Developing the Perfect Character - Episode 44

Character isn’t just about morals; it’s about preparing for the eternal journey. 

In this episode, the two explore the topic of developing the perfect character. They begin by defining character through the lens of moral excellence and firmness. The discussion touches on the challenges of striving for perfection and the biblical concept of being perfected in faith through Jesus Christ. Emphasizing the importance of a disciplined life, they explain how character is cultivated through trials and sufferings. Drawing analogies from ships, trees, and building completed Lego sets, the hosts illustrate the process of building a strong character by following divine instructions. They conclude by highlighting the eternal significance of character development and the role of spiritual practices in achieving a godly nature. The episode aims to inspire listeners to seek spiritual growth and understand the transformative power of faith in shaping one's character for their future destiny. 

Transcript

Episode 44 - Developing the Perfect Character

Justin: [00:00:00] Hi everyone. This is Justin Olbrantz and this is Don Schaefer, and you are listening to The Wise In the Wandering Podcast. For those who know “The Way” and for those who have been led astray. And if you feel like you fall into either of those categories, then you're in the right place. Spiritual wisdom for the lost is now being revealed.

Justin: So let's dive in…

Justin: So Don, what are we going to talk about today? Well, I think we got an exciting one here. Talking about developing the perfect character. Developing the perfect character. That's right. Okay. And how do we. Develop that perfect character. 

Don: Well, there's a lot of parts to it and I just wanna start off a little bit with Webster's definition.

Justin: Okay. 

Don: And that's a moral excellence and firmness. Okay. You know, so character is an element that everybody needs to have in their [00:01:00] life. 

crosstalk: Yeah. 

Don: And I know I heard one time, and I think this is true, but uh, I think on a ship, when they built a ship, they used to, they put the strongest board in the front. Mm-hmm.

Don: So that if it hits anything. And they called it the character board. Okay. If it hits anything, it's got strength. And that's where it's a part of our life that we need to build good and perfect character, not only morally, but to be able to handle the situations that are around us. 

Justin: Okay? So the, I I agree with that.

Justin: That's really interesting. I like what you said about the boat, so, but when you say the words perfect. Right? Some people get a little put off by that, right? Some people say. Hey, we're not perfect. None of us is perfect, and even believers would say, none of us is perfect. Jesus is only perfect. Right? 

Don: That's right.

Don: That is right. Which 

Justin: I think is a good segue to say, that's why we're talking about this today. Yes. 'cause we cannot do it on our own. No. 

Don: We 

Justin: are perfected in the faith. Yes. We're, we're perfected in the belief of him and his death and a resurrection. [00:02:00] Right? Yeah. Yeah. Because it's, , the Bible says that the same power.

Justin: The rose Jesus from the grave, which allowed him to beat death is in us. Right? Right. So we have that, that character. We have that person, the Holy Spirit in us. Right? So today it's to talk about what it looks like to. Develop the perfect character within us. Amen. Because I do believe that this is, this life is kind of a probationary period for That's so true.

Justin: Eternity. 

crosstalk: That's so true. We are looking 

Justin: at an eternal life. So who we are right now, if you think about it, who we are right now, like you said, that moral, that excellence 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: Is gonna translate to eternity. Yes. Yeah. Where wherever, , when I do reach the time where it's. Time the passing over. Right.

Justin: When I do reach the time to pass over into the next, wherever I am right now. Right. Is what is eternal, right? 

Don: That's right. Yeah. So 

Justin: I think it takes a lot. It, it, it's important to consider where we're at right now, who we are, [00:03:00] right. Because that's who we're always going to be. 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: And, and I, and I just wanna say that.

Justin: So, , so to develop that character. Is to be disciplined first and foremost. 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: And so to be disciplined is to understand that your life has to change in some way, right? It it isn't just about belief. Yeah. Belief is going to be what causes you and what propels you forward to change your life.

Justin: Yes. And I think a lot of believers. I only, I just wanna say this first. A lot of believers just get stuck on that belief aspect, but what comes after that? Right. Well, the old man's gotta get put off, right? Yes. We need to be, we need to be reborn. We need to be born again. Right? So we need, our lives need to be changed.

Justin: Yes. That needs to be a part of the process. Yes. And so I just wanna say starting off there to get into a place where we are going to develop the perfect character. The mindset. Yeah. Your perspective has to first be that 

Don: my life has to change. Right, right. [00:04:00] That's good, Justin.

Don: Yeah, because it does start with believing and that's where like, I know these podcasts, you know, uh, it starts with a belief process. And if a person doesn't believe things or the important sub. Certain areas in their life, it'll never happen. Mm-hmm. And I know just bringing up character sometimes stirs up people, because if you lack character, it is something that you don't want to have anybody talk about.

Don: But it is important. And what you're saying is so true there, Justin, because it isn't something that we can develop on our own as far as. , having a perfect character. And I know in the, in the Bible in Psalms, it talks about a tree being planted by the water and it talks about, and it, it, it emphasizes character, , as , like a tree.

crosstalk: And 

Don: I know, uh, the roots of a tree is the input. You know, so the water of life is what God would input into your life. And the trunk of the tree is the character. You know, it's the strength of the tree. [00:05:00] And if the trunk gets big and bigger and bigger. It can withstand storms or whatever comes against it, but the leaves and the fruit are the results.

Don: And in a person's life you can see the character of individuals. I know even on jobs and interviews and everything, it's all about character and what's developed and the fact that what you're talking about here, Justin, this is a process of change. It's a process, everybody. Should be working on developing their character all the time.

Don: Mm-hmm. I know I hear people talk about getting bored. You should never get bored if you're trying to improve all the time, but you have to realize where the improvement comes from and it's the relationship with God. 'cause God wants to. The best out of every one of us. And like you're talking about a destiny, this is a carryover.

Don: This is something we develop right now and it's carried over. I don't believe God is bringing us to the other side and trying to develop us there. He's given us a [00:06:00] moment right now and you talk about discipline. A character is a discipline. Jesus called them disciples. 

crosstalk: Yeah. 

Don: He took three years and he showed them how he developed and worked.

Don: His character. Mm-hmm. How he prayed and how he fasted, and how he got his time before God, and how his lifestyle, you know, how the resources and everything that came into his life. He showed those 12 men what this was all about. They were disciplined and it brought, you know, the power of the resurrection.

Don: You brought up, brought up. This is what happened when Jesus rose up from the dead. He gave them his spirit that would live inside of them, the power of the resurrection. So not only did they learn a little bit where discipline comes from, uh, how to get planted by the water, how to get to a strong trunk, and how to bear good .

Don: Fruit, but they had the spirit of God working in them. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. And 

Don: that's where it's important for us because in life we are born with well, we're born with one nature. 

Justin: Yeah. 

Don: There's two [00:07:00] natures out there. And a lot of people don't realize this. You know, there's what we call a sin nature, a nature that will constantly.

Don: Cause issues in a person's life and will not allow them to build the character they should be in life. But then there is a divine nature. Mm-hmm. And when we get into the place where we start to believe in Jesus Christ and start to believe in his word, we are planting ourselves by the water, but we're also allowing a divine nature to start working inside of us.

Don: That's good. Yeah. You know, so that we can become everything that God had planned for each and every one of us. And I, I believe somewhere down the line, God has got a blueprint for every one of us. Mm-hmm. What he designed us to be. Yeah. But we have to be able to surrender to him. Mm-hmm. And that's, that's where the character comes in.

Don: You know, God develops that character in. So when a situation comes at you. You don't have any worries anymore. Yeah. You know, there's a bible talks about a peace that surpasses all understanding. Yeah. I mean, you can't understand the individual, how peaceful they can handle it. They have [00:08:00] developed a character.

Don: It's your emotions so many times, you know, it's either your character or your emotions. Your character will keep you in a certain way. Your emotions will get you in trouble. 

crosstalk: Yeah. You know, 

Don: if you don't have character, you're gonna blow up. 

crosstalk: Yeah. You 

Don: know, you're gonna get yourself all worrisome. A mental breakdown, all this sort, but 

Don: a perfect character says, I can handle this. Mm-hmm. Because there's a source in me that's living in me that will allow me to handle, and there's self all 

Justin: situations self-control. That's right. And I think especially with the emotions I really like, there's a couple things you touched on right there that I wanna talk about.

Justin: So that divine nature, see that's so important. I think it's, I think it's second Peter where he talks about we are partakers of the divine nature and. You know, I don't think the church, the modern church can even grasp what that means. The, the partakers of the divine nature. Yeah. Because that is what we are supposed to operate in.

Justin: You know, this, this power, , , the authority, [00:09:00] this, uh, the Greek word is actually exia. The authority that we're supposed to have as believers is far beyond just believing. That Jesus died and rose again to forgive all my sins so that I can go on living the same sinful life, the same life that I lived before I was saved.

Justin: Yeah. You know, it goes way beyond. We, the, the power wouldn't be there for us. The authority wouldn't be there for us, for us to continue to have the same. Character. Yeah. And you talked about the blueprint. You know, it's interesting because when I think about building a character, you know, so I'm from, I was a nineties baby, right?

Justin: So I'm a little bit younger, but when I was growing up there was the Lego blocks, the Lego blocks. So I would get a Lego set and there would be different characters that you could build, right, of [00:10:00] different series of different games, or. You know what, whatever it was, if it was Star Wars or Mario or whatever it was, so there was different characters or different sets that you would build and they would give you an instructions, uh, along with it and they would show you exactly how to build this.

Justin: And you would have essentially just enough pieces to build that character you would to build that scenery or whatever it was. Yeah. And I think that, . If you didn't follow along and you just started building things the way you wanted to, you wouldn't have enough pieces and it would not be complete.

Justin: Right, 

crosstalk: right, right. 

Justin: So there was a completed great example. So, right, so there was a goal that you are going to follow these instructions to build this perfect, that you're going to build this perfect character, you're gonna build this, this certain set, , so that you can complete [00:11:00] the right outcome, right?

Justin: So, yeah, so that, that. That set is completed the right way that it was supposed to be. And I, I say this just to say that we too also have instructions that we are to follow. Yes. We have an owner's manual. We do, we have, just like the Lego set, we have a manual that we are to follow. Yes. And a lot of the times we are given specific set of instructions.

Justin: Yes. In that manual, you could call it a blueprint. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: . You could call it a blueprint because it is our owner's manual to develop the perfect character. Yes. We have a Bible, we have the word of God. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: That is in, that is God breathed and God inspired. Yeah. To show us how to develop the perfect character , for God as God has called us to do, just like Jesus did.

Justin: Right. And we can go and we can use that word and we can try. We, we can try to do it our own way and we can always come up short. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: Just like the Lego set, [00:12:00] always coming up short, not having enough pieces because we didn't follow it the right way. That's right. That's right. That's good.

Justin: That owner's manual, that blueprint is already there for us. We just have to follow it. 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: You know, the, , the context, the groundwork has already even been laid for us. Mm-hmm. We just have to follow it. Right, right. When it comes to wanting, uh, when it, when it comes to wanting to understand what is the perfect character, well, I think Jesus Christ and his ministry and everything that he did in that three and a half year ministry in this earth was the perfect character.

Justin: He said, I only do what my father tells me to do. Yes, like you said, he was, he was fully disciplined to the point where he would go out to the, you know, Mount of Olives or he would go out to the mountains. Late at night, in the morning, and he would pray. He would pray to the father. Right. 'cause I'm only going to do what the father tells me to do.

Don: Yeah. 

Justin: So as a believer, I just have to say this, if we are going to make [00:13:00] disciples, if we're gonna follow this great commission 

Don: mm-hmm. 

Justin: Well then we need to become disciples. 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: Because we're not going to make disciples unless we first become disciples. Come 

Don: one. Yep. We gotta, so we need 

Justin: to be disciplined.

Justin: We, we need to walk. Yeah. We, we need to walk in authority. We need to walk in faith, but we need to do it in love. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: And, and that was,, I, I think that was the greatest message that Jesus portrayed and that that's the greatest message that Jesus portrayed through the Father was a message of love. Yeah.

Justin: Yeah. You know, if you think about it. If you think about it, love and discipline go hand in hand. 

Don: Right. 

Justin: , so where there's correction, there's discipline to get us back to love. 

Don: That's right. 

Justin: And when we walk out of love, discipline comes in again, just, just like you with your own kids, right? When they walk out of alignment, discipline corrects them to bring them back into alignment.

Justin: But you do that through love. Yes. [00:14:00] You know, you, . You don't necessarily do that out of anger or whatever the case is. You do that to bring them back into alignment. You do it out of love. 

Don: Yes. 

Justin: We are supposed to walk in the same way. We were given, uh, specific commandments and instructions and it is only through following those.

Justin: It is only through. Obeying those because obedience is a big part of things and it is only with taking off our own pride and putting on humility. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: That we can be. Vessels that we can be vessels for God, right? And we can be developed in the perfect way so that we can fulfill his will in our 

Don: lives.

Don: Amen to that. Amen to that. Well, Sid lot Sid there. Uh, yeah. God wants to build his character inside of us. And it's interesting you brought up the Legos because it was creating a thought in my mind there, Justin, because I'm gonna try to, I'm not really up on a lot of this stuff here, but. I think, you know, like you say the word of God, I [00:15:00] think there's some treasures there.

Don: 'cause I know in Romans in chapter eight, it talks about . We we're predestined to be in the son's image. 

crosstalk: Yeah. 

Don: And then, uh, talks about in, uh, chapter 12, transformed by the renewing of the mind. So there's gotta be a transformation in the way we think, which I think God does that in our lives.

Don: And in Galatians it says God. Uh, works until Christ is formed in us. Mm-hmm. So I think that God wants us as in His image, but you know that it's really interesting 'cause I'm watching, um, uh, a series called The House of David right now. Mm-hmm. And they're the scripture, you know, they have little pieces of scripture that's written, you know, I can't read this stuff, but the, this was a treasure to these people.

Don: Yeah. You know, to have, 'cause this was the word of God, you know, and today we got this stuff in, in, um, you know, in. Goodwills, we've got 'em in bookstores. They're all over the place and a lot of 'em are just like brand new. You know, I pick 'em up every once in a while and you can see that they've never been read.

Don: But uh, you know, these are. There's the treasures there, you know, the Lego pieces are there. God's [00:16:00] completeness is there. It's much like, you know, and I think you've explained that once to me and probably could do a lot better job than me, but, uh, Bitcoin. Mm-hmm. You know, how, how they, they got all these machines and stuff.

Don: They're looking for Bitcoin and not They're 

Justin: mining it. Yeah. They're 

Don: mining it and I really don't have a good understanding of all that, nor am I really interested in it. But, you know, they're doing all this and all the energy and everything involved just to find this. Stuff where if we were to ever put our energy in, in the character that God has wanted for us, and realizing the pieces are all in a book.

Don: Mm-hmm. That's the, that's the beauty of it. 'cause I know like myself, uh, and Justin too, I'm sure, uh, we, you know, we spend a lot of time in the word of God and it seems like every time, you know, I go through different areas. I find something new. I find something new. And I had this one lady, she was in her eighties, uh, Hild was her name, but, , she came from England and whatever, but, she, was in the Bible all her life and she took the Bible and she says, this thing is un inexhaustible, Don.

Don: She says, [00:17:00] it doesn't matter you. You can sit there and read it and think that you've gotten everything to be gotten, but it's, it's, there's still more there. 

Justin: Yeah. It's 

Don: almost like a, a bitcoin. It's 

Justin: speaking to you. Yeah. It's 

Don: speaking to you. You know, and that's where we have to realize God has got everything and he wants.

Don: To build something inside of us. This is his plan. You know, it wasn't our plan. Sometimes we have to, we figure out and try to plan our lives, but his plan is to build character. And the beauty of it, we live in a time period called the grace period. Mm-hmm. You know, it's where God's riches at Christ's expense that are coming into our life, so he helps us with it.

Don: Mm-hmm. You know, it isn't, it isn't, like you were saying, from the get go, it's not something you can build yourself. You know, that's where you get books that say, you know, you need to do this and do that. You know, and you can strengthen yourself in this area or that area. But the character, see character, and I can, this is a little test you can give yourself.

Don: Character is what you do when you're all alone and nobody is watching. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. What have you [00:18:00]

Don: built in your life, because this is what character will do. It will make you and put you in a place where you have a. Good character, good morals, good everything. It doesn't matter where you are, you know? 'cause usually when you're around people and stuff, you can put on a good face.

Don: I always tell people I can be good for quite a while, you know? Then I gotta get away from people, you know? But when you develop the right character, you develop the right character, you're good all the time. You've developed it so you can always test your character. Mm-hmm. What is it? Like for you, when you're all alone and nobody is around, nobody is watching, what are do you do with your life?

Don: What are you thinking? How are you handling life? Because God wants to perfect you in a perfect character. You are perfect in no matter what setting that you are in. Mm-hmm. 

Justin: , definitely because. Uh, God wants see, God wants the best for you and, and in a lot of cases, to be honest with you, Don, God [00:19:00] wants more for you.

Justin: He wants more for your life. 

Don: That's right. He

Justin: doesn't want you where you're at right now. This is why you needed a savior. This is why you needed to be saved in the first place. Yes. From where you're at, this is why you're reaching out to him. To begin with, this is why you're drawing close to him to begin with, is because you want something more for you, and he has to be.

Justin: And, and he's going to be faithful to that. When you show faith in him, he, it is reciprocated back. Mm-hmm. Right? That's right. 'cause he doesn't deny himself. So when it comes to, when it comes to character, character is built up in the trials, character is built up in the endurance through the trials. Now the Bible uses the word, and if you follow like King James version, it uses the word long suffering and a lot of people.

Justin: Have translated that to patience. Yeah. Okay. No, well, that's not exactly true because patience, [00:20:00] this is a mistranslation because patience is something that's done in the moment. Long suffering is something I. It. It's in the name. It is suffering for a long time. Yeah. And what is built up through long suffering is endurance.

Justin: Paul says, I have fought the good fight, the long fight of faith. This is a test of endurance. So to know this, if you'll go through the test, it will shape every area of your character and your personality. Yes. When you go through the tests, when you go through the trials and the tribulations, there won't be areas in your character that haven't been dealt with.

Don: Yep. 

Justin: Right. Everything will be dealt with, so that , I say this because I want people to know that hopefully one day. You will realize that God is using this, whatever's happening right now to change you. That's right. To draw you in. [00:21:00] Oh yeah. No matter what happens with your marriage and your spouse and your relationships.

Justin: That's right. And with your children's lives and with the trials that you're going through right now, no matter what happens if it does not get you to fully clinging to and to trust God. Your relationships, your finances, then you missed the benefits of suffering for God's will. 

crosstalk: Yeah. 

Justin: Yeah. So he has to get you to that point.

Justin: He does. Where he can build your character. And a lot of it comes, a lot of it starts when we're, when we come to him in a place of brokenness. Mm-hmm. Because. We've already been through , the sufferings. We've already been through the things that have broken us and have gotten to us to a point where we no longer want to suffer.

Justin: We no longer want to live in that spot anymore. We want to be better. God, I want more for my life. God. I want more for my children. God, I want more not for my marriage, but I want more for my spouse who's also suffering. Yeah, we need to [00:22:00] see this. In the way that God views things, because that's the way that Jesus looked at things.

Justin: That's right. Jesus said, I only do what the father tells me. He only looked at ways. He only looked at things the way the father. That's right. The way the father showed him. That's good. Right. And, and that's what we need to get into. You know, a lot of the early, , the early. Believers the way, you know, they called them.

Justin: The way they called them. There was, there was a couple different names that they had, but they, they were almost looked at as like a school. Mm-hmm. Because they were discipled, like the one they followed, they were discipled like Jesus. They had the disciplines. Yeah. And they would school people on how the way was, they would teach them the true way.

Justin: They would teach them that when. When things don't go our way, we don't get offended when people hurt us. That's good. We don't hold vengeance against them. 

Don: That's 

Justin: good. Yes. God gets vengeance, right? It's, it's not us that gets in the way of God's will. It's not us that gets in the way of judging others. It is.

Justin: When they [00:23:00] went through sufferings, I mean, you read like the first chapter of James and you read, they counted it joy to go through trials because they knew the Lord was close with them right when they were getting attacked, when they were going through these sufferings. Yes. So they schooled people. They, taught people in a new way.

Justin: This is what we have to do to develop a 

Don: perfect character. Yes. Yes. That is so good, Justin, because actually when you develop the right character, you can handle any situation. Mm-hmm. Like you talked about, uh, you know, God wants us to be in that situation. And some of the talk about the, the way in the, in the Book of Acts, as far as the early church, they had a way about a.

Don: You know, it didn't matter what you said about 'em. See, they were not easily offended. You know, there wasn't like you could hurt their feelings by things you said and would face with pressure, situations they could handle no matter what. Some of this stuff was life and death. They lived life and death, and they could have handled all that.

Don: Why? Because they developed a character. Mm-hmm. [00:24:00] You know, and that's what God wants to do. This is a selling point here. A lot of times, you know, salesmen will sit there and this is the benefits of this, you know, and you purchase it. Well. This, here is the benefit of trusting and believing in Jesus Christ.

Don: Because if you put your life where it needs to be, he will step you through so that you can handle offense, you can handle pressure. Pressure situations and tempted to sin, you know, uh, doing the wrong things in life. It is hard. You can sit there and say, you know, I'll be good, I'll be good. I I'll have good behavior for a period of time.

Don: But, you know, if you don't deal with this properly and put it into God's hands, it will never happen. Mm-hmm. And God wants to give us and develop a good character inside of us. You know, . But I do wanna, , add something here. I do have something here I thought was pretty good.

Don: Okay. And I'm talking about, um, see Perfect character is hand in hand with godly habits. Yeah. So God wants us to be like him. And so it is all about [00:25:00] habits and I just got a few things. It's all about sowing and reaping. You know, whatever you sow into your life, that's what you're gonna reap. But I just got something I wanted to read through here.

Don: It says, so a thought. Yeah, and you reap and act. So what we think about is what creates our actions. So what are we thinking about most of the time? You know, 'cause it creates actions in, in our life. And then when we sow an act, we start acting on something, we reap a habit. Mm-hmm. So if you start doing the same thing and same action for a period of time, pretty soon, that's just who you are.

Don: You developed a habit. But then again, if you so that habit. So you got a have it going for you. This is just the way I am. This is what I do. You do that for a period of time. You reap a character. So God is trying to do is put godly habits into your life. And then if you sow that character of who you are, what happens?

Don: Then you reap a destiny. And that's what Justin was talking a little bit about here. Mm-hmm. That's good. When we pass, pass over, we're taking, we're entering into a destiny and God wants to bless us with [00:26:00] us and he wants to. Develop a perfect character in each and every one of us. 

Justin: Yeah, I believe that.

Justin: That's so good because the destiny there is really the eternal life. You know, I think sometimes we have this thing a little bit wrong when it comes to. Eternal life because Jesus himself is talking about being born again. Yes. And that's when you're getting an eternal life, which is almost like not so much a time-based life, because there is no time in the eternal realm.

Justin: Right. It's more of a quality of the life. It's an everlasting life. Mm-hmm. So I think when it comes down to That's so important, what you're saying, what you're sowing, what you're reaping, because you're doing these things in an eternal state. Yes. You know, when it comes down to our character. Who we are is what we deal with for the rest of our eternal life.

Justin: Our eternity. Yeah. So . Who you are right now. Who you are right now is going to be who you are in eternity. 'cause who you are right now is who you are in eternity. Right? [00:27:00] And I read this somewhere and it said it's not what we do. That makes us who we are. 

crosstalk: Mm-hmm. 

Justin: But it's who we are that makes us what we do.

Justin: Ah, yeah. That's good. That it's who we are. That makes us do what we do. I like that. And who we are is built on our characters, who we are right now. Yeah. Yep. And I think in knowing this, it helps you understand that. Things do need to change. Yes. And he's going to be with you every step of the way. Mm-hmm.

Justin: But you gotta put your trust in him. You gotta put your faith in him. Yes. And you gotta talk to him. You got like you, like you were saying, the things that, the disciplines that Jesus was showing to his apostles, to the 12, to the ones that were around him at the time, he was showing them. Because it's not just talking about character.

Justin: Yeah. Character is not talking about things. Character is proven. Yeah. And character was proven by everything that Jesus did in his ministry. So he was showing them that if you follow these same things, yes. If you do the same things that I am doing as I have [00:28:00] done them, because he said greater. Works will you do Right.

Justin: Greater works you're gonna do. Amen. That if you do these things, , you will reap an 

Don: eternal life. That's right. And that's where we come to a period in time where I remember I used to watch a program long time ago and it was called the Hour of Decision. Mm-hmm. You know, where a message was spoken, but a decision has to be made and that's the way our whole life is.

Don: You know, these podcasts, a lot of things in life. You know, there are things that are given out. But decisions have to be made, and that's where you as an individual, how important is developing a perfect character to you. I know we talked about a lot of stuff today, but Jesus is that source and that is a decision, and many have taken that decision and many are gonna be blessed by it, and that's where we pray that you guys.

Don: Everyone that's listening can get themselves to a place where they can make a decision. Just like the Bitcoin. Find the riches, find everything there might be, because I don't wanna leave this world [00:29:00] leaving something short and leaving something untouched that I could have had and could have done. And we pray that God will bless you in this journey.

Don: Amen. Well, 

Justin: I think that wraps it up for today. This was a good one, Justin. I think so too. Hey, we're glad you guys found your way here today, and we hope you can join us again next week for another good word. Until then, stay blessed by the best. See you guys.