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It is January 16th, Year of Our Lord 2025, and I wanted to start today's podcast by
announcing that I'm going to be speaking at a one -day conference in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on March
1st of this year.
It's called Reformation War Room, and it's going to be myself and John Harris.
We're going to be speaking on marching orders for the kingdom of God.
It's called Don't Waste the Win.
So it's all about how to—now that the vibe is shifting, you know, what do we do?
How do we make progress in the years to come?
It's going to be a good time.
There's going to be absolutely no blackpilling allowed at this conference.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
It starts at 2 o 'clock.
I think it's 2 to 7, something like that, in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
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Early bird pricing for the conference ends on Monday, and now let's get to the video.
All right, all right.
Today—or yesterday, rather—Defiant Baptist here on X requested to see
what my opinion was of this clip from Dr. James White.
Dr. James White, in this clip, is trying to offer a Christian alternative, a Christian
role model, a positive role model for young men.
Instead of someone like Andrew Tate, you know, maybe you should be more like this guy, and he offers up
his suggestion.
And so I'm going to listen to it and respond to it.
I don't always take requests, but oftentimes, if it looks like an interesting topic that I care about, I
will.
And so let's listen to the good doctor, and we'll go from there.
You can't look through history?
I have mentioned to a number of people over the past two days.
We do have great men that we could direct our young men to
who lived self -sacrificial lives.
I'd like to use Adam Naram -Jensen.
I've talked about his story.
There are plenty of books that you can read, but here's a manly man,
a godly manly man.
Not a manly man like we're talking about today.
We're not talking about someone who spends two hours in the gym each day
and has got some roids going and can really get those pecs going.
No, we're talking about a godly man.
We're talking about a man who was imprisoned for his faith,
and they would put his feet in stocks with the other prisoners, and then
they would raise the stocks up so that you had to sleep with
your shoulders and your head on the ground and the rest of your body lifted up in the air
with everything that that would then do to you.
That sounds horrible, yeah.
Imprisoned in that way.
A man who gave up on all the easy things of life
to learn a foreign language, translate the Bible into that language,
and to live a life seeking to direct people to Jesus Christ.
And lost wives to death, lost multiple children to death,
lost almost everybody who worked with him, traveling to and from, they'd get diseases and
die, and death was all around him, and he remains faithful to the end of his life, and we don't
have examples?
We've got to go, but look at Andrew Tate?
Seriously?
I'm just left going, oh, okay.
Yeah, he's astonished.
Absolutely astonished.
It happens quite a lot to Dr. James White these days.
He's quite often astonished.
Well, you know, here's what I have to say about that, and this is the first time I've heard that, and so
let me start by saying I'm not going to be counter -signaling Adoniram Judson, obviously.
I'm not going to be counter -signaling missionaries in general, obviously.
I'm not going to counter -signal somebody who decides, you know, that he's called to
spread the gospel in these crazy jungles and suffer for the faith and stuff like that.
Obviously not going to counter -signal that.
But what strikes me here is just
a, there's a, not a category error, I don't think it's a category error, but there's just sort of
a miscommunication that I think is happening here, and I think I know part of where this comes from.
I was talking about it yesterday, actually.
But here's the thing, here's the thing, right?
When I grew up in the faith, and, you know, this is something that was never like,
it was never directly taught, right?
But it was just in the air that I breathed, right?
It was just in every book, there was this assumption, right?
Every book I read, there was this assumption, this, again, it wasn't stated in a
syllogism, it wasn't like openly said that this is the way, but it was just the,
I don't know how else to say it, it was just, it felt like the emphasis was
that, you know, if you wanted to be a serious Christian, right?
If you wanted to be a mature, serious Christian, like, you wanted to, you know,
progress in your faith, you wanted to move forward, and who wouldn't?
I mean, obviously, as a believer, my goal is to become more godly, you know, he even
used the word godly here to describe this, which I'm not going to counter -signal that, I think that, you know, it is
godly to behave in such a way, to spread the gospel and to become a missionary and stuff like
that.
I'm not saying that's not godly, I'm just, I'm saying it is godly, but the idea that,
I think a lot of people, listen, I'm going to speak for myself, maybe you resonate with this, maybe this
applies to you as well, but the idea was that if I really wanted to take my faith seriously, then I had to go
into the ministry.
That was the next step, I went into ministry of some kind, whether that was, you know, as a pastor, as an elder, which is what I
tried to do, or, you know, street witnessing, or missionary of
some kind, which is another thing I considered doing, becoming a missionary, an overseas missionary.
That was the progression, right?
That was, that's what life was all about, like, everything else was, I mean, I guess you have
to work, you know, I guess you have to do these other things, you know, you should have a family, I suppose,
but really, the, like, the uber -Christian, like, the way to become a truly
faithful, a truly mature Christian is to go out there and become a missionary,
become a pastor, become a deacon, become a churchman, and all of that.
That's the progression, right?
And if you're not doing that, you're, I mean, I guess you could still be saved, but you're not really taking your faith
quite as seriously as the next guy.
I remember reading Radical, and, you know, you have to live a radical life, radically on fire for the Lord, you
know, and it looks a certain way where you give up your possessions and you give up the American dream, and
you don't really enjoy stuff for yourself, you enjoy it so that you could
serve the Lord, right, you know, and all these kinds of things.
Again, this is not openly stated, but it's very often stated in the
examples that are chosen, right, in the examples that are chosen.
So, listen, I'm not, listen, I'm not a pastor, and I'm definitely not your
pastor, that's for sure, but I just do not think that if you read the Bible,
just read it, you know.
What I mean?
A lot of these people call themselves Biblicists, whatever, I don't call myself a Biblicist, but I just
don't think that you can read the Bible in any serious amount of times
and come up with the idea that that's how it works, you know what I mean?
Most, you know, the life of a Christian is a life to progression to eventually one day you're in ministry.
That's not the case.
That is not the case.
And so we don't have to find an example of a minister or a missionary and say, well, this
is the example of a godly life.
Listen, it is an example of a godly life, but most of us are not called to be missionaries.
Most of us are not called to be pastors.
Most of us should not be pastors.
Most of us should not be missionaries.
You don't have to live this radical, like, crazy life to be a mature Christian.
You can just have an ordinary life.
An ordinary life where you work and you build your household up and, you know, you
build your businesses up and you have your small little kingdom that you're, you know, the vice regent over.
Of course, God is king.
He's the king of kings.
He's the Lord of lords, right?
But you're the lord of your little kingdom here.
You know, I love that song in Mary Poppins.
That's, you know, Mary Poppins, you know, you know, those, you know, those tweets that people put out that you said, they
say, name one, name a, name a movie villain that was right about everything.
Right.
I never had an answer for that.
You know, I never could figure that one out.
But I do now.
My answer is, is Mr. Banks, right?
He wasn't a perfect man.
Mr. Banks wasn't a perfect man, but he kind of, he understood.
He understood what being a man was all about.
And he was right.
He was right.
He's the Lord of his castle.
And he didn't have a huge castle.
He had a house.
He had a house and a wife and two children and some servants.
He was the Lord of his, of his, of his castle.
Just like I'm the Lord of my house.
And you know, and I look to expand my borders.
Like this is what I'm, this is what I do.
I do, I have a normal business, you know, I'm a recruiter, I have a recruiting business and I,
I, you know, connect and partner with many other companies as they build their businesses.
And I'm trying to do that more with, with businesses that align with me and my goals personally.
But I do it across the board too.
And obviously I'm not gonna do anything immoral, but, but I do that so that, that my resources
can expand my resources and my ability to, to, to have, you know, the things that, that I want for my
family and, and, and things of that nature.
I want to expand that.
I want to be able to live, to, to, to leave an inheritance to my children's and my children's children.
You know what I mean?
I think nothing would be more satisfying than that, but that's, that's ordinary stuff.
It's basic stuff, right?
And it's like, and I, and I want to enjoy life.
I mean, obviously that's not going to be my highest good to enjoy everything that life has to offer.
That's not my highest good, but it's, it is a good and it's something that's totally fine.
You can enjoy life.
You can seek to enjoy the creation that God has created for us.
And you can do that without apology.
You can do that, you know, in a, in a godly way that like, it's not, this is, this is the, this is the dichotomy that I
think we so often get.
It's that in order to be truly godly, you just have to reject doing anything for
yourself, enjoying life for yourself and expanding your borders for yourself.
Like you just have to reject all that stuff.
I don't think that's, that's the case.
I don't think you can read the scriptures and understand it that way.
The scriptures are full of stories of godly men who did
exactly that.
They had a whole bunch of stuff.
They had a whole bunch of borders and yet, and they expanded their borders and they expanded their possessions and yet
they were godly.
Yet they lived mature, godly lives.
They weren't perfect.
We get that.
They weren't perfect, but they were mature.
They were godly.
They were lords of their situations and that was, that was seen as completely
normal.
That was seen as a blessing from the Lord.
You know, why take the, so many blessings that God gives us.
So many blessings.
He's given us this amazing creation.
He's given us the skills and resources that we can use to
expand that and to improve it and to increase and all of this stuff.
God gives us these things and we're going to sit here and just, you know,
nah, I'm going to go to a jungle.
That's the only way to be a mature Christian.
I'm going to go to the jungle.
I'm going to put my children and my wife into harm's way.
That's the only way to become a mature Christian.
That's the only way to live a godly life.
Look, if you're going to try to compare Andrew Tate, for goodness sake, like, I can't
stand Andrew Tate, obviously.
He's an idiot.
We all get it.
Like I said yesterday or two days ago, I've had Andrew Tate muted, the word Andrew Tate muted on
Twitter for a year or so because he's annoying.
He's just a disgusting man.
Absolutely.
We get it.
But that doesn't mean that every single thing he's said is disgusting.
That doesn't mean that every single thing he promotes is disgusting.
Just in general, I don't want to see his content.
You see, this is not the right comparison.
This is apples and oranges.
One guy's a missionary, doesn't have anything, you know, his kids and wife are all dead, then he
eventually dies and all of that stuff, ends up in prison, he's tortured and all this stuff.
And then there's Andrew Tate over here doing whatever it is that he does.
Who cares?
That's not the right comparison though.
That's not the right comparison.
I just, I don't see how that's helpful in any way.
It's not helpful.
I don't care if, you know, I hate when people say, oh, it's not helpful.
It's just the wrong comparison.
It doesn't do anything for you.
You know, if you're going to compare someone to Andrew Tate, you know, compare a normal person, right?
A normal person who understands that he's not a missionary, he's not an elder, but he does have an
understanding of acquiring and using resources for God's glory.
You see, because that's the thing.
That's what most guys out there are trying to figure out.
Like anybody can go and, you know, martyr themselves for any cause.
There's martyrs for all kinds of causes, right?
Like the martyrdom in and of itself isn't like the ideal.
Like, look, you know, like we should seek to have a faith that if necessary, we would
die for the Lord.
But what about living for the Lord?
What about living and improving and expanding and growing for the Lord?
What about that part?
That's the part that's missing.
We know about missionaries.
We know about missionaries and martyrs and stuff like that.
What a lot of people don't understand is not only how to live for the Lord
in such a way that uses the skills and the resources that he makes available to you to grow them
for the Lord, but also what we're missing is the idea of that
even being legitimate for a Christian.
Like I could see like a young man, you know, I could, I mean, I don't know that there's anybody out
there like this.
I kind of do know that there are people out there like this, but I could see a young man, you know, a teenager or something like that.
And you know, in a Christian home and, you know, in youth group and all this kind of stuff and, you know, talks to his youth group
pastor and the youth group pastor says, what do you imagine being when you grow up?
And the kid's saying, you know, I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 18.
I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 21 or whatever.
And then the youth group pastor, like, could you see a youth group pastor that would honestly say,
man, that's awesome.
Good for you, man. Good for you.
Here's what the Bible says about this kind of stuff.
Not wrong, not wrong, but you should do it in such a way that gives glory to the Lord.
You should do it in such a way that honors God.
You've got this motivation, get the skills.
Here's some resources for you to get the skills, the discipline that you're going to need.
Here's what you're going to have to watch out for, things like that.
No, no, you would see youth pastors poo -pooing that as if it was somehow dirty to desire to be a
millionaire by the time you're 21.
That's not what's missing.
The martyrdom stories, the missionary stories, we've heard them for our whole lives.
We get it. We get it.
But I'm not a missionary and I'm not an elder.
I live in America.
Like, I'm not, I don't live in Papua New Guinea.
How do I be a Christian in America today?
How do I figure out what I want to do today?
How do I do it in a moral way today?
Like, it's just this kind of presentation, look, I'm not
countersignaling Adoniram Judson.
He made those decisions.
I know nothing about those decisions.
I don't know anything about them, right?
But what I do know is that we've heard that story so many times.
We all get it and we all agree.
What we don't necessarily see eye to eye on is how, it's not how we die for the Lord.
It's how we live for the Lord when we're not a pastor, when we're not an elder, when we're not a missionary.
How does the regular Christian live for the Lord?
That's the kind of situation that I think there's a complete
lack of information or even acknowledgement that that's a legitimate choice.
I don't want to ever be a pastor.
I don't want to ever be a missionary.
Okay, how do I live my life?
What kinds of things should I be pursuing?
Is it moral?
Is it okay to pursue excellence in everything, including my finances,
including those kinds of things, including my own body, my strength?
Is it good to pursue excellence in those things?
The answer is yes.
Obviously, it's good to pursue excellence in those things.
It's never, ever, ever, even almost approached in the
Bible saying that those things are.
Not good.
They're good.
God gives us this machine made out of flesh,
you know what I mean?
The more you learn about this body that we have, the more incredible and amazing it becomes.
Like, I don't have to stay flabby, like I don't have to stay weak.
I could actually do some things, some basic things and gain more strength
just by eating and doing some basic things.
I can do that.
That's amazing.
That's a gift.
We treat it sometimes like it's a snare.
I mean, I can apply, you know, mental energy and just have a few conversations, make a few
phone calls and improve my financial situation just like that.
I could just do that.
Let me work on that.
Let me work on getting better.
Maybe I'll make some more phone calls.
Maybe I'll read some books that are focused on improving what's going on up here so that I could actually do that better.
Instead of approaching that as, yeah, that's amazing.
God gave you that ability to do that.
We approach it like it's a snare.
Look, guys, this is the thing.
And this might become a new theme of my channel because I've been talking about this a long time, but the more I think about it, the
more serious this becomes.
I'm trying to think how to word this.
Maybe I won't even say it.
But this epidemic, this is like an epidemic of
Christian ministers acting like their job is literally the only one that freaking matters,
ultimately.
Because the minute anyone talks about excellence in any other job, it becomes, well, you're just forgetting about
the gospel.
Are you even reformed?
It's unbelievably self -centered.
Pretty much everyone is not called to be a pastor or a missionary.
Pretty much everyone.
The amount of people that are called to be that are few.
And so why act as if it's the only job that matters when God has given us all of these
realms, all of this work, all of these different areas that he wants excellence in?
Christians should be the best at everything.
Christians should be at the bleeding edge of everything.
And there's everything good about that.
There's everything good about that.
And even though I know most of my audience gets it, you're still going to see comments in here talking about
how we're supposed to give up our lives to find it and stuff like that and all this kind of stuff.
And the thing is, those kinds of passages, they're just missing the point.
I'm not talking about being saved.
I'm not talking about your ultimate mission as a human being.
I'm not talking about that.
But what I am saying is that God saves us and then gives us all kinds of marching orders, all
kinds of quests, all kinds of missions.
And he expects a return on all of them.
He put us out there and he made us all individually different.
He made, this is amazing to think about how God does this.
Like he saves all kinds of different people, right?
With all kinds of different skills that he himself put inside you.
Some of them are innate.
Some of them are learned.
Some of them are just our potentials that you have.
And you can, and he puts all of that together, right?
He puts them all together and he gets a return on all of it.
And it's all good.
And yes, in a way, elders are a special gift, a special gift.
You guys are already special, all right?
You got elders, missionaries, you guys are already a special gift that Christ gives to his church.
That's wonderful.
And that should be enough.
You don't have to act like it's the only one that matters.
You're special already.
I'm telling you, 80 Robots is telling you, you are special.
But you are not the only occupation.
You're not the only thing that matters.
And again, this is so often not explicitly stated because he doesn't say that.
James doesn't say that here.
So don't go running to James White saying that I said, that James White said that pastors are the only ones that matter.
I didn't say that.
It's not explicitly stated often, but it's just so often just the air we breathe.
It's the examples we choose to use.
It's the way you kind of mistakenly put up this missionary martyr against
Andrew Tate.
This doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't make any sense.
Most young men out there aren't called to be a pastor and never will be called to be a pastor.
And that is totally fine.
They should pursue excellence in the areas that, a lot of times, this is the best part too.
This is the thing I've noticed talking to people, right?
The things that I'm best at doing, and this is common.
I've talked to thousands and thousands and thousands of people in various occupations, right?
I've got a lot of knowledge in this area about vocation and stuff like that.
I've also got a lot of knowledge about H -1B visas.
I've talked to hundreds and hundreds of them, maybe thousands.
If you want to know about what's going on with H -1B visas, just let me know.
I'll gladly come on the channel.
A lot of them are very, very pleasant people.
Anyway, but one of the things I've noticed is people tend to be good at things they enjoy.
You're good at things that you enjoy.
I don't think that's just accidental, like you just randomly enjoy because you're good at it.
I think you actually are good at things that you enjoy doing.
That sounds like the same thing.
Maybe it is.
I think God writes that into us.
He writes that into us, man.
You can find the things you enjoy and that you're good at, of course, within God's boundaries.
God sets the rules of the music.
We just play it.
God writes that into us, man.
You can enjoy things that aren't ministry and be excellent at it for the Lord.
We don't have to over -spiritualize it.
We don't have to under -spiritualize it.
Like, it can just be.
I think that's all I have to say.
I think I'm done.
Yeah, I think that's all I have to say.
In any case, I hope you found this video helpful.
God bless.