WWUTT 1255 Q&A Reparations Math, Gandalf Ends Racism, Homeschooling Ideas, Miracles at Nazareth, Jeremiah Prophecies?

Reparations Math, Race Hustling, and the Limits of Money

How much money does it take for a divided people to be unified? Do we have any good homeschool curriculum we could recommend? And what does Mark 6 -5 mean when it says that Jesus could do no mighty work in Nazareth?

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. Do you realize that in two weeks, two weeks, we will have been doing this podcast for five years. Five? Yeah. Wow. Awesome. We started the first week in August of 2015.

Yeah. So we're coming up on five years. That's awesome. Ten years of marriage. Five years of podcasting. Boop, boop. This is when we understand the text, and on the Friday edition of the broadcast, we take questions from the listeners, and you can send your questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

Before getting to that, there was another reason why I was mentioning that. So we've been doing this for five years. The videos have been six, a little more than that. Not quite seven, but it's, yeah.

The videos were around Coming up on seven. Something like that, yeah. Because it wasn't quite two years we'd been doing the videos when we started doing the podcast. So we're going to change something.

I know that ever since I tried to do the East from West thing, people who remember that are going, uh-oh, Gabe's changing something again. What is he doing now? So the websites are going to change. We're moving over to the Majesty's Men.

We like what it is that they're doing with the website hosting that they provide, the articles that you can find published there. And so I'm moving both my blog and the What website to the Majesty's Men.

Still the same addresses to get to those things. So to find my blog, you go to pastorgabe .com. And to get to the What website, it's wwutt .com, just like you mentioned. Addresses will still be the same, but our host is going to be different.

And we're doing this to protect the ministry. Right. Definitely. Because we don't want Google to shut it down, you know, like, hey, you guys are intolerant and you're saying things that are offensive.

Contradictory. Yeah, right. Contradictory. Contradicting. Yeah. What we're promoting. That's right. Yeah, something like that. It just doesn't go with Google's religion. The Google-igen. The Google-igen.

So we're moving over to the Majesty's Men. And check out their website if you'd like. More information about them and read some of the fantastic articles that they have there. Now this first question that I have isn't really a question.

We're going to dedicate this, though, to our friend Moo. All right. Who just loves math. Yeah! So we're going to do a segment here on math. Now our favorite math joke here at When We Understand the Text is in regards to something that MSNBC did a few months back.

Yeah, it wasn't that long ago, was it? It wasn't.

It seems like it was years ago. I know it seems like there's been so much 2020 thus far, but this was just beginning of March. Wow. This was a segment between Brian Williams.

You would think that there would be enough time between then and now to kind of brush up. On math? But no.

Everybody needs to. It gets worse. That's right. Everybody needs to check their math skills. So this has been our favorite math joke between Brian Williams and Mara Gay of the New York Times. And they're even reading a tweet from a gal who writes for like Teen Vogue and Glamour Magazine.

That should have been their first mistake, thinking that somebody from Glamour Magazine could do math. But I'm going to go ahead and refresh your memory by playing this segment again. This is in regards to Mike Bloomberg, who was a former candidate for president of the United States running for the Democratic ticket.

He was paying for his own campaign because the guy's a billionaire. And he spent $500 million on his campaign before he dropped out. And so Brian Williams and Ms. Gay here try to break down the numbers a little bit and totally embarrass themselves.

And don't realize it. Yeah, not until after the commercial break, because then Brian Williams actually did offer an apology. He said, OK, somebody's pointed out to us that our math was wrong. But it's still hilarious that this came from a tweet on Twitter.

An editor, an editor from The New York Times bought it. Brian Williams put it on the air. Somebody in that studio was creating the graphic to go on TV. And no one in this studio did the math, did the math and was like, wait a minute.

This doesn't work, guys. OK, just let's go. Let's play the clip. Here we go. You see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it. Absolutely.

Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars. Let's put it up on the screen.

When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear. Bloomberg spent 500 million on ads. U .S. population, 327 million. Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math. He could have given each American one million dollars and have had lunch money left over.

It's an incredible way of putting it.

It's an incredible way of putting it. It's true. It's disturbing. It does. It does suggest, you know, what we're talking about here, which is there is too much money in politics.

Babe, I notice you still have your head in your hands over there. I do. I don't disagree. There is too much money in politics. Right. But how you got to that conclusion, though.

Yeah, that's that's something that, whoa, whoa, no.

Mike Bloomberg could have given 500 Americans a million dollars each. He could not have given all 300 plus million Americans a million dollars each.

Oh, goodness. Yeah. So I know math is not a strong suit for a lot of people, but seriously, this takes everybody who has a phone, has a calculator, like seriously, back when I went to school. I know this sounds really strange, but back when I went to school, I had to work at math in my head because they said, you're not going to have a calculator everywhere you go.

And guess what? We do.

So seriously. I remember that, too. I know. My math teacher used to say the same thing. Why don't you use it? It's right there. Oh, you even planned the segment. Nobody stopped to pull out their phone.

Nobody. And punch it up on their phone and figure out, wait a minute, this math doesn't work.

Mike Bloomberg could have bought. Or even go through the comments because you know somebody. Somebody had already corrected this gal. Somebody had already done that. I know that.

Yeah, right. You didn't even look at the comments. Mike Bloomberg could have bought every American a Coke. That's basically how that could have gone.

Well, it depends on where he bought it from. Yeah, that's true.

I've seen some Coke prices. Not like they're a dollar and a half anymore. Yeah. So anyway, we start with that. I wanted to start with that segment because we found just this past week. It tops it. Some math that's even worse than that.

Even worse than this math that was done by Brian Williams on MSNBC in cooperation with the New York Times and Glamour Magazine. How do these people get jobs? Everybody that was involved in that. I know.

And keep them. Incidentally, after that whole thing happened, Mara Gay wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which she blamed white people for her, for the reaction to her bad math. Okay, the reaction, sure, but was it the cause of the bad math?

Well, you see some of the stuff that's going on on social media right now. I didn't pull this up.

Oh, yeah. Because we are blamed for them not getting the education they deserve.

Well, no, it's not even that. There's some people that are saying two plus two equals four is a white construct. So like that's racist to say two plus two equals four.

Okay, I'm just going to go on the record here and say whoever is building the bridges that I'm crossing better have two plus two equals four. That's right. Better know your math.

You don't want the tunnels or the airplanes you fly on. Oh my goodness. No joke. And the car that I'm driving. Yep. You want some people with some math skills, folks. Oh, boy. Those who can't do math, go work for MSNBC or the New York Times.

There we go. So this math is even worse. Good thing I'm not a reporter. This math is even worse than what Brian Williams and Mara Gay were doing because and this is not on the Washington Examiner. They're just reporting the story.

This is the U .S. Conference of Mayors, a whole conference of mayors who did this terrible math. Let me read you the story. The nation's mayors on Monday backed a national call for reparations to 41 million black people, a program that could cost taxpayers six point two quadrillion dollars.

The U .S. Conference of Mayors released a letter backing a Democratic plan to form a reparations commission to come up with a payment for slavery. We recognize and support your legislation as a concrete first step in our larger reckoning as a nation and a next step to guide the actions of both federal and local leaders who have promised to do better by our black residents, said the letter from Conference President Greg Fischer, mayor of Louisville.

No, this is not a Babylon Bee article. This is a real thing. Six point two quadrillion dollars. Do you have any idea how big a quadrillion is? Why don't you enlighten? First of all, a quadrillion has no practical application, which is why you've probably never heard of this number or used it in everyday language unless you were just being overly dramatic.

What? And exaggerating. A quadrillion is one with 15 zeros after it. Now that number is so large, it's difficult for us to quantify. How do you quantify a quadrillion? Well, let me give you an idea. If we were to have a quadrillion stars in the sky, it would take 2000 galaxies like our own Milky Way over 2000 galaxies to total a quadrillion stars.

Wow. Now we know that there's more stars than that in the universe, right? But to just come up with a quadrillion stars, it would take more than 2000 Milky Ways to have that number of stars. That's a lot.

There's nothing on Earth that you can really equate a quadrillion to. And we have that much money, right? No, we don't even have that much money. If you were to liquidate everything in U .S. dollars, you would come up with 1 .2 quadrillion dollars.

So as far as like currency in circulation, there's 37 trillion U .S. dollars in circulation and that includes physical money, money deposited in savings and checking accounts, etc. So if you were to take all of that out, you would only have 37 trillion.

The national debt's what, 25 trillion right now? Yeah. So we could pay off the national debt if everybody were to just And be super broke. Yeah, and we would all be really broke. But then if you were to take all the money that we have in the form of investments, stocks, bonds, precious metals, cryptocurrencies, etc., then you would come up with 1 .2 quadrillion.

Mm-hmm, okay. Now it's not possible And how much are they asking? They're asking for 6 .2 quadrillion. There's 1 .2 quadrillion dollars. So what's a couple more quadrillion? And then yeah, just multiply that.

Just might as well. Toss it in there. Yeah, come up with 6 .2 quadrillion.

So have they stated how long we have to pay this back?

Well, there's no way. There's just simply no way to do it because we don't even have that much money. So if you were to take 6 .2 quadrillion divided by 41 million black people, that's what it says in the article, 41 million black people in the United States.

If you were to take 6 .2 quadrillion divided by 41 million black people, that's a total of 151 million dollars per black person. Okay. That's reparations. That's reparations for slavery. Every black person in the U .S. gets 151 million dollars.

Okay. Well, what about the taxpayer who has to pay for that 151 million dollars? That's like winning the lottery. That's pretty So if you were to take 6 .2 quadrillion divided by 197 million white people in America, that means that each white person would be paying 31 .5 million dollars in taxes per white person just to cover the cost of reparations.

Yeah, I don't got that. You and I will never make 31 and a half million dollars in our lifetime. No. But that's how much it would take per white person to cover this cost in reparations. How do you like that math?

I mean, again, how long does it take to pull up Google? This is how I did that math because, again, quadrillion is not a practical number. You can't just do that in your head. Maybe some incredible mathematicians can.

All I did was I went to Google and I typed, what is 6 .2 quadrillion divided by 41 million? And it gave me 151 million dollars.

And most phones have Google search on them.

I don't know that I wanted to type out 15 zeros at the end of that number.

I was going to check to see if mine was available. Okay, all right. Okay, so what is it?

6 .2. 6 .2. So you're typing 6, 2, and then 0 14 times. 14.

Okay, so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Now divided by, no, it's telling you it won't do it?

Won't go more than 15 digits total. So it does not go an extra 16.

Okay, gotcha. So you can't even do a quadrillion on a phone calculator.

You can't even do a quadrillion. Wait, wait. I wonder if I turn it sideways if it'll let me do more. Hold on. Let's try it one more time.

So you're doing it in the panoramic view? Yeah, it won't let me add any more. Just thought I'd check. Maybe it's because I was doing it in the vertical way.

Yeah, well, I mean, the vertical kind of ran out of room, so I tried the horizontal way and nope.

That was a pretty practical application there, babe. That was good.

I was trying to be a problem solver.

So yeah, math that's even worse than MSNBC and the New York Times. I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I was like, you got to be kidding me. 6 .2 quadrillion. I've never even heard of that number, 6 .2 quadrillion.

I wonder how they came up with that.

All of this is just incredibly ridiculous, but it's where this whole race baiting thing has gone. The whole racist argument and squabbling and stuff like that is going on in our nation today. And it's not just among the Democrats.

We've got, unfortunately, a lot of Christian pastors that have bought into this race hustling using the topic of race to swindle people. Charlie Dates, who's a pastor in Chicago, and he's also a Southern Baptist minister, he said on Twitter earlier this week, reconciliation is not possible without reparations.

Really? So the gospel can no longer reconcile us? Apparently not. The power of Christ can no longer bring people together. You have to pay money in order to achieve reconciliation? What was it that Paul said to the Corinthians about being given the ministry of reconciliation?

Apparently that has to do with paying reparations. The ministry of reconciliation is I'm paying reparations for sins I'm not even guilty of. And money is the root of all evil. Right. Well, the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.

Yeah, that's what I meant. You got Thabiti Anywubwile a few weeks ago who said black solidarity before Christian. So again, Christ is not enough to bring us together. Relevant Magazine rebuked me for sharing the gospel with Chancellor Rapper instead of bowing to his charges of white supremacy and systemic racism.

I mean, this. Idols. Yeah, right. Exactly. It is this race hustling that exists, even implementing a white tax, even within Christendom is because they've let the world in. It's worldly philosophies have taken them captive instead of trusting in the inerrancy of Scripture and the sufficiency of Scripture.

And guys, this should scare us into clinging to the Word of God even more.

That's right. And staying in there, realizing how far from the truth we're getting when we're starting to say things like reconciliation is not possible till you've paid a sum of money. Yeah, this goes back to this goes back to Catholic indulgences like you got to pay money to knock yours off your purgatory.

Yeah. So if you want to be reconciled with me, you better pay up. Yeah, that's how that that's how all of this is going. And again, just like this, this number here to the six point two quadrillion dollars for reparations, that number won't satisfy anybody.

It's not like racism will magically go away once that six point two quadrillion dollars is made. You'll still get people complaining. Where's my money? I haven't received this. Well, you owe me because you're white and your ancestors enslaved my ancestors and all this.

It does not solve a thing. In fact, the more that we deal with this kind of stuff, the more that we we deal in this kind of language. Let me put it that way. Okay. The more divided we are, it divides people.

It doesn't unite anybody. So our unity is in Christ. Our unity is in the gospel. It is not in it's not in paying reparations. But good news. Good. I've got some good news for you. Oh, finally. As of this past week, racism doesn't even exist anymore.

Oh. Why? Because at Bethel Church, Bethel Church in Redding, California, they did a nice little ritual for everybody declaring the end of racism and they used the Lord of the Rings to do it. Wait, what?

So after this little spectacle that they did on stage, racism doesn't exist anymore. And we have Bethel Church in Redding to thank for it. Lord of the Rings? Did you not see this segment? No. I know I didn't share it with you, but I thought maybe you saw some other friends that were.

Talking about it online. I've been trying to avoid a lot of hoopla. A lot of this craziness online. Yes, it is abounding.

So thanks to our friend Bart out there in California who sent us this segment. This was this actually happened at Bethel Church and it included several new apostolic Reformation preachers, Bill Johnson being one of them.

Of course, he's the pastor of Bethel Church. Che Ann, Ed Silvoso, and also Marlene Barrett. Now she is, she's an actress, but she's the one that was dressed in this wizard costume and had this Gandalf staff.

And she said, we're going to use what Gandalf did in the Lord of the Rings to declare the end of racism. So you might remember the segment in the Lord of the Rings, the first one, the Fellowship of the Ring, where the Balrog is coming upon them and Gandalf, you know, slams his staff down and says, you shall not pass, you know, when they're on that bridge.

Everybody else had already crossed except for Gandalf. He's trying to hold off the Balrog. You shall not pass. Okay, so they're going to do that here in the name of Jesus to declare the end of racism.

This woman's dressed like a wizard and she's got a wizard staff, but they're going to call upon Lord of the Rings to declare the end of racism.

They did this in a serious way?

Yeah, this was all serious. Okay. Absolutely serious. They're even doing cosplay up on the stage dressed like a Lord of the Rings character. And grabbing ahold of this staff and saying it together, you shall not pass.

Are you ready? No. Here's the segment. Hold on, babe.

Hold on. Here we go. Okay. Here it is. He puts both of his hands on the staff and he said, I said, and he hits it. And that authority is what we were talking about that can only be released by an apostolic decree.

The authority must be given. And that's why I revealed what we heard tonight. So is that clear?

So please stand up with us, or if you could stand because you're standing in authority because you're all Kings and priests and all of us, we're an apostolic people. So as an apostolic team with the authority that God's given to us, we decree and declare that racism will end.

It's over in the Ekklesia from this night forward in Jesus' mighty name, let's lift it up and bang it. Hallelujah.

Come on. Give him a praise over. We did it twice. We need one more, one more. We need you to agree with us. Okay. On the count of three on three, shout with us one, two, three, the name of Jesus Christ.

There you go, babe. It's the end of racism as we know it. Thanks Bethel Church. You know why we still have racism after that? Why that didn't work? Why is that? Because they didn't even do it right. Gandalf doesn't say thou shalt not pass.

I know this movie pretty well. He doesn't say thou shalt not pass. He says you shall not pass. Listen close. You'll catch it. Ready? Okay. Great, babe. Now they're going to do it again. Because they didn't get it right the first time.

Oh yeah, Bethel Church. That's right. If there's anything that 2020 has not failed to deliver, it's more antics from Bethel Church. They just have to stay the same and they get lost in all the rest of the kookiness in 2020.

I mean, did it, I just, I don't, I don't even know. I want to know. No, it's just, it's so like, they don't have a leg to stand on because all of their, their proclamations are falling flat in their face.

And because, I mean, they're in California of all places, so everything that can be is right now.

And so I just, I don't, well, it's because, I mean, it's because there's people buying it. They scratch itching ears.

But I don't, I don't understand. And then on top of that, like what on earth are they taking movies and like, didn't make them feel powerful? They wanted to redo it and they can't come up with their own stuff or they're running out of their own stuff.

I mean, they're cooped up forever. So they're like, oh, let's just do this. Or what? I don't, I don't, I could have done this better since I'm an actress. I don't. But babe. I mean, there's just so many things going on in my head that you really don't want to know.

Babe.

Babe, we're Southern Baptists. I know. Every Southern Baptist megachurch does this. What? I mean, not everyone, but yeah, you know, doing the little movie gimmicks and stuff like this. And they always have their little series that's based on Star Wars or Game of Thrones or you know what I'm talking about?

Flying in. Yeah, flying in on a zip line. Yeah. It was the Church of the Glades out there in Florida. David Hughes. I think his name was the pastor out there did like the, well, just is, yeah, but just.

The way you were going, I'm like, oh no, what happened?

No, because it was all that hoopla surrounding the zip line.

And then he was, and then I'm like, oh no, what? No, no, no, no, no.

I was thinking of like the pastor's conference fiasco that happened back in February when it was announced what the pastor's conference was going to be for the Southern Baptist Convention in June in Orlando.

David Hughes was one of the speakers and he's from Church of the Glades. And I did that blog showing like all the crazy weird stuff that they do out at Church of the Glades. Right. Andy Stanley's church does the same thing.

They've got. No, not anymore. Well, well, I know I'm getting to that. He's also not Southern Baptist. But just kind of show you that level of pragmatism that is practiced by these churches to attempt to draw people in.

So we're making fun of Bethel Church doing that. But I mean, it's. It's all over. It's most mega churches. It's American churchism. That's what they do. I just, we're going to, we're going to adapt some sort of secular gimmick, some sort of entertainment thing that's out there that's, that's through and through godless, but we're going to seize it.

And we're going to put it in our church because that's how you attract godless people. But then you've got to continue to keep up those antics in order to keep those people there because that's the reason why they came.

They didn't come to hear the gospel. They came to watch you look like a fool on stage.

Definitely get a show and maybe even food.

Right. So none of this pragmatism is ever going to reconcile people, whether you're talking about the movie gimmicks that's done on stage or you're talking about the reparations that you say that we have to pay.

Let's be reminded once again, the word that we have in Ephesians chapter two, starting in verse 11. Therefore, remember, remember, remember, come back to the word. Therefore, remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands.

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh, the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two.

So making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near For through him, we both have access in one spirit to the father.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

In him, you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the spirit. So my friends, let's not break up the bricks of this building by using worldly mortar that does not hold this spiritual house together.

We must be united in the word of Christ making who has made peace by the blood of his cross. And it is through faith in Christ that we are reconciled to God and we are reconciled to one another. If you want to say reparations is the way that we're reconciled to one another, put a put a money amount on it and it still won't be enough.

Six point two quadrillion dollars is still not enough to unify a people. And shame on any shame on any pastor who has been race hustling, insisting that that needs to be done in order to be reconciled.

Shame on them. You may you make an offense of your office and you disqualify yourself as a pastor. Just to put it bluntly. Let me read Ephesians four one. I therefore a prisoner for the Lord urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

There is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says when he ascended on high, he led a host of captives and he gave gifts to men. What Christ has given us, what he has purchased with his blood is of far greater value than you could ever put a money, a money amount on a dollar figure on.

Jesus Could Do No Mighty Work at Nazareth

Yeah. Oh, amen. Amen to that. All right. This next question comes from jaw and his question has to do with Mark six, five. This was where Jesus went to his hometown of Nazareth and it says in verse five, he could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

So here's jaws question. Hi all. And pastor Gabe, I'm trying to seek wise counsel to make sure I'm accurately understanding this verse in the right context. He could do no mighty works there. I'm saying, I'm saying, or sorry, it's saying that no matter how many things he said or would do to show himself to be the Messiah, they would not believe or see anything he did as mighty works in their eyes, even though they were witnessing him do them.

Mighty works of belief could not be done in them. Question mark. So he's, he's making that statement as, is that how we are to understand the passage? Right. Okay. Kind of leading. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Am I understanding this correctly?

So let me read that again. Just make sure that I've got it. So no matter how many things that Jesus said, no matter how many things he did to show himself to be the Messiah, they would not believe or see anything he did as a mighty work in their eyes, even though they were witnessing him do them.

Mighty works of unbelief could not be done in them. Mighty works. Oh, I'm sorry. Mighty works of belief could not be done in them. I'd say that's a pretty good summary there, Ja, I think you've got that right.

So yeah, no matter what he did, it wasn't going to change their minds. And this was a demonstration of just how hard their hearts were. Now in, in Mark's account of this, in Mark chapter six, his account of this says that he could do no mighty works there, but in Matthew chapter six or sorry, Matthew chapter 13, where Matthew recounts this same story, Matthew says he did no mighty works there because of their unbelief.

So we read, he could do no mighty works there. And we think of it as like Jesus was incapable, right? But he's Jesus. He's Jesus. He's God. His power is not dependent upon a people to will it to happen.

Like we don't, we don't will God's power. And therefore he does it right. If Jesus wanted to show you something like that, right. Just like we were hearing from Bethel church a moment ago, right? See that's not how that works.

So, uh, and notice that he was doing mighty works there. He laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. So it wasn't like he was prevented from doing any sort of miracle. He was doing miracles among them, but we read that he could do no mighty work there.

And we think that it means that Jesus was prevented. It just simply means just as Jock concluded there, he, he could do nothing that was going to convince them that he was the Messiah. All they wanted to see him do was, was something miraculous to appease their own flesh, but not because in their spirits they wanted to worship the King of Kings.

Oh, definitely. It was probably something like, uh, oh, can you do this? So can you do this? You know, like nothing satisfied, right? It was always one thing more after one thing more. Heal our sick. We just want you to heal us.

It's all we want you to do. We don't want to worship you. So they want all of the things, all of the gifts that God gives, but they don't want the giver. Right. That's what I got out of it. Right. And that's really a pretty good summary of American Christianity.

On top of that, you want the gifts, but you don't want the giver. There's a lot of people stumbling through their Christianity just like that. Hard to watch. Yeah. Pretty good summary of prosperity theology as well.

We want the things that the giver gives, but we don't want actually want to worship the giver himself. We just, you know, it's, it's a genie in a bottle mentality. Jesus is just my genie. Or Santa. Yeah.

He's Santa Claus. Right. Yeah. Be good. Equality. So that you'll get a good gift at Christmas time. I also did a video on this. So there's a what video on exactly this topic. Oh yeah. Let me go ahead and play it and then we'll, we'll transition into the next question here.

Sure. In Mark six, Jesus went with his disciples to his hometown of Nazareth. And on the Sabbath, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were astonished saying, where did this man get these things?

What is this wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary whose family we know? And they took great offense at him. And Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own household.

And he could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. He marveled because of their unbelief and went to go teach in other villages. Now this part right here where it says he could do no mighty work there.

This doesn't mean Jesus was powerless because the people lacked faith. Obviously it doesn't mean that because he did heal people. This also does not mean you must believe the Lord will do a mighty work for you to unleash his blessings upon you.

Here's what we're meant to understand. Without faith in Christ, you will not be blessed to have the favor of God nor be in fellowship with him. No matter what Jesus did at Nazareth, they wouldn't believe.