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Yes, hello, hello, hello.
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Hello, Minister.
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Blessings on blessings on blessings.
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Ain't God good.
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Yeah, it wouldn't be no word good if it didn't have the word God first.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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We want to invite you to our study.
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Today's topic is covenant relationships.
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If we um when I ask a question, you feel free to answer it as well because we're not just talking to ourselves, we're talking to you on the live as well.
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And if you have a question that's not concerning what we're talking about, and you just have a question about God, the Bible, and you just wanna, there's a minister here, there's two ministers here that we're gonna try to answer it the best that we can, and we'll be on here for about an hour.
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God is good, let's make the best out of it.
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May the Spirit of the Lord, may He use us so that we can touch the lives of whoever needs to see this, whoever needs to hear this.
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And uh, minister, would you like to start us off in a prayer?
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No problem.
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Uh Father God, in the name of Jesus.
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First of all, I ask you to forgive us of anything that we have done that would get in the way, God, of you using us as vessels that give you honor, God.
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Cleanse us right now from honor, from all unrighteousness, any thoughts, any words, or anything that we have done that's displeasing unto you.
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God, we call on you right now for a fresh anointing to share your word, to teach your word, and also to receive your word.
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God, tonight I pray, Father God, they see none of us but all of you.
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I pray, God, that we're just vessels to for you to use, for you to share through God.
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That it's none of us, it's none of our intellect, none of our memory, but it all comes from your Holy Spirit.
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Let your Holy Spirit be the teacher, let your Holy Spirit be the reacher, and let us be the receiver, Father God.
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God, I pray for those that are tuning in.
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I pray for those that are gonna share, I pray for those that's gonna like or make a comment.
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God, and I pray that your seeds fall on good ground and they're used to uplift the kingdom of God and tear down the kingdom of Satan.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Amen and amen.
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Alrighty, we're gonna start with question number one.
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Oh, wait, oh, there he is.
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Okay, there you are.
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All right, Minister, what is the difference between a covenant relationship and a convenient relationship?
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Um to make it um we're headed home, a covenant relationship, it has uh some ingredients or has some attributes to it.
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It usually deals with loyalty, it usually deal with honesty, and it usually deals with love.
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A true covenant relationship usually have those three things loyalty, honesty, and love.
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Now, uh biblically, there were uh some people in the old testament that had a covenant relationship with God, and it was uh Moses because what God did, God was loyal, God was loving, God was uh helping Moses through his whole journey, and they had a covenant relationship while God was using Moses.
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God had a covenant uh relationship with Noah.
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God gave Noah an assignment, and he also gave him the know-how of the assignment and what the covenant relationship was with that, because it was God Himself deciding that I want to be in a relationship with Noah so that he would build this yark so when I send the flood that there would be a new start on civilization.
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Yeah, Aaron was another one that had a covenant relationship with God who took on the reins after Moses passed away, for him to continue to be the shepherd that the people followed after Moses, and then we had the new covenant, which we all get through Jesus Christ, and that's a covenant relationship with the Lord when we accept him as our Lord and Savior.
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Now, a convenient relationship is uh I can remember a time I had a convenient relationship with God, even though God had a covenant relationship with me.
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And that's like whenever I got in trouble or got in a bind, I called on God to get me out of my trouble.
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I prayed to God harder because I was conveniently tapping in when it benefited me.
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In this world, when you have a convenient relationship with somebody, you'll notice they call you when they need something, or they just don't call you and there's no strings attached.
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Uh, but you can have a covenant relationship with them where you just love them.
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Anything they need, you got them, and you don't want nothing out of the deal.
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Uh that's that's similar to the God.
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God just loves us, He's loyal to us, He is honest with us, He is truthful with us, and you'll find yourself that way with some people, right?
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And you're not getting that same thing back.
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They they're conveniently with you because of what you have to offer, but there's no covenant.
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That means there's not a continuing conversation going on between you just to see how you're doing to check on you, and you'll you know the difference.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Big facts.
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All right.
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Um, I agree with everything you said.
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Um what I what I'll add to that is um a convenient relationship um is just one way, you know, when you have um a purpose, uh covenant relationship, you understand that the covenant is the purpose, you know.
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Um I was raised in um in a home that that taught us how to commune with people because it says it in the word, you know.
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Um, so um it is important that we as people do find our people.
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God does want to use you, you know.
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We can't that's why he tells us that that we have to be pure in heart, humble, because God can only use a humble heart, you know, and and and you have to have um purpose, you know, and the purpose is building in the kingdom of Christ.
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And when you find people that want to build the kingdom of God, those are your people, and that's what the Bible says.
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Because as a as a collective, as people, our only goal should be to worship Christ and to spread the word of God.
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That's it, that's what He created us for, you know.
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And I left something out.
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I didn't mean Aaron, I meant Abraham and David.
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Those were two other people that we seen God have a covenant relationship with, and it came with God's loving kindness, it came with God's mercy, and a covenant relationship is a binder.
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Yeah, a covenant relationship is like this.
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Holl at me when you need me.
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A covenant is a binding relationship, yeah.
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But when we have a relationship with God, it's a binding relationship and it's bound by his love, his mercy, his grace.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All right, question number two.
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Why do you think so many people today feel connected online but spiritually lonely in real life?
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And um, before you uh say that, we're living the we're living in a time of high suicide rates, high depression.
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Um, this is a very depressed generation.
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Why do you think that people feel so disconnected?
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Well, um, I will say this that we I'm gonna you when I say when I I I I I heard the word disconnected, I'ma use the word empty.
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Um when you seek God, you'll find God, and God is the only one that can really feel you what you're empty of and what you're missing, right?
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Yeah.
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We we just mentioned social media, but that's uh a thing that that finds a way to keep people's attention, but it doesn't fill them.
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Yeah.
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Uh drinking is another thing.
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I used to drink a lot just to get stuff off my mind.
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Let me just go get me a drink and just kick back and shit.
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But it never filled me.
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It it it bandaid what I was going through at the moment.
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Sometimes we have these different vices.
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Some people go to the mall and uh some people look for self-gratification.
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It's something that is it's an empty space in here that only God can fill.
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And that's the way God created us, He created us empty.
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So I see a lot of people say, I'm almost born with God's spirit.
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Well, then that means I would never have to accept God to come into my life.
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That means he's already there.
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What I'm born with is the knowledge of good and evil, good and bad.
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But I have to accept God's spirit because I walk around empty all the time.
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That's why the man in the Bible kept filling up barns, but he was never full.
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He just got one barn after another, just kept filling.
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And you you'll see a person, some people have a hobby, then some people have a vice.
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It's just like they can't stop.
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They try to fill a void.
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Yeah, and the only person that can fill the void is the same God that blew in the Adam life.
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That was Him filling Adam up.
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And when it came to Jesus, Jesus said, I must go away so that I can send a comforter.
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And that comforter that when it comes in, it's gonna teach you and show you all things.
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But also that comforter was us receiving the Holy Spirit to be filled with God.
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Amen.
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So social media is really one of those things that I'm watching, even I'm watching this lawsuit that's going on now.
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If your child uh played this game so much, they could be, they can give tap into a civil lawsuit.
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If your child is uh like having like dark moments or having uh, as you say, suicidal thoughts, but they've been stuck on the computer a long time.
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They say Mark Zuckerberg had to put X amount of billions to the side for us to tap into that fund to try to get some help.
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But guess what?
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Money not still gonna fix the job.
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No, we have Babs Morris.
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He said, because we have been conditioned into technology by parents and society at large.
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He also Babs also said people escape to so social media in the hopes of being someone everyone else worships.
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I like you, Babs.
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I like what you're saying because it's true.
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Yes, you know, it is true.
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Um, I do agree with you.
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Um, in the first one you said the first one was people escape.
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No, the first one was because we have been conditioned into technology by parents and society at large.
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That is a huge one because it's true.
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A lot of parents, you know, this new generation age of parents, they rely on on technology to raise their children.
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I was um I worked 15 years in the education system, and my last the last um grade that I taught was first grade in 20, you know, 2024.
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I taught first grade here in Broward County, and one of the biggest issues that I've that I experienced as an educator is dealing with parents a lot who just depend on technology, their iPads, the computers, to raise their children, to educate them, to teach them right from wrong, to do their homework with them.
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It's like, yo, we as parents have to do better, you know.
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Um, and then you also said social media is self-idolatry for the majority of its consumers.
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Yeah, you know, when um when we started uh Let's Read About It Bible Studies, the reason that I'm uh this is the first time that you're seeing me on social media is because it was a choice.
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This uh this podcast was a choice to say I'm gonna bring God back to the conversation.
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I don't want to talk about anything else but the Bible.
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That's why it's called Let's Read About It Bible Studies because it's true.
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There is a lot of there is a lot of information online, and we have to be careful what we consume, what we allow into our homes, you know.
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When we are watching these YouTube videos, when we are watching people, that's energy that we're allowing into our living rooms, even if it's they're not there in person, that spirit of that person, that energy is inside of your living room, it's with you, and we have to be careful, we have to be cautious of what we allow into our into our circle, amen.
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Right.
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I wanted to share something what the word of God says in 1 Colossians 1 19.
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It was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Christ.
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Like saying when you get Christ, that's when you start feeling yourself.
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Colossians 2.9 says, We see that in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in the bodily form of Christ, meaning the fullness of God.
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That's another type of fullness.
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All right.
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Colossians 2 10 says Christians find completeness in Christ and no one else.
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Jesus, who is the fullness of God in bodily form, makes us whole by his grace.
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So social media is just the most current vice and it's the most taking over vice.
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Yeah, but for a solution, the solution is when you find Christ, you find completeness, you find wholeness.
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Yeah, I love that.
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And um, so uh Babs Morris uh again uh added social media is a dopamine addiction that chemically castrates delayed gratification.
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I agree.
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Yes, yes, you agree, and and keep them coming coming.
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Uh, we love you to be a part of the study.
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All right.
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What dopamine is dopamine is when I when I found out about how that like button got started, yeah, it got started because a person said when a person gets a like, they're gonna feel good.
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That's that dopamine in the background saying, Yeah, oh man, I got 10 likes.
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Oh, I feel good, I got 100 likes, and people start working for likes.
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So when a kid doesn't get those likes, they they don't get that insta gratification that Babs is talking about.
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Let me tell you something.
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One thing that I had to go through when I started the Bible study, right?
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Is I'm gonna do this regardless of how many followers I have.
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I want you to know that I'm this is this is my calling.
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Michelle Cordero was called to bring the Bible from Genesis all the way to Revelation to you, to the viewers.
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So regardless if I have one person watching or two, it doesn't matter.
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But it's crazy because when I would see the views on my videos in the beginning, right?
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It was so disheartening.
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Or it was, it would for me, it would, it would be like, bro, why am I doing all of this?
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You know how much money it costs for me to do this, for me to do these for everything, the the study, everything, just for two, you know, a hundred people, two hundred people, those are the views that I'm getting, right?
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And then my husband, he said to me, That's what's wrong, that's what's wrong with people today.
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He's like, What you just said, he's like, that's the problem that we're having in this generation.
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He's like, here you are, you know, depressed and and and and and saying, you know, ungrateful because only you're getting a hundred to two hundred views per video.
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And he's like, What you forgot is that hey, if you had a building, a church, and 200 people showed up to hear you talk, wouldn't you consider that a win?
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I said, Oh my gosh, absolutely.
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He said, That's what social media is.
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Everything else is bots and BS.
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Bots.
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You know, he's like, you have to be it changed my perspective in how what I how what I view as success.
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That's why I said if I have one viewer or or it or 50 million, it doesn't matter.
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Because the one person that hears this, you're the person that I'm speaking to.
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You know?
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Um we're in the soul-saving business or the soul building business.
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Amen, amen.
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And the goal now, the goal is to get to millions, amen.
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But you continue, you know.
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Um, all right, that was number two, right?
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Okay, so anything else you want to add to that, minister?
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No, no, that's perfect.
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Okay, number three, can God bless your purpose if you are surrounded by the wrong community?
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Okay, that's kind of like a dual question.
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Yeah.
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Uh, because you have where God journeys you through the wrong community, then you have where we talked about last week, where he his community, he God was sending them to the right community, but his community ended up being the belly of the world.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So and then you also got like we as parents, we see kids that are, we see our kids that shouldn't be around certain communities.
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Yeah.
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And if they don't listen, they end up getting caught.
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Like I just noticed that, and I hope some other uh parents can understand where I'm coming from.
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I I haven't noticed that a kid can go around another community and change it.
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It always seemed like they go around a community and it draws from them and then they start looking like it.
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So it it affects God's purpose if you're not on if you're not going the route that God wants you to go.
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But if you're going somewhere and it's not the community that you want to be to, but it's where God wants you to go to, it's something in it that's gonna uh help hone in on God's purpose on your life.
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And the other thing that we have to count on, that we have that we can count on is when we learn from the Bible that what the devil meant for bad, God meant for good.
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See, even if we go wrong and go astray, God will find a way for us to learn something from that, that we'll find out how it'll help our purpose later, like uh uh my ability to measure things in the kitchen from my street hustle, now I'm measuring things in the kitchen to sell lemonade.
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You get what I'm saying?
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Yes, or my gift to a gab for the streets, not a gift of gap is for Christ.
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So so God can take that mess and don't let it go to waste, but I would say don't test God.
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Well, can I and I so yes, I love that.
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The way we were raised, the way that word was given to us, right?
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Um God, He can use your past for His glory, but it does not mean that you have to go through everything that you've gone through, right?
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Right, right This is real, that's wisdom, it's wisdom.
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Sometimes we choose the wrong path.
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We sometimes we make the mistake.
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God didn't mean you for you to go.
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That God was like, no, chill out, right?
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But we're hard-headed sometimes.
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I know I that's me, right?
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And we choose our own path sometimes.
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What happens is that when we humble ourselves to God and we recognize like David, like Moses, like when we recognize that, hey, maybe we did mess up, maybe I shouldn't have gone down that road.
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What God does is that He redeems us because we humbled ourselves and we asked for forgiveness.
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There's people that there's no redemption for, there's people that will go down the path and you're done.
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Why?
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Because there is no God at the end of the line for you.
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Right, right.
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You made the you made the mistake.
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You made the decision, you stood on it, and God is gonna stand on His too.
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I told you not to go that route.
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Right, right, right.
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And now you're and now you're uh arrogant, telling me you know, that's not how that works.
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It's so I I say that to say, like you said, don't test God.
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It's Not like oh I can do whatever I want, and that's not how that works.
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God gonna make you work later.
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No, no, some people, some people are living the mistakes till this day, and God is sitting there, like, how many times did I tell you not to do that?
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Right, right, right, right.
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You know, but the great thing is that when we do humble ourselves, when we do ask our father for forgiveness, and we change direction, you have to change you.
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It's not just a no, I went this route because I chose it.
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Now you have to choose not to go that route and choose to do something else, you know, and then God can say, I'm gonna take that and now use it for my for my for the good of the of the faith and all that.
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Amen.
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Oh, and another thing that I was gonna add was what was going on with this kid.
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You saw what's going on with this kid, that the the kid who killed Fabio, what's his Fullio?
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Um bro, yes, and that can go.
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Can God can God um bless your purpose if you're surrounded by the wrong community?
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No, this is what happens, this is the reality.
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This is what I would tell my sons.
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Being around the wrong person can destroy your purpose because that person has access to kill you, that person has access to your mental, to your spirit, it can destroy you, it will destroy you.
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Definitely gonna start off with delaying you, yeah.
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On to destroying you, yeah, taking you right off your route.
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Yeah, I was listening to a um uh uh uh a blogger or a podcaster, and they weren't they was making fun about his family asking for money, but they talked about the type of background he came from.
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Yeah, and and I know what that kid feels like because when I kept ended up in prison, yeah, I wasn't raised to go to prison.
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I was hurting my family and the people in my community that believed in me.
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Yeah, and I watched the dude tell me, oh, what was God when you got the gun?
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Or what wasn't God when you was following that dude.
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Bro, that's how the enemy creeps in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But it won't change the fact that that's not what God intended, that's not what God wanted to be.
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No, no, no.
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Well, it messed up his purpose.
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Yeah.
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Now, now he can still, his soul can be saved and he can minister, but his journey might be from prison to prison and prison.
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But God didn't want that.
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No, no, he did.
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That's not what God wanted for that kid.
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No, not at all.
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Being with the wrong around the wrong people, being associated with the wrong people can and it can and it will destroy you if you don't have the wisdom, the the knowledge to say, Hey, I need to remove myself from these people, you know.
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Wow, that's what you know what you just said.
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That's why it's important to have a covenant relationship with God and not a convenient one.
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Amen.
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See, when you have a covenant when you constantly in his face, and he constantly no, no, no, get around that person.
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Yeah, the Holy Spirit is louder, yeah, in the covenant, yeah.
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But the voice of the Holy Spirit is lower in the convenient, yeah.
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Yeah, think about which is your first question.
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Amen.
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All right, so number four.
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What does the Bible teach us about accountability and why do people avoid it?
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And before you answer that, we have a uh a comment.
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We have Babs Morris, he said Romans 9.
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Who are we to tell the potter what to do with the clay?
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Some made for the day of some made for the day of the wicked.
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Yes.
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Who are we to tell the potter what to do with the clay?
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Amen.
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Facts.
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We you're right.
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Potter being glide, yeah.
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No, facts.
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So the question is now, what does the Bible teach us about accountability and why do people avoid it?
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Well, uh, this is a good time to go to the scripture.
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And I think you remember where the scripture said, when a man comes to an altar with his sacrifice to God, and God says, if you have an alt with a brother, go make it right, then come to me.
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That's a form of accountability.
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God saying, You come to me asking me for forgiveness, you come to me asking me for things.
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But in your human daily walk, you got issues with people.
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You just need to go get those, then come to the altar.
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Don't bring that stuff to the altar.
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So the Bible teaches us to be accountable.
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Now, accountable don't mean you right and the person wrong.
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The person or the person right and you wrong.
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Yeah, it's giving up the right for the wrong to bring peace and harmony.
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Meaning a person could have wronged me and something I said or did offended him, but I had a reason for it, you know, which is a right reason.
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Just say I babbled something back, but I offended him.
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Yeah.
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But he deserved what I gave him, but it's still a wedge, there's still an alt, it's still something between us two.
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God is teaching us in his word, be accountable for how I want you to be.
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Go to that person, even though they're wrong and you right.
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Yeah.
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But because there's a wedge, go mend that wedge and come back to me, and I handle the right and wrong about it.
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Amen.
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Like the brother said, uh, about the who can tell the part of what to do.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Let God fix it.
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You know, don't just do what God does just to please God, not to please self.
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Amen.
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That's being very accountable, being accountable to the Lord.
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The way that I was raised in that word is I was raised that um if someone tells you that you offended them, you don't ask, you don't do anything, you apologize immediately.
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That's how I was raised.
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That's all matters.
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I was raised that you don't, if someone says you offended me, I automatically my thing should be I apologize.
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That was not my intent.
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Now, if they care to hear why you said that, then you approach and explain, I was speaking under this, but if they don't want to hear that, they have the right not to hear it, and you have to understand what that means.
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I offended you, and I have to take whatever comes with that.
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That's why, that's why when I offend somebody, this is the godmother in me.
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Right.
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That's why when I offend somebody, I gotta be re I gotta be ready for what comes with it.
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Because if I offend you, either it's unintentional or intentional.
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Because, like you said, some people you'll say something and and it's and I I said what I said, you know what I'm saying?
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Because you deserved it.
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But in the same token, we have to be mindful because the the word of God tells us that we are walking examples of what the Holy Spirit, we are, we are vessels of the Holy Spirit, and it's we cannot in the same in the Bible it says that um what is it that um lukewarm water and and he'll spew us out if we can't wrong.
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We gotta be hot or cold, right?
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He'll spew us out.
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Yes, yes.
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So um it's crazy.
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And I'm listening to these questions, I'm seeing more covenant.
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So back then, if I had a covenant relationship with God, I'm I'm not doing this making up because of me.
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I'm making up because that's what God said, do because I'm in a covenant relationship with him, I'm in a loyal relationship with him, I'm in a loving relationship with him.
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Amen.
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So I should just do it because that's it's right by God.
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Amen.
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Facts.
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And we don't want we don't want to walk around with um negative energy.
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This is why we have to be careful how we treat others, what we say to others, because when we walk around with arrogance or that that we think that we're higher than somebody else or whatever.
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People, the devil, the devil will utilize people to send you curses.
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That's like having unnecessary.
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That's like telling a kid, if I'm a kid, if I'm talking to my kids, right?
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And you want to tell your kids, yo, just miss the unnecessary.
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Miss because the devil can mess with you.
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You know, they're there the you're you're not excluded from being, you know, messed with.
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What just like Job, the difference is that God can cover you, maybe not kill you.
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Like he like he told the don't take his life, but take everything else.
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We're not touch everything else.
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We're not, but so we're not we're not excluded from that.
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So we just we do have to be mindful of the things that come out of our mouths because we can be the reason for our own curses, you know.
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You know, it's it's it's uh just adding on to what you were saying and and and bringing a current event up to it.
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If we don't do it, you know what we're telling God that we're not humble enough.
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Yeah.
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Because it takes pride to just don't do what God says do.
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Max.
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So when I watch a lot of this rap beef, sometimes I see it as them against them.
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But then sometimes they get so low, and I say, okay, now as you against God.
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Now God got to come humble you.
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Yeah.
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Now rapping, battle rapping is one thing.
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But when they start hitting below the belt, going to the graveyard and and and and and and and and shooting people, mothers.
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Yeah.
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I was like, oh, okay.
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That's crazy.
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Now as you and God.
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Yeah, it's up from here.
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God gonna humble you.
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Oh, real quick.
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You know, so real quick.
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Um, Babs, he says, as iron sharpens iron, so does one man's count countenance sharpen another.
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Continence, yeah, sharpen another.
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Fruit begets fruit.
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All right, I like it.
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:32.640
And then he says also, rapping is friendship with the world.
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Well, depends the music, you know, uh what you're rapping.
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.039
The actual rap some gospel rap, yeah, yeah.
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:45.359
The rap the rap is just yeah, yes, yes.
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Oh my goodness.
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Okay, okay.
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Give a quick let me give a quick shout out to all the Christian rappers on my timeline.
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I've been having a blast watching you guys on my timeline.
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Christian music, God music, Yahweh.
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Um, you guys, FSG Lexi, oh man, the guy who's in the prisons.
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You guys listen because Christian rap is really making a comeback.
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And I want to urge you right now that if you like hip hop, if you enjoy rap music, it doesn't have to be gangster music, street music, listen to some of the new age rappers that are actually talking about Yahweh, which means God, our God.
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That's the name of our Lord.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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That was it.
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That was my drop to the music.
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Yeah, man.
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But I for you, uh Brother Babs, I understand when you say rapping is friendship with the world, that's when you worldly rapping.
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Yeah.
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But everybody not worldly rapping.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Okay.
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All right.
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:50.880
Question number five.
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How can someone tell if a friendship is sent by God or simply attached to a season?
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Okay, now back to if you had a covenant relationship with God, God will reveal to you what it is.
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Now, if you got a covenant relationship with God, uh your friendship to that person is for whatever God said it is, it might be for longevity, it might be for the minute, it might be for the season, but God will reveal that to you.
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Now, just because they don't come in a godly way, or that doesn't mean you're not supposed to have a godly.
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We got to have a godly relationship with everybody that we come across.
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Because we got to do, like you mentioned early, be examples of who Christ is.
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Now, say somebody coming into your life to hurt and harm you, and the enemy is using them, okay.
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You deal with that in the spirit and you keep it moving.
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That's why God allowed us to shake the dust off our sandals and keep it moving.
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But if you really don't have a covenant relationship with God, you're gonna be confused.
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Yeah.
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So this is why it's so important, and I don't I don't know, it's something about this study here that's more impactful on my life and let me know how much I need a covenant relationship with God because it'll help me in business, it'll help me in friendship, it'll help me in marriage, it'll help me as a father.
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Like it there shouldn't be no way I'm having a convenient relationship with God because the enemy comes in to trick.
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Look how he tricked Eve with the word.
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Look how he tried to trick Jesus with the word.
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But Jesus didn't have a convenient relationship with the enemy, he had a covenant relationship with God, and that allowed him to be victorious every time the enemy came in his atmosphere.
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And now we're talking about a non-godly relationship and how we know it.
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We just said if you get into a covenant relationship like with Jesus, you'll be able to be victorious in that non-godly relationship that's coming in your atmosphere.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All the answers are about to be if you're in a covenant relationship with God.
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And that's okay.
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Because that's the goal of this life is for you to take something with you.
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And what you're gonna take with you is that you need to have a covenant relationship with Christ, okay?
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:32.960
Right, amen.
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All right.
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Number six, why is isolation so dangerous spiritually, emotionally, and mentally?
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Okay, it goes two ways.
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So, first way, the dangerous part because loneliness brings heaviness, and the word of God teaches those that are heavy, bring your burdens to me.
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Those that are heavy, come to me.
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I'll give you rest.
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God didn't create us to be long rangers and just deal with loneliness alone, so isolation without a source of strength can become dangerous.
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It can compound your thoughts.
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Um imagine like I was in a jail cell and I realized that when I was waiting okay, let me okay, here you go.
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I was free, but I was waiting for deliberation to be sentenced.
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But I was home and I was isolated at home, and I was in my room, and all I kept hearing, well, you're gonna get this, and this gonna happen.
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Because I'm just isolated, I don't have nothing to draw strength from.
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Now I'm free now, but I'm worried about what the jury may say the next morning.
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Yeah, but the devil just beat it, beat me up with all types of thoughts.
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Now I went and got time, but I got isolated with Christ, and Christ gave me peace.
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Yeah, I didn't have peace when I was free, worried about whether I was gonna get time.
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Then I got a whole lot of time, and I didn't want all that whole lot of time, but because I isolated myself with the purpose of tapping into God and building a covenant relationship with Him, He gave me peace in prison that I didn't have when I was free.
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So you got isolation that if you need to draw from something, draw from another godly person, or draw from the Spirit of God by spending time with God to get your strength up, because loneliness is another word for isolation, and it would take you out of here because the enemy got you alone, like he called Eve alone.
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He didn't catch Eve with the husband.
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Hey, come in, let me let you why ain't nobody around.
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Yeah, and that's how the enemy does us, man.
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And and every now and then I hear about suicide, and I very seldom hear about it it's done with somebody there.
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I hear about suicide, they go in the bathroom by themselves, they take a ride by themselves, they they go take a walk by themselves.
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You see that now you see the dangers of isolation?
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Yeah, amen.
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.360
Amen.
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And I I want to second what you're saying, but it's true.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:38.639
Um, usually in the word of God in the Bible, he usually isolates his people for a purpose.
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So if you're not being isolated for a purpose, there's no reason for you to be isolated.
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Isolation is in the word of God, it says he created us to commune.
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He created us to look, how many times, minister, have I called you just to cry or just to talk just to just to pray, just to share, just to share, because the minister he represents in my life what the Godly relationships that the that the word of God tells us that we're supposed to have to give us strength when we are weak.
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You know, and it's it's those prayers, it's those, it's that relationship that God wants you to have.
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That's why we are here talking to you guys.
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He wants you, he wants us to have brothers and sisters in Christ that can lift us up, that can be there for us, give us a a word of wisdom, a word of hope, give us a hug.
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Do you know?
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Do you know that the word of God says even the hug, um, to be embraced by your brother, to a holy embrace?
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Is this a uh to sometimes as children of humans, we need that, and the word of God doesn't tell us anything else other than yes, and he's given us a community for that.
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That's why we invite you guys to to join a community of of of um of believers of Christ.
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Because when you have a when you have a community of people that all they want to do or or their or their only goal is to worship God and to spread the word, what does the word of God tell us?
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To love our neighbors, to be good to you, and we're not perfect, nobody's perfect, but at least we're trying, you know.
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.639
Yeah, the word of God say, Forsake not the assembly of the brethren.
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And David said, I thought it was good when they said, Let us go into the house of the Lord, because he knew it was gonna be fellowship there.
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:45.039
Now, this I'm gonna give you some scriptures to go with Isaiah 41:10 say, Fear not, for I am with you.
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Be not dismayed, for I am the Lord your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous hand.
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See what happens when we with God?
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There goes the strength, because we with them.
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Psalm 27:10 says, For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord would never take.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Matthew 28, 20 says, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you always to the end of age.
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And it's so many other scriptures.
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First Peter 5:7 say, Cast all your anxieties or worries or loneliness on him because he cares for you.
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Amen.
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So take those scriptures with you and use those scriptures.
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Amen.
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:36.639
Amen.
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And um, we can close that question out by saying, join a community, join a church church community that follows Christ.
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It doesn't have to be a specific, I'm not gonna sit there and tell you what church to go to.
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No, God will show you.
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God has to God will show you if you have like what does the minister say?
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If you have a covenant relationship with God, he will show you where to commune, he will tell you where to put your body and where to and where to listen to.
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Go where you grow.
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Amen.
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Go where you grow.
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Amen.
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We all know the name of it, we don't know what the service is.
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No, but if you grow in that, that's a good place to be.
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That's a good place to be, amen.
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:18.960
All right, question seven.
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Can broken trust and betrayal make people reject healthy covenant relationships?
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Yeah, I'm gonna start off with that word church hurt.
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Yeah.
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Because it's a lot of people affected by it.
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Amen.
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Facts.
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Uh I just happen to be one of those that I said, I'm not gonna let church hurt or what somebody says about the pastor, this and that, get in the way of because when God said I'm the rock speak, yeah.
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So uh if the if the pastor is a whore, just don't lie to me, whore.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm not gonna judge you for being a whore.
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But I'm going to judge you if you're not telling the truth of God's word.
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Amen.
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So I have to block out that every person that's in the church is a person that's imperfect.
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But I want to hear the truth.
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Amen.
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I don't care if you got divorced from your wife, you're a person.
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I don't care if you stole the money.
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But if you lie on God's word, then I'm not church hurt.
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I got to go where I hear the truth.
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But I'm not going to let church hurt be the thing that the enemy used to keep me out of church.
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Because now I'm not building.
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I don't care how much church I try to have at home alone.
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It's something in under the dwelling place.
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There's something under that roof that I can't get nowhere else.
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I can't listen to the radio all day, church, watch TV all day, pray all day, and never go to the church house.
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I can grow, but so far I got to go in the building.
00:44:58.880 --> 00:44:59.760
I agree 100%.
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And to those of you who do carry church hurt, I'm just going to give you the little rap quick one.
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I am a pastor's daughter, and so, you know, um over 30 years in the ministry.
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I'm 40 years old, and I was I was so I'm sorry, over 40 years now, because I'm 40 years old.
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So I've seen a I've seen a lot of.
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I'm one of those people that saw a lot of church hurt, or I experienced it.
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Um but one thing that I will say to you is that I chose to raise my kids, all four of my kids, in the church, regardless.
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And and I tell you, I'm telling you, the mom, the dad who's watching this, it is better to have your child in the church.
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It is better to have your child um in church environments than to be out in the street.
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Yeah.
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And I'm gonna tell you just like that.
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Like, I have four kids and I've raised over ten in my house.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because they're my four plus their five friends, each one of them.
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And I'm trying to tell you the difference between a kid in the church and a kid in the street are two different things.
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Because in the church, at least the church is teaching them the word of God, and what does the word of God teach them?
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Character, morality, uh, confidence.
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They walk a kid that knows the word of God, walks and talks differently, right?
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Right.
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And you can see it in them when they're little.
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So, my advice to you, as the mom, the dad, the parent, don't let church hurt stop you from raising your child in the church.
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Because when you take away, when you when you remove that covenant from your children, you're allowing the world to teach them what they want, what they want them to learn.
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And that's not the word of God.
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And it's and and when I mean the word of God, no, it's not nice things, you know, and you'll see it later.
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:54.880
Yes, minister.
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We have that thing, and I've been saying it lately.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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Yes.
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If you've been hurt by something, then use that hurt to bring change to that church and say, God, this same place hurt me, or I left that place because it hurt me, but now I'm at a place that I'm growing.
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Let me help others with what I've been through.
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:18.880
Amen.
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So don't let church hurt stop you.
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And also, want to give you some scriptures to go with Jeremiah 29, 13 say, You will seek me and find me when you seek me with your heart.
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Amen.
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So go in the building seeking for God, not seeking for man, because the devil will show you all types of flaws.
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Oh, her dress ain't right.
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Oh, his socks are not matching up.
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They ain't put nothing in that envelope and talking about they don't worry about people.
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Yeah, seek God with your whole heart, and he will be found.
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Proverbs 8:17 says, I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.
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So when you go through that stuff, say, you know what?
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Amen.
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Maybe my my my personal navigation is GPS in me all over the place.
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Let me GPS and go find the Lord.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All right, and we're getting closer.
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Okay, so question eight What role does community play in healing, growth, and spiritual maturity?
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Oh man, that that's a blessing.
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Um, I'm gonna go straight to the scripture when uh Peter was in prison and and he was locked up inside the inner prison, and he was chained up inside the inner prison.
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But the community of the church was praying for Peter and all the jail just shook and set him free.
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And he ended up knocking on the same door that was praying for him.
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Yes, we need to be in the community of the believers, we need to be in the community of those that have a covenant relationship with us because what two or three are gathered in God's name.
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Oh, it can change some things, miracles can happen and and and and and things that you're looking for, questions that you might have, directions that you need to go.
00:49:18.719 --> 00:49:32.639
You being inside a true covenant relationship community can't do anything but just help you, help you grow as a baby into an adult in Christ is just a help.
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It's like that's the type of tribe you want to be raised with the same way.
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:47.599
The Godmother says you want your child to be around a community of believing kids in Christ, not believing in gangs, amen.
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:55.599
Yeah, not not believing in in in drinking purple drinks and and and and taking little pills.
00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:08.639
Yeah, we want you want we want our children to be in a community of those that follow Christ, that that understands the cross and can pull out some word and tell the enemy, get from around me and my homeboys.
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Amen.
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And you're only gonna get that in a church community, and I'm telling you, because I raised four kids, and I'm telling you, the only thing that saved me and saved my children is was and still is our church community.
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Amen and amen.
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Alright, we're gonna go to question number nine.
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How do we build godly relationships without becoming dependent on people instead of God?
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Oh, that's a good one.
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I had thought about that when I was I was doing my studies.
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Uh, number one the Bible says, trust no man.
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Yeah.
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So this is why we ought to be seeking God and building these relationships and building communities and building friendships.
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You got to seek you the kingdom of God first and all his righteousness, that means not only seek him, but also seek the things of God so that you can get that wisdom.
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So whatever you're trying to build with God, you you're not dependent on people.
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You can take advice from people, you can take godly wisdom from people, but the word dependent is what I'm dwelling on.
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Amen.
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:33.519
We should always only be dependent on God.
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If you find yourself dependent on people, you're gonna find a lot of disappointment.
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You messed up already.
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You messed up already.
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Look, a lot of disappointment.
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Uh yeah, you know, I was raised by a parent.
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Parents, you we don't trust the people, it's the devil and people we don't trust.
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:53.599
Amen.
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:54.880
It's the devil and people.
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It's the devil and people, because it's anybody look, I was raised in a home that taught me never to say that a person would never.
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I was raised to believe that anybody and everybody is gonna get out here to get me.
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That's how I was raised.
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Like I was raised that every single person that I meet is out here to get me.
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I'm like, Jesus Christ.
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But when you when you live like that, you understand self-preservation and you understand and you learn to love with boundary.
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How the Lord tells us to.
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Because the devil can, in fact, use anybody to get you.
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Anybody.
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So you have like what is the word for the day tonight?
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Is you have to have a covenant relationship with the Lord so that He can tell you, hey, this person I'm bringing into your life for a season, I'm bringing you this person for a reason, and this person is gonna be here, you know, for this or for that.
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:00.079
Amen.
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:12.320
Yeah, I I think about that because uh what you just said that I trust you, but I don't trust the devil that might be in you.
00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:17.360
Yeah, that that that that thing now might try to come and hurt me.
00:53:18.159 --> 00:53:20.880
Yeah, you got every every there's a devil in there.
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:23.199
Hey, that hey, the devil's in everybody.
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:25.840
You just gotta know some people know how to call him out.
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Like, look, minister.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.679
I without going too much into it too quick.
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:34.400
Um just quick, I caught myself.
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:38.480
I caught the devil messing with me this week.
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Like you're not like I had a I had to catch it to be like to to tell my husband, to tell the hey, something's off.
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.360
I I I don't I don't like this.
00:53:54.079 --> 00:54:03.599
And to be able to call it out and then see it and then switch, that is the Holy Spirit that you're talking about.
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:10.480
That's the relationship covenant that I was able to be like, yo, the devil's messing with me right now, it's messing with my mind, right?
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:11.360
Right, right, right, right.
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:16.159
He's confused it because in the Bible it says that that he sends legions of demons.
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One of them, do you know that the biggest demon that comes after us is the spirit of confusion?
00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:21.519
Yes.
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Did you know?
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:29.039
I there's legions I've been dealing with it this week to the third power, yeah.
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:36.239
And it's just like, yeah, and what I find out is because it's because of this TikTok thing.
00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:42.159
Yeah, when you start being on the front line for God, yeah, the enemy just gets active.
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:42.719
Amen.
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:43.280
Yeah.
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:46.880
Until it can come through your business, come through your loved one, yeah.
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:57.840
But you get active, yeah, because like I said, people don't understand what you meant because they just believers in the kingdom.
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:09.920
But when you active and on the front line, and you're really putting yourself out there because you want to see people get their souls saved or just meet Christ, yeah.
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:18.719
Well, he gets active and it comes through confusion, yes, arguments, lies, throwing under the bus, just so much foolery.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:19.360
Yeah.
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I have to look, I almost look, I almost, I'm not gonna say ruined because the relationships that I have are so powerful around me.
00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:43.679
So the devil tried to ruin a relationship of mine using me, my own words, confusing my own words that I had to check myself.
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I had to say, Michelle, why would you say that?
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Check your tongue, that's accountability.
00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:57.519
Yeah, I had and apologized, and I and I called and I said, You know what?
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I apologize.
00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:00.960
I I should have never said that.
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:02.159
That was a lie.
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That's a lie.
00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:13.760
Listen, listen, listen, and open up doors to you a blessing, though.
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:18.239
Listen, and to tell that person that was a lie that came out of my mouth.
00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:20.320
I don't even know why I said that.
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:24.960
I don't even, I don't even know how my mouth fixed up to say something like that.
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:33.840
And I had to say, you know what, in the name of Jesus, I rebuke the spirit of the legions of confusion that are putting things in my head.
00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:37.840
If we don't catch it, nobody else cares.
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:38.800
You just lose people.
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:46.400
People look at you like, yo, you're not the studying the scriptures about the battle of the mind.
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:50.079
George Myers got this book called The Battlefield of the Mind.
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:59.599
Yeah, and I just went through scriptures today about how he uh influences and where he influences at in the mind.
00:56:59.920 --> 00:57:04.159
I just went through scripture after scripture after scripture because I'm seeing this.
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.199
Yeah, and I'm just like, this ain't good here.
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:11.280
Yeah, like there's no other place for him to play with me at.
00:57:11.599 --> 00:57:12.079
Right.
00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:28.239
That's why, look, all of this, all of this is to tell you guys have a c you have to have a covenant relationship with God where He can speak to you because God used me to check me.
00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:30.159
Right.
00:57:31.280 --> 00:57:44.880
I had to check my after saying some stupid, I had to check my own tongue and then apologize for the stupid things that I said and then live in the consequence of that person looking at me and saying, Well, you know what?
00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:48.159
I I can at least appreciate your accountability.
00:57:48.480 --> 00:57:49.360
Right, right, right.
00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:57.519
Think just for that person to be witnessing it and say, you know what, godmother, I mess with your account.
00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:01.920
I I love I love you, and and and we're all good because of that.
00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:07.199
Because you because I I I didn't have to tell you, nobody else had to tell you.
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:08.960
You checked yourself.
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Let us walk as people without accountability of self, and that can only come through Christ.
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One more, yeah.
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How do I get this TikTok and add it to Talk to Me B podcast?
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And I pay for the editing.
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This one loves.
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Oh man.
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Uh okay, okay.
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I love you.
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I love you, yeah.
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Yes, yes, invoice.
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This one is.
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Listen, listen.
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I I I rocks with this one.
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I love you.
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I love you, Minister.
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You know, yes, absolutely.
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I would.
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Continuing, uncut, not planned, following the Holy Spirit.
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That's what I want to do.
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Amen.
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This episode on Talk to Me Be podcast.
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Sponsored by Talk to Me Be sponsored sponsored by Mr.
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Clean Face over here.
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We're outside.
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You see how God is?
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I got you.
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I want this.
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Thank you.
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I got you.
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Yes, and yes.
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All right.
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Last question, Minister.
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All right.
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What happens when a group of believers truly come together in unity, prayer, and purpose?
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Oh, I gave you the answer too early.
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That's when they shook the room up.
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That's when two or three get together in God's name.
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That's where those notes come from.
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I just want you to see how when you send me stuff, how I really go.
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No, listen, this this by this study, I didn't come, I didn't come.
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This is the God knows this is our union.
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This is us.
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This is a union.
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Because last week I had the Bible verses ready.
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This week you came with them ready.
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I came only with the this is but this is real.
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And when you started with the when you started reading the Bible, I said, You see how God is?
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Right.
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You see how God is?
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It's like, no, I didn't prepare it, but you did.
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You know, and that's that's the beauty of who we are.
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And what I was gonna say is in Exodus, in the ending of Exodus, when when the people built a tabernacle, right?
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It says that it says that the whole God, the Holy Spirit entered the tabernacle, and this the Spirit was so strong and was so powerful that it filled the it filled the room, it filled nobody could come in.
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That's the power.
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That's what happens when two or more people come together.
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When we come together, when two or more, that's what it is.
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Two or more come together, the spirit of God comes and healing happens, miracles happen, things that you thought impossible happen because we are all in the name of Yahweh, in the name of God, and the we are all saying we believe that He can in fact transform.
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Amen.
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And that same thing happened in the book of Acts.
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They went in the upper room and they all began to pray.
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And it said that the Holy Spirit came down inside the smoke, and they received tongues of fire, and the word of God said the fervent, effectual prayers of the righteous avail of much.
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That's the question.
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What happens when we come together?
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The fervent, the faithful, fervent prayers of the faithful avail much.
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So when we come together and pray fervently, faithfully, it's gonna avail much.
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Amen.
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Yokes are gonna be destroyed, mountains are gonna be moved, healing is gonna take place, wisdom is gonna be given, steps are gonna be ordered, things are gonna be changed, the enemy got to run.
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Peace got to come in, power got to rest on us.
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But you got to have a covenant relationship, not a convenient one, no, no, a covenant one.
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I think that you guys understand tonight get you a covenant relationship with God, not a convenient one, it's not easy, but the peace of mind.
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The success in following Christ is not measured in the things that you gain.
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The success comes in the peace of mind that only the Lord, only God can give you.
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The devil can't give you peace, the devil cannot give you love.
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So, what we as humans is as people, we said small powerful.
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I hope they didn't miss that.
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The devil can't give you love.
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He can't give you love, the devil doesn't know love.
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Just know that agape only comes from God.
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That man beating that woman up saying, I beat you because I love you.
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No, that's that's the devil.
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No, that's not it.
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That person is disrespecting you and using it in the name of love.
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They may love you for the moment, but the disrespect comes in the form of darkness.
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That's not God's love.
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No, you they don't love you.
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No, the thing is that they don't love you.
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Abuse is not love.
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I've been in an abusive I've been in an abusive relationship, and I'm not gonna run into it, but I've I've been in an abusive.
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I am I am a survivor of abusive situations, and let me tell you something.
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This is why my ministry is so powerful.
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There is there is no love.
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A man that does not follow Christ, a man that does not know God's love cannot love you.
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If he the if God is not in him, he does not know love.
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And I've experienced it enough to tell you that a man that does not have that covenant relationship with the Lord, a man that does not love or a woman, yeah, a woman, or a woman, or a woman.
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You're giving your testimony, that's understood.
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Yeah, when a person that does not have God's love cannot give or show real love.
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That's not real.
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I I learned that I had to start seeing people for the God in them, and if it doesn't exist, I can't exist with you.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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I can't exist where there's no God, and I'm sorry, you know.
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Trying to put on them take them heels off and put on them sneakers.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Listen, that's facts, you know.
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Um, I'm really appreciative of everyone that showed up on this live today.
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You know, um, minister and I, Minister Clean Face and I, I appreciate you, minister, because I appreciate you because God gave me the vision and you brought me along for the journey, man.
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And it's been a healthy one, it's been a building one.
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And I thank God for you all the time.
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Amen.
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And I I I pray for you, I pray for your family, you know, and I pray for the success of Talk to Me Be podcast.
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You know, make sure you guys go subscribe on the YouTube channel, Talk2Me Bee, on YouTube and on Instagram, TalkToMe Be Podcast.
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We're bringing God back to the conversation to the center of our lives, and we're actually showcasing our families with you.
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You know, Minister Clean Face, his first episode is with his sons and his daughters.
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You don't want to miss this, guys.
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When this drops, you're gonna be like, this is this is all the preview to the setup, you know.
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Working on God's timing.
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Amen.
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I want to make sure y'all stay tuned in to my sister, Codero Ministry, man.
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And y'all pray for it, y'all pray that God expands it, expand her territory, that God continue to bless her with the strength to keep going and keep blessing her with the ideas to bring to you.
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And what's some of your other uh handles?
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Oh, oh, I was gonna say and bless you financially so that he can keep paying for stuff.
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Praise God.
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Bless the minister, Lord.
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Please give him the money.
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So he can bless the kingdom.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Follow us.
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Let's read about it, Bible Studies.
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Read about it, Bible studies.
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On YouTube, it's Cordero Ministry, and on and on Instagram and TikTok, let's read about it Bible studies.
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We're bringing God back to the center of our lives.
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Amen.
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And now you got to pray us out.
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Amen.
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All right, let's pray.
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Father God, we want to thank you for all the wonderful things that you do for allowing us to come in your presence, Lord.
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We want to ask you, Holy Spirit, that you go with us tonight, that you allow us to take everything that we heard today, Lord, and allow us to um it.
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And if the only thing that you wanted our people to hear today is to grow a covenant relationship with you, Lord, then I believe that we sold the message, Lord.
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Allow everyone to want to speak for you, want to read your word, Lord, and let them feel your love, your presence, and your peace.
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And it's in your mighty name we pray.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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And I guess what I took the picture before the show.
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Oh, you see.
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God bless you.
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Hey, we love you.
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Share and tell somebody about it, but don't forget, get you a covenant relationship with God and not a companion.
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And I will see you next Wednesday.
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And nine.
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And look, guys.
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Now now look, guys.
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I booked Minister Clean Face for 12 lives, okay?
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The original booking was for 12 lives.
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And and we're reaching, we're reaching the end of the 12.
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But you know, we'll see.
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We'll see if God.
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But you know what?
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I've been having such a great time with you that um I pray that I can book you for another 12.
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You know, God, and and I'm God willing, whatever.
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I'm here.
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We familia.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, you have a good night, minister, everyone.
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We love you guys, and we'll see you next week.
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Yes, hello, hello, hello.
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Hello, Minister.
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Blessings on blessings on blessings.
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Ain't God good.
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Yeah, it wouldn't be no word good if it didn't have the word God first.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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We want to invite you to our study.
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Today's topic is covenant relationships.
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If we um when I ask a question, you feel free to answer it as well because we're not just talking to ourselves, we're talking to you on the live as well.
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And if you have a question that's not concerning what we're talking about, and you just have a question about God, the Bible, and you just wanna, there's a minister here, there's two ministers here that we're gonna try to answer it the best that we can, and we'll be on here for about an hour.
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God is good, let's make the best out of it.
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May the Spirit of the Lord, may He use us so that we can touch the lives of whoever needs to see this, whoever needs to hear this.
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And uh, minister, would you like to start us off in a prayer?
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No problem.
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Uh Father God, in the name of Jesus.
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First of all, I ask you to forgive us of anything that we have done that would get in the way, God, of you using us as vessels that give you honor, God.
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Cleanse us right now from honor, from all unrighteousness, any thoughts, any words, or anything that we have done that's displeasing unto you.
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God, we call on you right now for a fresh anointing to share your word, to teach your word, and also to receive your word.
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God, tonight I pray, Father God, they see none of us but all of you.
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I pray, God, that we're just vessels to for you to use, for you to share through God.
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That it's none of us, it's none of our intellect, none of our memory, but it all comes from your Holy Spirit.
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Let your Holy Spirit be the teacher, let your Holy Spirit be the reacher, and let us be the receiver, Father God.
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God, I pray for those that are tuning in.
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I pray for those that are gonna share, I pray for those that's gonna like or make a comment.
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God, and I pray that your seeds fall on good ground and they're used to uplift the kingdom of God and tear down the kingdom of Satan.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen.
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Amen and amen.
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Alrighty, we're gonna start with question number one.
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Oh, wait, oh, there he is.
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Okay, there you are.
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All right, Minister, what is the difference between a covenant relationship and a convenient relationship?
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Um to make it um we're headed home, a covenant relationship, it has uh some ingredients or has some attributes to it.
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It usually deals with loyalty, it usually deal with honesty, and it usually deals with love.
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A true covenant relationship usually have those three things loyalty, honesty, and love.
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Now, uh biblically, there were uh some people in the old testament that had a covenant relationship with God, and it was uh Moses because what God did, God was loyal, God was loving, God was uh helping Moses through his whole journey, and they had a covenant relationship while God was using Moses.
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God had a covenant uh relationship with Noah.
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God gave Noah an assignment, and he also gave him the know-how of the assignment and what the covenant relationship was with that, because it was God Himself deciding that I want to be in a relationship with Noah so that he would build this yark so when I send the flood that there would be a new start on civilization.
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Yeah, Aaron was another one that had a covenant relationship with God who took on the reins after Moses passed away, for him to continue to be the shepherd that the people followed after Moses, and then we had the new covenant, which we all get through Jesus Christ, and that's a covenant relationship with the Lord when we accept him as our Lord and Savior.
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Now, a convenient relationship is uh I can remember a time I had a convenient relationship with God, even though God had a covenant relationship with me.
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And that's like whenever I got in trouble or got in a bind, I called on God to get me out of my trouble.
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I prayed to God harder because I was conveniently tapping in when it benefited me.
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In this world, when you have a convenient relationship with somebody, you'll notice they call you when they need something, or they just don't call you and there's no strings attached.
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Uh, but you can have a covenant relationship with them where you just love them.
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Anything they need, you got them, and you don't want nothing out of the deal.
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Uh that's that's similar to the God.
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God just loves us, He's loyal to us, He is honest with us, He is truthful with us, and you'll find yourself that way with some people, right?
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And you're not getting that same thing back.
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They they're conveniently with you because of what you have to offer, but there's no covenant.
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That means there's not a continuing conversation going on between you just to see how you're doing to check on you, and you'll you know the difference.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Big facts.
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All right.
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Um, I agree with everything you said.
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Um what I what I'll add to that is um a convenient relationship um is just one way, you know, when you have um a purpose, uh covenant relationship, you understand that the covenant is the purpose, you know.
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Um I was raised in um in a home that that taught us how to commune with people because it says it in the word, you know.
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Um, so um it is important that we as people do find our people.
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God does want to use you, you know.
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We can't that's why he tells us that that we have to be pure in heart, humble, because God can only use a humble heart, you know, and and and you have to have um purpose, you know, and the purpose is building in the kingdom of Christ.
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And when you find people that want to build the kingdom of God, those are your people, and that's what the Bible says.
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Because as a as a collective, as people, our only goal should be to worship Christ and to spread the word of God.
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That's it, that's what He created us for, you know.
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And I left something out.
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I didn't mean Aaron, I meant Abraham and David.
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Those were two other people that we seen God have a covenant relationship with, and it came with God's loving kindness, it came with God's mercy, and a covenant relationship is a binder.
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Yeah, a covenant relationship is like this.
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Holl at me when you need me.
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A covenant is a binding relationship, yeah.
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But when we have a relationship with God, it's a binding relationship and it's bound by his love, his mercy, his grace.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All right, question number two.
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Why do you think so many people today feel connected online but spiritually lonely in real life?
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And um, before you uh say that, we're living the we're living in a time of high suicide rates, high depression.
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Um, this is a very depressed generation.
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Why do you think that people feel so disconnected?
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Well, um, I will say this that we I'm gonna you when I say when I I I I I heard the word disconnected, I'ma use the word empty.
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Um when you seek God, you'll find God, and God is the only one that can really feel you what you're empty of and what you're missing, right?
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Yeah.
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We we just mentioned social media, but that's uh a thing that that finds a way to keep people's attention, but it doesn't fill them.
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Yeah.
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Uh drinking is another thing.
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I used to drink a lot just to get stuff off my mind.
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Let me just go get me a drink and just kick back and shit.
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But it never filled me.
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It it it bandaid what I was going through at the moment.
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Sometimes we have these different vices.
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Some people go to the mall and uh some people look for self-gratification.
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It's something that is it's an empty space in here that only God can fill.
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And that's the way God created us, He created us empty.
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So I see a lot of people say, I'm almost born with God's spirit.
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Well, then that means I would never have to accept God to come into my life.
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That means he's already there.
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What I'm born with is the knowledge of good and evil, good and bad.
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But I have to accept God's spirit because I walk around empty all the time.
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That's why the man in the Bible kept filling up barns, but he was never full.
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He just got one barn after another, just kept filling.
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And you you'll see a person, some people have a hobby, then some people have a vice.
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It's just like they can't stop.
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They try to fill a void.
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Yeah, and the only person that can fill the void is the same God that blew in the Adam life.
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That was Him filling Adam up.
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And when it came to Jesus, Jesus said, I must go away so that I can send a comforter.
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And that comforter that when it comes in, it's gonna teach you and show you all things.
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But also that comforter was us receiving the Holy Spirit to be filled with God.
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Amen.
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So social media is really one of those things that I'm watching, even I'm watching this lawsuit that's going on now.
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If your child uh played this game so much, they could be, they can give tap into a civil lawsuit.
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If your child is uh like having like dark moments or having uh, as you say, suicidal thoughts, but they've been stuck on the computer a long time.
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They say Mark Zuckerberg had to put X amount of billions to the side for us to tap into that fund to try to get some help.
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But guess what?
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Money not still gonna fix the job.
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No, we have Babs Morris.
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He said, because we have been conditioned into technology by parents and society at large.
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He also Babs also said people escape to so social media in the hopes of being someone everyone else worships.
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I like you, Babs.
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I like what you're saying because it's true.
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Yes, you know, it is true.
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Um, I do agree with you.
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Um, in the first one you said the first one was people escape.
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No, the first one was because we have been conditioned into technology by parents and society at large.
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That is a huge one because it's true.
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A lot of parents, you know, this new generation age of parents, they rely on on technology to raise their children.
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I was um I worked 15 years in the education system, and my last the last um grade that I taught was first grade in 20, you know, 2024.
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I taught first grade here in Broward County, and one of the biggest issues that I've that I experienced as an educator is dealing with parents a lot who just depend on technology, their iPads, the computers, to raise their children, to educate them, to teach them right from wrong, to do their homework with them.
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It's like, yo, we as parents have to do better, you know.
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Um, and then you also said social media is self-idolatry for the majority of its consumers.
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Yeah, you know, when um when we started uh Let's Read About It Bible Studies, the reason that I'm uh this is the first time that you're seeing me on social media is because it was a choice.
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This uh this podcast was a choice to say I'm gonna bring God back to the conversation.
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I don't want to talk about anything else but the Bible.
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That's why it's called Let's Read About It Bible Studies because it's true.
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There is a lot of there is a lot of information online, and we have to be careful what we consume, what we allow into our homes, you know.
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When we are watching these YouTube videos, when we are watching people, that's energy that we're allowing into our living rooms, even if it's they're not there in person, that spirit of that person, that energy is inside of your living room, it's with you, and we have to be careful, we have to be cautious of what we allow into our into our circle, amen.
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Right.
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I wanted to share something what the word of God says in 1 Colossians 1 19.
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It was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Christ.
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Like saying when you get Christ, that's when you start feeling yourself.
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Colossians 2.9 says, We see that in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in the bodily form of Christ, meaning the fullness of God.
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That's another type of fullness.
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All right.
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Colossians 2 10 says Christians find completeness in Christ and no one else.
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Jesus, who is the fullness of God in bodily form, makes us whole by his grace.
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So social media is just the most current vice and it's the most taking over vice.
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Yeah, but for a solution, the solution is when you find Christ, you find completeness, you find wholeness.
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Yeah, I love that.
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And um, so uh Babs Morris uh again uh added social media is a dopamine addiction that chemically castrates delayed gratification.
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I agree.
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Yes, yes, you agree, and and keep them coming coming.
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Uh, we love you to be a part of the study.
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All right.
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What dopamine is dopamine is when I when I found out about how that like button got started, yeah, it got started because a person said when a person gets a like, they're gonna feel good.
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That's that dopamine in the background saying, Yeah, oh man, I got 10 likes.
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Oh, I feel good, I got 100 likes, and people start working for likes.
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So when a kid doesn't get those likes, they they don't get that insta gratification that Babs is talking about.
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Let me tell you something.
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One thing that I had to go through when I started the Bible study, right?
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Is I'm gonna do this regardless of how many followers I have.
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I want you to know that I'm this is this is my calling.
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Michelle Cordero was called to bring the Bible from Genesis all the way to Revelation to you, to the viewers.
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So regardless if I have one person watching or two, it doesn't matter.
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But it's crazy because when I would see the views on my videos in the beginning, right?
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It was so disheartening.
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Or it was, it would for me, it would, it would be like, bro, why am I doing all of this?
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You know how much money it costs for me to do this, for me to do these for everything, the the study, everything, just for two, you know, a hundred people, two hundred people, those are the views that I'm getting, right?
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And then my husband, he said to me, That's what's wrong, that's what's wrong with people today.
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He's like, What you just said, he's like, that's the problem that we're having in this generation.
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He's like, here you are, you know, depressed and and and and and saying, you know, ungrateful because only you're getting a hundred to two hundred views per video.
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And he's like, What you forgot is that hey, if you had a building, a church, and 200 people showed up to hear you talk, wouldn't you consider that a win?
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I said, Oh my gosh, absolutely.
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He said, That's what social media is.
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Everything else is bots and BS.
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Bots.
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You know, he's like, you have to be it changed my perspective in how what I how what I view as success.
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That's why I said if I have one viewer or or it or 50 million, it doesn't matter.
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Because the one person that hears this, you're the person that I'm speaking to.
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You know?
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Um we're in the soul-saving business or the soul building business.
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Amen, amen.
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And the goal now, the goal is to get to millions, amen.
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But you continue, you know.
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Um, all right, that was number two, right?
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Okay, so anything else you want to add to that, minister?
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No, no, that's perfect.
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Okay, number three, can God bless your purpose if you are surrounded by the wrong community?
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Okay, that's kind of like a dual question.
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Yeah.
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Uh, because you have where God journeys you through the wrong community, then you have where we talked about last week, where he his community, he God was sending them to the right community, but his community ended up being the belly of the world.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So and then you also got like we as parents, we see kids that are, we see our kids that shouldn't be around certain communities.
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Yeah.
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And if they don't listen, they end up getting caught.
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Like I just noticed that, and I hope some other uh parents can understand where I'm coming from.
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I I haven't noticed that a kid can go around another community and change it.
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It always seemed like they go around a community and it draws from them and then they start looking like it.
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So it it affects God's purpose if you're not on if you're not going the route that God wants you to go.
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But if you're going somewhere and it's not the community that you want to be to, but it's where God wants you to go to, it's something in it that's gonna uh help hone in on God's purpose on your life.
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And the other thing that we have to count on, that we have that we can count on is when we learn from the Bible that what the devil meant for bad, God meant for good.
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See, even if we go wrong and go astray, God will find a way for us to learn something from that, that we'll find out how it'll help our purpose later, like uh uh my ability to measure things in the kitchen from my street hustle, now I'm measuring things in the kitchen to sell lemonade.
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You get what I'm saying?
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Yes, or my gift to a gab for the streets, not a gift of gap is for Christ.
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So so God can take that mess and don't let it go to waste, but I would say don't test God.
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Well, can I and I so yes, I love that.
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The way we were raised, the way that word was given to us, right?
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Um God, He can use your past for His glory, but it does not mean that you have to go through everything that you've gone through, right?
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Right, right This is real, that's wisdom, it's wisdom.
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Sometimes we choose the wrong path.
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We sometimes we make the mistake.
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God didn't mean you for you to go.
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That God was like, no, chill out, right?
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But we're hard-headed sometimes.
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I know I that's me, right?
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And we choose our own path sometimes.
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What happens is that when we humble ourselves to God and we recognize like David, like Moses, like when we recognize that, hey, maybe we did mess up, maybe I shouldn't have gone down that road.
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What God does is that He redeems us because we humbled ourselves and we asked for forgiveness.
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There's people that there's no redemption for, there's people that will go down the path and you're done.
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Why?
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Because there is no God at the end of the line for you.
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Right, right.
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You made the you made the mistake.
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You made the decision, you stood on it, and God is gonna stand on His too.
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I told you not to go that route.
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Right, right, right.
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And now you're and now you're uh arrogant, telling me you know, that's not how that works.
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It's so I I say that to say, like you said, don't test God.
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It's Not like oh I can do whatever I want, and that's not how that works.
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God gonna make you work later.
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No, no, some people, some people are living the mistakes till this day, and God is sitting there, like, how many times did I tell you not to do that?
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Right, right, right, right.
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You know, but the great thing is that when we do humble ourselves, when we do ask our father for forgiveness, and we change direction, you have to change you.
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It's not just a no, I went this route because I chose it.
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Now you have to choose not to go that route and choose to do something else, you know, and then God can say, I'm gonna take that and now use it for my for my for the good of the of the faith and all that.
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Amen.
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Oh, and another thing that I was gonna add was what was going on with this kid.
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You saw what's going on with this kid, that the the kid who killed Fabio, what's his Fullio?
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Um bro, yes, and that can go.
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Can God can God um bless your purpose if you're surrounded by the wrong community?
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No, this is what happens, this is the reality.
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This is what I would tell my sons.
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Being around the wrong person can destroy your purpose because that person has access to kill you, that person has access to your mental, to your spirit, it can destroy you, it will destroy you.
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Definitely gonna start off with delaying you, yeah.
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On to destroying you, yeah, taking you right off your route.
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Yeah, I was listening to a um uh uh uh a blogger or a podcaster, and they weren't they was making fun about his family asking for money, but they talked about the type of background he came from.
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Yeah, and and I know what that kid feels like because when I kept ended up in prison, yeah, I wasn't raised to go to prison.
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I was hurting my family and the people in my community that believed in me.
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Yeah, and I watched the dude tell me, oh, what was God when you got the gun?
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Or what wasn't God when you was following that dude.
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Bro, that's how the enemy creeps in.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But it won't change the fact that that's not what God intended, that's not what God wanted to be.
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No, no, no.
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Well, it messed up his purpose.
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Yeah.
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Now, now he can still, his soul can be saved and he can minister, but his journey might be from prison to prison and prison.
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But God didn't want that.
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No, no, he did.
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That's not what God wanted for that kid.
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No, not at all.
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Being with the wrong around the wrong people, being associated with the wrong people can and it can and it will destroy you if you don't have the wisdom, the the knowledge to say, Hey, I need to remove myself from these people, you know.
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Wow, that's what you know what you just said.
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That's why it's important to have a covenant relationship with God and not a convenient one.
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Amen.
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See, when you have a covenant when you constantly in his face, and he constantly no, no, no, get around that person.
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Yeah, the Holy Spirit is louder, yeah, in the covenant, yeah.
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But the voice of the Holy Spirit is lower in the convenient, yeah.
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Yeah, think about which is your first question.
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Amen.
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All right, so number four.
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What does the Bible teach us about accountability and why do people avoid it?
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And before you answer that, we have a uh a comment.
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We have Babs Morris, he said Romans 9.
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Who are we to tell the potter what to do with the clay?
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Some made for the day of some made for the day of the wicked.
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Yes.
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Who are we to tell the potter what to do with the clay?
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Amen.
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Facts.
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We you're right.
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Potter being glide, yeah.
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No, facts.
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So the question is now, what does the Bible teach us about accountability and why do people avoid it?
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Well, uh, this is a good time to go to the scripture.
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And I think you remember where the scripture said, when a man comes to an altar with his sacrifice to God, and God says, if you have an alt with a brother, go make it right, then come to me.
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That's a form of accountability.
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God saying, You come to me asking me for forgiveness, you come to me asking me for things.
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But in your human daily walk, you got issues with people.
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You just need to go get those, then come to the altar.
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Don't bring that stuff to the altar.
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So the Bible teaches us to be accountable.
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Now, accountable don't mean you right and the person wrong.
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The person or the person right and you wrong.
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Yeah, it's giving up the right for the wrong to bring peace and harmony.
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Meaning a person could have wronged me and something I said or did offended him, but I had a reason for it, you know, which is a right reason.
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Just say I babbled something back, but I offended him.
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Yeah.
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But he deserved what I gave him, but it's still a wedge, there's still an alt, it's still something between us two.
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God is teaching us in his word, be accountable for how I want you to be.
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Go to that person, even though they're wrong and you right.
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Yeah.
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But because there's a wedge, go mend that wedge and come back to me, and I handle the right and wrong about it.
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Amen.
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Like the brother said, uh, about the who can tell the part of what to do.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Let God fix it.
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You know, don't just do what God does just to please God, not to please self.
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Amen.
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That's being very accountable, being accountable to the Lord.
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:12.400
The way that I was raised in that word is I was raised that um if someone tells you that you offended them, you don't ask, you don't do anything, you apologize immediately.
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That's how I was raised.
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That's all matters.
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I was raised that you don't, if someone says you offended me, I automatically my thing should be I apologize.
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That was not my intent.
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Now, if they care to hear why you said that, then you approach and explain, I was speaking under this, but if they don't want to hear that, they have the right not to hear it, and you have to understand what that means.
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I offended you, and I have to take whatever comes with that.
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That's why, that's why when I offend somebody, this is the godmother in me.
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Right.
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That's why when I offend somebody, I gotta be re I gotta be ready for what comes with it.
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Because if I offend you, either it's unintentional or intentional.
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Because, like you said, some people you'll say something and and it's and I I said what I said, you know what I'm saying?
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Because you deserved it.
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But in the same token, we have to be mindful because the the word of God tells us that we are walking examples of what the Holy Spirit, we are, we are vessels of the Holy Spirit, and it's we cannot in the same in the Bible it says that um what is it that um lukewarm water and and he'll spew us out if we can't wrong.
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We gotta be hot or cold, right?
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He'll spew us out.
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Yes, yes.
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So um it's crazy.
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And I'm listening to these questions, I'm seeing more covenant.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:54.480
So back then, if I had a covenant relationship with God, I'm I'm not doing this making up because of me.
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I'm making up because that's what God said, do because I'm in a covenant relationship with him, I'm in a loyal relationship with him, I'm in a loving relationship with him.
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Amen.
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So I should just do it because that's it's right by God.
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Amen.
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Facts.
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And we don't want we don't want to walk around with um negative energy.
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This is why we have to be careful how we treat others, what we say to others, because when we walk around with arrogance or that that we think that we're higher than somebody else or whatever.
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People, the devil, the devil will utilize people to send you curses.
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That's like having unnecessary.
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That's like telling a kid, if I'm a kid, if I'm talking to my kids, right?
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And you want to tell your kids, yo, just miss the unnecessary.
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Miss because the devil can mess with you.
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You know, they're there the you're you're not excluded from being, you know, messed with.
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What just like Job, the difference is that God can cover you, maybe not kill you.
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Like he like he told the don't take his life, but take everything else.
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We're not touch everything else.
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We're not, but so we're not we're not excluded from that.
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So we just we do have to be mindful of the things that come out of our mouths because we can be the reason for our own curses, you know.
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:26.240
You know, it's it's it's uh just adding on to what you were saying and and and bringing a current event up to it.
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If we don't do it, you know what we're telling God that we're not humble enough.
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Yeah.
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Because it takes pride to just don't do what God says do.
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Max.
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So when I watch a lot of this rap beef, sometimes I see it as them against them.
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But then sometimes they get so low, and I say, okay, now as you against God.
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Now God got to come humble you.
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Yeah.
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Now rapping, battle rapping is one thing.
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But when they start hitting below the belt, going to the graveyard and and and and and and and and shooting people, mothers.
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Yeah.
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I was like, oh, okay.
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That's crazy.
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Now as you and God.
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Yeah, it's up from here.
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God gonna humble you.
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Oh, real quick.
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You know, so real quick.
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Um, Babs, he says, as iron sharpens iron, so does one man's count countenance sharpen another.
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Continence, yeah, sharpen another.
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Fruit begets fruit.
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All right, I like it.
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:32.640
And then he says also, rapping is friendship with the world.
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Well, depends the music, you know, uh what you're rapping.
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The actual rap some gospel rap, yeah, yeah.
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:45.359
The rap the rap is just yeah, yes, yes.
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.559
Oh my goodness.
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.119
Okay, okay.
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Give a quick let me give a quick shout out to all the Christian rappers on my timeline.
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I've been having a blast watching you guys on my timeline.
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Christian music, God music, Yahweh.
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Um, you guys, FSG Lexi, oh man, the guy who's in the prisons.
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You guys listen because Christian rap is really making a comeback.
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And I want to urge you right now that if you like hip hop, if you enjoy rap music, it doesn't have to be gangster music, street music, listen to some of the new age rappers that are actually talking about Yahweh, which means God, our God.
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That's the name of our Lord.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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That was it.
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That was my drop to the music.
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Yeah, man.
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But I for you, uh Brother Babs, I understand when you say rapping is friendship with the world, that's when you worldly rapping.
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Yeah.
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But everybody not worldly rapping.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Okay.
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All right.
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:50.880
Question number five.
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How can someone tell if a friendship is sent by God or simply attached to a season?
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Okay, now back to if you had a covenant relationship with God, God will reveal to you what it is.
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Now, if you got a covenant relationship with God, uh your friendship to that person is for whatever God said it is, it might be for longevity, it might be for the minute, it might be for the season, but God will reveal that to you.
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Now, just because they don't come in a godly way, or that doesn't mean you're not supposed to have a godly.
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We got to have a godly relationship with everybody that we come across.
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Because we got to do, like you mentioned early, be examples of who Christ is.
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Now, say somebody coming into your life to hurt and harm you, and the enemy is using them, okay.
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You deal with that in the spirit and you keep it moving.
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That's why God allowed us to shake the dust off our sandals and keep it moving.
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But if you really don't have a covenant relationship with God, you're gonna be confused.
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Yeah.
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So this is why it's so important, and I don't I don't know, it's something about this study here that's more impactful on my life and let me know how much I need a covenant relationship with God because it'll help me in business, it'll help me in friendship, it'll help me in marriage, it'll help me as a father.
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Like it there shouldn't be no way I'm having a convenient relationship with God because the enemy comes in to trick.
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Look how he tricked Eve with the word.
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Look how he tried to trick Jesus with the word.
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But Jesus didn't have a convenient relationship with the enemy, he had a covenant relationship with God, and that allowed him to be victorious every time the enemy came in his atmosphere.
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And now we're talking about a non-godly relationship and how we know it.
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We just said if you get into a covenant relationship like with Jesus, you'll be able to be victorious in that non-godly relationship that's coming in your atmosphere.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All the answers are about to be if you're in a covenant relationship with God.
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And that's okay.
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Because that's the goal of this life is for you to take something with you.
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And what you're gonna take with you is that you need to have a covenant relationship with Christ, okay?
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:32.960
Right, amen.
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All right.
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Number six, why is isolation so dangerous spiritually, emotionally, and mentally?
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Okay, it goes two ways.
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So, first way, the dangerous part because loneliness brings heaviness, and the word of God teaches those that are heavy, bring your burdens to me.
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Those that are heavy, come to me.
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I'll give you rest.
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God didn't create us to be long rangers and just deal with loneliness alone, so isolation without a source of strength can become dangerous.
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It can compound your thoughts.
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Um imagine like I was in a jail cell and I realized that when I was waiting okay, let me okay, here you go.
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I was free, but I was waiting for deliberation to be sentenced.
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But I was home and I was isolated at home, and I was in my room, and all I kept hearing, well, you're gonna get this, and this gonna happen.
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Because I'm just isolated, I don't have nothing to draw strength from.
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Now I'm free now, but I'm worried about what the jury may say the next morning.
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Yeah, but the devil just beat it, beat me up with all types of thoughts.
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Now I went and got time, but I got isolated with Christ, and Christ gave me peace.
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Yeah, I didn't have peace when I was free, worried about whether I was gonna get time.
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Then I got a whole lot of time, and I didn't want all that whole lot of time, but because I isolated myself with the purpose of tapping into God and building a covenant relationship with Him, He gave me peace in prison that I didn't have when I was free.
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So you got isolation that if you need to draw from something, draw from another godly person, or draw from the Spirit of God by spending time with God to get your strength up, because loneliness is another word for isolation, and it would take you out of here because the enemy got you alone, like he called Eve alone.
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He didn't catch Eve with the husband.
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Hey, come in, let me let you why ain't nobody around.
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Yeah, and that's how the enemy does us, man.
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And and every now and then I hear about suicide, and I very seldom hear about it it's done with somebody there.
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I hear about suicide, they go in the bathroom by themselves, they take a ride by themselves, they they go take a walk by themselves.
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You see that now you see the dangers of isolation?
00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:26.480
Yeah, amen.
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.360
Amen.
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.800
And I I want to second what you're saying, but it's true.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:38.639
Um, usually in the word of God in the Bible, he usually isolates his people for a purpose.
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So if you're not being isolated for a purpose, there's no reason for you to be isolated.
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Isolation is in the word of God, it says he created us to commune.
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He created us to look, how many times, minister, have I called you just to cry or just to talk just to just to pray, just to share, just to share, because the minister he represents in my life what the Godly relationships that the that the word of God tells us that we're supposed to have to give us strength when we are weak.
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You know, and it's it's those prayers, it's those, it's that relationship that God wants you to have.
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That's why we are here talking to you guys.
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He wants you, he wants us to have brothers and sisters in Christ that can lift us up, that can be there for us, give us a a word of wisdom, a word of hope, give us a hug.
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Do you know?
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Do you know that the word of God says even the hug, um, to be embraced by your brother, to a holy embrace?
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Is this a uh to sometimes as children of humans, we need that, and the word of God doesn't tell us anything else other than yes, and he's given us a community for that.
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That's why we invite you guys to to join a community of of of um of believers of Christ.
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Because when you have a when you have a community of people that all they want to do or or their or their only goal is to worship God and to spread the word, what does the word of God tell us?
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To love our neighbors, to be good to you, and we're not perfect, nobody's perfect, but at least we're trying, you know.
00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.639
Yeah, the word of God say, Forsake not the assembly of the brethren.
00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:37.840
And David said, I thought it was good when they said, Let us go into the house of the Lord, because he knew it was gonna be fellowship there.
00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:45.039
Now, this I'm gonna give you some scriptures to go with Isaiah 41:10 say, Fear not, for I am with you.
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Be not dismayed, for I am the Lord your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous hand.
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See what happens when we with God?
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There goes the strength, because we with them.
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Psalm 27:10 says, For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord would never take.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Matthew 28, 20 says, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you always to the end of age.
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And it's so many other scriptures.
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First Peter 5:7 say, Cast all your anxieties or worries or loneliness on him because he cares for you.
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Amen.
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So take those scriptures with you and use those scriptures.
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Amen.
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:36.639
Amen.
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And um, we can close that question out by saying, join a community, join a church church community that follows Christ.
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It doesn't have to be a specific, I'm not gonna sit there and tell you what church to go to.
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No, God will show you.
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God has to God will show you if you have like what does the minister say?
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If you have a covenant relationship with God, he will show you where to commune, he will tell you where to put your body and where to and where to listen to.
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Go where you grow.
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Amen.
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Go where you grow.
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:08.880
Amen.
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We all know the name of it, we don't know what the service is.
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.039
No, but if you grow in that, that's a good place to be.
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That's a good place to be, amen.
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:18.960
All right, question seven.
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Can broken trust and betrayal make people reject healthy covenant relationships?
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Yeah, I'm gonna start off with that word church hurt.
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Yeah.
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Because it's a lot of people affected by it.
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:32.719
Amen.
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:33.440
Facts.
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Uh I just happen to be one of those that I said, I'm not gonna let church hurt or what somebody says about the pastor, this and that, get in the way of because when God said I'm the rock speak, yeah.
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So uh if the if the pastor is a whore, just don't lie to me, whore.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm not gonna judge you for being a whore.
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But I'm going to judge you if you're not telling the truth of God's word.
00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:03.920
Amen.
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So I have to block out that every person that's in the church is a person that's imperfect.
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But I want to hear the truth.
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:13.599
Amen.
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:18.079
I don't care if you got divorced from your wife, you're a person.
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I don't care if you stole the money.
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But if you lie on God's word, then I'm not church hurt.
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I got to go where I hear the truth.
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But I'm not going to let church hurt be the thing that the enemy used to keep me out of church.
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:36.000
Because now I'm not building.
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:40.480
I don't care how much church I try to have at home alone.
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It's something in under the dwelling place.
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There's something under that roof that I can't get nowhere else.
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I can't listen to the radio all day, church, watch TV all day, pray all day, and never go to the church house.
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:58.320
I can grow, but so far I got to go in the building.
00:44:58.880 --> 00:44:59.760
I agree 100%.
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:04.800
And to those of you who do carry church hurt, I'm just going to give you the little rap quick one.
00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:10.320
I am a pastor's daughter, and so, you know, um over 30 years in the ministry.
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I'm 40 years old, and I was I was so I'm sorry, over 40 years now, because I'm 40 years old.
00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:19.199
So I've seen a I've seen a lot of.
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I'm one of those people that saw a lot of church hurt, or I experienced it.
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:33.199
Um but one thing that I will say to you is that I chose to raise my kids, all four of my kids, in the church, regardless.
00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:41.039
And and I tell you, I'm telling you, the mom, the dad who's watching this, it is better to have your child in the church.
00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:46.400
It is better to have your child um in church environments than to be out in the street.
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Yeah.
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And I'm gonna tell you just like that.
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Like, I have four kids and I've raised over ten in my house.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because they're my four plus their five friends, each one of them.
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And I'm trying to tell you the difference between a kid in the church and a kid in the street are two different things.
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Because in the church, at least the church is teaching them the word of God, and what does the word of God teach them?
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Character, morality, uh, confidence.
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They walk a kid that knows the word of God, walks and talks differently, right?
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Right.
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And you can see it in them when they're little.
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So, my advice to you, as the mom, the dad, the parent, don't let church hurt stop you from raising your child in the church.
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Because when you take away, when you when you remove that covenant from your children, you're allowing the world to teach them what they want, what they want them to learn.
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And that's not the word of God.
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And it's and and when I mean the word of God, no, it's not nice things, you know, and you'll see it later.
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Yes, minister.
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We have that thing, and I've been saying it lately.
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Be the change that you want to see.
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Yes.
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If you've been hurt by something, then use that hurt to bring change to that church and say, God, this same place hurt me, or I left that place because it hurt me, but now I'm at a place that I'm growing.
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Let me help others with what I've been through.
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Amen.
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So don't let church hurt stop you.
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And also, want to give you some scriptures to go with Jeremiah 29, 13 say, You will seek me and find me when you seek me with your heart.
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Amen.
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So go in the building seeking for God, not seeking for man, because the devil will show you all types of flaws.
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Oh, her dress ain't right.
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Oh, his socks are not matching up.
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They ain't put nothing in that envelope and talking about they don't worry about people.
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Yeah, seek God with your whole heart, and he will be found.
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Proverbs 8:17 says, I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.
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So when you go through that stuff, say, you know what?
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Amen.
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Maybe my my my personal navigation is GPS in me all over the place.
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Let me GPS and go find the Lord.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I love that.
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All right, and we're getting closer.
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Okay, so question eight What role does community play in healing, growth, and spiritual maturity?
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Oh man, that that's a blessing.
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Um, I'm gonna go straight to the scripture when uh Peter was in prison and and he was locked up inside the inner prison, and he was chained up inside the inner prison.
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But the community of the church was praying for Peter and all the jail just shook and set him free.
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And he ended up knocking on the same door that was praying for him.
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Yes, we need to be in the community of the believers, we need to be in the community of those that have a covenant relationship with us because what two or three are gathered in God's name.
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Oh, it can change some things, miracles can happen and and and and and things that you're looking for, questions that you might have, directions that you need to go.
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You being inside a true covenant relationship community can't do anything but just help you, help you grow as a baby into an adult in Christ is just a help.
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It's like that's the type of tribe you want to be raised with the same way.
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The Godmother says you want your child to be around a community of believing kids in Christ, not believing in gangs, amen.
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Yeah, not not believing in in in drinking purple drinks and and and and taking little pills.
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Yeah, we want you want we want our children to be in a community of those that follow Christ, that that understands the cross and can pull out some word and tell the enemy, get from around me and my homeboys.
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Amen.
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And you're only gonna get that in a church community, and I'm telling you, because I raised four kids, and I'm telling you, the only thing that saved me and saved my children is was and still is our church community.
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Amen and amen.
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Alright, we're gonna go to question number nine.
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How do we build godly relationships without becoming dependent on people instead of God?
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Oh, that's a good one.
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I had thought about that when I was I was doing my studies.
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Uh, number one the Bible says, trust no man.
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Yeah.
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So this is why we ought to be seeking God and building these relationships and building communities and building friendships.
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You got to seek you the kingdom of God first and all his righteousness, that means not only seek him, but also seek the things of God so that you can get that wisdom.
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So whatever you're trying to build with God, you you're not dependent on people.
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You can take advice from people, you can take godly wisdom from people, but the word dependent is what I'm dwelling on.
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Amen.
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We should always only be dependent on God.
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If you find yourself dependent on people, you're gonna find a lot of disappointment.
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You messed up already.
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You messed up already.
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Look, a lot of disappointment.
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Uh yeah, you know, I was raised by a parent.
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Parents, you we don't trust the people, it's the devil and people we don't trust.
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Amen.
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It's the devil and people.
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It's the devil and people, because it's anybody look, I was raised in a home that taught me never to say that a person would never.
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I was raised to believe that anybody and everybody is gonna get out here to get me.
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That's how I was raised.
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Like I was raised that every single person that I meet is out here to get me.
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I'm like, Jesus Christ.
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But when you when you live like that, you understand self-preservation and you understand and you learn to love with boundary.
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How the Lord tells us to.
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Because the devil can, in fact, use anybody to get you.
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Anybody.
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So you have like what is the word for the day tonight?
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Is you have to have a covenant relationship with the Lord so that He can tell you, hey, this person I'm bringing into your life for a season, I'm bringing you this person for a reason, and this person is gonna be here, you know, for this or for that.
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Amen.
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Yeah, I I think about that because uh what you just said that I trust you, but I don't trust the devil that might be in you.
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Yeah, that that that that thing now might try to come and hurt me.
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Yeah, you got every every there's a devil in there.
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Hey, that hey, the devil's in everybody.
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You just gotta know some people know how to call him out.
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Like, look, minister.
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I without going too much into it too quick.
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Um just quick, I caught myself.
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I caught the devil messing with me this week.
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Like you're not like I had a I had to catch it to be like to to tell my husband, to tell the hey, something's off.
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I I I don't I don't like this.
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And to be able to call it out and then see it and then switch, that is the Holy Spirit that you're talking about.
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That's the relationship covenant that I was able to be like, yo, the devil's messing with me right now, it's messing with my mind, right?
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Right, right, right, right.
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He's confused it because in the Bible it says that that he sends legions of demons.
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One of them, do you know that the biggest demon that comes after us is the spirit of confusion?
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Yes.
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Did you know?
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I there's legions I've been dealing with it this week to the third power, yeah.
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And it's just like, yeah, and what I find out is because it's because of this TikTok thing.
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Yeah, when you start being on the front line for God, yeah, the enemy just gets active.
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Amen.
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Yeah.
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Until it can come through your business, come through your loved one, yeah.
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But you get active, yeah, because like I said, people don't understand what you meant because they just believers in the kingdom.
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But when you active and on the front line, and you're really putting yourself out there because you want to see people get their souls saved or just meet Christ, yeah.
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Well, he gets active and it comes through confusion, yes, arguments, lies, throwing under the bus, just so much foolery.
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Yeah.
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I have to look, I almost look, I almost, I'm not gonna say ruined because the relationships that I have are so powerful around me.
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So the devil tried to ruin a relationship of mine using me, my own words, confusing my own words that I had to check myself.
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I had to say, Michelle, why would you say that?
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Check your tongue, that's accountability.
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Yeah, I had and apologized, and I and I called and I said, You know what?
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I apologize.
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I I should have never said that.
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That was a lie.
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That's a lie.
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Listen, listen, listen, and open up doors to you a blessing, though.
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Listen, and to tell that person that was a lie that came out of my mouth.
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I don't even know why I said that.
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I don't even, I don't even know how my mouth fixed up to say something like that.
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And I had to say, you know what, in the name of Jesus, I rebuke the spirit of the legions of confusion that are putting things in my head.
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If we don't catch it, nobody else cares.
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You just lose people.
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People look at you like, yo, you're not the studying the scriptures about the battle of the mind.
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:50.079
George Myers got this book called The Battlefield of the Mind.
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Yeah, and I just went through scriptures today about how he uh influences and where he influences at in the mind.
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I just went through scripture after scripture after scripture because I'm seeing this.
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Yeah, and I'm just like, this ain't good here.
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Yeah, like there's no other place for him to play with me at.
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Right.
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That's why, look, all of this, all of this is to tell you guys have a c you have to have a covenant relationship with God where He can speak to you because God used me to check me.
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Right.
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I had to check my after saying some stupid, I had to check my own tongue and then apologize for the stupid things that I said and then live in the consequence of that person looking at me and saying, Well, you know what?
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I I can at least appreciate your accountability.
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Right, right, right.
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Think just for that person to be witnessing it and say, you know what, godmother, I mess with your account.
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I I love I love you, and and and we're all good because of that.
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Because you because I I I didn't have to tell you, nobody else had to tell you.
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You checked yourself.
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Let us walk as people without accountability of self, and that can only come through Christ.
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One more, yeah.
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How do I get this TikTok and add it to Talk to Me B podcast?
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And I pay for the editing.
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This one loves.
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Oh man.
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Uh okay, okay.
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I love you.
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I love you, yeah.
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Yes, yes, invoice.
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This one is.
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Listen, listen.
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I I I rocks with this one.
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I love you.
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I love you, Minister.
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You know, yes, absolutely.
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I would.
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Continuing, uncut, not planned, following the Holy Spirit.
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That's what I want to do.
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Amen.
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This episode on Talk to Me Be podcast.
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We're outside.
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You see how God is?
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I got you.
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I want this.
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Thank you.
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I got you.
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Yes, and yes.
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All right.
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Last question, Minister.
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All right.
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What happens when a group of believers truly come together in unity, prayer, and purpose?
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Oh, I gave you the answer too early.
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That's when they shook the room up.
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That's when two or three get together in God's name.
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That's where those notes come from.
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I just want you to see how when you send me stuff, how I really go.
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No, listen, this this by this study, I didn't come, I didn't come.
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This is the God knows this is our union.
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This is us.
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This is a union.
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Because last week I had the Bible verses ready.
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This week you came with them ready.
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I came only with the this is but this is real.
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And when you started with the when you started reading the Bible, I said, You see how God is?
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Right.
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You see how God is?
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It's like, no, I didn't prepare it, but you did.
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You know, and that's that's the beauty of who we are.
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And what I was gonna say is in Exodus, in the ending of Exodus, when when the people built a tabernacle, right?
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It says that it says that the whole God, the Holy Spirit entered the tabernacle, and this the Spirit was so strong and was so powerful that it filled the it filled the room, it filled nobody could come in.
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That's the power.
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That's what happens when two or more people come together.
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When we come together, when two or more, that's what it is.
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Two or more come together, the spirit of God comes and healing happens, miracles happen, things that you thought impossible happen because we are all in the name of Yahweh, in the name of God, and the we are all saying we believe that He can in fact transform.
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Amen.
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And that same thing happened in the book of Acts.
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They went in the upper room and they all began to pray.
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And it said that the Holy Spirit came down inside the smoke, and they received tongues of fire, and the word of God said the fervent, effectual prayers of the righteous avail of much.
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That's the question.
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What happens when we come together?
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The fervent, the faithful, fervent prayers of the faithful avail much.
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So when we come together and pray fervently, faithfully, it's gonna avail much.
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Amen.
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Yokes are gonna be destroyed, mountains are gonna be moved, healing is gonna take place, wisdom is gonna be given, steps are gonna be ordered, things are gonna be changed, the enemy got to run.
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Peace got to come in, power got to rest on us.
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But you got to have a covenant relationship, not a convenient one, no, no, a covenant one.
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I think that you guys understand tonight get you a covenant relationship with God, not a convenient one, it's not easy, but the peace of mind.
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The success in following Christ is not measured in the things that you gain.
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The success comes in the peace of mind that only the Lord, only God can give you.
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The devil can't give you peace, the devil cannot give you love.
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So, what we as humans is as people, we said small powerful.
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I hope they didn't miss that.
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The devil can't give you love.
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He can't give you love, the devil doesn't know love.
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Just know that agape only comes from God.
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That man beating that woman up saying, I beat you because I love you.
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No, that's that's the devil.
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No, that's not it.
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That person is disrespecting you and using it in the name of love.
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They may love you for the moment, but the disrespect comes in the form of darkness.
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That's not God's love.
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No, you they don't love you.
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No, the thing is that they don't love you.
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Abuse is not love.
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I've been in an abusive I've been in an abusive relationship, and I'm not gonna run into it, but I've I've been in an abusive.
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I am I am a survivor of abusive situations, and let me tell you something.
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This is why my ministry is so powerful.
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There is there is no love.
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A man that does not follow Christ, a man that does not know God's love cannot love you.
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If he the if God is not in him, he does not know love.
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And I've experienced it enough to tell you that a man that does not have that covenant relationship with the Lord, a man that does not love or a woman, yeah, a woman, or a woman, or a woman.
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You're giving your testimony, that's understood.
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Yeah, when a person that does not have God's love cannot give or show real love.
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That's not real.
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I I learned that I had to start seeing people for the God in them, and if it doesn't exist, I can't exist with you.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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I can't exist where there's no God, and I'm sorry, you know.
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Trying to put on them take them heels off and put on them sneakers.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Listen, that's facts, you know.
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Um, I'm really appreciative of everyone that showed up on this live today.
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You know, um, minister and I, Minister Clean Face and I, I appreciate you, minister, because I appreciate you because God gave me the vision and you brought me along for the journey, man.
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And it's been a healthy one, it's been a building one.
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And I thank God for you all the time.
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Amen.
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And I I I pray for you, I pray for your family, you know, and I pray for the success of Talk to Me Be podcast.
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You know, make sure you guys go subscribe on the YouTube channel, Talk2Me Bee, on YouTube and on Instagram, TalkToMe Be Podcast.
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We're bringing God back to the conversation to the center of our lives, and we're actually showcasing our families with you.
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You know, Minister Clean Face, his first episode is with his sons and his daughters.
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You don't want to miss this, guys.
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When this drops, you're gonna be like, this is this is all the preview to the setup, you know.
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Working on God's timing.
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Amen.
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I want to make sure y'all stay tuned in to my sister, Codero Ministry, man.
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And y'all pray for it, y'all pray that God expands it, expand her territory, that God continue to bless her with the strength to keep going and keep blessing her with the ideas to bring to you.
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And what's some of your other uh handles?
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Oh, oh, I was gonna say and bless you financially so that he can keep paying for stuff.
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Praise God.
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Bless the minister, Lord.
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Please give him the money.
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So he can bless the kingdom.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Follow us.
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Let's read about it, Bible Studies.
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Read about it, Bible studies.
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On YouTube, it's Cordero Ministry, and on and on Instagram and TikTok, let's read about it Bible studies.
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We're bringing God back to the center of our lives.
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Amen.
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And now you got to pray us out.
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Amen.
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All right, let's pray.
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Father God, we want to thank you for all the wonderful things that you do for allowing us to come in your presence, Lord.
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We want to ask you, Holy Spirit, that you go with us tonight, that you allow us to take everything that we heard today, Lord, and allow us to um it.
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And if the only thing that you wanted our people to hear today is to grow a covenant relationship with you, Lord, then I believe that we sold the message, Lord.
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Allow everyone to want to speak for you, want to read your word, Lord, and let them feel your love, your presence, and your peace.
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And it's in your mighty name we pray.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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And I guess what I took the picture before the show.
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Oh, you see.
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God bless you.
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Hey, we love you.
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Share and tell somebody about it, but don't forget, get you a covenant relationship with God and not a companion.
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And I will see you next Wednesday.
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And nine.
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And look, guys.
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Now now look, guys.
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I booked Minister Clean Face for 12 lives, okay?
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The original booking was for 12 lives.
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And and we're reaching, we're reaching the end of the 12.
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But you know, we'll see.
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We'll see if God.
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But you know what?
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I've been having such a great time with you that um I pray that I can book you for another 12.
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You know, God, and and I'm God willing, whatever.
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I'm here.
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We familia.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, you have a good night, minister, everyone.
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We love you guys, and we'll see you next week.
