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God - Family - Work / Sharing the Good News and hustling this trading thing😱 Follow along in the journey and feel free to contribute. *Not Investment Advice*.

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@Marigol96 @Scarlett1437561 All great until I saw the maintenance needed. No way!

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@elonmusk I am paying for Grok but have to use Claude because Grok sadly isn’t as good as Claude. Fix that please.

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John Chapter 4:
Jesus walked into enemy territory on purpose.
He sat at a 700 year old well and talked to a woman everyone avoided. He told her the biggest secret in the Gospel. Then, she left her waterpot at the well and ran to tell her city.

John 4 isn't about a shady woman at a well. It's about a God who crosses every boundary to find the one person hiding from everyone else. The water he offers doesn't flow to the most qualified. It flows to whoever is thirsty enough to ask.

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@sspencer_smb Looks like it. Nice weekly hammer candle at 9 Ema plus all the AI momentum from earnings plus trump positive comments on the war etc. Sounds only bullish to me. I bought last Friday on that same candle pattern but on SPY. Not afraid to buy at breakouts 🤣

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John Chapter: 3
It's Passover in Jerusalem. The city is overflowing with pilgrims. Jesus has just caused a scene in the temple — overturning the money changers' tables — and word has spread through the city's religious leadership. A man named Nicodemus can't stop thinking about it.

Nicodemus is about as impressive as a person could be in first-century Judaism. He sits on the Sanhedrin — the 70-member supreme religious court, the highest legal and spiritual body in Jewish life. He's a Pharisee, meaning he has dedicated his entire existence to studying and obeying God's law. He is educated, powerful, sincere, and morally serious. By every measurement his world had, he was a righteous man.

He comes to Jesus at night — quietly, not wanting to be seen. John never wastes details. In this Gospel, darkness is never just darkness.

The Conversation
Nicodemus opens with a compliment: "Rabbi, we know you've come from God — no one could do these signs unless God is with him." He's putting Jesus in a category he understands: a God-authorized teacher, like the prophets.

Jesus doesn't acknowledge the compliment. He cuts straight to what Nicodemus actually needs.

"Unless a person is born from above, they cannot even see the Kingdom of God."

Nicodemus hears it literally: how can a grown man be born again? He misses the point — deliberately, in John's literary style. The Greek word Jesus uses, anōthen, means both "again" and "from above." Nicodemus hears one meaning. Jesus intends the other: a birth that doesn't come from human effort or bloodline, but from God himself.

Jesus presses further. The Spirit is like wind — you can't control it, schedule it, or earn it. It moves where it will. You see its effects. You can't manufacture it. This new birth is entirely God's doing, not yours.

Nicodemus asks, honestly: how can this be? Jesus' response carries a gentle sting: "You are the teacher of Israel and you don't understand this?" Because everything Jesus is describing — a new spirit placed inside a person, a cleansing that transforms from the inside out — is already in the Hebrew scriptures Nicodemus had spent his life studying. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Psalms. It was all there. Nicodemus had been teaching the book without letting it reach him.

The Snake on a Pole
Jesus then pulls a story from Israel's own history. In the wilderness, God sent venomous snakes among the people as judgment. People were dying. God told Moses: make a bronze snake and lift it up on a pole. Anyone who was bitten — just look at it. No ritual. No earning it. No special qualification. Just look at what God provided, and live.

"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, the Son of Man must be lifted up — so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."

The word "lifted up" means two things in Greek: raised on a cross, and glorified. John is telling you the crucifixion and the glory are the same event seen from two angles. And the mechanism of salvation is the same as the snake in the desert — not earning, not being worthy, not being born into the right family. Just trust the thing God put up.

The Verse
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

Slow down on this one. The word "so" in Greek means in this way — it's describing the manner, not just the intensity. God loved the world like this: he gave his Son. The scope is the whole human race — not just Israel, not just the religious, not just the deserving. The word "whoever" has no asterisks.

"Whoever believes" in Greek is present tense — it describes ongoing, living trust, not a one-time transaction. And "eternal life" isn't just a long time. It's the quality of life that belongs to God's coming age, already available now through the Spirit. It starts here.

Then verse 17 immediately guards against a misreading: God didn't send Jesus to condemn the world. He sent him to rescue it. The judgment that happens is not God imposing a sentence — it's people choosing darkness. God doesn't send anyone to hell. People choose it by refusing the rescue.

Why People Say No
John gives us the most honest explanation of unbelief in scripture: people reject the light not primarily for intellectual reasons, but moral ones. The light, if they step into it, will show things they want to keep hidden. Their choices. Their loves. What they've built their lives on. So they stay in the dark — not because they can't see, but because they'd rather not be seen.

The Best Man Steps Back
The scene shifts. John the Baptist's followers are getting competitive — Jesus is baptizing nearby and "everyone is going to him." They bring it to John expecting him to be bothered.

John the Baptist reaches for a wedding image. In Jewish culture, the best man's whole job was to bring the couple together and then get out of the way. On the wedding night he stood outside, listening for the bridegroom's voice from inside. When he heard it — his job was done. His joy was complete, not because he was the center, but because he'd successfully stepped aside.

"He must increase. I must decrease."

Nine words. Not resignation — completion. John understood his assignment so fully that his own disappearance felt like victory. He wasn't shrinking. He was finishing well.

The Heart of It
John 3 is about one thing beneath everything else: you cannot get yourself to God. Not by being educated enough, religious enough, morally serious enough, or born into the right people. Nicodemus had all of that and Jesus told him he needed to start over — not with more effort, but with a completely different kind of beginning. One that only God can give.

The chapter answers a question people in every century ask: what does God actually want from me? And the answer here is not a longer list of requirements. It's a person. Trust the Son. That's the whole offer. And it's open to everyone — not because the stakes are low, but because the love is that large.

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@gotrice2024 @TheEXECUTlONER_ She is right but wrong in the way to say it. The kids don’t need to be punished for being kids, much less with that horrible mouth of that girl.

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@Luna_Jones79 @grok fact check please.

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Buy puts out 2 years to match the ID Buzz roll out and limit your losses to 20% or so. The reward / profits are unlimited. You can also sell far out of the money calls to finance some of those puts but caps your reward if you don’t get an opportunity to roll up on time. Simple strategy is to invest in puts to cap your losses.

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@sspencer_smb @FredLambert Facts. I can make x amount of cars doesn’t mean I make x amount of cars.

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@AdamoMancino @grok what is the dividend yield $QQQi

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@sspencer_smb They hate seeing NVDA make all the money. 🤣

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Interesting call today. Key takeaways:

1) An OEM (maybe VW) successfully driving a car equipped with MBLY tech ~2,000 miles or Km (not sure) through unknown routes, varying weather/conditions, with excellent results and very few interventions.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
2) The buy back is very strategic IMO. I am happy they started that at current prices.
3) Mahindra may be a sleeping giant in India.
4) Mentee related presentation coming in July.

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@TheOneLanceB @CREAMtrader @edu_trades @TheShortBear @sanglucci Crazy.

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@market_sleuth Honor your father and mother and God will give you long life! Simple promise for the almighty.

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@DavidFischer Amen. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Let the haters hate and just pray for them, for they don’t know what they do.

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@SuperLuckeee 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@grok @iamcoriarnold Makes sense to fully go for that $72k via employer. What should I check to see if I can contribute the $47k+ into my Roth 401k?

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@grok @iamcoriarnold What about just contribution to a traditional IRA and then converting to Roth IRA. Whats the limit there?

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@iamcoriarnold @grok is the $47k limit true?

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I have been coding with Claude, very imoresssive. I know nothing about coding and yet, now I feel like I am a decent 5 year coder 🤣🤣🤣. Claude has worked better for me than Grok and google AI (the two models I have tried but ran into road blocks with). Claude fixed most of the roadblocks but still gets a few things wrong, so I have to double check everything but that’s ok. It is really fun to just ask and ask and ask and get Claude to just deliver with a bit of guidance. Amazing times we are in. I am all bullish in AI but I also recognize that it isn’t a walk in the park, it is a really hard task to automate things or replace what humans do. I think those who have the data, have invested the time to train in their niche, and are first to market will win and like in any industry, there will only be space for a few winners. Interesting times ahead. Will anthropic take over all the others (grok, google, OpenAI), hard to say but they certainly came out of nowhere and now a top contender.