what the lady said. She said that. Rochester, this doesn't concern you. Now, come on, kid. Let's cut out all this gab about two sides and get started with the rehearsal. First thing you know, we'll be late for the... Come in. Yes. Remember me? I'm Herman Peabody, the insurance salesman. Oh, hello, Herman! I'm Herman Peabody, the insurance salesman. Oh, hello, Herman! Well, Herman, we just started to rehearse our program for this afternoon. We're awfully busy. So maybe you better come back some other time. All right. Don't need any insurance, do you? Not right now. We'll talk about it the next time you come around. All right. Now, fellas, at the start of the program, right after Don introduces me... You know, you have a lot of funny experiences in the insurance business. I don't doubt it, Herman. I don't doubt it. But right now... This week, a man wanted some life insurance. And by mistake, I sent him an automobile policy. Well, then instead of being here, Herman, why aren't you out rectifying the mistake? It's too late. The man died. That's a fine. How do you do? How do you do? But I'm thinking of the man's wife. Now, her husband wanted some life insurance. You gave him a policy for an automobile. The company wouldn't pay off on a thing like that. Oh, they wouldn't at first, but I fixed it. What do you mean? I told the company he died of a rusty transmission. You mean to say the company paid off? More than that. They offered to send his wife a new body, but she wouldn't take it. Well, look, Herman, I told you I'm busy right now. Look, we've got a rehearsal. Come back some other time, will you? All right. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. Come here, Herman. I want to ask you something. Yeah?  Yeah? I mean, every day, you do exactly the same things, don't you? Uh-huh.  Oh, no.  Your whole theory of dual personalities exploded. You can go now, Herman. Would you like to hear about my other side? What? There's another side of me that's a mean, conniving, blood-thirsty monster. Blood-thirsty monster? Did you ever hear of Dracula? Yes. Kid stuff. Now, look, Herman, Herman, Herman, you can go now. We have work to do. Okay, I'm going outside and frightened people. Oh! Don, pick them up and let's go on with the rehearsal. All the silly business about two sides. Say Jackson is getting pretty late. Maybe we ought to go over to the studio. Okay, let's do that.  All this silly talk about split personalities and two sides. It's ridiculous. All right, Jack, if you don't believe it, forget about it. Let's get to the studio. Hmm, two sides. Jack, back on the wheel! Don't worry, my other side is driving. My other side is driving. He's careful, too, you know. Oh, don't be so sarcastic. What are you stopping here for? I'm going into the cigar store. I'll be right out. Well, sir, what can I do for you? I'd like a cigar, please. Yes, sir, what kind? Oh, I don't know. I see you haven't got the kind I smoke. I just want something mild. Well, here's a nice mild cigar for a quarter. A quarter, eh? And here's one a little stronger for ten cents. I see. Gee, I don't know which one to get. This one's a quarter and that one's ten cents, eh? Yes, sir. Well, I don't know. I like the looks of that quarter one. And yet... What? Yes, but the quarter cigar is milder and it's much better for my throat. I want the quarter one, do you hear? I want that quarter cigar. Ten cents. Fifteen cents, fifteen cents, fifteen cents, and that ain't hey, fifteen cents, and that ain't hey, fifteen cents. I don't care about the money. I don't care what I say. I want the mild one. Hey, mister, give me that quarter cigar. Yes, sir. Okay, hold it. Hold it, clerk. Hold it, please. Make up your mind, will you? Which cigar do you want? Take it easy. I'm in conference. I don't know what to do. I want the quarter one, and yet... Yes, I did! Not a new one! What about that time Phil Harris threw a birthday party for me? I smoke three of them right in a row! Phil Gay. Miser, youra, miser, youra, miser, Bromo-sel-ser, bromo-sel-ser, bromo-sel-ser. Stop! Stop! Stop! You get the tap amuse. You get the tap amuse. You get the tap amuse. Prize your blues anyway.  Well, you're pleased to decide which cigar you want. There's another customer waiting. Yes, I'd like to buy a pipe, please. Well, I only have two kinds. Here's one that sells for $8 and this one's $15. I'll take the $15 pipe. Here you are. Thank you very much. And now what about you, Sporty?  You know I close at midnight. Hello. Clerk, give me, give me just another minute. I'll decide. 25 or 10 cents, 25 or 10 cents, 25 or 10 cents, 25 or 10 cents. Those voices! Stop! Stop! I'll go mad. I'll tell you. Mad, mad! Do you hear me? Mad! He's not as good as Paul Lucas. Not as good as Paul Lucas. Not as good as Paul Lucas. Not as good as Paul Lucas. How does that get in there? Say, Clerk, Clerk, I made up my mind. Give me that quarter cigar. Hey, you know, Mary, no, there might be something to that split personality thing after all. Maybe there is such a thing as a person having two sides. Oh, you believe in I. What happened in the cigar store? Oh, nothing. Nothing. Mr. Wilson, do you by chance solve mysteries? Mysteries? Well, Herman, I'm I. What is it? It's my wife. She won't talk to me in the morning. In the morning, you say? Yeah. At breakfast, she just sits. At breakfast, you say? Yeah, she just sits. Why, Herman, you should cheer her up with grape nuts. Oh, did you say crispy, crunchy, molly-rich grape nuts? Yes. I mean, no, no, I was going to.   Iron, niacin, extra vitamin B1. You say that? Well, I was just coming to that. Grape nuts make a grand basic breakfast dish. And everybody should eat. Everybody should eat a good breakfast to a better job. Did you say that? I was going to say it, Herman. And grape nuts are as swell thrifty. They're thrifty buying a big, little 12-ounce package. Now, listen, Herman, I want you to solve a mystery for me.  Well, she does, Mr. Wilson. That's just the trouble. If she's so busy enjoying her grape nuts, she won't talk to me. Oh, I see. Well, Herman, there's no mystery about that. Goodbye now. Well, folks, this concludes another half hour and we're with you next Sunday night at the same time. Say, Mary, what'd you think of the show? Pretty good. I wish my mother'd heard it. Why, doesn't she listen to our program? Yeah, but she always tunes out early. How early? About November. Oh, well, then maybe she missed it. I know. Good night, folks.