Welcome back to Think Tech, on a given Tuesday I'm here with Seymour Kazimurski, who has been close to Think Tech for many years, welcome to the show Seymour, great to have you. Thank you, it's wonderful to be back, I'm usually sitting in that chair, and I'm now sitting in this chair. Then you'll tolerate me for a few minutes. I absolutely will, it's such a pleasure actually. So we'll call this bigotry in America, that's one of our series, and more specifically we'll talk about the Congressional controversy over references to the Holocaust. It is a matter of linguistic evolution, there are boundaries to linguistic evolution here on bigotry in America. And Donald Trump president has created a lot of divisiveness, that divisiveness certainly lives in Congress, and in Congress we have divisive groups right now and frankly it seems to be getting worse.  These are all terms out of and referring to the Holocaust in the 30s and 40s in Europe. These are highly sensitive, highly charged terms, and we want to discuss today whether the analogy of those terms and what's going on at the border according to what AOC Cortez in Congress and others in Congress is appropriate. There is a controversy about it and we want to explore the controversy, we want your views of it Seymour, Seymour you've had plenty of contact with the Holocaust, can you talk about it? Absolutely, my parents were Holocaust survivors, they lost 65 members of their family, nobody was left alive, brothers, sisters, grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, they're gone. So they had to live through the ghettos and through the concentration camps in Europe and it became my job and my legacy to try to teach people the importance of never again because those concentration camps, anybody who lived through the concentration camps were scarred for the rest of their lives. We lost 12 million people in those concentration camps, 6 million of them were Jews and I think to compare the detention centers, which are horrible, we're totally inadequate, we don't have the facilities that we should have in the detention centers but to compare them to the concentration camps is to me just a lack of knowledge on the part of AOC Cortez. It's an abuse of history. I think so and I have some photographs after that will show. Yeah, I'd like to see the photographs but I'd like you to read the definition that you've found, I guess it's the term concentration. It is and this is the definition from Webster and it says, a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. Now that in itself forced labor and mass execution, if you say 6 million Jews were killed, 12 million people total, they were all labor camps, they were all slave labor camps, nothing and that description fits what Cortez is talking about in what I call detention camps. The term is mostly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933 to 45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Delsen and Auschwitz and I visited all of them today and I can tell you they are nothing. As terrible as the situation we have in Texas and in the south basically, we cannot compare the two and they shouldn't be compared because it belittles what I'm teaching when I go to talk to the kids, when I talk to university students. I speak to about 100, 120 lectures a year throughout the state of Hawaii and in all of them I'm trying to teach them that words hurt. I'm trying to teach them that bullying is wrong. I'm trying to teach them that we as a society must stand up for what's right not what's wrong. So if you belittle a word like concentration camp and use it in a form that really doesn't make it right, it absolutely hurts what I'm teaching these people. I think we can agree that the whole phenomenon in Nazi Germany, the concentration camps and the Holocaust was the worst crime against humanity that has ever been portrayed in the history of the world. And it's not just the 6 million and the 12 million, but people who survived who as you said are scarred for life, carry these memories around with them. But if the 12 million died, they were murdered, murdered, murdered, that's really special. That's a fantastic crime against humanity. And when they said never again, they meant that just a level of this crime should never be permitted to repeat itself in any context anywhere in the world. So really we don't have 12 million people at risk at the border, sorry we just don't have that. The reality is that we're overwhelmed at the border. The people who are to take care of those who come to seek immigration to the United States, they're totally overwhelmed. If they have a facility for 3,000, right now there's 30,000, that's 10 times the amount. I heard yesterday that 300,000 people in the first six months of this year have tried to gain asylum. 300,000. Do you know how many were prepared for? 3,000. It's impossible to give them adequate facilities. As horrible as it may seem, I think we're doing as best as we can. Not the best we can, but as best as we can. So we have to create more housing for them. We have to create a system that stops a lot of these people coming through. And it's happening slowly but surely. But when you hear these terms being bandied about and analogies made and comparisons made to what happened in Europe where 12 million people were murdered and went through incredible pain-suffering terror on a daily basis for years where communities were destroyed intentionally, willfully, we've never seen anything like it. So the comparison isn't really appropriate. And that's when a person who's skilled in a Holocaust, you have to be mighty offended. I am offended. And I felt when you and I spoke about me coming back on the show, I said, it's important to me that people understand the difference between what's going on in the South and what is happening or what has happened in the Holocaust. So, yes, that's a very critical issue. So let's get some context and look at your photos. Okay, here we go. So these are some of the photos. I'll tell you what camp that is from. That is from Auschwitz. This is a group of people that have been there a year and a half with hardly any food. That these people would get would be a potato and a bowl of soup. That's it. And that's breakfast, lunch, and dinner for them. And look what happens to them. Next, these are the children as despicable as this looks. These are the children that we're experimented on by Dr. Joseph Mengele. And it's horrible to think that we allowed this to happen in a Western society. But these were just some of the kids that were experimented on. And I don't want to go into it because it's so horrific.  But as you can see, it was not very good. Next, this is a group of kids that have already gone through Mengele's treatment. He tried to change boys into girls. He tried to change girls into boys. He did all sorts of operations to see how much pain they could tolerate without any anesthetic whatsoever. It was incredible. Inhumane. Yeah. Inhumane, it's correct. Next, then we get to what happened after the concentration camp. This one is Bergen-Belsen. They found people in pits, basically, in which the Germans had just had them stand at the edge of the pit. And then they would just take machine guns and people would fall into the pit. And as you can see, they were pulling people out from the pit. There were over 4.2 million people that were absolutely buried alive during the Holocaust. Go ahead. This is one of the photos that I use when I lecture at the schools.  He has no feelings of whether it's right or wrong. He's just doing it because he was told what to do. You can't tell me that this is anything compared to what's happening to people down in the south. This is the ultimate pathology. Yeah. Next. This is one of the worst pictures that comes from Dachau. Dachau was a concentration camp in Germany. And as you can see, the piles of bodies that came out of the gas chambers, they would bury them. And then after the war, those are American soldiers. After the war, they wanted to count. And they had the German people that lived around Dachau go and dig out those people. And this is what they found. This is not one, Jay. There were over 600 barrels of people, like the wheelbarrows of people. Next. Living conditions. We've heard a lot about the living conditions down in the south, obviously, in the detention centers. Here, the living conditions, six people to a bunk. If you go to Auschwitz or you go to any of the Holocaust centers, you'll see it. Six people to a bunk, one lying one way, one lying the other way. And as you can see, they're totally malnourished. This is how they had to live from 1940 to 1945.  A lot of them died in those bunkers. They do. They absolutely do. A lot of them prayed to die, Jay, because the effect on the mind and the body is so severe during the Holocaust. Next. Well, this typifies a living man who has basically at the end of his life, and he's waiting to be saved by the ally. This is actually from the Russian side of the Holocaust. These are how they found people when they liberated some of the camps. I mean, it's so inhumane that I can't even, you know. How could human beings do this to other human beings? Terrible. I think we have a couple more. The people were told to undress before they go into the gas chambers, and they are told to undress to be counted. They want to make everybody feel like they're worth nothing. This is how people had to live. Men, women, it didn't matter to them. They were just treated as objects. They were treated as slave labor. No, no food, no medical care, nothing whatsoever. It's a core initiative of the Nazi Party. Yes, it was. We'll talk about that in the second half of the show. Next. And I think this is the last photo. They tried to count the people that they found buried. And this picture was taken by a U.S. soldier. And when he took this picture, he just broke down. It was so horrible for him. And he said, how can mankind do this to a human being? That's the last picture. Powerful. Thank you. Thank you for taking us through that and for sharing your thoughts about it. Looking at the words, we're talking about linguistic evolution. The words that come out, and these are not the only words, but the word Holocaust, you've described what it means. The word Nazi, it was a core initiative of the Nazi Party. This was a very important thing for them to do this. They were bent on doing it. They spent a lot of time, money, resources.  Well, Jay, you know, we've had a lot of comment about definition of concentration camp. And there have been other concentration camps, and there have been internment camps. We had the U.S. had our own internment camp for the Japanese, but it wasn't a concentration camp. I believe that the word concentration camp should be solely used for what happened in Nazi Germany. I'm not just saying to the Jews, but to all the people that were in the concentration camp. That is the lesson that is so important for us to know, that if we allow bigotry, if we allow inhumanity from one man to another man, we could end up in another concentration camp issue. Yes. And it's so important for us to look at these pictures and say, we're not going to vote for somebody who may do something like this. Yes. And the other term which sticks with me, because I grew up in the 50s, and I saw all of this. I knew people who were survivors. It's never again. Never is a really strong word. Never again. And the idea was that if you knew about this, you had to spend a lot of effort. You had to dedicate yourself, taking whatever steps were appropriate to stop it from ever happening again. Well, that's the malaise of our time. If we don't do exactly what you say, it's bound to happen again. It actually has happened again since our war. It's happened in Africa. It's happened in China. It's happening in many different places where the rule of law becomes so strong that people become subservient to the rule of law, and therefore they allow it to happen in their own countries. And if we don't do something about it in the Western world, we're going to see it happen over and over again because our environmental issues, our monetary issues, our economic issues are all leading towards problems. There's nothing right now that makes me feel certain areas of the world where we're going to have big problems. So there are categories. One is the kind of person who never knew about the Holocaust. Nobody ever told him. Then there's the kind of person who knew, but it just didn't sink in, and he didn't see the enormity of it. Then there's the kind of person who for political reasons either knows or doesn't know, but he chooses to deny the Holocaust. We've seen all of those and maybe other machinations where people don't accept it or don't know about it. I wonder how you feel about the state of consciousness and recognition, the state of awareness and acknowledgement in the world today about the Holocaust and what happened. I think people our age remember it because we were taught about it and it became something that's important. But Jay, there's a statistic you're not going to believe. 41% of high school students in the United States have no idea of what the word Holocaust is. 41%. That's almost half of our high school kids don't know what the Holocaust is, and it's not because it's not taught, it's just they're taught so many things. It's one paragraph in a history lesson for a whole year and it's gone. So my job, if we think that this is important, my job and people like me who do what we do, it's not so much to teach about concentration camps. It's to teach about how we use the Holocaust as a lesson for our future. Critical. Absolutely critical. So you teach kids? You teach school kids and high school kids? I only started high school. I started high school and I go to college and I do, I mean at UH, I'm part of the fascism study group. I teach at all of the private and public schools and I give them a lecture on it. And there are a few teachers who are so well prepared that when I come, they have the right questions. They ask, one of the questions they ask is deniers. Well, some people say that this never happened. This is a Jewish PR program for Israel.  And don't forget, some of their soldiers here in Hawaii were the ones who liberated Dachau. Senator Dan Inouye, God bless him, he was one of the guys and he became one of my best friends and would come with me so he could attest to it. I saw it with my own eyes and that you can't, you can't deny that. I'll give you an example. I was teaching at UH Political Science 401, I think, and there were some kids in the back and I noticed them, they weren't really paying attention. We have like two, three hundred kids in the auditorium. And all of a sudden I have a Q&A after it's all done and I said, any questions? And there's a couple of questions. All of a sudden one of the guys in the back says, this thing never happened. It's just a big PR stunt and I was going to answer it and I didn't have to answer it. Because two of the young people in the front stood up and faced those two guys and said, didn't you just see all this? How could you say it didn't happen? This did happen. So you see, they stood up, they took what I had given them as information and they made it a part of how they were going to make sure those guys weren't going to get the last word. How about those guys? Did they accept this? No. They never will. There will always be deniers. Is that anti-Semitism? Of course. You can't help it. And they'll find anti-Semitism, anti-Israelism, there's a lot of anti's around. And Jews have a tendency to be a wonderful group of people to pick on because they tend to make the money. Economically we're amongst the best. And it's easy to say it's the Jewish people's fault. So that's part of my lecturing. Part of my lecturing is to show the kids how I had to stand up through all of the bullying, through the term which I hated, which if anybody ever says it to me, they'll get more than words from me.  In French it was called mauvege with, which is a bloody Jew. And that was so derogatory. And I had to take that because I lived in a little French-English town. My father was a doctor and they had done well from poverty, from nothing. We came from Europe without a penny. My mother was washing people's clothes. During the summer they would rent out our rooms and we would sleep in the basement on a hard floor. There was no wood. It was dirt so that they could make some money and build up what they had to build. And when people saw that, I was the mauvege riff, the dirty Jew. Incredible. It is. And unfortunately there's a lot of people who have not been educated or do not accept the fact of the Holocaust. This is very troubling and I'm so happy that you do what you do. On the other hand I think we've seen a lot of divisiveness in this country and a lot of it has emerged in this administration, the Trump administration. More and more we see arguments and in this case we see an argument among members of Congress where a small group led by AOC Cortez was taking the position that she can call what's happening at the border, a concentration camp and a Holocaust of her own. This is very troubling and what has happened is the Holocaust Museum in Washington has made it clear that she's wrong. She and her friends in Congress, three or four of them and I think they're going to ultimately blow away because nobody is going to accept what they have to say. And finally, Yad Vashem in Israel, which is a kind of Holocaust Museum there, the south of Israel, has made a similar statement at the same time, and this is what I'm going to ask you about, at the same time there are Holocaust scholars, there are Holocaust experts, writers and philosophers, Jewish, many of them, who take the position that it's okay to use these terms. It's okay to refer to other comparable situations so that you make the emotional connection for people and that what's happening at the border is like a Holocaust, is like a concentration camp. And there's a dispute about this, there's a controversy happening right now. I know. And how do you answer that? But you used the term right when we started, linguistic evolution. Yes. And that to me is such an important piece of what is happening in Washington, in our own world, in our social media world. Linguistic evolution has allowed people to take words and terms, twist them a little bit, or get the spin on them that they want for their own political gain. I'm talking about Washington now. And I think it's both parties, Jay, I think both parties are terribly guilty of trying to push an agenda without looking at whether the other side has a decent idea. So we're looking at a situation where Cortez, for instance, she, excuse me, AOC Cortez, came out with a statement saying where she compared, it was so horrible. And I know it could have been a moment of just looking at a horrible situation where she comes out and says, this was like Nazi Germany's concentration camp. And she may not have meant it in the total words that we think.  I don't think so, Jay. I think it's important that we hold people accountable for the words and terms that they use. Now, I mean, President Trump, he's the king by far of lies and telling things that aren't true and falsehoods and gray area stuff and all that sort of stuff. But people are holding him accountable. And he's got to learn that if he is going to do something, he's going to have to make sure it's from a fact. It can't be a half truth or a lie, et cetera. So what Cortez has done, as bad as it is, it just gives us the ability to push harder for these people to do what's right, what's right in their community and for us as well. Yeah. But what troubles me about it, okay? Is that the use, the evolution of the linguistics here diminishes the power. The historical perspective of what happened in the 30s and the 40s. It's enough, the time goes by, we forget. Maybe we don't teach all the children. Maybe they forget about it, and if you tried this kind of distinction in say 1950 or 55 or 60, you would have been shouted down immediately. But people do not know. The same group in Congress are the ones who favor BDS and a boycott of Israel and the vestiture of anything Israeli in the name of anti-Zionism, but it's really anti-Semitism, what's happening. And what troubles me is that people, I mean a lot of people in the world, are ignorant about this. And the more ignorance there is about this, as you said before, the more likely it will be repeated. We cannot afford to confuse what happened in 1930s and 40s with anything else. It stands unique. It stands all by itself. How much do you agree with that? 100%. I think that the terminology of concentration camp, although used for other areas, and some people say it's not true, I think it has to be relegated to what happened in Nazi Germany. My sister in Montreal, Canada, is getting a law passed that they are going to teach genocide, the actual course on genocide in high schools in Quebec, both French and English, which will include the Holocaust and other genocide. And I had my arguments with her about, yeah, but I don't want to lose the importance of what happened in the Holocaust if it's tied into genocide. The worst of all genocide. Of course. But it has to be taught that way. So she is making sure that it's coming out that way. There are schools in Toronto, in Vancouver, in New York, in LA, Chicago. They call me and they ask me about my definition or they heard about what I'm doing in the schools here in Hawaii. And can I send them my reading list and all this kind of stuff? There are people that want to care. And I think thanks to people like Yad Vashem and the Holocaust. We have, I think it's 37 Holocaust centers in the United States now. And we have teachers who are very interested in making sure that their students are taught and they get lectures like me. How much longer can I do this, Jay? You and I know it's- That's what we want to put that to you. You know, you're doing this and I'm sure there are others that it would be hard to find, but I'm sure there are others and other places who are doing this, trying to educate high school kids and college kids, trying to- What happens after we're gone? Exactly, that's my question. What happens after you're gone? We have to get somebody else. We need to have not just the Shoah Foundation, you're familiar with that, Steven Spielberg's foundation that has 40,000 testimonies of Jewish survivors. But we need more people to look at kids in the eye when they're talking to them. Jay, if you've been to one of my lectures and there's not a dry eye from these kids when they see these pictures of what happened. When I read from my mother's book and I have the kids read about how she saw her mother shot right in front of her with blood dripping down the Germans boots he didn't care. And she saw that these kids are, they're touched by it. They understand how horrible it is, but they need that personal touch, not just a movie, not just a book. So my goal is to train somebody, my kids unfortunately are not the ones, but to train somebody to go after me. To be able to go out after me.  I go to 100 plus schools a year. That's a lot of lectures that I give. You have to have the time to do it. Very important work and I hope you're able to find somebody or find a lot of people hither and yon around around the world who will perpetuate the knowledge of what happened. Because otherwise, as Santiana said, we'll be doomed to repeat it. 100%. Never again, Seymour. Thank you very much. And thank you for allowing me to come and talk about this. I really appreciate it. You're welcome.


Amen. Okay, keep your place there in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. We're going to be coming back, put a bookmark there, because we're going to be coming back to that chapter throughout the sermon. Let me first introduce to you what the Seasons of Life sermon series is all about and what it will entail. So I've kind of broken it down into four separate sermons. The first sermon, which is this morning, is going to be called The Single Life. The Single Life. And then we're going to talk about, next week, we'll talk about the married life. And then we're going to talk about raising young children. And then we'll talk about raising older children. And the challenge of this morning's sermon was that the first and the fourth sermons are kind of going to intersect each other. The whole idea is to give us a loop of our Seasons of Life here. It's not so much the age that you are, it's more of the season that you're at in your life. So when I talk about the single life, I'll be directing the sermon towards the youth, mainly.  So the first sermon series this morning is called The Single Life. Now, I first want to talk about a little bit that's going on in this chapter in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. This is Paul's perspective, this chapter. And Paul says this in verse number 6, and let me explain my opinion on this. I could be wrong, but this is just my opinion on Paul's statements here. In verse number 6, Paul says, but I speak this by permission and not of commandment. But in verse number 40, he says he ends the whole chapter with this thought. And I think also that I have the Spirit of God. So when we read this chapter, because mainly what Paul is talking about here is the decision to be married or the decision to stay single. That's one of the main themes of this chapter. And what he's talking about when he says, you know, I speak this by permission and not of commandment. Then he also says, you know, but hey, I have the Spirit of God. I also have the Spirit of God. Paul's just letting us know here that he's speaking from his own personal perspective as a single person. It's not that the advice that he's giving is not the Word of God. It's not that it's not true. It's not that it's just his opinion outside of the Word of God. He's just letting us know. And you'll see that throughout the chapter. He's just letting us know that, hey, this is from the perspective of where I am at in my life. It's still godly advice from the Holy Spirit. So let's go into the chapter knowing that. He's letting us know and he's telling us these things from his personal perspective as a single person. So as I preach this sermon on the single life today, I am going to focus heavily on the perspective of Paul as well. So Paul, single people in the room, Paul is probably the greatest example that we have in the Bible of a single person, especially a single man. 1 Corinthians chapter 7 gives us his perspective on being single or married. And let me tell you, the standards are high with Paul. So I first want to focus today on this is about the single life. So Paul is telling us from his perspective on the single life. I want to focus on the dangers first of the single life. Then we'll talk about some advantages that single people have. But we'll first start with the dangers of the single life. Because there are dangers of the single life. I personally talk to people about the dangers of the single life to single people. Because it's important that you understand this. And if you are single, you're going to remain single. Or you're just going to be single for the next few years.  Okay, turn to 1 Timothy chapter 3. So first of all, this position of being single, it's not just about being young. It's more of your position in life is what I'm aiming at here. If you look at 1 Timothy chapter 3, in verse number 2, we see, let's read the qualifications of a pastor. In 1 Timothy chapter 3, in verse number 2, the Bible says, A bishop then must be blameless. The husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach. Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. Now, this is not talking so much about the age of a person, as it's talking about their position in life. They need to be a pastor, needs to be someone who is experienced in marriage and raising children.  That's really strange about the Catholics, right? I mean, you've got this guy that's never been married, never going to get married, we'll leave that one alone, but he's going to give you advice on raising your children, and it's weird. It makes sense that God would have these qualifications for a pastor. When I talk about a single person, I'm talking about, mainly it's the youth, but it could also just be somebody who's not married, so you need to have that experience. Turn to 1 Kings chapter 12. We're talking about the dangers of being single, of being young, and I'm speaking to those who are not married with children. So the first danger is this. We're going to read an example in 1 Kings chapter 12. And we're looking at Solomon's son, Rehoboam, and Rehoboam has just taken over the kingdom, and he's having a little bit of an issue here in 1 Kings chapter 12. Let's look down at verse number one, and let's read this story, and then we'll talk about the first danger of youth. In Rehoboam, the Bible reads, went to Seshim, for all Israel would come to Seshim to make him king, and it came to pass when Rehoboam, the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, for he was fled from the presence of King Solomon, and Rehoboam dwelt in Egypt. That they sent and called him, and Rehoboam and all the congregation of Israel came to Rehoboam saying, thy father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke, which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. And he said unto them, depart yet for three days, then come again to me, and the people departed. And kingdom he said, let me think about it, he told the people. And King Rehoboam consulted with the old men that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, how do you advise that I may answer this people?  But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, his friends, his buddies, and which stood before him. So notice that the old men told him if thou will be a servant to those people, then they will serve you. That's a sermon for another time. But they gave him some advice, and let's see what he did. Then he went to his friends, in verse number nine, and he said unto them, what counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken unto me, saying, make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter. And the young men that were grown up with him, spoke unto him, saying, thus shall thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, thy father made our yoke heavy, but thou make it, thou it lighter unto us, thus shall say unto them, my little finger shall be thicker than thy father's loins. He's saying that his friends tell him, you tell them how it's going to be. You tell them that you're going to bring the hammer down harder on them than Solomon ever did, is what his friends said. And now, whereas my father did lay to you with a heavy yoke, they continue with this advice, I will add to your yoke, my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, come to me again the third day, and the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him, and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, my father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke, my father also chastise you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. Now, you see here that Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men. Turn to 1 Kings chapter 4. Now let's look at the gravity of what he actually did here. In 1 Kings chapter 4, just a couple pages back in your Bible, look at 1 Kings chapter 4 and verse number 29. So the first danger that I want to talk to you today about being single, especially if you're young and you're youth, is that you think you know everything. It's weird, but it's true, and I've been there as well, so don't think that I was some wise person when I was 17 years old. They think that they know everything. Look at 1 Kings chapter 4. Let's look at Solomon, who he was, and it kind of gives us a clue of who these old men were. He gave Solomon wisdom and understanding, exceeding much and largeness of heart even as the sand that is on the seashore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the East country and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men, than Ethan, the Ezraite, than Haman and Chalcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. Obviously these were wise men if he's being compared against them, and his fame was in all nations round about. So it's clear that people came from all over the world to just hear Solomon speak his wisdom. Solomon was given, you know, the Bible says that Solomon, right here, his wisdom excelled, you know, he was wiser than all men. These old men that Rehoboam forsook the council of were the counselors to the wisest man who had ever lived. Think of the power that Rehoboam had in his hands, he just forsook, he just let it go. These men were experienced counselors to Solomon. You know, what you need to understand as a young person is that you basically know nothing. You know, do not let this pride overtake you because Rehoboam lost his kingdom. You know, his kingdom was split after this happened.  It's the most dangerous thing that you could face. And here's another thing that to remember, Rehoboam was king. So when he forsook the council of the old men, you know, they probably just quit giving him council anymore is probably what happened there. But you as a young person, if you forsake the council of the old men, the old men might be your employer. You know, you're not a king. You know, the old men could fire you. It's basically what could happen.  Turn to Ephesians chapter 4. You need to adhere to wise counsel in your youth. That's why God gave it to you. You know, this is one of the main reasons, by the way, that you will see young people, and everyone here has seen it, I'm sure, that you will see young people that can't hold down a job for more than a month or two. Or even a year. It's because they come into a situation they know nothing and they pretend like they know everything. And that's a recipe for just getting you fired. Because people are, the old men that actually know things are only going to put up with that for so long. Okay? Look at Ephesians chapter 4. Look, this is the reason that God has surrounded you with wise counsel. This is the reason that God gave Rehoboam the old men to give him counsel. That was very wise counsel that they gave him. Ephesians chapter 4, look down at verse number 11. And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the what? For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. God gave you wise counsel in your life, teachers, pastors, your parents to help you, to edify you, to help you avoid these types of pitfalls. You need to use the tools that God has given you as a young single person, okay? Look, I use this to this day, this advice. If you can identify the people in your life that can give you wise counsel, you will make leaps and bounds in the Christian life. Because there's two ways to learn things, right? There's the hard way where you don't listen to people and you make your own mistakes and you suffer the consequences. And then, you know, there's the easy way, which is you just listen to the pastors and the teachers that God has given you. If you have two parents at home, those are your teachers. Those are the people that are there to protect you, to help you make those leaps and bounds in your life without you having to fall into the pit. And then, they're probably going to be there to help pull you out to a certain degree. But the point is that you will make leaps and bounds if you can identify these people in your life and listen to them. I use this today. I'm 42 years old. I use this today. I can go into a work situation and I can identify the people that know what they're talking about quickly, and then I listen to those people. I listen to what they have to say. I don't think I know everything about every situation because nobody does. And it helps. It will help you. It will help you not have to make mistakes and learn everything the hard way. Ladies, you know, it's no different for ladies. You know, you're not sure about how to go about certain situations with your children. Or how to homeschool or how to run a home efficiently. There's people that God has given you that have done this, that can help you make those leaps in your Christian life without you having to learn everything the hard way, especially with your children. You don't want to learn things the hard way. So, we see a danger of being young and being single is youthful pride.  That's the advice I can give you. And then, here's another key. You can't just identify who they are. You have to listen to them. You have to listen. You know, two things I told Garrett when he was younger is that when we first moved to Sacramento was I told him, number one, that you need to be when there's men in the church talking in a circle or whatever, you know, you need to be listening to the men. You need to be putting yourself into those conversations. That's the first thing I told him. You need to be putting yourself into conversations with, you know, wiser older men in the church.  That's the advice I gave my child. And it's good. You listen to what those men who have wisdom and who have done and they have experienced what they've done. And ladies, it's no different. Ladies, listen to the older women in the church who have raised children, who are raising children, who have homeschooled. Listen to them. They will teach you. You will make leaps and bounds in your Christian life. I remember even when I was a little kid, I was like, probably Jacob's age. There was a big, like, kind of the culture in my family was after big dinners, like Thanksgiving dinners and things like that. I remember, you know, there was a time when all the ladies would take all the food off the table when everyone was done eating and the men would sit around the table and talk. And by the time I was maybe eight or nine years old, I got to sit there. And I got to stay and I got to listen. And I remember, you know, and I didn't say anything, I just listened. Because I'm sure if I would have said something, I knew not to say anything. But I would listen to my dad and my grandpa talk. And I still remember how intimidating that was.  How do they know all this stuff? They would talk about the world. They would talk about machines or farming or whatever. And I would just be like, how? It was intimidating for me as a young man because I was like, how am I going to learn? How did my dad learn all this stuff? How did my grandpa, how does he know all these things? And I would sit there and I would listen to them and think, how am I going to know all this stuff? It was intimidating and it should have been. It should have been to me because it's a responsibility to become that type of person, that type of man. So listen, don't be a ray of bone because pride is a serious danger for a single person, both male and female. The second danger, turn to Ecclesiastes. I love Ecclesiastes. Let me read for you 2 Timothy 2. The second danger of the single life is this. It's sin. Sin. In 2 Timothy 2, verse number 22, I'll just read for you. The Bible says, flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. In Ecclesiastes chapter 11. Ecclesiastes chapter 11. Look down at verse number 9. The Bible teaches that as a single person, you're going to have sin that you will have to deal with in your life. You're going to have lust that you will have to deal with. And look at Ecclesiastes chapter 11 and verse number 9. Rejoice, oh young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in ways of thy youth. And walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes. You're like, what in the world? What's he telling these kids to do? But know thou that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgment. So he's kind of tongue in cheek with the first few words of that verse where he's saying, go ahead and do what you want. Go ahead and do what your heart tells you to do. Go ahead and just look at what you want to look at.  Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity. Look, this is coming from a guy who denied himself nothing. Solomon took his wisdom and his riches and he ruined his own life with it. And he wrote the book of Ecclesiastes so you don't do the same. So I thank God for the book of Ecclesiastes and what he's telling you is that you're going to endure many temptations as a young person and you can use them to ruin your life. Is the bottom line. It's a dangerous time in your life. And I will tell you that if you ask, I mean it's a dangerous time in your life. To be young. Now Paul says if you can't contain here get married. We'll look at that in a little bit. But he's basically fornication, youthful. Turn to 1 Timothy 5. Those are some of the sins that you will deal with as a single person. As a young single person. 1 Timothy 5, let's look at some more sin danger in the single life. 1 Timothy chapter 5, look at verse number 11. Paul reads but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry having damnation because they have cast off their first faith. And with all they learn to be idle. Wandering about from house to house not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies speaking things which they ought not. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. It's another reason to get married. The sin of idleness. This is a sin that single people will deal with. Will have to deal with. Because look, being single you don't have the burden that a married man with children has. You don't have 3, 4, 5, however many children to burden you. So here's my theory on avoiding idleness. This is my throw yourself into the lake theory. I'm going to share it with you today. When we first moved to Fresno, one of the biggest stresses, the biggest stress that I had personally was how I was going to preach 3 sermons a week. Pastor Jimenez had asked me to preach sermons before and sermons were a big deal for me. They took me a long time to prepare. They still do. But they take a long time for me to prepare and I was just like, how am I going to do this? I don't know how and work a full time job. But here's the answer to myself that I tell myself in those situations. I'm just not going to worry about it. It's just going to happen. And I'm just going to have to grind through it. So it's better, you know, I don't like going up to a lake that's got cold water and just dipping my toe in.  And I'm not dead yet. I'm learning to swim. And as the lake for single women is this, you're like, this doesn't make any sense. So what I'm trying to tell you is just don't worry about it. Just throw yourself into the lake. So how do I learn to not be idle as a single woman? Here's your lake. Serve at church to the single women. Become a soul winner. This is how not to be idle. Throw yourself into that lake. Study your Bible. You will have time as a single woman to study your Bible. You will be a teacher one day. You will be a teacher one day. Look, that should freak you out a little bit. That should stress you out.  Even if you have very young children, it should scare you a little bit that you're going to have to be a teacher one day. Study your Bible. Start learning these things. Prepare for motherhood. You're going to become a teacher. Learn to run a home.  There's nothing wrong with that. My daughter and I are exploring ideas on how maybe she can do some things to save some money and things like that. And just learn what the Bible says about preparing to become a wife. Now running a home, let me get detailed on this one. This is no joke. I don't even really know how it all works. I played my wife's day yesterday. My wife got up at 5.30 yesterday and she started making sandwiches. And then she made sandwiches and then she packed all these little lunches and all these types of things. We came to the church. We got everything in the right. Some stuff went in the freezer. Some stuff went in the fridge. I don't know the logistics of it, but then we went on this trip. We got home. We drove back from the trip. We took people home. By the time we got home, then she just starts cooking. And I'm like, what in the world? I'm like, we've done it. Stop. Stop doing things. What are you even cooking right now? And she's like, oh, I'm cooking for Sunday night and Monday. Because basically, the way it works in my house, I come home from work and I just walk straight to the dinner table and we all sit down and eat together. Heidi calls me and she's like, when are you going to be home? And I walk straight to the table from the door. But that doesn't happen on accident. I was working with a guy a couple of years ago and his wife, he had one child and his wife, and I understand I shouldn't have said this to him. So don't bring that up to me later. But his wife was gone. This was somebody I worked with. His wife was gone on a trip with her friends or something. So his mother-in-law and his mother both came to stay with him. And they both came to live with him for a week to help him take care of his child. His one child. And he came to work every day and he was just like grinning from ear to ear. He's like, man, he's like, I come home and the house is clean and I got, there's dinner on the table. He's like, it's crazy. I'm like, wow, sounds like every day at my house. And he's like, really? I'm like, yeah, I'm not kidding, even a little bit. But it's a big deal to run a home to be that help me to your husband. So he doesn't have to worry about those things to make sure that, you know, I don't have to worry about anything. It's just taking care of it, but it doesn't happen on accident. So you need to learn how to do all these things, especially, you know, the teaching part. Look, my kids just, they just get smarter every day. I don't know what's happening, but they're just getting smarter all the time. They're learning the Bible like crazy. That's not happening on accident. You know, it's not just, someone is teaching them every day. There's a method to the madness. So, I mean, this is something that as a single woman, you should be thinking about and planning for and preparing for. And this will keep you from being idle. Okay? The lake, the lake for single men is really easy. It's really easy. The lake for single men is this. When you're done with school, like high school, you need to get to work. Period. That's the lake that you need to jump into. And here, let me define work for you too. There's two criteria. You need to get a 40 hour a week job. And you need to understand what that feels like. And you need to get used to that. Look, I have not worked a 40 hour a week job in 15 years. I can't even remember what it would be like. If I had a 40 hour a week job and that's all I had to do, I'd be bored out of my mind. But I'm telling you, it's something that you need to get used to. Garrett just had about five, six weeks off when we moved here and he just went back to work a couple weeks ago. And you see it, it's like and then he's coming back and he's getting used to it again. But it is something that a man needs to be used to. Okay? He needs to work. That's your lake. That's your lake. Look, it's going to take, and here's why I say it's something you need to get used to. Because as a man, if you are going to raise a family on a single income, 40 hours is not going to do it. She needs to get that first hurdle done. Immediately when you get out of school you need to get to work on a 40 hour a week job. Because look, here's what happened in this country. In World War II, the women went to work. The men came back home and the women stayed at work. That's the basics of it. What happened. And when you double the workforce and you have this economy that is based upon a double income, it is difficult to make it on a single income. That's not what the sermon is about today but what I'm trying to tell you is you better get used to showing up every single day at a 40 hour work job, 40 hour week job. You better get, and if you're out of school that needs to happen now. And if that's a, here's the second criteria. It needs to be something that can support you. I mean you're one person as a single person. It needs to be something that can support you. If it's not, it's not a job. Find something else. That's the bottom line. Now let me give you, I'm not going to get into this today, because this is kind of where these two sermons, sermon number four and sermon number one kind of intersect each other. But there is a huge miss happening today in churches like ours. And I'm going to talk about that in detail on the raising older children sermon. You say what is a miss? I'm talking about an oversight. That's what I mean. Something that hasn't been thought of. A huge opportunity lost. So this is just a little preview to show up, you know, three weeks now. Because I will give you the details of that. Okay, look. Brother Angel and I, he had a conversation with me yesterday before we went on the trip. And I'm not trying to scare you about this working thing, single guys and even gals. I'm not trying to scare you. But Brother Angel told me, Brother Angel is in school. I'm not talking about him today.  And hey, if that doesn't affect your school, doesn't affect your church, doesn't affect your soul winning, and it's a decent environment where you're not in a bad environment, go for it. Work a few hours a week to start stocking some money away. No problem there. But he told me about his plan going forward and what he wants to do full time, and it's going to involve him working and also taking classes. And I told him, he's telling me, he's telling me these things.  It's going to be hard. And I'm not trying to discourage you, I told him. But you need to know that it's not going to be easy. It's going to be hard. But here's the thing. Victory is sweeter when you've done something hard. I don't know if you guys noticed yesterday, but we walked by and we got lost on our hike. We weren't really lost. We missed a sign. We got lost on the hike, and I don't know if you guys noticed, but we overlooked that lake twice yesterday. And we went up to, when we were lost, we went to the, we were kind of on this downhill path and we were kind of lost and then we got to this part where you could overlook the lake.  And then we overlooked the lake again. But you know what? It was much better the second time. Cause we're like, we did it. We made it. And that's how it is. When you do something hard, it's very rewarding.  So I'm trying to encourage you. I'm trying to tell you, you know, Jesus said in John 16, he's like, I've spoken to you these things that you may not be offended. That's what he said. And he's telling them about the persecution that's going to come. And the things that they're going to go through. He's like, the reason I told you is so when they do come, you're not offended. So when you go into this thing and it gets, it's doing it. Don't be offended because you knew it was going to be hard. Cause I told you it was going to be hard. So if, you know, you just recognize that it's going to be difficult, but it's worth doing. Victory is sweeter when you have to go through something hard. You should always be pushing yourself. Okay, that's the disadvantages of being single. Sin, idleness, lost, you know, lost fornication. These things are going to be attacking you. Pride is going to be attacking you. And everything rises, comes from out of pride, by the way. So that's the one you got to watch first. Don't ever get prideful as a young, single person. So you say, I want to stay single. Well, there's some advantages. Go back to 1 Corinthians 7. I want to make sure I give you all these advantages from Paul's perspective. Okay, from Paul's perspective. There are advantages of remaining unmarried. Look at verse number 32 of 1 Corinthians 7. But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried carries for the things that they belong to the Lord. How he may please the Lord. But he that is married carries for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There's a difference also between a wife and a virgin, the unmarried woman carries for the things of the Lord that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But she that is married carries for the things of the world how she may please her husband. So he's saying that there's some advantages to being single. Because you can care much more for the things of the world. Let's look a little bit about Paul and who he was. Turn to Acts 15. Paul was a driver. Paul was somebody who was very driven. I believe that if Paul and Jehu from the Old Testament took a personality test it would come up the same. Because Paul was not messing around in his ministry. In 1 Corinthians chapter 7 and verse 7 you go to Acts 15 Paul says for I would that all men were even as myself. So when Paul talks about being single in chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians he's talking about that in the perspective of if you want to be single I would prefer that you be single because you could be like me. So let's look at Paul. Look at Acts 15. How can I become a Paul you say? Look he was an evangelist sent out from Antioch. The man was extremely driven and I want to look at the argument that he had with Barnabas in Acts chapter 15. Look at verse 35. Two men of God. Two men of God. They're very close brothers. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also. And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas let us go again and visit our brethren into every city. Let's go on another missionary journey he's saying where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they do and Barnabas determined to take with them John whose surname was Mark but Paul thought not good to take him with them who departed from them from Pamphylia and went not with them to do the work and the contention was so shark between them. Paul would not back down that they departed asunder from one another so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus and Paul chose Silas and departed being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. In Acts 13, 13 we just get a little snippet that Mark departed from Paul. That's all we really hear. And then here you see that to Paul it was a big deal. He's like look if you're coming with me we're going to work and we're not going to quit. Period. And Barnabas you know was obviously more of a hey let's give people second chances let's be long suffering. Paul's like no I need people I can depend on he's not one of them. And it got so sharp between these two men who were close together these two men were close that they said you go your way I'll go mine because I'm not taking him. He was a hard man. He was a driven man and he was serious and he was a hard man and who was right who knows they're probably both right. But I want you to understand that Paul was was no joke he was not messing around if you're going to go along with him you're going to stick it out and you're going to do the work he was a hard driver so the first advantage of being single is this you will have more time to serve the Lord and Paul says that in 1st Corinthians 7 you will have more time as a single single person from a time perspective you could literally dedicate your whole life to the Lord as Paul did right Paul could not have done all of that while he was married turn to Acts 19 think about his life I mean he was constantly traveling he was taking all these crazy risks I mean think about it I mean the guy was look at look at Acts 19 verse number 21 after these things were ended Paul was in the Holy Spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and K to go to Jerusalem saying after I've been there I must also see Rome Rome Paul was dedicated to go to Rome and Rome was quickly becoming the most dangerous place for a Christian after you know the 60 some AD I mean that's the Romans after they destroyed the temple in 70 AD the persecution of the Christians and they were trying to wipe them out is what they were trying to do it was terrible if you read about it and Paul's like I want to go to the heart of that because somebody needs to go there and I'm going to go there this is the kind of person Paul was you know he couldn't have taken that kind of risk it wouldn't have been responsible for him to take that kind of risk if he was married and had children you know I remember at work one day I worked at this power plant in North Dakota and you will feel like this if you didn't have children you will have these thoughts there was this power plant and they had these chimneys that were 680 feet tall and there was a little tiny elevator that went up to about the 20 feet from the top and then you'd have to climb a ladder up to the top there was something going on with the plant and a couple other engineers like hey let's go up there and check it out so I went with them and I just remember being up there because the chimney is so tall that in the wind it moves 3 feet in every direction it's a concrete structure that moves and you could feel it moving when you're up there and I remember being up there thinking this is really stupid that I'm up here this is dumb you know because I mean you literally have that thought when you're married and I'm like I got a family depending on me and I'm doing some dumb thing that I don't even need to be doing is why you're not going to catch me going skydiving either it's not that I'm afraid it's just I don't think I should be taking risks like that when there's so many people depending on me that's what I'm trying to get at that's a small comparison turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 11 let's look at Paul's resume so you can do these things when you're single you have that option look at 2 Corinthians chapter 11 in verse number 23 Paul says are they ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in labor is more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in deaths and think about this guy's getting thrown to jail all the time he's being beaten all the time he's being whipped all the time of the Jews 5 times received by 40 stripes saved one imagine that imagine being whipped like that like 5 times he said 39 stripes 39 you know stripes with a whip thrice I was beaten with rods once I was stoned remember when they thought he was stoned to the point they thought he was dead I suffered shipwreck a night and day have I been in the deep in journeyings often in perils of waters he was shipwrecked constantly in perils of robbers in perils by my own countrymen he's being stabbed in the back by people in perils by the heathen in perils in the city he's in constant danger in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in weariness and painfulness in watchings often in thirst and fastings often in cold and nakedness this guy was constantly in danger you know they say this is just a side note but they say that the reason that the Vietnam war was so hard on soldiers mentally was because they were you know if you look at like the days of combat of a soldier in World War II it wasn't that many days it was like you know a couple weeks or something like that but when people were in Vietnam for months and months and months at a time they were in Vietnam for 6 months and today they were under constant stress of being killed they were under constant stress of some villager killing them or a sneak attack of some kind that's why the Vietnam veteran is so it was such a big deal on them mentally because they were in so much stress constantly look at Paul he was constantly in danger that's what that reminds me of in verse number 26 go back to 1 Corinthians 7 you see the contrast here in verse number 2 he says he that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord but he that is married cares for the things that will please his wife it's a complete contrast you can't be this guy if you're married with children that's what Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 7 so time is a big deal you know the type of situations that Paul dedicated the time his whole life to the ministry he gave all his time to the ministry you can't do that if you're married with children talk about a culture moment soul winning at Verdi Baptist church married family soul winning if you're married with children and you're a family and you go soul winning once a week you're doing well that's the culture there and that's going to be the culture here they're working out and they're working 40-80 hours a week some of the guys you look at the guys at Verdi and you're like oh man he's doing really well ask them how many hours a week they work there's some guys at that church that are raising families most of the guys at that church are working their tails off and it's a real encouragement to see me show up on Saturday morning soul winning rain or shine most of them work on Saturdays too it's time one guy is a friend of mine told me he's like I'm never going to quit soul winning because he's like I need God's hand on my life I need God's hand on my life to help him with his family but that's what they can do and if they miss Saturday they go Sunday they always make that sacrifice but single people at Verdi Baptist church will go soul winning much more you see the same thing here but they have the time they have the time to dedicate towards it and that's an advantage of being single here's another advantage you will have the resources turn to first Thessalonians first Thessalonians Paul even though he did not have to supported himself he was an evangelist and he could have you know taken money from the church at Antioch donations from wherever he was but look at first Thessalonians chapter 3 and let's start reading in verse number 7 for yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you what's he talking about either did we eat any man's bread for not but rot with labor and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you not because we have not power see that he's an evangelist we could have said hey please feed us please we're going to need some money for our trip but he didn't do that because he didn't want to be chargeable to anyone for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat we hear that there are some with walked among you disorderly working not at all but our busy bodies you see that that idleness comes in again now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ they work and eat their own bread so he was being an example because he knew there was a problem in this church about people that were not working so he's like you know what we're going to work he said they travailed he's a single guy he's full time in the ministry being sent out by a church and he's working night and day he said to support himself they were tent makers and they worked for their own money so look as a single person look at the obvious math of it you will have much more resources to serve the Lord with you think about the men in this church you have 5, 6, 2, 3, whatever kids you know that they have their labor and you have your labor but theirs is divided by like 5 or 6 or whatever I mean the single person should have much more resources to serve the Lord with just resources in general you don't have 5 people to clothe 5 people to feed 5 people to put a roof over the head it's just you you can do much more financially and with your time than the man and woman who is married with children that's the bottom line, that's a serious advantage but Paul is talking about it from his own perspective there's no excuse for being a single person that can't even support themselves there's no excuse for that in the Bible you will not find it it says that you should be able to do more not less now here's the thing if you're wondering how this is possible well you're surrounded, this is part of church you're surrounded by men in a church who have somehow figured this out ask the question iron sharpeneth iron so man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend there's people in this building that have figured it out ask listen you know it's like walking along a path with someone that's next to you and then you come to a huge hole and one person has a board and he puts the board over the hole and he walks over it and the person next to him just falls in the hole then you come next to another hole and same thing board, fall in the hole board, fall in the hole hey maybe ask where did you get the board I mean there's no reason to keep falling in the hole again and again this is one of the biggest benefits folks of being in a church is you can be edified by your brothers and sisters it's simple it's simple go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 7 let's look at the decision to marry to get married 1 Corinthians chapter 7 in verse number 2 Paul makes this one pretty black and white that's what I like about this chapter nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband he covers men and women right there now look we talked about staying single and we talked about the advantages of that and the disadvantages of that you know we talked about to avoid idleness young women especially 1 Timothy 514 out there for that the younger woman marry the younger women marry Paul gives that prescription for the younger women bear children guide the house give none occasion to the married to speak reproachfully he's like if you're going to become idle you're going to fall into all these sins he's like younger women just get married he says to the men he's like hey to avoid fornication it's better so you don't burn he's like just get married that's the prescription that he's giving now look I think that for most people men and women the answer is to get married that's what I think and I believe that the bible backs that up you know for two reasons we talked about them to avoid fornication idleness temptation sin in general sin in general and you know what if you remember learning to be idle if you do these things long enough you will form bad habits you will become someone who we all hope should never get married you will learn bad habits that frankly turn into poor character that's what bad habits turn into is poor character and the second reason that I think that most people should get married is this most people are not pulled listen very carefully to that he was a sent out evangelist of a church and he was an extremely hard driving man which is why I believe God used him and he relied on no one to support him even though he could have look I know a lot of men today I know evangelists today I do not know of a Paul today I have not seen anywhere near his equal so all these things where he's saying hey single people you know you could be single even as I that's a tall order that's a tall order that's why I believe that's the second reason that I believe that most people should choose to get married is what I believe now in the sermon on raising older children I'm going to get extremely detailed on how to prepare your kids to be adults that can have successful marriages and families I'm going to get down to the nuts of it of how you can do that but we see here that Paul is talking about just to wrap this up Paul is talking about the decision to stay single or to be married I believe most people should get married alright next week we're going to look at marriage we're going to talk about what the Bible says about being a biblical husband to a wife we're going to talk about what the Bible says about being a biblical wife about being a husband and then here's the big one you can say that we're married and I'm never going to get divorced and all these things but I want to show you what the Bible says about how to have a good marriage because just because you're married just because you're a husband and just because you're a wife and I want to preach the sermon next week and you're never going to get divorced which is what the Bible talks about how to have a good marriage having a good marriage is it takes something so we'll talk about that next week let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer Dear Heavenly Father we thank you for this chapter we thank you for Paul Lord we thank you for raising up this man and choosing this man to lead the ministry that he led Lord and all the things that he wrote down in the Bible with your Holy Spirit Lord help us to understand these things and to you know move our lives in the right direction Lord and that's the point of church is to read the word of God and then to grow which means to actually follow and do what the word says Lord Lord we love you we ask that you bless the rest of this day soul in this afternoon in church this evening in Jesus name we pray Amen


the space between stories. So normally we operate, we human beings operate with a story that tells us who we are, the story of self, the story of the world, the story of what's real, of what's important and what isn't, of who's reliable, what consists of true knowledge, how to live a life, how to do it, how to be a man, how to be a woman, where we're coming from, where we're going, a whole story that makes sense of the world and one's own place in the world. Well, there comes a time in life when that story stops working. It's not necessarily a sudden event that the story stops working. It could be, but often it comes as a growing sense of futility or depression or it just doesn't make sense anymore, a feeling of alienation, a feeling of not belonging here, of nothing working. That's part of a breakdown process. Often then there will also be some sudden event that has been built up to through that growing alienation. The event could be a health crisis or a marital crisis or some other disruptive event or it could be something social and political too, that's happening. And it unravels what had seemed so real and so permanent and so unquestionable. So you enter then into what I call the space between stories in which you just don't even know who you are anymore. You don't know what's real anymore. The ways that you've navigated life don't work or they don't make sense and you have even a feeling of vertigo. There's different phases of the space between stories. Sometimes you might be terrified and want to crawl back into the womb, so to speak. Sometimes you might feel exhilarated and excited about what's on the other side of this. What is the new me and the new world that is going to arise from the ashes of the old? Sometimes you might feel both of those things at once. But that process of truly letting go and of entering into the unknowing is usually necessary in order to step into a truly new story. There has to be that plunge into uncertainty into the empty space. It's like a vacuum in which something new can arise and it's scary. A lot of times we'll try to prevent it from happening but we'll cling on to the shreds of the old story. But on the other side of it, usually it turns out that it wasn't as bad as we thought it was gonna be. The worst thing in the world turns out sometimes to have been a blessing. Now a new story is emerging based on the interbeing of the self that recognizes that our purpose is to serve life and beauty on earth, to contribute to the healing of the planet and the healing of society. But that has not yet gelled into our collective defining story. You don't hear presidents and pundits saying, this is what purpose of humanity is right now. And because of that, we also don't have institutions to hold us in that endeavor, to support us financially in that endeavor. You can still make the most money by contributing to the despoliation of the planet, not its healing. We've got to plant some trees. How much money are you gonna make from that compared to digging a lithium pit mine to make electric vehicle batteries? It's the pit mine where the most money is not in the wetlands restoration project. And that's because our society collectively does not value the latter, but only the former. Much as we might say otherwise, our institutionalized economic value system does not support as much the healing work that needs to happen. So we're lost ideologically lost and economically lost. And this is another aspect of the space between stories. And it culminates when we really, really admit to it, acknowledge that we're lost and stop thinking that we know how to do this. Then we'll have the humility for something new.


Dear fellow Canadians, thank you for tuning in to an annual message on the Euromuseum of Science and Technology, which has now been renamed and I'll get to that. I'm going to make five quick points. First, as Board Chair, I'm really astonished and thrilled as to how well our huge construction projects have gone and are going. I'm sure you know that we've opened our new Museum of Science and Technology on time, on budget, rave reviews, absolutely of national import to the strategic vision for this nation. It's a winner all the way. And right next door and even larger, right now is going up a four-story collection reserve building. I mean, it also was going to wow people in the country and around the world on time, on budget, rave reviews. You can take those to the bank. So that's been just an outstanding way to spend the year and to contribute to the well-being of Canada. Second, we have won a ton of awards. We've won a major national award for research, another one for conservation, another one for exhibition. And that's not good enough. Rick Hansen honored us by giving us a gold medal seal for topping the accessibility agenda with our new buildings. It doesn't get any better than that with such a national hero in this country. Third, we've hired a new CEO. We're very fortunate with our former CEO and our acting CEO, Alex Binay and Fern Prue. And now we have Christina Tessier in the chair, young, vibrant, strong, lots of vision, all the right stuff, great values. And she will be an outstanding leader for the museums and for the country in the years ahead. Fourth, we have a new name. We're now known as Ingenium, Canada's museums of science and innovation. And maybe that name just says it all as to what we're about. And finally, I want to thank everybody for making such a positive success to the past 12 months. It doesn't happen with one person or five persons. It takes hundreds of persons, as well as great partners. And we've been blessed with them all. So thanks to them and thanks to you, the people of Canada and the government of Canada, for recognizing that innovation is something to invest in. And it's good to know that you will be continuing to do exactly that, including in our three wonderful museums. Merci.


I don't like easy answers to hard questions. For many, sin causes bad things to happen. That's their easy answer to the hard question, if God is good, then why is there evil? Well, whoever wrote Job didn't like that answer, and neither do I. Job makes me uncomfortable. All the author does is say if God was smart enough to create this amazing world, then we should be smart enough to trust her even when life gets really hard.


You can search for print and electronic books and DVDs and streaming films using the library catalog. This video shows you how to search for books and films on a certain topic. Begin at the library homepage, www.bellviewcollege.edu, slash L-M-C. The catalog is in the middle of the page. Select the tab labeled Books and Media. It is recommended that you pick one or two search terms to combine when searching this collection. If you get too few results, you can remove a term to broaden your search. And if you get too many, you can add a search term to narrow your search. Let's search for resources on cancer and nutrition. You do not need to put AND between your search terms, as the system assumes you want both terms in the resources it returns. Now click the Search button. This brought up 91 results. Looking over here on the left side of the page under Refine My Results, I can see that 71 of these are books, 18 are videos, and two are journal titles. You can change the way the results are sorted by using this sort by dropdown menu. The default is to arrange them by relevance, but you can change this to arrange them by date, author, or title. The Location menu shows the location of the print resources. You can see here that 23 of these are book resources on the second floor of the library. Further down, you can choose to limit to format. If you want just online books and streaming videos, select Available Online. If you want print books and DVDs, choose Available in the library. You can narrow the date range of your results. Let's limit to resources published in the last 10 years. So I will limit to 2007 to 2017. Now we have 54 results. Let's take a look at some of these results. The first is a book. You can tell that it is a book because it has a book label above it. It is an electronic book, which we know because it says Available Online below it. To access this book, click the title or the Available Online link. And here is the link to the full text. You can read a description of the book here, and the full text of the book is on the left. Now we're back at our results list. The second result is also a book. It is a print book, which we know because it says Available at BC Library Book Collection, and it includes a call number. If you find a print book you'd like to read, write down the call number and ask a librarian to help you locate the book on the shelf. Here is a video. We know it is a video because it is labeled above the title. It is a streaming video, which we know because it says Available Online. Let's take a look at it by clicking on the title or the Available Online link. Then click on the link under View Online to watch it. Our search did not yield any DVD results, so let me show you what that record would look like. Here is a DVD. It is labeled Video, above the title, and below it says Available at BC College Library Media Collection, and it is followed by a call number. If you find a DVD you want to watch from our collection, write down the call number, and a librarian can help you find it. And that is how you search the library catalog for books and videos about a topic. Thanks for watching.


Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today we're gonna solve a murder, the murder of Fall Guys. Fall Guys was an amazing game. It still is an amazing game. It's just, well, it kind of died off fast, which is disappointing because I actually really like it, I really love Fall Guys. And a lot of people have blamed among us for the murder of Fall Guys, but it's not the case. I've spent hours trying to figure this out and I think I've finally done it. It's knockoffs. No, not knockoffs. People who took the game formula and improved it and made their own version. Jump guys. New mall now open. Daily rewards. Play rewards. I'm not sure what that means. But anyway, let's get started. And look, it had 34,000 players. Of course, they're probably all on it right now because once you start, you cannot stop. Once you jump guy, you cannot go back. I don't know. Oh God. He's terrifying. Okay, that's how you jump. Well, dive, roll. I don't know a combination all the above. Can I push him off? I can. Great. How do I jump? Okay, space. Are these actual people, do you reckon? What was that? I didn't press anything. Okay, it's over. We're on to the next stage even though I didn't make it through that one. These must be real people then. Uh-oh. I'm so confused by the physics. I don't really understand what's happening. Oh no, this is awful. I mean, awfully good. I can see why people left fall guys for this. Oh no, I'm stuck. Oh no, I'm stuck. Oh my body's falling apart.  Do you think any of these people are actually having fun? Like, are they legitimately just sitting there like, wow, this is the best thing I can do with my time? Alright, the trick is to go sideways on this one, I think. Alright, here we go. This isn't gonna go well, is it? Oh no. This is too intense. No wonder people left fall guys for this. The skill levels required, it's a lot more than fall guys. And that's coming from an ex-esports captain of a fall guys award-winning team, I might add. Oh, look at this. This is a cool game mode. I wonder how they came up with this one. How is it the last square at all of them? Okay, that was unlucky, but don't worry, we've got this.  Wait, what? It's over? I like how the person immediately just kills themselves if they've lost.  Oh, you mean I didn't win? Guess I'll just die then. Oh, this is like slime climb, except we're at the slime, so it's just climb. I love climb. Oh my god, that looks just terrible. Absolutely horrifying. I think I'm at window. Oh no, someone's passing me out. Please don't win, I need this for my self-esteem. I was a former prize-winning captain. Oh for God's sake. What are you doing? Don't just give up, come on.  Quite clearly. I've lost again.  No wonder people move to it. They need the challenge. What is disappointing though is that fall guys has clearly copied a lot of their ideas, which is kind of sad to be honest with you. Like I get it, you're desperate, but please don't resort to theft.  How are they so good at it? How many hours do you think they've played this game for? If it's anything above 0.2 of an hour, I would be shocked. Almost there, almost there. Is he just waiting at the finish line for me to get close? He's gonna be waiting a while. If that's the case, I just can't get there. Here I come, here I come. He just felt bad and he just finished the race.  Oh for that sake, I just spawned. I'm gonna do what they do and just collapse because I want. I can kind of understand why they do that. I resorted to the same thing. It wasn't even me like, oh, let's do a joke and do what they do in the game. I was genuinely just like, I am depressed. I wanted to fall down and give up. I kind of understand the game now more. Oh, now I have to accept the pain again. All right, here we are in nightmares. Sorry, dreams. It gives me nightmares is what I meant to say. And we got some fall guys. That's not a fall guy. Oh dear. Why are his arms up there? Wait, oh my God, what is this? Outfits, red. Wow, that's cool. You can't actually keep it. You can only cancel. Apparently this is actually multiplayer as well. There's no way there was 10 people just waiting here to play this. These can't be people, surely. What is happening? What is going on with the camera?  Here we go. Even their little run is hilarious. Oh my God, did you see that? I was perfectly timing my jump and then it just stalled for a second.  Oh my God, the timing. Are these even hitting me? Did you hit you? Oh, do they? Okay, a little bit. It's kind of hard to get hit by them. And the fact that it has no music and it's just the pitter-patter of his feet is honestly terrifying. Qualified. These aren't players. There's no way. Like it says multiplayer, but it can't be, surely. Who would willingly play this other than me? Qualified. How many left? I want a crown here. I want a crown in at least one of these games we play. Get the crown. Seems simple enough. Wait, what's happening to the balls? Wait, I think the balls were released early. Don't worry, it happens. Oh my God, what is that? What's it doing?  What? Oh, okay, yes, a winner. I was about to celebrate. I was going to scream, yay, and then it just came off eliminated but then said winner. It's giving me a lot of mixed messages. But I got a crown, which means I can buy this thing. Can I? No, you can't interact with this menu. That's disappointing. Oh, there's emotes too, nod. Oh my God, never do that ever again. Wave? No, don't do that either. That's like something out of a nightmare. And flask. Oh, yes. All the kids are doing it. Come on, everyone, let's flask. Just start by dislocating both your arms. Oh my God, this one looks so promising and then I went in and he looks like this. He's like a tic-tac on steroids. Ah, the music. Why? Please hit the pavement. Please hit the pavement too. All right, we're in jump club. Qualified. They're all still jumping. That was it. That was over. I qualified. Thumbs up. Anything that says I'm good at things gets a thumbs up from me. Get to the exit. Okay, this sounds simple enough and it's a whole new idea. Oh, that's a bit scary. What the? Oh, what is this? Oh, it's in slow motion and they're all following me. No, I'm done. I don't like that. That one was scary. I'm done on PlayStation. I can't do this anymore. What is a sleep paralysis demon? I play. Oh, we get ads first. Great. I like this in games because it builds up the suspense. I'm excited. I can't wait to get in there but also I'm interested in a professional deployment, project management, populating. Don't lie to me. There is no one else playing this game. Don't even try that with me. Without the music and just knowing how the characters look from the front, it's really scary to be honest with you. I really, really don't like this. In good news though, I'm really good at it. Did I make it? Wait, place four? Is that what it says? Press space to seek new match. These are not people. Surely they are not people. It counts up too steadily anyway. Wait, there is one map. Is that it? I just immediately killed myself. Just run off into the void. Run, little fella, run. You can do it. Whatever you're running towards, you can do it. I'm just in the void. I can't do anything. He's just stuck there for eternity. This is purgatory.  Also your arms are all wrinkly and weird. I don't know what happened there. Do you think it ever ends? Oh, wait, what is this? He's like attempting to jump, I think? I don't know what he's doing. I don't know. I think I'm just here for all eternity. You know what? I'll leave that open in the background and we can come back in a while and check if it ever ends. All right, clearly, I've just been looking in the wrong places. All right, I've been searching and platforms no one even uses, like PC, PlayStation and all that. No, I mean, Olaiki. We should go on mobile. That's where you get the best knockoff, the best improvements to games. Knockout Fall Guys Royale. That's a lot of words that I like. I'm getting that one. Oh my God, when you click on it, there's even more words. Knockout Fall Guys Royale 3D, human knockover. Oh my God, one million downloads. This has got to be where all the users went. We've done it. Well, I'm here. I may as well get Fall Guys Run. Item not found. Well, I guess they ran away. What about Party Royale? Party Royale, guys do not fall. Well, I just proved otherwise a second ago. So many of these items were removed. Like Fall Guys Ultimate Battle is gone. Fall Dudes, maybe? That's still here. I'll get that one. They've got original music, which is awesome. Oh my God, the price of these. 30,000. If I watch a video ad, I get 500. So I'd have to watch 60 ads just to get to this teddy bear. I don't even know what the menu options mean. It's got this door and these blocks that just says add. Let's just click play. At least I know what that means. Oh, no, actually it means add. Sorry. What do I do? How do I get rid of it? Do I click this? Okay, good. And the music's back. That's a good sign. Here we go. Okay, this is finding them like slowly but surely. So this could be against actual people. I have high hopes. All I need is 29 more lonely souls. Playing Knockout Fall Guys Royale 3D. Guys don't fall. No, that's not it. Sorry, I don't know the full name yet. I'm new. Oh my God. This is so laggy. Well, here I go. Wait, the timer isn't over yet. How am I going? Oh my God. Well, none of them are moving. So I don't think they actually are people. But this might be good. This might be for the best. It means I might actually win. I can see why they just didn't bother striking this one down. They got rid of the other versions from the store. But they were like, you know what? This one, it's not even worth their effort. Oh my God. This is the best PowerPoint presentation I ever had. No, someone's catching up. No, no, no. I want to win. Oh, come on. I don't know what's happening. I can't move. Oh, come on, guys, please. This is all I have. Okay, there's two Jack 43s there. I knew it can't be people because my name is just you. And I never got the opportunity to put in a name, as far as I'm aware. Everything about this game would drive you insane. Like the gameplay itself, the lag, the ads that will not go away, the music is going to drive me absolutely demented. Oh my God. I thought I got away from it for a second. It was just silent for a brief moment. I could just hear my own thoughts. And while I might not like that either, it was better than this. Okay, I qualified. Fantastic. I came like seventh. I like how they just took a Fall Guys image and put in one of their little avatars. I'm getting an ad now that I've completed one section of the game.  I win. Is that over? Is that it? Did I just win the whole thing? It doesn't feel as rewarding when 25 of you win at a 30. Honestly, I think that just leaves five people more depressed than they started with. And that's a lot of depression if you're playing this game to begin with. Now, Party Royale on the other hand, that looks good. I love a good party. Alone. Playing mobile knockoffs of games. Yeah, Party Animal they call me. Party Animal Kev is what they say. Oh God. Welcome, Party Royaler. I'll skip the tutorial, please. I've played so many of these that I think I understand the gameplay now. I got free dance. Claim it. I mean, this is already off to a great start. I got to skip the tutorial. I got a free dance for it. There have been zero ads as of yet. It's very promising. VIP membership. No, I don't want VIP membership.  I was like, how do I just leave? Okay, again, way, way too quick. These can't be real people, are they? Oh my God, Jesus. Wait, don't start counting down yet. We're not at all here yet. It is enough to drive you. Absolutely demented like it. The music is so overwhelming. It's lagging. Everyone's just these blank templates for people. It's like they found some asset that they were supposed to design and they're just like, nah, we'll just use the rig itself. I can't play it. I'm sorry, Party Royale. I'm sorry to let you down. Oh my God, fall dudes. You're the real hero. Before even allowing me to play, it just said connection error. And it just gave up. But not to worry. I found fall boys. Ultimate race tournament multiplayer. And honestly, I'll settle for that. Anything with multiplayer. Even if it's terrible. It's just misery loves company. And I've never played so many multiplayer games and felt so lonely. They just keep putting me in with AI. Enter nickname. Yes. Okay, I can finally have a nickname. After all that, I just picked the same one. Okay. Yeah. This is definitely people. Oh my God. The first time I find multiplayer and it's so toxic. Wait, what? They're all running. Wait, hold on. I didn't get to go. Hold on. Wait, one second. I'm not ready. Generic game. What? Can I move? No. What am I doing? I can't move. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I'm moving. All right. Hold on. Help. All right. No need for that. Okay. I figured it out. I got the controls, guys. I'm on the way. At least it's not lagging. This is fantastic. Look how good I'm doing. Oh, okay. Oh, oh. All right. I should just never speak. All right. I may have lost that one, but I have high hopes now that I know how to actually play. Why do the characters look so pissed off? They just look like they're absolutely done with this world. Press E to invite. What? Why now? What are you trying to tell me? I don't understand. This is lagging a lot and I don't really understand what is happening. I seem to be just going through the objects. Oh my God. What is happening? What did I hate?  I wrote in chat that I came first. Hopefully they'll just believe me. It's like nah. Nobody lies here. Lying ban. Guess I qualified. First place for me. I came first. If anyone needs any tips, just let me know. And now you got second. Do you need some tips, beast? Chill down. I really relate to this person. They just got launched off the map, spawned back in. You know what? No. And then they just left. I cannot even see the obstacles because my guy's ginormous head is in my way. Oh God, I'm not going to be able to complete this. I said first for me. I'll probably leave though. A bit too easy for me. I don't even know how to fix my camera so it's just stuck. Oh my God. The leg animation is so scary. It just looks like liquid. All right. I got eliminated. And you know what? I'm kind of glad. I'm okay with that. My camera was stuck sideways. All right. We are going to end it there. I'm so glad we solved this murder. If you want to play some of these games, I don't know what's wrong with you. Maybe seek help from a psychiatrist or something. But I hope you enjoyed the video. I appreciate you watching. As always, subscribe if you're new. I post every single day. And that's about it. Hope to see you next time. Bye.


Imagine that your thoughts were like explorers slashing their way through the leaves and plants of a dense jungle. As these explorers make their way through the land, their steps and movements begin to form paths in the wilderness. After years of activity, these explorers form clear paths and smooth walkways. Naturally, the travelers who come along after them will choose to walk the already clear trails. The routes formed by previous explorers become the preferred means of travel for the ones who come after them. That's how your thoughts work. Your mind is that jungle. Those explorers are your thoughts. Once you allow those thoughts to create a certain path, it becomes easier for the thoughts that come after them to follow the same path. For some, these paths have been traveled for years. We all have the tendency to default to our old thought patterns, and this is when the Holy Spirit speaks. Form new thought patterns by following the leading of the Holy Spirit. For more on Spiritual Warfare, get Holy Spirit the Bondage Breaker at bondagebreaker.com.


parch ka motor muttu yaman ekantike asha vejwaliju jaanje ...so... ...I introduce you all ...aing they are the number of the water users group of this village witlle every village has water management group and i told you that under this regular 뭐� sizing there are five villages so there are five water management group and they redirected it to a water management facility He is the president of the auto-advertisement association of the federation. And they are bilazers and he is leading the five bilazers. So we are working together. So any question you to say something from your side or your scene and now they are working? Okay, well, we are first, let me thank all of you for coming, very much appreciate that you come and take the time to visit with us, it's very auspicious that the day we visit is celebration day of Lord Krishna's birthday. And I've been very impressed to look at the kind of work that's going on, I think when we look at how rice is being grown here traditionally for hundreds or maybe thousands of years, we see that in the future maybe the same practices will not be as useful. So we see that more people are requiring the harvest of rice from less land and so the way we manage the land and the way we manage the water will have to change. We have to work together as communities and we don't always know what the best answer is. So that is why we have to work together as a community with farmers and scientists to come together to find the best answer. So that is why we have to work together as a community with farmers and scientists to come together to find the best solution the best way to manage the water for the most productivity for each particular area. So as an international institute, IRI, we're very proud and happy to join hands with both the scientists here and with the farming community to help find better solutions to meet your needs. So we thank you very much for working together with us, with our scientists, with scientists from Bangladesh and from your whole community to try to make things much better and I thank you especially for joining us this afternoon. So that is why we have to work together as a community with farmers and scientists to come together to find the best solution for each particular area.