I've been on YouTube for about eight years now and for the past five and a half years guys I have been cranking out two videos a week not just Simple videos where I'm sitting behind my desk talking like high quality high edited highly produced videos a week and I need to take a step back. Welcome to the BCV channel. I am your host Pastor Seco Woods Please do the following. Please like subscribe share hit the notification bell at the bottom of this video That way whenever I go live or post any content or information for you You'll be one of the first to view it. 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I'll be cooking tomorrow ladies and gentlemen I will be cooking tomorrow. Yes, I will be cooking my wife wants salmon and so I'm going to Go buy her instructions make it the way she likes and I'll let you know how it is I'll see if I can post some pictures or something like that on my on my Facebook page Just like that and and even I'll even put it on my on my YouTube channel if I if I remember so but anyway, so She already has her she already has her strawberry cream pie and also went to Went to cheese cake factory because I wanted I wanted to give me a slice of cake And so I got me a slice of chocolate cake and I look in the bag and She has another slice of cake Inside that as well too. What's that about? What's that about? I mean, you have she has a she has a whole pie Strawberry cream pie from flying saucer if you if you're from Houston if you if you know what if you know the flying saucer I think it's only one location We live in Cyprus It is in it is in North Houston, Northwest Houston. So take take a wild guess Where We had to go Yes, so I went got in the car drove across town in the in the in the fire and in the rain I Seen fire and I seen rain when I was going over there but no so when got that came back home and so I'm looking forward to Celebrating Mother's Day with with my with the misses. So yeah, some of y'all know some of y'all know Flying saucer you go Monica, you know flying saucer. You know what's up. So yes. Yes. Yes.  I see you in the in the chat Joseph Lee Swani, how you doing fire Garza? What's up Raymond was good Peter and Steven get to see you all over in the Facebook chat. Thank you so much for for tuning in. Please with your mind Please share that this video on your channel or on your page if you don't mind, please like it as well Of course YouTube family. Thank you. Those of you who are joining in Who were just coming in to the into the YouTube chat? Thank you for for being a part of this broadcast and Yes, let's just go through the through the list. Shall we already got a lot of people already in here man? Man, man. Okay. So I got I see you puny. I see what you did there, bro. Yeah, maybe it's both. That's right The land good to see you elite energy good to see you Martin Leon good to see you good to see you brother Toby Shonda serene cash dawg. What up though? Leon's oh Tommy good to see you be great. Tyesha Sister Monica Kina what's going on was good. Dara. What's up, bro? What's happening? Who else Sparuzki lady good to see you Nick. What's going on sis? TW good to see you as well too. Welcome Who else who else we have here in the building Rodney was going on my brother? David right there good to see you Leon's oh, I think I mentioned you maybe but just to be sure Yes, I'm not and happy Mother's Day to the to you there brother Darrell is saying happy Mother's Day Hey Fager to see you good to see you who else who else who else the missus is saying good evening to everyone sister Christina It hello my sister good to see you Let's see what's going on who else we got in here. I think that should be it and Anyone else that may be walking in good to see you as well to water good to see you How are you sister good to see you Nikki seven two four six four good to see a gracious me good to see you Vigilant good to see you my sister All right, so we had everyone here so moderators you have the con and I forgot to put the announcement up on the on my screen. So let me go ahead and look for it again Andrew good to see you xx 20. What's going on my brother good to see you as well to John good to see you Let me see if I can find my announcement and Pull it up and read it Ah, let's see me go to my my sister sent to me yesterday. I forgot to put it up in here Bear with me ladies and gentlemen, let's see here Let's see. I think it is in my other. Yeah, I think they know the good. Let me see here We're gonna start making that announcement every Every broadcast in case people seem to have amnesia and want to Spot off at the mouth, you know I'm saying Mike, what's going on? What's going on, bro? Good to see you man. Good to see you brother So, let me see I was trying to find it if I here it is here it is here it is Okay, so the announcement is this effective. It was just today If the host that is me extends the offer to come up after being disrespected and you refuse You are here by block that will that is the That it would be now the rule going forward.  Alright, so anyway Got some information want to share with you all today I'm going to do a reaction response to Alan par if you have not watched this video He has announced that he is stepping back from YouTube He's stepping back from YouTube. He has given four reasons on why he has decided to step back He has not completely gone away. He's just stepping back from from his regular to video a week Broadcasting and he's he's dropped it down to one But he has decided to step back away from YouTube To focus on other things and he again He has given reasons to do so and so I wanted to give a reaction and a response to that and then hopefully provide some biblical Application to this to any of us or to any of you including myself who are Christian content creators or Christian content influencers All right, so brother Dan was good to see him good to see my brother Guys army good to see you but the problem was happening my brother. Good to see y'all. All right, so But first as always let's go ahead and go to our Foundation text one of them Hebrews chapter 12 verse 1 and 2 therefore Since we have so great a cloud of witnesses Surrounding us the right of Hebrew says Let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin Which so easily entangles us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us verse 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus the author and Perfector of our faith King James says the author and finisher of our faith Proverbs 27 verse 23 Solomon says no, well the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds No, well the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds And this live is going to be more application And regarding what Alan Parr has stated and hopefully I pray that you all will be able to glean from this as well too and ask for the Lord to give you the The illumination to to apply it to your life as well Says no, well the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds first Timothy of course first Timothy Chapter 3 verse 4 He says he must be one that one of the qualifications of a pastor elder Bishop He must be one who manages his own household well keeping his children under control with all Dignity with all dignity That is just some of the verses we we are going to be citing and discussing Here today, but again Alan had made a video. He posted it on yesterday and We he's received some some, you know some Gracious and loving response to it, but apparently he has not Been receiving the feedback that he has been desiring Since he started his channel. He says eight years ago since 2015 So he has started to reevaluate and and consider whether or not this is something that he wants to do in the in the I guess you can say in there that the Regularity of how he's been doing it before and so now he's dropped down from two videos He says high quality not knocking that because he does To now one one video per week. He said you may do more than that but right now Effective he said yesterday. He's gonna be doing one video a week. And so I think next week will be his Start to doing just one video. I want to say this as well too I you know aside from the fact that I have some issues with this with this brother. I Do believe That there are some things that he said in his video that we all can glean from I really do believe that so and I strive to be a person fairness I Can I can walk and chew gum at the same time I can I can warn people About a person's channel when they support false teachers like Marcus Rodgers because that I haven't I haven't forgot about that Alan That hasn't gone away You you needed you need to repent from that you need to repent for that Telling people that you're gonna build a bridge with a what a heretic and a wolf like like Marcus Rodgers and then double down on it That is the straight negligent and this reckless That's that's reckless Treatment and entrusting and also reckless stewardship of Europe of your channel so So I don't deny or neither do I you know am I backing down from that? but nonetheless When a person makes truthful statements, I can I can agree with that I can agree with a person when they're when they're spot-on with things and and still hold them to what they've said Because that's what it means to be consistent It means to be fair meaning when a person says something true when they say something that's right It's not what the it's not what Paul says in Philippians whatever is true Whatever is right what is a good report whatever is excellent worthy of praise think on those things and so yes, we're supposed to do that We're supposed to do that and I Think we need to strive to be consistent instead of being consistently inconsistent so Anyway, so let's get into these videos I'm going to respond to a to a couple of them throughout the live But at the end I'm going to provide some biblical application that I that I was that I wrote down and And I want to have you to consider as well too. So let's get to the first video the first clip This is Alan basically saying that he allowed the enemy to basically cause him to be to be discouraged and how he was Looking more so at the results of his channel versus just focusing on the mission for what he was called to do So let's get to guys. This is a video that if I'm being completely Honest with you is not a video that I ever really wanted to make and planned on making Because it's gonna require me to be very vulnerable Transparent and real with you all as I discuss Candidly kind of the future of this YouTube channel and just honestly where I'm at right now Emotionally mentally spiritually As it relates to YouTube so a couple of months ago. I'd say about a month ago. I had this great Milestone if you will where I passed over a million subscribers on this channel and everybody was singing my praises and everybody was sending me congratulatory messages and and all of that and what What should have been a really really exciting time of celebration as we look at that milestone it was experienced with mixed emotions if I'm just being completely honest with you all because Unfortunately What I started doing as I looked at the number of subscribers that I had amassed, you know a million people Clicked that button and said they want to subscribe and I was like wow That's a lot of people but then I allowed negativity and discouragement to kind of creep in because I started looking at my views on a lot of the videos that I was putting out at that time and When I looked at the The difference the discrepancy if you will between the number of people who were watching the videos and The number of people who subscribed I allow the enemy to just get to me so That was his his opening statement in his in this video if you haven't seen it I would encourage you to go ahead and watch it and and check it out for yourself I Appreciate his transparency. I appreciate him being open and honest about what he What he was doing and how he felt and what he was going through Prior to him making you know this decision to you know to back Back up and to step back From his from his channel a little bit and focus on some of the you know more important things now I don't know why he was playing the music it reminded me of Jimmy Fallon when the roots When he you know when when when Jimmy Fallon does you know has his pen and he was like Thank you Says I said such a thing And and you know and the guy you know plays the the keys why he's you know writing his thank-you cards That's what that reminded me of not trying to make a Diego jab at him, but you know, I don't know what the music was for I Don't know why the music was there for I mean that also reminded me a young and a restless a little bit I mean it was you could say what you needed to say without all the music You know, so I'm just I Mean that's just me but uh, but yeah So I was when I when I saw that it you know, it reminded me of of Jesus in his In his exhortation and admonition and Luke chapter 12 verse 15 Where he says beware and be on your guard against every form of greed For not even when one has an abundance. Does his life consist of his possessions? Jesus says beware Beware be on guard watch out Just because you have things does not make make who you are Doesn't make who you are. He says beware Against every form of greed every form of greed God says we need to what we need to watch out for that Because the moment we start doing things for likes and subs. We've already we've already missed it We've already missed it And and somebody got offended well, you know, I can say somebody, you know, the echoes and soundbites Thieves in a temple Michael I stole money from Seiko's BCV merchandise Williams He said That because I called Rouge Lana subscriptions kink. I Said because if you doing it for subs and doing it for follows, then yeah your subscriptions game You do anything to get your numbers up and All of us need to guard ourselves from that if we have a channel if we have a you know, we have a we have content Um, and that's why I said this is not just for for Alan. I believe this this this goes and applies to all of us That we need to be careful We need to be very careful We need to we need to watch out for the things that we For the thing that we do and why we do what we do but um you know, nonetheless, he continues on and um And I'll share these these other two clips and they're run back to back And um, and then I come on other side and and share my thoughts about that but as of late if I'm just being honest like I I've been discouraged because what I've seen is a shift in the type of content that is being consumed on youtube that's being created on youtube and um the type of content that If i'm being honest, most of my subscribers are more interested in and it seems like We're living in a world where more christians are interested in When I put out a video on I don't know Beyonce's new album The video blows up right 800,000 views But when I put out a video on like The seven last teachings of jesus which we worked really hard on or um other videos About you know, how to study the bible or you know I don't know how to overcome fear or shame or doubt in your life or whatever using the word of god it's like I don't know. It just seems like the majority of christians or at least a lot of my subscribers just not interested in that content and And that really broke my heart if I'm being honest because I'm like, man, this is Okay, I could do a video on Beyonce, but like is that really what you need in terms of your spiritual growth Is that commentary on her? I'm gonna help you be a better husband to be a better father to be a better christian maybe in some ways yes, but You know when I look at that content as compared to like Giving you solid biblical principles for how to live the christian life There's no question. I think that this content over here is more valuable But it it didn't seem like many of my subscribers were really More interested in that essentially as I saw this shift happen I started to see a slight decline on my channel whenever I started in 2015 I could put out a video like should christians drink alcohol or should christians take vacations together if you're single or Hey, should christians believe in the rapture or an overview of the book of john or whatever it is And people were interested in that right, but as the content shifted as things kind of changed It seems to be that nowadays What's more appealing is pop culture celebrity culture whether that's you know christian celebrities Or non christian celebrities and it's really about whose picture we can put on the thumbnail and put it in the title So carl lynx, you know fails from hill song church new york And everybody wants to see that because it's drama right and it's like that seems to be what more people are interested in is that Well, see this is where if you're not careful alan You're gonna always be discouraged and depressed because what you win them with you're gonna have to woo them with You have to keep but you have to keep that engine You have to keep the engine running So you have to ask yourself, you know Why did I start this channel? What what is your aim? What is your purpose? What is your goal? And if you're doing it To get more views and and of course, let's keep it real We all want people to watch our stuff. Otherwise we wouldn't do it, but if you're if your emotions and if your motivation Is dependent upon whether someone likes your content versus The content itself And again near the end of the near the end of this of this video. I'm going to provide I believe Some practical biblical application For all of us who are christian content creators because we're supposed to be set apart from the world We're not we're not just content creators. We're christian Content creators, you know back in the day people didn't want to be called christian rapper like la cray And others just want to be called a rapper who's happened to be a christian though. I'm a christian content creator I'm a christian. I identify with christ And so everything that I do I want christ to be seen. I want christ to be known if and if i'm talking about World events or if i'm talking about uh everyday life Then eventually you should hear or you should know that this person is a follower of christ It's going to come out eventually Whether whether it comes out um Subliminally or whether it comes out straight up in your face You you're going to know you are going to know But You have to ask yourself the question, uh, allen Why did you start it? And who are you trying to To seek who are you seeking to watch your your content? If you don't have if you don't have a target Then you're always going to be up and down. You're always going to have These a roller coaster of emotions wondering if this is something that you need to do But if you know what you know And if your purpose and your goal Is to produce content Then let it be that Regardless of whether or not people I mean of course listen People who are in the body christ We still we still have the the flesh to contend with yeah, so you want to have Uh videos that may be salacious and and videos not necessarily you allen But i'm saying you may have people that have videos and content that may attract them that are salacious and and even some videos are just straight up gossip We should be dealing with that but addressing topics that are that are trending Or addressing topics that are prevalent that deserves or that warrants a biblical response. I believe christian should do that I don't believe we should be running from anything that Um That is in this world that deserves a christian i.e. a biblical response A biblical response So if your target is a particular group or or if your target is just say I want to just put the content out And let the chips follow what they may and so be it Because then hey whoever likes it likes it whoever doesn't does it But it's not you're not putting your hope and put on all your eggs in the basket And then when what you are desiring what you are looking for does not does not manifest You don't walk around become depressed.  They rated you as a b. I'm b minus on mine But look at what your monthly earnings are On the low end seven hundred and sixty nine dollars a month 12 grand 12.3 I mean Now understand you may have overhead and things like that, but again you you have you have Just over 1 million subscribers Just over 1 million subscribers you created your account and in 2014 it says well, yeah 2014 but You have 1 million subscribers you have You have 30,000 subscribers for the last 30 days I mean and these are just estimations. This is just this They're they're ranging and on average. This is what you bring in This is what you bring home on average every month With 1 million subscribers 1 million now This is This is just income that you see off of this you see you have another ministry And that's fine, but What what is it that you are looking for that's why that's why I I gave the the warning To all of us when I cited luke 1215 we ought to be on our guard for any and all forms of greed We need to guard our hearts In fact proverbs 423 tells us to do that guard our hearts for out of the flow of the issues of life Guard your heart That applies to all of us all of us And again, I'm going to I'm going to cite some some other texts, but I wanted to give the The context in the background on why Um, I decided to do a reaction video because I believe it's important for us to to address this I really do. I mean alan is not the only one He's not um, this would apply to to all of us So as we're listening to him We need to ask ourselves as well Lord, how how does how is what this man is saying? How does that apply to me or does it apply to me if if some does then lord show it to me lord Give me give me the wisdom on how I need to govern myself and carry myself and and later in this broadcast I'm going to I'm going to share with you what I've decided to do with what I heard With what I heard. All right, so but anyway, let's continue on clip four and five I've been on youtube for about eight years now And for the past five and a half years guys, I have been cranking out two videos a week not just Simple videos where I'm sitting behind my desk talking like high quality high edited highly produced videos a week and um, I need to take a step back My four reasons for why I'm doing this First and foremost, um mentally right mentally what I what I realized was that I was allowing My part of my identity to be wrapped up in youtube I was you know, whenever I put out a video and it blew up and it went viral. I feel good about myself Oh, man People like my content i'm feeling good But then when I put out another video that maybe didn't perform so well I found myself kind of down so my youtube journey Pretty much any month was be up and down up and down emotionally, right based on how I thought the videos were performing and so what I started to do Was I started to believe the lie from the enemy that the youtube algorithm Determines whether a video that I put out is good or bad so the way it works guys is if I put out a video on youtube and Let's just say 95 of the people don't watch it and only five percent of the people click on the video The video could be great And I know that because I look at your comments you're like, oh brother allen this video really helped me But youtube doesn't think it is So youtube is going to look at the fact that only five percent of the people look at the video And they're going to be like, you know what we're not going to keep pushing this video to more of allen subscribers we're going to shut it down And we're not going to push it out and as a result that video doesn't perform as well because of the algorithm and I allowed myself to I don't know to to feel like The algorithm determined my worth Right like if algorithm likes my videos then it must be a good video But if the algorithm doesn't like my videos then it must not be a good video So I I'm taking a step back because mentally I had to reshape my identity I had to reform my identity and realize that you know what my identity as a human being and as a Christian Is not going to be reliant upon Whether youtube thinks my videos are good or not Now I have to agree with what he said Um in that last clip because again, this is why you know, I don't just say this To to you know to to be be holding to a script when I say please like subscribe and share the you know the content I'm saying that because what what this manager said what this brother just said is true It may it really is Um because I know for a fact that my content is not getting pushed out the way that I would desire it to be pushed out and You know and it can if we allow it listen to me if we allow that To affect us then we will say man forget this man. I mean man shoot I'm doing all this hard work and then nobody supports it. Nobody likes it. No, that's real That that is a real I I I concur with alan par regarding that. Yes, I do I concur with him on that um because I know for me, I just I'll just let you peer in to what I do, okay um Later in the video he talks about his team. I don't have a team I don't have a team of people that I'm paying to help You know produce quality content. What you see is what you get and what you see is one person who's responsible for editing one person that's responsible for Production one person that's responsible for lighting one person responsible for research one person responsible for the content Everything that's me I'm the butcher the baker the candlestick maker. I'm the guy with all the keys hanging off of my off of my belt buckle loop Of my belt loop that's that's me And I'm not saying that to to you know to complain I'm saying that everyone has everyone has a start. Everybody has different dynamics on how they Produce their content some people can afford a stab some people can't some people can only put out a video a week He put he's putting out a video Twice a week. I'm thinking he put out a video more than twice a week. I'm putting out videos almost every day And I would hope that You know my content hits a certain, you know level of plateau But but the reality is it doesn't so I would have to ask myself. Hey, okay What what do I need to do that's different or Do I need to stick stick it out and stay at it because what I'm doing I know the purpose of why I'm doing is what is for the it's for the kingdom and it's for people that Appreciate and like this kind of content.  Yes, but as human beings Who still have feelings and like alan said on his video This thing you can be like a roller coaster If you're not careful you better find your motivation My motivation Are those five females in the other room? Well one two three three four four four four. Yeah four four another room Other one on her way home That's my motivation. So when I get up at four o'clock in the morning And if i'm too tired, I may get up at five am four to five am in the morning and I come in here and I crank up these computers And I get to work spend time with my lord Asking him to give me wisdom on what I need to address what I don't need to address What content I want to produce How long is going to take me to produce it it takes like my wife just thank you it takes hours hours What you all see Is the finished product in other words, it's like being in the kitchen I mean how many of you you you I mean especially you women your wives your mothers you're cooking We we see the finished product. We see that we see the food already done, but it takes it takes time preparation prayer planning All of that It takes time to do that So you you're gonna have to find your motivation And if you don't have anything that motivates you Look to Christ Look to Christ Why do I say that because he tells us do not grow weary and well doing for in due season We will reap if we don't faint We will reap if we don't faint No, Alan has a team Alan has a team now I know he does editing too because he says it in the video, but he has a team of people that he you know that he has on this on his uh For his channel, but nonetheless I feel him on that I really do I feel him on that and and it does it does It does our hearts and souls good when you do like the content when you do Share it when you do support it when you do You know Share it on your channel or when you you know support it financially and all those kind of that that's encouraging That is that is very encouraging And so that's why I always say and my wife we always say thank you You know for those of you who support our content support our channel who especially when we do our live streams and things like that Because it helps us it lets us know and show they okay people are feeling what we're doing But they make coming time when nobody's feeling what we do What are you gonna do then? What what what if you what if you have a Jeremiah ministry? What if you have a Jeremiah ministry Alan, what if you have a Jeremiah ministry say go? What are you gonna do there? We're gonna take our marbles and go home or we're gonna stay the course Because here's the thing news flash breaking news god never promised that we would get subscribers God never promised us That we would get a youtube plaque for hitting 100k or 500k or 1 million.   There's only two options for me only two He has me to do something else or y'all just heard that seco went home to be with the lord. That's it That's it Other than that y'all stuck with me Let's go The second reason why i'm taking a step back guys Is because of ministry reasons listen And I hope and pray as a christian youtube you hear my heart on this god has given me a big vision for my ministry But what has happened guys is that i've been so focused because my my my identity has been wrapped up in wanting to To put a crank out content on youtube that I have neglected The vision for this ministry i've been so focused on cranking out two videos a week High quality videos and so if I ever want to really really fulfill the calling that god has on my life outside of youtube I need to take a step back. All right, and not only that um Not only that I've pushed my team so hard over the past few years Because we're going at an unhealthy pace cranking out so much content that my team has started to get burned out And god forbid I lose one of my team members who are very near and dear to me and they work really really hard And they're excellent at what they do because i'm pushing them so hard And burning them out So yeah And again, I don't have a team Now my wife is my team. She does she does help me with some things. She does um, but Yeah, man, listen listen um he's I gotta give him I gotta give him his his props On on some of the things that he said in his in this video I have to I have to be fair I have to be fair um because I told my wife.  We need to talk about this I said i'm gonna do I am going to do a reaction video to this and and and I did tag alan Uh in the uh in my in my video. Hopefully he'll watch it Uh, but I want to give a balanced response a balanced reaction to what he said Because I believe that what I believe some of the things he said man is uh, it's true It really is um, the music aside, you know, I'm just I'm focusing on the The reasons why he said he needs to step back and I have to I have to consider that for my for my own self. Um, I mean, I just started doing this full time In january and so, you know, I I enjoy what I do. I really do I I enjoy doing what I believe god has called me to do Even with some of the obstacles and bumps and and this really when I say ladies and gentlemen, this is a faith walk When I say we are walking by faith With this with this channel When and when I tell you that If there was another way for me to have made a smoother transition to doing what I Love doing now. I would have chose to smooth the transition I would have not have chosen my job to trip and to take money I would about a thousand dollars Uh out of my out of my pocket for reducing hours just out of nowhere And never never ever ever being able to recoup that So I had to look at the the writing on the wall and say, okay Well, me and the wife was talking about me coming home Me and the wife was talking about, you know, me doing something, you know different But god in his providence he he allowed that situation to occur and allow that situation to happen and and some of y'all know the the situation that had occurred, you know, but You you have people that will try to, you know, twist your story, you know, like the mob and others But I know what god has called me to do I know what god has called me to do And so I have no regrets But it does not mean it does not mean you won't have Your moments and you won't have those difficulties But this is a faith walk because The majority of the stuff that he has been saying And and almost leading to near the end It resonated with me. It really did it resonated with me um Saying the things that he said about, you know Asking for the body to support To support his uh His content now. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna address that as well too later in the video. Okay I I am I am because I want to be balanced want to be fair at the same time I want to be consistent with that uh with that statement as well too, but but yes, so Again, it this is this is something I think all of us who are our christian content creators need to uh Need to take heed uh these next few videos uh next three to four clips man. Yeah, it punched me in the gut It really did it it really chin checked me and uh again lord when I'm going to share with you You know my plans going forward, but anyway, let's listen to alan But guys the third reason is the one that gets me the most um the reason why I need to take a step back Um, and that's not not just for mentally and for ministry But for my family for my family. Um, this is the big one guys that um, and I hope and pray every influencer Here's my heart on this. Um at times guys. I have neglected my responsibilities As a husband as a father as a son to my aging parents and just as a family man because I've been going at such an unhealthy pace There's been times I've missed dinners Um because I'm up late at night editing videos Um cranking out content preparing to speak traveling all over the country At conferences and different things like that and as a result, you know, I have missed Time with my family. I've missed time with my wife. I've missed time with my kids and um All the while I'll be honest with you. My marriage has suffered in some regards to that Um, Jennifer and I are fine. Okay. We're solid, but but we don't want to just be solid We want to be better than that and you know, I know you probably don't want to hear that That my marriage has suffered because I've been putting too much time and I'll be honest I think many people who are on youtube is probably the same for you if you're being honest And that one this one right here. Yeah, I wanted to make sure Oh man, I said, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need to make sure I need to make sure that My tune-ups My marital tune-up Is current And that's what we call that's what my wife and I we call our you know our Follow-ups we call it marriage tune-ups. We say, okay, you know, what's going on with this? What's going on with that?  How am I doing in that area, you know, and and my wife is honest with me My wife is honest with me now again. I just started this I just started this thing full time in january right, so I'm not I'm not eight years in like alan My channel has been has been on Has started longer than alan's has but I have not been consistent because I was bivocational because I was bivocational bivocational, but Now that this has become a full-time thing Yeah, this is my job. This is this is pretty much my livelihood, right? So um One of one of my one of the streams in my livelihood But nonetheless, I want to make sure that Just as I was working for other people I want to put just as much effort and energy and Diligence and doing for myself now So although I'm working for myself. I'm also working for the body come apart of the body christ But if the body christ is not is not receiving the support or if the body price does not respond To the support or respond to the work That I'm doing then it affects the whole And this is why we talk about body life here on this channel Because it's not just it's not just a cliche it's not it is not just a cliche It is a culture and way of life that we want to Encourage and we want to help other people in the body of christ to to understand and to also to Put their arms around it and apply it and embrace it and allow it to impact and affect their lives too But yeah, when he said, you know, he needed to step back because his because of his marriage and because he needs to You know, make sure that his marriage is the main focal point his family Are the main focal point because technically and he'll say it in the video. I'll just say it now Yeah, our marriage if we're married, that's our first ministry before anything else My wife becomes it for my children and everybody else My family comes in for this channel and everybody else That's called priority. That's that's called making sure that we keep the main things the main things And so I appreciate what he said, uh, you know regarding that but he also talks about, um, his marriage and and his and his, uh, his family Children, uh, being his, uh, priority as well too Then this is the one that got me guys.  It just broke man It just broke me down that 15 20 30 years from now when I think about what my my little daughter and my son is is gonna, you know Remember me as and and what's going to be more valuable is not that I cranked out more videos on youtube It's going to be that they knew that their daddy was there Their daddy was there. I remember a couple years ago. My wife we were having a conversation and she said to me, um He said to me, you're so busy ministering to all these other people across the world whom you don't even know And you're not even ministering to your own wife in terms of like praying together Fasting together Worshipping together doing devotionals together as a couple as a family and guys that just broke me down So I I need to take a step back and I need to be the man of god the husband the father that I'm called to be because my family is my main ministry And now notice how he interjected those clips And his in his video presentation, right? That's work ladies and gentlemen That's work Again, if you know anything about editing, I mean for me, I just started doing this again I just started really getting involved and and and editing and i'm self taught I'm teaching myself as I as I go. I didn't take a class I didn't do any so the stuff that y'all see That's what i'm doing My my my daughter madeline. She kind of like, you know had me on the training wheels and she just kicked me off She just kicked me down the road like okay, she took the train was off like look, okay daddy go You do it yourself now and I taught you enough um, but But yeah, so everything you see the clips the editing the the sound bites, you know All the stuff y'all be laughing at and and and the funny all that stuff That's that takes time y'all because you got to grab the video You got to you got to you got to you know download it and then sometimes my downloader don't work It'd be tripping And then I got to wait for it to you know to get right and then I got to download it And then I got to transfer it and then upload it It takes it takes time It takes time Um And and ministry of truth, that's your opinion What he is doing is not hard at all what see and that and that's this this is why this is why I take issue with these kinds of statements because It may not be hard for you But for others it it is So how about we just appreciate and understand what people are because what may not be hard for you It may be hard for other people. How about that? So let's let's not let's not compare Our cells amongst ourselves can matter of fact that sin And so the the issue Is that this man is sharing his heart? Again music aside the point is What he's saying is it a lie? Is it a lie?  Exactly Christina His his videos are not are not just oh, it's no he he puts he puts our quality content I I got to give him credit for that He puts our quality content career for the soul. I love I love Latanya, uh, uh Quinn's uh channel y'all need to go over there and subscribe to that She puts in work for her stuff. She she she she only get a fraction of what alan gets as far as reviews and and um and in likes So you're talking about people putting in work and putting in effort And their editing game is far Much more advanced than mine But they they they deserve They deserve the appreciation they deserve the The credit for putting it into work They do so anyway Yeah, these these few videos was hitting me in the gut and I was like man, you know, I want to make sure that you know That I do apply Proverbs 27 23 that I do pay attention to my flock to my to my herd To my family if you want to put it in you know in a more applicable sense here because again This is um This isn't easy It isn't easy. I mean when I was driving a truck. I worked every 10 11 hours now. I'm putting in about 14 15 hours No lie You can ask my wife I get up between four five o'clock every morning And technically when my my daughter has to go to work. I make sure I see her off Come on make sure that she's that she leaves leaves the house safely So she has to be to work at five a.m. I want to make sure I'm up to see my little girl off Right. So once I see her off I mean my office already anyway, and I'm I'm you know doing work So from four a.m. To probably nine And if I'm doing alive, it can probably probably run nine o'clock So from four a.m. To nine from for four a.m. To nine p.m That's that's my work That's my schedule So if we're not careful we can be depressed if we're not careful we can be discouraged if we're not careful We can start doing things for clicks and likes and subs and all this kind of stuff and then you and I will become a subscription skank A social media whore If we're not careful So I I agree and then we'll neglect our families And now we're not we're not being faithful to the first mention that God has given to us and as our family Our wife and our children should God have blessed us with that. So anyway Let's go to the next clip Okay, the fourth reason is personally guys, uh, you know over the past several years I have had minimal time to focus on myself To do the things that I love to do um play golf Play racquetball play chess Exercise take care of myself Um relax Get a massage every so often like just enjoy life Relax and rest and I have been neglecting myself because Um, you know, I have been editing videos and uh cranking out content Yeah, so see I can identify with that as far as I'm saying. Hey man, I've been I've been putting in his work. You know what I did today like I said, I uh I'm appreciating the little things I'm appreciating the little things my wife had asked me today because I was in here Preparing for this live And I was putting my scenes together and uploading my my clips and stuff like that and so my wife sent me a text But she said hey, um She said hey, uh, uh The uh, the the story is uh, there nobody's in line, you know, the the bakery the pie store Um, she said there there, you know, nobody's in line.  I said give me a few minutes. I'm almost done I just got to write on it write down a few more things and upload a few more, you know videos Because I wanted to be with her Just taking a drive I mean listen, I'm can I keep it real with y'all can I keep it real with y'all My daughter drives my car now My daughter drives my car now more than I do No lie My oldest daughter drives my car more than I do Because I'm at home. I mean I don't I don't have you go anywhere if I if I go to where it's it's rare now My my my job is this office this studio. This is this is this is this is where I am So now I'm appreciating the little things so, you know Just going to the store to go pick up a pie for From my wife's, you know mother's day and us just talking and whatever and laughing and whatever like that This this is what this is what, you know What I am I appreciate even more so the little things right But if we're if we're not careful we can we can miss out on those little things And so I know what I'm going to do I know what I'm going to do And so I said, hey, there's going to be some changes. There's going to be some adjustments There's going to be some arrangements Because I want to make sure that I keep the main thing the the main thing And that is family first Family first so again, I I agree with him For most of what he said I'm not going to play Holy Spirit junior And play fourth minimum fourth member of the trinity There's more applications for that Those positions have been filled for all eternity. I let God sort his motivations out I let him do that but nonetheless Hey What he's been saying so far. Yeah, I can I can feel that I can feel that so What does this look like for the future of this channel guys? Uh For the foreseeable future starting next week. I'm going to be going down to one video a week All right one video a week And if let me just be honest with you. Can I be honest? I've wanted to do this for a really really long time But I've allowed excuse me. I've allowed fear to keep me from doing this because um I was afraid that if I If I only put out one video a week that my channel would suffer And people, you know, my youtube would just I don't know tank my my video. I just I get it My faith was in youtube and it wasn't in god I'm going to be honest with you But now I'm putting my faith in god and I'm trusting that if I can create one great piece of content a week That is so highly produced for you all. That's really good. That is well thought out that You all will enjoy that video um Instead of just cranking out a whole bunch of content hoping that you guys like it because at the end of the day You guys have a lot of youtubers to watch It wasn't like when I started when there was like 10 of us There's a there's like hundreds of youtubers that you're probably subscribed to christian youtubers And you may not even have time to watch a couple of my videos every week and I get that there's a lot of great youtubers out there so um So we're going to go down to one video a week and i'm going to try to Create as much biblical content as I possibly can while making it relevant I'm not going to change the content that god's put on my heart eight years ago. Yes, I'll do some trendy content Yes, I'll do some pop culture content But the majority of it is guys is going to be stuff that I think you need That you need It's like vegetables. You may not like eating it, but it's what you need Yeah, um, so that's his that's his position. That's his stance. He's gonna he's gonna drop down to one video a week um I I hope and pray that he you know keeps the main thing the main thing and um I hope and pray that he stays consistent Again, I have differences. He and I have differences regarding some things um, and y'all know what those things are but Can I can I can I knock can I knock this brother for? For making that decision. No No, I can't Can't do that Can't do that But he makes an appeal he makes two appeals and these last two well His last two clips and then I then I made an observation in one of them Uh, but he makes an appeal to the to the audience. Um, so let's listen, you know, how can you support? What am I asking for you? Well guys, I'm asking for you all that when we put out a video That you watch it that you share it that you comment on it that you Share it with friends right that you like it. Um, if you like it And the reason why is because guys the algorithm it helps It helps push the the video out to more people who can see the content. So you viewing the video every week Is what helps send a signal to the youtube algorithm for the youtube algorithm to say wow people are interested in this particular video Let's show it to more and more people. That's the only way this is going to work This channel depends on you All right, it depends on you Watching the content and sharing and engaging with it Now What do you say is true? What we do we do for the viewers. This is this is a listener or viewer supported channel It really is Remember what I said earlier that this is my wife and now we're walking by faith If my wife can tell y'all some of the things she's been saying About her hesitancy But her knowing that this is something that god has called us to do Because the last thing we wanted to be dependent upon is folk Because some of y'all folk can be funny y'all can be flaky But when we know what we're called to do We have the trust That the same god That changes Our heart can change other people's heart the same god that opened our eyes to the truth He can open your eyes and other people's eyes to the truth. I mean I got brother raiman in here He can attest he can testify at first. He he he did not know Whether or not I was uh one of those brothers that were uh, you know Trying to attack everybody until he had to listen to my content And now he's a supporter of my channel so To know that god can do those things it requires us to trust and have faith in him and not in the people Not the people If you put your faith and trust in man god says you are sinning I am sinning he says cursed is man who trusts in man and makes man his strength read Jeremiah the moment we start putting our faith and trust And what man can do for us or Not doing what god has called us to do because what man can do to us That's fear of man And he says the fear of man brings a snare. What kind of snare the kind of snails you hear by alan parre just admitting just a moment ago He just admitted to you all He said he did not want to do this because He was afraid that he was he would lose Well Alan let me to say this to you These are not your followers They belong to god The people that are on my channel They're not technically my followers. They belong To god And and again i'm gonna i'm gonna share with you What i believe the lord has given to me To share with you the viewer And how we are to how we can apply what we've heard To our own lives and let just be a constant reminder For all of us My brother jermaine Uh that christian fam he just turned his two week notice in he just put that on facebook pray for that brother Pray for him and his wife niki pray for him and his wife and his family This man is stepping out on faith and it's not it's not foolish, but He's stepping out He's going to need that encouragement. He's going to need that support from the body of christ again I cannot stress to you all enough the importance of body life I can't All i can do is pray that god opens your eyes for you to see How the natural body takes care of itself and god uses the natural body as an illustration And first Corinthians 12 and Ephesians 4 and he uses that to show us how when Working properly and working in tandem and working interdependent of each other We can accomplish so many things But all it takes is one member of the body to go rogue and it affects the entire body So yes I need your support Alan said he needs your support every content creator needs our support, but let me pull over for a second Because I would I would I would Believe that you all have heard me say During this life for the past one hour in 11 minutes pray it breaks me for an hour Aside from introduction and greeting and stuff Uh for the past hour I've been giving alan his flowers, right? Can can we all can we all agree and let the record reflect and show? That that alan has been getting his flowers a little bit from from your brother over here That i'm giving him his props. I'm giving him, you know topside props. Okay now But alan I gotta I gotta I gotta pluck you in this in this not locker for a second. I gotta pluck you for a second Because alan the same way that you want support from the body You need to support the body of crisis as well my friend. Oh, yes, sir Yes, sir.  You're gonna start backing up what you want people to do For you and do for others as well. You got over one million subscribers How many of these low content creators have you Have you brought on your channel? That you have supported that you have helped out How many of of us? Low number of content creators low viewer low subscribers Have you engaged in conversation and in dialogue if you can bring marcus rogers on your channel, sir And he is not a brother in christ contrary to what you have been calling him Then you should be eager and more than willing To bring people like me and others to have conversations and dialogue about what you do Well, what do you mean? What do you mean, brother? What do you mean? I mean this alan? The second reason is because if i'm being honest with you I don't want to give them a platform and what I mean by that is if you notice Most of the people who make response videos About me or even some other people if i'm being honest most of them They're smaller channels, right? They're smaller channels and if i'm being honest a lot of times they put YouTubers who have larger platforms their names and their pictures and their thumbnails because they're trying to get views It's for shock value. They're trying to get momentum on their channel It's the same thing that many secular youtubers do they put mr. Beast Who is like the largest youtuber in the world or put his name in their title And they're his face on their thumbnails because they know if other people see mr. Beast on their thumbnail or their title Then they're going to be more Inclined to watch that video or whatever, right? So I get that. Okay, that's fine But for me to make a response video To a channel that a smaller channel that I don't agree with and I name them Then what i'm doing is now i'm exposing my entire audience To their ministry and giving them a platform and giving them a voice and uh, that's just not something that I want to do But what is that something? What if there's something that you should do? Alan you know again first Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 19 But there must be factions divisions heresies among you so that those who are approved may be made known among you, Alan Maybe maybe some of the reasons why god is doing what he's doing with you Is for you to step back and reassess why you're doing what you're doing You forgot that you said this You were reacting.  Wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Alan Remember Paul said in 1st Corinthians chapter 4 verse verse verse 60 say he says he says uh What do you have that you didn't receive? And if you've received it Why do you act as though you didn't receive it? Alan These these 1 million subscribers that god has entrusted to you by his sovereign providence Did you did you really earn that? Or were these gifts that god gave to you? To test you and see how you being so high up now are going to look down on those who are low You you know that goes against romans 12 verse 16 That we're not to look down upon others we're not to be hearty and arrogant And proud to those who have less than we do So i'm using this in the in the social media context The application could be made as broad as we needed to be made So this because this brother has 100 followers and I have 6800 plus subscribers of followers I'm not to look at the 100 as though they're nothing Or treat somebody who has more subscribers and followers and then you do and treat them better than this one This this goes against james chapter chapter 2 It's called partiality Favoritism is what we coined the phrase in the term so so maybe Maybe alan God is using this situation to humble you While you are helping other people, maybe god is using this to help you deal with your pride and deal with your arrogance and deal with your elitist mindset and attitude And to start remembering where you came from You didn't come out the gate with 1 million subscribers You came out the gate like everybody else And sometimes if we're not careful we can forget where we've come from And start being arrogant and prideful and snooty and stuck up Thinking that we're all that And the same way god gave it to us. He can take it all away So alan be careful with that Be mindful with that Graceland never to show who you are. You're probably just coming in trolling. I'm just gonna give you a warning Um Who are you referring to saying why would he want to give negativity a platform? Who are you referring to when you make that statement? Who are you talking about negativity negativity is not negativity isn't holding someone accountable for endorsing heretics That's not negativity. That's accountability But god is sovereign over all things That's that's the first thing That's the first thing God is sovereign over all things. There's nothing that god That god allows that he himself has not sanctioned and ordained So if you and I have it It's a test But here's another thing Satan is the god of this world alan And so He blesses people too I'll get to that in a minute I'll get to that point in a minute. I don't want to get too fast and get too far But let's close out his video with the last clip as I enter in this season of rest for me and my family I just invite you to pray for us pray for me Uh pray specifically that I step up and be the man of god that god has called me to be In this season to my wife to my my children uh to my aging parents and um And and most importantly that my ministry is to them. So um, I know this was kind of a long video But I just wanted to share my heart with you all on where i'm at right now In my life as well as the future of this channel And i'm not saying that we'll never go back to two videos a week But for the time being um For the foreseeable future, uh, we're gonna we're gonna scale down to one really high quality video week That doesn't mean that there might be times whenever I create Two videos a week where the next video might be me just sitting in front of a camera That doesn't have a whole lot of editing and not a lot of post production You're not going to see a lot of graphics kind of coming on the screen And it's just going to be me the microphone the camera and man, that's it And it might you know me to me sharing my heart with you guys talking to you about where I'm at like something like this And um, I hope you'll enjoy those type of videos as well. So on weeks I might do Two videos a week the second one might look a little bit like this Uh, but for the for now this is where we're at. So guys, I appreciate you guys I love you guys so much and thank you all for For those of you who've been rocking with me for a long time and you do support the channel And you do watch the videos and you do leave amazing comments and just know that I see your comments I see your encouragement and it lifts my spirit up every time I see That even though a video might not get a million views But the comments on each video are so positive and you guys are letting me know that you enjoy the content So thank you so much. I love you guys I'll be praying for you guys and I hope you guys pray for me and my family and For this ministry as well. All right, I'll see you In the next video in a few days. All right. Bye. Bye So that was the pretty much just the highlights of the of his video I would encourage you to go check it out if you want to watch it and hear it in its entirety but um, but yeah I believe that you know When it comes to support I hope and pray that alan takes what he has said to heart and start applying that toward other content creators And giving them the opportunities to have dialogue with him on his channel because that's what I do That's what I do I I try to give opportunities to people and especially when I want to have a conversation with them because I believe it's it's beneficial I believe it helps the body of christ just to have you know dialogue and con and conversation even if it's heated We can still do it respectfully and and be done with it, but hey That's what called to do in the body of christ That's what called to do Let's see Puny you said in one sense This is refreshing and in another I sense. He's not fully aware what god may be doing with him in this mode. Yeah, exactly And that's why I said exactly. Yeah, man. I mean he needs he needs examine himself He needs examine himself Um, you know guard your heart Guard your heart man So let's let me get into uh the Some things that I want to share with you all now All right Let me get into some Some thoughts that I have And then I'll let you all go And um, you may want to write these down And I'll try to repeat them again for those of you who want to populate them on the screen But here's some things that I thought about after watching Alan's video that I have um Decided to try and describe to apply uh in my life and here's the first thing Here's the first thing If you're a content creator if you are an influencer If you desire to make videos on social media whether it be rumble would it be youtube whether it be whatever I understand this. It's the first thing God Is sovereign over subs God is sovereign over subs Subs means subscribers God is the one Who determines how many followers of subscribers or supporters? You and I have I'm gonna say that again. That's the first thing If you want to be a content creator christian content creator understand and embrace this reality and this fact that god is sovereign over subs God is sovereign over subs Psalm 127 and verse one Unless the lord builds the house They labor in vain Who build it Unless the lord builds the house. They labor in vain Who build it? That's the first thing I want to just to see and understand If god if god ain't in it Trust me you may even get what you were looking for from the world But which one do you want you want god's blessing you want satan to bless you which one you want because he The blessing of the lord make it rich. He says and he has no sorrow to it He says unless the lord Builds the house They labor in vain Who build it? Matthew 25 Verse 15, I'm gonna try to get through these scriptures because I got I got a few few points in here. I want to make Matthew 25 In verse 15 The parable of the of the talents, okay the parable of the talents To one he gave five talents to the to the to another He gave two To another one notice notice notice the qualifier Each according to his own ability. Do you see that? Each according to his own ability Acts chapter two Verse 47 Now again, like I mentioned to you earlier. I'm giving you all application regarding content creators So the principle can be applied for you and I who Are content creators Acts 247 Still of the early church how god grows the church Look at this day by day verse 46 day by day continuing one mind in the temple breaking bread from house to house They went they were taking their meals together With gladness and sincerity of heart praising god and having favor with all the people and notice and the lord was adding to their number Day by day those who are being saved Just like as god asked to the church He asked to your channel in mind As he wills if you are a christian content creator as I am then god is the one who grows our platform Because we are stewards If he wants you to have a million you're going to have it in his time if he does not then you won't But now you can do it your way, but it won't be god's way And the lord was adding to the to their number not not the apostles No, no The lord was they were preaching they were doing what god had called them to do and the result was God was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved first Corinthians chapter three and verse six again The lord god god is sovereign over subs He's sovereign over subs First Corinthians three verse six paul says i planted apollos watered But god was causing the growth The ultimate cause is god and everything That's the first thing That's the first thing Here's the second thing I mentioned it. I mentioned it earlier Here's the second thing Not only does Not only is god sovereign over subs, but I mentioned it earlier What you What you win them with you're gonna have to woo them with but let me just rephrase it What you call them with you're gonna have to keep them with What you call them with you're gonna have to keep them with it Let's look at the scriptures again John chapter six verse 26 in 27 John six 26 in 27 Jesus feeds the five thousand They're filled he leaves they go looking for him It says rabbi I teach you wouldn't you get here verse 25 says that verse 26. Jesus says truly truly. I'll say to you You seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled You you want some more fish sandwiches verse 27 do not work for food which perishes But for the food Which endures to eternal life Which the son of man will give to you for on him the father god has set his seal verse 65 same chapter verse 65 in 67 65 to 67 John six 65 to 67 and he was saying for this reason Notice he's now telling them They they want to know How how to Enter the kingdom Jesus tells him Nobody can come to the father except the father who sent me draws him. So notice He says for this reason I have said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted him from the father verse 66 you think that they Was signing up to be disciples No verse 66 as a result as a result of this Many of his disciples withdrew and were not walking with him anymore So jesus said to the 12 You do not want to go away. Also. Do you? But what's going on here?  I mean now we're into cannibalism my lord They missed the whole point He's telling them now what it means to be a follower of christ They came for handouts They came to have their physical need met And christ says I already met that But you have a need that You can't meet I have to meet it for you. You have to eat of me I am the I am the bread that came from heaven. You're gonna have to now feast on me. They didn't want that It was hard sayings Who can who can who can receive it who can understand that they were talking about and as a result verse 66 Many of his disciples. Did you see that? Yeah disciples in name only they were not genuine followers We know that because the text says they were not walking with him anymore. They abandoned Jesus See if jesus would have kept giving them fish sandwiches If jesus kept giving them what they wanted they would have stayed But when they didn't get what they wanted they left So content creators christian content creators what you call your audience to you're gonna have to keep them with it If you start flip-flopping and changing the message You're gonna be consistently inconsistent But if your channel is known for biblical fidelity, that's what they're going to get And only what they're going to get John 12 32 Yes blazing torch. We saw the 666. It's not that deep verse 32 john 12 And I if I am lifted up from the earth This is jesus if I Am lifted up from the earth Will draw all men to myself Yeah, who are you lifting up content creators?  You making your name known or you making christ known? Maybe that's the reason why a lot of disappointments we receive and a lot of and a lot of questioning of ourselves We receive because we're lifting up man instead of lifting up the messiah Jesus said if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself He's responsible for the drawing not you you and I are just vessels You and I are just a means to a sovereign end. That's it What you call them with You will have to keep them with What you call them with you will have to keep them with Are y'all getting this? I hope you're getting this First john 4 Five and six They are from the world. Therefore they speak as from the world and the world listens to them We are from god.  Okay That's the first thing first thing is what? God is sovereign over subs second thing Second thing what you call them with you're going to have to keep them with Third thing number three successful ministry Successful ministry Is based on faithfulness Not followers Are y'all hearing me Successful ministry is based on faithfulness Not followers get that Get that if you want to be successful You want to be able to go to bed at night knowing that you've done what god has called you to do Don't focus on how many followers don't focus on don't look at the analytics and see how many people how many people subscribe to the channel How many people got oh man, I got I got this. Oh, look. Oh man. I lost 20. You know how many subscribers I've lost Since I've been dealing with this whole John MacArthur and and and Corey minor stuff. You know how many subscribers I've lost quite a bit But guess what I did guess what I did last night. That's what I did That's what I did. That's what I did I went to bed Oh, I see the numbers drop. I see it Do I do I want to see the numbers drop? No, but but I don't control that God you told me to do it.  So in a sense that both of us being up. Good night, lord Thank you for another day Love when I see you tomorrow same bad time same bad channel I'm going to bed Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, that's what I'm doing Why because I know that success is not predicated On followers, but on me being faithful to what god has called me to do I know I know you want bcv. I give it to you. I give it to you. I I give you two examples How about that? Just just to just to again successful ministry is based on faithfulness not followers Jeremiah 44, you know Jeremiah he he had a ministry if Jeremiah was a content creator he would be trash according to human standards Mm-hmm, he would be Jeremiah had nobody following him.  No kids. You ain't nothing. No, no, no, no But I want you to speak my word lord. They ain't gonna listen to me anyway.  Yep They're not gonna follow me. They're not gonna subscribe to me.  We are not going to listen to you Let's see. Let's look at Zeke. What about Zeke? What you got to say Zeke Ezekiel chapter 3 Verse 7 I hope I'm helping somebody tonight I'm helping myself. I ain't helping nobody else. I'm helping myself I'm gonna help myself I'm gonna help myself I'm I'm gonna eat.  I'm gonna eat. Who else want to eat anybody else want to eat this food Let's eat Verse 7 Ezekiel chapter 3 yet the house of Israel would not be willing to listen to you since they are not willing to listen to me Behold surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate hard-headed Recalcitrant refusing to submit Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Number one God is sovereign over subs number two number two What you call them with you're going to have to keep them with number three Number three successful ministry is based on faithfulness not followers not followers And here's number four number four Check yourself Check yourself Check yourself Check what? Check yourself Okay, but what am I checking yourself check yourself What is the source and what is the the nucleus of everything we do? the heart the heart Check your heart Check it all of us You're truly Y'all truly every last one of us Check yourself remember, remember uh Tupac when he played bishop he said check yourself cue. Yeah check yourself christian Check yourself Why you do what you do? Why you do what you do? Why are you here? What why are you here? What why are you creating the content that you create? Why why do you make the videos that you make? Why do you look at your analytics every day? Why is your attitude based on whether your numbers are up or down? Why does your family have to have to walk on eggshells depending on what your stats are looking like? Check yourself Check yourself Psalm 139 Psalm 139 verse 1 and 3 we start there Oh lord You have searched me and known me We can start right there Lord you Lord, you know you you know me Everybody else may think they know no no lord.  Mm-hmm. Yeah Verse 23 and 24 same Same book same chapter 23 and 24 Of of Psalm 139 search me oh god and know my heart try me and know my anxious thoughts And see if there be any hurtful way or any wicked way in me and lead me in the Way or in the everlasting way. That's the prayer We ought to we ought to pray that every time we prepare to do a video alive a short Become a guest on someone else's platform whatever lord lord. Lord. Why am I why am I going on this channel? Am I am I going on this channel because I really Want to make you known to people who do not know you that that and as a result you'll grow my channel Or am I going here because hey This is how I need to grow my channel And if the lord gets known if the lord gets mentioned and okay, cool. That's fine This does does the lord play the background like pop staples playing the bass Or is the lord the headliner of your channel and mine? That's the question you got to ask yourself Luke 14 Luke 14 28 For which one of you when he wants to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate or count the cost To see if he has enough to complete it Some of us haven't counted counting the cost Check him check your motives. Have you have you counted the cost? Have you? Assessed what is this going to involve? What is this going to how is this going to affect everything now that you do? Check yourself Check yourself again number one God is sovereign over subs number two What you call them with you will have to keep them with Number three successful ministry is based on faithfulness not followers number four Check yourself number five number five Be content be content Be content not be complacent Be content with the results that god has given to us Be content Proverbs chapter 30 a testaments. This is too much scripture, isn't it too too much scripture reading our testament We were he was told that uh shantae furlough said yeah, all I do is read scripture That's boring. She said Lord say that say that foolish woman save her lord before it's too late Proverbs chapter 30 verse eight and nine Let me read verse seven for context notice Two things I asked of you He's he's praying to the lord two thing I two things I've asked of you do not refuse me before I die number one He says keep deception and lies far from me Keep deception and lies far from me. That's number one number two Give me neither poverty nor riches. Why? Why He said feed me with the food that is my portion that I might that I not be full And deny you and say who is the lord? Or that I not be in want and steal and profane the name of my god He says lord, I only got two requests Give me neither poverty I mean keep deception and lies from me And give me neither poverty Nor riches lord. Just just give me my daily bread lord. Give me what is enough to sustain me Why? That I don't have I don't have spiritual amnesia And say who who's the lord lord who? or that I Not be in want and steal Steal what whatever it takes for me to make it and profane the name of my god Yeah, that's what the bible says ladies and gentlemen be content be content With whatever god has given to you. Are you content with the subscribers that you have? Are you are you content with the with the content that you have produced? To the glory of god to the best of your ability to what god has entrusted to you at this season in this time Are you content or are you complaining? And you know, there is a difference between the two and so do I Cleans the ass these Chapter five verse 10 through 12 Ecclesiastes Chapter five verse 10 through 12. Let me let me speed up Let me speed along here verse 10 He who loves money would not be satisfied with money Nor he who loves abundance with his income. This too is vanity when good things increase Those who consume them increase So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on? The sleep of the working man is pleasant Whether he eats little or much But the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep Philippians 4 11 312 Philippians chapter 4 11 Do 12 Paul writes not that I speak from want for I have learned to be content notice Paul didn't get it overnight either He had to learn this For I have learned To be content in whatever circumstances I am I know how to get along with humble means and I also know how to live In prosperity in any in every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry both of having abundance and need Of course verse 13 says I can do all things through Christ. Who strengthens me? 1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 8 through 10 If we have food and covering with these we shall be content hmm Lord, you sure you you didn't mean to say subscribers and followers and subs and accents You heard what the Holy Spirit said he meant what he meant and he said what he said through the apostle Paul's pen If we have food and covering with these we shall be content but verse 9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction for Not money is the root of all sorts of even no no no the love For the love of money Yeah, the love of money For the love of money for the love of money is a root Not even the root is a root Of all sorts of evil and somebody longing for it and this longing is in a continual form Right here It's in a part of simple that you you're not even satisfied. You're constantly doing whatever it takes to get this money defraud lie cheat Can I manipulate use stories to gin up people's emotions? All of that He says for some And some excuse me by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and have pierced themselves with many griefs Hebrews H eb H eb Which have the 13 verse 5 Make sure that your character is free from the love of money Being content with what you have Being content with what you have Again, number one God is sovereign over subs to What you call them with you will have to keep them with three Successful ministry is based on faithfulness not followers for check yourself five be content Be content Number six Number six enjoyment enjoyment Is a gift from God, do you enjoy what you're doing? Or do are you doing what you're doing? And it is a chore. It is laborious You don't love what you're doing Content creators Christian content creators. Do you enjoy making Christian content? Because if you do praise god Because that is a gift that god has given enjoying the things that god has called you to do. It is a gift from god, but if not Check your motives Especially if you said that god called you to do this check your motives Ecclesiastes chapter 6 Ecclesiastes chapter 6 verse 1 and 2 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men verse 2 A man to whom god has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing Of all he desires here it is look at the big clause of verse 2 yet God has not empowered him to eat from them in other words He has not given him the gift to enjoy it It's like having a toy and no battery. It's like having a cell phone With no wi-fi with no sim card nothing you just have the shell But you don't have what takes it takes to make it work You you can't even enjoy it There's nothing worse Than having things and you can't even enjoy it But somebody else enjoys it look at verse 2 for a foreigner enjoys them This is this is vanity and a severe affliction People being blessed by your content, but not you You don't enjoy doing it For whatever reason Maybe because you think you should have more than what god has entrusted you But everybody else is being blessed by but but you're not you're not you're not getting it Check your heart check your motivations But understand this that enjoyment is a gift from god God is solving over subs What you call them with you have to keep them with successful ministry number three is based on faithfulness not followers four Check yourself five be content six enjoyment is a gift from god number seven Learn to discern Or know the difference learn to discern Learn demonic distractions Learn to discern demonic distractions Nehemiah chapter six Verse one through four Learn to discern demonic distractions Nehemiah six one through four Some things we don't even need to engage Some things won't need to waste our time I'm talking to myself Some things won't need to even even give a platform to I agree in the in the spirit behind that Some things we may have to because in nehemiah He had to deal with with tobaya sand ballot He had to deal with them But in this context and in this instance notice what happened in verse one Now when it now when it was reported to sand ballot tobaya to gashem The air up and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and that no breach remained in it Although at the time I had not set up the doors and the gates then sand ballot and gashem sent a message to me Saying come let us meet together at shaperum in the plan of ono But they were trying or planning to harm me Verse three so I sent messages to them saying I am doing a great work and I cannot come down Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you? Why why should I waste my time dealing with you with with you clowns? I got work to do over here verse four They sent messages to me four times in this manner and I answered them in the same way Y'all see that Yeah, learn to discern the difference between demonic distractions And when you need to deal with distractions Because some distraction need to be dealt with but in in in many cases Not all Some not all many some not all You don't have to Don't need to it's a waste of your time waste of your energy waste of resources God is solving over subs. What do you call them with you? You have to keep them with successful ministry number three is based on faithfulness not followers four Check yourself five big intent six enjoyment as a gift from god seven discern demonic distractions number eight number eight Never and I do mean never never compromise never Don't compromise don't change Don't flip What the word of god says your convictions regarding what you're supposed to do On your platform on your channel that god has given to you to be accepted By sinful men Never compromise And why should you never compromise? It doesn't end well for you or for me and understand this Satan is the god of this world And he will give you things if you compromise And you may think it's from god That's because your discernment is trash. It's because your discernment is weak. It's wack It's not been calibrated by the spirit of god never compromise biblical convictions For the sake of popularity for the sake of subs likes follows Coming up on other major platforms channels never do that never compromise Don't sell out Matthew chapter four Matthew four Verse eight through ten. We know the story Matthew four verse eight through ten Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world And their glory and he said to them. I mean he said to him All these things I would give you if you fall down and worship me Then jesus said to him Go satan For it is written You shall worship the lord your god and serve him only chapter 16 verse 26 Same book For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Matthew 16 26 For what will it profit a man if he for if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? What does it profit a man to gain? All the subs All the follows.  If he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul What will a what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Luke 4 13 same correlation passage Of mark. I mean of matthew for Luke gives a little bit more detail notice he says He gives him several temptations the same as the others Takes him on top of pinnacle of the temple If you are the son of god throw yourself down for it is written He will command his angels concerning you verse 10 verse 11 and on their hands. They'll bear you up So that you would not strike your foot against the stone and jesus answered and said to him It is said you should not put the lord your god to the test verse 13 When the devil had finished every temptation he left him Until an opportune time He left him until an opportune time but notice verse 5 Let's scroll up for just a second Luke 4 verse 5 And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time And the devil said to him said to jesus I would give you all this domain and its glory for it has been handed over to me And I give it to whomever I wish Therefore if you worship me or if you worship before me it shall be yours Is satan correcting that assessment? Yes, he is.  They can't see it. They mock this kind of teaching this this this long scripture reading boring lethargic monotone Teaching it boards them to death never compromise Never compromise number one God is sovereign over subs to what you call them with you will have to keep them with three Successful ministry is based on faithfulness not followers for check yourself five be content six enjoyment is a gift from god seven discern demonic distractions eight never compromise And lastly number nine Support other godly content creators Support other godly other christian content creators support them Support them. Yes. If they're godly if they're christian if they're producing good content Support them. How hard is it to like a channel to subscribe to a channel? And I understand you may get tired of seeing their stuff. Okay But don't unsubscribe it Share the video. You never know who may need to see this That's how you support it if the lord is leading you to give to a ministry then do so Jesus is more blessed to give than to receive anyway Support other christian content creators Why because we're in the body of christ and the body supports itself The body supports each other roman chapter 15 roman chapter 15 verse 26 and 27 roman 15 26 and 27 For macedonia and akea have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor Among the saints in jerusalem. Yes verse 27. Look at this verse 27 Yes, they were pleased To do so and they are indebted to them for If the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things They are indebted to minister to them also noticed in material things in other words Paul is saying and he'll say it in his epistle to the Corinthian church He's sowing spiritual things those people are sowing spiritual things That should be be able to read to reap the material blessings that come from them sowing spiritually into your life as well too first minute is nine first minute in chapter nine verse 11 and we'll look at verse 14 just a minute Paul says if we if we sow spiritual things in you is it too much if we reap material things from you? Do you see that? He cites it there verse 14 of first Corinthians nine So also the Lord directed those who proclaimed the gospel to get their living from the gospel Take care of your pastors your local church support them The labor is worthy of their of their wages If you're being blessed by ministries and channels like this And the Lord is moving to point your heart to support it then do that And it's not grifting for people to ask for support if they are doing the work of ministry. It is biblical I used to be I used to be very hesitant My wife can tell you that I used to be very hesitant to talk about it But no if there's any word of God that's in the Bible it's the subject we need to talk about we need to talk about it because what we value We support Simple as that chapter 12 of first Corinthians It shows quite in the chat by now, huh? It's all good Let me say what the word of God says First Corinthians 12 25 and 26 Check this out Paul says so that there may be no division in the body But that the members may have the same care for one another What we talked about this what is this concept we talking about body life body life first 26 And if one member suffers all the members suffer with it if one member is honored all the members are honored with it Galatians 6 6 Galatians chapter 6 and verse 6 Paul says the one who has taught the word is to share all good things With the one who teaches him and what are the curl alien passages? First Corinthians chapter 9 verse 11 if we sow spiritual things in you It's too much if we reap material things from you and verse 14 So also the Lord directed those who proclaimed the gospel to get their living from the gospel That's it That is it now I said all that to say this I agree with alan par and his And his reasons and why he's he's stepping back. I do believe he needs to examine his heart On some of the things that he said especially when it comes to supporting Supporting his ministry Because it's not just his ministry He's a part of a body if he is a Christian therefore. He should be supporting other ministries as well This is this as much as he want people to support him My here here's how I'm also applying this and we're we're done We're wrapping up now Since I've started in january I have been Cranking out videos for pretty much almost Almost every day At least between five to six days a week Sometimes even seven depending but it's been consistent It's been consistent And in watching this video with alan and him sharing his thoughts and his convictions and things of that nature Again, the Lord has to he's the one that that will examine his heart. I'm talking about me now What I've decided to do effective Today effective today I will only be working and when I say about working I will only be going live That includes interviews that includes Doing videos Things of that nature I will only be going live or doing videos or creating content and putting it online Monday through Saturday that will be my work schedule. Now if I do it five days, that's it. That's fine But as far as me working seven days a week. No no effective immediately the bcv channel Love life and marriage with the woods Our videos our content we're talking about doing lives or or Doing content working what I'm saying about putting content online and things like that If it's if it's prerecorded, that's different But I'm talking about us actually putting our face in the place and and live streaming On on Sundays. We're not doing that anymore I'm going to honor the principle Of the Lord's day I'm going to honor the principle of the of the Lord's day um Work six days and on the seventh I'm going to rest Now I'm not saying That you have to do that. I'm saying I'm going to follow a principle And I'm going to trust God that he's going to bless the six And Bless me by giving me the rest on the seventh because I am Doing the work throughout the six days That's what I'm going to do again I only started in january. So it's not you know, it's not something that I you know Have to do but I believe it's a principle that I want to do number one For the reasons that that alan said in the context of you know being here for my family My you know, you know, we homeschool our children and our two daughters that are older, you know, they're working But I want them to see daddy at home and just chilling Me chase the mom around the house and tickling her or whatever whatever I want to do on the Lord's day That'd be my rest if I want to mess with my daughters and and and pick on them. I can do that I want to pull up on my son's house and and and pull up on an ounce. I can do that whatever It's gonna be my day of rest my day of family time and so effective immediately as of today The bcv broadcast the bcv channel and love life and marriage with the woods We will we will be working monday through saturday And on sunday Y'all just watch our videos that we already put out. I'm pretty sure y'all need to watch most of it Y'all haven't watched all of them anyway, and you can go to our sermon audio page and you can listen to sermons there I know y'all haven't watched and listen to all them sermons You can go there as well go to my sermon audio page under his word is way that'll hold y'all off until until monday little will it so And I think it's pretty pretty appropriate and timely I'm our being mother's day lord willing Be able to spend time with my wife and children and and just relax Just relax Just chill Read a book or you know do nothing do nothing so Let me know what y'all think about that in the comments below All right, you know, I think that there's something that you know, all of us need to consider and and the reason why I'm You know doing this. Let me give you the let me give you the bcv for it. All right Um, of course do the run on me 13 And verse me see me rock did around me 5 13 through uh 14 Let's go here. There it is there six days You shall labor and do all your work But on the seventh that the seventh day it is the Sabbath of the lord your god in it You should not do any work You or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle Or your sojourner who stays with you so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you yeah If the lord god who is all powerful ceased from working not because he was tired and exhausted But as an example As an example Then so should we the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath he be chapter four verse four For he has said somewhere paul. I mean paul boy You know what I mean for he has said somewhere concerning the seventh And god rested on the seventh from all his works so That's what i'm doing I'm going to follow the principle of the sixth day work Work week Again if I want to do five i'm all good with that But me working on sunday Nah don't have to I work for myself But guys you guys don't have to work for anybody else. I work for myself. So I can do that And I think and I believe i'm trusting i'm believing i'm believing i'm i'm claiming it I'm trusting in it that god will bless it. He will honor it He will honor it so Ladies and gentlemen, that is it Again, let me know what you all think in the comments below and um Please like subscribe Please like Please subscribe Please share Okay Please share the video love life and marriage as well Ladies if you have not gone over to watch my wife's uh series on menopause what they don't tell you I would encourage you to go there. 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Please if you don't mind support the ministry by purchasing our Our merchandise hats hoodies shirts sweats Mugs things like that that nature. We do appreciate that. Thank you so so much. Good to see you sister pat Keep our sister pat in your prayers y'all that she continues to recover and other brothers and sisters who are Uh in need of healing and and recovery and restoration. Uh, let's lift them up in prayer Um that they will be uh whole and also looked about sister niki I saw her commenting there looked about sister niki In prayer whatever's going on that god will come through and pull through Uh in the in the nick of time. So be praying for for her as well But anyway, that is my time. Thank you so much everyone for being a part of this. I really hope and pray that you all are able to uh Share this information and and I hope and pray that alan par Watches this video and that he shares this video On his channel or that he recommends people to watch it. I really pray that this uh, this brother does that and um and not just you know support things that he Wants to feel safe and supporting. Uh, this is a part of the body christ body life It's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to take care of each other And and and have those conversations even of even though they may be Tense at times it helps people to think things through biblically. I believe iron sharpens iron. Amen So again be praying for uh, brother Like christian fam brother, uh, brother germane and sister niki pray for them Brother, we definitely lifted you up in prayer. I mentioned you earlier in the live may have watched the replay if you want to Um, definitely stand in agreement with you and stand and support you brother in any way I can so Um praise god man for you stepping god in faith So anyway, um, that is it ladies and gentlemen just wanted again to say thank you so much for all of you who have been supporting and subscribing and Um praying for this channel. We do appreciate it Again, happy mother's day to all the mothers And those who have gone on with the lord. We pray that those Who are here remember the the blessings of having mothers in their life to help them to be the mother that they are today So that is my time. Thank you all so much for yours. Y'all know the drill. Whatever you do Do all today going out of god. God bless See you monday Thank you for sharing this night. God bless you. Good night