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00:14 Hello, and welcome to a special Dare to Dream presentation.
00:18 I'm excited, Jason. 00:19 I'm excited too, 00:21 I can't wait to just really get into the meat of things. 00:24 Yes, yes. 00:25 And you're going to love this 00:26 because we have some special guests with us 00:29 and what's so amazing is that 00:30 they are involved, they made this documentary. 00:35 And so our guests are... 00:37 We have pastor doctor, is it doctor? 00:41 Yes. 00:42 Dr. Isaac Olatunji, 00:44 and he's a professor of religion 00:46 at Oakwood University and then we have Scotty Meyer, 00:49 who is the director and founder? 00:52 Yeah. 00:53 And founder of Little Light Studios. 00:55 Um-hm. Am I right? 00:57 Yep. Okay, great. 00:58 Making sure I don't mess it up. 01:00 Yeah, so what made you do this documentary 01:06 on the Black Panther? 01:08 Now, Dr. O is the brainchild behind this whole episode. 01:12 Okay. 01:13 I'll let him speak on that. Okay, good. 01:15 Um, shortly after the Black Panther movie came out 01:18 at Oakwood University church, 01:20 they were having a 40 days of prayer for the campus. 01:22 And one of the things they wanted to talk 01:24 about was this movie the Black Panther, 01:25 since a lot of our students 01:27 and even some of our faculty and staff saw it 01:29 and just others in the black community, 01:31 and the black Adventist community saw it, 01:33 she wanted a presentation on it 01:36 and so she called me out of the blue 01:37 and said, "I think you'd be the best person for it. 01:40 Can you come up with something?" 01:41 And I almost said no, 01:43 but I decided to do it and then, 01:45 one thing led to another, and I put it together, 01:48 presented, started presenting it in different venues 01:50 until I came to... 01:52 Can you hear me now in the month of May 01:54 where I did a presentation of it 01:56 and Scott will tell you the rest of the story. 01:58 I got to see this presentation 02:00 because I was at the same conference 02:01 and, man, it just really, 02:04 you know, was an excellent presentation 02:07 and we both kind of sat down afterwards and we said, 02:10 we got to turn this into a soul project 02:11 so what you're going to see is a, as a, you know, 02:16 collaboration together on that project. 02:18 He came up with all the content, 02:20 we put it together in the edit room 02:22 so it was a lot of fun. 02:24 Nice. That's great. 02:25 Look at how God orchestrates everything, right? 02:29 I mean, you didn't know you were going to meet 02:32 and yet you did 02:33 and the Lord just brought this together 02:35 in the Black Panther deception. 02:37 So let's take a look at it. 02:56 What does the Black Panther and the enemy of our souls, 02:59 namely Lucifer have in common? 03:02 Get ready for the Black Panther Deception. 03:37 We wanna give a disclaimer 03:38 before we get into this documentary 03:40 that this is not an invalidation of any culture, 03:44 namely the black culture. 03:45 This is mainly an invalidation to Satanic principles 03:49 that are seeking to deceive people, 03:51 not only of the black race, but of the human race 03:53 as Satan is preparing his last day deceptions 03:56 to deceive the whole entire world. 03:59 Greetings, my name is Dr. Isaac Olatunji, 04:01 professor of religion at Oakwood University 04:03 and this is the Black Panther Deception. 04:06 The Bible says that 04:07 "Man should not live by bread alone, 04:09 but by every word 04:10 that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." 04:12 In this documentary, 04:13 we're gonna talk about this movie 04:15 that has blown all kinds of records at the blue, 04:19 at the movies and all over, and in the minds of men. 04:22 This movie, the Black Panther, talks about a superhero 04:25 that many people of the African-American, 04:27 the black community have identified with. 04:30 What we wanna do in this documentary? 04:32 We wanna give a Christian perspective on this movie 04:35 so that we can make a biblically informed choice. 04:38 For the Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone, 04:40 but by every word that proceedeth out of this book. 04:44 Our decisions in everything must be measured by this book 04:49 called The Holy Bible, 04:50 for it came from the mouth of God, 04:52 for in the beginning was the Word 04:53 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 04:56 And because we trust God, 04:58 whatever comes out of His mouth, 05:00 we trust and we put it in our life. 05:02 So we talk about this movie here, 05:04 the Black Panther. 05:06 We want to look at it from the standpoint 05:07 of what Jesus says in the Book of Matthew 24:4, 05:10 Jesus says, "Take heed that no man deceive you." 05:14 Brothers and sisters, deception is a very serious thing, 05:17 and as people are talking about Wakanda forever. 05:20 Wakanda forever! 05:22 And glorifying this fictional place 05:24 called Wakanda 05:25 and the superhero called the Black Panther. 05:27 Brothers and sisters, we wanna talk about something here that 05:31 I believe that is inherent within every superhero, 05:34 this issue of power. 05:36 When we deal with power, we think of three things, 05:38 we think of authority, we think of strength, 05:42 and we think of control. 05:44 Remember that, authority, strength, and control. 05:48 These are three things that are inherent 05:50 in every superhero. 05:51 As a matter of fact, is inherent 05:53 when we talk about the word power, 05:55 whether it's power as a boss, 05:57 or power as a parent, or anything in between. 05:59 Authority, strength, and control is inherent 06:02 in this word power. 06:04 But there is a question that deserves a good answer, 06:07 when it comes to this issue about superheroes 06:10 and we have to talk about this 06:12 when we talk about the Black Panther. 06:14 The number one question that needs to be answered is this. 06:16 What do superheroes depend upon 06:19 when battling against the forces of evil 06:22 in their worlds? 06:24 "Allow the heart-shaped herb to restore the powers 06:28 of the Black Panther." 06:30 And what I found out is and if anybody is honest, 06:33 you will find out that usually 06:35 it is upon a supernatural power other than the God of heaven. 06:44 "Oh my queen, said the royal sorcerer to Hatshepsut, 06:48 with this amulet, you and your descendants 06:51 are endowed by the goddess Isis, 06:53 with the powers of the animals and the elements. 06:56 You will soar as the falcon soars, 06:59 run with the speed of gazelles, 07:01 and command the elements of sky and earth. 07:05 Three thousand years later, a young science teacher 07:08 dug up this lost treasure and found she was heir to, 07:12 the secrets of Isis 07:15 and so unknown to even her closest friends, 07:18 Rick Mason and Cindy Lee, she became a dual person, 07:23 Andrea Thomas teacher 07:26 and Isis, dedicated foe of evil, 07:30 defender of the weak, 07:32 champion of truth and justice." 07:37 And these superheroes depend upon a supernatural power 07:41 which is not the God of the Bible. 07:45 "Hello?" 07:48 "Say my name so my powers may flow through you." 07:51 "But I don't know your name, sir." 07:53 "Shazam." "Shazam!" 08:00 As you saw here, we see here blatant spiritualism, 08:04 blatant witchcraft, and you see Billy Batson, 08:07 the young Billy Batson receiving power from a wizard, 08:10 but what does the Bible say about wizards? 08:12 The Bible makes this very plain in the Book of Leviticus 19:31, 08:16 that we're not to be defiled by wizards to seek after them. 08:21 The Bible's blatant about this. 08:23 The Bible also says in Isaiah Chapter 8, 08:26 the Bible makes it very plain, 08:28 "For when they shall say unto you, 08:30 seek unto them that have familiar spirits, 08:33 and unto wizards that peep and that mutter, 08:35 should not a people seek unto their God, 08:37 for the living to the dead?" 08:38 Instead of going to wizards for power, 08:41 as you see human models 08:43 in the superhero movies depend upon, 08:45 we should seek for the power of God. 08:47 What does the Bible say? 08:49 We have to measure everything by the Word. 08:50 For the Bible says in verse 20, 08:52 "And to the law and to the testimony, 08:54 if they speak not according to this word, 08:57 it is because there is no light in them." 08:59 So as a Christian, 09:01 as a biblical student of the Word, 09:03 I cannot subscribe 09:05 and you should not subscribe to anything 09:08 that subscribe to getting power 09:09 from another power outside of the living God. 09:13 And as you saw in the clip on Isis, 09:15 what you will find out is that 09:17 Isis was part of the Egyptian trinity. 09:19 Isis, Horus and Set 09:22 and that's very, very important. 09:24 And so as you look at it, 09:26 we gotta look at it from a biblical standpoint 09:28 and this leads to the next thing 09:29 as we talk about the Black Panther 09:32 because it's dealing with black superheroes, 09:35 and black a cast, and black representation. 09:39 A lot of people are looking at it 09:41 from an empowerment standpoint, 09:43 but what I want to share with you 09:44 is where the real power source comes from? 09:46 In John 14:12, Jesus makes it very plain, 09:50 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, 09:52 he that believeth on me, 09:53 the works that I do shall he do also, 09:56 And greater works than these shall he do, 09:58 because I go unto the Father." 10:00 Brothers and sisters, we receive true, 10:02 supernatural power, 10:03 not calling upon Shazam or Isis, 10:05 or in any other name, but one name, 10:08 and his name is Jesus Christ. 10:09 When we call upon Jesus, 10:11 we receive supernatural strength 10:12 to battle against the forces of evil in this universe. 10:16 The Bible makes it very plain, "That the weapons 10:18 of our warfare are not carnal, 10:20 but they are mighty through God 10:22 to the pulling down of strongholds, 10:24 casting down imaginations, and every high thing 10:26 that exalts itself against the knowledge of God 10:28 and bring it into captivity, 10:31 every thought to the obedience of Christ." 10:33 The real battle is fought in the mind, 10:35 and we use the weapon found in the Word of God 10:38 and faith in prayer to bring down 10:40 all the strongholds not only in our lives, 10:42 but in the lives of every human being 10:44 upon this earth. 10:46 Where does the true power come from? 10:47 We said, it came from Christ. 10:49 And in Luke 10:19, the Bible plainly says, 10:53 "Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents 10:57 and upon scorpions, 10:58 and over all the power of the enemy 11:00 and nothing shall by any means hurt you." 11:04 We have the assurance that 11:05 when we call on the name of Jesus, 11:07 Christ gives a supernatural power. 11:10 As His disciples as we fulfill this gospel commission 11:13 over all the power of the enemy. 11:16 And the Book of Acts 1:8, the Bible says, 11:20 "For ye shall receive power, 11:22 after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." 11:25 And in Luke 11:13, 11:28 the Bible makes it very plain 11:29 that we receive the Holy Spirit simply by asking. 11:32 So by asking for the power of the Holy Spirit 11:35 and as Jesus said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." 11:38 We receive supernatural power 11:40 to battle against the forces of evil. 11:43 But these superheroes are the counterfeit superheroes. 11:47 The real superheroes are those who are connected with Christ 11:50 as we go forth in the gospel commission 11:52 to help save people from eternal damnation. 11:56 That's the reason why the burden of this documentary 11:58 is not to fall for the great deception, 12:01 for the Bible makes it very plain 12:02 in the Book of 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 12:06 "Even him, whose coming 12:08 is after the working of Satan with all power 12:12 and signs and lying wonders." 12:13 These superheroes that you're looking at, 12:16 their displaying works, signs, miracles, lying wonders, 12:20 battling evil per Se, by using power 12:24 which originates from the father of lies, 12:27 and this is only but a precursor, 12:29 what's gonna happen worldwide. 12:31 And the Bible makes it very plain that Satan 12:33 is gonna let all the batteries of his deceptive power loose 12:38 and perform miracles, signs and wonders 12:40 and sad to say, many will be deceived. 12:43 This is very important. 12:45 So what we must do? 12:46 We must follow biblical principles 12:48 when it comes to what we watch and not just take anything, 12:51 rather it's white representation 12:52 or black representation through superheroes. 12:55 The Bible says in the Book of Philippians 4:8, 12:58 the Bible says, "Finally my brethren, 13:00 whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 13:05 whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, 13:09 whatsoever things are lovely, 13:11 if whatsoever things are of good report, 13:14 if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, 13:18 think on these things." 13:19 When you watch a movie, 13:20 we ponder and think about what we watched, 13:23 and one of the things we must understand is that 13:25 we must measure everything by the Word of God. 13:28 Do we wanna ponder and think about 13:30 how superheroes received their power from the wizards 13:33 and powers outside of God, 13:36 or rather ponder on how we can receive power 13:40 from the power source, 13:41 the true power source and that is God. 13:44 When they present a false reality, 13:45 it is not true, 13:47 and the Bible tells us in Philippians 4:8, 13:49 whatsoever things are true. 13:52 And what you saw in these Shazam and Isis of clipping, 13:56 what we will show it to you in this documentary 13:58 with the Black Panther is that we see pagan idolatry, 14:02 we see witchcraft at work, which the Bible calls a sin. 14:06 The Bible says in the Book of Psalms 101:3, 14:09 you have to measure everything you watch by the word, 14:12 the Bible says, "I will set no wicked thing 14:15 before my eyes." 14:17 And according to the Bible, 1 Samuel 15:23, 14:20 tells us that witchcraft is a sin in its wickedness. 14:25 Why? 14:26 Because its power sourcing is a power source 14:30 and the workers of his power 14:31 come from another source other than God. 14:33 And when you have superheroes and human beings, 14:36 the movie scripts, and playwright 14:39 teach the lesson that you can receive power 14:41 outside of Christ to save evil 14:43 or to battle against the forces of evil, 14:45 then we have a problem. 14:48 "I hated drawing power from the Dark Dimension. 14:51 But as you well know, 14:53 sometimes one must break the rules 14:55 in order to serve the greater good." 14:57 The Bible says, "I hate the work of them 14:59 that turn aside, 15:00 it shall not cleave unto me," why? 15:02 Because by beholding, we become change. 15:05 We got to be very careful 15:06 because our minds can adapt ourselves 15:08 to the things that we watch. 15:10 The Bible makes it very plain, 15:12 "That he that worketh deceit 15:13 shall not dwell within our house, 15:15 and he that telleth lie shall not tarry in my sight." 15:18 Could it be 15:19 that the superhero movies and this movie Black Panther 15:23 be promoting a false reality thereby telling lies before us. 15:29 Let's go to the story of the Black Panther. 15:34 As for those who watched the movie, 15:35 the movie Black Panther is centered in a nation 15:38 called Wakanda, as you will see 15:41 that there's paraphernalia out there 15:43 such as straight out of Wakanda and glorifying Wakanda. 15:47 And there is an article that came out 15:50 recently in the New York Times of February 12, 2018, 15:54 before the movie Black Panther came out. 15:57 The name of the article is simply "Why 'Black Panther' 15:59 is a defining moment for Black America." 16:02 And this goes into something that we really need to cover. 16:05 It says, "Ryan Coogler's film is a vivid re-imagination 16:09 of something black Americans have cherished for centuries. 16:12 Africa as a dream of our wholeness, 16:14 greatness and self-realization." 16:16 And from the standpoint, I do understand psychologically 16:19 and emotionally why people 16:21 of African-American race identify 16:24 with the Black Panther and champion it. 16:27 Why? 16:28 Because it describes Africa 16:30 as something that we as blacks desire 16:34 to have in this world and in this country. 16:37 Because of colonialism, slavery, 16:39 Jim Crow, and oppression, 16:41 blacks have had it very, very hard in this world. 16:45 And so when you have a movie 16:46 that deals with black representation, 16:48 black empowerment, we immediately flock to it. 16:51 The article says, "Superheroes are powerful and beloved, 16:56 held in high esteem by society at large. 16:59 The idea that a normal black person 17:01 could experience such a thing in America was so farfetched 17:05 as to effectively constitute gallows humor." 17:09 Blade, released in 1998, 17:11 featured Wesley Snipes as a Marvel, vampire hunter 17:15 and Hancock 2008, 17:17 depicted Will Smith a slacker anti-hero 17:21 but in each case, 17:23 the actor's blackness somewhat seem somewhat incidental, 17:27 but Black Panther by contrast is steeped very specifically 17:32 and purposely in its blackness. 17:36 "It's the first time in a very long time 17:39 that we're seeing in a film with centered black people, 17:42 where we have a lot of agency" says Jamie Broadnax, 17:45 the founder of Black Girl Nerds, 17:47 a pop culture site focused on sci-fi, 17:49 and comic-book fandoms. 17:51 These characters she notes, "are rules of a kingdom, 17:54 inventors and creators of advanced technology. 17:57 We're not dealing with black pains, 17:59 suffering and poverty, 18:01 the usual topics of acclaimed movies 18:03 about the black experience on whole." 18:06 And so, from that standpoint, it's very understandable 18:09 why many people are promoting it 18:13 and patronizing it, but as a black person 18:17 that happens to be a Bible believing Christian, 18:19 I have to measure it by the Word of God, 18:21 and we have to deal with it 18:23 because we don't want to fall for the great deception. 18:26 What we must understand is going back 18:28 into biblical times. 18:29 We want to talk about some world paradigms, 18:32 very important 18:34 so that we can be able to decipher this. 18:36 Which you must understand is that 18:38 God called the children of Israel out of Egypt, 18:41 and God through His servant Moses told the Pharaoh, 18:44 "Let My people go that they may serve Me." 18:47 And Pharaoh was the god of Egypt, in human form. 18:52 And notice that if you read the Bible carefully, 18:56 these were Egyptians 18:57 and the Egyptians were sons of Ham 18:59 and Egyptian hieroglyphs, 19:01 and it's very much common knowledge 19:03 that the Egyptians were people of black skin. 19:05 This was a black nation. 19:07 A black nation of pagans 19:09 who did not served the true and only God, 19:11 centered in a man called Pharaoh. 19:15 For when God dealt with the Egyptians, 19:18 He wasn't looking at the fact that these were black folk, 19:21 and well, I'm gonna have mercy on them. 19:23 Oh, no, they were enslavers of His people 19:26 and so God dealt with the Pharaoh. 19:29 So when God brought the children of Israel 19:30 out of Egypt, 19:32 He was bringing them out of humanistic living, 19:34 which was centered in the Pharaoh. 19:35 And when He brought them out of Egypt and to Himself, 19:39 and when He gave them His laws on Mount Sinai, 19:42 He was bringing them into a theory or philosophy, 19:45 or theology called "Yahweh" centrism 19:48 which is centered always in God's Word, 19:50 which leads to prophetic living. 19:53 And, brothers and sisters, that is very important 19:55 as we talk about this movie, why? 19:58 Because we're dealing with the thing today in society, 20:02 dealing with Eurocentrism. 20:04 Descendants of African descent 20:06 know very well about Eurocentrism. 20:09 Eurocentrism is centered in the white man 20:12 which leads to humanistic living. 20:14 But one thing about the Black Panther movie 20:17 as it relates to apparently all superheroes, 20:21 depending upon a power outside of God 20:24 is always humanistic to where we must understand 20:28 what we're dealing with. 20:30 We're dealing with a thing called Afrocentrism, 20:32 which is centered in the black man 20:36 which leads to humanistic living. 20:39 And I'm here to tell you 20:40 that the Black Panther is a humanistic, spiritualistic 20:45 version of a denial of the Lordship of our Lord 20:49 and Savior Jesus Christ. 20:51 And with that, there's three questions 20:53 that must be answered 20:56 in order to validate this point. 20:57 Number one, who is the god of Wakanda? 21:01 Number two, how does the Black Panther 21:03 receive his power? 21:05 And number three, are the spiritualistic 21:07 and witchcraft undertones in the Black Panther movie? 21:11 These three questions need to be answered. 21:13 And when these questions are answered, 21:15 it will give us a biblical basis 21:17 to make an informed choice 21:19 on the suitableness of watching this 21:22 or any other Black Panther movie 21:23 that can come out in the future. 21:26 And so in doing my research on this, 21:29 I found out that the god of Wakanda, 21:33 the nation of Wakanda is the cat god Bast. 21:37 It says here, "I am Bast, cat god of Egypt, 21:42 panther god of Wakanda. 21:44 And in Marvel wiki, it makes it very plain 21:47 that the Panther cult is the state religion 21:49 of the African nation of Wakanda. 21:51 And that's very interesting 21:53 because the Bible makes it very plain that, 21:54 "We shall have no other gods before Him." 21:56 So we are to reject the gods of any nation 21:59 whether it's Egypt or Wakanda. 22:02 And what does the Bible say? 22:03 The Bible says in the Book of Leviticus 20:26, 22:08 "And ye should be holy unto me, 22:10 for I the Lord am holy, 22:12 and have severed you from other people, 22:15 that ye should be mine." 22:16 God has severed His children from other nations 22:20 that were worshiping other gods to serve Him 22:23 and then in the next verse He says in verse 27, 22:26 "A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, 22:30 or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death." 22:33 So God was very serious about contacting 22:36 and being in contact with those 22:38 who are dealing with demonic spirits to receive power. 22:41 So based on the Bible, just on that point 22:44 understanding that the cat God Bast 22:47 was the state religion or the god of the Wakandans, 22:52 on that point alone I reject the Black Panther 22:55 and based on the Bible 22:57 no one who believes in the Bible for this time, 22:59 no one who believes the truth for this time 23:01 should patronize such a movie and philosophy. 23:07 The religion, 23:10 the Wakandans have ties to the African gods 23:13 known as the Ennead or Osiris. 23:16 Ancient beings who visited earth centuries ago, 23:19 they were wildly worshiped in Egypt, 23:21 but had ties to other regions of Africa, 23:25 and that's also from Marvel wiki. 23:27 So we see here that the religion, 23:29 the state religion, 23:31 the gods of the Wakandans is not the gods of the Bible, 23:34 the very gods which Jesus through His Holy Spirit 23:38 through His servant Moses told us to reject. 23:41 And one of the cities of Wakanda 23:43 'cause Wakanda is a nation, 23:44 in order to have a nation you must have cities. 23:47 One of the cities of the Wakandans 23:51 is the city called Necropolis, 23:54 and we look at the word Necropolis. 23:56 Polis means city, necro means dead. 23:58 So necropolis is simply the city of the dead. 24:01 Necropolis, the Wakandan city of the dead 24:04 where black panthers go to die. 24:07 Where you will rule as king of the dead, 24:10 every Black Panther that's ever lived, 24:12 their strength, their knowledge is now yours. 24:15 Every battle fought, every battle won unbeaten, 24:18 unbroken a crown of the unconquered, 24:20 a king of kings my champion, my Black Panther. 24:24 The Bible tells us that Jesus is the King of kings, 24:28 and the Bible makes it very plain 24:30 that Jesus is the King 24:32 and will be the King of this earth. 24:36 So this city of the dead, Necropolis 24:38 and as you see the Black Panther 24:40 talking to the spirits of the dead. 24:42 It says so I seek your counsel honored fathers, warriors, 24:46 and priest, Black Panthers all, 24:49 but what does the Bible tell us? 24:50 The Bible tells us in the Book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 9, 24:53 that "The dead do not know anything." 24:56 The Bible makes it very plain in the Book of Job 7:9-10, 25:01 that "Those that go down to the grave 25:04 do not come back anymore 25:06 and they return no more to talk to anybody 25:09 in their homes or in their houses." 25:11 So based on the Bible, the Bible makes it very plain 25:14 that those that are dead are dead, 25:16 they did not come back to contact the living. 25:19 In the Book of Deuteronomy Chapter 18, 25:21 the Bible makes it very plain that 25:24 "We are not to be defiled by those who are necromancers." 25:27 And a necromancer is someone who speaks to the dead. 25:31 And we see here this superhero, 25:33 the Black Panther widely revered 25:35 and esteemed by the world is, 25:38 he speaking to the spirits of the dead. 25:40 In this next comic book strip, 25:42 it says here he's sitting around the Black Panthers, 25:45 these other Black Panthers in the past 25:48 that have died and have gone to the ancestors, 25:50 as they say in folklore 25:52 and it says here the Black Panther's saying, 25:55 "Honored fathers, mighty warriors, 25:57 fearsome priests, Black Panthers all... 25:59 In the name of Bast," not in the name of Jesus 26:02 but in the name of a false god, in the name of Bast, 26:05 "I call upon you to counsel." 26:08 Hold on, based on the scriptures 26:10 the Bible says "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, 26:14 and He shall direct thy paths." 26:16 Proverbs 3:6. 26:19 So we see here contradiction, a biblical contradiction. 26:22 Where is he getting his power from? 26:23 Who is he getting his wisdom from? 26:25 He's not getting it 26:26 from the so called spirits of the dead 26:28 which were ancestors that have once lived 26:30 and are now living. 26:32 He got them from the spirits of devils. 26:36 Satan has the power to personally 26:39 or come in the form of dead loved ones. 26:41 In the Book of 1 Samuel Chapter 28, 26:44 we see King Saul asking the witch of Endor, 26:46 to bring up Samuel who had died 26:49 and we see that the devil personates Samuel, 26:53 speaks some back and forth. 26:55 And, brothers and sisters, the Bible calls that a sin, 26:58 the Bible called that forbidden. 27:00 But we know based on the Bible, 27:02 it was not Samuel who he was speaking to 27:04 but it was simply a demonic spirit 27:05 personating Samuel. 27:07 And in 1 Chronicles 10:13-14, 27:12 the Bible makes it very plain 27:14 that God's slew him for connecting himself 27:17 with the familiar spirits. 27:19 And so we've to be very careful 27:20 about dealing with the spirits of the dead. 27:23 So, brothers and sisters, 27:24 this Black Panther superhero is connecting himself 27:27 with spiritualistic demonic spirits 27:30 to receive counsel and with that, 27:33 so let's deal with this issue about 27:36 where does the Black Panther receive his power? 27:38 And when you look at the first scene of this movie 27:42 as we're gonna show you in just a few... 27:45 This gives you everything that you need to know 27:48 from a biblical standpoint 27:49 of where the Black Panther receives his power. 27:55 "Baba..." 27:56 "Yes my son." 27:57 "Tell me a story." 28:00 "Which one?" 28:01 "The story of home." 28:04 "Millions of years ago a meteorite made of Vibranium, 28:10 the strongest substance in the universe 28:13 struck the continent of Africa, 28:16 affecting the plant life around it. 28:19 And when the time of men came, 28:22 five tribes settled on it and called it Wakanda. 28:28 The tribes lived in constant war 28:30 with each other until a warrior Shaman 28:33 received a vision from the Panther goddess Bast 28:36 who led him to the heart-shaped herb, 28:40 a plant that granted him superhuman strength, 28:43 speed and instincts. 28:46 The warrior became king and their first Black Panther, 28:50 the protector of Wakanda. 28:53 Four tribes agreed to live under the king's rule, 28:56 but the Jabari tribe isolated themselves 28:59 in the mountains. 29:01 The Wakandans used vibranium to develop technology 29:05 more advanced than any other nation. 29:08 But as Wakanda thrived, the world around it 29:11 descended further into chaos. 29:17 To keep vibranium safe, 29:18 the Wakandans vowed to hide in plain sight, 29:22 keeping the truth of their power 29:24 from the outside world." 29:28 "And we still hide, Baba?" 29:31 "Yes." 29:32 In this scene, you see 29:34 where the Black Panther receives his power. 29:36 First of all, the first Black Panther was a Shaman. 29:39 And we'll define what a Shaman is later on. 29:42 And as you see, he had a vision, 29:44 the prophetic vision where he had, 29:46 where he saw the cat god Bast, which we know is a false god, 29:50 which we know is really the devil, 29:52 and he leads him to go to a heart-shaped herb 29:56 and to eat it to receive power. 29:59 Now based on the Bible, where's the last time 30:01 or the first time you see 30:03 an animal speaking to a human being 30:05 to eat something to receive power? 30:07 We know very well what it is. When the devil... 30:11 And he possessed a serpent, 30:13 spoke through the serpent and told Eve 30:16 that if you eat of the fruit, you will become like God, 30:20 and we know the rest of the story. 30:23 And so we see that the Black Panther 30:26 receives his power, really from the devil. 30:29 His inspiration from a false god, 30:32 and brothers and sisters, 30:33 this represents the enemy of our souls. 30:36 But more than that, let's go to another scene. 30:40 Now, in this scene we see the Shaman Zuri in this movie, 30:45 dealing with the Black Panther receiving power, 30:48 the heart-shaped herb 30:49 going into the Black Panther but notice, 30:52 he calls upon the Black Panther's father 30:56 to come to his son. 30:58 Now... 31:02 "Allow the heart-shaped herb to restore the powers 31:05 of the Black Panther 31:08 and take you to the ancestral plane. 31:14 T'Chaka, we call on you. 31:19 Come here to your son." 31:23 Who is this T'Chaka that has to come to his son? 31:29 He was the former Black Panther, 31:31 the father of this Black Panther 31:32 who had passed away. 31:34 And in the next scene we're gonna show you a scene 31:37 where the Black Panther's mother, 31:39 which was starred by Angela Bassett, 31:42 calls upon the cat god Bast to heal her son, 31:47 and then you see a transition 31:48 to where he is speaking to his father in this movie 31:53 but the problem is, his father is dead. 31:56 And the Bible makes it very plain 31:57 that the dead cannot talk with the living, 32:00 which is a blatant misrepresentation of truth 32:03 and blatant disregard of biblical principle. 32:06 "One of our fisherman found him 32:08 at the edge of the river border. 32:10 He brought him to me." 32:11 "Why do you have him in the snow?" 32:12 "It is the only thing keeping him 32:14 from joining the ancestors." 32:15 "We need to get him to my lab. I can heal him there." 32:18 "Take him. He'll be dead in seconds." 32:21 "Nakia, the herb. 32:40 I call upon the ancestors. I call upon Bast. 32:45 I'm here with my son, T'Challa. 32:49 Heal him. 33:02 We must bury him. Cover him. Cover him." 33:27 "Wake up, T'Challa. Wake up." 33:41 "The time has come for you to come home 33:44 and be reunited with me." 34:01 "Why didn't you bring the boy home? 34:06 Why Baba?" 34:10 "He... 34:12 He was the truth I chose to omit." 34:16 "You are wrong to abandon him." 34:19 "I chose my people. 34:22 I chose Wakanda. 34:24 Our future depended..." 34:26 "You were wrong! 34:28 All of you were wrong 34:31 to turn your backs on the rest of the world. 34:36 We let the fear of our discovery stop us 34:39 from doing what is right! 34:42 No more! 34:47 I cannot stay here with you. 34:53 I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. 34:58 He's a monster of our own making. 35:03 I must take the mantle back, I must. 35:08 I must right these wrongs. 35:21 Do you have a blanket?" 35:23 You see the son T'Challa, the Black Panther, 35:29 speaking to his dead father 35:32 and as you see in the background, 35:34 you see other ancestors 35:35 and what do you see in the background? 35:37 You see a Black Panther. 35:40 Brothers and sisters, this is purely spiritualistic, 35:44 this is demonic, this is purely satanic, 35:47 this is witchcraft. 35:48 And, brothers and sisters, based on the Bible, 35:51 this answers the third question 35:53 that there are spiritualistic 35:55 and witchcraft overtones in this movie, 35:58 the Black Panther. 35:59 The Bible says in the Book of Exodus 23:13, 36:03 the Bible says, 36:05 "And in all things 36:06 that I have said unto you be circumspect: 36:09 and make no mention of the name of other gods, 36:14 neither let it be heard out of thy mouth." 36:17 Now, if we're gonna obey the Bible, 36:20 based upon this scripture right here, 36:23 we shouldn't call on Bast or the Black Panther. 36:27 Where the Black Panther and Bast are connected together 36:31 with the heart-shaped herb. 36:33 The Christian Standard Bible says, 36:35 pay strict attention to everything 36:36 I have said to you, 36:39 you must not invoke the name of other gods, 36:42 they must not be heard upon your lips. 36:44 God was very serious about it, 36:46 because when God brought the children 36:48 of Israel out of Egypt, 36:49 He was leading into the land of Canaan. 36:51 In the land of Canaan, 36:52 the Canaanites serve other gods, 36:54 just like the Egyptians did. 36:56 As a matter of fact, the whole world was paganised, 36:58 and God said, "I am the true God, 37:00 don't make any mention of names of any other gods, 37:03 whether they be in Egypt, or whether they be in Canaan." 37:05 And, brothers and sisters, 37:07 this movie the Black Panther is glorifying the very thing 37:10 that the Bible says that we should not champion. 37:14 And this is the reason why we must follow the Bible. 37:16 And Ellicotts commentary on this verse in Exodus 23:13, 37:21 "Contempt for the 'Gods of the nations' 37:24 was to be shown by ignoring their very names." 37:27 That's very powerful. 37:29 So we must apply this to the movie Black Panther, 37:32 we need to ignore the very names of the very god 37:35 or gods of the Wakandans, they were not to be spoken of, 37:40 unless by preachers in the way of warning or by historians 37:43 when the facts of history cannot otherwise be set forth. 37:48 And that's very, very, very, very, serious. 37:54 So we understand this. Let's go back a minute again. 37:58 Let's go back again, let's kind of 37:59 do a rehearsal of it 38:01 because we asked three questions. 38:02 Who was the God of the Wakandans? 38:03 Number one. 38:05 Number two, how and where does 38:06 the Black Panther receive his power? 38:07 And number three, witchcraft overtones? 38:10 Who was the first Black Panther? 38:12 Just do a little recap. 38:13 According to Wakandan lore, the great Bashenga 38:17 was a warrior shaman of Wakanda. 38:19 Remember what it said 38:21 in the first scene of the movie, 38:22 the shaman... 38:24 "The warrior shaman received a vision 38:26 from the Panther goddess Bast. 38:28 Bashenga was guided by the goddess Bast. 38:31 You know, that's the devil. 38:32 "Who led him to the heart-shaped herb, 38:36 a plant that granted him superhuman strength, 38:40 speed, and instinct." 38:41 Wait hold on that. Who was Bast really? 38:44 It's Satan. 38:45 Satan or Bast instructed Bashenga 38:48 to consume the herb 38:49 and the process gave him the power 38:51 to unite the warring tribes into a powerful knights. 38:55 "The warrior became king and their first Black Panther, 38:59 the protector of Wakanda." 39:01 So how did this nation Wakanda become powerful? 39:03 Upon the instruction of the prince of darkness. 39:08 This is the first Black Panther, 39:10 and the Black Panther is a ceremonial 39:12 and religious title, 39:13 given to the chief of the African nation 39:15 of Wakanda. 39:17 That reminds me in the Old Testament, 39:20 to where all the kings of the Canaanites 39:23 was worshiped as gods, 39:25 whether it be Sodom, Gomorrah, Ai, 39:27 all the cities of the plain. 39:29 All the Canaanite cities were led by kings, 39:31 and any reliable history would tell you 39:35 that all the pagan kings, including the god of Egypt, 39:39 which was the Pharaoh in human form, 39:41 were worshiped as gods. 39:43 So therefore, the Black Panther is a ceremony religious title, 39:46 false god worship. 39:49 Remember Zuri? 39:51 Essence magazine of January 2018, 39:54 gives us insight to who Zuri is? 39:56 Zuri is a shaman 39:58 who protects the heart-shaped herb 39:59 that gives the Black Panther his powers. 40:01 He was extremely close to T'Challa's father 40:04 and becomes a father figure to him. 40:06 Now the shaman is defined 40:09 as one who can interact and mediate 40:12 with the spirit world on behalf of their community 40:14 usually by ecstatic trance techniques. 40:17 That is their spirit or their soul 40:18 leaves their physical body 40:20 in order to travel to a world of pure spirit 40:22 rather than physical matter, for the purposes of divination, 40:26 information gathering, healing and to receive wisdom. 40:30 Some anthropologists maintain 40:32 that shaman are the basis of most magicians, 40:34 sorcerer archetypes in folklore. 40:37 The Bible makes it very plain that sorcerers 40:39 in the Book of Revelation 21:8, 40:41 will be cast into the lake of fire. 40:43 The Bible plainly forbids of intercourse with sorcerers. 40:47 So therefore, Zuri, as you see here again connected with Bast, 40:51 the heart-shaped herb, the Black Panther is a sorcerer 40:54 that is a father figure to the Black Panther. 40:57 Bottom line is this right here, if you take the witchcraft, 41:01 and the spiritualism, and the false god worship 41:04 out of the Black Panther movie, guess what? 41:07 You won't have a Black Panther. 41:09 This is the integral part of the character. 41:12 Witchcraft, which is forbidden by the Bible 41:15 and according to Galatians 5:20, 41:17 is called one of the works of the flesh. 41:20 So therefore, brothers and sisters, 41:22 we have a decision to make and before we go any further, 41:24 I wanna say this to you 41:26 as I said before in the beginning 41:27 that this documentary 41:29 is not an invalidation of black culture 41:31 because as a black man, 41:32 my culture is not found in Wakanda, 41:34 it is found in the Word of God, 41:36 to where New Jerusalem will be my future home. 41:39 As a spiritual Israelite, circumcised by the Holy Spirit 41:43 and as a new covenant Christian 41:44 where God will write His law in my heart. 41:47 God's word condemns and forbids for me 41:51 to go after any false god, 41:53 whether in reality 41:54 or by patronizing it in a movie. 41:58 Brothers and sisters, we have a decision to make. 42:00 Now there may be some who understand that 42:02 "Yes, I understand that this is um, you know, 42:05 that's not of god and this is spiritualism" 42:07 and all these kinds of things, but it's just a movie. 42:10 Brothers and sisters, it was just a snake, 42:12 it was just a serpent in the Garden of Eden 42:14 that spoke to Eve to give her a false reality 42:17 and she bought into it. 42:19 There's gonna be a grand deception 42:20 in these last days. 42:22 And the Bible says 42:23 in the Book of Revelation Chapter 16, 42:25 that the spirits of devils will go forth 42:26 to the kings of the earth and of the whole world 42:28 to prepare people for the grand deception. 42:31 I'm reading from a Book called Patriarchs and Prophets, 42:33 page 685, 42:35 where it says, "The familiar spirits 42:37 were not the spirits of the dead, 42:40 but evil angels, the messengers of Satan. 42:43 Ancient idolatry, which as we have seen, 42:46 comprises both the worship of the dead 42:48 and pretended communion with them, 42:51 is declared by the Bible to have been demonic worship. 42:55 The Apostle Paul, in warning his brethren 42:57 against participating in any manner, 42:59 in the idolatry of their heathen neighbor says, 43:02 "The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, 43:04 they sacrifice to devils and not to God, 43:07 and I would not 43:08 that ye should have fellowship with devils." 43:11 1 Corinthians 10:20. 43:13 And the psalmist, speaking of Israel says, 43:15 that "They sacrificed their sons and daughters 43:17 unto devils." 43:19 And In the next verse, 43:21 he explains that they sacrificed them 43:23 unto the idols of Canaan. 43:25 Psalms 106:37-38, 43:28 "In their supposed worship of dead men, 43:31 they were in reality worshiping demons." 43:34 And that's really the bottom line 43:36 of what we're talking about. 43:38 The Black Panther, this superhero 43:40 that many people are going after, 43:41 many people are reverencing, 43:43 many people right now can't wait for part two, 43:45 or part three, or part four, or just a whole series. 43:49 Black Panther, this Black Panther, 43:51 this Wakanda forever. 43:53 Brothers and sisters, 43:54 what we're talking about is a pagan nation 43:56 where superhero is communing with the dead 43:58 to receive his power and communing with the devil 44:01 and by deceiving you and I to believe 44:04 that a heart-shaped herb gives this superhero his power. 44:08 Brothers and sisters, 44:09 we need to make a better choice. 44:11 The better choice is Jesus to where He had all power, 44:15 Jesus says, "All power is given unto Me 44:17 in heaven and in earth." 44:18 Jesus would spent all night in prayer, 44:20 receiving power from the Father 44:21 to cast out devils to perform miracles, 44:23 signs and wonders 44:25 and most especially to adopt you and I, 44:27 as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 44:30 He is the true superhero that needs to be reverenced, 44:33 not some false superhero god or false messiah, 44:37 or false christ, whether it be Isis, 44:39 Shazam, Superman, Iron Man, 44:41 or even the Black Panther. 44:43 Based on the Bible, we reject the Black Panther. 44:45 We accept Christ as the hero of all. 44:49 And Jesus, when He comes back to take His church home, 44:52 when He comes back the second time, 44:53 has a better place for us. 44:55 It's not Wakanda, it is the New Jerusalem, 44:59 the City of God. 45:00 Twelve days into the city, 45:02 prepared for people that will stand for Him. 45:05 The Bible says in the Book of Revelation 22:14, 45:10 the Bible makes it very plain, 45:13 "Blessed are they that do His commandments, 45:16 that they may have right to the tree of life, 45:18 and may enter in through the gates 45:20 into the city." 45:21 But verse 15 says, "For without the city, 45:23 those who will be lost in hell are dogs and sorcerers. 45:28 And all you see is sorcery through this movie, 45:30 and whoremongers, and murderers and idolaters." 45:34 Those who worship the God Bast, 45:35 those who are going after these superheroes, 45:38 which are nothing more than false god 45:40 in spandex and capes, 45:42 and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 45:45 I'm here to tell you 45:46 that the Black Panther is a lie, 45:48 inspired by the father of lies. 45:50 We want to acquaint ourselves and our children 45:52 with the truth as it is in Jesus. 45:54 Jesus says, "Sanctify them through thy truth 45:57 for thy word is truth." 46:00 And when we stand on the banner of truth, 46:02 we will not be swept away. 46:05 Brothers and sisters, 46:07 if we can fall for this deception 46:09 on a superhero that's not real, 46:11 how in the world can we stand against the grand deception 46:14 when Satan will personate and come and counterfeit 46:17 the second coming of Jesus Christ 46:19 to where if it were possible, 46:20 the very elect would be deceived. 46:23 Are we now so firmly established 46:25 upon the Word of God, 46:26 that we will not yield to the evidence of our senses. 46:29 God has a better place for us, and that is the New Jerusalem, 46:32 not a fictitious place, 46:34 where it's controlled by the prince of darkness. 46:37 Brothers and sisters, 46:38 Jesus is offering something better to us, 46:42 and that is eternal life and a real reality. 46:45 This is the real City of God. 46:47 And this is where we must put our faith, 46:52 confidence and our support, 46:54 not Wakanda forever but New Jerusalem forever. 46:58 My appeal to you is this right here, 47:00 maybe somebody watching this program, 47:02 you're deciding "I'm gonna watch 47:04 on the next Black Panther series 47:05 that comes out." 47:07 We need to take and to consider 47:08 what we're talking about here on this documentary, 47:11 and make a biblically informed choice. 47:13 Do not allow your emotions or even racial preferences 47:17 cause you to say, well, I want to supersede 47:20 what scripture says, 47:21 and go along with what I want to watch. 47:23 Brothers and sisters, that's always dangerous. 47:26 What happens is, feast on the truth of God. 47:29 Watch this documentary over and over again, 47:31 and spread it to those who need to hear the warning, 47:34 to come out from among them 47:36 and be separate, saith the Lord, 47:38 and touch not the unclean thing, 47:39 and I will receive you. 47:42 We want to thank God, 47:43 for you just taking a few moments of your time 47:45 to watch this documentary. 47:47 But always remember, 47:48 when it comes to the truth of God, 47:50 it is the truth of the hour, 47:51 and it's filled with the Holy Ghost power 47:54 and it is too sweet to be sour. 47:56 This is Dr. Olatunji. 47:58 May God bless you 47:59 and I'll see you in New Jerusalem 48:01 where we'll live with Jesus happily, forever. 48:06 Was that powerful or what? 48:08 It was, it was. 48:09 I can only imagine the backlash that's gonna come 48:13 as a result of that documentary. 48:15 Yeah, yeah, well, you know, yes, and no, I mean, 48:19 if you're, if you seek truth, 48:21 if you really want to know what's true, 48:23 then yeah, I mean, it might have a reaction 48:28 but, you know, that the main thing is, 48:31 I think, this forces you to ask yourself, 48:34 do I want truth 48:36 or do I just want to exalt my culture. 48:38 Yeah, my prayer is that people will embrace the truth that's, 48:41 that's my prayer like this, 48:43 this documentary is very eye opening. 48:45 Uh-hm. 48:47 You know, because these aren't the things 48:50 that they talked about in the media, 48:52 they just promote the movie, 48:53 everybody goes to see the movie 48:55 and then you have a bunch of hashtags 48:57 on social media and all these other things 49:00 but this is not talked about. 49:03 Right. 49:04 So it's my prayer that people will embrace truth 49:08 and live a principle oriented life. 49:11 Absolutely. 49:12 And to begin to look at everything 49:14 through the lens of the Bible, 49:16 I mean, isn't just movies in media 49:18 but everything, how do we begin 49:20 to filter our daily lives in order them after 49:23 "Thus saith the Word of God, right? 49:25 I mean, that's where we know what's right and wrong 49:29 and so when we start, kind of like, 49:31 erasing parts of the Bible that we say 49:33 "Man, I don't really believe in that 49:34 or I don't believe in this." 49:36 It'll get real confusing so. 49:38 Well, that's not that important. 49:39 That's right. You know what I mean? 49:41 Like okay, whoa, well, this is okay, 49:43 but you know that's not that important, 49:45 you know, if God said it, it's important. 49:48 Yeah. 49:49 What are some of the takeaways 49:50 that you have from watching this movie 49:53 and its effects on Christians? 49:57 That Satan is after your mind. 49:59 He will come in any form. 50:00 He'll come in a form that is familiar to you, 50:03 which will cause you to be disarmed, 50:05 so therefore you're more readily 50:07 to accept it, 50:08 so what happens is though we may see, 50:11 though we do see spiritualistic and witchcraft 50:13 overtones in the white superheroes 50:16 with this one for some because it's black, 50:19 because it's a culture, 50:20 we may not see it as clearly or we may not care to see it 50:24 or not even think as it, of the devil at all. 50:27 But what we want to do is put the truth in your face 50:30 to you to see that we have to measure everything, 50:33 no matter what form it comes in, 50:35 whether it's familiar or unfamiliar by this book, 50:37 the Holy Bible, because by this book, 50:39 we shall all be judged. 50:40 That's right. 50:41 I love how he made the comment in the end of that film, 50:44 that there's a deception that's coming. 50:47 We know this, we've preached about it 50:49 for so many years in our church 50:52 and, you know, it's like you kind of hear it 50:54 so often that "Hey, I know that there's a deception coming." 50:58 But I love the comment that you said, 51:00 if you can't understand this deception, 51:03 how are you going to understand some greater deception? 51:06 That's good. That's deep. 51:07 And that was deep, that really stuck with me. 51:09 Exactly. 51:10 Because as I meditated upon it, 51:12 you know, the enemy is this... 51:14 the Bible, and the Bible says that 51:15 "Ain't so much, if it were possible, 51:17 the very elect will be deceived." 51:18 That just shows how deceptive, this deception is gonna be. 51:21 And so what Satan does, 51:23 he puts little deceptions out here 51:25 through these entertainment, through movies, through songs, 51:27 through just all kinds of venues to condition the mind, 51:30 so when he comes to this grand deception, 51:32 our minds have been so trained to be deceived 51:36 that he'll win. 51:39 If we don't fall in love with the truth, right? 51:41 That's right. 51:43 God's gonna send a strong delusion. 51:44 Those that don't love the truth, 51:46 they're gonna be swept up into that 51:48 so this is where we need to strengthen our discernment 51:51 and how we do that 51:53 is literally by understanding and reading the Bible, 51:55 that's where it begins. 51:57 That's right. You can't spot a counterfeit. 51:58 All these things are counterfeit. 52:00 So that's really what God's doing. 52:01 You know, it's really easy to pop in a movie 52:04 and watch a two hour movie, right? 52:06 It's a little more challenging 52:08 to sit and study your Bible for two hours, 52:10 it takes a lot of energy and effort to, 52:12 to dive into the Word of God. 52:13 This is where we need to get our information from. 52:16 Absolutely, you know, when, when people are learning 52:20 how to differentiate between counterfeit money 52:23 and the real, they learn the real, 52:28 they don't learn the counterfeit, 52:29 they learn the real and so they study 52:31 what goes into an authentic dollar bill. 52:34 That's right. And then you can't be tricked. 52:37 What, that's what we have to do with the Word, 52:40 we have to stay in that Word 52:42 because that's where the real is, 52:44 that's what's authentic. 52:46 And I think we also need to make the decision, 52:49 when we are confronted with something 52:50 that is conflicting of our Bible. 52:52 What do we do then? 52:53 To be get up and walk away, 52:55 turn it off, do we, do we, you know, discuss it. 52:58 I think sometimes we... 53:00 Sweeping things under the carpet 53:02 is more damaging to us down the road 53:03 because it just breaks down our defenses 53:06 that much more until all of a sudden, where, 53:09 we're lost and we don't know 53:10 what's up and down and left and right. 53:12 And the interesting thing, I mean, the Bible says, 53:14 "By beholding, we become change." 53:16 That's right. 53:17 So if you're beholding all these things, 53:18 like you said, it desensitizes you. 53:20 It's the pleasure element of watching these things 53:22 that really keeps us there. 53:25 We know it's wrong, we know something's wrong with it, 53:27 but there's something about it that's keeping me there. 53:29 And that's the pleasure element. 53:31 And that's why the Bible says, 53:32 we gotta die to self and take up our cross daily. 53:35 Wow, that's so true. 53:37 So what takeaways 53:38 would you like to share with the audience 53:40 from the Black Panther deception? 53:43 What takeaways do you have? 53:46 I'll let Scotty to talk about it. 53:48 You know, I hope that we want to be sensitive 53:52 to the culture that's around us, 53:55 I mean, honestly, 53:56 there is some truthful things about the black community 53:59 is underrepresented in Hollywood, 54:01 that is a sheer fact. 54:04 And it is a terrible thing to think of the cultures 54:07 in different levels or something like this. 54:09 So I think that this is a beautiful thing 54:13 for us to have something that we say no, we're all, 54:15 you know, worthy of something, right? 54:17 That's what the Bible talks about. 54:19 We're all worthy in Christ, right? 54:21 But we have to literally say, this is first and foremost, 54:25 how we begin to look at everything around us 54:28 and not get wooed into, 54:30 you know, the emotional experience of, 54:33 "Everybody's going and seeing this, okay, 54:35 if I don't go, I'm gonna be left out 54:37 if I don't go and see it, you know. 54:38 What a stance, it says. 54:40 If it's like, no, 54:41 it takes a little bit of research, honestly, right? 54:44 Right. 54:45 You look at a two minute trailer, 54:46 you know what that thing is about, right? 54:48 Yeah. Exactly. 54:49 And so, you know, we need to be discerning 54:53 and really make those decisions 54:55 and don't allow the devil any footholds. 54:57 Umm. Good 54:59 With that, what I like to add is, 55:00 is that just as a black man, as we said in the disclaimer, 55:05 this is not an invalidation of black culture 55:08 and a documentary like this, 55:11 just a title of it may cause people to lock up, 55:16 but they don't want to see it for whatever reason. 55:19 And number two, when they see it, 55:22 they're gonna have to accept the fact that look, 55:24 I shouldn't have watched it and another sequel comes out, 55:27 we need not to watch it. 55:29 And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to prevent, 55:30 so we're trying to prevent people being deceived, 55:32 whether it's the Black Panther, 55:33 the White Panther or the Pink Panther, 55:36 so we got to make sure that our decisions are biblically, 55:42 founded in the Word of God, 55:43 not even allowed culture to deceive us, 55:45 because I hate to say it, 55:47 but there are people of my own culture 55:50 that have done some things to... 55:54 It has been the thing that aren't liked, 55:55 you know, we all talk about the white man, 55:57 there's white man that, but people of our own culture 55:59 have done things on a micro scale 56:02 and on a macro scale 56:03 but we'll just leave that for other time. 56:06 That's another conversation. 56:08 You know what, after people have watched this documentary 56:11 that we just saw, I know they're gonna wonder 56:13 where can they get it? 56:15 How can they get it on DVD? 56:17 So you can go to littlelightstudios.tv 56:20 and you can order from our shop or, Dr. O. 56:22 You can go to my website at projectlatterrain.org 56:28 and go to the product section 56:29 and you can order it from there. 56:30 Wonderful because I know they're gonna call here 56:32 and call us and say, 56:33 "Hey, we want that DVD. We need that DVD." 56:35 So I just wanted them to know 56:37 where they can get what they just saw. 56:39 Yeah, we appreciate your taking the time to come 56:43 and to share with us because this whole thing 56:48 is so much deeper than just entertainment. 56:51 It's not just entertainment. This is a spiritual battle. 56:55 And we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, 56:57 you know, so all of these things, 57:00 these impressions that are coming in on the brain, 57:02 the brain has to do something with it. 57:06 And so what it's doing is, 57:07 it is just basically filing all this information. 57:11 So if we don't have the basis of the Bible, 57:15 to go back to and to say, you know what? 57:18 This is false, I shouldn't even watch this 57:21 because this is implanting this information in my brain. 57:24 So thank you so much... Thank you for having us. 57:26 For doing it. We really appreciate it. 57:28 And thank you, Jay! 57:30 My pleasure. 57:32 It was so good to have you and thank you for watching. 57:34 Make sure that you use the Bible as your foundation. 57:38 Don't let culture, don't let media, 57:41 don't let anything take you away 57:44 from the Word of God. 57:45 That is what you are to base your life on. 57:48 If you say you're a Christian, if you're not a Christian, 57:51 then okay, but if you are a Christian, 57:53 then you know that you are to base your life on the Bible. 57:57 Thank you for joining us. 57:58 We pray that this program was a blessing for you 58:01 like it was for us. |
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