The Bible says we live our lives, we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Basically, look, when you die, okay, people will tell stories about you.
You won't be able to stop that, right?
When your kids or your cousins or nephews or whatever,
they will tell stories about your life and who you were.
You cannot prevent that.
You can't stop them from talking about you.
But what you can do is you can live your life in a way
where you know what they will be talking about you about.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Your life is like a story that's going to be told,
and you get to write that story.
You don't get to tell that story.
It's going to be told whether you like it or not.
You get to write that story.
And if you're a soul winner that spends all your life living for God,
the story they're going to tell about you, well, you wrote it.
The story is going to be, man, what a great soul winner,
or I hate that guy, Scott, because he was always talking about the Bible.
It's going to be one or the other, right?
People that like you, people that are saved, though,
they're going to tell a story and they're going to talk about
all the great things you do, right?
They're going to say, man, I remember that time.
He got that person saved.
He was so zealous.
He chased that guy down in the street.
He gave him the gospel.
He ends up getting saved.
They're going to tell stories like that.
You are writing your own story.
You're not telling your story.
You spend your life.
The way you spend your years is the story you are writing.
And then somebody is going to tell a story about you.
They're going to talk about that, okay?
So what is the story you want to write?
Do you want people to say 20 years from now,
man, brother so-and-so, man, he made a lot of money.
Is that the story you want told about your life?
Or sister so-and-so, man, she really loved this hobby.
She spent a lot of time on Facebook.
Man, did she love Facebook, okay?
Man, did she like to gossip, okay?
What story do you want people to tell about you?
Because the way you live your life, you are writing that story.
It's going to be told whether you like it or not.