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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Biblical Social Security: Family and Children First 0:01 Chapter 18 in the book well versed is Social Security.0:07 Does your bible have anything to say about Social Security or how Social Security is run? Odd question? Well, not to me. It has several things to say about it. Number0:19 1, if money is put there for a purpose and the government uses it for some other purpose, that's called theft. It's called thievery. That is wrong. Secondly,0:31 an investment strategy that started with 42 workers supporting each 1 person's retired that has now changed to what will0:43 eventually become only 2 people left in the workforce for every 1 person retired, that is a system that cannot be sustained. The scripture says, if you go to build a tower,0:55 count the cost. Somebody didn't count the cost in the planning of this. In addition to that, that's what I call the attitudinal component. And that attitudinal component, hey, I1:07 deserve to retire. After all, I'm 62. You can take this job and shove it. I was back at at a class reunion. And in that class reunion, I discovered that I was the only 11:18 still working. Now maybe it's because I failed to plan ahead, but I happen to work because I like what I do. I work because I I'm on a mission. I I I work because there's so much to be1:30 accomplished. There are mountains to climb. And and I just casually observed the lady sitting next to me. I said, wow. I'm the only 1 still working here. And this lady turned to me and1:42 said, everybody grew to hate their jobs. And she went on to reference the amount of governmental regulation. Nurses don't get to nurse. Teachers don't get to teach. Doctors don't get to1:54 doctor. You get the picture. Filling out mountains of government paperwork from overregulation, and that's a major factor, has robbed people of the joy, the attitude of getting to do2:06 what they used to do with their hands and and with with their minds. I'm concerned over the massive loss of productivity of people who develop the idea, I deserve to retire when I'm2:18 62 or 65. Well, as people, we used to be dying off younger. Now we're living a a lot lot younger a lot longer, and we have lots of years of high productivity left. Why is this the2:30 person if you're gonna go out of your current job, flow into some other arena when you can be a contributor. But let's get back to the the basic issue. Does the Bible have anything to say about the overarching principles2:41 of what Social Security addresses? Does the scripture even talk about that? And the answer is yes. And it raises the question, who is supposed to provide for me in my later years?Rethinking Retirement and True Security 2:53 Who is that? And the answer is very simple. One's family. Period. That's your Social Security strategy. Hate to sound so crass, but the answer is have lots of babies and train them3:05 well. What do I mean by that? Raise up children who, when you're in your older years, will rise and call you blessed. I've told my children I had 4 children by my first marriage.3:17 Carol passed away, as I've mentioned, of cancer. And so I had 4 children by that marriage. I was to remarry after Carol passed away and 4 children by that marriage. And so I say to my 8 children3:29 now, 4 stepchildren who I consider my own children, I say to the 8, hey. Your job is to provide for your mother and me when we grow old. Simple as that. And so when that day comes, that3:41 is your task. Now you can use outside help as you need to, but it's your task to provide for us. And and that's the way I view as it relates to my parents. That's the way I want my kids to view. That's the3:53 way the bible views it. By the way, Social Security is 1 of the poorest investment. Just doing a a a percentage analysis of what you get back for what you're putting in, that's not a great4:05 investment. On top of that, I mentioned a moment ago, my my wife passed away a number of years ago of cancer. She was ready to start drawing social security. You know how much she got of that? Or her her her4:17 husband got of that or her children got of that when she passed away? 0. What kind of an investment is that you pay into, but if you die, you lose everything that you've paid into? It's not the greatest4:29 investment, as a matter of fact. So what's the key to this? Your children are to rise up and take care of you in your old age. You say, well, wait a minute. What about widows and orphans and people don't have it?4:41 There's where the church becomes involved. And we've talked about this in some other videos I've done. The role of the church in providing for the health and the welfare of the community. We talked about that4:52 in the taxation video that we did. So I won't rehash all that here. But children are to be viewed according to Genesis chapter 1, be fruitful and multiply we're told. And then in Psalm 1Have Babies, Dream Big: God's Plan Works 5:04 37, children are a heritage of the Lord. And then Proverbs 31, I said, they they rise and call you blessed in your older years. Want a Social Security5:16 strategy that works? There it is. The Bible already thought of5:23 it. You know what bums me out about Social Security is the money that was put into it has been taken and spent by the government and that's theft, bro.5:32 Yeah.5:32 And that man, at 62 or 65, I don't know if you should go into retirement. Maybe we should go into retirement.5:38 Yeah.5:38 Get fired up about a new dream. At 85, Caleb went into a new land. He said, god, give me the mountain. He was excited and he was believing god to do big things. And it might not be a a new job for you, but but5:50 maybe a new dream. Maybe it's time to dream a new dream.5:53 Absolutely. And the reality is the key to social security is for all the married couples to have babies. Children are blessings from the Lord. And then teach them to bless and care for you as you grow old.In this video 0:00 Biblical Social Security: Family and Children First2:45 Rethinking Retirement and True Security5:00 Have Babies, Dream Big: God's Plan Works
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