Don't blame others take responsibility for your life

[00:00] how do young people like make a

[00:01] difference when we're fighting against

[00:03] this pressure to be like go and join the

[00:05] rat race of going to college or like

[00:07] getting stuck into low-level jobs and

[00:09] stuff like that when there's such a like

[00:10] huge epidemic of like uh homelessness

[00:12] and things like that that we feel like

[00:14] we can't make a difference because the

[00:15] taxes are so high up here in California

[00:17] and it's just like it feels like there's

[00:19] so much pressure like just weighing on

[00:22] us there is like making any difference

[00:24] how do we move towards making a

[00:25] difference and what should we invest

[00:27] ourselves in so that we can financially

[00:29] help these people and like be Christians

[00:32] that we need to be so let me let me give

[00:33] you the answer

[00:35] college is rigged against you the tech

[00:37] companies are rigged against you the DC

[00:40] Elites are rigged against you cultures

[00:42] rigged against you the taxes are too

[00:44] high there's too much regulation guess

[00:45] what

[00:46] that's not an excuse

[00:48] don't play the victim I'm going to talk

[00:50] I talk a lot about problems

[00:54] I talk about them endlessly I write a

[00:55] book about problems okay

[00:58] throw all that away first thing you

[00:59] could do

[01:00] I'm talking about the general you not

[01:02] necessarily you okay be the best human

[01:04] being you possibly can be

[01:06] that's the first thing now what does

[01:08] that mean that means I'm going to reject

[01:12] the false promise of the secular left

[01:14] that unlimited Indulgence and unlimited

[01:17] freedom is going to give me happiness

[01:18] and it's going to give me fulfillment

[01:20] reject that instead do hard stuff

[01:23] regularly that makes a difference

[01:27] that is what will get you fulfillment so

[01:29] what does that mean words that are not

[01:30] talked about enough in our society

[01:31] discipline and responsibility amen

[01:34] discipline and responsibility guess what

[01:38] that means

[01:40] I'm going to put restraints on my own

[01:42] things that I know I struggle with that

[01:45] might be alcohol might be drugs might be

[01:46] a sexual sin it might be whatever that

[01:48] is put guard rails on yourself

[01:50] because Indulgence comes at a cost

[01:53] and we don't say that enough to our

[01:55] youth that's right and if you indulge

[01:56] too much you could lose everything and

[01:58] we say that we say a little bit of that

[02:00] and guess what

[02:02] you aren't in the current position right

[02:05] now of where you want to be what I mean

[02:08] by that

[02:09] reject the self-esteem nonsense

[02:12] if you look at a poster and say you're

[02:13] Justified find the way you are say no

[02:15] I'm not if I was why would I be in

[02:17] school

[02:19] if I was why would I be in church

[02:21] I and if you come from the Christian

[02:23] doctrine of this we're all broken we're

[02:26] like shattered pieces we're horrible

[02:28] we're sinful we need Redemption we're

[02:30] really really bad and so the self-esteem

[02:33] nonsense where we go self-esteem where

[02:34] we go to these 12 year olds and say

[02:36] you're so perfect

[02:38] you're wonderful and there's these

[02:40] ridiculous posters and it's like a

[02:41] smiley face and it's just a yellow emoji

[02:45] smiley face and it says self-esteem

[02:47] you're great there's something ludicrous

[02:50] you know what that does is it puts a

[02:52] false sense of pressure on someone that

[02:54] looks they say maybe I'm not great

[02:56] there's actually freedom in accepting

[02:58] that you're broken amen and saying I'm

[03:01] nothing like I'm nothing I'm I'm a

[03:04] sinner

[03:06] I've made horrible choices and I only

[03:07] have redemption in one thing and that's

[03:09] the blood of Jesus Christ so for you

[03:11] personally

[03:13] for you personally

[03:15] all that stuff's rigged against you

[03:17] all of it people are going to try to be

[03:19] taking your jobs that are from other

[03:21] countries all that stuff fine we could

[03:22] try to fix that in public policy but

[03:24] guess what there's only three things you

[03:25] need to do to succeed in America and

[03:27] every single person in this room can do

[03:29] these three things because it's around

[03:30] choices number one get married before

[03:32] you have kids it's number one number two

[03:34] get a job any job any job any job and

[03:37] work hard at it act ethically work hard

[03:40] at it ask questions act ethically you

[03:42] will move up in it the third thing you

[03:44] have to do to succeed in America is just

[03:47] graduate high school you do those three

[03:49] things and you work harder than the

[03:52] person next to you treat people well you

[03:54] act ethically you try to be better today

[03:55] than you were yesterday you can achieve

[03:57] things in this country Beyond Your

[03:59] Wildest expectations do not blame

[04:02] systemic problems for your current

[04:05] failure because you know what ends up

[04:06] happening I don't want to have the

[04:08] oppression Olympics like the left pass

[04:10] where everyone starts to blame other

[04:12] people for their problems well I can't

[04:13] succeed because of racism or a

[04:15] xenophobia or homophobia some of which

[04:17] might be legitimate you are the master

[04:19] of your own destiny it starts with

[04:21] making your bed in the morning being the

[04:23] best version of yourself and being a

[04:25] champion of the decisions you make so

[04:27] thank you very much

[04:29] thank you guys

[04:30] [Applause]