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How much do you think YouTube 
has paid me for 85 million views

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over 7 years? 
Well, I can guarantee one thing 

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to you. 
I promise you that when I reveal

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this number behind this piece of
paper, none of you were 

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expecting it. 
Are you ready for it? 

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Let's find out. 
It just before I reveal the 

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answer, there is one thing I'd 
really appreciate. 

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It'll take you ten seconds. 
I have a terrible fear. 

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That one day, I will wake up and
my YouTube channel be deleted 

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and I will no longer be able to 
preach the gospel. 

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And after all these years, after
the friendships that you and I 

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have built up and I have no way 
of being able to stay in touch 

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and contact you. 
Sir, please. 

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Would you just take one moment 
to go across to off the curb 

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.co.uk and please sign up. 
Up to our newsletter there. 

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So we've got a way of staying in
touch and also I think you'll 

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find some of the newsletters 
encouraging and Emma. 

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And I have got a very big 
announcement on the next 

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newsletter that's coming up. 
Okay, without further ado, 19 

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lbs and 87 P. 
Yes, you heard correctly, the 

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amount of money. 
I've earned over seven years on,

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YouTube, would amount to $15, 
but why? 

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So little, well, let me tell you
right now. 2018 was the hardest 

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year for me and my family 
financially and even though I 

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wasn't getting a whole lot of 
you. 

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So I thought why not? 
Just put YouTube ads on our 

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maybe that can help provide a 
bit of an Income. 

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So, I did, and after two or 
three days, I felt really 

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convicted. 
You know, when the Lord presses,

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a particular conviction upon you
and you know that you shouldn't 

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be doing this. 
Well, that's exactly how I felt.

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So I remove the ads and I didn't
even cash the 19 pounds and 87 

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P. 
But why did I feel an unrest in 

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my spirit about putting adverts 
in front of my YouTube channel? 

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I'm going to give you some 
reasons why I personally saw, it

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is wrong for me. 
But first I really do need to 

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make something Abundantly clear,
I am not judging any other 

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Christian YouTuber, who puts ads
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And I want to apologize if I've 
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please forgive me because we're 
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We all have the same goal to 
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God. 
And I was actually talking to a 

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rather wise Christian brother 
who also has a Christian 

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Channel, and he gets a heap of 
use and he said to me, Joe with 

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the numbers you're getting, 
you'd be looking at about fifty 

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thousand dollars. 
A single month from your YouTube

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videos and he said, Joe, you 
could choose that money to feed 

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the poor. 
You could use that money to 

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invest into your church. 
Your church could do with 50,000

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dollars to then put back into 
other Ministries, Joe. 

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You could use that money to 
extend your ministry to free, 

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you up to have more time with 
your family. 

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So you're not always working 
behind a computer and so that 

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you have more chance to reach 
others with the gospel. 

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And that brother was right. 
Those are all wonderful, 

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legitimate reasons to put 
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Front of your videos. 
But personally, I can't do it 

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because back in the day, I made 
a decision before the Lord, when

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no one was watching my videos. 
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there's a temptation to make 
money, if you, like, I want to 

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stand by what I decided before 
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And here are the reasons. 
Why the first reason is this? 

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Every time I start to consider, 
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front of my videos? 
God, sorts of sends a sign, can 

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I use that word? 
He sends a side to sort of Vic 

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me and say no, Joe stick with 
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Warren ways, be used to say, I 
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my Ministry but God is 
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my Ministry. 
And that really showed me come 

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on child. 
Keep your eyes on the Lord and 

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let him be in charge of it all. 
Because after all he is the boss

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over everything. 
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you have very little control 
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You put in front of your YouTube
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For instance, many times I've 
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YouTuber. 
I've been excited to hear 

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biblical content and then all of
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false religion. 
Were in front of me, is a cult 

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saying signups one of our Bible 
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And if I didn't know the word of
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rather enticing. 
Yeah, maybe I will sign up for 

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one of these free Bible studies 
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I've also seen women, very 
attractive, women who are trying

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to sell me a body razor. 
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honestly right in the face, I've
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When I've seen those adverts 
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way to you guys. 
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many of The Godly man that you 
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out would allow a random 
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religion or a false Court to 
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sermon and say con you can do a 
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I think every single one of them
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doing? 
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of God. 
This has nothing to do with it. 

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This has no relevance. 
The Bible. 

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And if we wouldn't stand for it 
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ask? 
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On our YouTube videos? 
I appreciate this is YouTube's 

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house. 
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They make up the rules but for 
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a choice in this and so that's 
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And also another thought that 
haunts me is this supposing, one

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of my subscribers. 
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He gets a notification on his 
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So it's one of Joe Kirby's 
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He's excited to hear about Jesus
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a woman who's not dressed well 
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And then he thinks, you know 
what, I just check out that 

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unclean website for a moment and
he's LED off to sin, that 

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terrifies me that thought. 
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reason why I don't put ads in 
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The Bible says, but whoever 
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who believe in me to sin, it 
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Millstone were hung around his 
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depth of the sea woe to the 
world because of offenses for 

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offenses, must come. 
But woe to that man by whom the 

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offense comes'. 
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their problem. 
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guard their eyes, but the Bible.
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the one who causes this woe to 
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this sin comes to look when I 
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watch videos on YouTube. 
There are times when I have to 

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take my hand and cover his eyes 
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children's him be careful little
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What you see? 
So if I would do that for my own

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son, I feel a responsibility to 
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daughter's, because the eyes of 
our children are so precious and

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all around the world. 
They're bombarded with these 

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wicked things, but I don't want 
that to be on a Christian 

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Channel, where I'm trying To 
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reason is because our message is
free we stand before. 

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God condemned dirty, unrighteous
was so full of sin and there is 

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nothing we can do to earn our 
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rich in Mercy because God is 
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He pours out this free gift of 
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God all the way before, the 
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laid. 
God in his mind in a Petit had 

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planned that a lamb would be 
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Christ and Christ on the cross, 
gave himself freely for us 

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Christ on the cross. 
His blood freely washes away, 

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all of our sins Christ on the 
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he'll come, he will give them 
his righteousness as a gift for 

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free and eternal life. 
The Resurrection, The Power of 

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the Resurrection, all this life,
all this hope. 

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All this forgiveness is totally 
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Why the Bible says for God. 
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his only begotten son, that 
whosoever believes in him, shall

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not perish but have eternal. 
Life is a gift friends and if 

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all of this has been given to us
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Well with My Soul that I would 
then get some kind of monetary 

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gain from Google to preach, a 
free message but I know exactly 

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what some of you are thinking, 
you're saying, Joe doesn't the 

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scripture say do not. 
Not muzzle an ox while it's 

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treading. 
The Grain. 

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And isn't it also say a worker 
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A worker should get a wage. 
You're totally right, the Bible 

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does say that. 
But my understanding, when I 

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read those verses is this, I 
think it's Paul talking to the 

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local church. 
Encouraging them saying you as 

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the church, you need to fund 
this work. 

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I don't see. 
And I could be wrong about this,

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but I don't see anywhere in the 
scripture where a non-Christian 

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sponsors a Believer to do. 
Spool work. 

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They may pay them to do tent 
making but nowhere. 

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Do you see them saying here here
is some money and you go out and

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preach the gospel. 
No, I believe that it is always 

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all the way through the Bible. 
It is always the church is 

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always the Widow's Mite, which 
funds Ministry. 

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Okay, before I tell you, my 
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I do need to apologize to you 
all because some of you, you've 

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heard me talk about this over 
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But the reason for this is 
because a friend, gave me some 

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advice that I It was very 
helpful, he said, people might 

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get the wrong idea about you. 
If they see, you're always 

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talking about celebrities or 
they see you getting lots of 

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views on Jesus. 
They might think you're just in 

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it for the money. 
So every now and then you need 

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to make it clear what your 
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And that really your intention 
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So that's why I'm talking about 
this and I'm sorry if in any way

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it comes across super spiritual.
That was not my intention. 

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And my final reason for why I do
not put ads in front of my 

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videos, is because Just don't 
trust myself with that kind of 

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money for me to have six hundred
thousand dollars running through

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my fingers every year. 
I know myself, I know I'm a weak

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person spiritually, and I'm not 
mature enough to handle that. 

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A times as I've watched this 
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Certain envies jealousies 
thoughts of entered into my mind

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that I could never have foreseen
from this growth as happened on 

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YouTube. 
And I know if that money was in 

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my hands, it's probably Be safe 
or somewhere else. 

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So that's why I don't judge any 
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because I know there are men of 
God who have the right mindset 

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and the right way of handling 
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But for me at the moment, I know
I'm just not there yet but I 

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have one big announcement for 
you. 

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We've just recently launched 
another YouTube channel, a 

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shorts, Christian YouTube 
channel, and I would love it if 

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you would consider subscribing 
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So we can get it off the ground 
and we can reach more people 

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