So today I want to talk about three of the most Misleading food labels out there and how to avoid getting Trepper first up. No added sugar. This may be one of my favorite ones You see this on juices dry fruits and a lot of other snacks What they don't want you to know is that this basically means that this product already has so much sugar in it We didn't need to add any more So if you see no added sugar your antenna radars ought to be Blaring that this is a trick to make you eat huge sugar laden products So the other thing you want to look for so many labels in that house say Added sugar and you look at added sugar as what you actually think Is in that product in fact the systems being manipulated to Disguise all the other sugar that's already there So sure if you see a product with a lot of added sugar You want to be aware that that's probably not product that you want to use But even if you see very little added sugar that doesn't mean you should go look for the real sugar content So how do you find the real sugar content?  That'd be one of the first things under the carbohydrate level Right below that you'll see fiber Take the total carbohydrate number minus the fiber That won't actually tell you the entire grams of sugar in that product Now, what does that mean? Well? one teaspoon of table sugar has Four grams of sugar. So fun thing to do is take that Total carbohydrates Minus the fiber take that number in grams of sugar divided by four and that'll tell you the teaspoon of sugar in that serving size now remember companies are very clever they Reduce the serving size to get you a number that you'll feel pretty good about The other thing companies have done because of labeling laws is if there is a half a gram of trans fat Per serving You don't have to list trans fats Label so many companies will take the serving size Reduce it to just the level where they no longer have to show you trans fats on the label but Nobody quite frankly is going to eat the serving size because in each package There may be two three four five Surveys in a package. It's incredibly Unusual for human behavior to not completely the entire package So buyer beware Let me give you an example We had the former head of the FDA on our podcast the last year Uses the example of a bagel. So bagel usually has around 330 calories and if you look at the label it will say zero sugar But in fact if you do this math You'll find that the total carbohydrates of the bagel is about 33 Carbohydrates and zero fiber. So that means 33 grams divided by four that's about eight teaspoons in that no sugar bagel and as we talked about on other When you finally Grind up grain products. You actually make the sugar more accessible for absorption then Plain table sugar in fact, that's why red as a glycemic index 100 in table sugar Which is half fructose and half glucose by the way. It's super as well as a glycemic index of 85 You're actually getting more sugar in from a piece of bread then Sugar wow, and you can't even taste the sugar in the bread. So buyer beware Now another one of my favorites is organic Free range or cage-free eggs. It sounds pretty good. Doesn't it? wrong first of all free range and cage-free chickens merely describes that the chickens don't have to be in a Cage it doesn't mean they're they're allowed to go outside commercial chicken warehouses can contain up to a hundred thousand birds in a warehouse Jam so close together that they actually support their own way because these chickens have such osteoporosis in their legs that fully 10 to 20 percent of chickens that are sold for frying chickens actually have broken legs because they couldn't support their own way and by the way, there's some fascinating evidence that it's the lecterns in The corn and soybeans that benefits chickens that are the problem so a Free-range chicken by law can be kept indoors for its entire life As long as you open the door to this warehouse for five minutes every 24 hours and the chicken has the potential to go outside to a Three yard by three yard by three yard patch of dirt or grass and by frankly Those hundred thousand chickens aren't going to get through that door in five minutes.  So look for pastured chickens If you can't find pastured chicken eggs, your second best choice is Omega 3a Why because the chickens are fed either flax seeds or algae or both And they have Omega 3 fats in their yolks Those Omega 3 fats are alpha linolenic acid and if you looked at my last book and read it You'll notice that alpha linolenic acid ala is actually the one fat that made the difference in the famous Leonhardt diet study in preventing coronary artery disease So imagine that you're going to get a nice dose of ala every time you have made a three egg or a algae-based egg. There's several good manufacturers of algae-based eggs With that in mind eat the yolks and give the lights to your dog Your dog is going to love it. You you're going to get all the benefit Of the alpha linolenic acid and you'll also get a healthy dose of choline for your brain simultaneously Okay, number three light or diet products Now almost all of these products With this label contain artificial sweeteners like saccharin, aspartame, sucrose, which are practically poison. You might know them better by their brand name sweeten low. You will In splenda the problem with these sweeteners is that they actually kill bacteria So imagine that you're having light or a low-fat low sugar yogurt And you're thinking hey, this is great I'm going to get all these wonderful healthy probiotics from my yogurt But in fact a study from Duke University in 2007 showed that one pack of splenda sucrose can kill off 50% of your gut bacteria. So why would you eat a potentially healthy low-fat low sugar yogurt to get the probiotics when in fact the Sucralose in that product is going to kill whatever you swallow and half of your gut buddies simultaneously. Talk about a bad idea When you kill off your gut bacteria Remember you're going to drop more and more bad bacteria in your waste Replace them. That's going to cause more leaky gut And you're going to gain weight due to the inflammation that follows leaky gut Now if a diet food is a kind of sweetener It's often loaded with fat and artificial flavors instead of a healthy fat One more interesting thing that I've written about in the past, but I think it bears repeating anytime you have a Fruit in a yogurt or if you even take one of these low calorie yogurt and you add some blueberries or you add some blackberries You should know that that melt product will actually bind to the polyphenols in the fruit that are beneficial to you and you'll get absolutely no Benefit from those polyphenols and this has been shown in multiple human studies where people Forgiven blueberries for instance or blueberries mixed with yogurt and one behold If you look at their blood levels of polyphenols and those Metabolites for one hour three hours six hours after you ate them You'll find that in fact these polyphenol metabolites went up in the blood of volunteers who ate blueberries But when the blueberries were mixed yogurt or with a milk-based smoothie There was no bet that there were no uptake of these polyphenol green so just because it says low fat or low calorie and it's got fruit and Probiotics doesn't mean that you're actually going to get the benefit that you think you're getting This next one is sure to surprise you so can you imagine that you could actually Improve your brain by eating a lion's mane mushroom. 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Thanks for checking out this video. So let's get into it. Let's talk about what is coming to shutter for May And I'm particularly excited for what's coming in May not just because there's some good things there But because it's my birthday That month and I will be celebrating by watching plenty on shutter and I'm gonna tell you right now There's a movie I'm gonna tell you is coming to shutter that I am predicting will be covered for the last drive And with Joe Bob Briggs, which by the way, that will be well underway in May So that's another thing to really look forward to in May. So let's get into this Oh, and once again, I do have to remind everyone I do no spoiler reviews for all shutter original and exclusive films So just know that every Monday or Tuesday of each week I will be putting up the review for the movie that is coming out that Thursday because they're pretty much always coming out on Thursdays every now and then they come out a different day But I'll let you know if that's any different so you can pretty much rely on having a No spoiler review for a shutter original or exclusive every Monday or Tuesday So just know that because they're pretty much always coming out. Anyway, let's talk about what's coming So this is the first portion are the exclusives and originals So the first one is a shutter original called fried a berry and it's coming May 7th now this one is available in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, Australia, New Zealand Fried berry follows the story of a drug-addled degenerate who after yet another bender gets abducted by aliens Okay Berry takes a back seat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joy ride through Cape Town What follows is an onslaught of drug sex and violence as Barry's alien tourists Enjoy our enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind That's interesting Obviously, I'll be doing a review on it. So I'll be watching that Next one is called the reckoning. This one is is a shutter exclusive coming May 13th And this one's available US, Canada and the UK Oh and Ireland. Sorry. The other one was in Ireland as well. They're in Ireland now UK. I is what they say here I believe after losing her husband during the Great Plague Grace Haverstock is unjustly accused of being a witch and Placed in the custody of England's most ruthless witch hunter judge Moorcroft Forced to endure physical and emotional torture while steadfastly maintaining her innocence Grace must face her own inner demons as the devil himself starts to work his way into her mind All right, we'll see This one. I'm very excited about I've been waiting for this one I know a lot of people have been waiting for this one Some people have already paid for this because they couldn't wait, but I was like no, I'm gonna get a screener I'm waiting that is psycho gore man by the same people who did the void which is awesome And I think still on shutter if you haven't seen it. You definitely should see it. It's great So coming May 20th, actually just two days before my birthday. Awesome psycho gore man available in US, Canada UK Ireland, Australia news Yeah, Australia, New Zealand in PG psycho gore man young siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly Resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe They nicknamed the evil creature psycho gore man or PG for short and use the magical amulet They discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn't long before PG's reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic fiends Sorry intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos and a rogues gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town, Siberia To battle for the fate of the galaxy. I've heard only good things about psycho gore man Actually good to great things about psycho gore man And I hear there are they eat a lot of creatures a lot of practical facts, so I'm very very interested in that one Then a shutter original coming May 27th skull the mask available in US, Canada UK Ireland Australia, New Zealand in this splatter filled supernatural slasher a Pre-Columbian artifact contains the spirit of on Unhuggah I'm sorry. I probably bushered the hell of that the executioner of the God. Oh, this is gonna be good Tah-ha want Wanton soup a tah-ha wanton soup a I tried whoever wears the mask is possessed by on hot on Hunga and compelled to commit sacrifices to resurrect his God It's up to a museum assistant and a police woman to stop the slaughter before the ritual is completed a throwback treat For fans of 80 slasher's and gory practical effects that sounds cool That sounds really cool and a good follow-up to psycho gore man So I'm excited for that one too. Obviously Joe Bob Briggs will be going on So check that out. Oh Does it say? guest stars. Oh It's it. Sorry it are it says guest stars who have already been on it not who are gonna be on it. So yeah Okay, so coming May 1st the wicker man. Yes, the original wicker man. I'm excited about this It's been a while since I've seen this film. I love this film. It is a wonderful film I'm gonna have to watch it and do a full-on review for it So just coming to the I think that's only gonna be in the US. Wow a lot of stuff is only in the US apparently so That sucks. Okay, so coming May 1st the wicker man only to the US From 1973 during a celebration of May Day a Puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish Island Village in search of a girl who the locals claim never existed Great film. Just watch it if you haven't seen it also only for the US same date house on Haunted Hill from 1959 The original one a millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large spooky rented house Overnight with him and his wife the film is produced by horror legend William Castle I've seen that but it's been a long time. So I need to see it again I've also seen the next one which is the updated version of house on Haunted Hill Which I remember liking. I think I had Jeffrey rush in it had a lot of recognizable people in the cast also only in the US and coming May 1st house on Haunted Hill from 1999 an Amusement Park mogul offers a group of diverse people one million dollars to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past You see how they went from 10,000 in the past to a million in 1999 kind of funny Also coming May 1st for the US and Canada I'm excited about this one because it's another film. I haven't seen for quite a while and I really enjoy 13 ghosts. Oh, actually, I'm sorry. This is the original 13 ghosts. I've not seen that I've seen the remake. It's been a while since the remake and I really want to rewatch the remake But I will see the original because I've heard good things from 1960 a Family inherits what proves to be a haunted house But a special pair of goggles allows them to see their ghostly tormentors the film is produced by horror legend William Castle once again just like house on Haunted Hill So definitely want to check that out also coming May 1st coming to the US and Canada curse of the demon from 1958 Directed by Hollywood great Jacques Tornure Tornure tour no American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference only to find himself Investigating the mysterious actions of devil worshiper Julian Carswell Kind of vague. I don't know price skip on that one Coming May 4th to the US only I'm sorry. This is the movie I am predicting will be a Joe Bob Briggs one that is covered in the last drive-in Franken Hooker by Frank Hennan lotter and think about it. He's already done Basket case. He's already done brain damage. He loves Frank Hennan lotter. He's gonna be doing Franken Hooker I'm calling it right now, and I hope so because I love this film if you haven't seen it got to see it I own it on blu-ray. It's back here somewhere. I love it Directed by Frank Hennan lotter a medical student sets out to recreate his Decapitated fiance by building her a new body made of Manhattan Street prostitutes It's as fun as it sounds. Just know that Coming May 10th for the US and Canada Seder I actually just read a review on this in a room work magazine Secluded in a desolate forest a broken family is observed by Seder a supernatural entity who is attempting to claim them Probably skip doesn't sound that interesting Also coming May 10th climate of the hunter coming to the United States Australia and New Zealand Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire When the three come together for dinner It has all the markings of a lovely meal filled with desire memories and blood from Indie author Mickey Reese comes a wholly original new vampire vision Huh, I'm kind of interested in that because I do like vampire stuff And if it says it's got a new twist to it, I'm very intrigued by that Also coming May 10th. This is coming to US Canada UK Ireland Australia New Zealand. Everyone's getting it the funeral home Bernardo is an undertaker who runs mortuary business in the same house where he resides That sounds like a bad idea in the in the front He has his clients and in the back his dysfunctional family lives among coffins wreaths and mischievous Supernatural entities that visit on a daily basis. They attribute the paranormal Manifestations to the dead bodies from their mortuary work But finding the real source of all this madness will be their quest and what they might find is a terrifying truth That sounds kind of cool. I'll check that one out Coming May 13th the film a trickster. Oh, it's a season. I'm sorry. This is a show Full season binge available on May 13th of trickster. This is for the US only Based on the best-selling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson trickster tells the story of the indigenous gothic spirits ancient magic and deadly rites of passage in a coming-of-age story Unlike any you've ever seen Interesting might check it out May 17th coming to the US only this is a film that I'm overdue to see have not seen it So I'm definitely going to check it out when it's available Mesa May 17th. Sorry American Mary by the Saskatchewans The allure of easy money sends Mary Mason a medical student into the world of underground surgeries Which ends up leaving more marks on her than her so-called freakish clients? Very interested in that heard only good things. So definitely check it out Also coming on the 17th time-lapse just to the US Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and Conspire to use it for personal gain until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop Sounds kind of interesting. I might check that out Also coming on the 17th found and this is coming to the US and Canada a horror obsessed boy Discovers his older brother is a serial killer That's it. I Don't know maybe maybe Coming May 18th death by temptation. This is for the US Canada UK Ireland Australia and New Zealand So everyone's getting it an evil succubus is preying on Lebedon this black men in New York City and all that stands in her way is a Minister in training an aspiring actor and a cop who specializes in cases involving the supernatural Sounds a little convoluted, but maybe Also coming May 18th black roses. This is for the US UK Ireland Australia and New Zealand So everyone but Canada unfortunately demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band That has great potential. I might I might check that one out Coming May 24th werewolf, which I haven't seen so I should because I like werewolf films coming to the US and Canada only World War two a group of children liberated from a concentration camp Find themselves aimless and hungry stranded in an abandoned mansion in the forest surrounded by vicious attack dogs Sounds good. I'm gonna have to check it out Also coming May 24th the machine and this is coming to the US and Canada only In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against china UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot That is potential I could check that out and the final film it is for the US and Canada only sorry only coming Only coming to those two places in on May 24th The windmill in a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities Jennifer joins a coach load of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland's world famous windmills She and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed Beside a sinister windmill where legend has it a devil worshiping Miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Oh, that's interesting. I like that aspect As members of the group start to disappear Jennifer learns that they all have something in common A shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom This one's sounding interesting. I think I definitely think I wanted to check out the windmill. That sounds good And that is it. So I would love to hear from you. What are you most excited about put it down in the comments me The original 13 ghosts the original house on haunted hill frank and hooker Um, what else did I say? American Mary the wicker man? This is going to be a good month.  This is going to be a good month and it's perfect because it's my birthday month So i'm going to binge some shutter. I'm going to treat myself to that So what are you going to treat yourself to with shutter? What are you really really looking forward to? Put it in the comments down there and I know I Assume that most people are excited for the last drive-in, but here's the thing. Do you agree with me? Do you think frank and hooker is going to be on the last drive-in? And I'd also like to hear what your Films are that you would really like to see joe bob cover on that Just curious because I have some in mind Like other ones other than frank and hooker in mind that I really like to see him cover But i'm interested in what other people have to say. 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Hey, man, so we're gonna finish up John chapter two tonight. So far, this will be our fifth sermon in John chapter two, and we looked at the water to wine miracle, how Jesus didn't serve alcohol. We looked at what Jesus did in the temple. We looked at, did a sermon on buying and selling in church. We looked at righteous and unrighteous anger. Jesus obviously got angry when he saw these money changers in the temple, of course, but Jesus had a righteous anger, meaning that there is a righteous anger since Jesus is without sin. We looked at the temple of your body, and tonight we're gonna look at these last two, maybe three verses of John chapter two, which gives us, I'm gonna show you tonight, how these three verses give us a very unique perspective that is much different than the other perspectives that we usually take on the Son of God, Jesus Christ. So in order to kind of get prime the pump on this, I want you to turn to Genesis chapter 29. Go to Genesis chapter 29, and let me kind of give you a primer on what I'm gonna talk about this evening. I'm gonna tell you kind of a sad story this evening. All right, I'm gonna tell you kind of a sad story in the Bible from a different perspective than maybe you've heard it before. Let's turn to Genesis chapter 29. So Genesis chapter 29 is a story about Jacob going and meeting Laban. So of course in Genesis chapter 28, Isaac, Jacob's father tells him that he doesn't want him to take a bride of the children of Canaan, of these heathen people. So he wants him to go to his own people and find Laban's children, their relatives of theirs, and marry one of the daughters of his own people. And so that's what Jacob is doing in Genesis chapter 29. He's going to find a proper, he's taking his parents advice, he's taking his dad's advice on who he should marry and who he shouldn't marry. And he's doing a good job, so he goes and he runs into Rachel. She is tending a flock of sheep and of course he loves her right away and it's kind of love at first sight. But look down to Genesis chapter 29 and look at verse number 17.  But I wanna tell you this story from a different perspective tonight. Look at verse number 17. So Rachel, this verse is kind of describing Rachel to us. Okay, so Rachel had an older sister named Leah. So Leah and Rachel, of course, they both become Jacob's wives. I don't wanna give it away. But look at the Bible says in Genesis chapter 29 verse 17. The Bible says Leah was tender-eyed but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. So Leah is the older of the daughters. We find that out a little bit later. But the Bible here is telling us, you say what does it mean to be tender-eyed or whatever. A lot of people have taken that specifically to mean maybe she, and what it basically means is if you just look at the second part of the verse, it means she wasn't as attractive physically as her younger sister was. And Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Leah was tender-eyed. Maybe she just didn't have those features that she was not as attractive or attractive at all. All right, so that's kind of a sad way to have her described in the Bible. Look at verse number 18. The Bible says, And Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve these seven years for Rachel by younger daughter. He's talking to Laban, the father of both of these girls. In verse number 20, skipping down for sake of time, the Bible says, And Jacob served seven years for Rachel.  And they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her. So Jacob really loves Rachel and he really wants to marry her. And it sounds like a story, just kind of a match made in heaven here. Look at verse number 21. Then Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife. So now he's done serving the seven years. For my days are fulfilled that I may go in unto her. And Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast. And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah, his daughter, and brought her to him and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah, Zilpa, his maid for an handmaid. So he basically gives Leah this servant to be her servant, Zilpa, who comes into play later. But, and it says, And it came to pass that in the morning, behold, it was Leah. So we don't know exactly how, you know, Jacob was tricked by Laban here. I'm assuming alcohol was involved, probably. But that's just my opinion. So Laban tricks Jacob. And instead of, you know, sending his daughter Rachel to marry him, he finds some way to trick Jacob, maybe by giving him too much to drink or whatever. That's just my extrapolation. The Bible doesn't say that. But somehow he tricks him into marrying the wrong girl, into marrying Leah instead. And Jacob is upset. He said, did I not serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then has thou beguiled me? And Laban said, it must not be done so in our country to give the younger before the firstborn. So Laban basically says, I want my older daughter to be married first. He's like, that's the way that it should be. Now look at verse 27. Laban says, fulfill her week and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. So this is kind of a nice little verse to show you like we've talked about Daniel's 70 weeks, Daniel's 70th weeks to kind of show that that's actually talking about seven years in verse 27. But that being said, Laban basically tells Jacob, he's like, yeah, you married my daughter Leah. He's like, but just serve, work for me seven more years and then I'll give you, you know, Rachel, the one that you wanted to marry in the first place. And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. He worked for another seven years, imagine that. And he gave him Rachel, his daughter, to wife also. And Laban gave Rachel, his daughter, Bill Haw, his handmade to be her maid. So he gives Rachel a servant just as he gave Leah a servant and he went in also onto Rachel and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. Think about this for a minute though. Now I want you to look at this story from Leah's perspective and that's where it kind of gets to be a sad story. At this point, Leah has been married to Jacob by herself.  And now he marries this second wife, Rachel, which not only does he marry a second wife, which the Bible teaches against, but it was the wife he really wanted in the first place. You know, from Leah's perspective, look at this in verse 31. It said, and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. So God sees and he feels for Leah so he gives her children. And Leah conceived of verse 32 and bear a son as she called his name Reuben. For she had said, surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction. Look at that. So she is afflicted. She is, you know, tormented. She is in a, she is not in a good place. The Lord has looked upon my affliction. Now therefore, and this is really sad, this statement right here. Now therefore, my husband will love me. So she's just thinking, this is a woman, Leah, who is sitting here and she's thinking, what can I do to make my husband love me? That's a really sad story. That's a really sad story from Leah's perspective. There's a lot to learn in this story, but I want you to think about it from Leah's perspective this evening. It's really sad. I mean, here's this woman who gets married to this, this man, her father. I mean, you could say it was Laban's fault, but still Leah's married to this man who doesn't seem to want her. He doesn't seem to, he definitely loves Rachel more than he loves her, which is by the way, like, you know, why it just never works out, this marrying multiple wives in the Bible. But he got the wife he really wanted and it's very sad. You know, I'm sure Leah would have been thrilled if Jacob just would have said, you know, I just want to be married to you the rest of my days. That is literally what Leah yearns for in her life again and again and again. And we see this story between Leah and Rachel play out, think their sisters. And we see this play out in the Bible. Oh, there's just this jealousy. I mean, imagine having this jealousy, this competition for your own husband.  But the point I'm trying to get you to understand is the story of Leah here in the Bible is a story of unreturned love. It's a story of someone who loves someone more than that person loves them back. And it's really sad.  Now turn to John chapter two. With that in mind, turn to John chapter two. And let's look at the last three verses of John chapter two. We get a unique in these last three verses, we get a unique perspective change on the life of Jesus, on the person of Jesus in these last three verses. Look at the verse number 23 of John chapter two. Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, the Bible says in the feast day, many believed in his name when they saw the miracles which he did. Many people were getting saved is what that is saying. Many people were, you know, seeing the miracles and believing he was the Messiah and trusting in him and being saved. Now's where it kinda gets sad right here. Look at verse number 24. It says, but Jesus did not commit himself unto them. It's talking about the people that got saved. It says, Jesus didn't commit himself unto them. Who is them? The people that believed in his name. It's that what you say, why not? It says, because he knew all men and he needed not that any should testify of man for he knew what was in man. What does this mean? What does this mean? What do these three verses mean? Look, turn to John chapter 12. Turn to John chapter 12. What it means is Jesus knew man. Jesus didn't need anyone to come give him a lecture on who man was, how, you know, I'm talking about people. Who people were, what people would do. We're talking about saved people here. The Bible is saying that Jesus didn't need anyone to testify to him about the hearts of men he knew the hearts of men. And so he didn't commit himself. He knew, what does it mean? It says he knew they couldn't be trusted. Look at verse 12 of John chapter 12. Look at this, this is the story of Jesus's life on earth from his perspective. Think about this. This is Jesus's perspective on man, on people, the very people that he was there to save. Think about that. Look at verse 12 of John chapter 12. Now this is the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem here. This is Palm Sunday. It says on the next day, much people that were come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem took branches of palm trees, went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna. Blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. All of these people caused this raucous and I grew up in Lutheran church and it was Palm Sunday and we would all have palms and we'd be walking around to celebrate this great event of Jesus entering into Jerusalem.  They're treating him like a king. The question is though, where were all these people a few days later when he was hanging on the cross? Where were all these people that are like, oh, king of Israel and they're just bowing down to him and he's on the cross and it's John and a couple of the women. Where were all these people? They're gone. Even his own disciples fled. Peter denied him. The disciples, they took off. Jesus knew what was in the heart of man. His love, go to John 15. Go to John chapter 15. I just gave you, I gave you the story of Lita just kind of as a primer. It doesn't even really compare though because what I'm trying to get you to see here from the Bible is that it was Jesus' love, Jesus' action towards man that was unreturned. Look at verse 18 of John 15.  If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hated you. Jesus knew that the world hated him. He came to save whosoever in the world that hated him. And he couldn't commit himself unto man. He wouldn't commit himself unto man because he knew that about man. So he said, what can we learn? What can we learn from this? He was like, it's terrible. It's a sad perspective to look at it from Jesus' perspective that he's coming to save a world that doesn't appreciate it. He's coming to sacrifice everything for people that don't appreciate it. The saved people that don't appreciate it. What about the people that just reject him? We didn't even mention that. But the world hated him. So what can we take from this? What can we learn from it? The first one is this and it's a small point but the first one that I want you to take away from this, the first point I'm gonna make tonight is that everyone that goes to hell deserves it. Don't ever get into this. Don't ever get into this philosophy or this have this heart in you and you know, we all go out soul winning and we all have the heart, we have hearts for the lost. And you've heard me say it, I've heard you say it. We've meet some nice guy and he just, I just don't really have time and ah man. We've all said that.  You deserve it.   Jesus came here to offer himself for whosoever. If people reject it, there's serious consequences for them.   They're just not gonna get what they deserve. Everybody else just gonna get what they deserve. So when you look at how not only the world rejected Jesus but even the saved people, Jesus couldn't commit himself to them. That's a sad situation. What does that mean? Here's the second point. Here's the second point right here. Go back to verse number 24. Let me explain that to you. We're verse 24. So the first one is, don't ever doubt the justice of hell.  We deserve it. They're just not gonna get what we deserve. Look at verse 24 where it says, Jesus did not commit himself unto them. Commit means to rely upon them, to put his faith upon them. Let me ask you this. Are you committed to men? Because Jesus couldn't be committed to men. So that's the question that you need to ask yourself. Jesus, he was here for something more important. He couldn't commit what he was doing to any group of people. I don't care if they were saved or not. He couldn't commit himself to men. His ministry was above that. He was here to accomplish a goal and that goal could not be attached to what any group of men or any man did or didn't do. So that's the question we need to ask ourselves this evening as we see this example from Jesus. What man or what person could make you quit your ministry? Because to Jesus, there was nobody. What man or what person could get you to quit the Christian life? Turn to Isaiah chapter 31. I'm gonna call some people out by name tonight. I hope you don't mind. Turn to Isaiah chapter 31. I listened to a sermon on Sunday night. So I went to Verity and I saw a brother, now pastor, Stuckey. It was great. It was like we had never, it's like there wasn't a four year gap. It was just like we just picked up rate where we left off. And I told my wife, like he's such a nice person. Like he's so much nicer than I ever have been. He's just such a nice guy and he's gonna be, he already is a great church leader. He's gonna, the people in the Philippines are blessed to have him. But I listened to a sermon Sunday night by pastor Thompson and through talking to brother Stuckey, he was asking how the church here is going. He was asking, I mean he asked them about some names and things like that of people who are still there, who are not still there, all those different things. We were just catching up. We're catching up. And then the sermon Sunday night was kind of, it was a good sermon by pastor Thompson about just things that pastors will deal with and things that pastors will go through and how things you shouldn't do and should do regarding your pastor. And really, really two, three names came up to me kind of popped in my head when I was listening onto this sermon, just talking about the trials that a ministry will go through. This is an ordination day and these are the kind of sermons that are necessary. And just the trials that a ministry will go through, the trials that a pastor will go through and kind of the OGs of our church, the original gangsters of our church kind of popped up in my head. Miss Natalie was here since the very beginning. Miss Natalie was here since the very beginning and also brother Trevor and brother George were here since the very beginning. And I mean, just, we went through a lot together over the years. And there was a lot of people, there was a lot of tough times. There was a lot of tough times in the church. There was the first year of Holdfast Baptist Church that was just a real spiritual battle. It was just a battle that whole year. Then we have, sitting in front of me in the service was brother Jeff and brother Jeff literally ran to that fight. He literally came to that fight. A lot of friends, they run away from fights or whatever, but brother Jeff saw that there was spiritual battle going on, he literally ran to the fight. So I'm calling people out by name here, but what I'm trying to get you to understand is that you got, look, I love everybody here. I'm not trying to elevate anyone over anyone else, but I'm just saying that when it comes to, when I look at brother Trevor and I look at brother George and I look at Miss Natalie and I look at brother Jeff, like these people are warriors in my mind.  But I mean, these people are warriors in my mind. They were not able by anyone to be knocked off their Christian horse. They were not able, there was no, there was no person that could stop them from serving the Lord. Or no person so far that could stop them from serving the Lord in their life. And look, those are some very tough times. And it's discouraging. It's discouraging when you see people, especially people that don't necessarily even leave in a bad way, but they just kind of fall out of the Christian life. They just kind of fade away. You know, that's really hard to see that. And look, I could see that it was difficult for those people to see those things happening.  I mean, they felt the same things in a degree that I did. But, so I mean, look, I say names tonight because there's some honor to be had there. There's some honor to be had, you know, being that stable Christian that can't be knocked down by some other man or some other person in your life. There's some honor there. There's some honor there. Let me say this, with as much honor that there is there, if those names that I listed for you tonight, if one of them would quit, I would not quit. I don't think they will quit. That's not what I'm saying. But if I would quit, you can't quit. That is what Jesus is showing us here. Jesus is saying is that you cannot be committed to men.  Yes, I'm committed to you, but this ministry doesn't depend on you. Because this ministry is serving Jesus Christ, not any one person, saved or not. And you need to look at that about your ministry. Is there somebody in your life that could knock you out of the Christian life? You're too committed if that's the case.  This is why Jesus just said over and over again, there should be no one that stops you, including your own children, as extreme as that sounds. Are you in Isaiah chapter 31, look at verse number one. This is what Jesus was doing when he said, I will not commit unto men. He would not commit himself unto them. Jesus was on a mission and it didn't matter what men did or didn't do. Look at verse number one. It says, Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and trust in chariots because they are many. And in horsemen, because they are very strong, but they look not only to the Holy one of Israel, neither seek the Lord. So Israel, Israel is used actually like figuratively here and it's also used like literally many times in the Bible where people, you know, they will literally go to Pharaoh for help. This is Hezekiah.  He's not gonna help you. And he's kind of quoting this verse here, paraphrasing it. But what the Bible here is saying is that don't trust in men. It's that you can't rely on men. So you can go to Egypt, go to this powerful nation and they'll have horses and they'll have men and they'll have all these things. But if you don't seek the Lord, it's not gonna work. It's like, don't rely on mankind. I'm glad Jesus did not rely on men, on people. I'm glad He didn't commit Himself to them because we cannot trust in men. Men will let you down.  You're gonna have good friends in your life that will let you down. And hopefully if we all follow, you know, biblical philosophies on relationships and friends, as our friends let us down, we can repair those relationships. We can get those things right. We can Matthew 18 that thing and just keep growing in our friendships with our brothers and sisters in Christ.  You know, I'm just a man. I'm not perfect.   But you can't be reliant or committed to any one man in your Christian life. That's what Jesus is teaching us here. It's kinda sad. It's kinda sad when you look at it from the perspective of Jesus literally saved these people. And that's my final point. That's my final point. I mean, here Jesus, it says He can't rely on men. He knew what was in the hearts of men. He didn't have to have anybody tell him how men were. He didn't have to have anybody tell him how unstable men were. He didn't have to have anybody tell him how, you know, fickle men are and how, you know, if there's any trouble in their life, they're just not gonna be there for him.  But as soon as it's not popular and there's some danger, we're out. But Jesus wasn't committed to men. He did it anyway. He did what needed to be done. So that's my last point tonight. Turn to Romans chapter 12, turn to Romans chapter 12. The last, it's really a question. The last point and the last thing I want you to think about this evening is what do you owe Christ? He came here to offer the sacrifice for a world that rejected him, number one. And he never wavered in that commitment because his commitment was to God and to no man. Look at Romans chapter one or Romans chapter 12 in verse number one. So what do we owe him for that? Look at verse number one of Romans 12. It says, I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, unto God, which is your reasonable service. Look at that verse right there. That verse is saying that we should present this temple of our bodies. This body already houses the Holy Ghost that God has given us that we are eternally secure. There's nothing we can do if we pay nothing back. If we do nothing for Jesus Christ in our life, we're going to heaven just like somebody that does do something. That's clear, but we should present our bodies a living sacrifice. What does that mean? It means your body should be used for the will of God. Holy, acceptable unto God. You should be doing things. This is what God wants from you. He wants you to do things that are acceptable unto him.  He wants you to do it. And you say, well, if I do that, I'm pretty good. No, that's your reasonable service. That's the least you can do is what that is saying. He offers any eternal life to any of you that believe on him, including these people in John chapter two. And still, those people do not love him. Still, those people, you know, they do not follow him. That's why you meet these people out there. They're not saved. And they're just like, we just need to follow Jesus. You're not following Jesus. Give me a break. Even if that was true, they had to follow Jesus to be saved.  These people aren't following anyone but their own will. But the Bible says once we're saved, it is reasonable. It is the least we can do to serve the Lord with our lives. I mean, what do we owe him? The answer to what do we owe Jesus is everything. That's the answer. The answer, what do we have to do to get to heaven? Nothing. But what do we owe him? Everything. Our bodies. Our lives. We should give our lives as a sacrifice. That's what is acceptable to God. Well, gotta look back. Think about this. Well, gotta look back at your life. When you're standing before Jesus at the judgment seat of Christ, will he look back at your life and say, that's an acceptable life for me? You're not in danger of hell at the judgment seat of Christ.  That's what you owe him. And that's not like some fantastic, amazing thing. That's the bottom. That's just reasonable. That's why people that get saved, people that get saved and they just do nothing in their Christian life. Which is the majority of Christians?  They take their salvation, they tell nobody about it. They're saved, they know they're saved. They know how they're saved. They're sealed by the Holy Spirit. And look, it's a horrible character issue because they're just like, I'm just gonna keep this to myself and I don't care what my reasonable service is. I don't care what Jesus wants of me, I got mine. And he's not gonna break that promise. I mean, these are saved people we're talking about tonight. These are saved people in the last two verses of John chapter two. We're talking about people that they can't save people. They can't find the time to fit God in their busy life. They can't find time to pray. They can't find time to read the Bible much less, do what's in it. Before you can do what's in the Bible, you know what, you gotta open it up and read it. They can't find time to make one hour in their life every day for the Lord. They can't find time to come to church. Nobody comes to church anymore. It's like this huge thing in America now, like nobody's going to church anymore. It's just something people just don't do anymore. And I get it, there's a lot of false churches and a lot of these people aren't saved. There's a lot of saved people that don't go to church. But guess what, folks? It's a story of, it's a story of unreturned love, is what these last two verses in John is.   That's why you're saved. You're not saved because you love God. You should love God, meaning you should do the works that He wants you to do. But you're saved because He loved you. Matthew 7, it's all about Jesus knowing you, not you knowing Him. He says, I never knew you. Those people in Matthew 7, they knew who Jesus was, but He didn't know them. Because they had not trusted on Him. It's a story of unreturned love, just like Leah, except this is a much better example because this is like the perfect story of unreturned love. So the question is, is that you? Is that you who just doesn't return the love of Jesus? You know, you're happy to be saved, but you're just not gonna do anything about it. Is that us? To a degree, it's all of us. I mean, this story of Jesus is just, it's a story through and through of betrayal. Betrayal by the world, betrayal by the Jews, betrayal by the Romans, but betrayal by the people that are saved too. The people that got saved and just like Jesus, literally just He couldn't commit Himself to them because otherwise, He wouldn't have finished His ministry because men will let you down. John 2 is a great, these verses are great verses because they show us Jesus' perspective.  You know, He was God and man at the same time. He lived this perfect life. He died on the cross, bear our sins in His own body. That's our perspective.  And if somebody trusts on that, you're going to heaven. That's our perspective. His perspective is He came here to do that for a bunch of people that didn't even love Him. Not only were we yet sinners, but we just didn't love Him. That's Jesus' perspective, these two verses. Put quotes around those verses, a bracket around those verses. That's the perspective of Jesus' ministry on earth is that He came here to do this for a bunch of people that not only didn't deserve it, but rejected so much so that He couldn't even commit or trust any of them. It's really a sad story. But the importance, folks, let me just end on this. The importance of seeing other perspectives is very important in your life. If you can somehow be able to successfully, this is like a bonus point here. If you can successfully put yourself in a position where you can see somebody else's perspective on things, just like we're seeing, I showed you Leah's perspective, I'm showing you Jesus' perspective. But if you can successfully see somebody else's perspective, you're gonna have successful relationships in your life. You think about, I mean the simplest ones, think about coworkers. You think about a project at work, you're working on something with five different people, and everyone's kind of got a different idea on things, but guess what? If you can see the perspective of the other people and why they wanted to do it that different way, you're gonna be very successful in dealing with people. And if you're just like, no, that's not right, and you could just do it my way, and this is how you have to look at it. No, but if you can put yourself in somebody's shoes and say, okay, I can see from your experience and your background how you could see it that way, all right, let's walk that through and see how this works out, you're gonna be very successful at collaborating with people and building relationships. Friends are the same thing. If you can see, I mean friends that have conflicts. Look, people that are friends for a long time are gonna have conflicts. People that are very close friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, go to church, three times a week together. You know, there's gonna be conflicts. That's okay, it's normal. It's how you handle those conflicts is whether we're successful or not. But if you could see other people's perspective, you're gonna be very successful in relationships. Just as we can, you know, I'm showing you Jesus's perspective tonight and you're like, whoa, that's bad. Yeah, it's bad. But seeing the perspective from Jesus's view helps us serve Jesus in our life. It helps us get things right in our life. It should be a motivator to us. Think about a husband and a wife. Think about a husband and a wife. Here's what I think the two main misconceptions in the husband and wife relationships are. And maybe this isn't true for you, but here's the perspective. See, they're different perspectives. The husband has a different perspective than the wife does. And if the wife can put herself in the husband's shoes and at least not in his shoes, but if she can see things from his perspective, she's gonna be much more successful as a wife. If a husband can see his wife's perspective, he's gonna be much more successful as a husband and they're gonna have a better relationship is what'll happen. Here's the most common, misconceived perceptions of husband and wife. See, the husband, the husband, he does see things from a different perspective. Because why? Because he's looking at the whole thing. Look, he's the leader. The husband's the leader of the family. I'm talking about a biblical husband here. He's the leader of the family. He sees the whole thing. He's going to work. He's making decisions for the family. He's running the finances. He's doing all these different things. That's a heavy burden. That's a heavy burden. That can be a very stressful situation at times in a man's life, especially a man that is leading how he's supposed to lead. There's a lot of balls to keep in the air. If the wife, if the wife can recognize that about her husband, recognize that maybe he's not paying enough attention to this one thing that I really think should be paid attention to or whatever. But if she can just look at it from the perspective like, man, he's running this whole thing. He's got all these, he's got all this weight on his shoulders. He's got all these, this wheelbarrow of bricks upon him. Maybe she would be more understanding. Maybe she would be more, if she could just see things from that perspective. But the wife, it's easy for the wife to just get blinders on and just see her world right there and just maybe not see the other things that her husband's looking at. And look, put yourself in his perspective. It'll help you be a better wife. What about the husband? Just the flip side of that is that a husband, because he's looking at the whole thing and he's driving the whole ship and there's all these different moving parts. The husband many times will put, maybe not as much emphasis on one of the smaller parts that are really given his wife a hard time or given his wife some trouble. But if he can put himself in her perspective, if my, I'll use my wife as an example. I'll just make up an example. But if my wife is just, if she's having a problem with a very specific area, here's what not seeing her perspective would be like. Look, I got all this stuff to deal with. Just forget about that. That's just gonna cause her more stress. It's gonna cause her more anxiety. It's gonna cause her more trouble in her life with the things that she's dealing with, the things that she does have responsibility for. But if I can put myself in her perspective and just say, okay, I'm not dealing with that. Let me think about, maybe I need to put more focus in that one area and not, you know, maybe move something around or whatever. Put yourself in her perspective. Look, the more that you cover those things and put yourself in the perspective of your wife and the things that she's having trouble with, the more comfort she will feel. The less stress that she will have. But it's all about seeing things from her perspective and seeing things from his perspective.  And if we can both, as a me as a husband and my wife as a wife, if we can see each other's perspectives, we will have a great relationship together. You know, and that's, you know, obviously that takes time to spend with each other and talk with each other and all those different things. But this is just some examples of the importance of seeing things from other perspectives in your life. And that's really like the perspective of Jesus is really the story here. The perspective of Jesus is so sad that he couldn't even trust or put faith in the people that were even saved, that he saved on this earth. And when we see that perspective, it should give us motivation to help us to drive forward in this holy life, this acceptable life that God wants us to live. That's really the story of these two verses in John chapter two is just motivating us through the eyes of Jesus to live that holy and acceptable life. Because it's the reasonable thing we can do. You're saved. You're saved. It's the least that you can do. Different perspectives. Let's power heads and have a word of prayer.


Thanks for checking out this video. So what is the next watch party that I'm doing? And if this is the first time you're finding out about this every other Saturday, I am doing watch parties using the Scenar extension of Google Chrome and doing movies and shows well mainly just movies but on Shutter and all you end up needing is Google Chrome the extension Scenar for Google Chrome a free account with Scenar and A account with Shutter so the next one what we're going to be doing is going to be a pretty special one We've done something kind of like this before a few months ago But this one is going to be June 5th at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Which is a Saturday and we are going to be watching the mini series Well anthology series that has shorts that all when they're all put together They basically make like an hour and a half film in essence and they're all interrelated different stories And it is called Dead House Dark now if you aren't familiar with Dead House Dark It's a very interesting series and we're going to be joined by two of the people involved with the series Enzo Tedeschi and Rachel Wiggins, so you'll want to be there for that They're basically going to provide a sort of live commentary as we watch each one of the shorts You will be able to ask questions now the first certain number of people who show up will actually be able to use their microphone and camera if they want to so that they can kind of interact with Enzo and Rachel that way Other people who show up after that will just have to use the chat or if you don't want to use your microphone and or camera You can just use the chat. It's kind of your choice. So very excited to have them there This makes it extra special. I have seen the Dead House Dark series. I enjoyed it enough And there are certain moments of it that I'm not that great You know, not huge on but there are ones that I'm pretty huge on and at any rate It's going to be a great time to get into the minds of these individuals and hear directly from them You know challenges that they faced How they pulled things off Things that went better than they expected and also one of the big things They might be able to give us all the information on what shows up in each of these shorts That shows the kind of connection to all the stories because one of the things that Rachel had said to me Is that she surprised that people haven't picked up on more of what's in common with all the stories She's seen people get like a thing or two here or there and I only caught the first time I watch it I only caught one thing so it'll be interesting to be able to hear from them and ask Hey, can you tell us what all these things are just to get that little extra bit? So once again, it will be June 5th. That's Saturday 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time you just go to my link which is Cener.com and Cener is s c e n e r Cener.com slash Carlton Malibu all one word and that is c a r l t o n M a l I b u so once again you need Google Chrome You need the the Cener extension you need a free account for Cener and you need to have a shudder account That is not free unless you're gonna sign up for it with you know One of their seven day free trials or something like that, but anyway should be a great time. Hope to see people there Yeah, until next time keep it brutal