God doesn't magically put money in your account. It comes from generous people. The church doesn't teach generosity. Jesus told you to give money to the poor, not a corporation. No storehouse, no tithe. Put your tithe in your own savings account and look for people in need. K-Love has 1 Billion hoarded away and still begs for money. It's gross. Stop giving them money.
There's a great meme that pops up from time to time of a rich man with a pile of cookies in front of him sitting with two other people. He says to the person with one cookie: "watch out, that man with no cookies wants your cookie."
Also, if we want to go for it, I look forward to your video on the Malthusian ideology that pervades much of the catastrophic climate change discussion and governmental policy at the moment as well and how Christians should reject that version of the ideology outright too.
Yea. That's a pretty compelling diagnosis of politics today. And one that I think is understandable even outside the very convicting context of God's abundance. Perceptions colored by fear have made us (church and country alike) both more timid and more reactionary. Scary. Wish this video were doing better :(
This is a tremendous video. Thanks very much to the Holy Post team for producing these. They provide a solid foundation for the beginning of a conversation that obviously needs to continue into deeper territory. Still, it's an excellent place to begin.
Asking whether or not we live in a world of scarcity or a world of abundance is as nonsensical as asking if we live in a world of water or a world of land. The answer is that it depends on your situation. It's true that immigrants crossing the southern border do not cause housing prices to increase. It's also true that stealing bread from a homeless person and telling him that it's okay because we live in a world of abundance is nonsensical and evil.
I think that most of the intended audience for this video lives in a "world of abundance." My husband got laid off from his tech job in May, so we're a 0-income household at the moment), but I still don't have any fantasy that somehow the people trying to get away from gang violence in another country or fleeing persecution due to their gender or whatever are in any way threatening to my financial well-being. I'll also say that I don't strictly believe that there's always "enough" where God is present. Good people starve, lack access to medical care, etc. But a lot of THAT is due to structures that prevent food and medicine from being adequately distributed among "the least of us." So it definitely seems like it's up to us to stop trying to hoard resources and do what's right by the folks who don't have access to the abundance we do.
It's also important to understand the concept of the velocity of money. If your church members own small businesses (not poverty wage slaves, but their own business), then when you give then $10, they give you a product and they can use that $10 to buy something from someone else. And now that $10 became $20. Taxes dimmish money to reduce that velocity. They first person gets $10, the next person gets $9, the next person gets $8.10, etc. When you give money to the rich, they put it in the bank and it goes nowhere, and in fact, takes more money out of the economy by way of interest. Interest is a tax paid to banks who distribute it to the people who hold the money. Hoarding wealth creates an economic vacuum. Spending wealth creates wealth.
@@jdtreharne it comes from other people. It's not magic free money. The stock market sucks absurd amounts of money out of the economy. That's how you get poverty wages. Even small companies love to brag about absurd profits and then tell employees there's no money for raises.
genuine question, a good friend who is also a holy post listener told me I should help the homeless man on my corner before my own children. I see that as going against proverbs so does this mean I am living in a scarcity model? I know Francis Chan used to say people saving for an emergency do they not think what's happening in Africa is an emergency, I hear that, and I also have five kids in a six hundred square foot Apt and love on food stamps, we donate to many organizations at least 10% and serve at a food pantry here in NYC serving migrants once a month... am I living in a scarcity model because I am not giving more. Should I listen to my friend and help the homeless first then our family. I just don't know to reconcile that with the Proverbs saying take care of your own household or you are worse than an unbeliever. What about my widowed MIL. A video like this feels really one sided and lacking nuance and just made me more confused. Or I truly have such a plank on my own eye that's why I am confued. I am open to that, I didn't grow up with a lot and don't have a lot now so I generally have a more scarcity view of finances. Would love to hear more nuance discussed on this topic
Thank you for sharing. That is a lot of heavy things. I'm so sorry you are facing all of that at once. Right now the BibleProject podcast is doing a re-release of their 4 part series on generosity. I absolutely recommend going to check that out. It may not give you all of the answers for your situation but I do think it will present you with a more nuanced take on this topic. Hard to do more than introduce the idea in a short video here.
I really like most of you guy's videos and I don't want to be a debbie downer, but it's easy to say that we live in a world of abundance when it's not your job at risk, your family you need to feed, your labor being exploited, your ingroup being targeted, your paycheck not "trickling down", etc.
If The final statement of the video "If God and his Kingdom are present, there is always enough" is true- (and Scripturally, it is indeed true) then maybe the view and rhetoric of scarcity is coming from the hearts and the minds of those of us in which the Kingdom of God is not present. Because if I claim to be a cup of orange juice, but I am pouring out apple juice, maybe, just maybe, I have been pouring in the wrong thing- and then mislabeling my contents.
the abundance isn't "magical." It first came from the tithe. Now we are not to be so focused on a particular percentage but we are called to be generous. Capitalists would rather hoard 10 diamonds and sell 1 for $10 than sell 10 diamonds for $1 each. That is the foundation of capitalism: artificial scarcity
The Canaanites were pushed to the area of modern-day Lebanon by the Israelites in the late 15th and during the 14th centuries BC. The remainder of the Canaanites from the lineage of Zidon became known as the Phoenicians by the Greeks and Carthagineans by the Romans. Some of the more famous Canaanites or Canaanite mixed people post the Book of Judges were Hiram I, Jezebel, Athaliah, Elissa/Dido, who is credited for founding Carthage, and Hannibal. Some of their impact can still be seen today. The Canaanite and Paleo Hebrew alephbet is responsible for us having our modern English alphabet today. According to Isaiah 23:17, it was prophecied that all nations would commit fornication with them, meaning they would learn their paganistic ways. Evidence of this can be seen with the practices of Christmas/Winter Solstice celebration, Easter/Ashtoreth celebration, and other pagan holidays, which traces back to the Canaanites. After the being defeated in the Punic Wars by the Romans, many of the Carthaginean Canaanites would have probably been enslaved and mixed in with the Japhetic populations of Rome and Italy. Also, according to Ron Dalton, Jr. the author of the book and creator of the movie that got Kyrie Irving in trouble, he claimed to find remnants of the Canaanite population living in central Africa as the pygmies. In all, a person needs to do his or her own research on this subject.
i feel very confused by this, because scarcity/abundance on a personal level feels different than on a societal level. They are of course related but there are a finite number of homes.... what are we supposed to do about that?
A video that challenges us to decide whether and how much we trust Jesus. The whole point is-do you trust Him to be good even if you don't like the consequences?
@acarter4865 true. The application, however, which is not stated in the video explicitly but is heavily implied, is that one should accept mass migration as part of rejecting "scarcity mindset." Mass migration causes a whole litany of issues, which are easy to ignore if you don't have to live with its consequences.
Harris = opportunity for everyone Trump = opportunity only to the few Harris clearly exemplifies this abundance mindset and Trump clearly exemplifies the scarcity mindset
@@StudioUAC since the majority of abortions have economic concerns as a motivating factor, having a better economy and affordable healthcare for the people at the bottom would largely take care of abortion as well.
We have become a #society [a #faith , a #church ] of people who cannot prevent our own #children from being #killed in their #classrooms-and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of #war. - Wendall Berry (Poet, novelist, farmer, and environmentalist; in 2010 Barack Obama awarded him with the National Humanities Medal)
Trump complimented the McDonald’s worker who he says was “stingy” with the fries. Was he wrong and should’ve told her to give a bunch away? Just trying to understand holy post economics…
I don't think this one hit for me. On a meta-level yes, I know God will provide, He has and will. On an every-day level, our family is slipping economically from middle class to lower middle class. There is deep sadness/mourning within myself and my entire millennial generation as we watch our futures crumble. We cannot afford children. We cannot afford housing. We cannot pay off debt. We cannot save for retirement. We watch our government tax us relentlessly and spend it on endless war. I am grateful that the Lord provides us with the basics and I do not blame innocent, desperate people for the state of our country. Just saying "cultivate a generosity mindset" is a bit vague and seems tone-deaf to the reality of many families. I would love a video on how my generation can stay positive/grateful and accept that what the Lord has given us will be significantly different and objectively worse in many ways than previous generations.
My advice is check out Acts. Also I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but without faith it is impossible to please God. I wish I could fix it for you because my own sons are struggling with the same. But it's not just the young it's also the older generations. Reagan might have said all the right things but he set in motion all kinds of monetary policy that were detrimental to our country and our economy. And he wasn't the only one. I agree we should not be funding Wars. We should be taxing the rich, instead of the poor and middle class. But despite what they'd have us believe we are not a Christian Nation. Otherwise we would be making sure everyone has enough
I am trying to hear you, but it is a fact that being “low middle-class” or even poor in this country means you are wealthy beyond compare in most of the rest of the world
Did we ever consider that the Lord has led them to our country as the land of abundance? And we are the ones blocking the abundance, with our self-righteous attitudes.
No. There are legal and safe avenues they can take. The route of illegal immigration allows for criminals to come in and hurts the innocents who are told it's the easy way in by American politicians.
Disclaimer: I am voting for neither for POTUS. I agree with this video. But there are a couple of problems here. The first is that Trump or JD Vance aren't against immigrants. Both of their wives are immigrants (my wife and my mother are immigrants). They are against illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is illegal, and unwise. Americans , by and large, are for immigration. They want it done in an orderly and safe way. Secondly, the separation of children from their parents was established by Obama, not Trump (who does your fact checking?). Trump started the policy of separating illegal immigrant children from the parents. Fun fact, what president has deported more illegal immigrants than any other president? Obama. Good video Phil, please stop tainting it with politics.
I appreciate your perspective, although I believe your view of Trump/Vance immigration policy isn't accurate. Yes, they start with illegal immigration, but they also are against legal immigration from poor countries. They seem to be in support of immigration from Europe and parts of Asia, but they have clearly stated limiting or eliminating immigration from Central and South America, Africa, and Muslim parts of Asia. There's plenty of videos of Trump, as well as many of his top staff, explicitly stating this. The Haitian community in Ohio is a perfect example. They call them illegals, even though the vast majority of them are on refugee visas. Vance even acknowledged this in the debate by trying to argue the Haitian people should be considered illegal in spite of their refugee status.
You're wrong about that. Trump and Vance love their personal immigrants but they do not like the kind who come from south of where we live, whether they're documented or not. I think there are many ways the immigration system could be improved, and the first step is more money to hire more staff to process applications so people *can* do this "the right way." Not money for militia to treat our border like it's a war zone. Trained, compassionate, professional staff to do what is required of us by our laws. However, while we definitely had the "kids in cages" thing with the Obama admin, 1) he's not running this time, and 2) "Obama separated kids from their parents" has been debunked. He did house unaccompanied kids in those makeshift "cages," which... no. It's wrong. But he didn't implement a policy to intentionally separate families. I'd post links to the numerous places that this idea is debunked, but they're not hard to find. I'm not defending Obama; historic as his Presidency was, he was not much different than his Bush predecessor, so meh. War crimes and stuff.
That's not accurate about only being against illegal immigration. Trump has admitted that the migrants in Ohio that he accused are here legally, but he says he wants to deport them anyway. He has said he has no problem with immigrants from "better" countries, which I can't read as anything other than racist. And I think what you're missing about family separation is that when they were separated under Obama, they collected enough information to reunite them. There are people separated from their children under Trump who still don't know where their children are.
The problem is that when Trump was in office NOTHING was done to make legal immigration more accessible . . . The line under the current system is like 10 years long . . . And while we're on the topic, Trump's comments regarding immigrants -- including those here legally -- Haitian migrants -- are definitely disconcerting. Also, though Obama may have started it on a limited basis, Trump exploited it . . . Every administration has some sh*t, but to use that as an excuse for one to come along and drain the manure pit and dump tons of sh*t is hardly justified. And I'm sorry but we live in a POLITICAL world . . . The Christians clamoring for a Trump's return to the "throne" would tell you the same thing . . . So it can also be appropriate for Christians to push back politically . . . It's been done since the earliest disciples declared Jesus IS Lord and not Caesar is Lord.
I'm sorry. I wish people realized they could be in your position at any moment and vote accordingly. We will never be a Christian Nation until we take care of the least of these our brothers🙏🏼
It doesn't work in a secular framework. Which is tied to the podcast's discussion of the rising popularity of "cultural Christianity", including by some prominent atheists. We have always enough because of God. God gives you enough, even if it's not enough. Yes, a tautology. And that works for people who believe that (whether metaphysically or psychosomatically). Which sounds like I'm criticizing that faith. But I'm not. There will always be challenges and failure and death. This world is fallen! Crushing medical debt, yes. Speared and crucified for that debt? Thankfully, no. This video is about faith. Not that your circumstances will get better if you do this one weird trick, but that God can and will get you through the bad times (even if you die in the process 😢😅). Edit: all that said, that sucks. And it is a travesty. And we can do better as a country and a people, because we do have the ability.
While I think this is on the nose for Christ followers (we should be people of abundance, no question), I think it unfortunately strawman's much of the argument on immigration in our country at the moment. I am personally not comfortable with the flippancy and impacts of words used by Trump with regards to illegal immigrants. That said, the US government is not God's people or the nation of Israel. The US government is not promised God's unlimited resources, God's people are. Governments (including ours) are instituted by God "to promote justice, maintain order, and protect the wellbeing of a given society." If non-US citizens are allowed to enter at massive numbers and then kept in the shadows of society, exploited for low wages, and unable to fully participate as a part of the citizenry, is that just? (Ask those living in constant fear of deportation or have zero rights protections in the workplace due to their immigration status) Is it just and "promoting wellbeing" to lay the social and economic burden of a rapid influx of people with nothing but the clothes on their back at the feet of communities within our country that are already struggling and marginalized? (Just ask Southside Chicago vs. Martha's Vineyard residents) Is it just to allow for immigration practices which actually incentivize child trafficking or the breaking of laws of the instituted government (both US and Mexican laws by drug cartels which control nearly the entire US Mexico border and are oppressing others and enriching themselves through illegal immigration)? IMO, an immigration policy focused on abundance would allow for large numbers of legal immigrants who can enter the country in an ordered and legal manner and immediately provide full citizenship, and the privileges, rights protections, and responsibilities of any other US citizen. It would be very strict on illegal entry for the sake of order and justice to be planned and intentional for those entering legally. It would allow people to knock and walk in the front door without concern that they are a second-class citizen with demonstrably less rights than others. To get to this place would actually take a part of the political left and right's concerns and approaches to immigration. There are actually a number of Trump's policies that could help us significantly in getting there. There are a number of policies from Democrats that are also helpful in this regard. To paint Trump and the political right as entirely evil in this regard is actually doing damage to the end goal that so many of us desire to see and provide fuel for greater polarization and scapegoating to happen. Do Trump and the right have a lot that needs to be kept in check? Absolutely! Does Harris and the political left as well? Better believe it. “Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils." G.K. Chesterton
We need to stop trying to be the greatest nation on Earth and just be a country like any other. Then we might stop bleeding ourselves dry to prove we have more than enough blood to go around.
@@gkoymnbxykfb I agree with you, but so long as there is a clear division rather than a melding of people, one side will always feel they are being taken advantage of.
But if we stop someone else will be better than us and since we abuse everyone else while we’re on top we assume everyone else will do the same to us. We’d rather be the abuser than be the abused, the crucifier than the crucified. Jesus calls us to be different, but… it’s not easy overcoming what the world teaches.
Scarcity in an economic sense exists in every economic system. Capitalism is the only one that has reliably figured out how to reduce it. The others just distribute it.
Amen. Our pastor says, “If it’s God’s will, it’s God’s bill.” Don’t struggle over a piece of the pie. God can always bake more pies.
"If it’s God’s will, it’s God’s bill."
My favorite all time quote
is the next line:
‘Don’t struggle a piece of the pie.
God can always bake more pies.’
It’s almost a parable.
God doesn't magically put money in your account. It comes from generous people. The church doesn't teach generosity. Jesus told you to give money to the poor, not a corporation. No storehouse, no tithe. Put your tithe in your own savings account and look for people in need. K-Love has 1 Billion hoarded away and still begs for money. It's gross. Stop giving them money.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Well said. Amen
“I came that they may have life and life abundantly.”
John 10:11
This ties in really well with the current BibleProject podcast series on generosity.
I had the exact same thought!
And modern Israel's belief that they can't exist if Palestine exists. Poverty mindset driving genocide.
Turn this video on me my wife said, “Why you watching Veggie Tales?’ Great video.
Thank you for this compassionate take. Hope a lot of people hear it and really listen. I'm sure your Twitter mentions will spike. :D
Good sarcastic response!
There's a great meme that pops up from time to time of a rich man with a pile of cookies in front of him sitting with two other people. He says to the person with one cookie: "watch out, that man with no cookies wants your cookie."
You can't get rich by hoarding cookies
@@jdtreharne thanks, Jethro
Antisemitic trope much?
Yeah, Phil throwing down his own October surprise! There are many who are struggling but the answer is to look to the Father, never to hate others.
The answer is to ensure businesses cannot pay poverty wages and that the church is generous to the poor.
@bkucenski you are the church, supposedly.
@@mikelynn8977 yes. Give your money to the poor, not a corporation
Wow! Everyone on Earth from Buenos Aires to Timbuktu needs this message. There is enough for all of us.
Yes, it's faith vs. fear.
We always see abundance! That's like, Sunday school 101.
Thank you 🙏 for the message, American 🇺🇸 is a great and beautiful nation.
Also, if we want to go for it, I look forward to your video on the Malthusian ideology that pervades much of the catastrophic climate change discussion and governmental policy at the moment as well and how Christians should reject that version of the ideology outright too.
Phil, thank you so much! I have shared so many of your videos; they are so on point.
Yea. That's a pretty compelling diagnosis of politics today. And one that I think is understandable even outside the very convicting context of God's abundance.
Perceptions colored by fear have made us (church and country alike) both more timid and more reactionary. Scary.
Wish this video were doing better :(
Amen! In present day we need more voice like this. Thank you and may God, our LORD, bless you and your mission!
Geez I really needed to hear this today. Thank y’all for the good work you do 🙏
This is a tremendous video. Thanks very much to the Holy Post team for producing these. They provide a solid foundation for the beginning of a conversation that obviously needs to continue into deeper territory. Still, it's an excellent place to begin.
Asking whether or not we live in a world of scarcity or a world of abundance is as nonsensical as asking if we live in a world of water or a world of land. The answer is that it depends on your situation.
It's true that immigrants crossing the southern border do not cause housing prices to increase. It's also true that stealing bread from a homeless person and telling him that it's okay because we live in a world of abundance is nonsensical and evil.
I think that most of the intended audience for this video lives in a "world of abundance." My husband got laid off from his tech job in May, so we're a 0-income household at the moment), but I still don't have any fantasy that somehow the people trying to get away from gang violence in another country or fleeing persecution due to their gender or whatever are in any way threatening to my financial well-being.
I'll also say that I don't strictly believe that there's always "enough" where God is present. Good people starve, lack access to medical care, etc. But a lot of THAT is due to structures that prevent food and medicine from being adequately distributed among "the least of us." So it definitely seems like it's up to us to stop trying to hoard resources and do what's right by the folks who don't have access to the abundance we do.
Thank you Phil…awesome job!
Thank you!
Amen Phil, amen.
Love this. I need to share.
Awesome take 💯
AMEN!!
It's also important to understand the concept of the velocity of money. If your church members own small businesses (not poverty wage slaves, but their own business), then when you give then $10, they give you a product and they can use that $10 to buy something from someone else. And now that $10 became $20. Taxes dimmish money to reduce that velocity. They first person gets $10, the next person gets $9, the next person gets $8.10, etc.
When you give money to the rich, they put it in the bank and it goes nowhere, and in fact, takes more money out of the economy by way of interest. Interest is a tax paid to banks who distribute it to the people who hold the money. Hoarding wealth creates an economic vacuum. Spending wealth creates wealth.
That's not what happens when you put money into the bank. Money in the bank gets reinvested. Where do you think the interest comes from?
@@jdtreharne it comes from other people. It's not magic free money. The stock market sucks absurd amounts of money out of the economy. That's how you get poverty wages.
Even small companies love to brag about absurd profits and then tell employees there's no money for raises.
Exactly. My savings (not just the rich) is someone else’s capital to start the businesses he’s referring to
Amen amen. Preach! Thank u Phil.
Actually in 1 Corth Paul rebuked leaders because in their love feasts, some people came early& pigged out got drunk, when poor came they were hungry.
genuine question, a good friend who is also a holy post listener told me I should help the homeless man on my corner before my own children. I see that as going against proverbs so does this mean I am living in a scarcity model? I know Francis Chan used to say people saving for an emergency do they not think what's happening in Africa is an emergency, I hear that, and I also have five kids in a six hundred square foot Apt and love on food stamps, we donate to many organizations at least 10% and serve at a food pantry here in NYC serving migrants once a month... am I living in a scarcity model because I am not giving more. Should I listen to my friend and help the homeless first then our family. I just don't know to reconcile that with the Proverbs saying take care of your own household or you are worse than an unbeliever. What about my widowed MIL. A video like this feels really one sided and lacking nuance and just made me more confused. Or I truly have such a plank on my own eye that's why I am confued. I am open to that, I didn't grow up with a lot and don't have a lot now so I generally have a more scarcity view of finances. Would love to hear more nuance discussed on this topic
Thank you for sharing. That is a lot of heavy things. I'm so sorry you are facing all of that at once. Right now the BibleProject podcast is doing a re-release of their 4 part series on generosity. I absolutely recommend going to check that out. It may not give you all of the answers for your situation but I do think it will present you with a more nuanced take on this topic. Hard to do more than introduce the idea in a short video here.
I really like most of you guy's videos and I don't want to be a debbie downer, but it's easy to say that we live in a world of abundance when it's not your job at risk, your family you need to feed, your labor being exploited, your ingroup being targeted, your paycheck not "trickling down", etc.
If The final statement of the video "If God and his Kingdom are present, there is always enough" is true- (and Scripturally, it is indeed true) then maybe the view and rhetoric of scarcity is coming from the hearts and the minds of those of us in which the Kingdom of God is not present.
Because if I claim to be a cup of orange juice, but I am pouring out apple juice, maybe, just maybe, I have been pouring in the wrong thing- and then mislabeling my contents.
Leave it to a billionaire to say there isn't enough
the abundance isn't "magical." It first came from the tithe. Now we are not to be so focused on a particular percentage but we are called to be generous. Capitalists would rather hoard 10 diamonds and sell 1 for $10 than sell 10 diamonds for $1 each. That is the foundation of capitalism: artificial scarcity
The price of diamonds has been cut in half on the last 5 years because of capitalism
👏🏾❤️👏🏾❤️
Well said, Phil. Our land is blessed. We have plenty to go around. More immigration will only make our country stronger.
What ever happened to the Canaanites?
The Canaanites were pushed to the area of modern-day Lebanon by the Israelites in the late 15th and during the 14th centuries BC. The remainder of the Canaanites from the lineage of Zidon became known as the Phoenicians by the Greeks and Carthagineans by the Romans. Some of the more famous Canaanites or Canaanite mixed people post the Book of Judges were Hiram I, Jezebel, Athaliah, Elissa/Dido, who is credited for founding Carthage, and Hannibal.
Some of their impact can still be seen today. The Canaanite and Paleo Hebrew alephbet is responsible for us having our modern English alphabet today. According to Isaiah 23:17, it was prophecied that all nations would commit fornication with them, meaning they would learn their paganistic ways. Evidence of this can be seen with the practices of Christmas/Winter Solstice celebration, Easter/Ashtoreth celebration, and other pagan holidays, which traces back to the Canaanites.
After the being defeated in the Punic Wars by the Romans, many of the Carthaginean Canaanites would have probably been enslaved and mixed in with the Japhetic populations of Rome and Italy. Also, according to Ron Dalton, Jr. the author of the book and creator of the movie that got Kyrie Irving in trouble, he claimed to find remnants of the Canaanite population living in central Africa as the pygmies. In all, a person needs to do his or her own research on this subject.
Then why are there all these needy people that can’t afford groceries?
Because rich people's rights to become even richer is more important than making sure that basic needs are provided or even affordable.
That creates scarcity. Don’t believe the people that say everything is ok with the economy. It’s a lie.
Corporate Greed
Government neglect😃
It’s scarce if you’re poor.
Is it just me or do you keep equaling abundance to enough?
It would seem to me that abundance is way more than enough
Overflow even
What does scarcity/abundance mentality have to do with illegal immigration?
Some people say that we don't have enough housing in the US because of immigrants
i feel very confused by this, because scarcity/abundance on a personal level feels different than on a societal level. They are of course related but there are a finite number of homes.... what are we supposed to do about that?
@@deidredonovan3864 there's not really a finite number of homes because we can and do build more.
@@jdtreharnesure, but how do we pay for them?
@@deidredonovan3864money
Sounds like today.
At my church, we do a little creed: We denounce the myth of scarcity and embrace the abundance of God. Nice to know what that really means.
Seems like a very nice video made by someone who never has to live with its consequences.
I agree. Does he just ignore the fact that Trump is focused on the gangs that have come over illegally?
@@narwhalking2788 just wait until you find out how much crime legal citizens commit.
A video that challenges us to decide whether and how much we trust Jesus. The whole point is-do you trust Him to be good even if you don't like the consequences?
@acarter4865 true. The application, however, which is not stated in the video explicitly but is heavily implied, is that one should accept mass migration as part of rejecting "scarcity mindset." Mass migration causes a whole litany of issues, which are easy to ignore if you don't have to live with its consequences.
Tob the Bomato
Harris = opportunity for everyone
Trump = opportunity only to the few
Harris clearly exemplifies this abundance mindset and Trump clearly exemplifies the scarcity mindset
harris is going to make abortion legal again.
@@StudioUAC since the majority of abortions have economic concerns as a motivating factor, having a better economy and affordable healthcare for the people at the bottom would largely take care of abortion as well.
Harris lies through her teeth about her views. There was a quite by Bernie Sanders that she's really trying to get the votes.
Then why is she planning on raising taxes?
I don’t want opportunity. I want wealth
We have become a #society [a #faith , a #church ] of people who cannot prevent our own #children from being #killed in their #classrooms-and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of #war.
- Wendall Berry (Poet, novelist, farmer, and environmentalist; in 2010 Barack Obama awarded him with the National Humanities Medal)
Awesome and Amen!
You should separate these videos from you podcast, it helps with the algorithm
Trump complimented the McDonald’s worker who he says was “stingy” with the fries. Was he wrong and should’ve told her to give a bunch away?
Just trying to understand holy post economics…
I would say who my Lord and Savior really is but if I did, I would be kicked off this channel faster than a Kamala rally for speaking the Nane
I don't think this one hit for me. On a meta-level yes, I know God will provide, He has and will. On an every-day level, our family is slipping economically from middle class to lower middle class. There is deep sadness/mourning within myself and my entire millennial generation as we watch our futures crumble. We cannot afford children. We cannot afford housing. We cannot pay off debt. We cannot save for retirement. We watch our government tax us relentlessly and spend it on endless war.
I am grateful that the Lord provides us with the basics and I do not blame innocent, desperate people for the state of our country. Just saying "cultivate a generosity mindset" is a bit vague and seems tone-deaf to the reality of many families. I would love a video on how my generation can stay positive/grateful and accept that what the Lord has given us will be significantly different and objectively worse in many ways than previous generations.
My advice is check out Acts.
Also I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but without faith it is impossible to please God.
I wish I could fix it for you because my own sons are struggling with the same. But it's not just the young it's also the older generations. Reagan might have said all the right things but he set in motion all kinds of monetary policy that were detrimental to our country and our economy. And he wasn't the only one. I agree we should not be funding Wars. We should be taxing the rich, instead of the poor and middle class. But despite what they'd have us believe we are not a Christian Nation. Otherwise we would be making sure everyone has enough
I am trying to hear you, but it is a fact that being “low middle-class” or even poor in this country means you are wealthy beyond compare in most of the rest of the world
There is enough to go around. We just need to make sure it does go around.
Did we ever consider that the Lord has led them to our country as the land of abundance?
And we are the ones blocking the abundance, with our self-righteous attitudes.
No. There are legal and safe avenues they can take. The route of illegal immigration allows for criminals to come in and hurts the innocents who are told it's the easy way in by American politicians.
Disclaimer: I am voting for neither for POTUS. I agree with this video. But there are a couple of problems here. The first is that Trump or JD Vance aren't against immigrants. Both of their wives are immigrants (my wife and my mother are immigrants). They are against illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is illegal, and unwise. Americans , by and large, are for immigration. They want it done in an orderly and safe way. Secondly, the separation of children from their parents was established by Obama, not Trump (who does your fact checking?). Trump started the policy of separating illegal immigrant children from the parents. Fun fact, what president has deported more illegal immigrants than any other president? Obama. Good video Phil, please stop tainting it with politics.
I appreciate your perspective, although I believe your view of Trump/Vance immigration policy isn't accurate. Yes, they start with illegal immigration, but they also are against legal immigration from poor countries. They seem to be in support of immigration from Europe and parts of Asia, but they have clearly stated limiting or eliminating immigration from Central and South America, Africa, and Muslim parts of Asia. There's plenty of videos of Trump, as well as many of his top staff, explicitly stating this. The Haitian community in Ohio is a perfect example. They call them illegals, even though the vast majority of them are on refugee visas. Vance even acknowledged this in the debate by trying to argue the Haitian people should be considered illegal in spite of their refugee status.
This is a great comment. Phil seems to have some very dishonest takes about Trump, while seemingly gly shielding Kamala from legitimate criticism.
You're wrong about that. Trump and Vance love their personal immigrants but they do not like the kind who come from south of where we live, whether they're documented or not.
I think there are many ways the immigration system could be improved, and the first step is more money to hire more staff to process applications so people *can* do this "the right way." Not money for militia to treat our border like it's a war zone. Trained, compassionate, professional staff to do what is required of us by our laws.
However, while we definitely had the "kids in cages" thing with the Obama admin, 1) he's not running this time, and 2) "Obama separated kids from their parents" has been debunked. He did house unaccompanied kids in those makeshift "cages," which... no. It's wrong. But he didn't implement a policy to intentionally separate families. I'd post links to the numerous places that this idea is debunked, but they're not hard to find.
I'm not defending Obama; historic as his Presidency was, he was not much different than his Bush predecessor, so meh. War crimes and stuff.
That's not accurate about only being against illegal immigration. Trump has admitted that the migrants in Ohio that he accused are here legally, but he says he wants to deport them anyway. He has said he has no problem with immigrants from "better" countries, which I can't read as anything other than racist.
And I think what you're missing about family separation is that when they were separated under Obama, they collected enough information to reunite them. There are people separated from their children under Trump who still don't know where their children are.
The problem is that when Trump was in office NOTHING was done to make legal immigration more accessible . . . The line under the current system is like 10 years long . . . And while we're on the topic, Trump's comments regarding immigrants -- including those here legally -- Haitian migrants -- are definitely disconcerting. Also, though Obama may have started it on a limited basis, Trump exploited it . . . Every administration has some sh*t, but to use that as an excuse for one to come along and drain the manure pit and dump tons of sh*t is hardly justified. And I'm sorry but we live in a POLITICAL world . . . The Christians clamoring for a Trump's return to the "throne" would tell you the same thing . . . So it can also be appropriate for Christians to push back politically . . . It's been done since the earliest disciples declared Jesus IS Lord and not Caesar is Lord.
Vegetated tales. He starts well and then dives off into leftist talking points with no basis in reality. Very disappointing.
"Always enough." When you have yours. Pretty convenient when you don't have medical bills crushing you. Maybe that money will trickle down any second.
I'm sorry. I wish people realized they could be in your position at any moment and vote accordingly. We will never be a Christian Nation until we take care of the least of these our brothers🙏🏼
It doesn't work in a secular framework. Which is tied to the podcast's discussion of the rising popularity of "cultural Christianity", including by some prominent atheists.
We have always enough because of God. God gives you enough, even if it's not enough. Yes, a tautology. And that works for people who believe that (whether metaphysically or psychosomatically). Which sounds like I'm criticizing that faith. But I'm not.
There will always be challenges and failure and death. This world is fallen! Crushing medical debt, yes. Speared and crucified for that debt? Thankfully, no.
This video is about faith. Not that your circumstances will get better if you do this one weird trick, but that God can and will get you through the bad times (even if you die in the process 😢😅).
Edit: all that said, that sucks. And it is a travesty. And we can do better as a country and a people, because we do have the ability.
Maybe next time you are talking to someone who's son is hospitalized in a different country, you can lead with "That sucks."
Thank you. My family in Romania is going threw it. All prayer is cherished.
Actually - I assume Phil and his family have some really big bills with his wife's recent medical issues.
While I think this is on the nose for Christ followers (we should be people of abundance, no question), I think it unfortunately strawman's much of the argument on immigration in our country at the moment. I am personally not comfortable with the flippancy and impacts of words used by Trump with regards to illegal immigrants. That said, the US government is not God's people or the nation of Israel. The US government is not promised God's unlimited resources, God's people are.
Governments (including ours) are instituted by God "to promote justice, maintain order, and protect the wellbeing of a given society."
If non-US citizens are allowed to enter at massive numbers and then kept in the shadows of society, exploited for low wages, and unable to fully participate as a part of the citizenry, is that just? (Ask those living in constant fear of deportation or have zero rights protections in the workplace due to their immigration status)
Is it just and "promoting wellbeing" to lay the social and economic burden of a rapid influx of people with nothing but the clothes on their back at the feet of communities within our country that are already struggling and marginalized? (Just ask Southside Chicago vs. Martha's Vineyard residents)
Is it just to allow for immigration practices which actually incentivize child trafficking or the breaking of laws of the instituted government (both US and Mexican laws by drug cartels which control nearly the entire US Mexico border and are oppressing others and enriching themselves through illegal immigration)?
IMO, an immigration policy focused on abundance would allow for large numbers of legal immigrants who can enter the country in an ordered and legal manner and immediately provide full citizenship, and the privileges, rights protections, and responsibilities of any other US citizen. It would be very strict on illegal entry for the sake of order and justice to be planned and intentional for those entering legally. It would allow people to knock and walk in the front door without concern that they are a second-class citizen with demonstrably less rights than others.
To get to this place would actually take a part of the political left and right's concerns and approaches to immigration. There are actually a number of Trump's policies that could help us significantly in getting there. There are a number of policies from Democrats that are also helpful in this regard. To paint Trump and the political right as entirely evil in this regard is actually doing damage to the end goal that so many of us desire to see and provide fuel for greater polarization and scapegoating to happen.
Do Trump and the right have a lot that needs to be kept in check? Absolutely! Does Harris and the political left as well? Better believe it.
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils." G.K. Chesterton
We need to stop trying to be the greatest nation on Earth and just be a country like any other. Then we might stop bleeding ourselves dry to prove we have more than enough blood to go around.
huh?
@@hiimgerbert4469 I need more to go on if I am to clarify.
Or adopt a different mindset. A good nation cares for all of its people. A truly great nation also cares for the foreigner.
@@gkoymnbxykfb I agree with you, but so long as there is a clear division rather than a melding of people, one side will always feel they are being taken advantage of.
But if we stop someone else will be better than us and since we abuse everyone else while we’re on top we assume everyone else will do the same to us.
We’d rather be the abuser than be the abused, the crucifier than the crucified.
Jesus calls us to be different, but… it’s not easy overcoming what the world teaches.
Capitalism generates this misconception
of ‘scarcity.’
Capitalism doesn't bring that. Quite the contrary.
The first rule of economics is scarcity. The first rule of politics is to disregard the first rule of economics. -Thomas Sowell
Scarcity in an economic sense exists in every economic system. Capitalism is the only one that has reliably figured out how to reduce it. The others just distribute it.
Thank you❤