Here we go. This is the first time I have done this. Oh, I didn't even turn on all my lights.

Let me first do the intro, then I'll fix my background stuff for you guys.

But first time I've done this and I went into this thinking I was going to be defending Joel Osteen, actually a lot more than I am.

I'm trying to give a fair analysis of a typical sermon from Joel Osteen.

How many of us have watched one of his sermons all the way through even?

Like how many of you like really carefully watch, not just listen but carefully listen all the way through, evaluating his use of scripture, listening to his points, considering them again Christian theology.

But it's like way worse than I thought. I'm going to get into the details. This is a random Joel Osteen sermon as I hold on. I fix my lights, my camera, all this stuff.

These are the things I do before I go live. Except today.

All right. So what we're going to do right now is we're going to play through an entire Joel Osteen sermon. This sermon is called Let It Go.

And I don't think it's meant to invoke visions of the frozen song, although that will be in your head by the end of all this.

What we're going to do is consider it carefully, consider it thoughtfully.

I'm not, I'm not witch hunting. I'm not looking for things to complain about, but they will present themselves whether I like it or not.

And this is going to be something that I hope helps you. If you're a Joel Osteen fan, I especially want you to watch this video.

I'm not yelling like he's a heretic and he's a false teacher and you need to, you know, like we need to burn his church down.

I want us to like really carefully think through this and faithfulness to Jesus in love for the word of God.

And because the true message of scripture is precious and wonderful and good, we're going to consider these things thoughtfully.

So here we go. This is the beginning of his message. We're listening to the entire message beginning to end.

Nothing's cut out except for the intro part of the video, which just replays later parts of the same message.

Okay, that's what you'll see that later. So here's the opening.

I like to start with something funny and I heard about these two brothers.

They were known for being very dishonest, having no integrity. They were very wealthy.

One of them died. His brother said to the pastor, I'll make a deal with you.

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