King Solomon's Social Media Insights

One, okay. Welcome YouTube and good to see y'all this morning on the YouTubes and on Zoom and here live and King Solomon's social media. Wow. And I know that some people say, some people thought they didn't have the internet back then. And it's really interesting how people react to titles, right? They react to titles as if the title meant their interpretation, right? And so when I talk about King Solomon's social media, I'm literally talking about How King Solomon spread the word about his wisdom, or how the word was spread, and it wasn't even necessarily that he spread the word. One of the things that's really, really interesting about having some of the characteristics that Solomon had, people are going to find out about you. One of my favorite quotes is by Abraham Lincoln. He said, I will prepare myself and perhaps my time will come. Right? How many of y'all have heard that phrase before? Right? I will prepare myself and perhaps my time will come. But Myron Golden says. Your time's going to come whether you prepare yourself or not. If you're prepared when your time comes, it will reveal you. If you're not prepared, it will expose you. Everybody's time's coming, right? And so the objective all of us should have is to be ready when our time comes, right? Because the scripture says, Lord, teach us to number our days. Why? That we may apply our hearts on the wisdom. So, so, um, We're going to start this morning in 1 Kings chapter 10, then we're going to go back where we started last week to 1 Kings chapter 3 and finish that story, and then we're going to go to look at the social media that happened in 1 Kings chapter 4. But before I even go there, I want to show you the result of Solomon's social media, right? I'm going to show you the result. So it says in 1 Kings chapter 10, verse number 1, it says, And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame, heard of the fame. of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. So that's called a clue, right? She heard of the fame. It wasn't that he was looking for her. He wasn't looking for her. He didn't say, I'm going to go make some cold calls and I'm going to do a cold call with the queen. Bathsheba, and I'm going to do a cold call with the king of the Zidonians, and I'm going to do a cold call. No, he didn't do cold calling with anybody. She heard about his fame. So just remember that, okay? And it was not, his fame was not about his fame. His fame was about the name of the Lord. Like, I know there are business people who don't think that I should talk about the Bible. There are Bible people who don't think I should talk about business. All of them are confused because the Bible has a lot to say about business because business is a good idea because business is a God idea. The scripture says in the Old Testament that a dream cometh through a multitude of business. And in the New Testament it says, and that you study to be quiet and to do your own business. It didn't say have your own job. It said do your own business. Working with your hands as we commanded you. Oh, okay. In that same book, or another letter written to the same people. That was 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians. The apostle Paul said that if a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat, right? So God's, here's what it says. It says that you study to be quiet, to do your own business, working with your hands as we commanded you. Why? That you may walk honestly toward the end of the world without. What is that talking about? Paying your bills on time. And that you may have lack of nothing. What's that talking about? That's talking about abundance, right? I'm not making this up. And you're one of those prosperity gospel preachers. I'm not a poverty gospel preacher, but I don't find the term prosperity gospel in the Bible. So it's not something that I'm not going to assume I know what people are talking about when they say that. But what I am doing is I'm showing people that the Bible is a guidebook. It's not a religious book. It's a guidebook to guide you through life in all the aspects of life. And it can show you how to have a better marriage. And it can show you how to have better relationships with your friends. And it can show you how to have a better relationship with your spouse. And it can show you how to have a better business. Because it talks about all of those things. Okay, anyway, so she heard about the fame concerning the name of the Lord. Verse 2, and she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bear spices and very much gold and precious stones, and she was come to Solomon. She communed with him of all that was in her heart. So the Queen of Sheba, one of the things she heard about Solomon is when Solomon reigned, he had peace around him on all sides. All the days of his reign, his kingdom ran smoothly. She was a monarch. He was a monarch. She came to learn how to make her kingdom run as smoothly as his kingdom ran, right? And so she came and asked him hard questions. How many of y'all know, like, running a family's hard. Running a country, it's got to be at least a little. harder, right? I mean, at least, right? So it says, and Solomon told her all her questions, and there was not anything hidden from Solomon from the king, which he told her not. He told her all her questions. What does that mean? That means he answered all her questions. He didn't say, well, you know what? I'm going to have to get back with you on that one. No, Solomon said, well, here's the answer to that. Here's how you fix that. Here's how you fix this. Here's how you fix that. This is how you fix the next thing. Oh, you're having problems with your problem? Okay, this is what you do with that. You're having problems with your princess? Okay, this is what you do with that. And he gave her all of the answers. And then it says, in verse 4, it says, when the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom, when the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom, Not that she heard all of his wisdom. She heard about his wisdom, and then she came to see his wisdom, right? Well, how do you see wisdom? Well, in order to understand how you see wisdom, you have to know what wisdom is and what wisdom is not. So first of all, understand this. Wisdom is not intelligence, okay? Wisdom is not IQ. Wisdom is not knowledge. Wisdom is not a degree, right? Wisdom is not a claim. Wisdom is not being published. None of that proves that you have wisdom. So what is wisdom? Well, before I can tell you what wisdom is, let me give you some prerequisites to wisdom. Okay? So wisdom has some prerequisites. And everybody starts with a prerequisite. If you don't do the prerequisites, you can't get the requisite. You can't get wisdom. If you don't get these other three things, you ain't going to have wisdom. Okay, y'all ready? Here we go. So the first prerequisite to wisdom is called ignorance. Congratulations, you were born with it. Like when you were born, you didn't know your hand from your foot, your eyes from your ears, up from down, mama from daddy. You didn't know hot from cold, wet from dry. You didn't know anything. Y'all tracking? Okay, so we were ignorant. What's ignorance? Ignorance is the, okay, I'm gonna move this over a little bit. Ignorance is the absence. I didn't spell that right. Yeah, I did. I think. The absence of truth, right? So ignorance is the absence of truth. You're just totally unaware of the truth. You just don't know it. So our lives should be about solving this problem. This is our first problem. Right? So what happens? We start to solve that problem with what? With this thing called knowledge. See, when God uses the word wisdom and the word, the word wisdom and the word knowledge and the word understanding, he's not using different words. So he doesn't sound redundant. OK, so when God used the word knowledge, knowledge is not a synonym for wisdom. It's something totally different. It's not a synonym for understanding. It's something totally different. So what's knowledge? Knowledge is the accumulation. of truth. And I may have spelled that wrong. So I may need to go accumulate some knowledge from the ABCs, right? Right? So if I spell a word wrong down here, y'all, y'all, this is called, this is like spell check on a computer. Take any letter from A to Z, put it where it goes together. can spell these words right. OK, so knowledge is the accumulation of truth, right? So what we do is we go around and we learn facts. And sometimes facts are truth, and sometimes facts are just true. Now, you say, what does that mean, Myron? So everything that's true is not truth, but everything that's truth is true. Truth is static. It never changes. What's true can be dynamic. It can change. Like right now, I'm in my office. But when I woke up this morning, I wasn't in my office. So me being in my office is true, but it's not truth. Why? It can change. If it can change, it's not true, right? There are some things that are truth, they can't change, right? And so we have to understand that the word of God is not just true, but the word of God is truth, and truth establishes truth. Are y'all tracking? So what we have to do, we gain knowledge of the truth. The more knowledge we have of the truth about anything, the better chance we have of making that aspect of our lives better, right? And a lot of people don't like truth, right? And we live in a world that wants to silence truth, right? We live in a world that when they don't like the truth, they try to silence the truth. By the way, truth never has to silence error in order for truth to exist. Because it will become evident that it's truth. But error has to silence truth in order for error to exist. Because if I tell you that my name is Denzel Washington, well, that wouldn't pass because y'all know who Denzel Washington is. Okay, if I tell you my name is Charles Williams, right, I can't tell you that lie in front of anybody who knows my real name. Right? So what do I have to do? I have to make sure if those people who know my real name are in the same space, I have to keep them silent. And that's why political correctness is not just bad, it's evil. That's why the attack on free speech is not just bad, it's evil. Because they're trying to silence, like, we have this argument in our world about 75 genders. Well, God made two genders, so guess how many there are? There are men and there are women. And if you ain't a man, you're a woman. If you ain't a woman, you're a man. Now, you may want to be called something else, and that's okay. That's you. Now, if you want to be called something else, that's okay for you and the people who want to call you that. But I'm not, like, and I'm not being mean. I'm not talking about truth. Like, if somebody really believes something, they can believe it all by themselves. Right? Truth, like, if I believe something's true, I can believe it all by myself. Even if I'm wrong and I believe it, I can believe it by myself. I don't need you to go along with me. Right? And the reason the world system is attempting to silence the voices. of people who speak truth that disagrees with the direction of the world is because it makes people feel uncomfortable that they're about to be found out as a liar. Real talk. Now, that wasn't where I was going, but we ended up there. So ignorance is the absence of truth. Knowledge is the accumulation of truth. Now we got another one. We have understanding. What's understanding? Understanding is the assimilation of truth. So now I've assimilated. Not only have I collected the truth by accumulation, but I've comprehended the truth by assimilation. I understand what it means, right? See, here's what's really interesting. You can have knowledge and not have understanding. By the way, that's one of the biggest problems with what I call the miseducational, misdirectional system, a.k.a. the government indoctrination camps, schools, child prisons, whatever you want to call it. That's one of the problems I have with that system. And by the way, I love teachers. I hate the system. Why? Because the system is designed to teach you. what to know or what to think instead of teaching you how to think. In fact, they don't want you to think. They just want you to remember what they told you is real. I'm keeping it real. I know I'm keeping it real, right? And so the problem, like, I don't have time to chase rats. So the problem, like, we can know something. Like, for instance, when I was younger, somebody taught me how to play two songs. the piano. So I memorized all the places I was supposed to put my fingers and I could play songs. So I had knowledge of how to play those songs, but I had no understanding of what I was doing. Right? So you can know how to do something and not understand why it works. Right? A lot of people know things. but they don't understand the things they know. So one of the things we have to do is we have to make sure that when we're accumulating knowledge, that we're praying for God to give us understanding of the knowledge we're accumulating. And then after we have these three prerequisites, then we can have wisdom. Okay, what's wisdom? Wisdom, by the way, the word wisdom is the Greek word chachal, and it means the application. of truth. So if you look up the word wisdom in the Old Testament, you will see that it would translate not into our modern day word intelligence, not into our modern day word education, not into our modern day word IQ, but into our modern day word skill. That's why she was able to see the wisdom of Solomon. She saw the skill with which he ran his kingdom. Are y'all with me? Wave at me. Talk to me, my people. Okay. So now that we understand what wisdom is, It says, I'm going to go back to reading now because I'm going somewhere with all of this. I'm not just ranting and raving like a maniac just because I'm a maniac. Oh, no, there are better reasons than that. Okay, so she said, when the queen of Sheba, verse 4, and when the queen of Sheba had seen all the things that were going on, Solomon's wisdom in the house that he had built and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his cupbearers and the ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord there was no more spirit in her was that mean his wisdom was so grand it took her breath away that's wisdom right there And it says there was no more spirit in her. And then it says, and she said to the king, watch this now, it was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. She heard about Solomon in her own country. Wait, what? They didn't have internet. They didn't have phones, IG, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Google, Twitter, TikTok, and they still heard about Solomon in other countries. What in the world? Like, I'm getting chills thinking about this. Okay, hang in there with me now. It was true. And she said unto the king, verse six, it was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. How be it? I believe not the words. Until I came and mine eyes have seen it and behold, the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame, which I heard. Oh, by the way, you know what that means? Solomon, his wisdom did not exceed him. It just preceded him. See, there are a lot of people, your wisdom precedes you, but then when they meet you, your wisdom don't exceed you. There's a whole lot of people out there who are famous and ain't talking about nothing. Oh, that reminds me of a verse I read in the Bible somewhere. It says, oh, great men are not always wise. Right? So just because somebody has a following doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. Right? Because in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I wish I had some help in here. In the land of the blind. Okay. Now, so the queen of Sheba. whose kingdom was in Africa, heard of Solomon's wisdom all the way from Jerusalem, she said, I got to go see if this is true. By the way, she was coming, believing that it wasn't true. Let me ask you a question. When somebody comes to find out if all the stuff they heard about you is true, are they underwhelmed or overwhelmed with the reality of you? I hope I ain't talking too fast, because I talk fast sometimes. Okay, now let's go back to chapter three. Where did all of this fame start? Well, it's really interesting how, like, when you start out, it helps to start out doing something remarkable. How do you start out doing something remarkable? I will prepare myself, and perhaps my time will come. Your time is going to come whether you prepare yourself or not. Tom Landry, when he recruited, I think it was one of those football player dudes. I don't even remember his name. I'm not a football fan. Sorry, guys. I know Tom Landry was the coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He recruited some Hall of Fame college football player. And somebody said, how does it feel? to have, like, one as a draft, a player with such a burning desire to win. Tom Landry said, not near as good, somebody grab that for me, not near as good as it does to have recruited somebody who has such a burning desire to prepare. Like, do you want, do you, are you more concerned about being revealed or are you more concerned about being ready? Right? Because if you will make yourself ready, eventually you will be revealed. Can I get a witness? Where are my people? Talk to me, my peeps. Talk to me. If you will be, if you'll make yourself ready. And there are so many people that are like, they want to have a million followers and only thing's going to happen is when you get a million followers, they're going to find out you don't know nothing because you didn't prepare yourself. Right? So back in chapter 3, Solomon prayed for wisdom. Y'all remember the story we read last week? I'm not going to read the whole thing again. Okay? So Solomon prayed for wisdom. And then verse 11, chapter 3, verse 11, it says, And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast thou asked riches for thyself, nor hast thou asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment. Y'all remember the prayer of Solomon? We talked about last week. Dear Lord, give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this earth to do in a way that pleases you and serves the people you put me here to serve. If y'all didn't see that, go watch our video from last week. I don't remember the name of it, but it has something to do with Solomon. You find it. You're smart. It's on. on YouTube. Okay. It's got a thumbnail. Okay. So, um, so he prayed that prayer and God said, because you asked for this, I'm going to give you that, but I'm going to give you what you didn't ask for also. And that's in, um, um, verse 12, it says, behold, I've done according to thy words. And I've given thee a wise and an understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after these shall arise any like unto thee. Like when we seek to please God and serve people, like we will be the best of the best. You can forget about the rest. Like we have no competition like the last thing in the world. I'm worried about is competition But my what if they hack your funnel they can hack my funnel, but they can't hack my brain You can't hack my knowledge base. You can't hack my years of study. How are you going to hack that without years of study? Right? Okay. So, and if thou wilt walk in my ways and keep my statutes and my commandments that thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. And Solomon woke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord and offered burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants. And there came two women. that were harlots unto the king and stood before him. And one woman said, oh my Lord, I and this woman dwell in one house and I was delivered of a child with her in the house and it came to pass the third day after I was delivered that this woman was delivered also. And we were together and there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. And the woman's child. died in the night because she overlaid it. In other words, she rolled over on her baby and killed it. And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while I handmade slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I arose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead. But when I considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I bear. And the other woman said, nay, but the living is my son and the dead is thy son. And this said, and this said, no, but the dead is thy son and the living is my son. Otherwise, he says, she said, OK, thus speak, thus they speak before the king. And then said the king, the one said, this is my son that liveth and thy son is dead. The other said, nay, but thy son is dead and my son liveth. And the king said, bring me a sword. Do you say, say, say, say, say, now what sword? I just want to know what swords got to do with babies and what babies got to do with swords. Y'all know what I'm saying? Okay. He said, he said, bring me a sword. See, because Solomon, God gave Solomon the wisdom to understand human nature. The king said, bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son. And she said, oh, my Lord, give her the living and in no wise slay it. But the other said, let it be neither thine nor mine, mine nor thine, but divide it. And the king said, give her the living and in no wise slay it. She is the mother thereof. He gave the living child to the one that said, don't slay it. And all Israel, watch this now, and all Israel heard of the judgment with the king, which which the king had judged. And they feared the king for they saw they saw. The wisdom of God was in him to do judgment. Now, when you understand what a king's job was, a king's job was to try cases. And in order to try cases, he had to have the wisdom of God in him. That's why the scripture tells us over in Deuteronomy chapter 17, over in Deuteronomy chapter 17, that the job of the king was to take a pen and a piece of paper and copy out the words in the Torah all the days of his reign. You're supposed to be studying the word of God. What's the king's job? Study the word of God so when a case comes before you, the wisdom of God will be in you. Guess what? That's good advice for anybody. That's good advice for you. That's good advice for me. That's good advice for all us up in here, all them Zoomsters, all them YouTubers, like everybody. That's just good advice. Am I telling y'all the truth? Study the word of God. Why? I tell people this all, man, your content's so amazing. Well, I just get it from the Bible. God has the best content. It don't get no better than that. Okay, why? I'm gonna prove it to you. I'm gonna prove it to you. Why? So now we go to the next chapter and I don't have, I'm not gonna read all of it because it talks about all the princes that he put over these different jobs. Solomon was delegating who's gonna do what. I'm not gonna read all that. Okay, I'm gonna come down to the end. I'm not even going to talk about his wealth yet. I'm not even going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about verse 29. Here's what it says. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore. And Solomon's wisdom excelled all the wisdom of the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt, for he was wiser than all men. Where'd that come from? It came from God. The closer we get to God and doing things his way, the wiser we will be, the more skill we will have. Why? Because we will have more truth. Ignorance is the absence of truth. Knowledge is the accumulation of truth. Understanding is the assimilation of truth. Wisdom is the application of truth. And if I don't have any truth, I don't have anything to apply. Okay, watch what happens now. And it says, he was wiser than all men, and then it starts naming people. This is so funny to me. I don't know why. Every time I read this, I laugh. It says he was wiser than all men, then it starts naming people. It says he was wiser than all men, then ETH and the Ezraite, then Haman and Chachal and Darda and the sons of Mahal, and his fame was in all nations. His fame was in all nations? They didn't have Twitter. They didn't have, I'm telling y'all, they didn't have an interwebs. Solomon was so wise, people couldn't stop talking about him. They couldn't stop talking. Did y'all hear what Solomon did with the two women and the baby and the sword? No, what did he do? And then they, and he did not. And then they went and told somebody, right? So. And he spake 3,000 proverbs. Some of y'all got 15 posts and wonder why you ain't got no followers. 15. One five. He spake 3,000 proverbs. His songs were 1,005. Now it starts breaking down his content. He spake of the trees, from the cedar tree in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth forth out of the wall. And he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon. from all the kings of the earth which had heard his wisdom. This is so mind-blowing to me. And you've heard me say, on one of my videos, I don't remember which one it was. I guess you're just gonna have to watch all of them. But on one of my videos, I said, one of the biggest mistakes business owners make, entrepreneurs make, is they're always looking for somebody to sell stuff to. What's your elevator pitch? I don't have an elevator pitch. Why? I don't need one. I'm not looking for somebody to sell something to. I'm looking for somebody to serve. I'm looking for somebody to help. I'm looking for somebody to bless. I'm looking for somebody who my life can encourage their life. I'm not looking for somebody to sell something to. Why? Because if I will make sure that I am a person of substance, the people who are looking for what I have are going to come looking for me. If you have something good that helps people and serves people, there are a thousand, maybe ten thousand, maybe a hundred thousand, maybe a hundred million people in the world who would love to come buy what you have if they only knew you existed. But you know what the problem is? You only show up when you want to sell something. I'm not the example of this, but I am an example of this. I have hundreds of hours of videos on YouTube and Facebook and on the internet where I am teaching people things that have made my life better, and I'm asking them for nothing. Hmm. Maybe that's a clue. Maybe that's something I should do. Now, so we're talking about the wisdom of Solomon. So we're talking about the social media of Solomon. So here's the first point. In order for you to practice Solomon's social media strategy, the first thing you have to do is you have to be a person of character. Not enough is said. There's way too much emphasis placed on talent today and not enough emphasis placed on character. What is character? Character is conscientiousness. Character is being on time. Character is when you're working on something, like you give everything you got. I remember my mom used to say this to us all the time when we were kids. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. Like, and she, all the time, she preached that to us like it was her job. You know why? Because it was her job. Okay, so, character. Be a person of integrity. Tell the truth. You want to know, you want to know the first thing you have to do if you want to have a great social media strategy? You actually have to be good at something. You actually have to be somebody who can actually contribute value to somebody other than you. We got two kinds of people in this world. We got makers and we got takers. And the takers don't like makers. And the makers ain't crazy about takers either. And when they show up, they either show up and make something or they show up to take something. And see, makers don't like, I mean, takers don't like making stuff. They just want to take the stuff the makers made. That's why I can't stand them politicians. Always trying to get their hands in somebody else's pocket. Have not created anything, empty thing their whole life. It should be illegal to be a career politician. Anyway, that's another conversation for a different day. Right? Makers and takers. You got folk out here in the street. They want to, they want to, they want to, they want to follow somebody on Instagram so they can follow them home and then hit them in the head and take what they... If you would put that much ingenuity into doing something good, your life would change. Like actually be good at something. And by the way, here's something interesting. God didn't give any of us everything, but he gave all of us something. Right? So now I don't have to be in competition. I don't have to be in competition with anybody in this room. And nobody in this room has to be in competition with me. We can all serve each other, serve people, please God, and the whole world becomes a better place. Right? The scripture says, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Now people don't know what that means. I got a video on that too. So what is the kingdom of God? I believe that the kingdom of God is when I yield my life to God as the sovereign king of my life. He makes me the king over an assignment to rule over an assignment, and then I use that assignment that I rule over to serve every human being I come in contact with. That's the kingdom of God. And people say, well, that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Those are just words. I don't mean in the Bible they're just words. When you say them, they're just words. So what is righteousness? What is peace? What is joy in the Holy Ghost? Well, I believe that righteousness is when God rules over my example. So I'm doing the things that God told me to do so other people see my light and glorify who? My Father which is in heaven. See how it all fits together so perfectly? So when God rules over my example, God is the king of my life. The kingdom of God has come into my life because God's ruling over my example. But it says peace. What's peace? That's when God rules over my experience. What happens when God rules over experience? When God rules over your experience, the giant that everybody else is running from, you can run towards. Right? When God rules over your experience, the king who threatens to throw you into the fiery furnace, you can say, we are not going to be careful to answer you in this matter, O king. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and he will, but even if he doesn't, we still ain't bound. Why? Because God's ruling over your experience. You're not worried about what some human is going to do to you. And then it says joy in the Holy Ghost. What's joy in the Holy Ghost? That's when God rules over your expression. Like if I ask you how you're doing and you say, not too bad, that is not a Holy Ghost answer, right? Because the scripture says joy, where? In the Holy Ghost. Okay, now what is joy? Joyfulness, joyfulness is a state of being. in awareness of the fact that you are in the presence of the king. What does that mean? Well, the scripture says, Philippians 4, 4, rejoice in the Lord when? Always. Okay, now when is always? Always. That pretty much covered the whole thing, right? Okay, no, that sounds funny, right? So rejoice in the Lord always. Well, when is always? Well, it's always. And then it says, and again, I say, well, if you said always, why are you saying it again? And again, I say what? Rejoice. What's the prefix re mean? To do it again. So he's saying, again, I say, again, have joy in the Lord always. And again, I say, again, have joy. That sounds like to me, if you are a follower of Christ. and you have been redeemed by his blood, and you have put your faith in his death and his burial and his resurrection as the full propitiation for your sin, and you're not trying to appease God by some good deed that you do, if you are aware of the fact that you are in the presence of the king, you should live in a state of perpetual joyfulness. And if you're not, all you're really doing is announcing to the world around you that you forgot he was present. You actually have to be a person of character. If people show up and nothing's there, they ain't coming back. They ain't telling nobody. And if they do, they say, well, whatever you do, don't go over there. They ain't got nothing over there. And what we have to do is we have to understand people are, we live in a rapidly changing world. So, it's really interesting. I was watching CNBC this morning, and I don't watch the news, but I do watch CNBC because I want to see what the market's doing before the market. opens right and they had this dude on there that was being interviewed about like they're gonna do 500 500 billion dollars in college debt relief right $500 billion in college debt relief. You know why? Because they already know college is a scam for most people. They know it doesn't work. Most people who go to college and get a degree cannot get a job in the thing they got their degree in, so they wasted all that time and all that money to get a piece of paper to hang on the wall that they can't even use. So now we've got to forgive their debt because they don't have to make enough money to pay their debt. It's crazy, right? You have to actually be good, but yet and still, parents say, well, you got to go to college. Well, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with going to college. If you're going to build bridges, please go to college. Pass all your math classes. I'm driving across that bridge today. If you're going to build airplanes, go to college. Get a degree. If you're a doctor, you're going to be working on folks'bodies. Get a degree. But to tell every child you need to go to college, and if you don't go to college, you're going to waste your life, that's so ridiculous. Anyway, that's another conversation for a different. You have to actually be good. What am I saying? I'm saying be good. When people show up, you better be able to shine. Because if they show up and you ain't shining, they ain't showing up no more. Be a person of character. Now, the next thing you have to do is you have to produce good content. Now, here's what's really interesting. Did you all see what Seth Solomon talked about? This is so cool. He talked about common things. He talked about things people knew about, but showed them things they didn't know. Can you do that? Well, you can if you what? Prepare yourself. You can talk about things that people know about, but they don't know everything about those things. What did he talk about? He talked about the sycamore tree, the spring forth out of the wall, and fish. And creeping thing. So what is it telling us about Solomon's social media strategy? About his 3,000 proverbs, about his 1,005 songs? What is it telling us? It's telling us what it was about. It was about everyday things. Like, I don't know what to talk about. Talk about some everyday thing you know something about. Add value to somebody's life. It blows my mind. There are girls on the internet who are not yet 25 years of age who make me. millions of dollars a year teaching other girls how to put on makeup. Real talk. There are a whole lot of women who know how to put on makeup and ain't made 16 cents teaching other people how to do it. Maren, all I know how to do is cook. You can't make no money cooking. Tell that to Rachel Ray. Last I checked, she's a multimillionaire. She didn't just cook, though. She cooked in front of a camera. I don't like cameras. Okay, wouldn't stay broke. I'm not being mean. I'm saying think about what you're saying. I don't like being in front of a camera. I don't like being in front of a camera. I don't like working. You know what I like to do? I like to eat. I like to play golf. I like to sit around and relax and I like to go on vacation. Last I checked, ain't nobody hiring to do that. You have to actually be good. All you got to do is talk about the stuff you know. You don't have to talk about everything. Just talk about the stuff you know about. If you don't know about it, don't talk about it. Because if you're talking about something you don't know, it'll be a very, very short period of time before people figure out, that person don't know what they're talking about. I've listened to many people. are proclaimed experts. You don't know what you're talking about, brother. That ain't how that works. Right? Okay. So here's what's really interesting. When God created everything, he created three categories in creation. How long? I've been, oh, wow, we got a little bit of time left. I'm going to go for eight more minutes. I'm hot. Okay. So, so. God created three categories in creation. He created creation. What's creation? The sun, the moon, the stars, the grass, the trees. We could talk about that stuff. There's so much stuff to talk about. We can talk about that, right? I'm going to give you some examples in a minute. I'm going to give you some examples of stuff I've done and some stuff I haven't done, but I'm going to do it this morning just to show you how you can use creation, right? And then he talked about creatures, right? That was God's second category in creation. What's that? That's the bumblebees and the dogs and the cats and the alligators and the chickens and the giraffes. And then the last thing God created, he created creation. I mean, creators. That's us. That's human beings, men and women. In the image of God created him, male and female created him. God created man in his own image. The word man is the word Adam. That word, the word man, Adam, is talking about men and women. God called their name Adam. Adam later called her name Eve. The word that means male versus female is the word ish versus isha, right? And so what's really interesting, he wrote about, Solomon wrote about creation. Solomon wrote about creatures. And Solomon dealt with creators. And all of those things are what spread his word. This is not hard stuff, my peeps. Okay, y'all tracking? So watch this. I'm going to show you how to talk about nature. So the Bible talks a lot about trees, right? Like it starts out, like trees are in the very second chapter of the Bible. like a prominent thing in the second chapter. Genesis chapter 2, verses 16 and 17, it says, And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree that's in the midst of the garden thou shalt not eat it. of it for the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die so we see that there were the trees in the garden and then there was the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then there was another tree what was that tree a tree of life right so the bible's like and then so what happened evil was listened to Satan and was tempted, ate the fruit off the tree. Right. And then when Yeshua died, he died on what? He died on a cross, which is made of a what? A tree. Isn't it interesting how man fell in a garden with a tree, but man was redeemed in a garden with a tree. Anyway. So a tree. Psalms chapter 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and his law that he meditate day and night. Watch what it says next. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers and waters. So a tree. Why is Solomon writing about trees? Well, see, trees are indicative of nature. So if this is a seed. And this is the ground. In order for that seed to become a tree, what does it have to do? It has to go down, right? And in nature, I call this the law of advancement. In nature, before anything can go up, it has to go down. That's a law. Nobody can escape it. And see, when it goes down, there's some things down here under the ground that are different than up here. See, under the ground, it's dark. Under the ground, it's difficult. Under the ground, it's damp. Right? And so this goes down, then it has to die. By the way, once you go down, it's not enough just to go down in the dark, difficult, damp place. You have to do something. Yeah, you have to die and you have to have water and nourishment and all that. But watch this. In order for that seed to become a tree, it must be willing to cease being a seed. Until you are willing to stop being who you've been, you can never become all that you can become. See, we have to sacrifice our old self on the altar of our new self. Okay, so it goes down, then finally it grows up and it becomes a tree. But guess what? It has all these roots. So what do we see about a tree? A tree grows in two directions. It grows down so that it can grow up. The down direction of the tree is called gravotropic. Didn't know there was a word for that, did you? Gravotropic nature of the tree is that it grows away from light and towards gravity. Here's what, what can we learn from that? By the way, the phototropic nature of the tree, right? You got the sun up here. You got the sun up here, right? Right? You got the sun up here, shining in the sky, right? And so trees and plants grow toward the light, right? So the gravotropic nature of the tree, I mean the phototropic nature of the tree is that it grows toward the light. The gravotropic nature of the tree is that it grows away from the light. The phototropic nature, toward the light. Now, here's the problem. As human beings, we all want to be phototropic. We want everybody to see us. We want people to think we're awesome. We want to be famous. We want to be successful. We want all that, right? But if you ain't gravatropic, you'll never be phototropic. If you resist the gravatropic nature of life, you forfeit the phototropic nature of life. See, what am I doing? I'm talking about a tree. I'm showing you how a tree relates to you and me. And I ain't even Solomon. I can't even imagine the stuff he said. Y'all tracking? Oh, okay. So it says you talk about creeping things. So one of my favorite creeping things to talk about. Is a bee, right? That's a bee. Okay, so that's a bee. Now, here's what's really interesting. Do bees... Do bees like people? Not necessarily. Why? We're always trying to kill them. Am I telling you? When you see a bee, what you doing? You get out, I want to buy my flash water, right? Or we're shooting away, right? Do people like bees? People definitely don't like bees. Like we're like, right? A bee. Okay. So people don't like bees. Bees don't like people. But human beings breathe in oxygen. And we exhale carbon dioxide, right? Well, watch this. Bees like honey. In order for them to get the honey, they have to go over here, and they have to get nectar from the flowers. Now, you say, what does all this have to do with anything? Watch this now. This is so cool. A bee is looking out for the bee. But while the bee's looking out for the bee, it's also looking out for you and me. Because human beings inhale oxygen, exhale carbon dioxide. Trees and plants and grass and flower, they take in carbon dioxide and push out oxygen into the environment. But plants don't reproduce like people and animals do. Plants reproduce through a thing called pollinization. So when the bee goes to the flower and it goes to get the nectar so it can make the honey, it puts off pollen in the air. We know about that. in Florida, don't we? It's all over your car in the springtime. It's yellow, right? So it puts the pollen in the air, right? So it puts the pollen in the air. The pollen goes to another plant, and then it produces another plant. And then all of a sudden, you got all these plants that are putting out oxygen so human beings can stay alive. Now, the bee... beat him, wake up in the morning and said, you know what? I got to go disturb that flower so these people can stay alive and chase me with rain, try to kill me with a fly. I know what they said. They said, we got to get some honey. We got to make some honey. We got to make some honey. So what are we going to do? We're going to go get some nectar so we can make some honey. Did you know that 80% of pollinization, 20% of pollinization happens because of wind and water? 80% of pollinization happens because of animals and insects. 80% of the oxygen that we breathe is created by animals and insects. Isn't that fascinating? So, but the bee is not looking out for the human intentionally. It is a byproduct of perturbation. Perturbation. Okay, that's a hard word to say, perturbation. Like perturb, what does perturb mean? It means to disturb something, right? So when, what happens through the concept of perturbation, this bee goes to the flower because it wants the nectar so it can make some honey. But in so doing, it puts off the pollen, which produces more plants, which produces oxygen, which keeps the human beings alive. So the bee is not looking out for the people intentionally. It's just a byproduct. By the way, you say, what does that have to do with anything? Well, when God made bees, he made them honeybees. When God made people, he didn't make us. We don't care about, I mean, we like honey. I like honey in my tea. But not enough to go disturb some flowers and go make some. Right? But the B has self-interest. Well, God made human beings as creators so we can go create things. And watch what happens. The things that we create, the byproduct of our creation, creates opportunities for other people to create. Why? Because one of the principles about creation is this. Every time you create a solution, one solution, Creates at least 10 new problems. Man, when I'm talking fast, I can't spell worth a quarter. I can't really spell when I'm talking slow, but when I'm talking fast, it gets horrible. Okay, creates 10 new problems. So what does that mean? Okay, for instance, for instance, like I bought this, this digital whiteboard. Guess what I needed? It was, I, it was. It was a solution. I had a digital whiteboard, but guess what I need? I had to buy a stand. Why? Because I need to have something to put it on, right? So the board and the stand are separate, right? When I bought my iPhone, I bought my iPhone, right? I bought my iPhone, but I didn't just buy an iPhone. I bought one of those little glass screen protectors, one of those, whatever it's called. Tempered, yeah, tempered screens to put on it so when the screen doesn't crack if I drop it, I put a plastic case on it with a little ring so it doesn't slip off my finger. Then I had to buy all these apps. So this creation of Apple created an opportunity for this company to make millions of dollars selling cases because having an iPhone is a solution, but it's also a problem. Having a car is a solution, but it's also a problem. Now you need windshield wipers, okay? Now you need brakes, now you need tires. Every solution creates problems. If you can go around and find the problems that other people's solutions create and solve those, you may not ever be a honeybee, but you can be a moneybee. And you go make the money. And while you're looking out for yourself, what you've created for yourself automatically creates opportunities for other people. So we see you have to be a person of character. Then you have to have good content. But what's the last thing? Last one is this. Is number three, you have to be consistent. You can't do it every now and then. You think I like waking up at 5.30 or 6.30 in the morning and doing my morning routine so I can get here at 10 o'clock? I would much rather wake up later. But you know what? There's something to be said about being consistent. How many of y'all, every Wednesday, like, man, I hope my iron's going to be there at 10 o'clock, right? I need to show up. I've got to be consistent. Why? Because when you're consistent, people know, they begin to learn that they can count on you. So we do a video on Wednesday, we do a video on Friday, whether we feel like it or not. And most of the time we feel like it, but sometimes not so much. You have to be consistent. This was King Solomon's social media strategy. Now here's what I'm going to do. I'm gonna go live again on Friday morning because I didn't have time to finish. Because Friday I'm gonna show you the business model, which is what I thought I was gonna show you last week and I hoped I would get to this week. I know I'm delusional with time. I get it. So y'all pray for me. This is a judgment-free zone. Okay, so Friday... morning at 10 o'clock, for those of you who'd like to, I'm going to show you a business model of King Solomon. How can I say this? I have built, by the grace of God, my team and I have built, by the grace of God, a multi, multi, multi, multi, multi... million dollar business based on the principles of King Solomon's business model. I got it from there. I said, you know what I'm going to do? Solomon was the wisest, wealthiest man who ever lived. I'm just going to do what God told him to do and see if it'll work for me. Guess what? It still works. Thousands of years later, it still works. It's crazy. It's amazing. It still works. And guess what? I don't ever look for anybody to sell anything to. I don't make cold calls. How do you get them to buy? I don't get them to buy. Like somebody says, I don't know if this is for me. Okay, cool. I love you anyway. I'm done. It's such a freeing way to live your life. Just do these things. Be a person of character. Actually be good. There's a book called So Good They Can't Ignore You. Are you that good? Are you so good? Like the marketplace just can't they even the ones who want to ignore even ones who don't like you can't ignore you They got to show up and drop some hate on you every now and then because you so good They can't even and they just wish they was that good. So they gonna show up and drop you some hate Right? But your haters are your elevators. Don't forget that. All right. Anyway, I hope this blessed you. I hope it'll give you some tangible action steps that you can take to take your life, your business, and your family to the next level by the grace of God. In the meantime, in between time, it's been real, it's been fun, and it's been real fun. Peace out, Cub Scouts. I'll see you. Oh, by the way, like the video, share the video, comment on the video, and all the rest of that YouTube-y stuff that y'all know.

And it's really interesting how people react to titles, right? They react to titles as if the title meant their interpretation, right? And so when I talk about King Solomon's social media, I'm literally talking about How King Solomon spread the word about his wisdom, or how the word was spread, and it wasn't even necessarily that he spread the word.

One of the things that's really, really interesting about having some of the characteristics that Solomon had, people are going to find out about you. One of my favorite quotes is by Abraham Lincoln. He said, I will prepare myself and perhaps my time will come.

Right? How many of y'all have heard that phrase before? Right? I will prepare myself and perhaps my time will come.

But Myron Golden says. Your time's going to come whether you prepare yourself or not. If you're prepared when your time comes, it will reveal you. If you're not prepared, it will expose you.

Everybody's time's coming, right? And so the objective all of us should have is to be ready when our time comes, right? Because the scripture says, Lord, teach us to number our days. Why?

That we may apply our hearts on the wisdom. So, so, um, We're going to start this morning in 1 Kings chapter 10, then we're going to go back where we started last week to 1 Kings chapter 3 and finish that story, and then we're going to go to look at the social media that happened in 1 Kings chapter 4. But before I even go there, I want to show you the result of Solomon's social media, right? I'm going to show you the result.

So it says in 1 Kings chapter 10, verse number 1, it says, And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame, heard of the fame. of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. So that's called a clue, right? She heard of the fame.

It wasn't that he was looking for her. He wasn't looking for her. He didn't say, I'm going to go make some cold calls and I'm going to do a cold call with the queen. Bathsheba, and I'm going to do a cold call with the king of the Zidonians, and I'm going to do a cold call.

No, he didn't do cold calling with anybody. She heard about his fame. So just remember that, okay?

And it was not, his fame was not about his fame. His fame was about the name of the Lord. Like, I know there are business people who don't think that I should talk about the Bible. There are Bible people who don't think I should talk about business. All of them are confused because the Bible has a lot to say about business because business is a good idea because business is a God idea.

The scripture says in the Old Testament that a dream cometh through a multitude of business. And in the New Testament it says, and that you study to be quiet and to do your own business. It didn't say have your own job. It said do your own business.

Working with your hands as we commanded you. Oh, okay. In that same book, or another letter written to the same people.

That was 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians. The apostle Paul said that if a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat, right? So God's, here's what it says.

It says that you study to be quiet, to do your own business, working with your hands as we commanded you. Why? That you may walk honestly toward the end of the world without. What is that talking about? Paying your bills on time.

And that you may have lack of nothing. What's that talking about? That's talking about abundance, right?

I'm not making this up. And you're one of those prosperity gospel preachers. I'm not a poverty gospel preacher, but I don't find the term prosperity gospel in the Bible.

So it's not something that I'm not going to assume I know what people are talking about when they say that. But what I am doing is I'm showing people that the Bible is a guidebook. It's not a religious book. It's a guidebook to guide you through life in all the aspects of life. And it can show you how to have a better marriage.

And it can show you how to have better relationships with your friends. And it can show you how to have a better relationship with your spouse. And it can show you how to have a better business.

Because it talks about all of those things. Okay, anyway, so she heard about the fame concerning the name of the Lord. Verse 2, and she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bear spices and very much gold and precious stones, and she was come to Solomon.

She communed with him of all that was in her heart. So the Queen of Sheba, one of the things she heard about Solomon is when Solomon reigned, he had peace around him on all sides. All the days of his reign, his kingdom ran smoothly.

She was a monarch. He was a monarch. She came to learn how to make her kingdom run as smoothly as his kingdom ran, right?

And so she came and asked him hard questions. How many of y'all know, like, running a family's hard. Running a country, it's got to be at least a little. harder, right? I mean, at least, right?

So it says, and Solomon told her all her questions, and there was not anything hidden from Solomon from the king, which he told her not. He told her all her questions. What does that mean? That means he answered all her questions.

He didn't say, well, you know what? I'm going to have to get back with you on that one. No, Solomon said, well, here's the answer to that.

Here's how you fix that. Here's how you fix this. Here's how you fix that.

This is how you fix the next thing. Oh, you're having problems with your problem? Okay, this is what you do with that. You're having problems with your princess?

Okay, this is what you do with that. And he gave her all of the answers. And then it says, in verse 4, it says, when the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom, when the queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom, Not that she heard all of his wisdom. She heard about his wisdom, and then she came to see his wisdom, right?

Well, how do you see wisdom? Well, in order to understand how you see wisdom, you have to know what wisdom is and what wisdom is not. So first of all, understand this.

Wisdom is not intelligence, okay? Wisdom is not IQ. Wisdom is not knowledge.

Wisdom is not a degree, right? Wisdom is not a claim. Wisdom is not being published.

None of that proves that you have wisdom. So what is wisdom? Well, before I can tell you what wisdom is, let me give you some prerequisites to wisdom. Okay?

So wisdom has some prerequisites. And everybody starts with a prerequisite. If you don't do the prerequisites, you can't get the requisite. You can't get wisdom. If you don't get these other three things, you ain't going to have wisdom.

Okay, y'all ready? Here we go. So the first prerequisite to wisdom is called ignorance. Congratulations, you were born with it. Like when you were born, you didn't know your hand from your foot, your eyes from your ears, up from down, mama from daddy.

You didn't know hot from cold, wet from dry. You didn't know anything. Y'all tracking?

Okay, so we were ignorant. What's ignorance? Ignorance is the, okay, I'm gonna move this over a little bit. Ignorance is the absence. I didn't spell that right.

Yeah, I did. I think. The absence of truth, right?

So ignorance is the absence of truth. You're just totally unaware of the truth. You just don't know it. So our lives should be about solving this problem.

This is our first problem. Right? So what happens? We start to solve that problem with what? With this thing called knowledge.

See, when God uses the word wisdom and the word, the word wisdom and the word knowledge and the word understanding, he's not using different words. So he doesn't sound redundant. OK, so when God used the word knowledge, knowledge is not a synonym for wisdom. It's something totally different.

It's not a synonym for understanding. It's something totally different. So what's knowledge? Knowledge is the accumulation. of truth.

And I may have spelled that wrong. So I may need to go accumulate some knowledge from the ABCs, right? Right? So if I spell a word wrong down here, y'all, y'all, this is called, this is like spell check on a computer. Take any letter from A to Z, put it where it goes together.

can spell these words right. OK, so knowledge is the accumulation of truth, right? So what we do is we go around and we learn facts.

And sometimes facts are truth, and sometimes facts are just true. Now, you say, what does that mean, Myron? So everything that's true is not truth, but everything that's truth is true. Truth is static.

It never changes. What's true can be dynamic. It can change. Like right now, I'm in my office.

But when I woke up this morning, I wasn't in my office. So me being in my office is true, but it's not truth. Why? It can change. If it can change, it's not true, right?

There are some things that are truth, they can't change, right? And so we have to understand that the word of God is not just true, but the word of God is truth, and truth establishes truth. Are y'all tracking? So what we have to do, we gain knowledge of the truth. The more knowledge we have of the truth about anything, the better chance we have of making that aspect of our lives better, right?

And a lot of people don't like truth, right? And we live in a world that wants to silence truth, right? We live in a world that when they don't like the truth, they try to silence the truth.

By the way, truth never has to silence error in order for truth to exist. Because it will become evident that it's truth. But error has to silence truth in order for error to exist. Because if I tell you that my name is Denzel Washington, well, that wouldn't pass because y'all know who Denzel Washington is.

Okay, if I tell you my name is Charles Williams, right, I can't tell you that lie in front of anybody who knows my real name. Right? So what do I have to do?

I have to make sure if those people who know my real name are in the same space, I have to keep them silent. And that's why political correctness is not just bad, it's evil. That's why the attack on free speech is not just bad, it's evil. Because they're trying to silence, like, we have this argument in our world about 75 genders.

Well, God made two genders, so guess how many there are? There are men and there are women. And if you ain't a man, you're a woman. If you ain't a woman, you're a man. Now, you may want to be called something else, and that's okay.

That's you. Now, if you want to be called something else, that's okay for you and the people who want to call you that. But I'm not, like, and I'm not being mean.

I'm not talking about truth. Like, if somebody really believes something, they can believe it all by themselves. Right? Truth, like, if I believe something's true, I can believe it all by myself.

Even if I'm wrong and I believe it, I can believe it by myself. I don't need you to go along with me. Right? And the reason the world system is attempting to silence the voices. of people who speak truth that disagrees with the direction of the world is because it makes people feel uncomfortable that they're about to be found out as a liar.

Real talk. Now, that wasn't where I was going, but we ended up there. So ignorance is the absence of truth.

Knowledge is the accumulation of truth. Now we got another one. We have understanding.

What's understanding? Understanding is the assimilation of truth. So now I've assimilated.

Not only have I collected the truth by accumulation, but I've comprehended the truth by assimilation. I understand what it means, right? See, here's what's really interesting. You can have knowledge and not have understanding.

By the way, that's one of the biggest problems with what I call the miseducational, misdirectional system, a.k.a. the government indoctrination camps, schools, child prisons, whatever you want to call it. That's one of the problems I have with that system. And by the way, I love teachers.

I hate the system. Why? Because the system is designed to teach you. what to know or what to think instead of teaching you how to think.

In fact, they don't want you to think. They just want you to remember what they told you is real. I'm keeping it real.

I know I'm keeping it real, right? And so the problem, like, I don't have time to chase rats. So the problem, like, we can know something.

Like, for instance, when I was younger, somebody taught me how to play two songs. the piano. So I memorized all the places I was supposed to put my fingers and I could play songs.

So I had knowledge of how to play those songs, but I had no understanding of what I was doing. Right? So you can know how to do something and not understand why it works.

Right? A lot of people know things. but they don't understand the things they know. So one of the things we have to do is we have to make sure that when we're accumulating knowledge, that we're praying for God to give us understanding of the knowledge we're accumulating.

And then after we have these three prerequisites, then we can have wisdom. Okay, what's wisdom? Wisdom, by the way, the word wisdom is the Greek word chachal, and it means the application.

of truth. So if you look up the word wisdom in the Old Testament, you will see that it would translate not into our modern day word intelligence, not into our modern day word education, not into our modern day word IQ, but into our modern day word skill. That's why she was able to see the wisdom of Solomon. She saw the skill with which he ran his kingdom.

Are y'all with me? Wave at me. Talk to me, my people. Okay.

So now that we understand what wisdom is, It says, I'm going to go back to reading now because I'm going somewhere with all of this. I'm not just ranting and raving like a maniac just because I'm a maniac. Oh, no, there are better reasons than that. Okay, so she said, when the queen of Sheba, verse 4, and when the queen of Sheba had seen all the things that were going on, Solomon's wisdom in the house that he had built and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers and their apparel and his cupbearers and the ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord there was no more spirit in her was that mean his wisdom was so grand it took her breath away that's wisdom right there And it says there was no more spirit in her.

And then it says, and she said to the king, watch this now, it was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. She heard about Solomon in her own country. Wait, what? They didn't have internet. They didn't have phones, IG, YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Google, Twitter, TikTok, and they still heard about Solomon in other countries.

What in the world? Like, I'm getting chills thinking about this. Okay, hang in there with me now. It was true. And she said unto the king, verse six, it was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

How be it? I believe not the words. Until I came and mine eyes have seen it and behold, the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame, which I heard.

Oh, by the way, you know what that means? Solomon, his wisdom did not exceed him. It just preceded him.

See, there are a lot of people, your wisdom precedes you, but then when they meet you, your wisdom don't exceed you. There's a whole lot of people out there who are famous and ain't talking about nothing. Oh, that reminds me of a verse I read in the Bible somewhere.

It says, oh, great men are not always wise. Right? So just because somebody has a following doesn't mean they know what they're talking about. Right?

Because in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I wish I had some help in here. In the land of the blind.

Okay. Now, so the queen of Sheba. whose kingdom was in Africa, heard of Solomon's wisdom all the way from Jerusalem, she said, I got to go see if this is true.

By the way, she was coming, believing that it wasn't true. Let me ask you a question. When somebody comes to find out if all the stuff they heard about you is true, are they underwhelmed or overwhelmed with the reality of you? I hope I ain't talking too fast, because I talk fast sometimes.

Okay, now let's go back to chapter three. Where did all of this fame start? Well, it's really interesting how, like, when you start out, it helps to start out doing something remarkable.

How do you start out doing something remarkable? I will prepare myself, and perhaps my time will come. Your time is going to come whether you prepare yourself or not. Tom Landry, when he recruited, I think it was one of those football player dudes. I don't even remember his name.

I'm not a football fan. Sorry, guys. I know Tom Landry was the coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

He recruited some Hall of Fame college football player. And somebody said, how does it feel? to have, like, one as a draft, a player with such a burning desire to win.

Tom Landry said, not near as good, somebody grab that for me, not near as good as it does to have recruited somebody who has such a burning desire to prepare. Like, do you want, do you, are you more concerned about being revealed or are you more concerned about being ready? Right? Because if you will make yourself ready, eventually you will be revealed. Can I get a witness?

Where are my people? Talk to me, my peeps. Talk to me.

If you will be, if you'll make yourself ready. And there are so many people that are like, they want to have a million followers and only thing's going to happen is when you get a million followers, they're going to find out you don't know nothing because you didn't prepare yourself. Right? So back in chapter 3, Solomon prayed for wisdom.

Y'all remember the story we read last week? I'm not going to read the whole thing again. Okay? So Solomon prayed for wisdom.

And then verse 11, chapter 3, verse 11, it says, And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast thou asked riches for thyself, nor hast thou asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment. Y'all remember the prayer of Solomon? We talked about last week. Dear Lord, give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this earth to do in a way that pleases you and serves the people you put me here to serve.

If y'all didn't see that, go watch our video from last week. I don't remember the name of it, but it has something to do with Solomon. You find it. You're smart.

It's on. on YouTube. Okay.

It's got a thumbnail. Okay. So, um, so he prayed that prayer and God said, because you asked for this, I'm going to give you that, but I'm going to give you what you didn't ask for also. And that's in, um, um, verse 12, it says, behold, I've done according to thy words. And I've given thee a wise and an understanding heart so that there was none like thee before thee neither after these shall arise any like unto thee.

Like when we seek to please God and serve people, like we will be the best of the best. You can forget about the rest. Like we have no competition like the last thing in the world.

I'm worried about is competition But my what if they hack your funnel they can hack my funnel, but they can't hack my brain You can't hack my knowledge base. You can't hack my years of study. How are you going to hack that without years of study? Right?

Okay. So, and if thou wilt walk in my ways and keep my statutes and my commandments that thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. And Solomon woke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord and offered burnt offerings and offered peace offerings and made a feast to all his servants.

And there came two women. that were harlots unto the king and stood before him. And one woman said, oh my Lord, I and this woman dwell in one house and I was delivered of a child with her in the house and it came to pass the third day after I was delivered that this woman was delivered also. And we were together and there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. And the woman's child.

died in the night because she overlaid it. In other words, she rolled over on her baby and killed it. And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while I handmade slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I arose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead.

But when I considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I bear. And the other woman said, nay, but the living is my son and the dead is thy son. And this said, and this said, no, but the dead is thy son and the living is my son.

Otherwise, he says, she said, OK, thus speak, thus they speak before the king. And then said the king, the one said, this is my son that liveth and thy son is dead. The other said, nay, but thy son is dead and my son liveth. And the king said, bring me a sword.

Do you say, say, say, say, say, now what sword? I just want to know what swords got to do with babies and what babies got to do with swords. Y'all know what I'm saying?

Okay. He said, he said, bring me a sword. See, because Solomon, God gave Solomon the wisdom to understand human nature. The king said, bring me a sword.

And they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son.

And she said, oh, my Lord, give her the living and in no wise slay it. But the other said, let it be neither thine nor mine, mine nor thine, but divide it. And the king said, give her the living and in no wise slay it. She is the mother thereof. He gave the living child to the one that said, don't slay it.

And all Israel, watch this now, and all Israel heard of the judgment with the king, which which the king had judged. And they feared the king for they saw they saw. The wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

Now, when you understand what a king's job was, a king's job was to try cases. And in order to try cases, he had to have the wisdom of God in him. That's why the scripture tells us over in Deuteronomy chapter 17, over in Deuteronomy chapter 17, that the job of the king was to take a pen and a piece of paper and copy out the words in the Torah all the days of his reign. You're supposed to be studying the word of God.

What's the king's job? Study the word of God so when a case comes before you, the wisdom of God will be in you. Guess what?

That's good advice for anybody. That's good advice for you. That's good advice for me.

That's good advice for all us up in here, all them Zoomsters, all them YouTubers, like everybody. That's just good advice. Am I telling y'all the truth?

Study the word of God. Why? I tell people this all, man, your content's so amazing.

Well, I just get it from the Bible. God has the best content. It don't get no better than that. Okay, why?

I'm gonna prove it to you. I'm gonna prove it to you. Why? So now we go to the next chapter and I don't have, I'm not gonna read all of it because it talks about all the princes that he put over these different jobs. Solomon was delegating who's gonna do what.

I'm not gonna read all that. Okay, I'm gonna come down to the end. I'm not even going to talk about his wealth yet.

I'm not even going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about verse 29. Here's what it says. And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

And Solomon's wisdom excelled all the wisdom of the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt, for he was wiser than all men. Where'd that come from? It came from God. The closer we get to God and doing things his way, the wiser we will be, the more skill we will have. Why?

Because we will have more truth. Ignorance is the absence of truth. Knowledge is the accumulation of truth.

Understanding is the assimilation of truth. Wisdom is the application of truth. And if I don't have any truth, I don't have anything to apply. Okay, watch what happens now.

And it says, he was wiser than all men, and then it starts naming people. This is so funny to me. I don't know why.

Every time I read this, I laugh. It says he was wiser than all men, then it starts naming people. It says he was wiser than all men, then ETH and the Ezraite, then Haman and Chachal and Darda and the sons of Mahal, and his fame was in all nations.

His fame was in all nations? They didn't have Twitter. They didn't have, I'm telling y'all, they didn't have an interwebs. Solomon was so wise, people couldn't stop talking about him.

They couldn't stop talking. Did y'all hear what Solomon did with the two women and the baby and the sword? No, what did he do? And then they, and he did not.

And then they went and told somebody, right? So. And he spake 3,000 proverbs. Some of y'all got 15 posts and wonder why you ain't got no followers. 15. One five.

He spake 3,000 proverbs. His songs were 1,005. Now it starts breaking down his content. He spake of the trees, from the cedar tree in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that springeth forth out of the wall.

And he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon. from all the kings of the earth which had heard his wisdom.

This is so mind-blowing to me. And you've heard me say, on one of my videos, I don't remember which one it was. I guess you're just gonna have to watch all of them. But on one of my videos, I said, one of the biggest mistakes business owners make, entrepreneurs make, is they're always looking for somebody to sell stuff to. What's your elevator pitch?

I don't have an elevator pitch. Why? I don't need one. I'm not looking for somebody to sell something to. I'm looking for somebody to serve.

I'm looking for somebody to help. I'm looking for somebody to bless. I'm looking for somebody who my life can encourage their life.

I'm not looking for somebody to sell something to. Why? Because if I will make sure that I am a person of substance, the people who are looking for what I have are going to come looking for me. If you have something good that helps people and serves people, there are a thousand, maybe ten thousand, maybe a hundred thousand, maybe a hundred million people in the world who would love to come buy what you have if they only knew you existed.

But you know what the problem is? You only show up when you want to sell something. I'm not the example of this, but I am an example of this.

I have hundreds of hours of videos on YouTube and Facebook and on the internet where I am teaching people things that have made my life better, and I'm asking them for nothing. Hmm. Maybe that's a clue. Maybe that's something I should do. Now, so we're talking about the wisdom of Solomon.

So we're talking about the social media of Solomon. So here's the first point. In order for you to practice Solomon's social media strategy, the first thing you have to do is you have to be a person of character.

Not enough is said. There's way too much emphasis placed on talent today and not enough emphasis placed on character. What is character? Character is conscientiousness.

Character is being on time. Character is when you're working on something, like you give everything you got. I remember my mom used to say this to us all the time when we were kids. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

Like, and she, all the time, she preached that to us like it was her job. You know why? Because it was her job. Okay, so, character. Be a person of integrity.

Tell the truth. You want to know, you want to know the first thing you have to do if you want to have a great social media strategy? You actually have to be good at something.

You actually have to be somebody who can actually contribute value to somebody other than you. We got two kinds of people in this world. We got makers and we got takers. And the takers don't like makers.

And the makers ain't crazy about takers either. And when they show up, they either show up and make something or they show up to take something. And see, makers don't like, I mean, takers don't like making stuff. They just want to take the stuff the makers made. That's why I can't stand them politicians.

Always trying to get their hands in somebody else's pocket. Have not created anything, empty thing their whole life. It should be illegal to be a career politician.

Anyway, that's another conversation for a different day. Right? Makers and takers. You got folk out here in the street.

They want to, they want to, they want to, they want to follow somebody on Instagram so they can follow them home and then hit them in the head and take what they... If you would put that much ingenuity into doing something good, your life would change. Like actually be good at something. And by the way, here's something interesting. God didn't give any of us everything, but he gave all of us something.

Right? So now I don't have to be in competition. I don't have to be in competition with anybody in this room.

And nobody in this room has to be in competition with me. We can all serve each other, serve people, please God, and the whole world becomes a better place. Right? The scripture says, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Now people don't know what that means.

I got a video on that too. So what is the kingdom of God? I believe that the kingdom of God is when I yield my life to God as the sovereign king of my life.

He makes me the king over an assignment to rule over an assignment, and then I use that assignment that I rule over to serve every human being I come in contact with. That's the kingdom of God. And people say, well, that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says the kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Those are just words.

I don't mean in the Bible they're just words. When you say them, they're just words. So what is righteousness?

What is peace? What is joy in the Holy Ghost? Well, I believe that righteousness is when God rules over my example. So I'm doing the things that God told me to do so other people see my light and glorify who?

My Father which is in heaven. See how it all fits together so perfectly? So when God rules over my example, God is the king of my life. The kingdom of God has come into my life because God's ruling over my example.

But it says peace. What's peace? That's when God rules over my experience. What happens when God rules over experience? When God rules over your experience, the giant that everybody else is running from, you can run towards.

Right? When God rules over your experience, the king who threatens to throw you into the fiery furnace, you can say, we are not going to be careful to answer you in this matter, O king. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and he will, but even if he doesn't, we still ain't bound.

Why? Because God's ruling over your experience. You're not worried about what some human is going to do to you.

And then it says joy in the Holy Ghost. What's joy in the Holy Ghost? That's when God rules over your expression. Like if I ask you how you're doing and you say, not too bad, that is not a Holy Ghost answer, right? Because the scripture says joy, where?

In the Holy Ghost. Okay, now what is joy? Joyfulness, joyfulness is a state of being. in awareness of the fact that you are in the presence of the king.

What does that mean? Well, the scripture says, Philippians 4, 4, rejoice in the Lord when? Always. Okay, now when is always? Always.

That pretty much covered the whole thing, right? Okay, no, that sounds funny, right? So rejoice in the Lord always. Well, when is always?

Well, it's always. And then it says, and again, I say, well, if you said always, why are you saying it again? And again, I say what? Rejoice. What's the prefix re mean?

To do it again. So he's saying, again, I say, again, have joy in the Lord always. And again, I say, again, have joy.

That sounds like to me, if you are a follower of Christ. and you have been redeemed by his blood, and you have put your faith in his death and his burial and his resurrection as the full propitiation for your sin, and you're not trying to appease God by some good deed that you do, if you are aware of the fact that you are in the presence of the king, you should live in a state of perpetual joyfulness. And if you're not, all you're really doing is announcing to the world around you that you forgot he was present. You actually have to be a person of character. If people show up and nothing's there, they ain't coming back.

They ain't telling nobody. And if they do, they say, well, whatever you do, don't go over there. They ain't got nothing over there. And what we have to do is we have to understand people are, we live in a rapidly changing world.

So, it's really interesting. I was watching CNBC this morning, and I don't watch the news, but I do watch CNBC because I want to see what the market's doing before the market. opens right and they had this dude on there that was being interviewed about like they're gonna do 500 500 billion dollars in college debt relief right $500 billion in college debt relief.

You know why? Because they already know college is a scam for most people. They know it doesn't work.

Most people who go to college and get a degree cannot get a job in the thing they got their degree in, so they wasted all that time and all that money to get a piece of paper to hang on the wall that they can't even use. So now we've got to forgive their debt because they don't have to make enough money to pay their debt. It's crazy, right? You have to actually be good, but yet and still, parents say, well, you got to go to college. Well, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with going to college.

If you're going to build bridges, please go to college. Pass all your math classes. I'm driving across that bridge today. If you're going to build airplanes, go to college. Get a degree.

If you're a doctor, you're going to be working on folks'bodies. Get a degree. But to tell every child you need to go to college, and if you don't go to college, you're going to waste your life, that's so ridiculous. Anyway, that's another conversation for a different.

You have to actually be good. What am I saying? I'm saying be good. When people show up, you better be able to shine. Because if they show up and you ain't shining, they ain't showing up no more.

Be a person of character. Now, the next thing you have to do is you have to produce good content. Now, here's what's really interesting. Did you all see what Seth Solomon talked about? This is so cool.

He talked about common things. He talked about things people knew about, but showed them things they didn't know. Can you do that? Well, you can if you what?

Prepare yourself. You can talk about things that people know about, but they don't know everything about those things. What did he talk about?

He talked about the sycamore tree, the spring forth out of the wall, and fish. And creeping thing. So what is it telling us about Solomon's social media strategy? About his 3,000 proverbs, about his 1,005 songs? What is it telling us?

It's telling us what it was about. It was about everyday things. Like, I don't know what to talk about. Talk about some everyday thing you know something about. Add value to somebody's life.

It blows my mind. There are girls on the internet who are not yet 25 years of age who make me. millions of dollars a year teaching other girls how to put on makeup. Real talk. There are a whole lot of women who know how to put on makeup and ain't made 16 cents teaching other people how to do it.

Maren, all I know how to do is cook. You can't make no money cooking. Tell that to Rachel Ray. Last I checked, she's a multimillionaire. She didn't just cook, though.

She cooked in front of a camera. I don't like cameras. Okay, wouldn't stay broke. I'm not being mean. I'm saying think about what you're saying.

I don't like being in front of a camera. I don't like being in front of a camera. I don't like working. You know what I like to do? I like to eat.

I like to play golf. I like to sit around and relax and I like to go on vacation. Last I checked, ain't nobody hiring to do that. You have to actually be good. All you got to do is talk about the stuff you know.

You don't have to talk about everything. Just talk about the stuff you know about. If you don't know about it, don't talk about it. Because if you're talking about something you don't know, it'll be a very, very short period of time before people figure out, that person don't know what they're talking about.

I've listened to many people. are proclaimed experts. You don't know what you're talking about, brother.

That ain't how that works. Right? Okay. So here's what's really interesting.

When God created everything, he created three categories in creation. How long? I've been, oh, wow, we got a little bit of time left.

I'm going to go for eight more minutes. I'm hot. Okay.

So, so. God created three categories in creation. He created creation.

What's creation? The sun, the moon, the stars, the grass, the trees. We could talk about that stuff. There's so much stuff to talk about. We can talk about that, right?

I'm going to give you some examples in a minute. I'm going to give you some examples of stuff I've done and some stuff I haven't done, but I'm going to do it this morning just to show you how you can use creation, right? And then he talked about creatures, right? That was God's second category in creation.

What's that? That's the bumblebees and the dogs and the cats and the alligators and the chickens and the giraffes. And then the last thing God created, he created creation.

I mean, creators. That's us. That's human beings, men and women. In the image of God created him, male and female created him. God created man in his own image.

The word man is the word Adam. That word, the word man, Adam, is talking about men and women. God called their name Adam.

Adam later called her name Eve. The word that means male versus female is the word ish versus isha, right? And so what's really interesting, he wrote about, Solomon wrote about creation. Solomon wrote about creatures. And Solomon dealt with creators.

And all of those things are what spread his word. This is not hard stuff, my peeps. Okay, y'all tracking? So watch this.

I'm going to show you how to talk about nature. So the Bible talks a lot about trees, right? Like it starts out, like trees are in the very second chapter of the Bible. like a prominent thing in the second chapter. Genesis chapter 2, verses 16 and 17, it says, And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree that's in the midst of the garden thou shalt not eat it.

of it for the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die so we see that there were the trees in the garden and then there was the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then there was another tree what was that tree a tree of life right so the bible's like and then so what happened evil was listened to Satan and was tempted, ate the fruit off the tree. Right. And then when Yeshua died, he died on what?

He died on a cross, which is made of a what? A tree. Isn't it interesting how man fell in a garden with a tree, but man was redeemed in a garden with a tree. Anyway. So a tree.

Psalms chapter 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and his law that he meditate day and night. Watch what it says next. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers and waters. So a tree.

Why is Solomon writing about trees? Well, see, trees are indicative of nature. So if this is a seed.

And this is the ground. In order for that seed to become a tree, what does it have to do? It has to go down, right?

And in nature, I call this the law of advancement. In nature, before anything can go up, it has to go down. That's a law. Nobody can escape it.

And see, when it goes down, there's some things down here under the ground that are different than up here. See, under the ground, it's dark. Under the ground, it's difficult.

Under the ground, it's damp. Right? And so this goes down, then it has to die. By the way, once you go down, it's not enough just to go down in the dark, difficult, damp place.

You have to do something. Yeah, you have to die and you have to have water and nourishment and all that. But watch this.

In order for that seed to become a tree, it must be willing to cease being a seed. Until you are willing to stop being who you've been, you can never become all that you can become. See, we have to sacrifice our old self on the altar of our new self.

Okay, so it goes down, then finally it grows up and it becomes a tree. But guess what? It has all these roots. So what do we see about a tree?

A tree grows in two directions. It grows down so that it can grow up. The down direction of the tree is called gravotropic. Didn't know there was a word for that, did you?

Gravotropic nature of the tree is that it grows away from light and towards gravity. Here's what, what can we learn from that? By the way, the phototropic nature of the tree, right? You got the sun up here.

You got the sun up here, right? Right? You got the sun up here, shining in the sky, right?

And so trees and plants grow toward the light, right? So the gravotropic nature of the tree, I mean the phototropic nature of the tree is that it grows toward the light. The gravotropic nature of the tree is that it grows away from the light.

The phototropic nature, toward the light. Now, here's the problem. As human beings, we all want to be phototropic. We want everybody to see us.

We want people to think we're awesome. We want to be famous. We want to be successful.

We want all that, right? But if you ain't gravatropic, you'll never be phototropic. If you resist the gravatropic nature of life, you forfeit the phototropic nature of life.

See, what am I doing? I'm talking about a tree. I'm showing you how a tree relates to you and me. And I ain't even Solomon.

I can't even imagine the stuff he said. Y'all tracking? Oh, okay. So it says you talk about creeping things.

So one of my favorite creeping things to talk about. Is a bee, right? That's a bee.

Okay, so that's a bee. Now, here's what's really interesting. Do bees...

Do bees like people? Not necessarily. Why?

We're always trying to kill them. Am I telling you? When you see a bee, what you doing? You get out, I want to buy my flash water, right? Or we're shooting away, right?

Do people like bees? People definitely don't like bees. Like we're like, right?

A bee. Okay. So people don't like bees. Bees don't like people. But human beings breathe in oxygen.

And we exhale carbon dioxide, right? Well, watch this. Bees like honey. In order for them to get the honey, they have to go over here, and they have to get nectar from the flowers.

Now, you say, what does all this have to do with anything? Watch this now. This is so cool. A bee is looking out for the bee.

But while the bee's looking out for the bee, it's also looking out for you and me. Because human beings inhale oxygen, exhale carbon dioxide. Trees and plants and grass and flower, they take in carbon dioxide and push out oxygen into the environment.

But plants don't reproduce like people and animals do. Plants reproduce through a thing called pollinization. So when the bee goes to the flower and it goes to get the nectar so it can make the honey, it puts off pollen in the air. We know about that. in Florida, don't we?

It's all over your car in the springtime. It's yellow, right? So it puts the pollen in the air, right?

So it puts the pollen in the air. The pollen goes to another plant, and then it produces another plant. And then all of a sudden, you got all these plants that are putting out oxygen so human beings can stay alive. Now, the bee...

beat him, wake up in the morning and said, you know what? I got to go disturb that flower so these people can stay alive and chase me with rain, try to kill me with a fly. I know what they said.

They said, we got to get some honey. We got to make some honey. We got to make some honey.

So what are we going to do? We're going to go get some nectar so we can make some honey. Did you know that 80% of pollinization, 20% of pollinization happens because of wind and water?

80% of pollinization happens because of animals and insects. 80% of the oxygen that we breathe is created by animals and insects. Isn't that fascinating?

So, but the bee is not looking out for the human intentionally. It is a byproduct of perturbation. Perturbation. Okay, that's a hard word to say, perturbation. Like perturb, what does perturb mean?

It means to disturb something, right? So when, what happens through the concept of perturbation, this bee goes to the flower because it wants the nectar so it can make some honey. But in so doing, it puts off the pollen, which produces more plants, which produces oxygen, which keeps the human beings alive. So the bee is not looking out for the people intentionally.

It's just a byproduct. By the way, you say, what does that have to do with anything? Well, when God made bees, he made them honeybees.

When God made people, he didn't make us. We don't care about, I mean, we like honey. I like honey in my tea.

But not enough to go disturb some flowers and go make some. Right? But the B has self-interest.

Well, God made human beings as creators so we can go create things. And watch what happens. The things that we create, the byproduct of our creation, creates opportunities for other people to create.

Why? Because one of the principles about creation is this. Every time you create a solution, one solution, Creates at least 10 new problems. Man, when I'm talking fast, I can't spell worth a quarter.

I can't really spell when I'm talking slow, but when I'm talking fast, it gets horrible. Okay, creates 10 new problems. So what does that mean?

Okay, for instance, for instance, like I bought this, this digital whiteboard. Guess what I needed? It was, I, it was. It was a solution.

I had a digital whiteboard, but guess what I need? I had to buy a stand. Why? Because I need to have something to put it on, right?

So the board and the stand are separate, right? When I bought my iPhone, I bought my iPhone, right? I bought my iPhone, but I didn't just buy an iPhone.

I bought one of those little glass screen protectors, one of those, whatever it's called. Tempered, yeah, tempered screens to put on it so when the screen doesn't crack if I drop it, I put a plastic case on it with a little ring so it doesn't slip off my finger. Then I had to buy all these apps.

So this creation of Apple created an opportunity for this company to make millions of dollars selling cases because having an iPhone is a solution, but it's also a problem. Having a car is a solution, but it's also a problem. Now you need windshield wipers, okay?

Now you need brakes, now you need tires. Every solution creates problems. If you can go around and find the problems that other people's solutions create and solve those, you may not ever be a honeybee, but you can be a moneybee. And you go make the money. And while you're looking out for yourself, what you've created for yourself automatically creates opportunities for other people.

So we see you have to be a person of character. Then you have to have good content. But what's the last thing? Last one is this.

Is number three, you have to be consistent. You can't do it every now and then. You think I like waking up at 5.30 or 6.30 in the morning and doing my morning routine so I can get here at 10 o'clock?

I would much rather wake up later. But you know what? There's something to be said about being consistent. How many of y'all, every Wednesday, like, man, I hope my iron's going to be there at 10 o'clock, right? I need to show up.

I've got to be consistent. Why? Because when you're consistent, people know, they begin to learn that they can count on you.

So we do a video on Wednesday, we do a video on Friday, whether we feel like it or not. And most of the time we feel like it, but sometimes not so much. You have to be consistent. This was King Solomon's social media strategy.

Now here's what I'm going to do. I'm gonna go live again on Friday morning because I didn't have time to finish. Because Friday I'm gonna show you the business model, which is what I thought I was gonna show you last week and I hoped I would get to this week. I know I'm delusional with time. I get it.

So y'all pray for me. This is a judgment-free zone. Okay, so Friday...

morning at 10 o'clock, for those of you who'd like to, I'm going to show you a business model of King Solomon. How can I say this? I have built, by the grace of God, my team and I have built, by the grace of God, a multi, multi, multi, multi, multi... million dollar business based on the principles of King Solomon's business model. I got it from there.

I said, you know what I'm going to do? Solomon was the wisest, wealthiest man who ever lived. I'm just going to do what God told him to do and see if it'll work for me. Guess what?

It still works. Thousands of years later, it still works. It's crazy.

It's amazing. It still works. And guess what? I don't ever look for anybody to sell anything to. I don't make cold calls.

How do you get them to buy? I don't get them to buy. Like somebody says, I don't know if this is for me.

Okay, cool. I love you anyway. I'm done. It's such a freeing way to live your life. Just do these things.

Be a person of character. Actually be good. There's a book called So Good They Can't Ignore You. Are you that good? Are you so good?

Like the marketplace just can't they even the ones who want to ignore even ones who don't like you can't ignore you They got to show up and drop some hate on you every now and then because you so good They can't even and they just wish they was that good. So they gonna show up and drop you some hate Right? But your haters are your elevators.

Don't forget that. All right. Anyway, I hope this blessed you. I hope it'll give you some tangible action steps that you can take to take your life, your business, and your family to the next level by the grace of God.

In the meantime, in between time, it's been real, it's been fun, and it's been real fun. Peace out, Cub Scouts. I'll see you. Oh, by the way, like the video, share the video, comment on the video, and all the rest of that YouTube-y stuff that y'all know.

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King Solomon's Social Media Insights