I'm, Well, Dead...Apparently

Opening Joke About Being Mistakenly Reported Dead

And I didn't even know I was sick. I didn't even have the decency to go to my own funeral. Welcome to the program, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well today.

I want to thank you so much for joining me. So yeah, apparently I'm dead. I was looking the other day. One of my videos on my YouTube channel that I just recently posted, I happened to notice a comment.

Someone said something to the effect of, Justin, I'm glad you're still here because there's a video out there saying that you're dead. And they provided a link to it. So I clicked the link, as you might imagine that I would, and I went to it.

And sure enough, there is a thumbnail and it shows Laura Ingram from Fox News doing a report on me that I am in fact dead. And it does have the correct dates of my life. I was indeed born in 1973. And this is year 2024.

But by God's grace, I hope to live to see at least a few more years. So no, dear ones, I am not dead, but I did get kind of a chuckle out of that. And I wanted to have a little fun with it. So I posted this on Twitter, X I guess now, I said this, I have some sad news, at least for most of you, hopefully.

I'm apparently dead. Looks like I died just recently. I was quite surprised to learn of this just now and didn't even know Fox News knew who I was. On the plus side, dying was easier than I expected. On the downside, though, and looking around right now, heaven is not as pretty as I thought.

It would be.

In fact, it pretty, it looks pretty much the same, suspiciously so, as the neighborhood I lived in while I was alive. And well, my legs still don't work and my hands are still jacked up.

Bummer.

Hashtag, gotta admit, I'm a little disappointed. So anyway, people seem to appreciate that humor. But no, dear ones, I am not dead. I am recording this on Sunday evening, November the 3rd. And it was kind of funny because when I got to church this morning, people were coming.

Up to me.

Glad you're not dead, Justin. And apparently this video has made quite the rounds. A lot of people are seeing it. I even got a few texts from people saying, are you OK? And so anyway, dear ones, I am OK.

I am not dead. At least I don't think so. Doing fairly well as far as I can tell. Now on a little bit more serious note, though, there are YouTube channels out there using my picture and whatever you call it, the avatar, I guess.

And they're calling themselves Justin Peters or Justin Peters Channel or various iterations of that. There appear to be several of them and not with a lot of subscribers, but one of them does have apparently a couple of thousand or so.

This is the only YouTube channel I've got. This one right here that you are watching, Justin Peters Ministries. As of this recording with about three hundred and four thousand subscribers. So if you see any other channel that pretends to be me, it ain't me, OK?

It's not. So one stop shopping right here for everything related to YouTube and JPM.

Closing Greeting and Blessing

All right.

Well, thank you very much, dear ones, until our next time together. There may be some people out there that wish I were dead, but but that's OK.

I'm not.

So until our next time together, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of his Holy Spirit be with you all.