Boom you know what I wore this like last week. I don't even care Hi, bitches. My name is Frederick still doesn't know how to wear a beret and doesn't know if you can pull it off Check if you're new here.  I know what it is literally Literally did not shut up about it and you're still typing comments saying it's called rosin and like If you're wondering why I don't reply to you anymore Probably because I just don't feel you reading the comments anymore Anyways, uh, since I'm not ready to do a piano one yet, which we will which we're getting to just bear with me We're gonna be doing part two. So I hope you enjoy I Guess the violin really doesn't stay in tune for too long That's an e by the way This violin I think is my half violin and if you don't know the end of that should be around here Yeah, I'm quite small if you haven't noticed by the way some people thought I was reading off a sheet music I don't know how you think I could be reading off a sheet music when my eyes are literally glued onto my fingers like I Don't know I go about your just so you know 13 years of piano kind of gives you perfect pitch and it scars you That was about right, right? I Don't know professional people. How about you tell me because you guys love to tell me it's rosin Why is this in my violin case, you know Yeah, that feels good enough. Okay now you take The rosin and now if you don't know what this is um, this is the chalk I refer to in my last video and Basically, I don't know how it works, but it makes The violin sound more clear Because your bow has more grit or whatever. I don't know. I don't know actually does it look like I'm a professional violin player All right, so I don't know any more me music So we're just gonna look some up and hopefully I will remember to not do the ones I've done in the past Music of memes remastered there. Oh wait, I might get demonetized Because of copyright say what did that go?  All right. Well, that's all I that's all I know from that song So next one only have cannons with me.   I don't I don't listen to all-star and if you for some reason expect a good Violin playing why are you on this channel?   I don't know. Okay.  I can't I can't I can't it's like It's like wait. Oh wait. Why is Royals in there? Why is Royals a meme song? I can do that. I can do that actually Boom. Oh every day bro was on the end. Never mind. We're not doing this anymore. Um, you guys don't can Andy?   I don't know the rest of that stuff and we're done. We're done All right, you know what just because like Steven Universe, you know the latest episode I'll play love like you. I don't know Okay, I guess I can play let it go.


Adam Does Movies Live, 1000 Apologize for being a few minutes late. I was upstairs playing Cards Against Humanity Family Edition.  Not, I mean, it's just fart jokes, essentially. You can get kind of creative with some of the sultry language, but for the most part, it's a pretty safe game to play with, you know, the teens, I suppose. We had a good time. I did okay. Hope everyone's going, hope everyone's going well. We're already starting out with a bang. Shot out of a cannon in 2024. I'm very excited for this year. I will have a video coming up, talking about how excited I was about 2023 and how it was a fantastic year for the channel and how I see 2024 going very well in a very good direction. Couple things I'm a little bummed out about. I did not quite get my script done, although I did technically finish it. It just turns out I'm about 20 pages shy of a 90-minute film, so I need to go back and bulk up and add a couple more comedy scenes, which is a really good place to be. The fact that I have a beginning, middle, and end that I'm very proud of and that I get to go now put in some of the toppings, some of the extras, that's good. I will go into all that stuff, though, in the future. Last little piece of housekeeping before I begin, I wanna thank everyone who supported the channel in 2023, the patrons, the YouTube join members, the people that are watching these live streams and made it such an awesome thing. I started doing these early last year. There was maybe five people watching. And now sometimes it gets to a couple of hundred. It depends on the topic and if there's a guest, but there's an awesome steady stream of fans here. So just, again, a big thank you for everyone.  So I really appreciate it, especially with the deluge of content that's constantly available, millions of hours of video streaming at your fingertips every single day. It's insane, it's absolutely crazy. Other piece of news, I got a roast coming up for the Matrix 4, terrible, terrible, awful film. That one's gonna be done with passion. The last Jedi roast went out a couple of days ago. It's getting very good feedback. People seem to be enjoying it, which is awesome. I'd like to keep the roast going. I just noticed I'm very shrunken down on this video. I gotta get, let me move the camera down a little bit more. There we go, I'm like a tiny little, little man down here, up in the distance. What else do we got? The show today is gonna be looking forward. What's ahead in 2024? A lot of movies coming out, some you may be familiar with, some you might not. I'm pretty positive that I covered this once before, maybe several times before in 2023. I'm nothing if not redundant, completely consistent with how inconsistent I am. Final thing I just realized, a lot of these live streams have been doing top 10 lists or ranking videos or tiers or whatever sort of fun thing it is I'm doing.  Every Friday night stream is gonna be something completely different than everyone else is doing with these live videos. So Tuesday's gonna be our traditional kind of hangout conversial, that's a word, conversial rankings and best subs and news, but Friday I'm cooking up something else and I think it's gonna be kind of fun. We'll see if it works out, if not we'll chalk it up to as a failure and we'll dust ourselves off and we'll move forward in life. But the top 10 lists and stuff I've had several people say, hey, Adam, I'm not like huge on the live format. I wanna get into the nitty gritty and I'm with you. I actually agree, live stuff, it's tough to kind of suss through everything. So I am also going to be doing separate videos of kind of the bulk of the live stream. So if it's a top 10 list, for instance, there's gonna be a much tighter edited version of that that's actually shot separately on a nicer camera and it's gonna have video clips and all that. So look for my top 10 movies of 2023 and my top 10 worst movies of 2023 as separate videos in a day or so. I already am editing my worst stuff and someone pointed out because people love to point out my mistakes and I appreciate it that I screwed the pooch on one of my top 10 movies. Pussing Boots was the number 10 or nine slot that movie actually came out in 2022 towards the end of December. I went back and looked at my reviews and I saw Pussing Boots was reviewed in 2023. Well, I actually didn't see the movie for a few weeks after it hit theaters. So that's on me, absolutely embarrassing. So my top 10 movie separate video, that will be adjusted for an actual film that came out in 2023. Spoiler, it's going to not be Pussing Boots the last wish. All right, we do have a super chat before I get into it.  He just says first and he's very excited about it. He puts an exclamation mark. Thanks you, thanks you is how we say it now. Thanks you. All right, let's get into the 2024 lineup. I'm pulling from a few different sources. That's what she said because I'm not sure. You know, I never have like a concrete list. I don't have Dr. Hollywood walking over to me and handing me a slip that says 2024 movie lineup. These are going to be the big movies coming out. I looked at a few different sources. We'll see how it goes.  Here we are.  The real trusted source in movie news, freaking Polygon. I'm actually going to be using Collider's list even though it's so much uglier and lame but I wanted to start at least with a pretty presentation. Presentation for short if you need to. So in January and of course this is not going to be the majority of them but there's going to be some that slipped through the cracks. I did my best with the time I have, which isn't a lot. Feel free to comment or throw out a super chat if there's something really important that I'm not seeing. In January, we have Society of the Snow. If I don't know about the movie, I'm not going to talk about the movie. I don't know what Society of Snow is. Looks like it's a Netflix original and it's in select cinemas. Okay, that's as far as you're going to get with me. Night Swim is a Blumhouse movie. I believe the producer of Megan because that means anything. Night Swim comes out this Thursday. You can go swimming yourself. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to see this right away. I actually have family coming up and it would be rude if I left and went to a movie I think right when they got here. So I might be a couple of days late reviewing Night Swim but I do plan on seeing it. So look for that review. It's your tip. The trailer is very vague. Young girl goes swimming at night. She gets pulled underwater. That's all we know. I like trailers like that where they give nothing away. The book of Clarence from what I gather is a, like a comedy, a comedy based around biblical times with I think the Messiah. I'm not sure much about this. It could be fun. It could be lame. Mean girl speaking of lame.  Tina Fey's rewriting her own material. This is based off of obviously the first movie and then the play. This is acting as a bridge between the two. Tina Fey's back. I don't know if she's playing the same role or if she's the principal this time around. Completely new cast. The trailer was atrocious. Not a single funny line was uttered in it. I don't know how it's going to do. Maybe it'll do well. I just, I really don't know. It's a comedy. It probably didn't cost much to make. It has the name recognition going for it. It's going to require a lot of moms taking their daughters out to see it and maybe that'll happen. I will be reviewing that one as well. Look at Clarence. I just don't know much about it. I'll probably see it. Probably maybe won't. The zone of interest. I don't know what that is. I think it has to do with what was the prison? What was the concentration camp called? Auschwitz. I think it has to do with Auschwitz. Either the forming of it or the aftermath of it. I just know it's kind of a weird indie little flick and I don't have much interest based on that. All of us strangers. This is a total freaking, not my style. A couple of guys fall in love. It looks very cerebral. Very kind of artsy. Again, very indie. It's going for the Oscar bait, not Oscar bait. It's going for the Keynes bait, the Toronto Film Festival bait.  I just don't have any interest in it. I don't think there's anything else in January. Look, oh, I do have one over here. What is this? Let's share this tab from Polygon, which is a much nicer presentation. We have role play with Kaylee Cocoa. Cocoa for Cocoa Puffs. I never know how to say it. Kouoku, she's a normal New Jersey suburbanite married to the mild manner Dave by David Olowo. Another name, Ayolo, I can't pronounce names. That's just what you're going to get. Who has no idea that she's also a contract killer. Oh, this is like a Mr. and Mrs. Smith thing.  In other words, they're going to tell each other some true lies. Okay, we have a modern true lies, hard pass on that. We have Argyle up next. This is a February release.  Let's head on over to the Collider. Oh. Oh my God, it's already here. It's already happening. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey too. They could, come on. The only good thing about Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey was the title. You just called the sequel too.  The first movie's on my top 10 worst of 2023.  No trailer released yet. I think Tigger's in the mix this time. Maybe they got a budget for three masks inside of two. Who knows? I just know that it's gonna be just a train wreck. There's no question about that. It was awful. And speaking of train wrecks, we do have a new one that a trailer came out for. Let's share this tab really quick. Mickey Mouse horror film Unveiled as copyright ends. That's right. All you people craving to make your fantasy steamboat willy fan art can now do it without Disney coming down on you with the hammer. It's open source, baby. Copyright free. No strings on me. You can make a Mickey Mouse TV show if you want from the 19, what was it, to 20 something? 1928, Steamboat willy hit the screen and now it's up for grabs. So make your black and white fan art.  Do whatever you want with the mouse. Anything goes. And these assholes already made a horror film and the trailer is out for it. It's called Mickey's, like some mousetrap, I think. I think it's what's called Mickey's mousetrap. We'll just go with that because I can't remember. Terrible looking mask. It looks like it has zero budget shot off of a camera from 1997. It really, really bad. Everything looks bad about it.  Okay, we have one more super chat from Drew Skizzy for 199, has a Bart Simpson, an emoticon, icon avatar. I like it. Most hype is, I never know how to say his name. Bong Yong Ho's next movie, Mickey 17. How do you say that name? Let me do the Google translate. Bong Yong, it's not a translate, the pronunciation. And this is sometimes iffy. Should sound like O is an O and a little like ah. That doesn't help me. Here we go, we'll go to the pronounce. Bong Jun Ho. Okay, well, I mean, I guess it was pretty straightforward. Bong Jun Ho, if that's right. He's the one we're got. I haven't seen the trailer from Mickey 17. It was on one of the three lists I was sourcing. Oh, here it is, March. January, February, March. It was a photo of Bong Jun Ho right there smiling away, having a good time, perfect. Let's get back to February. We have Argyle. This is the new film by Matthew Reeves who did X-Men first class. He did, what did he do? The, he did those James Bond-esque type movies that were a lot more fun. The Kingsman, he did the Kingsman films. The first two, I don't know if he did Kingsman. I hope not.  First Kingsman's really good. Second one's a big step down, but still watchable schlock. Argyle looks to be very out there. Like some of the worst special effects I've seen in a while, but it does look like a good time. Plus you got, what, Dua Lipé in the mix? You got Superman, Henry Cavill, R.I.P. Lot of good folks in this movie. I'm excited for it. It comes out in February. January is usually the dumping ground for garbage. So it makes sense that Mean Girls is in there and Night Swim probably is gonna be horrible. Who knows though? But January is typically trash month. And then February, it starts to kind of clean up its act. Lisa Frankenstein, this is the new one. I have a better photo of this one actually. Let's share the screen. There's our girl from Ant-Man in the Wasp, Quantum Shitia hated that movie. Not a fan of Catherine Newton based on the two movies I've seen her in, Ant-Man in the Wasp 3, and she was in Detective Pikachu. Didn't like her in either of those. However, I love the look she's going for here. Kind of a Madonna phase. And this is written by Diablo Cody who did Jennifer's Body and Juno. So she's two for two in my book. I think she's written other stuff but I'm not actually sure what else she's done. This could be interesting. This could be right up my alley McBeal. We'll see how it turns out. We'll see how it shakes out. Back to the main tab, we have, Ha ha ha ha, we got Madame Webb. Who's excited for Madame Webb? Show of hands. No, no one. Part of the Sony, we don't have Spider-Man but kind of pretend we do universe.  And Hunter, the Craven film that they postponed. Now we have Madame Webb. This movie, the trailers out, looks horrible. Low budget, low effort trash right here. I can't imagine a single person watch that trailer and they're like, yep, I'm in, sign me up. Sign me up for a movie with the woman from 50 Shades of Grey kind of being able to see the future a little bit before it happens. No, everything about that looked terrible. Driveaway Dolls also coming out in Feb, sure for February, it's one of the Coen brothers is directing this with his wife. It's a comedy, a dark comedy. About a couple ladies, a couple girlfriends, couple lovers actually, I believe they're lesbians, robbing something and going on a heist. It's a whole heist adventure, a lover heist adventure. I'll give it a shot, it could be good, could be terrible. You just don't know what the Coen's, they're very inconsistent in my playbook. Jesus Revolutions, the last one listed here for February, I don't know what that is. I'm sorry, I don't know what it is. And I don't see anything about it.  Also in February, which isn't, oh, it is on the list, it's listed in March, am I looking at this wrong? They're layouts a little bit inconsistent on this one. In March of 2024, we have Elio, Elio, E-L-I-O. Not sure, it's a Pixar joint, Disney Pixar's back baby. They did come out with the trailer for this quite a while back.  Pixar's been very sketchy lately, Disney's been more sketchy. We'll see though, maybe they can get back to making something clever and fun for the whole family. It remains to be seen. March also has a quiet place day one, hopefully it's day fun, this is a prequel. Well, it's a sidequel, I think. It's a sidequel that kind of goes in tandem with the events of the beginning of a quiet place two. Nothing confusing about this, right? Remember there is that flashback at the beginning of a quiet place two where it is day one of all the destruction. Well, this one is also day one, but from the perspective of someone else. I believe it's Lupita, who's in New York or something, a city girl. We're gonna take you in a different direction, different director, different writer, could be hopefully the same attitude, hopefully. I like the quiet place movies quite a bit. Dune part two, Dune's back, better than ever. I just tried to rewatch the first part, that's a long movie, it's a tedious movie. I saw it in IMAX, it was one of the few movies I actually got out and kind of risked it during COVID, had the mask on, the entire theater was packed full, I felt like I was gonna die just being there, but I pushed it through, I got it done. And that film was really awesome in IMAX, watching it at home, it definitely loses about 50% of its quality. I watched it with my wife, she hadn't seen it. We're like halfway through, it's still solid, I still like it, love this director. Part two, I'm intrigued by. I heard it doesn't go the way you want, or I shouldn't say you want, I heard it doesn't go the way you expected to, which I'm intrigued by that, because the first part is very paint by numbers, white savior stuff, and I'm told that that's kind of the idea, and then they flip the script. I didn't read the book, so I know nothing, other than I'm intrigued. Spider-Man Beyond the Spider-Verse, this is a tentative release, right? This is not coming out in March anymore. I refuse to believe this is coming out in March, this probably got pushed back. We're just gonna pretend it's coming out now. I loved Across the Spider-Verse, the second app, or the second act I should say, there's Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider, I still like Into better, but Across the Spider-Verse was really good. It's just hard to get so excited about a film that's only half completed. That leaves on a cliffhanger. Incredibly well done though, I'm excited. I noticed that Drew Schizzi's been up here the whole time, we could probably get rid of him on the video, but there it is, sometimes you get to have your, sometimes when you super chat, you get broadcast to the world for a long time. All right, we have Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire, also in March, March 29th, the trailer's out for this, kind of has a geostorm vibe to it at the beginning with the icicles smashing up on the beach, people running. Looks different. I'm one of the people in the rare camp that doesn't really like Ghostbusters afterlife.  Like film-wise, it was cool, it was nice seeing the younger kids get into the mix with the packs and doing the whole thing, but I thought the script was really bad. I did not like the route they went and playing out the nostalgia and making the old characters look incompetent and borderline terrible. In the case of Egon Spangler, ironically, the one that was dead as they were filming this, just, yeah, it didn't do much for me. Frozen Empire might be better, I don't know. I just hope that it has a unique concept for once. It doesn't try to shoehorn in another character from the past movies.  Vigo shows up, whatever the hell his name was. Just give me something new. Gah, Kung Fu Panda 4, March 29th. Is there anything that Aquafina won't ruin for me? I was really excited for Kung Fu Panda 4, which is a weird thing for an adult man to say, but I like the trilogy. I have an 11-year-old son who's really into these movies too.  Her character is like right there, the entire trailer, and I'm losing my mind thinking, what is the appeal? I don't like the voice. I don't like the comedy style. Maybe this is what all those Jim Carrey haters felt every year when he'd come out with big movies, and I'm sitting back going, what? Jim Carrey's a legend. What is wrong with you? He's the funniest guy ever. Maybe there's Aquafina stands that think she's great and she's funny, and I don't get it. It's subjective, of course, but oh God, that makes me sad. Truly makes me sad. In April, actually let me look and make sure I didn't miss anything else in March from another outlet, uh-huh. Yeah, Mickey 17 was covered, but Robert Pattinson's Mickey 17. We have Mark Ruffalo, Tony Collette. All right, we are in April. In April we have Godzilla X Kong, the new empire. Finally we can get past Godzilla minus fun and into something great, sarcasm.  I did not like it, Sam I am. Godzilla X Kong, the new empire. Who cares? I say who cares? Maybe, maybe it'll be fine. Maybe it'll be fun.  We'll see. I have no hope for that though. Challengers April 26th for all you Zendaya fans. She's got two movies coming out pretty much back to back. You got Dune 2 with her, and we got Challengers, the sultry sexy film about a bunch of really skinny teenagers or however old, how old is Zendaya? She's probably in her 20s, right? Let me share this tab and you can see. I mean, she looks so young. I feel kind of, I feel like really old looking at this photo. I don't know, this movie's presented.  These guys play tennis. They have this tennis back and forth match to win her over. It's supposed to, I think, be kind of a dark, 60, 50 shades of gray sort of thing, but she does nothing for me, man. She's so thin. I feel like I could break her just by using two fingers and that scares me. I'm scared for her. But obviously a very, very pretty young woman. I just don't, I don't see the appeal. This movie looks okay though. I will say the trailer for this, I'm interested. I'm interested simply from a story standpoint, not so much whatever they're trying to do here. But, you know, Pete Davidson's got a ton of people that love him. He's sapped every Hollywood actress I can think of and I don't get it. I don't get that appeal either. So, you know, again, it's subjective. It's the Aquafina thing. Back over in April, no, we're in May now. In May, ugh. This Fall Guy trailer, so the Fall Guy comes out May 3rd. It's got Baby Goose, Ryan Gosling. It's got, what's her nuts? British, British Mary Poppins. I always want to say Emma. It's not Emma. Let me click, I can actually click on this one so I can go in here and see what's her name? Emily Blunt. Emily Emma, I was close. Emily Blunt. These two have a, you know, she's a director. He's the stunt dude and he's gonna end up getting himself into some hot water. So, he's gonna fall onto the wrong side of the fence.  Next thing you know, he's the hero of the picture. The trailer for this movie's 20 minutes long, I swear. I've seen the trailer now five times in theaters. Whenever it comes on, I leave the theater, I go down the street, I buy a soda, I see, I sneak the soda in, I drink all of it, I go to the bathroom, I come out, I buy another soda from the theater so that I'm actually helping it out, go back into my chair and the Fall Guy trailer is still going. That's how long this thing is. It never ends. I've seen the whole movie and the movie looks pretty good. What I've seen looks pretty good. So, I'm excited for that one, I guess. Captain America, Brave New World. Anthony Mackie, our captain, of course, our captain America now, no superpowers, which is bizarre.  I never understood why he didn't. This movie, I think, is coming out at some point. It's another one where I think Disney pushed it back but I'm not entirely sure. Don't know much about the plot. I just know that it's non-Chris Evans, Captain America. Anthony Mackie is okay. I've never really been that impressed with anything he's done. Although I hear the twisted metal TV show on Peacock is actually good. I have not watched it, so take that, what you will. I heard it's good. Tony from Hack the Movies recommended it, although Tony also like strays, which I did end up watching on the cock. I checked it out on Peacock and that was one of the worst movies I also saw in 2023. So again, his word, not mine, on whatever I was talking about, twisted metal. Snow White, May 22nd. This movie's been shot and done for like two years. Rachel Zegler, America's Sweethearts, she's in this thing. I think they had to like cut the dwarves because Peter Dinklage was throwing a fit and then they went with regular, regular. They went with a bunch of different random weirdos. Some tall guys, some short dudes, some, you know, just every walk of life you can think of and they're like, oh, this won't work either. This is terrible. So now I think they're just CG-ing them. Now they're just completely computer generated dwarves. It's fantastic.  No interest in it.  They're all trash. Furiosa comes out May 24th. First trailer looks like Spy Kids. Doesn't look as much like Mad Max Fury Road as I was hoping. It definitely feels a lot more colorful and fake. And I know Fury Road's not a realistic movie but something about it still had grit and Furiosa's first trailer did not. Not to say it'll be bad. I like Anya Taylor Joy. I still wish Charlize Theron was brought back for it. I think she could have pulled it off easily but I will give this the benefit of the doubt because I love Fury Road so much.  Get these ads out of here. Wait, I'm a developer. I can get rid of this. Inspect. Let's go ahead and get rid of the sidebar altogether. We're gonna display none. Goodbye, sidebar. On the fly, taking out ads. All right. The kingdom of the plan of the apes comes out May 24th. This is the new trilogy after the Caesar trilogy which was a prequel to the original Charles Heston movie from way back in the day. It's confusing. And I think this takes place hundreds of years after Caesar's dead. I was originally thinking it wasn't much longer after but no, it's hundreds of years. And so the monkeys can now, I'm sorry, the apes. The apes can now speak English pretty fluently, arguably better than I can. I mean, I'm fascinated. I really like the last apes trilogy. I like the original film a lot. Yeah, let's, I'm all in. I'm all in.  I recommend it for sure. Garfield, Chris Pratt, he's back. He's voiced in another character we love. He was Emmett from the Lego movie. He was Mario from the Super Mario movie. And now he's Garfield. There's nothing, this guy can't voice. And I have to say, the first impression wasn't good. Better jump over. Okay, so that's May. Let me make sure that nothing else in May showed up on the other one. We do have one actually. Let's pop it up. A little film called If. This is a new movie by Jim Halpert, I believe. John Krasinski's new movie. Ryan Reynolds is in it. We have Steve Carell in there. Kayleigh Fleming. I assume Kayleigh Fleming is the young actress I've never seen or heard of her before. Okay. John Krasinski's directorial followup to Quiet Place movies approaches a kid in a fantastical situation from a slightly less terrifying angle in If, a young girl who played young Ray in The Force Awakens. Ooh, that's exciting. Discoverers, she can see discarded imagery of friends and other children. Ryan Reynolds plays some kind of imaginary friend, Emissary, though the film's Paramount release preludes a bing-bong cameo. What? What the weird? What? Bing-bong from Inside Out? Okay, whatever. I didn't watch the trailer for that. I didn't. I'll go to the movie. Okay, these are all ones that I talked about. Ballerina is June. Let's see if Ballerina is in the crappier. Yeah, Ballerina is marked as June. It's the only thing marked as June over there. So, well, this is a Len Weissman film On a Day or Moss set in the John Wick universe. I'm in, On a Day or Moss, John Wick, two things that I love. I'll watch. Inside Out 2, June 14th. Whole Gang's Back, plus we have a new member of the team, Anxiety. Lot of different things. Lot of baggage coming with that one. This, who voices, Maya Hock is the voice. Daughter of Ethan Hock and What's Her Nuts from Kill Bill, Uma Thurman. Got some solid parents there, Maya. Man, what a bloodline. Inside Out 2 worries me because I really like Inside Out. The more I've seen that movie, which is several times now because I have kids and they love it, the more I appreciate it, the little nuances of the film are really special. It's a good movie, top to bottom, very funny, great messaging, fun life lessons. It's the whole package. Inside Out 2, I don't know if Pixar still has it in them. But I will say Monsters University, even though it's not Monsters Inc. I'm impressed at how it was its own thing. I'm hoping Inside Out 2 can kind of bring a different flavor to it. I already mentioned a Quiet Place Day 1. And wait, why do we have two different, do we have two different release dates or did I, am I losing my mind? Oh, interesting. So Collider has Inside, a Quiet Place Day 1 coming out in March and Polygon has it coming out June 28th. Take with that what you will. I don't make of that what you will. I have no idea. Really have no idea. Despicable Me 4. I am a Despicable Me fan. I like these movies. I like Illumination, okay? I'm the genuine article. What you see is what you get. Sure, I'm an easy target. Subscribe for Plains, Trains and Automobiles references. Despicable Me 4 sees, do we have a description for this? No, I don't think we do. We don't have anything on this thing. Okay, I like the Minions. I like Despicable Me. I'm in July 3rd, sure. Anything else going on over on Collider July? God, they are all over the place here. Folks, they're all over the place. We're gonna stick with this one because this has Twisters. Twisters, let me see what the synopsis is and I'm gonna find out if it plays out with what I recently heard. In a triumphant return to the Aliens rule of sequel naming, Twisters becomes Twisters. No, Twister becomes Twisters for this blockbuster revival. Although another titling scheme comes to mind. This is just nothing.  Is there anything on this? No, there's nothing.  Congratulations, Polygon.  Twisters, from what I just heard in a recent interview with one of the actors is not a sequel. It's not a prequel. It's not a remake. It's Twisters. It's Twister in name only. It apparently has no ties to anyone from the first film. It has no locations or settings or vehicles or callbacks of any kind. It just has tornadoes. And so therefore Twisters. How lame can you get? We're just capitalizing on the name. All right. Untitled Deadpool movie, Deadpool 3. Everybody's going to go to it. Everybody's probably gonna have a good time with it. It would be really freaking hard for Ryan Reynolds to screw this up considering Hugh Jackman's in it. Motherfucking Wolverine's in this for one last ride again. Buddy Road Trip movie with these two guys who are really good friends in real life. Sign me up. I'm here day one. Yes, it's under Disney, but I think Disney's gonna let these guys cook. They're gonna just step back and say go ahead and do what you need to do. We have a super chat for 199 from Drew Schizzi. I hate every ape I see from chimpan A to chimban Z. I love it. There's a Simpsons reference right there. Is that the, Mr. Burns, see my vest? See my vest, see my vest. That's a brilliant rendition of Beauty and the Beast. So I'm gonna be our guest. Love that episode. That's where he steals the puppies. Oh, good stuff.  We have Trap in August. What else is going on in August over here? All right, we'll stick with this one. We'll stick with this one. There's one more listed on Collider, but we'll get back there. Trap is M. Night Shyamalan's new film with Josh Hartnett. Oof. And Sal-Salike, Sal-Salecki Shyamalan, Shamalama Ding-Dong, so a son or a daughter is also in this. Sal-Salecki, M. Night Shyamalan has been working nonstop for the past quarter century, but there's, okay, so nothing in these is actually telling us anything about the film. I'm not gonna fall for it again. It's a trap. Polygon, it's a trap. M. Night Man, his movies are a blast to watch, even if they're a disaster, which oftentimes they have been, they're a blast to watch. I'll definitely be going to that. Borderlands, based on the video game that I never played, there's a bunch of them. First-person shooter, loot shooters, multiplayer madness. They look fun. I wasn't huge on the cell-shaded look for those. Eli Roth had a bit of a comeback. Is he gonna give us anything on this? No, I'll tell you the cast. Cape Lancet, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Haley Bennett, Edgar Ramirez, and Gina Gershan. Okay, a lot of names. We'll see if you can pull it off. Are we still in August? Man, August is a big month. All right, we have Untitled Alien Movie. You know what? I don't care at all about this, but how awesome would it be if they gave a David Fincher another shot at an Alien film? Obviously, he was put on Alien 3, notoriously bad Alien 3 that some people like, but I think we can be honest with ourselves and say it was a huge step down regardless after Alien 1 and 2. I think David Fincher could make a freaking awesome Alien movie with his experience now and the fact that he wasn't just thrown into the fire at the last second. How cool would it be to bring him in the mix? I have no love for Alien anymore. They stopped at two, basically. We'll see. Maybe they can make something cool, but I don't care. Craven the Hunter. God, Taylor J- Aaron Taylor Johnson, Russell Crowe.  Full stop. Who's excited for the Sony movies? It was pushed back, I know. I think this looks better than Madam Webb and that's saying nothing because Madam Webb looks horrible. Absolutely horrible. August 30th, mark your calendars for Craven. Are you Craven some more superhero films? I know I am. In September, August, September.  September over here, we have Beetlejuice too. Jenna Ortega is gonna be, she's the new hot thing right now, so she's gonna be our Wynonna Ryder. And Wynonna Ryder's in this, but she's playing the mom because that's what we do. That's what we do with these sequels 20, 30, 40 years later. We have the original cast come back as parents and then their kids go through the same misadventures as they do.  Michael Keaton's back, Catherine O'Hara's back, okay. Well, it'd be nice to see a good, Steven's, it'd be nice to see a good Tim Burton movie again. Is what I've been saying for the last 20 years. Interested, kind of, kind of. Transformers One. In the wake of beloved Spider-Man and Ninja Turtle movies that cost a relative pittance. Pittance, I love that word, pittance compared to their live action counterparts. The hottest new franchise accessory is an animated spin-off, yeah. This is animated, I know it's got the voice of like Chris Hemsworth and some other A-list stars. Oh, it's up there. Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, John Hamm. So a couple of Avengers and John going full ham. We'll see. I love animated Ninja Turtles movie that came out. It was on my top 10 best of the year. I love the Spider-Man movie. It was on my top 10 best of the year. Maybe Transformers One in 2024 will be on my top 10. We'll see. Wow, wouldn't that be more than meets the eye. October, September, October. Okay, we have it coming up. Saw 11, if I'm playing my Roman numerals correctly, this is Saw 11. Jigsaw cannot be killed.  Okay, I don't think you're pulling it off as well as you think, but Saw 10 was a good ride. I liked it. I did like it. Shlaki, of course, can't be absolutely. Did it make a lick of sense? No, not in the slightest.  I like the premise of turning him into this weird anti-hero kind of, at least in that one, vigilante, take-no-prisoner style of killer who's going out of his way to make these elaborate, illustrious death traps that I can appreciate. We'll see where Saw 11 goes. Joker, faule à deux. I think it's faule à deux, is how it's said, which is Joker two in fancy talk, in French talk. I don't know what faule à deux means. Let's look it up. It's a day of learning. In 2024, we're learning. Meaning, delusion or mental illness shared by two people in close association. That makes sense because Harley Quinn is in this.  Can we not have a real name for her at this point? I mean, have we not gotten past the stage name for this actress? Dwayne Johnson's Dwayne Johnson. He's not still the rock.  Let's look up her real name. This is a day of learning. It'd be amazing if her real name was Lady Gaga. Stephanie, Joanne, Angelina, Germanota, Germanata. Stephanie, Joanne, Angelina. That's a lot of first names. That's a dangerous combo. Pick one of them. Just pick one of them. Stephanie, Gaga. Stephanie, Germanata. Or just go Stephanie, Joanne. Stephanie, Joanne has a solid name. Hey, this movie stars Joaquin Phoenix and Stephanie, Joanne. That sounds more respectful. It sounds more respectable, as I guess is the word I'm actually looking for. I have zero. This is gonna be a hot take. I have zero interest in this film. I thought Joker was punishingly overrated. Didn't hate the movie. I remember doing a good old fashioned car side review, which is probably up on the channel. I imagine, I don't know if I got rid of car side reviews on the channel. Let me see. Maybe I did. It's very possible you can't find it. Adam does movies, Joker review. I do have it up. Joker movie review, car side reviews, four years ago.  I would fashion a guess and say it was it was fine, but there were a lot of problems, mainly that I've seen this movie before done much better. And this one, and it didn't seem like Joker, it just seemed like a mental patient who was kind of being known as the Joker. It just didn't do much for me.  I'm not gonna be honest. I'm not gonna be honest with you. It didn't do much for me. Smile two is coming out October 18th. Rocktober, some people say. We'll see if it puts a smile on my face two times in a row because I did enjoy the first smile. Blumhouse film, I believe. Not that it really matters, I guess, who the production company is. We'll see if it puts a smile on my face, but I did enjoy the first one. And that's Rocktober. I think that's really all the big listings for Rocktober so far, Untitled, oh my God. We have an Untitled Venom sequel. Venom, brum brum brum brum brum brum brum brum. Maybe one of the worst Eminem songs ever created for one of the worst superhero movies ever created. Venom, specifically Venom 2, Let There Be Garbage. What a terrible sequel to an incredibly lame first entry. I won't say the first one's terrible, but it's not good. In my eyes, it's not good. Although my son who's 11 and angsty, he digs it. Connor digs Venom. He hated Venom 2.  What are you doing, Sony?  What is even gonna happen in Venom 3? Where is there to go? These movies are so embarrassingly bad.  Gladiator 2, November 22nd, that's right. Ridley Scott's back, baby, for one more ride. He'll probably do a couple more Gladiators. Who knows? He needs a win. Although I didn't mind Napoleon. It's a hot mess, but it's entertaining. It's a weird movie. Overall, I enjoyed it more than I didn't, but man, it's a weird one. We'll see, Gladiator is such a classic. Everybody, I don't know a single person that doesn't like Gladiator. That's like, I don't even know what that's like. I can't even think of an analogy that I could put to this. What's the one with Mel Gibson that everybody loves also? Not the Patriot, the one that he's known for, the Scottish Kilt, Braveheart. That's like, not liking Braveheart. Everybody likes Braveheart, too. It's an epic. Historically inaccurate, probably, but it's an epic. Gladiator 2, November 22nd. Please be excited for Gladiator 2, I suppose. I suppose. Wicked. November 27th, Wicked. This is based on the stage play. I saw somewhere else that it was called Wicked Part One. I think this might not be true, but I think they're trying to slip this in as a one and done situation when that's not the case. This is a part one of two parts, because that's what we do now with movies. We pretend they're one film and then we pull the rug out. That's what Across the Spiderverse did. A lot of people had no idea this was a two-part movie and they were shell-shocked when they found out. Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part One, I think was up front, but I know it wasn't Fast and the Furious 10, Fast and the Furious X, never said it was leaving on a cliffhanger and it absolutely did. Not that it really matters, it's Fast and the Furious. But still, Wicked, I'm pretty sure, is a two-parter Ariana Grande's in this, Michelle Yu's in this. I'm in. I'm in. Never watched the stage play, heard it was good. Oh no, what is Untitled Karate Kid Movie? I heard about this. Jackie Chan and Rolf Maccio are teaming up. They come from two different Karate Kid universes. Now they're coming together. Where's Hillary Swank, is what everyone's asking. Bring her in, bring in Swank. Get the trifecta. Does this have anything to do with the Karate Kid TV show that's on Netflix? It was on YouTube, then it went to Netflix. I don't know. Cobra Kai, is this a spin-off of Cobra Kai? I don't think so. But who knows, this polygon stuff is terrible. Oh no, this might be what kills me. The Lord of the Rings, the War of Rohirrim. I know the Rohan, is it Rohan? That's a place, I don't know what Rohirrim is. That must be a deep cut from one of the books. Given the resurgence of Lord of the Rings, am I gonna get any info out of this? It actually ties into the Peter Jackson movies from the early 2000s. I doubt that. Said hundreds of years earlier, the film offers an origin of sorts for the battle of Helms Deep. Or its name anyway, with King Helm Hammerhand, Brian Cox, proving his medal against invading forces. Dude, I love Brian Cox. Holy shit, that might be enough to sell me on this. This is an Amazon movie though, right?  I put out a short on that. And I was reacting to the first two episodes. And that was it. And I said it was good. And I liked where it was, I liked the look of it. It was very large scale. I liked the lead protagonist, I liked the characters. And then I watched the rest of it. I couldn't even get through it all. I did not, I still haven't watched the finale of Rings of Power. It was so freaking tedious. And I didn't like half the characters. It was just such a boring slog. I never got through it. Here's hoping, I guess. Here's coping. Ski tee, tee, tee, tee. We got Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in December of 20. December of 20, in December of 20. We have Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Shadow can be featured in this little thumbnail if you're looking. He's got some cool shoes. There's a slate next to him. No Jim Carrey, no interest. It's kind of where I stand. I like Sonic the Hedgehog. I like the blue burr, the blue burr. The blue blur, you gotta go fast. But I like Jim Carrey more. And I heard he's retired from acting. He's made no indicator that he's in this one. He's not listed anywhere that I've seen. So they're gonna really have to step up the CG critters. They're gonna have to bring in Big the Cat or Rose, or Rouge, Rogue, Amy. There's a Gator, there's a Bee, there's a Bunny, Vanilla, or Cream the Rabbit.  Yes, bane us, give it to him, bane hodge, mnngh. Mufasa, the Lion King. This is a prequel to the Lion King. The live action.   It was one of the worst movies I saw in 2020 whenever it came out. I hated that thing so bad. Lifeless, completely empty that film was. A National Geographic, to be sure. But I didn't wanna watch National Geographic. I wanted to watch lively cartoonish characters. Oh wait, we already have that. It was the animated original that you kind of ripped off, shot for shot at times.  Mufasa, the Lion King, I have no interest in this at all, but man, I can't wait to tear it apart if it's bad. There are a few things in this world that give me joy. And one of them's not going to movies that I hate, but one of them is reviewing a movie that I hate afterwards. I don't like spending money on something bad and then having to sit there for several hours at times, but I will absolutely let you know if that was the case.  Just based on the track record of all the live-action Disney movies and then even narrowing it down to the Lion King movie, I'm confident. Nas for Ahtu. Nas gonna give it to you. Nas gonna raw it to you. No, it didn't work, we'll see. December 25th, Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Holt. Nicholas Holt again in a vampire movie. He was just in the Renfield, which was all right. Aquafina ruined a lot of it, but it was all right. What is this? Is this just a creepy, we got Lily Rose Depp in the mix? Willem Dafoe, I don't know what's going on with this. I know nothing about it. Not sure if it's a dark comedy or if it's supposed to be a scary film. Untitled Jordan Peele movie, that's enough said. I like all of his movies a lot. I freaking loved his last one. Nope. I don't need to read anything else. I don't wanna know anything about it. I'm in. I'm in. Havoc to be determined on Netflix, gross. Gareth Evans is the director. Tom Hardy, Timothy Oliphant. Forrest Whitaker still doing it. Listen, it says on Netflix, as confident as I am that the new Mufasa movie is gonna be dog shit, equally as confident that anything exclusive to Netflix is on par. You know what's not on here? Okay, we have a new hit man. Is this based on the video game again or is this just its own thing? We're kind of falling off the grid of things I care about. So I'm just gonna kind of gloss over these ones. Beverly Hills Cop Axel Foley. It's just as Axel F here. I don't know if that's a mistake or that's really what it's called. We're not calling it Beverly Hills Cop four. All right, just Axel F. Might as well. The trailer for this was great. It's a Netflix movie, so I'm scared shitless. They're probably gonna ruin another classic. I'm one of the people in the camp that actually likes Beverly Hills Cop three where he goes to Wally World, the knockoff Disney world.  The Old Guard two, another Netflix film, Charlie Sterrone, Returning. You have Uma Thurman in this one. All right, I didn't see the first one, but all right. Ultraman Rising. What are we doing? This is some anime stuff going on now. Okay, and then Maxine is the last one on here. This is the third installment to the Tai West trilogy. Two of them came out in the same year was it X and then was it triple X? No, what is this one called Maxine? Was it X and triple X? I can't remember what the second one was called. That doesn't seem right. No, no, no, no, no, it's not. The second one was the name of, oh God, what is it called? Tai West Trilogy. I'm sorry, I gotta know this. Pearl, I was way off. Pearl is the old grandma from the first film, now young because Pearl was a prequel. I hated Pearl. I hated Pearl. It was miserable to watch for me. I get why people liked it, but it did not work. I loved X though, X. That was my style. I hope Maxine gets back to that a little bit more. Either way, I like Tai West. He's doing unique stuff in the space and I give him credit for it. I'm there day one. We'll see what happens. You know what's not on this list?  It's almost, it's borderline un-American that it's not on here and I'm gonna keep kind of waiting in the pool. Oh, until I find it, look at this. Look at this, November 7th, 27th, Wicked Part One. So it is a Part One. Oh, I knew it. I knew they tried to slip that by me, those wily bastards. We have Blitz, never heard of it. All right, there's Maxine. Are they not showing this either?   Sign me up, folks. There's a movie that hasn't been mentioned in any of these articles and I think I know why. I think I know why. It's not on here. What is this? Hang on, I have to, it's gotta be on one of these. I wanna make it a surprise. Oh my God. There it is. Okay, ooh.  Folks, Rebel Moon Part Two, The Scargiver, Netflix Exclusive, was not talked about by Collider, was not talked about by who's this over here? Who is this over here? Los Angeles Times, the LA Times because they hate Snyder. This anti Snyder movement, this agenda of deep state Snyder freaking haters needs to go away, he's the playbook. He's the playbook, he's a visionary director. He's a visionary when vision is scary.  He's not very good anymore and Rebel Moon was atrociously bad. Top 10 worst of the year for me, I don't care about Rebel Moon, part dumb. I'm out, I'm out. What a lineup. We have one more super chat from Big Kahuna who Big Kahuna and Drew Ski kind of salvaging the super chats today. Big Kahuna says, gotta run. I just wanted to say chat was off the hook tonight. Here's to a new year of great content, enjoy the ride, bro. Thanks, Big Kahuna, I appreciate that. Glad to see the chats going well. If anyone has any super chats to end the stream with, say it now or forever, hold your peace. What are you excited about, people? Any interest in anything I brought up? Some of these were, I mean, I'm excited for some of them. I think a lot of them have potential actually and I do realize that I did a prediction screen last year as far as box office goes. Maybe on one of these Tuesday streams we actually play back the tape on my predictions and see how I did money-wise because I predicted a lot of the box office. I suppose I could be proactive and edit just the parts where I say the numbers so I'm gonna have to sit through an hour of me rambling. Again, that'd be disgusting. Yeah, that's all I got. I'm not going to go on Twitch tonight. Twitch.tv slash adam does movies usually. This is streaming on Twitch right now but I like to go on and play some games afterwards but 2024 we're really gonna be working a lot because I want to hit 100,000 subscribers this year. It's time, it's been time for a long time but I think because of the great numbers I've been seeing lately and because of the focus on the right things on the channel, not doing anything crazy, not making 35 different shows to confuse the audience and just kind of stay in the course while also doing a bit more innovating on the live side of things. I can still have fun and feel like I'm being creative without having to be at the detriment of the channel. I think 100,000 subscribers is a very, it's a very realistic target to hit. And I have a couple of things coming up that will be exciting and will hopefully move the needle even more for me. I think collabing with people is gonna be big in 2024 so I'm optimistic. Thank you guys for watching. Again, thank you so much for 2023. It's been such a wild ride this last year and 2024 I'm very optimistic about way more than in previous years. Again, have a great new year, have a great 2024 and we will see you Friday for something maybe a little bit brand new and cool.  All right, take care. Have a good night.


I am Sam Vatnin and I am the author of Malignance of Love, Narcissism Revisited. In the book describing the fabulous tales of Baron Wilhausen, there is a story about how the legendary nobleman succeeded to pull himself out of a quicksand marsh by his own hair. Well, such miracles are unlikely to recur. This cannot cure themselves any more than Baron Wilhausen pulled himself out of a swamp by his own hair. The logical narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder, is not merely an aberrant thought process which can be controlled cognitively. It is an all-pervasive, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural impairment of the entire personality, every corner of it. Thus, gaining insight into the disorder is not the same as healing. It is not a question of determination or resilience, it is not a function of the time invested by the narcissist, the effort expended by him, the lengths to which he is willing to go, the depths of his commitment and his professional knowledge. All these are very important, precursors, and they are good predictors of the success of an eventual therapy. However, they are not substitute for one. The best, really the only way the narcissist can help himself to some extent, is by resulting to a mental health professional. Even then, sadly, the prognosis, the healing prospects are dim. It seems that only time can bring in a limited remission, or at times an aggravation of the condition. They can tackle the more pernicious aspects of this disorder. It can help the patient adapt to his condition, accept it, and learn to conduct a more functional and socially acceptable life. Learning to live with one's disorder is a great achievement, and the narcissist should be happy that even this modicum of success is, in principle, possible. But just to get the narcissist to see a therapist is very difficult. The therapeutic situation implies a superior-inferior relationship. The therapist is supposed to help the narcissist, and so to the narcissist, this means that he himself is not as omnipotent as he imagines himself to be. The therapist is supposed to know more in his field than the narcissist, and this presumption seems to undermine the second pillar of narcissism, omniscience, the belief that the narcissist knows all. Going to a therapy of whatever nature implies both imperfection, something is wrong, and a need. And narcissists' regard needs as weaknesses, signs of inferiority. The therapeutic setting where the client visits the therapist as to be punctual, as to pay for the service, implies subservience. The process itself is also threatening. It involves transformation, losing one's identity, in other words, one's uniqueness, one's long-cultivated defenses.  The narcissist is inadequately equipped to deal with his old births, traumas and unresolved conflicts.  The narcissist knows all this, and he recoils. Therapy demands of him to finally place full, unmitigated trust in another human being, he has never done since the last time he had been disappointed by his parents. Moreover, the transaction of therapy, the therapeutic alliance implicitly offered to the narcissist is the most unappealing imaginable. He is, the narcissist is to give up decades of emotional investment in an elaborate, adaptive, and mostly functioning mental hyperstructure, the false self. In return, the narcissist tends to become normal, and this is another matter to the narcissist. The narcissist does not want to be normal, or average, or pedestrian. He wants to be unique, special, outstanding. Being normal to the narcissist means being average, not unique, non-existent. Why should the narcissist commit himself to such a move when he doesn't even guarantee him happiness? But there is a lot the narcissist can do by himself until he reaches a final decision whether to attend therapy or not. About this in our next video. Be sure to watch it.


And whereas this unprecedented success of the team under the guidance of Coach Matthew Nistak is deserving of recognition and respect. Now, therefore, I, R.T. Daniel Johnson-Kennagin, executive new hereby declare the week of December 16th, has come to the Central High School to count the 16th State Football Champions Week, and heard all citizens in Johnson-Kennagin say, and they come to this designation and congratulate you on your achievement. Awesome feeling. It's all of us together. It's every single person. It's every single person that ever went to school here, that ever worked here, that ever played here, coached here. Well, it's euphoric, actually. It's surreal. It's everything that you thought it would be, and maybe more. We're finally starting to set in. Last night, everybody was just numb. Going back to the hotel and stuff. Nobody really understood what had really happened, I don't think. The first three hours was pretty boring, and the next 30 minutes was a little bit harder, but as we got closer, the anticipation started to build up, and by the time we got to the county line, you could just see miles and miles of cars and ambulances and fire trucks. It was insane. It still hasn't sank in yet. Seeing everybody here, everybody came out to support us. It's an unbelievable feeling. I'm so thankful for everything. God's worth the blessings. Amazing. Like I said, this one is not just for us. It's for the community and everybody that supported us the whole way. Like I said, we used to come down the road, and I'd never seen half the people on the side of the road. They were just out of their car in the cold, jumping with joy. I mean, old people, 60-year-old people, jumping with joy. This community has been starved for a championship, and I'm glad we can bring it to them.


The title of our sermon this morning is don't lose heart. Don't lose heart We're in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 Verses 1 through 6 we've been working our way verse by verse through Paul's second canonical leather letter to the Corinthian church This morning we want to remind ourselves that as Paul is writing this letter as Paul is writing to the letter this letter to the Corinthian church he's writing in the midst of great adversity great adversity the church is still in mature Paul writing to them in 1st Corinthians as to babes in Christ Sin has plagued this church and until Paul's repeated revukes the Corinthians have done little to faithfully deal with it and now That insults a serious injury so to speak false teachers have infiltrated the church at Corinth leading away disciples after themselves these Savage wolves are undermining Paul in the process a full-scale mutiny is now underway in Corinth and the accusations are flying Paul's physical presence is weak. They say his letters are too harsh. His speech is Contemptable he was fickle. They say duplicitous can't make up his mind about his travel plans He was mishandling the giving mishandling the offering not handling appropriately the funds given by the church He's suffered too much to be blessed by God is suffering more an indication of God's Abandonment of his ministry not God's blessing on his ministry and it did in addition to all this There are many many Inqurents who now reject the gospel and turn away from Paul and his apostolic message Paul knows well That if his apostolic authority is undermined in Corinth then his apostolic message Is also undermined in Corinth if his message is undermined Then many in Corinth will suffer shipwreck of their faith and the church ultimately may be lost right? These circumstances have Paul reluctantly playing defense so to speak the stakes are high and Paul must enter into a defense of his Ministry defending his apostolic credentials Defending the veracity of biblical truth that he's preaching defending Ultimately here the integrity of his ministry as we've seen from chapter 2 verse 14 now through chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 All of this right all of this the persecution the difficulty the adversity the rejection all of this can lead to distress or even discouragement in the strongest of God's servant Right chapter 1 verse 8 Paul says we were burdened beyond measure above strength so that we'd disbared even of life In chapter 2 verse 4 the circumstances in Corinth led Paul through much affliction through anguish of heart in many tears Chapter 2 verse 13 he had no rest in his spirit in one place He describes himself as downcast in another place He has great sorrow and continual grief in his heart in second Corinthians chapter 6 He faces tribulations needs distresses stripes imprisonment tumult labors sleeplessness and through all this Paul states now in second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 1 we do not lose heart We don't lose heart Aim cockato is the word to become discouraged to become Disheartened he says it again in chapter 4 verse 16. Therefore Paul says we do not lose heart This man has been through a lot. Amen, and we've seen much of that as we've worked through this letter to the Corinthian Church this word Lose heart rarely used by Paul in the New Testament. It carries a range of meaning based on its context in Galatians chapter 6 verse 9 And in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 13 This word refers to growing weary of the work or disheartened in the work Just succumbing to exhaustion succumbing to being tired Growing weary growing weary of facing the difficulty facing the average the adversity Growing weary of facing the persecution just refers to growing weary in the work Paul says in the Galatians text he says let us not grow weary while doing good For in due season Paul says we shall reap if we do not and here it is lose heart if we don't give up if we don't give out If we don't throw in the towel We shall reap if we don't lose heart Paul says And this from a man who has suffered much In Ephesians chapter 3 verse 13 The word here communicates discouragement Where Paul says there I ask that you do not here it is lose heart at my tribulations for you Which is for your glory and this is interesting right in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 13 Paul's letter to the Ephesians is called it a prison epistle. Why is that? Because Paul wrote it while he was in prison that Paul in prison is writing to those outside the prison Telling them not to give up or lose heart because of his imprisonment Paul's got the right attitude about gospel ministry amen Don't lose heart when the guy in prison isn't losing heart and he's writing you to tell you outside of prison Don't lose heart. It's a little easier for us to take him at his word and not lose heart, right? Don't lose heart Paul says we don't lose heart as much as Paul has been through Paul says we do not lose heart We don't lose heart this bog this Slog of weariness and discouragement is described by John Bunyan in a number of ways on Christians journey to the celestial city in pilgrims progress. You remember that book? The mirey slow of despond said help is the descent wither the scum and filth that attends conviction of sin Continually run and therefore it is called the slow of despond And about as fast as Christian begins his journey to the celestial city is almost as fast as he has caught in that slow And has to work himself out and get out of the mire later The pilgrims being weary they fall asleep near doubting castle right the owner where I was giant despair and It was in his grounds that they were sleeping from their weariness When the giant who was stronger than they were takes them as his prisoner Don't grow weary Paul says do not become discouraged Don't lose heart and you'll succumb to the giant despair the word lose heart in keo in kakeo carries the sense of giving up in the face of difficulty Giving up in the face of trial rather than continuing the fight Rather than continuing the battle He's rowing the towel it carries the sense of slowing down even sitting down in your course Rather than pushing forward across the finish line Continuing the race despite difficulty It means to succumb to doubts To succumb to fears to give in to apathy to give in to lethargy To give in to sluggerliness. They're professing Christians who have been in lethargy apathy or sluggerliness for years They're in this flow of despond. It means to stop striving to stop Toiling to stop laboring to stop pressing forward To lose heart to lose heart implies that you need to have heart to begin with Most professing Christians have no heart to begin with no new heart at least They have no heart for his word no heart for prayer No heart for law centers. No heart for evangelism. No heart for preaching the gospel Most professing Christians today have no heart for his church. No heart for the people of God No heart for holiness One impastor once said that Christians today suffer from the weariness of Performances them That's about the most absurd thing I've ever heard most professing Christians today suffer from performance is them Did they get weary?  When's the last time that someone tried to share the gospel with you? When did you last run into other Christians when you're out witnessing when you're out preaching the gospel? When did you last run into other Christians from other churches out preaching the gospel out sharing their faith out? Open air preaching in the parks No, most professing Christians need to lose their stony heart They need to get a new heart of flesh in Christ gain for themselves a heart of flesh Paul is speaking here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 Paul is speaking here to those Christians in This Christ hating world that are actually following him in Christian ministry Those Christians that are following Christ in Christian ministry those that preach the gospel and make disciples Those that strive to obey his commands from the heart Those that choose to love their brothers and sisters in the church to edify them Labor to minister and to serve them those that meditate on his word day and night because his word is their delight Those that hate their sin and daily or even hourly repent Those for whom the battle against sin may become Weary some at times, right Those for whom the preaching of the gospel may become Discouraging when there are few who turn to christ Those for whom loving someone in christ may have turned into losing them from christ Those who press forward And serve the lord even when the pressures of this world rise up and attempt to choke out the sea that was planted in your heart Paul says to you do not lose heart. You know it's unfortunate in our day and age That we have to make distinctions like that Right, but this word of paul in 2nd chrithians chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 Do not lose heart don't lose heart or for those who have a heart for christ a heart for the lord a heart for his cause A heart for his message It's for christians who are following the lord We have to make that distinction in our day when so many professing christians Don't follow the lord paul's message here in 2nd chrithians chapter 4 verses 1 through 6 is not to soothe you Who are not following him his message is not to soothe you who put forth no effort for his cause no effort for his name So please make no mistake paul's message is here for those who are tempted to fall back from serving him Tempted to sorrow and discouragement in the ministry because they're laboring in the ministry and the ministry is not easy ministry's hard work They're toiling and they're laboring for the cause of christ. They're battling their sin Right those are those for whom paul here preaches this word of encouragement Don't lose heart Don't lose heart He then paul gives us three motivations to sustain us in christian ministry Three motivations to sustain us in christian ministry one god's mercy two god's mission Three god's message We have god's mercy. We have god's mission. We have god's message first Don't lose heart because we have received god's mercy verses one and two. Look there with me Don't lose heart. We have received god's mercy. Look at verse one therefore paul says Since we have this ministry As we have received mercy. We do not lose heart And whenever you see a therefore whenever you see a therefore you've got to go back and look and see what it's there for Okay, so with a therefore at the beginning of verse one paul refers to his description of the christian ministry That really began back in chapter two verse 14 But he's referring To his description of the christian ministry that really began back in chapter two verse 14 where paul says Thanks be to god who always leads us in triumph in christ no matter how difficult No matter the adversity you face No matter the persecution No matter the rejection so it may seem that many turn away Thanks be to god who always always leads us in triumph in christ Chapter three verse three you are an epistle paul says of christ ministered by us Written not with ink but by the spirit of a living god Verse seven if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious Verse eight how will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious Verse nine the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more In glory chapter three verse 12 therefore Since we have such a glorious hope Since we have such a glorious ministry new covenant ministry paul says we use great boldness of speech We don't shrink back Chapter four verse one therefore Therefore since we have this ministry This new covenant ministry this ministry of the spirit this ministry of life This ministry written on tablets of heart tablets of flesh as we have received mercy paul says we do not lose heart We don't lose heart We have a glorious ministry amen A glorious message a glorious hope a glorious gospel a glorious savior We've been delivered to this ministry Now having been given this ministry as we have received mercy paul says we don't lose heart We don't lose heart paul Here in verse one Referring to himself and his co-laborers in the gospel. He says we have this glorious ministry of hope Glorious ministry hope in christ Right hope in the gospel Hope in the promises remember with me. What was the what was the key? That unlocked the door of doubting castle and freed christian from diet giant despair. What was the key? It's the key of promise The promises believing in the promises hoping in the promises right since we have this Glorious ministry this ministry of hope this ministry of righteousness this ministry of the spirit this ministry of life This ministry of glory Since we have this ministry we do not lose hope Paul goes on to say Here that we have this ministry through god's mercy It's a mercy to us to be given this ministry We have this ministry paul says verse one there Literally it says as we have been mercyed by god As we have been mercyed by god the grammar here verse one speaks of God's mercy having come to paul one time in the past right one time in the past with continuing effects or Continuing implications into the present At one moment in the past refers to paul's conversion right his glorious Encounter with the lord jesus christ on the road to demascus where the lord saved him Showing him great mercy think about the mercy shown to paul right paul is on his way to demascus to persecute christians To persecute the lord's church to drag them back to prison in jerusalem to see them put to death paul is on his way to demascus to do this when god shows him great Great mercy literally he was mercyed by god mercyed by god paul considered it a Tremendous mercy that god saved him that day right an unspeakable mercy an indescribable mercy And he also considered it a tremendous mercy at the same time that god called him into gospel ministry for the sake of the lord jesus christ Who just saved him turn with me to first timothy chapter one first timothy chapter one And paul describes this here in his pastoral epistle to timothy first timothy chapter one several times an axe A new testament where paul recounts his conversion on the road to demascus And what a glorious mercy it was And here in this little letter to timothy paul begins in chapter one verse 12 first timothy chapter one verse 12 paul says I thank christ jesus our lord Who has enabled me? Because he counted me faithful putting me into the ministry. You can almost hear paul right emphasizing me right it is Glorying in the lord's mercy. I think jesus christ our lord who has enabled me Because he counted me Faithful putting me into the ministry Although I was formerly a blasphemer a persecutor an insolent man But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief paul Was an enemy of the lord jesus christ an abject enemy of the lord paul was an enemy of the church he loathed The lord jesus christ and he abhorred the lord's fledgling church god From his perspective if you think about it god didn't need paul god didn't need paul's talents god didn't need paul's mind god didn't need paul's efforts god didn't need paul any more than he needs any of us right But simply to magnify the greatness of his mercy god saves Gloriously saves the apostle paul look at verse 14 And the grace of our lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in christ jesus This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance that christ jesus came into the world to save centers of whom i am chief I don't believe that's hyperbole on paul's part paul believes himself to be the chief of centers He persecuted the church of god He sat there and gave approval while they stoned steven You don't think that paul was convicted over his sin That paul was convicted over he blabber how he blasphemed god and persecuted the church of the lord jesus christ paul was amazed at the mercy of god shown to him Amazed verse 16 however for this reason For this reason i obtained a mercy So that in me first jesus christ might show All long suffering as a pattern to those who are going to believe on him for everlasting life paul's saying essentially in verse 16 listen if he'll save me he'll save anybody If his mercy can extend to me his mercy can extend to you How many of you here in christ would say amen to that? To anyone sitting here this morning if you're not in christ jesus through repentant faith listen to me if he'll save me Lord have mercy he'll save you too right if his grace will extend to me his grace will extend to you If you'll simply cry out to him Trust him put your faith in him and trust yourself to him The lord is gracious and abounding in mercy rich in mercy to all those who call upon him in faith He worships in verse 17 now to the king eternal immortal invisible to god who alone is wise Be honor and glory forever and ever amen paul counted it a privilege paul counted it a grace a mercy To be placed into the ministry Are you here this morning? Do you count it to be a begrudging duty? Do you think of serving christ with the gospel as Something you want to make excuses to get out of? something you neglect Because you just don't want to do it i'm afraid That you don't have the same view of the lord's mercy here that paul does paul counted it a privilege paul thought as a grace tremendous Mercy that the lord would even save him and then show him grace and mercy to put him into the ministry Instead of judging paul instead of condemning him and executing him there on the spot, right?  That's mercy the mercy of god in christ Second Corinthians chapter four verse one having this glorious ministry Having been mercy'd by god in this way so to speak We do not lose heart. We do not lose heart Brother sister we can't lose heart press forward press on persevere Rather than losing heart Rather than Shrinking back or neglecting our duty sitting down on the job so to speak quitting the race As a result of this god-given mercy paul says in verse two We have renounced The hidden things of shame Rather than losing heart We do not walk in craftiness nor handling the word of god deceitfully But by manifestation of the truth Commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of god First As we have received such mercy from god, we have renounced the hidden things of shame Think with me we've put off our former conduct if you're in christ You've put off the old man Which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lust and you are putting off that old man day by day Right, you've put off the hidden life of shame And guilt that characterized you as an unbeliever those things that you did In darkness shameful things are done in darkness to hide the shame of them. That's why they're called hidden things of shame And things not just done in darkness, but things thought In secret things imagined in the mind desires or feelings that do not accord with righteousness Secret thoughts secret heart sins Paul says in Ephesians chapter 5 verse 8 Paul says for you were once darkness Once darkness, but now you are light in the lord walk as children of light For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Finding out what is acceptable to the lord have no fellowship. Paul says with the unfruitful works of darkness But rather expose them for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light for whatever makes manifest is light Therefore, he says awake you who sleep arise from the dead and christ will give you light Paul Paul renounced the hidden things of shame shame Is that disgraceful conduct that rightfully produces embarrassment or humiliation How many of you felt shame before right today? many In a twisted way of dealing with the shame of their actions To deal with the shame they thought those things which are shameful Right, they thought those things which are shameful in order to deal with their own feelings of shame Shame that they should rightly feel for their actions. They now thought in order to offload the shame so to speak Then rather than acknowledging the shamefulness of them they blame others for shaming them, right?  What kind of worldly nonsense is that? You deserve the shame that you feel for walking around half dressed modesty right modesty Shameful disgraceful conduct that they rightfully hide because of the shame and humiliation of it Paul has renounced the hidden things of shame christian brother christian sister. We have renounced the hidden things of shame We're to have no part with them any longer If you're here today and you're outside of christ turn Turn from your hidden life of shame In Dana's sense through god's grace Of the mercy associated with the forgiveness of your sin Right offloading the weight of your sin the weight of that shame the weight of that disgrace Lord jesus christ will forgive you if you'll turn to him in faith Second through god's mercy Verse two we do not walk in craftiness. Paul says we do not walk in craftiness We aren't deceitful and we aren't deceiving We don't walk in trickery or cunning. We don't use Devices of men to gain our own agenda or to Achieve our own ends to seek our own gain to make our own profit right Paul said that The serpent deceived eve by his craftiness those who walk in craftiness walk like the serpent They're out trying to deceive For their own gain their own personal agenda to achieve their own ends They are crafty. They're unscrupulous ultimately. They're un-tearing unloving They're manipulative Trying to tack the pews for their denominational statistics All right, we're talking about inside the church not just outside right inside the professing church these things go on every day Willing to do almost anything to get what they want There's a church in town Quote on quote church. It's called action church action church put out a postcard with a Ferris wheel a sort of a carnival atmosphere in the background put out a video to match And basically their slogan is we want to make it difficult to go to hell by making it fun to go to church And what they're selling is a carnival atmosphere in the church Now listen someone might And do they do take offense when we mention a specific church or a specific impaster Well, this isn't the reason that we do that if they're going to put out public demonstrations of this Deceiving many then they are worthy of public Rebuke that is a false Church that guy is a false teacher stay away from that false nonsense. They are out deceiving Trying to gain disciples to themselves by cunning by trickery by falsehood by deceit Like the serpent deceived eve by his craftiness Someone might come along and try to deceive. It's fun following christ. Don't worry about your sin. Don't worry about your sin peace peace When there is no peace of the wicked says my god They're crafty. They're unscrupulous Finally as we have received mercy paul said in verse two We do not handle the word of god deceitfully.  We don't falsify it or corrupt it or pervert it We don't water it down. We don't misrepresent it. We've got to cut it straight. The bible says We don't hide the truth In order to deceive you or to lure you in with the lie What does that do when you package church as a carnival? That's hiding the truth so to speak Covering it up to deceive you to lure you in with the lie Right lure you in with entertainment The word this word for deceitfully adulterating at the end of verse two came to be used for Mixing gold or mixing silver a valuable metal Mixing them with inferior metals to degrade it or to make it cheap to make it inexpensive in order to Rattle a profit right out of it to deceive someone to make money at their expense for profit The deceit comes In that the deceit comes from hiding the cheap Substitute in the mixture With actual gold or actual silver truth as it were mixed with lies a little bit of truth Mixed with lies a little bit of lies covering up the truth right sometimes not as much as what is said As much as it is what is not said that deceives Mixing lies with the truth mixing deceit with the valuable right with that which is the treasure You know we've looked at this little conjunction, but That begins verse two the greek word a la at the beginning of verse two And so far in looking at this verse we've interpreted its use in relation to what comes immediately before it We do not lose heart Rather a la we have renounced the hidden things of shame Well, listen, it's also very likely here That paul has the false teachers in mind when he describes his ministry here and uses that Contrasting conjunction, but at the beginning of verse two that it's meant to be used in direct contrast to those Wicked men those false apostles false teachers that have risen up in Corinth But paul says then if we take it to be that but Verse two in contrast to those false teachers in Corinth We have renounced the hidden things of shame unlike those wicked deceivers. We don't walk in craftiness Unlike those peddling the word of god for profit. We don't handle the word of god deceitfully, right? That's not only in stark contrast with the false teachers in Corinth that opposed paul And sought to siphon off disciples after their adulterated message. It's also indicative of false teachers in our day It's also indicative of false teachers in our day unlike So many today that peddle the word of god We say with paul we Have not Adulterated the word of god. We don't walk in craftiness We're not handling or peddling the word of god in falsehood What's shameful To false teachers today is actually the message of the cross The thing that is shameful actually shameful To false teachers in our day is the message of the cross It's the reason that false churches false teachers have to repackage the message to this world They know that this world finds it offensive, right? And that's clear This world finds it offensive And so what do they do to appeal to the world or to sell it quote unquote to the world to package it to the world They repackage the message Come and look at our entertainment come and look at our music come and look at our church Come and look at our kids programs. Come get our coffee in the lobby, right? Come look at our fellowship. Come look at our kids days. Come look at our events they repack they Find the message of the cross to be foolishness or they find the message of the cross to be shameful And so they package the message in a different way to appeal to the world. It's really clear, isn't it? You can tell those churches who find the message of the cross to be foolishness by the ways that they package what they're selling Turn with me to first Corinthians first Corinthians chapter one First Corinthians chapter one You want to know if they see it as foolish? You want to know if they see it as shameful then look at how they package their product Look at first Corinthians chapter one. Look at verse 18 Here Paul says again to the Corinthian church, right verse 18 for the message of the cross Is foolishness To those who are perishing This world Is not clamoring For the message of forgiveness of sins In christ This world Is not clamoring To hear god's word This world Loves its sin lost people love their sin Their content in their sin until the lord opens their eyes, right and their content becomes a blissful discontent All right, they want their sin. They want the wickedness of this world So verse 18 the message therefore of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing Paul would say in second Corinthians chapter four their minds are blinded Their minds are blinded. They don't see it. They can't see it But Paul says chapter one verse 18 to us who are being saved It is the power of god It is the power of god. What the message of the cross For it is written verse 19 I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent Do you think you're wise And you want to repackage Church so to speak do you think you're wise and want to repackage the gospel? Listen, let's take out its offense We can do it. We can preach it better than Jesus did. They crucified Jesus We can preach it better It's fun to come to church Another church. I just saw Rewrote the lyrics to songs sung in a hit movie here recently a musical Rewrote the lyrics to sit quote-unquote the gospel and they sang those songs in their church Again, you can tell what they see As shameful or what they believe to be shameful by how they repackage their product to sell it To market it, right? They find the message of the cross Foolishness they find the message of the bible the message Of the son of god crucified for sinners. They find that to be shameful So package it with worldly trinkets in order to sell it But god says i will destroy the wisdom of the wise I will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent verse 20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age has not god made foolish the wisdom of the world? That is simply foolishness Right the message of the cross is the power unto salvation For sins verse 21 in the wisdom of god the world through wisdom did not know god It pleased god through the foolishness of the message priests to save those who believe The jews request a sign the greeks seek after wisdom but we but see the contrast But we preach christ crucified To the jews a stumbling block and to the greeks foolishness But to those who are the called Both jews and greeks christ the power of god and the wisdom of god Because the foolishness of god is wiser than men and the weakness of god is stronger than men You want to know if they see it as shameful you want to know if they see it as foolish then look at how they package their product They chum the water so to speak with bait Right they chum the water with bait seeking to entice this world To a christianity quote unquote that involves something other than christ To a christianity that's not christian Obscuring with all of their foolish nonsense Obscuring what they believe to be the shameful message of the cross The message of the cross Isn't enough for them the message of the cross Isn't what they want to preach it's shameful to the loss and so they cover Their shame and they cover their shame with music They cover their shame with entertainment they cover their shame with light Sermons that last 20 minutes and never confront you in your sin right They cover the shame of the cross with encouraging messages Comforting you in your sin preaching peace peace when there is no peace to the wicked Word peddlers as paul says they hide As a good marketer as a good salesman might do as a slick salesman a snake oil salesman might do They hide the perceived Deficiencies of their product to their consumer who is their consumer the world They overly emphasize those benefits that most appeal to the consumer Right as a slick salesman might do look at these benefits Don't look at this over here Look at these benefits They tell them what they want to hear they look for features that will get their attention. They're trying to appeal to the world This is worldless nonsense worldly foolishness Appealing only to those who are perishing Paul says brother sister don't lose heart Don't lose heart This is going on all around us all around us. Don't lose heart. Not as a control And god has said that it is the message of the cross that saves It is the power of god unto salvation. Don't lose heart verse 26 For you see your calling brethren, don't you? That not many wise according to the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called But god has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise And god has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty And the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen and the things which are not to bring to nothing the things that are so that no flesh should glory in his presence But of him you are in christ jesus who became for us wisdom from god and righteousness and sanctification and redemption That as it is written he who glories Let him glory in the lord Let him glory in the lord You know this church Is not our selling point as wonderful as this church is right as Much as i love this church This church is not our selling we're not selling our church We're not marketing our church It's not simply we're trying to get people to come to our church That's not at all what this is about right? Come to our church because the lord has preached here Come to our church because Salvation by grace alone through faith alone in christ alone his priest here and you if you're not in christ you need him Your soul depends upon it come here for the preaching of that message Right come here for the preaching of the cross Our selling point is not the music Our selling point quote-unquote is not the kids programs It's not the fellowship. It's not the coffee Our selling point is not to soothe you in your sin Come here week after week so that you can feel better about yourself while you stay in your sin Our selling point quote-unquote is that god the sun was crucified for sinners and he now reigns as lord over all Lord over you You need that i need that And praise god he offers it to us freely He offers it to us freely That's to be our point of contact so to speak With unbelievers They're dead in their sins and they need christ If you're here this morning, that's what you need You need to feel come to understand come to see the weight of your sin It's the very bad news The very terrifying news that must proceed the glorious news of grace and mercy in christ jesus our lord You need that you and i on this side of eternity Will battle sin battle temptation until god calls us home We need constant exhortation, right? Paul says remind them of these things Constantly that they should be careful to maintain good works How often? Constantly how often we need it? We need it constantly. Don't we? You're fooling yourself if you say you don't Unlike the false teachers right in great contrast to the false teachers. Paul says this in 1st Corinthians chapter 2 Look at chapter 2. Look at the page Verses 1 through 5 So unlike the false teachers Paul says this beginning in verse 1 i brethren. He said when I came to you I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of god They did Those false teachers came boasting in the excellence of their speech right Those false teachers came boasting in their credentials Boasting in how eloquent they were right boasting in their backgrounds boasting in their teachers Right boasting in their message boasting at all they had to offer boasting in their letters of commendation Right boasting boasting boasting And paul says when I came to you I didn't come with excellence of speech I didn't come with wisdom they boasted in their wisdom Boasted in their teaching Boasted they had their act all together And paul says I didn't come that way with excellence of speech or wisdom declaring to you the testimony of god How did paul come verse 2? I determined Not to know anything among you except jesus christ and him crucified What a contradiction right what a distinction Paul determined not to know anything among them Except jesus christ and him crucified These guys boasted in their wisdom and here's paul christ and him crucified christ and him crucified the message of the cross Verse 3 I was with you in weakness They said his weakness was contemptible His speech rude I was with you in fear paul says they boasted in their confidence Paul says I was with you in much trembling And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom That's all they had Were persuasive words of human wisdom But paul says verse 4 in demonstration Of the spirit and of power why paul verse 5 So that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of god Amen I think with me for a moment They came boasting in their speech the excellence of their speech We got guys today who will Quoth their hair slap on some skinny jeans put on a wire impaired glasses And boast themselves as being a great eloquent speaker right I can't wear skinny jeans as soon as I put skinny jeans on they turn into fat jeans You're not going to get eloquence of speech right They boast in that great public speakers eloquent speaker they buy their sermons Have someone craft them in just the right way Remember one time after listening to a miserable sermon. I was in a bookstore looking in the bookstore in the The area of the store for church supplies I see a box on the top shelf and I Look at the the the label on the box and it was the sermon. I had just heard It preached a sermon out of a box From a quote-unquote christian bookstore right They're boasting in their activities Boasting in their music All right change the lyrics to a musical song, you know put one of their Paid musicians singers on stage to sing it In a dress just like the person on the movie Put all the lighting the piano just like the person on the movie and then sing this song right boasting in their entertainment Boasting in their kids programs Paul says I determine not to know anything among you except jesus christ and him crucified Determined not to know anything among you except jesus christ and him crucified Paul essentially says listen We say with paul if we had All those things If we prioritized all those things if we emphasize all those things if we sold quote-unquote sold you All those things Our concern would be That your faith would not be resting on the power of god But in those things That your faith would not be resting on the power of god, but on the wisdom of men If we manipulated the message watered it down recrafted it to make it appealing to you How would then we know for certain that your faith isn't resting on the wisdom of our manipulation the wisdom of our crafting And not on the power of god When those come along Those men who come along And say listen, we're just gonna we're gonna change the methodology a little bit. We're just gonna tweak it Instead of turn from your sin and trust christ We're just gonna we're just gonna Say it a little differently. It's not it's just a matter of semantics Just admit that you're a sinner Believe in jesus christ and you can be saved Where's repentance?  I was asked last week. Why don't you do altar calls? Where are altar calls in the bible? Listen, let's just change our methodology If we can get man to move his will If we can manipulate his will with 14 verses of I surrender all and get him to walk Listen one more verse You only have one more opportunity as if the spirit of god is going to stop working because we're going to stop singing I surrender all Come on down. It's the last chance you've got If I can just manipulate men's Actions manipulate men's minds.  He's coercing He's working on someone's will. He's packaging a product that he's selling and it's not what the bible says If you change the message if you adulterate it in any way if you corrupt it in any way If you pervert it in any way if you change it alter it in any way How is it that you know That their faith rests not on your wisdom but on the power of god. You don't know Use the words that god uses use the words that the bible uses use the methodology that the bible uses Do what god tells you to do and preach the gospel And then trust god for the results Stop this nonsense of trying to woo the world hat in hand With your worldly and ultimately godless wisdom Paul says i'm determined not to know anything among you except jesus christ and him crucified That is such a damning indictment of most efforts today to reach the lost Isn't it? Paul says back in second grinting in chapter four verse two We've renounced all of this We've renounced all of this we've renounced the hidden things of shame Not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of god deceitfully But what does paul say?  What a tremendous grace right what tremendous mercy Then don't lose heart It's god's mercy That saves sinners god's grace that works in the heart of sinners It's god's message That is the wisdom and power of god and the salvation It's god's ministry god's mission that we're involved in Don't lose heart. We have received such glorious and infinite mercy trumpet his praises right Trumpet his praises trumpet his salvation Proclaim him as a trophy of his grace And see him glorified say with paul right You're determined to know nothing among the loss except for christ and him crucified Drop all the cunning craftiness of this godless world And the quote unquote professing church of our day And just preach the lord jesus christ and then trust him for the results. Don't lose heart. Don't shrink back Don't get discouraged paul's not discouraged paul's in prison when he's writing from To the the folks in Ephesus Telling them not to be discouraged. Don't be discouraged. Don't shrink back. Don't Give in for lethargy. Don't give into apathy Keep pressing forward. We have a glorious ministry and life is short Right, we have been given such great mercy and we don't have many years on this earth to preach it right Be steadfast be immovable always abounding in the work of the lord knowing That every bit of that work that you do not a lick of it is vain in the lord it is all According to his will And he works all things together for good for you And his word preached never returns void All praise honor and glory to him who has given us this glorious ministry amen