historical was undeniably not a contemporary of Jesus you're wrong they you know trust me you're wrong why would you join a religion if you didn't want like super duper hardfast rules to keep you in line i strung a green extension cord around some rafters in my set you know that like there's no roof it's a flyw walls and stuff and um and I hung myself and you hung yourself yeah yeah and it's still hard to think about the fact that like I would do something like that to myself especially with kids coming out to LA for the first time I walked in the door of this hotel and was greeted by 30 lawyers in 150 page document that said you're not going to tell anybody what happens here it's a war it is it Yeah dude what this industry that I'm in I'm talking the industry what with with what like what comes at you what pulls at you what tries to destroy your marriage like it's Oh I see it's all of it it's it's real it's real you know what's going to happen people are going to be like "Oh yeah he's like oh this guy with everything in a movie star whining about his job." There's no winning there's no I shouldn't talk about this i'm My wife is going to stab me when I get old no alan Richson is the new name to know the meteorically rising star of the 2020s recently bursting into the mainstream with his frontman leading role as vigilante ex-military hero Jack Reacher in the massively popular show Reacher he was Aquaman in the hit show Smallville in the early 2000s and was a villain in a Fast and Furious film he played a role in the Hunger Games movies and was even one of the turtles in the liveaction Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies he's been married for 20 years he's the father of three boys and most importantly he's a man of deep deep Christian faith he even has a YouTube channel called Instaurch that has over a million subscribers the video we have for you today you'll have to see to believe and we dive deep into so many topics like Allan boldly defending faith against Bill Maher Allan unashamedly and literally exposing the dark secrets of Hollywood with real life examples he's personally experienced his attempt on his own life and how God literally supernaturally saved him from that and so much more if you weren't a fan of him before I promise you will be by the end of this video this is Make Faith Famous thanks for joining us and let's get into it first with Allen's heated debate with Bill Maher about religion i mean that you know the big um they don't know their own religion they haven't read the Bible they they talk about the Bible a lot it's a long book some it's boring but the problem the problem that I have with most most Christians today and I talk about this openly a lot um is that it misses the misses the point i mean you can get hung up in the weeds about document Q or whatever you want to talk about with where this stuff comes from but the the the point is very simple uh you've got somebody who claims to be the Messiah pointing the way towards um a whole radically different new way to love and that's through self-sacrificial uh care of your neighbor very true and when you when you talk about just that it's a really beautiful thing that a lot of other religions don't talk about because you're talking about religions that that talk about the way to salvation is through doing it over and over and over again and living a million lives or finding your own self self-elevation you know um through meditation or contemplation but this is talking about admitting that we are flawed and admitting that that there's there's a path towards um joy that comes through self-service self-sacrifice and I like that right uh you know I'm totally down with that that's it yeah i just don't think he's God i don't think there's such a thing as a god i guess we'll find out guess we'll find out rock on like I I do I'll name it you know but uh kind but I know that's not for everybody but that's kind of like buying the insurance when you get a rental car i mean that's not a good reason i'm not saying that's why I've got an umbrella policy so I'm not saying that's why you're doing it but and yeah maybe you're right i mean that's I always say it in religionist i preach the gospel of I don't know you know people make much too big of of a deal about the difference between atheist and agnostic it really is the same thing yeah totally look I I just you know there's like good I think there's good re We don't have to get into it i I think there's good reasons though like people people that were very close to him died defending the fact that he was a historical figure and that what he said was true and that they believed he was a messiah 11 of his 12 11 of his 12 apostles yes oh um you know so uh I you know there's like there there are things that have happened historically that are verifiable that I think go to show that people that were very close to him very much believe this that's not historically verifiable that he had disciples and that's like that Paul lived and was was talking about Paul was not a disciple he died no he well St paul he had an interaction on the on the road to he okay that that he that many he would argue that he was because he had a personal interaction with but but you and I you know like trust me you're wrong I got to give you the facts these are facts Jesus dies in 33 AD Paul was writing in the 50s he was Saul of Tarsus yes he he had a vision on the road to Damascus it was a cross in the sky he never met Jesus and in fact one of the things that's so iffy about the gospels is that the gospels which are written 20 years after St paul was writing know way more about Jesus than the voice he was talking to so you have to believe in magic you have to believe in magic for it to be true right i accept that i accept it too i accept that you have to believe in magic and I admit I do believe in magic the voice he was talking to said "Why do you persecute me?" And he was was he was trying to kill Christians and I love that this is Christ that he's talking about so I believe that he did have an interaction a personal interaction with the person that he does i see okay all right great and you know what i love that i I I don't have to agree with everybody on everything i And I love my but magic i love my magician brothers that's it that's it that's what it boils down to corner behind your ear yeah totally but that's what it boils down to and I admit I believe that that kind of magic is real and if it works for you I'm thrilled totally as long But so did Paul so you can't say he wasn't a historical figure this this Paul was a historical figure paul was undeniably not a contemporary of Jesus sort of oh I see with the with the people would people would argue this with him in his own day of course he his own not by not by our right not by the those standards of apostilhip but um but yes but but I would say that he was because of that interaction so what do you think about this exchange some of you out there really know your Bibles and your history so it would be great to hear your perspectives in the comments below bill is very clearly anti-religious and I think it takes a lot of guts for Allen here to come on to Bill's show effectively going into a lion's den right and stand up to him stand up for our faith explain that there is a supernatural component to our world and that's not the only time Allan dives into the supernatural he actually made an attempt on his own life in his mid30s which God supernaturally saved him from it's an incredible story and he dives deep into that but in order to understand how he got there we have to understand what drove him to that point so here he is recently on popular late night show Jimmy Kimmel Alive which is seen by like millions of people weekly and he is just blatantly exposing the lies and and deception of Hollywood that took advantage of him when he was young like I I think he wasn't even 20 at the time he auditioned for American Idol in fact and here he is in front of everyone literally exposing how they took advantage of him check it out coming out to LA for the first time i walked in the door of this hotel and was greeted by 30 lawyers in 150 page document that said you're not going to tell anybody what happens here so I signed that and uh and uh and they go hey uh why don't you go put your bags down in your room and uh come on down in your board shorts something I didn't usually wear cuz I grew up without hair on my legs for a long time i was a little late and uh they say meet us down by the pool there's like another model i'd been modeling at the time no big deal um like there's another model that that we'll do like a story on you guys you know like how fun it is for the models to be at American Idol i was like "Oh my gosh that's amazing." And like screen time and stuff so within 10 minutes of being at the hotel in Los Angeles I'm down in at the pool in my board shorts and they're like "Why don't you sit in the hot tub we'll ask you a couple questions." I was like "All right." So the producers there asking questions and I'm very studiously answering as best as I can to my ability and they go "Why don't why don't we just show everybody how much fun it is to be an American Idol why don't you like push her in the pool?" So I push her in the pool you know and uh and so and they're like "Why don't you jump in?" I was like "Okay." And so I I'm like splashing around the pool having like the best time i go to watch the show like everybody else in my hometown right we're watching the show this is going to be so fun on night three we had an assignment go write a song that's something I do that's like that was my first love was songwriting they give you a couple words keywords so you know it it's like made it in there you didn't just walk in with a song and I I'm wrote my song in 2 seconds and I see men grown men crying in the hallway i can't I can't write a song man i just like what what's your sound like do you want me to help you so I help people write their songs okay when when I'm watching the show on night three on the songwriting night they have Ryan Serest running around asking people where Allan and Tina or whoever her the model was have you guys seen him they're like "Yeah have you guys seen Allan and whatever her face is?" And like "No." And uh and then they cut to us in the pool splashing around like we're the just like "What the hell?" Probably I was helping people you were helping people yeah dude that is You know what that is unfair first of all I think it's just incredibly creepy that they did this like they put him in a swimsuit and everything and of course as an eager young man trying to make it he obliged signed non-disclosure papers and everything and you can even sort of hear and feel a mixed reaction from the audience it's like they were expecting to clap and laugh like usual but they and even Jimmy were sort of awkwardly stilted by hearing the story i don't know there were even some awes and hey if you've made it to this point of the video I want to extend a huge thank you most people click out within the first like 5 minutes so I'm so happy that there are faith nerds like me and you out there enjoying this content and supporting this what really is a movement and we even have some Make Faith famous hats that represent this uh movement and mission to amplify amazing people and testimonies like Allen's across the globe i've been telling my wife that the moment I'll know this movement has quote unquote made it is when I'm out walking the dog or be buying groceries or something and I see one of y'all out in public wearing one of these hats and I'll recognize you by either the golden logo on the front or the Matthew 5:16 Bible verse on the back and I'll just be so so excited to see that one day soon and I'm looking forward to it anyways now in his adult life there's a lot more he says about corrupt experiences he's had in Hollywood like how shall I say it promiscuous women trying to tear his marriage apart all the insanity of the industry does lead him to self harm and well I won't say much more but God does meet him at his lowest point let's hear from the man himself and I was working on bigger films with bigger stars and um you know and then realizing you know not everybody that you work with cares that you're married and you know there's a lot of friction because some people would rather you not be married and then you're like maybe I shouldn't be married right you know I mean it's very you know um uh it's a difficult uh it's a difficult place to be and um you know so there was a lot of growing pains you know for somebody who grew up very bluecollar um you know uh being confronted with you know um you know starlets and you know films and the press and and what people often you know attribute to uh celebrity like the you know the red carpets and the picture you know and I mean you know there's like the glitz and glam of it all which is not all it is at all not a very small part of it um and a part of it that doesn't matter but um you know being confronted with that and going like oh there's this whole other side of life that I had no idea existed and now I'm being exposed to it but I'm also married and I've got the young kids and who I who did I jump the gun here you know i mean you have to right you start to second guess yourself you got to be lying if I didn't say that you know I've been very open with my wife about this you know and you were enticed there was m Yeah sure there's moments where like I don't know if you know um I don't know if the life I chose is the life I want right now you know and then you s you and then you feel a huge amount of guilt and shame for even thinking those thoughts you know which um so there was you know that was there was sort of that thing like under the cauldron a little bit um but then you know bizarrely for me it was I had a very good year like a very good year wow but it was too it was too much you know I took on every you know I wrote I you know I write down my goals at the beginning of the year put it on paper let me put it out into the world i want to direct a film i want to sell this script i want to sell a manuscript for a book i want to do and everything that I every I ticked every box you were making it happen yeah dude it was a good year and um you know reap the rewards from that financially you know and uh but servicing all those monsters that I was creating was becoming too much and so I had to force myself into this brainwave state for 9 months i like made myself manic to deal with this you know so I've got identity issues issues sure i mean you know unsp you know not like that I was talking about it every day but just knowing that there's something behind the the veil there that's like I'm not sure who I am or what my purpose is here in my marriage or in my life or career and then I'm manic for for for far longer than I should be to to service all these masters and uh and then I had the straw that I think broke the camel's back was I was confronted with a business partner who um gave me an ultimatum you know well into our business dealings together like if I didn't provide this quid proquo relationship thing that she was going to um destroy my reputation and our businesses she didn't care she had so much money anyway and uh you know you know needing being confronted with this sense of like well you know I know I'm not perfect and I have issues but when you do it all right and this is where you end up anyway in a in like a long drawn out legal battle just trying to um you know pro you know protect your reputation because you got somebody making these false you know I mean I had lawyers calling me up going you're dead meat buddy and I'm like who is this and they're like we know that you've been buying houses with you know bitcoin coin and you've been taking stealing money from the company and you've been buying cars i'm like what are you talking about like I've never audit me then there's nothing worse than being innocent or not having done anything wrong and accusing you of it jesus is exactly right right because that's exactly what happened to Jesus sorry for the interruption but I just had to comment that's That's This person looked This person looked me in the eye and said "If you don't come up to my hotel room right now and give me what I want I'm going to call TMZ and tell them that you are you you was sexually assaulted me tried to me and by the time you by the time you clear it up everybody will already think that you're that you know like it won't matter the damage will be done." That like that to my face that threat and I was like you you're making a huge mistake like this is an insane thing to happen to him this just shows the absolute abject depravity of this industry the shamelessness the sin that bubbles underneath the surface and in many ways fuels the whole thing when people say Hollywood is corrupt or evil or anti-Christian or dark this is the kind of thing that they're talking about if you're not a Christian in this world it's so easy to see how you can get caught up in this stuff but if you have the Holy Spirit if you have that constitution then maybe God protects from it more often than not i don't know like this is that's not I mean and you're feeling this you're feeling the stress you're feeling the anxiety oh yeah dude all that man so um so so so you know I fle I flew home after that conversation and a guy lawyered up you know to protect myself and thankfully like nothing ever happened you know nothing came of it but um but uh you know that coming coming out of that season of busyiness and and all that the manic energy for far longer than we should ever have to sustain that kind of energy this I you know this this crisis of like faith in humanity you know um a little bit of uncertainty of like where I should be right now an identity crisis a little bit you know it all dude and you you came to your wife and you told her honestly this is what I'm feeling and this is what I'm thinking and I don't want to ruin this marriage but these are kind of what's I came to her and I said I think it's better if I'm not here really and what' she say please don't do anything crazy you know it was a very So you were like here meaning like if you weren't alive you were that bad you were dark it was very I could not pull myself out of it you know cuz once I once I got settled down back in LA after all of it after all the dust settled I was like I could I couldn't get up in the morning like you know the things that you talk about with depression like I could you know who only wanted to sleep all the time it felt so foreign to me somebody with like this zest for life and this energy that's you know I mean this drive this work ethic like it's it's insatiable and to feel like I don't I can't get out of bed i didn't understand why I would want to anyway and then feeling like now I'm just a burden to my family that my kids are seeing me like this i can't let them see me like this this is I'm like this shell of myself and they see me in bed all day it would just be better if I wasn't here and uh Wow uh yeah man and cuz I know what that's like i know what it's like just waking up and going I just want to go back to sleep i just want to lie down i don't have enough energy for the day and that's depression huh yeah but that but that depression is a red flag for something much deeper which for me was about purpose and I didn't know I So I've been open about this i've talked about this publicly on my little channel my you know trying to help people who maybe have felt like this and don't understand it hold on just a little longer cuz if you do hold on just a little longer and you felt like this there is hope for you there's hope for a better day where we can remember why we're here remember who we are and and and and take time to find our purpose and sometimes that means a big shift sometimes a little shift um for me it still sort of fit my understanding of the world but I needed to make a a choice about who I wanted to be and what that you know the consequences of that would be in my outward life you know and um I didn't know that at the time i couldn't speak to that at the time but I uh I went up in my attic i had a a big house with um you know second story that I turned into movie sets right and I went up in uh this movie set that I'd shot in it was such a weird such a still such a weird thing to think about but um and I don't know why I went up there i just it felt like the only place to do this the best place to do this i don't know and I I uh I strung a green extension cord around some rafters in my set you know that like there's no roof it's a fly walls and stuff and um and I hung myself and you hung yourself yeah yeah and it's still hard to think about the fact that like I would do something like that to myself especially with kids but I I I now understand what it's like when people are like I don't understand why they would kill themselves and I'm like I can tell you from experience they thought they were giving the world a gift that is the saddest lie that we could tell ourselves but I thought that I was doing my family and my community a favor because I I was such a mess mentally like I And nobody ever tells you that like when you get to the top there's nothing there there's nothing there there's just more of that if you want it you know I had ground and scraped and fought to make movies and to make the things that I wanted to make and to sell books and sell scripts and I was doing all those things and then I get there and I'm like a broken shell of myself with this relationship that threatened to sort of like truly like wreck my life and I had done nothing to deserve that and you know I'm like what what is life like what you know I'm so backwards uh right you thought everything that was going to make you happy didn't yes everything you wanted to do you were doing but you still weren't happy but I was a you know but I'm I'm a victim i'm I'm a I'm a product I should say of these systems that we all survive in which is you know this sort of capitalistdriven corporate uh corportocracy kind of driven um way of of of merchandising and commercializing every um thought and fear and moment that we have in our lives and um and never giving us a chance to slow down and uh you know when when I was able to I I I was on my way out and I saw my kids and I saw them grown up and you really saw that yes in case it's not clear this is the supernatural vision God gave him and by on my way out he means you know as the attempt on his life was working then he saw all this in like a vision or dream state i did and um and I saw them asking me just like a like a mature grown adult would say you know say something very calmly without emotion like please don't do this it was such a such a startling image that you know um you know them saying we need you um that I I climbed up out of that i pulled myself up and I I got out of that and uh Was it hard to get out of that i mean thank god I work out cuz I mean if I didn't you wouldn't have the strength to do it you know but I did and um and uh you know so I got up there and uh Did you just get hysterical after that yeah just like kind of lost your mind for a second yeah like this is where I am what is wrong and this is after a good year this is after making tons of money this is after like this is after accomplishing all the goals how how can that be like that's not something we talk about that that that there's nothing there at the top that like you know that life isn't about you know Jim Car's said it before or you know I hope everybody gets what they want and gets the riches that their hearts desire so they realize that there's no that's not what life is all about that's not what will make you happy and here Allen starts to talk about how this whole ordeal this whole identity crisis existential crisis drew him closer to God and faith and even more than that real tangible practical works to accompany it check this out it's really inspiring you know faith is a big part of it for me you know um you know some people I I think you know I I almost envy people who feel like they can they're fine going through life without any thought of what's beyond you know right um I if that works for you then great I have to have faith in something I'm deeply conflicted if not because otherwise like I don't understand what what the point of this I mean there's no there's no way to reconcile the pain in the world without an ultimate sense of like hope and justice happening you know for myself and others I mean there's so many reasons why you know but it also makes sense to me it just makes sense and it makes me want to be a better person but I dove into I dove into that life and uh uh uh started reading everything I could studying theology trying to understand like is there a deeper meaning and purpose here and how does that have a real impact on my life and for me it's about other centeredness you know which is not something I'd ever thought of before you know I was so ambitious still so ambitious um still such a product of my industrial era style education that's like you go be a good worker and that's what you're contributing to society a good thing and um to turn around and say like actually um rejecting a lot of those ideas and not making the material accumulation that we strive for the most important thing in our lives and finding ways to think about other people and give back to that is actually a more fulfilling and purposeful and eternal kind of way of thinking that u maybe I'll do that and so um you know altruism a big part of it yeah so there was a simplification in life like so you got rid of a house sold all my fancy cars you know that I was accumulating and loved and um and it was less about that and more about like how can I find a way to get involved in community involved in other people's lives in a meaningful way impact the world through like effective charities or you know like just how can I and that changed you oh yeah i mean is that is that not something you can do forever and not I mean you scientifically the scientifically scientific studies have proven that that kind of altruism actually has a true meaningful impact on our state of well-being that there is nobody who can give of themselves purely and not feel better because of it how is that not something that can eternally rejuvenate us like forever and ever like people talk about like I wouldn't want to go to heaven cuz I would just get bored or whatever it' be so boring it's like no that idea of heaven is a is a world where everybody's giving of themselves and that cycle of of love is it's it's something that continues to fill us up as we give it away it's this almost paradoxical kind of Yes it's this beautiful cycle that uh never ends you know and that feels good and you can start that now and that's what the whole message is all about I think you know wow i love that and here is where we in our story here Allen's life story start to see the Allen richson that we know today this kind of brings us up to present moment with instachurch and Allen's whole deal right now other centeredness selflessness eternal rejuvenation his understanding and presentation of Christian theology it's really refreshing really uplifting and comes from a genuine place of lived experience he's been to the highest of highs he's seen hell the lowest of lows in many ways in many contexts and this whole journey has shaped him into the 40-some year old man he is and just wow i don't know about you but I really sense God's hand over this man's life and maybe I'm just hyping up another celebrity too much but this type of story is rare the way he articulates all this is rare and I'm just so glad that I get to cover this and I hope you find it as inspiring to your faith as I do so uh charging on here there's a joke that sometimes people say online that instead of reacher Allan should be preacher because he actually does give these little mini sermons online and they have a huge impact on people and this next clip is him talking a bit about the origins of that and how once he started really living for Christ his life completely changed and suddenly I'm not thinking about my career and when I stopped thinking about my career and thinking about how I can advance myself it exploded dude it exploded i swear to God I was like I started doing these little Instaurch videos that were more for me because they ground me i I tr we all know that when you teach a subject is when you truly know um if you understand it and it helps you cement your understanding of it and so for me it's a practice of like do I know this subject does it make sense to me can I explain it to somebody um and also sharing ideas that I think are fun to talk about that nobody does because they're not commercial but um I started doing that and I I I told my wife before I posted the first video I said "I want to make sure you're okay with me never working again in the business." like if I have to be a plumber or something to make ends meet because I have a feeling if I start posting these videos people are gonna think I'm some kind of nut job and I'm never going to work again and she's like I'm with you you know and like this is you being honest and authentic and I you know I like what you have to say and go for it you know so I had her support and I was like all right I'm never going to work again and and it was it was entering this space through that honest authentic place of like of of assuming an identity that was wrapped in career that that then the career takes off it's the most bizarre thing all right if you made it to this point words can't even express my gratitude seriously like you are one of the Make Faith famous hardcore fans and I wish I could personally thank you because this was a long video so how about this if you've made it to this point drop me a comment in the comment section any comment you want but put God bless make faith famous somewhere in there and I'll know you're one of the greats and I'll make sure to respond to you just a bit of community building over here right all right and as a special treat let's end this video with some clips of Allen exposing more of his abuse at the hands of Hollywood followed by some powerful scripture reading by Allen himself how's that sound all right god bless you god bless your friends and families i'm praying for you please pray for me don't forget to share this video and thank you for helping make Faith famous enjoy what people don't know and I can say it now because I'm I'm done with that set of movies and they've been out whatever that Teenage Mut Ninja Turtles was like the worst production experience I've ever had it made me hate life so much wow yeah i wanted to get into that cuz Yeah cuz I hated life on that show they were so bad to us and they broke so many promises like we Okay so we would rap one day right it was a long day and they don't they had this we we we realized the problem with this like animated contract it was a different kind of deal that we made it's like never been done before it's new ground and so they had all these loopholes we realized after the fact where they didn't have to pay us for anything extra meal penalties lunch overtime nothing so we're this group of four an island of just ripe for abuse right mhm and the crew was wrapping up we were shooting in Brooklyn one day and had a long ride back to uh Manhattan where all of us were everybody was staying and they wouldn't let us in the cars to go home the turtles they wouldn't let us in the cars to go home they wanted to get the crew out of there to get them off the clock because if they stayed they had to pay them if we stayed they don't and the freaking uh studio that we were shooting in locks the doors because they were like we're closing up for the night uh we got we had cleaning crew coming in like it's done you know security here and so we're in the parking lot sitting on our backpacks in a in an empty parking lot cuz the rest of the crew had driven anybody who needed to be shuttled was being shuttled and they're like uh producer said you can't get in yet so they like we sat there i'm calling my team in LA like they won't give us a ride home what the kind of production is this like get us home i we shot for 14 hours today i want to go home three rides come around because they go back and forth and back and forth like bunches of vans and finally they're like so we got everything we guys glowed up and I'm like what is this and you know you tell the producers about it they're like um yeah okay well we were you know sorry about that that's not how it was supposed to go you know who was making the call on that though if it's not the producers because you who do you think the people who write the checks yeah so which is the producers yeah you know what's going to happen people are going to be like oh yeah he's like oh this guy with everything in a movie star whining about his job I'm like I go you know I I'm like uh going in to clean the toilets again and he's like I'm I don't hear that from you at all there's no winning there's no I shouldn't talk about this my wife is going to stab me when I get home no you're But memorization I think is something that we don't take seriously enough maybe I'll just speak for myself i It's something that I uh I I think it's one of the more important aspects of our uh spiritual walk and and I think we take for granted the um the difference that it can make um memorizing scripture really tattooing it on our heart um can shape the way that our inner dialogue works throughout the day and it can combat all the messages that are coming in that are counter to uh a kingdom call you know to the the the dialogue that that God would delight in i mean it's we are we are literally at war with the messaging that we receive and this is a this is one of the best ways that we can combat it so I challenge us to um start memorizing scripture and one of my favorites one of the first ones that I memorized was Isaiah 1:18-20 because I think it so perfectly encapsulated at least encapsulates where I was on my journey but um where we need to begin right i mean where we can begin it's this I sort of picture like if my kids are having a a temper tantrum and they're swinging and they're mad and I've kind of got my hand on the forehead and there's never they're never going to reach me you know and it's like when you're winded and tired when you've had enough let's let's settle this you know and that's really how it begins come now let's settle this says the Lord i was there that's where I was i was so I was so fatigued from fighting what God really was calling me to and I heard him say "Come now let's settle this once and for all." Right it's this declaration of who we are which we talked about earlier recognizing our own sin though your sins are like scarlet they should be white as snow though red like crimson I'll make them white as wool this impossible transformation without the help of God if you're willing and obey you'll have plenty to eat if you resist and rebel you'll be devoured by the sword like you will fall to your desires you know um the mouth of the Lord has spoken there's there's declarations there's promises that offer hope and there's uh there's a rather foreoding warning that we like to sort of avoid listening to it's it just so perfectly encapsules encapsulates where we often are what we have to hope in and uh why we should choose holiness and righteousness and obedience you know so I would I would suggest Isaiah 1:18-20 um this week write it on your heart and uh and see you know where where it leads you i love that maybe we could even challenge to doing a 100 push-ups while memorizing Isaiah 1 the Bible right under your