Good morning, everybody. This is Bible verses. We're going to talk about Matthew 1022.

Matthew 1022. And ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's sake. But he that endureth to the end

shall be saved. He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

So, of course, for the theologically inclined,

My Name's Sake is God, which is synonymous with virtue,

for the secular, for the philosophical,

My Name's Sake here is UPP, Rational Virtues, Objectivity, Socratic Reasoning, and so on.

So why do people hate the moralist so much? The moralist who strives to live his virtues.

Why do the corrupt hate the strivers so much?

Well, if someone were to say to me,

hey man, Steph, you should have been a ballet dancer or an opera singer,

you really missed your calling.

I would find that amusing.

I mean, it's funny, right? I have nowhere near the voice, nor the physiology, nor the inclination

to do any of those things. So if somebody told me I missed my calling when I know for a simple fact that such things are not my

calling and in fact I have no capacity to achieve them, I would not be offended. On the other hand,

if somebody were to say to me if I had really failed in life, if I had failed to achieve my potential, as I continually feel

and striving and continuing to work to improve my potential. But if somebody had said to me,

if I was working as a waiter in my 50s, and somebody had said to me, you missed your calling, you're a great thinker and

communicator, you should have been more than a waiter. Oof, like I can't even tell you, they're these

old videos of a fat guy taking a cannonball to the belly in slow motion, like in a circus,

and it would be like that.

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