Daily Truth host addresses listener financial struggles caused by shadow banning, urging five-star reviews to combat algorithmic suppression. He defines modern paralysis as "death by limitless," arguing that boundaries prevent the slavery of infinite choices while prioritizing family over distant charity per Galatians 6:9-10. Critiquing Biden's economy and elite COVID responses, he insists strategic shrewdness in spreading God's Word remains vital despite recession hardships, framing discernment as the only path to true freedom. [Automatically generated summary]
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Start With The Rocks00:03:57
All right, listen, guys, I get it.
Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Praise God for you and that endeavor.
However, algorithms are a thing.
Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing.
And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments leaving us a five star review.
Also, perhaps even more effective than that, you can share our podcast with a friend.
We hope you'll take the time to do so.
Thank you so much.
God bless.
Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
You're listening to Daily Truth.
Some of you have a hard time saying no, right?
One of the ways, you know, like death by a thousand cuts, right?
That phrase, you know, just slowly, little by little by little, worn down.
One of the things that we experience often in the 21st century is death by limitless, virtually limitless opportunity.
All the time, and I know that I'm not unique, I'm sharing this because it's common to man.
I know that this is the situation that you probably find yourself often in as well.
But all the time, I'll get requests.
Sometimes they come in that humble tone of a request, sometimes I get demands.
But either way, whether it be a request or a demand, there's a million different things that a million different people think that I should be doing with my life in any given moment.
And one of the ways that I'm able, it's almost overwhelming, it is overwhelming to sift through every little thing to define and determine, to discern what I should say yes to and what I should say no to.
There is an immense peace and freedom.
This is the irony.
There's a freedom, as G.K. Chesterton once said, that comes within the bounds.
Right?
That the fences actually provide a freedom from slavery to limitless choices and opportunity.
You've heard me use this illustration before.
The fish might say, I don't like being confined and bound and enslaved to this pond.
I want to be an autonomous fish, I want to have liberty.
And so one day it swims as fast as it can towards the bank and jumps out of the water at the last minute and frees itself from the pond to die on the shore.
The pond was not its prison, the pond was its proper context designed for the fish to thrive in by God, who determines our nature and our context, our purpose, our lives, everything.
Everything.
And one of the ways that you can kind of trim down the fat, as it were, When it comes to daily practical life, knowing what I should say no to, what I should say yes to, is by starting at the top.
You've probably heard the illustration.
I know that it's a bit of a cliche, but it's true and it's helpful.
The illustration that if you're going to fill a bucket and you've got rocks, pebbles, sand, and water, well, what do you start with first?
You start with the rocks.
If you fill the bucket with water first, there's no room for anything else.
You do the rocks.
Then you pour the pebbles, and they're going to sprinkle down in between all the crevices and the cracks between the larger rocks.
Then you slowly pour the sand, which will fill all the spaces between the rocks and the pebbles.
And lastly, you pour the water.
Prioritize Your Household00:03:12
You start with the big things.
The higher yes defines the lower no's.
And God has made this plain in His Word.
We know what are our priorities of loves.
St. Augustine talked about this, this same concept, saying that what we need is a prioritization of proper affections.
We start with love for God, seeking His kingdom first, and all these things will be added unto you.
Loving the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and all your strength.
Then next we go to neighbor.
Okay, but which neighbor?
Because currently we have about 8 billion of them.
Well, we begin with our wives and our children and our parents.
We see in the scripture that if a man does not care for his family and even his extended family, his household, immediate family, and even extended family, then he is denied the faith, the Bible says, and is worse than an unbeliever.
So, we prioritize first our families, loving the Lord, then our wives, our children, our parents, extended family.
Beyond that, we move to the church.
And if there's anything left, if we have opportunity, as Galatians 6 9 through 10 says, then we can do good to others also.
Do good to all, so long as you have opportunity.
But especially, that is, prioritize the household of faith.
Can I be frank with you for just a second, right here at the end?
Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry, and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.
I cannot thank you enough.
However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it.
In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it.
Let's be honest.
I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID.
We have written checks that we simply cannot cash.
It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession.
We are living in a recession right now, regardless.
Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.
You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you.
But you could still help us tremendously.
I am asking you, please, if you're willing to do so, Take one minute of your time.
Leave us a five star review on your favorite podcast platform iTunes, Spotify, whatever that might be.
This is the way the system works.
We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.
We need to be strategic.
You leave us a five star review, and our podcast shows up for more people.
And the Word of God and courageous theology applied in practical ways to every realm of life gets out there.