What do you believe in so strongly that you’re literally willing to give your life for it?
In my new book God, Money and Sex I discuss the problems we experience when we lose our connection to Fundamental Principles. The only way to have Truth is to come from Truth. And God’s Truth is the only truth. Irrespective of what we’ve been conditioned to believe in today’s secular world.
When there is no Fundamental Truth and connectivity to God the only way we have to determine behavior is by observing those around us…
(upbeat music) - Welcome to our continuing series on taking a stand for what you believe in. And today we wanna talk about making principle and virtue your foundation upon what you stand. And so wanna start off with a really intense question. What do you believe in so strongly that you're literally willing to give your entire life to it and for it? - That's a pretty big question, so I'm gonna ask that of you, but what do you believe in so strongly that you're literally willing to give your life to it and for it? - I would have to say truth. - Okay. - And truth would be the truth I'm talking about is universal truth. So the truth, the only truth, which is grounded in God and what this universe works by. - So in today's world, we hear a lot about your truth and my truth. Are you suggesting? - No, that's not what I'm saying. (laughs) - Is there such a thing as your truth and my truth? - Yes, one truth is you don't lie. Lying is not good. Stop lying. That is a truth. You should not lie. It is not good. - Totally agree with you. And is that fundamental? - Yes. - It is. So back to the original question, is there such a thing as your truth and my truth or is there just truth? - There's just truth. - There's just truth. And anything that tells you otherwise is an egregious error. In my latest book, "God, Money, and Sex," I discussed the problems, those three problems, that we experience when we lose our connection to fundamental principles. Those are what we call the three human dilemmas. God, money, and sex. When we lose our connection to fundamental principles, which is God, the only way to have truth, if you want to have truth, is to come from truth. And as Beresba stated, God's truth is what? - God's truth is only truth. - Is the only truth. Irrespective, right, of what we've been conditioned to believe in in today's secular world. So set aside, or at least consider setting aside any other thing. There's no your truth and my truth. There's one truth. It's fundamental principles for God's truth. And when there is no fundamental truth and connectivity to God, the only way we have to determine what behavior is right or wrong around us or in our lives is by doing what? - Is by looking at the people around us. - Right, and so consequently, if we look-- - And the people around us are lying. - Yes, expand on that. So we see that a lot in today's world. - Yeah, you see that a lot happening in today's world where people will just lie. And you know, one of the greatest, the best examples I've heard is from Tucker Carlson. Well, you know, when you've got your kids that come down and someone ate a cookie, and you ask them if you ate the cookie, and they're like, no, maybe, maybe I ate one, I didn't eat all of them, you know? It's kind of a little lie. But in today's world, you come down and you're like, hey, did you eat the cookie? They're like, no, you ate the cookie. - That sounds like what? - That sounds like what's going on in our government a lot today. - Yeah, to a point where you start believing, well, maybe I did, did you eat the-- - Did I forget? - Yeah, did I forget I ate the cookie? - I mean, it's a brilliant example. - Obviously, for anyone paying attention, this is causing problems in today's world. - Of course, people are being thrown in prison when they shouldn't be, I mean, for what? For standing up things that are right and grounded in truth, and they're being prosecuted, and they're losing their liberty over it. - They're standing on their principles and the virtues, and on truth, and so truth is truth. Again, just to reiterate, because we hear this around this, there's no such thing as your truth and my truth. That's a horrific error, there is truth, and when you study history, truth has been truth across all belief systems and all cultures, and the virtues that we live by have been taught by the Buddha, they've been taught by Socrates, they've been taught by Aristotle, as well. Plato, as well as many, and all fundamental moralists. Key word, moralists. If something's been around that long. - It's got to be some truth to it. - There has to be some truth to it, right? No pun intended. You can probably be assured that there's credence and credibility to it. You should probably pay attention to it. For instance, all the philosophers we mentioned earlier, all of them, as well as others, have taught what's now been called the four cardinal virtues, and let's just go through those real quickly. Prudence is number one. All of them have taught prudence. Prudence is to have economy and to be frugal, not to overspend, not to get addicted to excess. You know, you have a divine right to abundance, you don't have a right to excessiveness. Prudence, second one is temperance, that's one of your favorites. Beresville, what's temperance mean? - No. (laughs) - Temperance, I sell. - Temperance, I sell, which means what? What are you doing when you're tempering yourself? - It's self-restraint, self-control, versus self-indulgent. - That's correct. Number three, fortitude. I love this one. Fortitude is strength and firmness and courage. It's the ability to endure pain, the ability to endure adversity. - Longer. - Longer. And fourth, justice. - That's my favorite. - That's more favorite than temperance? - Yes. - All right, so talk about justice. What is justice? What's happening? - It's being fair. It's having a moral compass of being grounded in rightness. - Decency. - Decency, yes. - Yeah, they say in your humanity. - That's right. They say that true justice is blind. Well, if that's the case, and what they mean by that is it's no respecter of persons. Justice is justice for this person, as well as for that person. Justice is just truth. - Well, if that's the case, then there's a severe lack of justice in our country right now. - That's right. - And I'm sure you can come up with several examples. But we believe that justice is always what? - It's always served. - It's always served. - And we'll just leave it up to God. - Yeah, if not served by man, then it'll be served by God. But there's no escaping justice. Then there are three theological virtues that were most likely adopted by Christianity from the Apostle Paul. First one is faith. Now, Paul said faith is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of which is not yet seen. Now, let me break that down for a minute. Faith is a substance. It's not a theory, oh, it's got substance to it. Of the things that you hope for, that you haven't yet seen the evidence for. It's to have this substance within you, that faith, this faith within you, that this is going to come through in my favor as long as God is on my side. You know, faith based on ancient teachings is not blind faith. It's faith grounded in experience. So here's a great example for you to consider. How many times have you like me, or Barisabah, been hanging on by your fingernails? You know how that feels? You know, you're like about ready to tip over the edge. And then somehow, some way, something always comes through. You're still here, you're listening right now. So you made it. And so consequently, you use that as a reference. You say, am I a better human being than I was in that situation five years ago? Well, hopefully the answer's yes. Am I more wise? Am I more awake? Hopefully the answer is yes. Well then, why would it be any different now? Okay. If you saw, if something, we'll call it God, saw you through that hanging by your fingernails situation in the past, and you're a better person and more awake now, why would it be any different now? It couldn't be. It has to be only better, that's faith. The second one that came from Apostle Paul most, most definitely is hope. Hope is to have confident and trust, confidence and trust. It's not ethereal. It's to be confident and to trust, to consider that those things that you hope for are possible. And then there's love. What's, you know, we hear the word you so, so frequently, and yet very few people really understand love. What is, what's the ultimate love, Ursula? Ultimate love, I would say, would be grounded in God? That's right. You said that like a question. I did. Yeah, I mean, is that what it is for you? Ultimate love? Sure. Devotion, adoration towards God. Yes. That's a long feeling of affection and concern towards another person, that's love. So, faith, hope, regardless, regardless, regardless. Now we would believe, and check in with yourself, that anyone, including you, would be hard pressed to consider any of these virtues to be anything less than true and incredibly valuable. True. How could you argue with them? These are true. You really can't. When you ground your life, when you ground your life, in fundamental truths and timeless virtues, you just might be amazed how much peace and true power you will experience. That's true. And then you can stand for what you believe in. Irrespective of what the outside world looks like. Irrespective of the perceived consequences. Because here's the bottom line, and I'll close with this. If you're not willing to take a stand for what you believe in, then you'll fall for anything. Thanks. And really will. Truth, take a stand, take a stand. Take a stand. Thank you for giving us a few moments of your day. God bless. We'll see you in our next episode. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
