I Don't Care - I Do What I Want!

I am a guy that loves to learn.

So I'm always watching documentaries, reading books, listening to books.

And the more I study things on people that are younger than I am, I'm noticing a phrase that comes up a lot and we need to talk about it.

And that phrase is, I don't care.

I do what I want.

Feeding my faith.

Well, God's word is.

Yeah, it's weird.

If you start watching documentaries, you will just walk around frightened about everything.

This was on Netflix.

It was called Inside the Manosphere by Lewis Thoreau.

And I have.

Well, I forget what I was watching or listening about women on Only Fans.

And again, this is where I heard this phrase, I don't care.

I do what I want.

So when I'm looking at these younger influencers, and when I say influencer, I mean, there's one guy we'll talk about a little later that has 866,000 people following him on TikTok.

Now, the little church that I attend here in Talmadge, Ohio, that would be like having 8,000, 660 of those churches, because it holds about a hundred people, just to give you an idea of that.

And so we're kind of living in a time where that phrase becomes almost a badge of honor, like, I don't care.

I do what I want.

It sounds like freedom, it sounds like confidence, but underneath it, there's something far more dangerous.

In some cases, it's a rejection of truth, of accountability, and ultimately a rejection of God.

In almost all cases, when I see people say that people are chasing fame, influence, and why are they chasing those two things?

Because it leads to money.

And Jesus had something to say about this.

In Mark 8:36, he goes, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul?

I mean, let's face it, you can stack up wealth and followers and influencer, you know, but if it costs you your soul, look, you've made a really bad trade here.

And yet this mindset thrives because it promises control.

I do what I want.

It sounds powerful, but it actually reveals.

And this sounds kind of weird, but if you think about it, slavery, it's a slave to desire, to impulse, many cases to greed.

Romans 6:16 reminds us that we are slaves to whatever we obey.

So when people chase money without morality, which is really what we're talking about a lot today, they're not free.

They are owned by what they pursue.

So Romans 6:16.

Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are Slaves of the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness.

So when you're doing something one more time for the money, who's the slave here?

What happens is your conscience becomes dull.

Truth, well, that's now kind of negotiable.

And right and wrong becomes, well, whatever benefits the moment and eventually even success will feel empty.

And we see this over and over and over where people keep going for a more extreme high, whether that's from money or influence or whatever.

And so young men are getting sucked into the manosphere.

And when I first started watching this documentary, I was like, well, that's not bad.

It's like, believe in yourself and you can do anything and work hard.

And I was like, well, that's what I was told by my grandparents, you know, but the hard work is all about the money.

And their success is measured in money and women.

And that is not what I was taught.

In fact, this was the part that I was like, oh, this is taking a bad turn.

Women are only valued by their appearance.

That's it.

And relationships are, are one sided.

Monogamy.

Now what?

Wait, what?

Yeah, so the guy can go run around as much as he wants.

The women have to be monogamous.

And you're like, well, why would anyone date somebody like that?

They date it for the fame.

Because they're going to be in his videos, which will then help them build up their channel, which can lead to more fame and more money.

Uh, but this whole, you know, one sided thing, it's celebrated like, look at me, I'm so cool, I can run around on women.

I'm so powerful.

There was one guy who goes by the name Sneako, and all these guys are in their 20s.

And he was banned from every platform.

So let's just stop and think about that.

He was banned from, from every platform.

But he was recently let back on to YouTube where he now has 2 million followers.

And in one clip, he promoted to just smack your woman, let her cry and then back into the kitchen.

He said that right into the camera.

Other influencers, I'm sure Sneako probably said this too.

Very anti Jewish people.

There's all sorts of hate speech.

And they promote themselves, these influencers, as if they have everything, right?

They got the money, they got the cars, they got the Lambo.

Right?

They got women.

And of course they always talk about they got the freedom to do whatever they want.

But see, the gospel offers a better way because true freedom is not doing whatever we want it's being transformed so that what we want aligns with what is good, what is true, and what is holy.

I mean, Jesus isn't calling us away from sin.

He calls us into a new life, a life where integrity matters more than income, where obedience matters more than opportunity, and where pleasing God matters more than pleasing ourselves.

So the question is not do I care?

The question is, what has my heart been shaped to care about?

Because whatever you care about will ultimately control you.

I mean, when I was growing up, my father minced no words.

I was to never, ever, under any circumstances, hit a woman.

And if I was going to get in a fight, it was because I had to defend myself.

My dad was some sort of Golden Glove boxer, and I remember him teaching me how to throw a punch and how to stand.

And at the time, I was like, six.

And I remember thinking, are you supposed to be showing me this?

But now, and this is just sad.

If you go onto Twitter or really any social.

Everybody is filming.

Everybody.

I saw this one video, and it's a bunch of junior high kids.

And these two kids start beating the snot out of each other.

And four people.

And I'm not making that up, four people picked up their phone and started filming.

And then the minute people know the camera is on, well, now they start swinging.

It seems like we have a bad habit of rewarding people with fame.

The worse they actually act.

There was a woman who was supposed to be on the Bachelor, and I don't remember the exact details, but she broke a pretty bad law.

And I was really surprised that ABC went, yeah, we're not going to put her on TV because we love to watch a train wreck.

And so we need to take our children and our grandchildren and let them know that they're not on YouTube.

And that doesn't fly in your house.

It's so weird.

When I was growing up, the most scary phrase I ever heard was, wait till your father gets home.

And I was like, oh, I might have told you the story.

I remember once, I was probably six or seven, and, man, I could win Oscars for tantrums.

And I'm going through all the motions and my mom is not flinching.

And I'm like, huh?

Usually by now, you know, I could really.

I mean, I would literally drive her out of the house.

She would go sit on the front bricks just to get away from me, and it was not affecting her at all.

And then she finally looked at me and said, hey, are you done?

And I go, yeah, I guess.

And she moved the Kleenex box.

And there was one of these new things called a cassette recorder.

And she recorded the whole thing and said, I'm going to play that for your father when he gets home.

My dad was a long distance truck driver.

But now it seems like the kids are in control of their parents and the parents are thinking that the school system is going to train them in the way we want them to be trained.

And that is not the case.

Which is, here's an oldie but a goodie.

Proverbs 13:24.

It states this old, Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

And I didn't get spanked a lot, but when I did, I didn't do whatever I did again.

And one of the worst things ever.

Now my dad didn't beat me, but he would pull off his belt and just the sight of that would make you wet your pants.

He really and honestly didn't really hit me that hard.

And he always hit me on my butt.

No big deal.

But again, it worked.

So when money becomes the master, people are no longer asking, hey, is this right?

They're asking, is this going to help me get ahead?

And that again, is not freedom.

You're totally focused on that status.

And the message is kind of simple.

If it makes you rich or famous or comfortable, well then you do it.

Morality becomes optional.

And your conscience, it's just this nuisance thing that keeps going on in your head.

And integrity, well, that's a luxury.

Who has integrity?

Jesus in Matthew 6, verse 24.

No one can serve two masters.

Either you're going to hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to one and despise the other.

You cannot serve both God and money.

And then before we go thinking that money is bad, it's not.

First Timothy 6:10.

For the love of money, sing it with me.

For the love of money.

You will like, you know, you got to sing it right?

Because as soon as you say that, you hear that, you know, mean green.

For the love of money is a root, is a root of all kinds of evil.

So not money, it's the greed, the love of money.

Some people eager for money have wandered from their faith and they've pierced themselves with many griefs.

And that whole sparing, you know, don't spare the child, watch out for the fear, you know, don't let money fool you.

The OJ said that best, right?

That requires long term thinking.

And I know people who have children who are completely out of control and they are not thinking long term.

I mean, you can go real long term and go, what's going to happen to this kid when they can't even wipe their own butt at the age of 12?

Now I'm making that up, but not by much like what's gonna happen when you die, because eventually you're gonna die.

And I see these different scenarios.

One is the shortcut.

Oh, it's not really that big a deal.

I'm just gonna do this thing, you know, things like, I don't know, cheating on your taxes.

And then the other thing is the applause.

Boy, more than money, they want influence.

I need to hear people say how great I am.

And then the other scenario, of course is, well, everybody's doing it.

Well, sin doesn't stop being sin because it was profitable.

And sin doesn't stop being sin because it was popular, you know, when all the Major League baseball guys were, you know, roiding up.

Well, everybody's doing it.

Yeah, it doesn't make it right.

But the thing I thought was interesting was just the lack of integrity.

This one influencer does live streams and he brings in scantily clad women from OnlyFans, which I've done research on.

That sounds bad, doesn't it?

But onlyfans lures in women with, you know, here's the money.

But that's not really the case for most women on there.

And poor men are just lighting their money on fire talking to bots.

But there's this guy in this documentary, he brings in these, you know, hot looking girls and he gets a cut of their income from their only fans site.

Why would they give him a cut?

Because he's promoting them and he's famous and.

But when you asked him about women on OnlyFans, he said, well, those women are disgusting and he thinks the site is bad in general for men, but he will promote it for money and he will have these women on to look cool.

This is the people we want influencing our children.

But I, I got one couple more here.

And this guy, his real name is Braden Eric Peters, he's known as clavicular.

He's really into look smacking and he plays on young men.

And if you watch his video on his website, he goes, look, don't be ignored anymore.

You're going to get all the girls, hot guys make more money and you're going to have more influence and people will look at you.

So every insecure thing that you're feeling as a young teenager, this guy's saying, I've got the secret.

Don't listen to anybody else.

I've got the secret.

And of course, to get that secret, you have to pay him 50 bucks a month and he will guide you through.

And I'm not making this up.

Steroids and extreme things like hitting your face with a hammer so parts of it come back bigger.

Yeah, and that's him.

He's like, I'm not afraid to do the things that other people don't, like hitting my face with a hammer.

And I was like, what?

Oh, also, he's taken meth to suppress his appetite.

Sure, Meth as a, you know, it's the new diet pill, crystal meth.

He's spoken about taking anabolic steroids over the years to become more muscular, which he is.

He's a good looking kid.

But also, according to him, those antibiotic steroids made him infertile by 2025.

And some might say that's just God in action.

But his body no longer naturally producing testosterone.

Oh, by the way, he's 21 and he has 866,000 people following him.

Crazy.

There's.

There's a kicker coming up.

We're not done yet.

But this was a guy that I was like, you got to be kidding me.

Because you might be saying, dave, I'm not following these guys.

Why do I.

Why are you talking about this?

Well, number one, a lot of my friends now have grandchildren, and in some cases they're 20 or less.

And every time this documentary followed these guys outside, and I'm here to tell you, every single one of them, when they were walking around outside, they would get recognized by young college age men or younger, and all of them wanted a selfie, something they could show their friends that they are cool.

So when you're like 866,000 people who's following him and you, and I'm talking like groups of 10, because four people would find him, like, hey, whatever, so and so.

And then somebody would hear that, like, oh, my gosh, it's, you know, whatever.

It was crazy.

And I, that's when I was like, oh, this is sad.

Because look, we all did stupid things when we were teenagers and in our 20s, and we need to make it a little harder to do stupid things.

And because when you do whatever I want, well, that's anarchy if everybody did that.

And that's chaos.

That's not good.

And look, I don't have kids.

I got nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

But look, I'm not here to say parenting is easy by any means.

It's hard.

And if you say, well, whatever you do, don't follow these people on social media, that's only going to make your kids want to follow them even more.

The best way to get an album to sell is to put a sticker on it that says parental warning.

That's been proven over and over.

And look, I was raised by my favorite musicians and movies.

Once you get outside of the house, it's up to whatever you're listening to and consuming, and we can't stop that.

But we do need to plant the seeds of Jesus, the seeds of the Holy Spirit.

We need to do that early so they have a compass that leads to true eternal happiness.

Because someday they're going to be up at the pearly gates and St. Pete's going to say, oh, I see, you didn't care what people said and you just did what you want.

So I'm afraid you're at the wrong place.

And scary.

That's the part that I was like, I got to talk about this when I saw.

And I mean, it was every time they went outside.

And it did not take long for them to get noticed and recognized because again, we're talking hundreds of thousands of people and in some cases millions.

And then we're talking about billions in some cases of views.

And they are promoting anti Semitism, they are promoting that.

That the world is lying to you, that it's the Matrix and they need to take the red pill and follow what they're saying.

Because look at me, I'm rich, I look good, I'm handsome, I get all the women.

All you have to do is give me 50 bucks.

And then they're actually giving, like, financial advice.

Invest in this stock and stuff, which I believe is illegal.

And the documentary, the.

The guy that's doing it invested $500 and by the end of the movie was he had basically lost 350 bucks.

But he's in his 50s.

He kind of knew better.

He knew he was probably going to lose it.

When you're 17, 18, 20, probably not.

So keep your ears open for that big lie because again, it can kind of sound great.

Well, look at you being all independent and look at you, you know, ready to take on the world.

But we do need to care.

And maybe doing what you want, that is the definition of following your sinful nature.

We're all born with that.

So hang in there and talk to your kids, talk to your grandkids, ask them who their favorite influencers are and why, and then just Listen.

My website, feedingmyfaith.com.

If you know somebody who's got some youngins, you might want to point this episode at them.

Because there are times when I think about the music I was playing in my living room and my mom was in the kitchen not paying attention to what I was listening to that I'm like, wow.

If I was my mom now, again, with a few years under my belt, I would have been like, yeah, you're not listening to that band anymore.

Which again, would make me want to listen to it even more.

It's a weird catch 22, but thanks for listening.

When in doubt, pray first.

We'll see you again real soon with another episode of Feeding My Faith.

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