Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey, John. Welcome everybody to a random moment with Pastor David unfiltered. Pastor David, today's a special day. Today's your birthday. It is, huh? Happy birthday. Yeah, and so 72 years old. 72. Wow. You know looking at that pastor 72 years, you know reflecting back the vantage point that you have of being alive 72 years and doing ministry for all these years.  And how would you describe that? Well, I would say that it's a blessing of the Lord. Obviously, the Psalmist, to paraphrase the Psalmist, he said that the length of a man's life, the span of his life is 70 years, 80 years by reason of strength. So the fact that that God has granted me more than 70 years, 72 today, to me is a blessing by itself in and of itself. My father went home to be with Jesus at 74. So for me to reach 72, that's really significant. So the idea that he's given me life that has lasted up to this point is a real blessing. And so over the years, I've had people ask me, especially as I've grown older and serving the Lord and all, what is the number one lesson that you've learned over those years that you've lived because because I began teaching the word in 1973, got saved in 1970, and planted this church 41 years ago. What have you learned in all of these years? And I would say, I'm trying to learn because when I think I've gotten it, then the Lord puts me through the ringer again, and I have to relearn it. But it all works out in the end. Somebody had asked me if you could change something or anything in your life, what would you change? If I had the ability to go back and change, I don't know that I'd change anything, John, because over the years, what I've learned is that no matter what it is, God can use it for good.  And Joseph says, what was intended for evil, God has made it good, he's used it for good, and what has gone on in the disappointing parts of my life, in the in the hurts, in the variety of things that you go through over the years, you know, where you have to deal with so many things. Sometimes we forget that with long life comes many troubles. You know, Solomon made that clear in the book of Ecclesiastes, you know, long life brings many things along with the things you didn't plan on, things you weren't expecting, things that hurt deeper than you thought you could go through. And you discover that with God, all things are possible with the Lord. You can go through things in trials and hurts. And you have pain, you have sorrow, you have disappointment, you have rejection, you have, you have betrayal, you have all of those things. If Jesus went through betrayal and things like that, why should I think I won't?  But dear friends, people who are in this fellowship have, have remained with me throughout everything, men like David's signs and so many others. If I begin to mention names, I'm going to, I'm going to forget one, but I think of Dave because our church began in his home as a midweek Bible study. So what have I learned over 72 years and over the years I've served the Lord as he is faithful, that he can do abundantly above all I could ever ask or think, that he didn't raise this fellowship to let it fall, that he selected me for a purpose and that purpose has been lived out here in this fellowship. That joy, even though weeping may endure for a night, always comes in the morning, joy comes in the morning. That God has never left me nor has he ever forsaken me, that though I'm going through a valley of the shadow of death, I don't stay there, I don't live there, that his rod, his staff, they do comfort me. He has prepared a banquet for me in the presence of mine enemies and goodness and mercy do follow me all the days of my life. So those are things you learn over the years. Some of the things when people say, well, I want to live a long life, they must be young because they don't realize that long life brings lots of hurt, lots of disappointment, lots of pain, many trials, much loss, losing in the sense of having to say goodbye to many friends, John over the years, many who've died, my parents, my father-in-law, and dear friends who I wouldn't have known had I not pasted this church and they've gone on to glory and all. There's an emptiness, a loss that you feel that can only be satisfied when you're entering into heaven. So, yeah, all of those things to say that it's a beautiful thing to have health, to be able to continue serving Jesus. And I don't know what the Lord has for us in the future. I don't know how long he is going to allow me to stay here in this fellowship. It's not as if I'm planning to leave it, but I'm going to one day. So, I'm aware of that. I'm aware that one day the Lord will say, well done, it's well done now, you need to take your ease and you need to do something different until I bring you home. I know that. So, I'm just waiting on him for that right now. But all together, today is my birthday, right? And I'm grateful for one more year of serving the Lord. Amen. Well, thank you, pastor. And, you know, from the congregation on the behalf of the congregation, we do say happy birthday to you. And thank you so much. Thank you. You've been a gift to many of us and you and Marie. Yes. And so, thank you for allowing us to celebrate your birthday with you. Thank you, John. And we love you, pastor, and happy birthday. Love you too. Thank you, guys, for tuning in. Want to remind you that we do have our services tomorrow at 7 p.m. as a spiritual warfare. We're going to start a series on spiritual warfare out of Ephesians 6, and we celebrate communion.  I mean, we're engaged in battle every day. Amen. So, come on out, invite your friends and family, worship, get into God's Word, and celebrate communion together. Amen. Thank you, pastor. Happy birthday. Thank you, guys. God bless you.


I'm surprised how drastic Alex Jones flipped to become such a Zionist. There's a lot of people. Here's the thing. Regarding what's going on with Israel and Palestine and stuff like this, I mentioned this before. Back in the late 80s, mid-80s, mid-80s, mid-80s to late 80s, I dabbled in the Boregan Christian movement. So I know that mentality. I know who they are. They have a huge infiltration from the Zionist movement, from the Zionist mindset. The Boregan Christian Evangelical movement, and I say Evangelical, so I had a discussion with someone on a gilded server where they said Evangelical doesn't necessarily mean born again. To me, Evangelical born again, the line between them was very thin. So I say Evangelical born again. They have huge ties with the Zionist community. In their opinion, Jews are the chosen people because of Jesus Christ and all that jazz.   For me, I always had a conflict in this when I was deep in it because I don't believe in chosen people. It just doesn't rhyme with me. We are all equal. That's what equality means to me. That's what being human means to me. So that's their main issue. So right now that this thing has happened, a lot of the Evangelical born and Christian movement is putting their full support behind Israel. Very problematic. One of the reasons it's problematic is because a lot of the Evangelical Christian movement, not necessarily born and Christian, but Christians stood up against tyranny in the Western world when they tried to roll out the COVID mandates, injections and all that jazz. They chose bodily autonomy, informed consent, Nuremberg code. They stood on the right side of history, but now they're standing on the wrong side of history because they're supporting genocide. I just had a discussion with someone a couple of weeks ago. They were like, I fully support Israel. I go, well, be careful because the Evangelical born and Christian movement are their armagedness. They want to hear the trumpets blow and the world burn. Because in their opinion, they're not going to be on the world when it burns. The horsemen are going to come and they're going to call the people that have been born again and they're going to go to heaven. And anyone that doesn't believe in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the non-Jews, they're all going to burn on earth. So I had a discussion with someone a couple of weeks or two, three weeks ago where they believe that Armageddon is a good thing and they support Israel, fully support Israel is because this has been told in the prophecies and we're in the end times and the trumpets are going to blow and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I turned to them and I go, listen, be careful because you're in conflict with your principles right now because you're saying you support genocide because genocide is going to bring about Armageddon so you can go to heaven. But how can you go to heaven if you support genocide?  They're going to support genocide, go to heaven, what's going to happen, chosen people, they're committing genocide. They're going to have a little glitch, right? A lot of people don't want to deal with that glitch, right? I dealt with it when I was a teenager. This is a glitch. The glitch means a serious problems in their ideology, in their cult, right? So I pulled up pretty quick, okay, not quick, it took a few years, right? But there's a glitch there, right? Because even back then they were committing genocide, right? And I don't, again, I don't believe in the chosen people, end of story, okay? So that's what's going on with this whole thing, with Alex Jones and some of the other people that have been speaking the truth. Because of the audience, because of the money, because of the consumer base or the core base there, even Trump, right? The Republicans, right? They're tapping into those millions of people that are Armageddonists that believe in this thing, right? And they're well funded, right? So from an economic perspective, for them it's worthwhile pandering to that demographic to get some funds flowing in. For me, I couldn't give a rat-sass. I ain't gonna pander to the genocide community or Armageddonists or anything like this. For me, I'm an analyst in heart. I love data. I'm a humanist, I don't know, that has connotations or something. I believe in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, individual rights, right? Your right to boil the autonomy. I believe in standing on the right side of history. I have broken up multiple fights in my life because a wrong was being done. I've even stepped in when there's like three people being on a one person.  Because it's wrong.    I don't do that, right?   No, man.  No, man. When you see wrong speak up, you are human, right? You are human. If you do not speak up, you're losing your humanity, okay? Understand that. Okay?  Don't be low IQ, okay?