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Dec. 9, 2022 - Just Informed Talk - Craig James
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Twitter Files 2: Did Twitter Employees Have Access To Users Private Messages? |JustInformed News#258
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Hi, welcome to another episode of Just Informed News.
I'm your host, Craig.
As always, we're going to be bringing you the breaking news as it's made available.
Tonight is no different.
We're actually going to be following up on a series of reports that I'm calling Twitter Files.
Very original name.
I came up with it all by myself.
No help from anyone else at all.
And what it's covering is a series of drops, and that was sarcasm, A series of drops coming out of Twitter right now that are being disclosed by Elon Musk in what can only be thought of as a limited exposure,
limited-type hangout that's being conducted by Twitter to not only off-put the liability so they can say, oh, well, we disclosed what we were doing, But to also release the pressure on the conservative movement's side so that we feel like we're having a win when in reality all they're doing is proving to us what we already knew.
But there is a little bit more to this story because tonight's drop from Twitter, which is coming from Barry Weiss, Matt Tybee and Barry Weiss were the two journalists, right, that were hand selected by Elon Musk to provide this disclosure from Twitter after he took over of all of the censorship that were hand selected by Elon Musk to provide this disclosure from Twitter after he took over of all of the censorship
What's interesting, though, is that there has been kind of maybe a little bit of a cat being let out of the bag, if you will, as far as a pretty much a story that I don't know that they intended to get out with this drop.
We're going to look at that.
Were Twitter employees accessing directly individual users' private and personal DMs, their direct messages?
We're going to look at that, plus we're going to look at the drop itself.
It talks about shadow banning.
And all the things that we told you, what, three, four years ago, five years ago, well, now they're telling us It's true!
We were right!
Oh my gosh!
Wow, color me shocked.
But regardless, it's breaking news, so we're going to talk about it here on this channel.
We're going to get through just that.
That's all we're doing today.
Then we're going to do our God's Grace is Greater, and then that's it.
So this is going to be a relatively short one.
I want everybody in the chat to let me know what you think in the comments below.
Let me know what you think about all of this as we go through it.
We're going to basically break all the news, go through all of these different breaking news stories that have come out about this thing, the Twitter files.
And we're going to cover it all here.
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Let's just jump into the story that's breaking now.
Twitter's secret blacklist, second tranche of bombshell internal files revealed conservatives were marked do not amplify and COVID lockdown skeptics were shadow banned in a move staff called visibility filtering to stop accounts and topics from trending.
Now, let's just get into the drop itself.
We'll go through each and every one.
We'll read through them.
There's about 30 drops over on Barry Weiss' Twitter account.
This is part two of the Twitter files.
And we're just going to go ahead.
I'll make it bigger so we can all read along here.
And let's just read through it.
Here it is.
Part one.
This is Twitter.
The Twitter Files Part 2, Twitter's secret blacklist.
So we're going to talk about this story after we go through it.
Let's just get through it real quick, though.
A new Twitter Files investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics, all in secret without informing the users.
Well, right there you had me, because...
I had no idea.
I mean, you're telling me that Twitter is shadow banning and censoring the people using its platform?
I mean, this is as groundbreaking as, like, the sky is blue and the grass is green outside, and it's night right now, at least where I'm at.
But then again, I guess it's day somewhere else, so it is shocking.
Let's go on.
Two, Twitter once had a mission to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers.
Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.
Oh, really?
Oh, really?
Here is the picture, the documentation to go along with it.
So, this is the back-end view that Twitter employees would have had of this Dr.
J. Baktakaria's account.
And what's interesting is what they're pointing out here.
That in the box right here, I don't know if you guys can see that, but it clearly says he's on the trends black list.
Hmm.
Well, that's interesting.
And also it has him down for a recent abuse strike.
So this would be his Twitter profile info, what he wrote about himself, when he joined, where it's from, etc., etc.
Interesting, interesting, interesting.
Okay, so there's that.
It goes on.
It says, Oh, well, that's interesting.
Let's see what his account says.
Here it says he's verified, active, 3.7 million followers.
Let's see.
It goes on to say, notifications spike is one of the labels they put on his account.
They also labeled his account with a search blacklist, which we already knew about.
This is not, like, new.
And apparently something not safe for work view.
I don't know if that affected his ability and I don't know what SPMA was.
But...
It is telling, to say the least, at least that we're getting this information that proves what we've claimed for so long.
And you've got to remember, this isn't just proving what we've claimed for so long.
It's actually completely contradicting the truth that they were trying to portray from inside of Twitter.
Which we'll look at and show you several examples of Twitter coming out and saying, we don't shadow ban.
And that was completely a lie, obviously, given what we're finding out here, which I think is fascinating.
Okay, so we go into the next post here.
Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to do not amplify.
Well, that's interesting.
So here it says, notification spike, that, you know, I guess he's going to be notifying a lot of people.
He's going to go viral a lot.
Recent abuse strike.
And then also it has here, do not amplify.
Wait, do not amplify.
I thought they weren't manipulating everything behind the scenes as far as what they told us.
Oh, okay.
Interesting.
Barry Weiss goes on.
Twitter denied that it does such things.
In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gad, then head of legal policy and trust, and KVON Beckpore, head of product, said, quote, we do not shadow ban.
They added, quote, and we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.
Oh, well, that's interesting.
Seven, what many people call shadow banning, quote-unquote, Twitter executives and employees call, quote, visibility filtering, unquote, or, quote, VF, unquote, for short.
Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
It's a very powerful tool, one senior Twitter employee told us.
Going on to say, quote unquote, VF refers to Twitter's control over user visibility.
It's used visibility filtering to block searches of individual users, to limit the scope of a particular tweet's discoverability, to block select users' posts from ever appearing on the trending page, and from inclusion in hashtag searches, all without users' knowledge.
So let's just stop here and kind of take a deep breath.
Okay, so let's unpack what they're saying here.
They're essentially exposing themselves as doing exactly what they said they weren't doing because What I find fascinating is, for instance, if you just do a simple search and look up the term shadow banning, what does, let's just say, Wikipedia, let's see what they categorize as shadow banning.
Shadow banning, according to Wikipedia, is also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, or comment ghosting.
It's the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user.
For example, the shadow ban comments posted to a blog or a website will not be visible to other users accessing the site.
Okay, so now the reason I use Wikipedia for this example is because that's the establishment...
Remember, YouTube and Twitter, they throw labels on what they call misinformation using Wikipedia as the source from which they put verified information into the public domain to say that they can discredit disinformation and misinformation with the truth.
That can only be found on Wikipedia, right?
Because you can't alter that to, you know, have it say crazy things.
And it's not being controlled by the deep state globalists who want to control the narrative and rewrite culture and history and language to meet the needs of their nefarious activities.
No.
So, shadow banning as defined by them is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent for the user.
Okay.
So let's just read this one more time.
So they said they did not shadow ban.
They didn't do that.
No, no, no.
They visibility filtered.
So what's the difference?
The difference is nothing.
It's the exact same thing.
It's not shadow banning.
It's visibility filtering.
It's like filtering as being a way for them to suppress what people see on different levels.
Very powerful tool.
It's Twitter's control over user visibility.
It's not shadow banning because...
Well, technically, it's exactly what the definition, according to Wikipedia, is of shadow banning.
But they're not, like, secretly banning people.
They were openly doing it.
But they were hiding it from the users, which is the definition of shadow banning.
But they...
Okay, so they were actually...
So, never mind that.
We should probably just move along, right?
Because now we're getting too into the weeds here, guys.
But it goes on.
Oh, let's see.
It says, quote, We control visibility quite a bit and we control the application of your content quite a bit.
Normal people do not know how much we do, one Twitter engineer told us.
Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.
The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team, Global Escalation Team, or SRTGET for short.
It often handled up to 200 cases a day.
That's a lot of banning.
That's a lot of book burning, digital book burning there.
But there existed a level beyond official ticketing.
Wow.
Beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company's policy on paper.
That is the site integrity policy, policy escalation support, known as SIPIs.
These names are so ridiculous.
Oh my gosh.
This secret group included head of legal policy and trust Vijaya Gad, the global head of trust and safety Yoel Roth, subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.
I wonder who the others are.
I wonder if the others include people like Michael Sussman and James Baker, a.k.a.
Jim Baker, you know, the architects of the Russia hoax, the DNC lawyers, Michael Sussman, of which still works for, as far as I know, Twitter in some form or capacity, or at least has been a consultant of theirs for quite some time.
So, I mean, somebody explain to me just...
However you can.
I'd love for somebody to explain to me how Yoel Roth, the guy who wrote his PhD thesis on being gay on Tinder and being discriminated against because of his homosexual degeneracy, whatever that is, and Vijaya Gad, the lady who's lied...
I don't know how many dozens of times publicly about what is happening at Twitter as they're shadow banning, and we have proof now that they were doing it.
Interesting, interesting, interesting.
And Jack Dorsey has come out and said that they weren't.
I mean, these are all people who have publicly professed the denial of shadow banning and censoring, but we're having all the proof that they are.
Okay.
But I guess we're all just being distracted once again.
Who knows from what at this point, but we're certainly being distracted.
It goes on.
This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made.
Think high follower count, controversial.
Another Twitter employee told us for these, there would be no ticket or anything.
You mean like, I don't know, perhaps Donald Trump?
Maybe he made that list?
Perhaps some others like Alex Jones made that list?
I would imagine.
It goes on.
One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was libs of TikTok, an account that was on the trends blacklist and was designated as, quote, do not take action on user without consulting sippies.
Yes, you have to notify sippies immediately.
I mean, it sounds like a sippy cup.
They're like little kids.
They just want to censor you sippy cups.
It's cutesy-wootsy.
No, sippies.
You've got to call sippies right now if you want to get them out there.
You can see here the big banner on top of their account saying, Do not take action on user without consulting sippies.
On top of that, they were on a trends blacklist and they were on the notification spike list with the recent abuse strike being counted against them.
Now this is where it's interesting.
Somebody pointed out here, and I'll pull up the post, Chuck Colesto, great Twitter account if you ever follow him on social media, he reported, images released by Twitter suggest former staff had full access to users' direct messages.
I don't think they wanted this to get out, but you can see right here, In the libs of TikTok, in the back end of Twitter, you can see they have access here to the timeline, spaces, live videos, communities, whatever guano is, email, phone, lists, direct messages.
Now, is this the back end users' direct messages or is this the direct messages of libs of TikTok as it's being accessed here?
That we're not sure of yet, but it could have been that this slipped through the cracks and that they accidentally let the cat out of the bag here and expose the fact that they themselves have access to your personal and private direct messages.
And not when I say they, of course, they had it.
But when I say they, I mean, pretty much anybody in any form or capacity able to moderate content on Twitter could have had access to your personal and private direct messages, which at this point is that surprising.
But imagine how much content.
How much blackmail?
How much, you know, people who aren't paying attention?
This is why they always tell us there's blackmail.
These large corporations are, you know, basically you're voluntarily giving your information to these corporations to then go and blackmail others.
Well, that might be the case here if they're able to pull up your direct messages and pull out, you know, pictures, or I don't know if you can send pictures on Twitter, DMs, I think you can, or emails compromising messages.
You know, people having affairs, people engaged in nefarious or criminal activity, other things.
Well, let's keep reading.
It's only getting more interesting from here.
And it's crazy what's trending on Twitter tonight because we have satanic and buttpluggeddean So, I don't know what that means, other than the guy from Project Veritas, probably, and then Satanic is just what Twitter is in general, so, not surprised.
The account, which Chaya Raychik, the person who runs Libs of TikTok, began in November 2020, now boasts over 1.4 million followers, was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raychik says.
Each time, Raychik was blocked from posting as long as a week.
Twitter repeatedly informed Reichich that she had been suspended for violating Twitter's policy against hateful conduct, quote-unquote.
But, this is where it gets interesting, in an internal Sippy's memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that Libs of TikTok has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the hateful conduct policy.
See here.
Wow, really?
Site policy recommends placing lives with TikTok in a seven-day timeout at the account level, meaning not for a specific tweet based on the account's continued pattern of indirectly, indirectly, So not doing it, indirectly violating Twitter's hateful conduct policy by tweeting content that either leads to or intends to incite harassment against individuals and institutions that support LGBTQ suicide cult communities.
I threw in my own little abbreviation there.
At this time, site policy has not found explicitly violative tweets, which would result in a permanent suspension of his account.
Oh, so they didn't violate any of the terms.
This type of enforcement action will not lead to the permanent suspension.
However, should lives of TikTok engage in any other direct tweet-level violations of sex policies, we will move forward.
permanent suspension assessment since its most recent time out while lips of tiktok is not directly engaged in behavior violative of hateful conduct policy users continue targeting individuals allies and supporters of the lgbtqia plus community yeah why is it only lgbtq community here and it's lgbtqia plus here I think that that's bigoted.
I think that that's racist.
I think that that's transphobic and homophobic and...
Every other phobic, I think whoever wrote this and forgot the I and the A and the plus on the LGBTQ, you know, suicide cult reference, they should be fired immediately if they haven't been already.
Maybe they should have their whole lives upturned.
Maybe they should have investigative reporters standing outside their home and interviewing their family about how long they've been a transphobic, homophobic, racist, bigot, white supremacist.
Maybe that's what should happen to whoever forgot to add the IA plus on the end of the LGBTQ suicide cult community.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm just trying.
We play by their rules.
That's what they want.
I mean, that's what they would do.
Anyway, let's go on.
The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her post encouraged online harassment of, quote, hospitals and medical providers by insinuating, quote, that gender-affirming health care is equivalent to child abuse or grooming.
Really?
Really?
Oh, you can't say that, I guess.
I guess that's the foreboding speech.
You will not say this speech on Twitter!
Says the Twitter Nazis.
You know, it's funny.
Remember, like, Seinfeld, there was the soup Nazi?
No soup for you!
Come back one year!
That's what this is.
They're Twitter Nazis.
No tweet for you!
Come back seven days!
Oh, you say something I don't like?
No tweet for you!
Sorry, it's late.
But yeah, that's essentially what we're dealing with here, guys.
Barry, what's going on?
21.
So, and that's just to kind of put the icing on the cake there.
They were like, oh, okay.
Well, your content of posting what these psychotically, mentally ill, deranged lunatics, these demons, were saying about, you know, chopping off children's breasts and mutilating their genitals, that...
Is hate speech and you are suspended for violating our hateful conduct policy.
But when they dox you and put your home address on the internet for everyone to come and violently attack you for your opinion, yeah, I'm sorry, that's just not going to cut it.
We're kind of in favor of that because we hate you.
Oh, thanks, Twitter.
No tweets for you!
Come back one year!
I'm sorry I had to do it.
It's too good.
In internal Slack messages, Twitter employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets and subjects.
Here's Yoel Roth, the gay man who became the head of all this because he wrote about his Grindr account where he was having gay hookup sex with degenerate gay men, and that's his whole claim to fame.
Twitter's then head of global trust and safety in direct message to a colleague in early 2021 saying...
A lot of times, SI has used technicality spam enforcement as a way to solve a problem created by safety under enforcing their policies, which again, isn't a problem per se, but it keeps us from addressing the root cause of the issue, which is that our safety policies need some attention.
So essentially, what he's saying is, we're not able to get away on a technicality because we're just using our spam enforcement to go after people.
Okay.
Cool.
Sounds reasonable.
Twitter goes on here, 24, six days later in a direct message with an employee on the health misinformation privacy and identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding, quote, non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplifications, visibility filtering, etc.
Here it goes on to give a quote from Roth saying, quote, Quote, the hypothesis underlying much of what we've implemented is that if exposure to, namely misinformation, directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure and limiting the spread virality of content is a good way to do that.
But if he wants to go and hook up with a bunch of random gay degenerate homos on his Grindr account and then write about it on Twitter, that's totally acceptable.
That's not misinformation.
That's just love and support.
I don't know.
I'm sorry it's late.
That's where we're at, guys.
It's late.
He added, quote, We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we're going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations, especially for other domains, other policy domains.
Well, there you go, folks.
Barry Rice goes on to say there's more to come on this story, which was reported by all of these people, and they have a new website called The Free Press, blah, blah, blah.
The authors have broad and expanding access to their files.
The only condition is that they publish it on Twitter first, and they say they're just getting started.
Our reporting documents cannot tell the whole story.
Thank you to blah, blah, blah.
Watch Matt Tybee for the next installment.
Okay.
This is the funniest thing.
I love Dinesh D'Souza's post here.
Jack B. Nimble, Jack B. Quick, Jack B. Exposed is a lying prick.
Follow up on this with a lot more detail.
We don't shadow ban, and we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints.
We do rank tweets by default to make Twitter more immediately relevant, which can be flipped off more on ranking signals.
Oh, really?
Perfect.
All right, quickly, just to kind of wrap it all up, let's just go through a few of the points here that I thought were worth notable mentions throughout all this.
Charlie Kirk coming out saying in 2018 he met with Jack Dorsey and that he never talked about this publicly before, but Jack Dorsey apparently assured him that Twitter did not quote-unquote shadow ban accounts.
Either he lied or these policies didn't take effect until later, which is plausible based on what happened next.
Wait, what?
Why is Charlie Kirk trying to defend Jack Dorsey?
What is going on here?
It's almost like there is no such thing as free speech on these platforms.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm crazy.
Somebody down here pointed out something hilarious saying, here's Twitter from their official page back in 2018 saying, people are asking us if we shadow ban.
We don't.
Read more to get all the facts.
But they do shadowban.
Oh, well, they weren't shadowbanning then, surely, right?
Remember when they banned us all from the platform?
They still haven't let any of us back?
Myself, Donald Trump, pretty much everybody I know who's another content creator in this kind of space.
Finally, Jim Jordan here says, Oh, well, yeah, that sounds about right.
But you know what?
The ultimate of ironies is this.
Elon Musk is releasing all this information with the stated objective of setting the record straight on the truth about what's happened at Twitter and righting the wrongs of the censorship of the conservatives and the removal of free speech in our society.
And I would say that he is partially right.
Or partially in the right here.
But the truth of the matter is quite simple.
He is for these policies and he's come out and publicly said that he is.
Here is a tweet from not too long ago, December 2nd, so less than a week ago, where he says, Hate speech impressions.
Number of times tweets reviewed continue to decline despite significant user growth.
At Twitter Safety will publish data weekly.
Listen to this.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of reach.
Negativity should and will get less reach than positivity.
Wait, what?
So he's shadow banning too!
So why are we even having this conversation?
Why is he even releasing all this information?
It stands to reason that when you look at what he said, he said on his account also, 80% of people should have the right to freedom of speech.
But there's 20% of the population who he believes do not deserve the right to speak freely in society.
Now, if you're trying to convince me that you're the advocate warrior poster child for saving free speech, and then you're doing this, all you're doing is talking out of both sides of your mouth.
As Andrew Torba points out very accurately, Andrew Torba, mind you, is the owner and creator of Gab.com, which is a real free speech website.
Here, Torba says, quote, And I'll pull this up for you guys.
He says, quote, Truer words have never been said, folks.
So there, I leave it for you to discuss amongst yourselves and leave comments in the comment section below.
Let me know what you think of Twitter's censorship of conservatives on their platform.
Is this really a breaking news story?
Is this really bombshell?
Or is it just a way for Elon Musk to get away with further censorship before?
By pretending to expose the previous regime's evil actions while he himself engages in the same behavior which he's telling us he is against.
You tell me.
Remember when he said that he would be giving amnesty to all accounts who were banned without cause?
That hasn't happened yet.
Oh, I hear every now and then a person gets reinstated here and there.
But yours truly, among many others, are still banned from being able to use the website from their previous accounts.
Where they built up, including myself, large followings based on the principle of free speech that was with the throttling, with the censorship, with the algorithms working against us 24-7-365, with the internal teams at Twitter banning us, censoring us, shadow banning us, So, I just put it to you guys.
Let me know what you think.
I would love to hear your comments on all of this.
So, with that being said, there is something we do at the end of every episode, and let's wrap it up with our God's Grace is Greater segment.
And today is no different, because we do not back away from the gospel ever.
We always go to the gospel, and that's where we get our...
That's how we drive this show forward into the future is with the gospel of Jesus Christ because it's the most important thing.
So, with that, we're picking up where we left off in...
Mark chapter 14, verse 43.
We're going to read verse 43 to 52.
And this is the betrayal of Jesus.
So I hope you guys are ready.
Let's read.
While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, suddenly arrived with him, was a mob with swords and clubs from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
His betrayer had given them a signal.
The one I kissed, he said, he's the one.
Arrest him and take him away under guard.
So when he came, he went right up to him and said, Interesting.
So...
What we're going to basically do is just wrap it up with that verse, and we're going to talk about the context of it.
Now, what is the context of it?
The context of it is actually interesting because it's what we covered in the last part where we left off.
We were leaving off with both Jesus praying to God in the Garden of Gethsemane where he said,"'Father, all things are possible for you.
Take this cup away from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, not what I will, but what you will.'" Now, what was happening here is that as the disciples were sleeping, Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he finds them sleeping three different times after he tells them to stay awake and be aware of their surroundings because he was telling them that he was not going to be with them that much longer.
And as Judas arrives there to betray him with a kiss, he is still chastising his disciples for them not being prepared.
And this is kind of an example for us all.
What are we told to do?
There's many parables Jesus gives us.
There's the one in particular parable that I can recall directly where Jesus tells us It's like a master leaving his home and leaving his slaves in charge.
And he goes away but the slaves are told to keep watch because they don't know the time or the day when the master will return.
And in the same way, he's chastising his own disciples who can't even stay awake for an hour or two when he asks them to watch out while he prays and stay awake and stay prepared.
They fall asleep instead.
And when they're caught off guard, they all go off scrambling, running away in different directions.
Even somebody seemed to run away without their clothes on.
Right?
Why were they caught off guard?
Because they weren't awake and they weren't prepared and they weren't watching out for what was to come.
Because Jesus told them three times he caught them falling asleep and not being prepared.
So when the Romans showed up, when the guards showed up, the temple guards who were there to seize him, what happened?
Well, they were What can we apply to our lives?
Well, we can apply the same principle from the parable of the master who left the slaves in charge to this right here, to what we can learn from it is we need to be awake and on guard.
We have to be ready because we don't know the day or the time or the moment when Jesus is going to return.
And I don't want to be caught unprepared for that.
How do we stay prepared for that?
Well, we live righteously.
We follow the gospel.
We do the right thing when no one's watching, always.
And if we fall short, we go to God and ask for forgiveness, and we repent, and we work toward becoming better for God every day.
We don't want to be like the disciples.
We don't want to be like the slaves who are unprepared, the ones who were not ready.
We want to be prepared and ready for God to come and find us.
When that happens, we don't know the day and time.
It's going to come like a thief in the night, and it's going to come out of nowhere.
It's going to be something that we don't expect unless we train ourselves every day to be prepared for the return of Jesus and to have our eyes open and be ready as we are told and commanded.
So that's my message to all of you out there.
Be prepared.
And how do you prepare yourself?
Simple.
Turning your life over to Jesus Christ is the first step.
So I invite you to do that right now if you haven't already.
And it's not very complicated.
It's not like you've got to go do a bunch of rituals and all this other stuff.
All you have to do is go to God in prayer.
Turn your life over to Him.
Dedicate your life to Him.
And then do everything you can to follow God, follow the Gospel.
And if you're able, as soon as possible, I recommend...
Going and washing yourself in the waters of baptism and renewing yourself in the new life that comes through the baptism that will be like being born again.
That's why they call it born again Christians.
But I think that that is something that is paramount to the new believer in coming back to the faith.
If you haven't been baptized, please go do it.
And it's that simple.
And then you can learn more ways to become closer to God through the gospel and use it as a tool to help you find discernment in your life and to find direction and to find a purpose because that is what we're told to do.
So I encourage you and I invite you to do that right now tonight.
If you're sitting there, you're watching this and you're going...
I don't know.
I've been so far away from God for so long.
Now is the time.
God is calling out to you.
He's speaking to your heart.
Don't be like the disciples who are unprepared.
Don't be like the slaves in the parable who are unprepared.
When the Master returns, you want to be ready.
It could be tomorrow.
It could be tonight.
It could be any moment.
Are you going to be ready?
Do you want your soul to be unprepared for the return of the Messiah?
Are you willing to risk that?
I know I'm not.
And I hope you're not either.
And I hope you know right now, God is speaking to you, listening to this message right now.
Turn your life over to God.
Devote yourself to Him fully.
Be prepared.
Don't be caught off guard.
Because that's how Satan wins.
And I don't want Satan to win.
And I know you don't either.
So we're going to say a prayer, and then we're going to wrap it up.
Lord and Heavenly Father, we are so grateful for this gospel in which we learned so much.
I pray, Lord, a special prayer tonight for those watching who have not turned their lives over to you yet, who are living in a very unprepared way right now, who may be on the fence, who may be even questioning still to this moment whether they should do it or not.
Lord, I pray you'll speak to them.
Speak to their heart.
Open their minds and eyes to see the truth that is you in the gospel, your sacrifice, your grace, your mercy, and the eternal salvation which you, your son, paid the ultimate price for.
We thank you, Lord, for that.
And we pray that we as Christians who are already living for you, Lord, that we don't lose sight of you, that we don't fall asleep, that we stay awake and aware and ready always for whatever's to come.
Because we don't know what tomorrow's going to bring, Lord, but we do know that you are a good father and that your son died for our sins and that we do what we can, Lord, to live our lives for you in this world.
So we thank you, Lord, for this day and every day, most of all, our eternal salvation.
In Jesus' name, amen.
All right, well, I do pray that you all accept Jesus into your heart tonight.
I pray that you prepare yourself for his coming, and I pray that you're ready when he comes.
With that being said, though, thank you for watching this episode.
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My name is Craig.
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Have a great evening.
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