We're gonna be discussing what's going on with the house kind of like Florida updates just updates with our life because we wanted to update you guys So we're gonna set up with one of you guys question. When are you getting your new house? What made you and bill move to Florida? When is bill proposing in Florida? Oh? I was squad and welcome back. Why'd you start without me? Bill in his hoverboard.  Sorry about the lighting all of our equipment is in our pod That should be arriving actually in a couple of minutes. Hold on now. We can start the video right babe Oh my god, that is so funny actually we were trying to start this video because our pod look at it It's the only pod left on the truck guys. All right I guess I guess we'll be right back like this was just like supposed to be an awesome start of the video And now we have to wait a minute. So so I'm gonna go out there really quick and I actually want to show you guys Sometimes soon. I don't know if it's gonna be in this video or not.  This is insane, but what is good mama squad welcome back to our channel My god, we can finally start now. Yes. So as you guys write on the title We're gonna be discussing what the title is about and we're gonna be doing an update a Q&A like the house site I thought what's going on with the house kind of like Florida updates Just updates with our life because we want to update you guys that you guys know how we're doing So if you are new to our channel make sure to subscribe right now and like this video guys like this video Thumbs up because we literally have a home in the works Like we've already put the offer and they accepted the offer if you guys don't know this We're actually staying at Bill's parents Florida house. That's a little Q&A update right there We've been in Florida for a week. Yes, and we've been in Florida for a week We survived on our first week out in Florida and these last days have been super rainy which sucks But we had a really good first week Oh the whole week the whole seven first days that we were here was perfect And then Monday and today being Tuesday that we're filming this are the two only days at it rain so far It's crazy, so I prefer the rain over the snow It's snowing where we used to live in Chicago, and I do not want to go back Oh my god, it's only 36 in snow you But guys we're gonna answer so many of your guys questions because you guys are always asking us like what's going on with the house This and this and this let's just start off the video with the first question And it's basically did you guys find a house yet? It's the title of today's video. Did we buy a house? I know they're wondering I don't think we should make a wait until the end I think we should just throw it all out on the plate guys make sure to watch the video all the way through because we have some Juicy awesome updating questions and just a lot of insight that no one else knows yet So your guys's questions is we buy a house so literally the first week of being down here We looked at three houses. That's it That's it and the second home that we looked at we just instantly fell in love Did more than I did I love the house. I love the layout, okay? I love that it has a pool in a cage. Obviously. This is not gonna be my like dream I wanted a bigger pool and a big cage, but here's the thing since we are in a housing crisis right now We we need a home and on top of that so many houses I don't know if you guys noticed have been for sale and they go within So we literally needed to put an offer on a house if we liked it if it was the right home right away So me and her came together and we were like, you know what it has some things that we we wish were better But this house has everything that we wanted though It has a garage has to car garage a pool a cage a huge layout three bedrooms in a den This house is perfect inside now the outside the outside is gorgeous. We have some palm trees We literally have a pool guys and the only thing we're gonna have to fix is the flooring which um For our marble vlog channel We're actually showing you guys a little behind the scenes of the house we're changing the book We're changing the floor and you have a marble flooring that we're doing and then we are Changing the countertops, but yeah guys if you have not subscribed to our Marvel vlogs YouTube channel What are you doing it? We already surpassed two hundred thousand subscribers on our second vlog channel Absolutely crazy, but make sure to stay tuned because we did show what the actual house on the inside looks like We didn't show any room like we only showed are the main room and like a little bit still in the pool They can give the idea what it is. It looks awesome house tour is coming very soon But one of your guys question was you guys have a pool obviously? Yes, you cannot have a pool in here in Florida I'm sorry. It's way too hot out here.  I'm so excited for you guys to see it I'm so excited for the content and everything that we get to film in our own house not being in the apartment We don't have to apply by anybody else's rules except ours. We are the whole music We don't we literally got to um Violations of loud excessive music, which I don't even understand and our defense we got one you got to Because you got a noise complaint when I was in Florida because she was blaring the music at 2 a.m. Yeah But hey, it's our house now so we can play the music We can talk and scream as loud as we want in our vlogs and no one can say I know literally So we're gonna start off with one of your guys question green it away Mia said when are you getting your new house? So basically give you guys a little update on Friday We put in the offer and then on Sunday We got told that our deal got approved and they took our deal the most stressful a couple day No, the most stressful two days ever the worst weekend when you're buying a house guys It's probably one of the most stressful things waiting to hear back and seeing if you got it We've got the paper sign and then it went pending online, which means that it is our home No one else can look at it look at it if everything goes well We have to get an inspection which is happening tomorrow But we have an inspection and then I think after the inspection That's when we actually decide do we want to stay with this house or do we want to you know? Is the inspect yeah, but we probably will stay with it Yeah, and then when we basically close and we sign off on it. We get the keys guys. This is so exciting I'm so excited for you guys to see the house. It's crazy I don't know like guys you have no idea this house is like everything that we've ever wanted and it's in a beautiful neighborhood And it's just an innocent flora like what better place can you get a house in we're just blessed We were able to find us within like the literally the first week of being here I know that is so not we did rush it a little bit only because we had to there's no other houses on the market There was nothing else that we like that fit our needs It has mostly everything that we need besides obviously for changing the flooring. Yeah, tops, but shoot Hey, stay tuned for some marble vlogs, you know Renovation videos even though the homes already like basically done we can do some of those the next questions from Victoria What was the hardest part about moving? I would say the hardest part about moving was leaving family the date of our move I do regret if I could go back and fix it I would have had the flight earlier in the day because we had a flight at five o'clock And we were sitting around waiting for hours though because we can say goodbye.  I felt super Maybe a two o'clock flight. Yes, like get there by 12 or something. Yeah My stomach was hurting so bad guys like it was like the most excruciating pain. I was nauseous I literally had all these emotions and I did not feel good and I was nervous I wasn't gonna be able to make it on the flight Yeah, and I'm sure most of you know but if you did not know we lived in Chicago We moved cross country not cross state not cross the neighborhood cross the country We're literally like eight states away from our family and everything comment down below right now If you think that you can move across the country from your family your friends your greatest, you know Just acquaintances everyone everything and just leave it all I will do it sometimes doing things out of your comfort zone It's gonna you're gonna see a huge growth within yourself like doing things that are out of the norm and things You're not used to it really does make you branch out and makes you think yeah Yeah, I just feel like this move is probably one of the best decisions we've ever made I'm so thankful to be out in Florida. Like I love it.  So we are buying a house with a mortgage. Um, which means you own the house We personally don't like renting obviously we rented our apartment But we needed to do that for ourselves and our business when you rent you like it's good It's not like people say that it's terrible. It's good if that's the only like option that you have It's good to get like you still living on your own.   They just you know, they take it What made you and Bill move to Florida kind of didn't Florida was winters. We absolutely hate summer When are we hate so no, no We literally just can't stand the cold because whenever it's cold outside We're not able to give you guys the best content that we can because we're not able to go outside We like cars where we're car people and we have obviously our Corvette and we love driving that we cannot we literally Bought it and then we couldn't drive it for six months because of the winter. Yeah, it's so we love we just got scooters We got hoverboards. We love being outside or just being active and right here just shows a big reason why we moved here This is literally where we live. There's a dolphins. We got we got sunset palm trees. We got beaches This is our home guys We just feel happier. We're able to do more and you know, it's just it's just but some people also like our friends We have friends that love the cold Personal preference we're not we're not saying anything bad about what we do live in those days for us We just personally feel better here. Yes, Lauren said do you think that this is the house? We will live in forever. No House will be maybe we'll live in there for two to five years. I'm not quite sure how long but Yeah, just in two years. We'll be dating for six years Oh, God, yeah, I don't have a ring on my finger that now. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding No, that's crazy. No, but I this is not our like dream like this is our first home dream home Yeah, our Corvette was our first car dream car. You know what I mean? Like that was like our like not obviously that's not our first car But that was like our dream car and now this is our dream home now We just want to you know, we are just very blessed and thankful that at our age We're able to buy a home mostly for our age don't do that So we just want to thank you guys so much for you know getting letting all this happen because this house is so gorgeous And I really cannot believe we're able to do this at the end. You watching our videos right now Liking the videos subscribing watching all the way till the end to show us the max amount of support Like helps us so much throughout the whole process But also the good thing about buying your first home is you can literally see what things you like and what things you Prefer better when you get your second home or what things you don't like I think we're gonna either we're either gonna build our second home But we're gonna build our first home But the reason why we're not doing that is because we really don't want to stay in our parents for the house It would take like a year and we just there's so many complications that we just don't want to stay here Yeah, that's why I wanted to get our first get our first home That's already built and then our second home We're gonna build or if we find a home that you know meets all of our criteria When is built we're posing in Florida. Oh, I always did say if you're new to our channel I always did say that once we get down to Florida. That's what I'm going to buy our house. Yeah, we're not any rush I told Bill. I was like, you know, I'll say yes whenever you ask me, but there's no rush right now Yes, right now. Yeah, is that yes? Yes, I didn't ask you Trust me, I'm gonna let you guys know I'm gonna do it and then I'm gonna let you guys know Full series even want to do this for like he already had a plan from like forever since since we had it was like either 20 or 30,000 subscribers. I seen someone do a series and I just loved it I love the way that they capture all the moments you capture asking my parents to capture buying the ring Yeah, I'm sure just every moment and it just it's really cool deal I want to be able to look back on the people that do it. I actually I do really think it's a good idea Yeah, so whoever it has done it great idea. I got I was literally the same thing Are you gonna have your friends visit you down in Florida like Jules and saw and all that? Yes. That's a bet. Yes You guys are gonna see so many of our friends coming down it's super gonna be super exciting We have our own house like we invited friends to like gab and Luke came over yeah to our apartment But now we have a house house Party friends get we should I should set that up honestly fans giving Okay, how many bedroom is in your house Can we can we do a replay on that She was like a she like How many bedrooms in your house we have three bedrooms two bats and one den area like the kind like an office area A den is like an office.  Yeah, which is crazy huge more than we needed What's your favorite and least favorite thing about being in Florida? So my Renting our apartment for the same we actually paid more for our apartment a month Than a house. Yeah, I just realized and we get basically four bedrooms two bathrooms When our apartment had two bedrooms two bathrooms and we get a bigger layout a pool and a cage for the same monthly Anyways, my least hurt thing about Florida is summer I I don't like when it gets like over a hundred degrees. You're telling me you like to sit outside when it's hundred two letters a See boom you're probably But that's my least favorite thing is the heat the hot hot hot hot hot heat my least favorite is the rain But I will deal with the rain more than the snow Okay, there's a rainy season here, and there's a snowy season We have different least favorite then I don't care Everything I love the palm trees. I love the vibes. I love how smooth the roads are when you drive Oh my god or bombs because in places that ice comes it breaks apart the road here It's smooth like there's no bumps at all literally on it's amazing Kayla said when are you gonna show us the house You bought once we get a close. We'll keep you guys updated when the closing happens We'll be filming everything. I'm not gonna show you guys the front of the house privacy reason I really really wish we can show you guys the front of the house. It's so beautiful.  There's two front. We'll show you guys the front door Yeah, we'll show you like the whole but we will also we've already posted on our marble vlogs channel Or we will post an inside view of the house just a little clip it of the master bedroom bathroom and room So you can see it there first before anything. So somebody asked will you have a studio room? So yes, one of the bedrooms. We're doing it just for like We're actually in the works of something we actually are gonna get it started soon Oh, yeah, no that definitely like it's gonna be like a studio office guys Just wait to see what we're about to do we're creating right now. It is so cool I think you guys are gonna love it. We're in the works of it right now Obviously, we're trying to get this house settled and then once we're in there boom We're gonna work you just wait just be patient guys We have to be patient more than anything Does it have upstairs for us more of like a one-story home houses? There's no basements because of hurricanes and flooding well no No, there's not yet because of flooding because the sea level literally if we dug down below this floor like I think like 5 feet 6 feet water we would hit water because there's water like the ocean there's water It keeps going under the land. Yeah, even though the land is like this high, you know It's under yeah, so we can't have basements there the house that we saw the first house We saw heading upstairs, which was so nice until you got into the kitchen we would have bought we would have bought this house If the layout was good the layout was so wack the pool and the cage was amazing guys It was the wackiest layout that has the pool. I had two balconies and it had a hot tub guys It was so nice, but hey, it's okay Most houses down here that our two stories are literally probably a million dollars. Yeah So a maybe future home definitely future goals All right, so this is gonna be the official last question of this Q&A is snap comfortable in Florida. Oh My god guys snap is the happiest cat ever And you would think him being a long hair cat that he would shed he would be hot No, he loves it. We actually took him for a walk outside. We have a leash for him It was he absolutely loved it guys If you guys follow my Instagram snap dot right we actually posted a little clip of him walking outside It was super cute and while you're following him follow me and Mariah on Instagram because that is where we got these questions We asked you guys questions and those are what we answered But if you do not see he's not running around over here because he's at my sister's house Yeah, keeping him at my sister's house because some of my family members that stay here are like allergic to like cat hair and all That they have like an allergy Yeah, so out of respect we've been keeping out of his house But we do bring them over outside sometimes to like chill out walk around and just you know soaking the photo box Yeah, he's really comfortable at Britney's house like he's able to look outside whenever we do go over there And we see him every day. Yeah, we see him every day for hours. It's so excited looking at the lizards He actually saw his first rain a couple days ago, and he oh my god The way the rain the harder it hits the more excited. He like runs around her house. It's so funny But um, yeah, I think that just that does that sum up the question I think we answered a lot now. We'll be ready with those soon in our big house, you know, just good vibes are coming I'm super excited. I just can't wait for the having our own garage. Oh my god I will say the most crazy is two weeks like we I honestly haven't been able to really relax here I feel like it's just been super stressful and overwhelming But guys it's just part of the process I'm very blessed and I'm super excited to you know get comfortable in our house Florida we bought a house. Yeah, one week. That's all it's okay. That's all it's Did we moved across the country and now we're buying a house. We had to ship everything out guys And we're filming every day. We love filming we will we will not miss an upload if we can help it Sometimes our marble logs because it's harder sometimes, but we are not this novel because we love love posting content Stay tuned stay tuned for our vlogs video. We're gonna show a little behind the scenes of the house Um, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. We do have to give our end the video post application shout out and this shout out goes to Michael Anthony, so shout out to you Michael. I love that to two first names. Yeah, literally That's awesome. We love you so much and we hope you guys enjoyed today's Q&A If you guys have any other questions, make sure to comment them down below. We will answer them in the next Q&A And give this video a thumbs up guys.


We're going to be looking at verses 15 through 27. So I'm going to read in chapter 9 of 1 Corinthians, beginning at verse 15. And I'll read to verse 18, but we're going to reintroduce this by touching on a couple of things we've already looked at, then we'll move on into our study before us. I'll begin reading at verse 15, but I have used none of these things, nor have I written these things that it should be done so to me, for it would be better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void, for if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me, yes woe is me if I do not preach the gospel, for if I do this willingly I have a reward, but if against my will I've been entrusted with a stewardship, what is my reward then, that when I preach the gospel I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel. Now obviously last time we were together we closed with Paul's teaching concerning support for ministers. We closed by looking at verses 12 through 14. Now in verses 12 through 14 Paul had said, if others are partakers of this right over you are we not even more? Nevertheless we have not used this right but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar, even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel. And so the apostle Paul spoke and made application and noticed with me in verse 12 he had said if others are partakers of this right over you are we not even more? There are others he was saying who regularly benefit from your finances. In other words you have supported other ministries, you support other people, when done so responsibly and with discernment he would say this is a good thing. And so it's a right to do that but he goes on to say in verse 12 we have not used this right. So he's actually referring to his own habit of not receiving support from the Corinthians. Now I mentioned to you that it's not that he hadn't received support. He's making it clear that the Corinthians had not been a means of support to him. He was supported by the churches of Macedonia. He was supported by the church of Philippi and Thessalonica in Berea. We know that because he mentions that in Philippians chapter 4 verses 15 and 16. He says moreover as you Philippians know in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel when I set out from Macedonia not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only for even when I was in Thessalonica you sent me aid again and again when I was in need. He says in 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 7 through 9 was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge. I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you and when I was with you and needed something I was not a burden to anyone for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way and will continue to do so. When you look at the province of Greece you have Greece is actually a single today it's a single nation but there's a lower portion and Isthmus that connects the northern portion. The southern portion would be where Corinth was. The northern portion is referred to in Scripture as Macedonia which is the northern portion so he's basically saying I minister to those in this particular region but never received any ministry support from you in Corinth in the south. I did receive support but not from you I received support from those in the north in the area called Macedonia and so he's simply saying I'm not asking for your support and I'm not profiting monetarily from the gospel. Now in his ministry Paul knew that ministers were not only skilled in teaching but ministers also were to have a trade. Paul was a tent maker and that's revealed when he was in the city of Corinth in Acts chapter 18 verses 2 and 3. It says there he found a certain Jew named Aquila born in Pontus who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome and he came to them so because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked for by occupation they were tent makers. The apostle Paul was a tent maker. A tent maker was somebody who not only worked with fabric but he also worked with leather because during that day many tents and many sales were made actually out of out of leather so he would he would work with linen he would also work with leather but he was an individual who worked in that fashion during that time rabbis were often individuals who not only supported themselves with their hands but could be supported by those whom they ministered to but very often they would be vocational in that they would take care of themselves so that they wouldn't be a financial pressure up to others and they wouldn't have to charge for their teachings so in Paul's case he would work so he could offer the gospel without charge and so that he'd be a model of hard work and ministry indeed is hard work he'd already mentioned that in chapter 4 of verse Corinthians at verse 12 when he said we labor working with our own hands ministry can be hard work and he not only ministered in in a fashion that was difficult but also physically work for himself to provide for himself in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9 he said you remember brethren our labor and toil for labor night and day that we might not be a burden to any of you we preach to you the gospel of God Acts chapter 20 verse 34 yes you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities and for those who were with me and so often the rabbis would would work as well as ministers so that they could minister the gospel free of charge and people would not say they're profiting from the gospel when he asked in verse 13 don't you know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple he simply saying those who serve God have always been supported by their service even so verse 14 the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel in Matthew 10 9 and 10 Jesus said provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts nor bag for your journey or two tunics nor sandals nor staffs for a worker is worthy of his food so he's making it very clear biblically God cares for the the minister the minister can be supported there's nothing sinful about that but as we enter now into verse 15 he's making it very clear that he used none of these things I have not taken financial advantage of you as what he's saying the the ones who take financial advantage are normally the false teachers all of us have encountered false teachers there's one particular one who was revealed as a false a false teacher years ago on TV you know he was one of these guys who would call out someone's name you might remember this he'd say you know you know Marie Rosales is there a Marie Rosales you're off here to the right and he'd look and there's Marie Rosales he'd say Marie you've had headaches recently it's your husband David who's causing them no he'd say you're you've had headaches you know and your back hurts and he's and then Marie would be going oh and crying like God knows my name and he knows my need and then the fellow would say you know it's time for your deliverance and and it was revealed that what was happening is is Marie Rosales and all the others in line who wanted prayer were filling out little prayer cards and the prayer cards were taken into a a trailer there was a camera there would be cameras there were forms of giving information the wife of this particular individual was reading the different prayer cards knew where the Marie Rosales would be and so she would say she's off to your right she has headaches and this charlatan would start saying Marie you're here I know you're here off to my right and so you know that's how he did it and it was exposed there was a man by the name of the amazing Randy who exposed this years ago and I thought I hope that the man repents from this you see I had his home address and when he was starting to do this I wrote him a letter and I said what you're doing is wrong you're taking advantage of the people of God and the Lord does not take that lightly you need to stop doing this and get right with the Lord I wrote him to at his home but he never listened I don't I guess I guess he just didn't want to he never listened and then he was exposed for this and so I thought well prayerfully he'll repent I was channel surfing just a couple days ago and there he is doing the exact same thing telling people things about God is going to give them miracles of money and he's going to miraculously put money in their bank account and starts talking about how people got a hundred thousand a million dollars somebody out here you can receive a million dollars and it's always based on give us some money for our anointed prayer cloths or for our water you know from the Jordan River and I'm telling you charlatans and they take advantage of the naive and innocent believer so many times the new believer so many times the person in such a hopeless condition that their last hope is God and then somebody takes advantage like that of them Paul hated that kind of thing false teachers take advantage and Paul made it very clear he was not a false teacher Jesus in Matthew 23 verse 14 said woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayer therefore you shall receive the greater damnation second Peter chapter 2 verse 3 the apostle says in their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they've made up their condemnation has long been hanging over them their destruction has not been sleeping Titus chapter 1 verses 10 and 11 for there are many rebellious people mere talkers and deceivers especially those of the circumcision group they must be silenced because they are ruining whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach and that for the sake of dishonest gain so Paul was writing to them and saying I have a right to receive support God has made it clear in his word both Old and New Testament that this is proper and right but I have not used this right what is he saying verse 15 it would be better for me to die than anyone should make my boasting void now what is he glorying or boasting in he's he's glorying in the progress of the gospel as well as his personal integrity the integrity of this man's ministry made ministry possible because his reputation was spotless Paul was somebody who in Acts 2033 could say I have not coveted anyone silver or gold or clothing he's saying I don't do this for the bottom line I don't do this for money I do this for for the Lord he goes on to say in verse 16 if I preach for if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of for necessity is laid upon me there is an overwhelming burden in my heart to preach the gospel I have an internal compulsion and I need I need to preach the gospel is what he's saying it's like what it says in Jeremiah twenty verses eight and nine whenever I speak I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction so the word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long but if I say I will not mention him or speak anymore in his name his word is in my heart like a fire a fire shut up in my bones I am weary of holding it in indeed I cannot he was one of these people who just couldn't hold back one of the ways that I knew the Lord had called me to speak for him was that there were times when I tried to not say something I would sit there and somebody would be saying something and and my mom can tell you this because she was with me more than once and she saw this happen more than once where my body actually began to shake I would sit there and my body would begin to shake and she would see me because I was holding it in and I didn't want to speak I just because when I would do that when I would open my mouth it was like a blast furnace and you know something would come out and they didn't always appreciate what I had to say and so I said I've got to learn how to speak without coming off so in such an improper way and so I would be quiet but I just couldn't hold it back my mom saw me at the door that Jehovah's Witnesses would be there at the door and she'd see me starting to shake and she'd kind of take a couple steps back as she knew an explosion was about to take place I can still remember going with her she had started to go to a Bible study in a particular other city she wanted me to go there to see whether or not they were teaching the truth and I was still a very young believer at that time but I'd already started teaching and was going to school and she saw me sitting there beginning to fidget she saw me starting to move because my body actually has a reaction there are times to this day when somebody is saying something Marie can tell you this, Marie knows uh-oh here it goes because I actually breathe hard she will hear me starting to go and I start to rock back and forth and she knows give them a couple feet because there's an explosion about this to happen it's the truth and I'll just bang here we go you know because what you're saying is wrong I understand to a degree what Jeremiah is saying Jeremiah was saying I try to hold it back because whenever I spoke there'd be a repercussion that I didn't like I didn't appreciate but I couldn't hold it back what Paul is saying woe unto me if I preach not the gospel of Jesus Christ there is something inside of me that causes me to want to share about him with anybody who will listen I have an internal compulsion I have a divine commission and it's one that I will not reject Spurgeon once said I dare not play with you sinner I dare not tell you sin is a trifle I dare not tell you that the world to come is a matter of no great account I dare not come and tell you that you need not be an earnest I shall have to answer for it to my master and there's that sense that you need to speak the truth you do it in love but there's that sense and Paul had it that he needed to communicate the gospel woe unto me if I do not preach the gospel what was was his motivation what was it that caused him to do that for him it was God's mercy that had been shown to him it was a love for Jesus Christ and it was a sense of duty his call was to speak the word of God and he was one of these men who was determined to fulfill that call for Paul to live was Jesus and preaching the gospel is all that matters he was a steward he was entrusted with the gospel of Jesus Christ and he would faithfully deliver the message of the Lord Jesus Christ the fact is there's a greater reason to preach the gospel in financial reward there is a greater reason to preach than material benefit because these kinds of benefits are temporary he is saying I have an eternal reward for faithfulness to Jesus Christ he says in verse seventeen if I do this willingly I have a reward but if against my will I've been entrusted with a stewardship my reward is more valuable than what I have on earth and my reward is more valuable than any compensation that I could receive and even when it's difficult to preach he's saying I will continue to do so because I have been trusted the gospel so have you by the way every believer in this room you have and I don't know how many times I've said this and how many different ways I'll say it again you have been given the keys to the kingdom of God when my kids were beginning to learn to drive I can start with the oldest and go to the youngest but we'll start with Corinne she being the oldest when she was learning to drive I would take her out into parking lots let her drive around the parking lot for a while when she eventually got a feel of the wheel and the brakes and had an idea of the power of the vehicle we were driving and all of that I let her go on to the street there we go on the street now Marie would be in the back seat and I'd be there in the front Marie would have her hands over her eyes but I wanted to see what what I hit before I died so I would be in the front seat and the passenger and Corinne would drive and she's always been a good driver by the way my little girl's a good driver but you know just like every other driver she had to learn how to drive and so she did she spent time behind the wheel she began to learn how to do those things and then finally one day we took her to get her driver's license all of us remember the day when we got our driver's license that we have them those of you who are driving illegally it's really a thrilling day when you get your driver's license but we went to get our driver's license her driver's license and uh... and I remember she passed her test she did well comes home and what is the first thing she wants she wants my car and I'm sorry that is not about to happen that's not going to happen oh dad I just want to go to my friend's house I passed the driver's you know test I've got a ninety-something on it dad you know I can drive you pull the keys out of your pocket man and it's kind of like I I don't I don't you know it's just like one of those things like oh okay jeez uh no okay oh no okay oh no take it go you know when you hand them and they go on and that was just for a car it's just for a car it is no big deal if she smashes it up I had her driving her mother's car I mean it's no big deal but guess what the Lord did the Lord gave you keys but not to a car to his kingdom if that doesn't cause your heart to faint with fear nothing will you have the gospel of Jesus Christ entrusted to you the message of salvation the only message whereby an individual must adhere to in order to get into heaven it is the most powerful message that has ever been given to mankind and God trusted you with it what do you do with the trust that God gave to you do you do you take that message and give it or do you hold it back well the apostle Paul when he was speaking concerning this to the Thessalonians in 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 verses 3 and 4 said it like this he said our exhortation was not of deceit nor of uncleanness nor in guile but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel even so we speak not as pleasing men but God who tries our hearts we have been put in trust with the gospel you know when I was a kid in my teens up to when I got saved I was not trustworthy I just wasn't I was an unfaithful son an unfaithful friend and I wasn't necessarily the person that you would trust very much because I didn't care whether I was trusted or not it was to my advantage I would take advantage of it but when I got saved and I began to read passages like I just shared with you that I was put in trust with this message changed my life it changed my life because somebody trusted me somebody tested me proved me and trusted me and that somebody is God himself what is it that motivates a minister to remain faithful to the things of God it's the fear of God it's the love of God and it's awareness that God has trusted you with the most important message that mankind has ever received Paul said woe unto me if I preach not the gospel of Jesus Christ even if I don't do it out of faithfulness I do it as responsibility for my stewardship because I've been given something that is of utmost importance and as a steward I will remain faithful to my stewardship he says in verse 18 what is my reward then well I want to be able to preach it absolutely free of charge I'm not going to take advantage of you I have proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ without charge to you he says in verse 19 though I am free from all men I have made myself a servant all that I might win the mort to the Jews I became as a Jew that I might win Jews to those who are under the law as under the law that I might win those who are under the law to those are without law as without law not being without law toward God but under law toward Christ that I might win those who are without law to the weak I became as weak that I might win the weak I have become all things to all men that I might by all means save some now this I do for the gospel's sake that I may be a partaker of it with you the liberty that I have in Jesus Christ the liberty that Jesus has given to me has been used to evangelize it's this desire for people to be saved that has actually motivated him now notice when he says in verse 19 I am free from all men yet I've made myself a servant to all he's saying I don't depend on any man I depend on Christ alone for my support but I have chosen to be a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ now this liberty that I have I'm using to evangelize so to the Jew I became as a Jew in other words I'm willing to identify with anybody Jew or Gentile alike to bring them to Jesus Christ now he would identify with them but he didn't compromise the gospel to the Jew he was willing to to appeal to his Jewish roots to the Gentile those who did not recognize Moses he was willing to fellowship with them and minister to them even though the Jews thought Gentiles to be unclean to those who were weak he would minister to them because these were those who were weak of conscience they had concerns about food there in Corinth but he was able to minister to them with a sympathy towards their weaknesses and so what he chose to do is to simply in every way identify with man and find God's way to minister the word of God to them the level or the area that they lived in a way that is understandable to them and that's how you do proper ministry you know your audience you know who you're speaking to if I'm speaking to a group of older people senior citizens I'm not going to stand up there and share things like I was speaking to a high school group if I'm speaking to men I don't go and speak to them as if I'm speaking to a woman's retreat you need to know your audience when I'm teaching pastors and pastors classes I say you need to know your audience you need to know who you're speaking to you need to know what kind of appeal to give you need to know your audience in the sense that you can communicate in the level or in the direction or in the understanding that is general for that particular audience and you need to learn to do that well Paul was simply saying that to the Jews I understood the law I understand Moses I'm able to communicate to them to those who are Gentiles or without or outside of the law I can speak to them I can appeal to their prophets and I can bring New Testament in so that they can understand what I'm trying to say as I'm giving to them the gospel if somebody's weak in their conscience I know how to speak to them with loving compassion because they're a weak brother I can speak to them on their level and that's something that we all need to learn to do and then he finally highlights this in this way in verse 24 do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives a prize run in such a way that you may obtain it everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an imperishable crown therefore I run thus not with uncertainty thus I fight not as one who beats the air but I discipline my body bring it into subjection unless when I have preached to others I myself should become disqualified this is something that is rather practical for us today because what Paul is speaking about is athletic games when you read his writings very often he will make reference to athletics because it's quite obvious that he was familiar with the various athletic games during his time and the various contests during this time the Greeks had two great athletic festivals one of them was called the Isthmian Games the Corinthians would be familiar with that the other one was called the Olympics and the Olympics were something obviously that everybody knew about the contestants who were going to be involved in these particular games would train and they trained diligently for ten months they would abstain from certain foods they would stay away from certain beverages certain wines in order that they could be in top shape they worked and trained and got their bodies into a superb condition because they wanted to win a prize they would win what is called a pine wreath and not only would they win this wreath but they also when they got the wreath as the champion they also got fame and finances and they became very very well known and so Paul is exhorting Christians and he's saying to us as believers we're not running for short-lived fame and we're not running for short-lived comfort what we're doing is we're serving the Lord for eternal rewards when he speaks in verse 25 concerning this crown that they would win notice he refers to it in verse 25 as a perishable crown because that's exactly what it was it didn't last it was not something that was imperishable it was something that over time would deteriorate he's saying the prizes that you win in the world are never lasting prizes but the rewards you receive from God will always be that which does not perish so if you're going to make a choice as to what you want choose that which does not perish choose the reward that lasts forever and you need to make sure that you you contest in a lawful fashion and you need to make sure that you're in the condition to win now when he says in verse 27 I discipline my body and bring it into subjection unless when I've preached to others I myself should become disqualified it's interesting I was watching the Olympic Channel Channel 4 yesterday and they had something like the thirty most famous Olympic moments or something and I I found it interesting and I wanted to watch it and what was part of the thing that I found interesting is in fact that we were going to be looking at this passage today but beyond that in the United States today we have this attitude and I think it's it's found its way into the church and I want to speak about this for a minute this is really something that's on my heart and I hope I can say this properly we have this attitude that if you compete in something you ought to get a trophy everybody gets a trophy I mean you drive around town and I'm you know not necessarily knocking people who do this because who knows maybe someone in this room finds comfort in putting those bumper stickers on my child as an honor role student and all of that you know but everybody in one fashion or another here in in in our society is is is a champion in one way or another everybody nobody's really ever loses everybody always in one way or other wins so you join little league and and you you have to play and you end up the season everybody gets little trophies and what that does is it diminishes the reality that there was a team that was better than other teams there were there were athletes on the team that you played against that were just it is just a better team than you it when when I was growing up and I'm you know I have to be careful about this because I'm starting to sound like one of these old man who's saying you know when I was a kid we walked twenty seven miles in the snow to go to church you know or whatever and I don't really I I don't really think that way and and yet I find myself thinking that through and realizing that there are some great differences between how I basically grew up in the society that I grew up in and the society that is just today it's it's really a very different society very different see when I was in little league the the coach would put on on the field those whom he wanted and if he didn't want you to play you didn't play that was just it and if a lot of times the ones who played would be the kid whose father was out there helping you know in practice and also his kid was going to start you could be a good ball player never start simply because you have connections and the coach already had his team so I was nine years old when I started playing little league and I did pretty well and I started in what when what we had as you had what they called the pioneer leagues and then you had the pacific league then you had the major league so I started out like most every other kid nine years old as my first year playing ball I played pioneer league but we had tryouts and the next year I was boosted to what were called the major league so I didn't ever play pacific league I went right into the majors at the age of ten so at the age of ten I was there were in the uniform the whole things because not everybody wore uniforms major leagues were uniforms and pacific league had a uniform that was a little less in quality than the major there were actually statuses involved in in even your uniforms and the hats that you wore and so I made the major leagues but I can still remember my first year in the majors we had twenty uh... league games and we had like three or four practice games and each game consists of six innings and so in twenty four games over the season I played a total of ten innings in twenty four games and six of those innings were in the last game of the season because it was inconsequential whether we won or lost and so I only played four innings including practice games and then nineteen regular games I sat the bench for twenty three games and I sat there chewing on my glove wishing I could play but there was there was no recourse if the coach wanted you in you went in if you didn't want you in you weren't going in and it didn't matter if your dad walked up to the coach and said my boy's got a glove he knows how to throw the ball he's a good ball player didn't matter and you can imagine how it felt for me some of you can you were there too seeing your friends playing and you're not because the coach had his favorites and and I sat there and and I have to tell you did I like that no what did it do in my heart well that year it caused me great discouragement my mom said to me son we can pull you from the team we can put you in the pacific league you'll start you'll play I mean you won't have to sit the bench and I said no I'm gonna sit the bench I sat the bench for all those games because I knew I was learning some things even at that age I knew that something was going to happen eventually and that's what happened the next year I played then the next year I played in and that was the rest you know and and and I did well but I learned some things and part of it is life isn't fair and not everybody gets trophies and not everybody's a starter and there are some people who will start who maybe shouldn't there are others who should start who will not but life isn't fair so you have to make adjustments to it I also learned something I learned that the best team usually does win and so if you're going to be a winner you have to practice when I was eleven and twelve years old I played baseball every day every day that I could go out I played ball my best friend lived across the street and every day we played we had a fence there a brick wall by my house he would pitch I would bat I would pitch he would bat and we did that from the time we got out of school until we went to bed that night until when the the sun went down every day practiced and practiced and practiced and practiced until my skills were improved because I figured that if you try hard and work hard and do your best eventually you're probably gonna be able to contribute that's how I thought because that was the society that I came from and so I'm listening to this Olympic guy just yesterday and he said just because you go into the pool doesn't mean you're gonna medal and that's the truth you have to you have to work hard you have to discipline yourself the greatest athletes are the ones who practice the most who made it their life that's what Paul is talking about he's saying these people are putting their entire life's efforts into winning a perishable crown they practice they diet they abstain from certain foods and they eat other kinds of foods they work out and work out and work out so that they might have a chance to win a wreath that perishes and he's saying if these people have a discipline to get something like that that has no value outside of the temporary shouldn't we as believers discipline ourselves so that we might win that which lasts forever and that is a mentality that even the church today has failed to grab hold of holiness godliness is not something that just happens because you woke up today it is something you pursue it's getting up in the morning and reading the word it's abstaining from activities of the flesh it's dying to self it's making choices that are difficult when your flesh would rather do something and you say no I will not do that I will choose the better I'll choose the greater I'll choose the thing that matters more when I first got saved in my early first years of being a Christian there were things that I wished that I could drink because I enjoyed drinking that kind of beer or I enjoyed doing that kind of whatever and the Lord had to teach me very early in my walk with him if you want to excel you put things away that don't matter and pursue the things that do put away the things that don't matter put away the things that just distract put away the things that may entertain you right now or amuse you at this moment but are not edifying and building you up pursue the things that matter so that you can grow so that you can have understanding of God so that you can have a relationship with Him so that you can be equipped for works of service so that you can have something to share with people when you're trying to tell them about Jesus Christ there are people I've known over the years who can talk about the batting average of their favorite baseball player or the yardage that their favorite running back as accrued over the season or the points that they've made their favorite basketball player how many three-pointers he's made how many championship teams he's been on and they know all kinds of these kinds of information bits of information but they don't know anything about the Lord they don't know anything about His Word they don't know anything about fellowship they don't have any of that discipline their discipline is learning how to rebuild an engine or to work on a firearm or to do their hobby, whatever it may be it's not that learning how to rebuild engines isn't good if you can do that, that's a great thing to do I could use your friendships sometimes knowing how to work on your firearms and having hobbies none of that's bad as long as it's not the premier goal of your life because when it's all said and done that which matters is that which is done for the Lord serve God with all that you have in you Ecclesiastes 9-10 says whatever your hand finds to do do it with your might Colossians 3-17 says whatever you do whether in word or deed do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God the Father through Him Romans 12-11 says never be lacking in zeal but keep your spiritual fervor serving the Lord so Paul is simply saying like an athlete I actually have a training regimen and my regimen is rigorous when he speaks concerning it it's interesting how he puts it he says in verse 26 I run thus not with uncertainty thus I fight not as one who beats the air I'm not a shadow boxer in other words but I discipline my body and I bring it into subjection less when I have preached to others I myself should become disqualified it's been said when he says I discipline my body and bring it into subjection he's literally saying I give myself black eyes I discipline myself I want to have a walk with God that is solid and continuing now this is coming from the pen of the mightiest apostle Paul himself and he's saying less having preached to others I find myself disqualified less moving into a life that lacks discipline God cannot use me any longer and places me on a shelf and find somebody else that he can use again back into that athletic thing I never wanted to sit the bench I never was one of these kids who could do that it was hard to sit there especially when you're looking out in the field knowing that you're just as good as any of those kids who were playing and you're just sitting there and you're just sitting there and your uniform's all clean I used to want to dirty my uniform up I wanted to slide I wanted to dive after the ball I wanted to play with all of my heart and I would sit there and I would watch this and I would get so upset and I'd say I want to play I would say to the coach I'd say put me in put me in coach and he wouldn't he never did so I learned to shut up I learned to just sit there and I learned that there's a time when the coach decides he'll put you in so the best thing for me to be and this is something I learned in ministry is be ready be ready just be ready so I practiced every day I worked every day I was ready every day because if I got my opportunity I was going to make the best of it I wasn't going to be one of these kids who just sat there and then okay Rizal let's go in and then what drop the ball I'm going to learn how to catch I'm going to learn how to throw I'm going to learn how to play and I'm going to be ready and guess what I brought that into my walk with the Lord same attitude I'm ready so should the Lord open a door I want to step in I want to be ready to be used by him see I figured that God is looking for a man he's looking for a woman that he can use the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth looking for the one whose heart is completely his that he might show himself strong on behalf of and so I want to be that man I want to be the one that the Lord looks and he's looking through the area and he says I can use Rizal as I can put him in and I want to be ready that's what Paul is saying Paul is saying I discipline my body I give myself black eyes because lest after preaching to others I find myself put on a shelf I want to be used by God he's saying discipline yourself to godliness pursue the things that matter and watch what God will use you to do you will be amazed at what the Lord can use you to do if you're ready so be ready


Live from Las Vegas, it's the queue. Covering Oracle's modern marketing experience. Brought to you by Oracle. Now here's your hosts, John Furrier and Peter Burris. So, digital transformation, we've been here and for years and years and years, it's coming, it's coming. Peter and I were talking earlier, the time is now for ROI, we talked to Vic from the agency side, they're under pressure. Show me the beef, where's the meat on the bone? What is happening? I need to see the data, I need to see results. At the end of the day, that's kind of like the bloom is off the road on all the hype. It's ROI, it's data. What's your thoughts? Can you share your thoughts on that perspective? I'm excited about, there's probably 1,000 things at this modern marketing experience. Haven't been at the helm here for three years that I'm excited about. If you had me zero down to a couple of them though, gents, one of them is what you just talked about. It's here now, right? When we started this journey a couple years ago, it was about, oh, this is the art of the possible. This is what might happen sometime in the future, right? This is what we're going to enable and make theoretically possible and it's going to do all this great stuff for you, right? But it was pretty much an idea. And to have a pretty big idea, pretty transformative idea, that's going to translate into structural competitive advantage for these customers that do it well. And to have that be a conversation about what's coming three years ago, to have Fortune 50 CPG and Fortune 50 retail and Fortune 50 financial services and Fortune 50 tech companies join us here and have their chief marketing officers not talk about what they're thinking about doing, what they're going to do in the future, but how they're transforming their companies and their earnings per share and their customer experience and customer relationships right now, real, because they've actually implemented this stuff and they've taken it from the theoretical. They've taken all this data, content, media, applications, acquisition, et cetera. They've put it all together and they're fundamentally changing their companies and it's an exciting time because it's not theoretical anymore. It's actually happening. It's going down for real, as they say. My kids love that song, going down for real. So the real story, so I want to get drilled down into that. So let's feel that back. So I was not super critical, but I kind of pointed out what everyone's talking about, which is Oracle has acquired their way and I asked Mark her directly in January, there's organic innovation and there's inorganic. So there's a lot of M&A in your portfolio and the question is, how do you integrate all this stuff? And then you guys made an interesting bet and we flesh this out at Oracle Open World, the data becomes a very critical component. So can you share the payback you're getting from the data, the bet you made on making data universally shareable? We need to talk about that. And two, making it all integrate because no one wants more work, right? Especially CMOs, they're not IT. Nor do they aspire to be.  So both sides are actually happy about this. A couple of things there. One, Oracle Marketing Cloud is 100% made of acquisition as you know, not just part, right? So we've had a very aggressive acquisition agenda. We set out to buy very, very best of breed companies, right? Certain companies have a philosophy, I'm just going to pick up an asset, right? It'll be a capability, I'm going to go that way. We decided to actually go by the market leader in every single functional major category picked up. Number two, all the tech giants, not just Oracle, have been relatively guilty of this the last several decades. So I'm going to buy all these great toys. I'm not going to do any integration, right? The data, the workflow, the UI, the analytic level. And I'm going to try to convince the customer that just because I now own all these companies, that's integration value. And you should buy for me instead of somebody else instead of actually being really, really committed at all of those levels to true integration. And as you saw today, right on stage, that's been one of the hallmarks of what we've done here is not just acquiring best of breed, but being religious and committed to shipping very, very quickly within year one, real, real integration that provides real values. So for the folks watching who didn't see the keynote, just drill down and quickly explain that integration piece, because that's a big message today. What's going on, give us the quick update on integration, the meat on the bone, what's happening now, what's the highlight. And we, Oracle Marketing Cloud is comprised of some very, very important what here to for have been relatively siloed, right? Web optimization and AB testing has been its own thing. E-commerce has been its own thing. Marketing automation has been its own thing. The DMP has been its own thing. Ad tech has been its own thing. We not only have to continue to innovate and scale and be best of breed in every one of those silos, we got to say when you put one plus one plus one together, voila, 10 happens, right? And there's immense value unlocked because we put the two together in an intelligent way. And that has been the theme, right? I'm not just today, but over the last couple of years, today we made a huge deal about it because we announced very meaningful, not PowerPoint, not looks good into demo, but very real, it's in there when you log on to the product, benefit. And what that really means is in addition to being a world class in each one of these independent core competencies, we've been talking about, you know what, this is going to turn into this marketing operating system or this one control panel, this one reference stack for the digital CMO and guess what? It's not science fiction anymore with the integrations that we announced that are very real, right? And are making this seamless application interface flow from workflow to workflow, process to process, silo to silo, having it all there for real, not PowerPoint, is changing the lives of the CMOs that are actually investing. And so those demos were shipping product or shipping? No, those are live product. Yeah, all this stuff is actually real. One of the things you notice about Oracle, we tend to, certain companies like to talk about stuff, they'll ship five years from now. Certain companies like to talk about stuff that they're going to ship five quarters from now. We tend to not talk about it until it's actually live. Oracle executes, Oracle might not be first to the game. In this case, they'll use the M&A muscle and or inorganic, which we've seen in the middleware area. Certain Koreans grew also now with Donatelli on the other side, you see a lot of that execution. When they move, they move fast and heard clearly saying to us and we heard him this morning, you know, we're a cloud company all the way in all cloud. And so real integration is the theme there. Not pretend integration, not talk about it, actually do it because the value creation for the CMO, if we do it well, is immense. I'd like to elaborate a little bit more. Integration within all of these best of breed companies be it the data companies, the DMPs, the market automation, the army channel. Integration of all these incredible asset pool inside Oracle Marketing Cloud, that's a big deal. You'll notice here, right, we have got the other legs of the customer experience, because as in big an effort it is to tie the entire world of marketing and ad tech together, then if you actually tie that to Salesforce automation, you tie it to commerce, you tie it to service automation, you tie it to some of the other things, that all of a sudden becomes yet another integration benefit across more of the customer experience value chain. That's the second definition of integration and that's an Oracle wide thing, not just an Oracle marketing cloud thing that is delivering value to the marketplace. And then third, part of being a cloud leader is what you own and how well you integrate it. The other part of the cloud leader is being the most open, interoperable ecosystem hub. And as you guys know, we've got over 900 media, data and application partners now that actually are real integrated, not PowerPoint. Not integrated. Integrated into the actual, we're the hub and over 900 innovative data media and application partners. So again, the customer can have the benefits of this foundational reference stack and all the benefits of cutting edge innovation with hundreds and hundreds of partners and we think integration means all three. Well, compare that, because it's your competitor, let's say Salesforce in this case, might say, oh, we got a zillion integrated people too. How does that compare? Is it apples and oranges? Because they will claim that they have a robust ecosystem. I mean, they had a big acquisition with exact target and then they've been kind of mute since. I mean, we haven't seen much and they've been a heavily acquired company. Some will say that they're integrating, it's kind of clunky too, but they can claim the integrated partners. I would never say that. No, I've heard, no, that's legit. Other people would, though. Other people, no, but they also would say they have a huge ecosystem. So how do you compare your ecosystems, say, Salesforce? Yeah, they do, and they were brilliant, right? They started AppExchange last decade and I still think that's one of the reasons they were so successful is because they committed to being an ecosystem. I think there's a lot of difference, I'll point to two. One is that that ecosystem revolves around Salesforce automation, right? Very little of that actually revolves around marketing and ad tech. We are that 100% revolving around marketing. So when I say 900 partners, I'm not talking about what orbits around CRM, I'm talking about what orbits around us as a marketing and ad tech stack. Huge difference, number one. So broader. Yeah, and with marketing in the middle, not with Salesforce automation. Well, I think what you're saying is that the customer ends up in the middle of yours, the salesperson ends up in the middle of this. You said it very well. Yeah, and then number two, for anybody that understands the life of a CMO, it can't just be applications, right? Which is what that other ecosystem is, it's just apps. Ours is apps, it's media, because so much of that budget actually is real-time, optimized, programmatic media budget. So it has to be all of the major media, via video, via display, via social, et cetera, and it's hundreds of data partners. And if you expand the definition of ecosystem to data, media, and applications, centered around marketing, not CRM, that's why this is so different. I love this concept of digital CMO stack because we look at this all the time, we can have vertically-oriented solutions, like say responses and whatnot, but then there has to be some sort of commoditized horizontally-integrated component, say a data layer, for instance. So love that, I completely buy that, I think it's a home run, that's a great strategy, stay on that track. But I got to ask you about this shift in the industry, because there's business model innovation going on too. There's business model realities of your customers' customers, and they're moving from, as I wrote to my notes here, commerce today is destination-oriented, go to a landing page, put up a form, or sales person-oriented, here's the sales guy. So they're over-indexed on form capture, and then it goes to some analog sales process. The progression now is shifting to pure digital. It is. Non-linear consumption, all these kind of forces at play here. That's kind of a mind bender for the customer. How are you guys addressing that? One, you agree with that, and then what are you doing in that future state that we're living in? Yeah, one I agree with it, and I would add one more thing to the kind of previous state is just because you can hit the customer 110 times a year with campaigns because it's so cheap does not mean you should, right? And campaign, campaign, campaign, campaign, transaction, transaction, so shifting. You know what? If I actually form non-linear relationships that are interactive and value-added, instead of just taste revenue, you know what's going to happen? Reven is going to go faster, right? If I actually chase conversations, whether it's a B2C e-commerce customer, a B2B direct sales customer, I pursue value-added conversations in context, not just campaigns, guess what?  And then so much of that just comes from, I call it kind of going from manual to automated to predictive. If you commit to the data layer, and all of a sudden you're catching every possible meaningful piece of data, you then actually have the technology chomps to marry that at the identity layer. Hey, that's Kevin, those cookies are Kevin, that social handles Kevin, that mobile ID is Kevin. It's not the company you work for, that's persona-based, and you notice we talked about account-based marketing, it's both now. It's not just persona and company, and that's a powerful combination. I wish we could, another time, we'll spend a half an hour on that, because that's a big deal. But tying all that at the identity level, then having the signal itself go tell the orchestration engines, oh, the customer just told me this, this, and this, what should we go do in real time? And across all the things, that is, call it what you want, automated, programmatic, data-driven, response-driven, more real-time. By allowing that to happen, instead of manual people doing manual sales calls or manual campaigns, and hitting me as many times as I can, because it's cheap enough to do it, that's kind of driving some of this fundamental change. So a lot of this comes back to the idea that ultimately marketing has to be valuable to the customer. Correct, yeah. And customers buy products, but they also buy products based on their knowledge and experience of them, which means channel becomes an increasingly important part of the value proposition. So as you look forward, if you put the customer at the center of your stack, it's serving up the data, not only about the right product, but also about the right channel to work with. That's right. And the right way to engage. How do you see marketing taking on a broader role within businesses at combining those multiple things so that the customer consistently is having the most valuable experience. Yeah, boy, that's a complex topic. If you dummy it down to kind of the, I think there's three ways you can really simplify that. One of them is context, right? Simple, but right? Hey, if the customer's pissed off, don't send them the 30% off coupon. Right, know that they're pissed, right? Or if the customer needs education or comparisons. Don't send them to the call center. That's exactly right. So literally context, how am I going to actually take what I know and put everything I put from what's offers, you know, reviews, service calls, whatever, make sure it's context. Number one, number two is channel or device. People use those simultaneously, but those customers are out there in 17 different channels or devices all the time. Don't rely on them coming to the one you hope they come to and optimize for. You got to go get them in a seamless, you know, well orchestrated fashion. And number three is actually time, right? Everybody's consumer now, where there's my consumer that spends seven figures on enterprise software, or a B2C t-shirt company that has 20 seconds to get the deal before their competitors does. Timing is everything. And if you can actually make those decisioning, offer up the right context and the right channel and do it fast, right, at the right time, you can, if you did those three things, you're going to deliver on that concept. You just talked about pretty well. Yeah, we're talking about context, community, and capability. Where context is, what is the customer trying to do, community is, who are they trying to do it with, and will they do it with you? And then capability is, how do you serve up the appropriate set of capabilities so the customer gets what they need? It's a good way to put that. And again, if you notice a driving theme here, we don't think we're selling tech. I mean, we are. What we're selling is an ablement. All technology is, is an enablement for the customer. In this case, the customer is the CMO and all the people that work for him or her, they have got a massive challenge to go pull this off. And it's not just tech, by the way, it's process and change management and behavior and politics and governance. And they've got a whole bunch of other stuff. Tech is just the enabler, but if we deliver it that way so that it's use case, vertical, and purpose built to go enable what they're trying to do, it takes the conversation away from selling software and it turns it into a technology enablement platform. Kevin, my final question to get your thoughts on this vision is, Google, Facebook can win the impression-based ad model. We talked about that earlier, but in the one-to-one experience, the brand's got to control their own destiny there. So the question is, you mentioned identification. How does a brand manage this? Because now the customer's progression is digital is off property, on property, referring to their .com or their website, which is critical infrastructure. It's a funnel. So all these URL, the technology involved and yet engagements happening on other properties. How do you get customers to get that ID when no one wants to go their website anymore? Yeah. Unless it's for like some sort of metrics. Boy, we think that is incredibly important. And again, I'm going to answer that in a couple of ways instead of just one, but I think it's worth it to opine. They're facing a couple of things. The power of the closed garden, right? Do I really want to optimize for the Google closed garden and that ID and then have to do it again for the Facebook garden and that ID and again for the Apple garden and that ID and the Amazon garden and that ID and the Twitter garden and that ID. I got to manage across and optimize my dollars and my customer experience across all of the closed gardens. They don't care about optimization. They care about sucking more of your media dollars into their closed garden, right? They're not going to help with this whole optimization thing. They're going to optimize the stack. That's exactly right. Then you've got all your own media. You've got own social, you've got own mobile. You've got own websites. You've got own e-commerce. You've got own call chat, et cetera. You've got all your own and you got this worldwide open mobile social web. But guess what? People spend a ton of time not on your property or the closed gardens but out here, right? And if you can't from a data and more importantly an identity, right? If you are capturing the identity across all of that and you're the one optimizing the customer experience and the money spent to go deliver that customer experience across all three of those. That's why what we're doing is kind of needed. I'm going to use a corny analogy but the industry needs this Switzerland that at the data, the identity and the optimization layer, it can't be beholden to any of those three. You've got to go across all three. You've got to enable that for brands in a way that gives them the signaling they need for the progressions that they need. And then what to go do about it? Across all of those channels, yeah. Hopefully the state that matters that we're talking about is the state of the customer. That's right. Okay, final question, final, final questions. And it does mean organizing around the customer. That's exactly right. For the folks watching, what's the vibe of the show this year? For the folks who didn't make it here? So the keynote's online. We streamed on silkenangle.com. What's the vibe of the show? What's the hallway conversation? What's the, what's going on? It's, it's, it's, you know, it's the biggest. So it's the biggest we've ever had. If you heard me yesterday, 30 countries is the most global we've ever had. It's the most diverse, right? All the solution sets. It's not just this or this or this now. It's covering everything. We got over 60 customers doing courses for us, right? We're not doing the one training. They're peer group who are already excellent practitioners are the ones actually leading the charge, which is, that's phenomenal, right? That doesn't happen very often. So that's pretty good that just it's more successful and more relevant. 2,200 people don't show up and fly from 30 countries. If this isn't pretty relevant and pretty important, you don't take a week out of your busy schedule and come here. That's number one. Number two, that comment I made at the beginning, people are so psyched because they're hearing about real stuff being done by real peers and real brands. They can even do something. They can literally leave and learn from partner, my, my peer one, peer two, peer three. I picked up actual knowledge of stuff that's not PowerPoint or Oracle as ideas, but actually stuff that's going on in real practitioner land. Number three is the, there's actually real results tied to it. So now, not only do they understand how to actually go do this, they can translate all this marketing ad tech speak into CFO speak and CEO speak saying, hey, if I make these investments and do these transformational things, these are the kind of business results that are earnings per share changing that we should expect if we make similar investments. And, you know, they need that because once we get ourselves and the CMO on the same side of the table, we still got to go into the CIO to shift calories, the CFO to shift dollars, and the CEO to shift strategy to go support what we want to do together. And they're getting that in spades this year, which is really, really exciting. It's not just Oracle either. You have Deloitte up there. You got Mint2Go, independent companies out there doing cool stuff. So building an Oracle. It's real. It's the new Oracle. It's happening, right? Like you said, it's going down for real. Going down for real. It's not PowerPoint anymore. It's not futures. It's actually going on. And people are excited about that. The space is going to explode and a lot of changes come. I'm sure we're going to see this thing grow in multiple directions. A lot of touch points, a lot of omni-channel growth, opportunities, so to speak. This is theCUBE. Going down for real here with Kevin Eckeroid's GM, Senior Vice President of Oracle Market Cloud. We'll be right back with more live coverage. SiliconANGLE is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier. Peter Burris will be right back after this short. Always a pleasure, guys. Thank you. Yup.