Hello, my name is Lance.
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And I'm Dwayne.
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And welcome to
another episode of TKS,
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a True Knowledge of Self,
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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Lance, when we were
in our last session,
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we were talking real strong
about very foundational things
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as it relates
to hip-hop culture.
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Which I think
was really important
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because a lot of times
people can talk about a subject,
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but they have not
properly defined it
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and explain what it
is and break it down,
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so I think it was really good.
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However I think it would be good
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to reiterate
certain points on it
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because we were establishing
the fact that number one,
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when somebody
thinks about hip-hop,
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a lot of different thoughts
can come to a person's mind
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as it relates to dress, music,
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the way a person talks etcetera.
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So we wanted to make sure
that hip-hop was not limited
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as some individuals do
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when it comes to our
understanding of what it is.
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So this way you were
helping us to see that
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it was actually
an entire culture,
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an entire culture, go ahead.
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So, yeah, I mean, when
people think of hip-hop,
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they think it's
just a musical genre.
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Right.
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And that's not
really what it is.
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It does, you know,
music is part of hip-hop
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but just like any other culture,
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like if we thought
of Italian culture or,
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you know, Ethiopian culture...
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African culture.
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Yeah, whatever, we
think of not just music.
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We think of the way they dress,
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the way they, you
know, their hairstyle,
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the way they talk,
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language, all these
things, so hip-hop is the same.
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So those basic principles
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if you will what was
referred to by KRS-One
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as the
cornerstones of hip-hop culture,
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which were peace, love, unity,
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you know, and
safely having fun, right?
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And then those
pretty much are expressed
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through those
elements that we talked about.
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So that's the
emceeing, the deejaying,
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the graffiti
writing, the break dancing,
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the street
language, the street fashion,
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street entrepreneurialism
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and ultimately the
most important element
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was referred to many
times as the fifth element
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because those basic
four, the emceeing, deejaying,
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beatboxing, break
dancing and graffiti writing
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are the kind of
primary four elements.
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The fifth element
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which is most oftenly
referred to as knowledge,
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wisdom and understanding
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or sometimes some
little wordplay over standing.
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So there is a
call in hip-hop culture
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through most of
these thought leaders
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and idea logs inside the culture
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that there is a need
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to get back to
the knowledge side,
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the thing that's been for God.
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There's been a lot of
emphasis on the rap music.
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There's been a lot of
emphasis on the having fun
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and the party element.
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But the knowledge side
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is really what
holds everything together.
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And so there is a call to
come back to this knowledge,
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wisdom and understanding,
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and of course
that's talking about
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knowledge of self ultimately.
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You know, I
appreciate you're sharing that
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because there was a
documentary that was done
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or an interview
really with Afrika Bambaataa
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who is known as the
Godfather of hip-hop.
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He's much respected
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in the hip-hop
community and hip-hop culture.
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When he was being interviewed
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there was a
question that was being asked
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which was, you know,
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what do you see in
modern day hip-hop.
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Now this video came out about
2005, where they were saying,
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you know, what do you
see in modern day hip-hop
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that needs to be addressed?
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And one of the
things he mentioned
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was what you just said,
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a need to come back
to the fifth element
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which was the knowledge.
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You know, really
getting that knowledge,
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wisdom and the over
standing or understanding.
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And that kind of makes me think,
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is it then that even
within the hip-hop culture,
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there is not a total harmony.
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There are individuals
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who some of them are
at one different plane
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and others are at the
plane, and then you have people
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who are trying
to bring everybody
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to a certain
common plane altogether.
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Is this what's happening
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within hip-hop
culture right now.
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And who are some of
the key players with that?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, it's just
like any other culture,
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that's what we got
a rapper minds around,
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it's just like
every other culture
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there are people that are in,
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you know,
compensately or consciously
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trying to advance the culture
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and there's those that
are kind of could care less,
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have no knowledge of the culture
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and just kind of
living by impulse.
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So yeah, there is a
dividing line if you will.
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There is a degree of
respect for the pioneers
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you know, and
those thought leaders.
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But at the same
time those pioneers
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and thought leaders
aren't necessarily making,
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you know, billions of dollars,
most of them are millionaires.
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You know, but
they're not making money
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like you're a platinum artist,
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you're multi
platinum artist are today.
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So those up and coming artists
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or those newly
establish artists,
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or those modern artists
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who have kind of
gotten in to hip-hop
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or emerged as artists
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after all of that
pioneer work was done,
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where people were just
dismissing and corporations
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didn't want to have
anything to do with it.
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Now corporations have embraced.
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Now modern society
has embraced hip-hop
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so the people that
come after obviously benefit
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from the work of
the previous culture.
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But it's not always
harmonious as you mentioned.
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So there are some,
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you know, especially
the younger generation
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who could care it less
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or what care as one has
to say or Afrika Bambaataa,
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they'll respect him like
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you might
respect an elder perhaps.
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But they don't think
there is any relevance
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to a lot of what
we're talking about.
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And, and that's
also reciprocated,
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so the thought leaders
also look at some of these
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young and upcoming
artists as ignorant you know,
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and as, as kind of pawns
if you will of corporations
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and the powers
that beats or degrade
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the culture and to keep,
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you know, the
minority population
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and those truth secrets
if you will to keep them down
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and oppressed and
chopped in this system.
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So those, you know,
those thought leaders
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look at those guys and
say they're irrelevant.
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So then the thought leaders
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are trying to be
instruments of freedom.
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They're trying to, you
know, avail themselves to say,
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hey, you younger
generation out there,
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that is just
simply all about the looks
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and the money and the
fame and all of the stardom.
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Wake up, there is something
deeper, something greater
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which is again
this "fifth element"
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of the
knowledge, and the wisdom,
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and over standing
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which leads them to have
again this knowledge of self.
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Right, they believe essentially
if you really look into it,
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like we just, we talked
about the gospel of hip-hop
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in our previous episode.
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They believe
and when I say they,
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I'm talking about
these thought leaders.
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They believe that
hip-hop was it's...
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it came from a divine origin.
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Right.
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They believe that
the God of the universe
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which they don't believe
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that there is a such
thing as God in the sky,
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you know, a man up in the sky,
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they believe that
most of what we know is
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religion is all
false, mostly falsehoods.
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But the idea that
whoever the universal mother
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or universal father
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created and
introduced hip-hop on the earth
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to create unity
both on the earth
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and then there is a belief that
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they're gonna
go to other planets
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and bring this cosmic unity
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and they believe that
hip-hop is the catalyst,
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hip-hop is the medium
through which unity and peace
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and love and all these things
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are going to be
realized by humanity,
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that humanity is going to kind
of climb the scale of evolution
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if you will through hip-hop.
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And so they're looking at
it as a divine institution
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that is raised up
at a time such as this
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to bring the world together
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under the banner of
peace, love, unity you know,
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safely having fun
and all these things.
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And this is what
biblical Christianity
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is imperative, it, it...
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We have to bring
this to the forefront
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because this is the
great commission Christ
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told us to do anyhow.
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In Matthew 28, He
says, "Go ye therefore,
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teach all nations,
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and of course making disciples
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and baptizing them in
the name of the Father, Son,
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and the Holy Ghost,
and then teaching them
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to observe all things
whatsoever I've commanded you."
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This is why this program exist
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because unfortunately
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we're seeing hip-hop culture
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as one of the tools
that quite honestly,
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the devil is
using to bring people
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into a false
concept of righteousness,
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a false concept of knowledge
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and understanding
in all of these things
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to eventually do
what Satan wanted to do.
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You see in our previous episode
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we talked about it in Isaiah 14,
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Satan's mission was, I
will be like the Most High.
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I want to be equal
to Him if not above Him.
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And because of that
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he couldn't
fulfill it in his battle
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according to Revelation 12.
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Revelation 12 makes it clear,
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there was war in heaven
between Michael and the dragon
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but it says he lost.
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He prevailed not and he
was cast unto the earth.
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So now Satan is
seeking to fulfill his dream,
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his desire through the
medium of human beings,
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the people whom
Christ came to die for.
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And he is using the
elements of deception
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and error and the
mixture of truth and error
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and all of these
things to accomplish his goal,
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and this is where
our viewers need to had
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a wider understanding
of what really is hip-hop.
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Is it just a musical
form that you bob your head to
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or is it a whole entire culture
that ultimately is leading
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to a very deep
spiritual element.
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And the question
is, what spirit is that?
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Right. How do
you test that spirit?
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How do you know if
it's a righteous spirit
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or an unrighteous spirit?
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And we have to
look at it like this.
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I mean most people
do not listen to music,
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turn on the radio and listen
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to whatever popular
hip-hop song is out there.
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And, and you know understand
most of the most popular,
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you know, pop songs are
all hip-hop based, right?
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So most people don't
listen to that and say,
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"Oh, this is, this
has religious undertones,
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there are some
spiritual sides to this,
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there is something deeper
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that most people
don't go beyond the surface.
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Right.
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So people would say, yeah,
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you now, I like
this person's music,
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I like that person's music
but I never really considered,
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you know, what
their goal and mission.
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You know, it reminds me,
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I remember
watching a documentary
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about reggae
music in Rastafarianism.
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And obviously Bob Marley
is the iconic figure of that.
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And Bob Marley was very
plain in all of his dealings.
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His primary
function and you just go,
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you can go and
look it up somewhere
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but he says
himself in interviews
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that the whole purpose
for his existence in the music
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that he makes was to
spread Rastafarianism,
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was to promote the idea
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and the religious
components of Rastafarianism.
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There was nothing
else he existed for,
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he considered, or people,
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some, some people consider
him almost like a prophet
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and that his goal was
to spread Rastafarianism.
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So we hear the music and we say,
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oh, this is a great song
or this and not realizing
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that he's actually
promoting a religion,
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he's promoting a
culture and the way of life
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that in fact is diametrically
opposed to Christianity.
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Right, right.
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And we kind of where, so
what we don't want to do,
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we're not being dismissive.
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So we're not saying,
oh, hip-hop is of the devil,
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so therefore you
know it's just...
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There is power in hip-hop,
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there is power in the music
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and in the, the dancing
and in the graffiti art,
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in all those things
there's power there.
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The question is, where
does the power come from?
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And the power is just
not of a divine origin.
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It's
supernatural, it is supernatural
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you can't attribute
it to human planning.
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Right.
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There is a supernatural element,
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the problem is
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it comes from another
supernatural component
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and as we
identified, it comes from Satan.
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It's satanic in that sense,
not that it can be dismissed,
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not that it
shouldn't be recognized,
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not that we can just ignore it.
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We have to address
it but it's not of God
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and that is the bottom
line at his very fundamental DNA
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it's not of God and
therefore as Christian
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and as human beings we
have to make a decision
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whether or not
we're just gonna say,
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hey, I don't care I just like it
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and, you know, do
whatever or we're gonna say,
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you know what, this
might not be healthy,
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this is not providing a solution
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for the problems of life,
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and the stresses of life,
and the challenges of life.
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This is not
solving the problem of my,
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you know, deceived heart in my,
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in my crippled soul,
in my grief and guilt
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and worry and fear.
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Hip-hop doesn't provide that.
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it medicates, you know,
just like many other things,
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it's a form of medication
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where it can help
me forget you know,
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"Forget about the
problems and worry."
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For a period of time.
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Yeah, but for a period
but when the lights are off
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and everything is over,
I'm back in that mindset
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and that's where
we find each other in,
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you know, in our
experience in hip-hop culture
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you know, I'm
there, I'm seeing and I'm,
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you know, on the road to stardom
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if you will as a middle teenager
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and you're already
achieving professional status
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with the dancing,
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and at a certain
point it was not,
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it didn't solve
the problems over that.
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And I'd add, that
has to be built on
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because like you said,
"If I'm going on tours,
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I remember times
limousines pick me up
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in front of my house.
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You know, what I'm saying,
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I'm living in
Hollis Queens, New York.
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And I got houses to the
left, right and in front of me,
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you know, we're very much
entrenched right in the city.
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And when the limousine
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picks you up in
front of your house
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and everybody is
coming out the house to look
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and here you are walking
real slow to get in your car,
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you want everybody to see you.
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When you're making
thousands of dollars
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in a month,
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you know what some
people make in a year,
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you're making in the month.
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You're on
television, you're with women,
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you're this, that and the other
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but I'm a living example
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that in the
midst of all of that,
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making all the
money, being able to dance
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and do all these things,
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I knew that there
was a satisfaction
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that I was still seeking
for that was not being supplied.
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I had to keep
taking the drug in,
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I had to keep doing it.
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And that was the
thing and that's why,
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you know, it's, it's
always pulling at you.
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Now I think it's
good to pause here
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because you know,
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we're not, we're not
trying to glorify the devil
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when we talk about these things
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and we're Christian network
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so because of that you know,
people can look at us and say,
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why you're
talking so much about this
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which is bad or etcetera.
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But I think there is a
point that we're trying to do
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that the Bible emphasizes.
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I'm gonna give you a
point in 2 Corinthians 2.
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In 2 Corinthians the 2 Chapter
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the Bible
actually says something
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that we would do
well to consider.
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2 Corinthians 2
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and it was the Apostle Paul
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as he was
talking to the brethren
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in the church of Corinth,
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and a guy an individual
in the church fell into sin
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and the Apostle
Paul was giving counsel
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on how to strengthen him,
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how to reaffirm
him in the faith.
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Bring him back. Yeah.
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And basically
here's what it says,
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it says in 2 Corinthians 2:8,
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I'm just picking up
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in the middle of
the story for time,
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"Wherefore I beseech
you that you would confirm
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your love toward Him..."
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Talking about this
man who is falling.
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"Confirm your love toward him.
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For to this end
also did I write,
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that I might
know the proof of you,
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whether ye be
obedient in all things."
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"To whom ye forgive any thing,
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I forgive also, for
if I forgave any thing,
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to whom I forgave it,
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for your sakes forgave I
it in the person of Christ."
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Then it says
something key in verse 11.
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It says, lest,
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if I don't do this
something is gonna happen
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and here's what is says,
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"Lest Satan should
get an advantage of us."
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And then he closes by saying,
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"For we are not
ignorant of his devices."
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One of the
reasons the Apostle Paul
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had so much success in
his ministry was not simply
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because he knew God so well,
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but he also was
acquainted with Satan's devices.
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He understood how Satan worked,
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he knew his enemy, and
this was actually taught
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by none other
than Jesus Himself.
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You read it in
Luke 14, in Luke 14,
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the Bible points
out really powerfully,
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the very fact that Jesus
was using an example of warfare
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and when He used
the example of warfare,
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He makes a profound
statement in Luke 14:31
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as He's talking
about the qualifications
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for discipleship.
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He says in Luke 14:31,
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"Or what king, going to make war
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against another king,
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sitteth not down
first, and consulteth
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whether he be able with
ten thousand to meet him
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that cometh against
him with twenty thousand?"
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So Jesus, look at what He said,
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it is foolish for a king
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to go to war and not
consider, wait a minute,
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what kind of
arsenal does my enemy have
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so I can make sure
that I have enough arsenal
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to counteract
whatever he's trying to bring.
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It makes sense.
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In Christianity, it
is imperative for us
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to understand our enemy.
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Not that we may glorify him
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but that we may
understand his wiles
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and that he will not
get advantage over us.
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One of the
problems that's happening
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in Christianity today
is you got a lot of people
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that go to church
and say they love God,
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say they love Jesus,
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and say they
believe in the Bible
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as the authoritative word of God
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but were literally indulged
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not just in hip-hop
music but hip-hop culture
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and they don't understand
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that this has been
diabolically put together
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and set up to the antichrist,
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it is against the word of God,
it is against Christ Himself,
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and it's
certainly against the Bible.
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It's for these reasons
that a program like this exist
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where we have to say, folks,
00:17:35.22\00:17:36.55
there is a
power source out there
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that is teaching a false concept
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called knowledge of self
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and what the people need
is a true knowledge of self
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so they can make
the right decision
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and choose this day
whom they will serve.
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Yeah.
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So as we're going
through all of these concepts
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and understanding this idea,
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we're talking a lot
about hip-hop culture
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but we have to ultimately
look at biblical culture.
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That's right.
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So we highlighted
a verse or a passage
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if you will in
the Book of 2 Peter 1.
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So I want to spend sometime,
I want to walk through that,
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I want to read it
and we're gonna spend,
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you know,
sometime talking about it
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because those elements
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if you will in those principles,
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those
cornerstones of hip-hop culture
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need to be addressed.
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We need to look at
what they're saying
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and look at what the
Bible is saying and seeing
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how they're not in harmony...
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Right.
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That there is not an agreement,
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you know, so people say love,
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oh, it's about love
and automatically is good.
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Well, no, not if it's, it's,
it can be a wrong kind of love.
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Yeah.
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Just because love is involved,
it doesn't mean it's right.
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Only if it's a
certain kind of love,
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you know, the biblical
love, the genuine love.
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The love of God
versus the love of the world
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as the Bible contrast.
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And this is important
because when an individual
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uses this terms like
love, peace, safely having fun,
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all of that has
to be determined.
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Who decides what love is? Right.
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Who decides what peace
is, or what constitutes peace?
00:19:08.24\00:19:10.81
Who decides "what
constitute" safely having fun
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versus not having
fun in the safe way?
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An example, if you
were to go to people today
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and say repentance,
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if you say to them repentance,
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is that a good
term or a bad term?
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If anyone is at least
minutely spiritually conscious,
00:19:24.53\00:19:27.06
especially towards Christianity,
00:19:27.10\00:19:28.73
they're gonna say, well,
repentance is a good thing,
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because
repentance typically means
00:19:30.60\00:19:31.93
turning away from one thing
to come in another direction
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which ultimately
is God's direction,
00:19:34.94\00:19:36.91
but the Bible actually
says something about repentance
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that would make a
person think a little bit more.
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Yeah. It's found
in 2 Corinthians 7.
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In 2 Corinthians 7,
00:19:44.35\00:19:46.65
the Bible actually says
something about repentance
00:19:46.68\00:19:49.58
that I believe should
cause anybody to think.
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It says right here in verse 10,
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"For Godly sorrow
worketh repentance to salvation
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not to be repented of:
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But the sorrow of
the world worketh death."
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Okay.
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In other words, sorrow
is what makes repentance,
00:20:02.93\00:20:06.50
but there is a godly sorrow
00:20:06.53\00:20:08.07
that leads to
repentance and salvation
00:20:08.10\00:20:10.34
but then there
is a worldly sorrow
00:20:10.37\00:20:12.07
that leads to death.
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Now a biblical character
00:20:13.48\00:20:14.81
that I believe
fits the worldly sorrow
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.31
and worldly repentance
was none other than Judas.
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When you read Matthew 27
after he saw Jesus condemned,
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the Bible says, "He repented",
00:20:23.79\00:20:25.25
or somebody
should have said amen,
00:20:25.29\00:20:26.86
but when you really
look at the whole story,
00:20:26.89\00:20:28.96
he repented but
what was the fruit of it?
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It led to
death, he hung himself.
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Why, because it
was a worldly sorrow
00:20:32.93\00:20:35.23
that promoted this worldly
a false concept of repentance.
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This is what God is trying
to teach us through His word.
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We have to think
a little bit more.
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We can't just accept terms like
love and peace and repentance.
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We have to really
qualify it, what does it mean?
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How do we apply that?
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And who's the one
that has the right
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to get the final
saying what it means.
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And that's the reason
why we're having the studies,
00:20:52.61\00:20:54.15
we're having.
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So now we're now
looking at 2 Peter 1,
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we're looking at
God's perspective
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on His elements or His pillars
00:20:59.89\00:21:02.99
when it comes to
the Christian culture
00:21:03.02\00:21:04.76
in comparison of
course to the elements
00:21:04.79\00:21:06.63
and pillars of hip-hop culture.
00:21:06.66\00:21:08.00
All right, so let's take a look,
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2 Peter Chapter 1,
00:21:09.40\00:21:10.73
I'm gonna read verses 2 to 10.
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It says, "Grace and
peace be multiplied unto you
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through the knowledge of
God, and of Jesus our Lord,
00:21:16.60\00:21:20.64
according as His
divine power hath
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given unto us all things
00:21:22.71\00:21:24.28
that pertain unto
life and godliness.
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Through the knowledge of Him
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.52
that hath called us
to glory and virtue:
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whereby are given unto us
00:21:31.85\00:21:34.12
exceeding great
and precious promises,
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that by these ye
might be partakers
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of the divine nature,
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having escaped the corruption
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that is in the
world through lust.
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And beside this,
giving all diligence,
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add to your faith
virtue, and to virtue knowledge.
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And to knowledge temperance
and to temperance patience,
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and to patience godliness,
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and to godliness
brotherly kindness,
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and to brotherly
kindness charity,
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for if these things be in
you, and abound, they make you
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that ye shall neither
be barren nor unfruitful
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in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ
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but he that lacketh these things
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is blind and
cannot see afar off,
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and hath
forgotten that he was purged
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from his old sins.
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Wherefore the rather, brethren,
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give diligence to make
your calling and election sure:
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for if you do these
things, ye shall never fall."
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There is a lot
to talk about there.
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What were they?
This is powerful.
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I mean, seriously
because I'm getting excited
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just going through it
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because these are
literally the pillars
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as it relates to
the Christian faith.
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These are the
pillars of all those elements
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of what God wanted to
establish in every child of God.
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So that like he
said, we will not fall,
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those who reject
this he says are blind.
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The Bible says, in Matthew 5:14,
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Matthew 15:14, it says,
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"Let them alone, they be
blind leaders of the blind.
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And if the blind lead the blind,
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both fall into the ditch."
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Well, look at that,
blindness leads to falling,
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these pillars, it opens
our eyes so that we don't fall.
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And I mean, this is the contrast
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that God is
trying to present to us.
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So right now there is a movement
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that is promoting principles
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that actually is
promoting blindness
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but they're saying that
it's going to give sight.
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Right.
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And this is what
God has to debunk,
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this is what the Lord
wants His word to make clear
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and open the eyes of
those who have ears to hear.
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At the end of the day, Lance,
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some people are
gonna just say look,
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I like what I
like, I want what I want
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and I'm gonna do
what I want to do.
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And there's something
I've learned about God.
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God loves us so much that
He will respect our decisions
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even when they're foolish
and literally He'll do that,
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He'll do everything
possible to open our eyes
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but if the man is
stubborn, the man is stubborn.
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And if you don't believe that,
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you can ask a
person like Belshazzar.
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You know, God was
trying to reach his heart
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but he was a very
rebellious person,
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.00
he wanted what he wanted,
00:24:03.04\00:24:04.37
and at the end of the
day he did not pay attention
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to the story of his father
Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon.
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And how he went through
his humbling experience,
00:24:09.11\00:24:10.98
so God had to
finally write on the wall,
00:24:11.01\00:24:12.78
many, many to kill you for sin,
00:24:12.81\00:24:14.52
your days are
numbered, your days up,
00:24:14.55\00:24:16.85
you are now going to die
and your kingdom is gonna be
00:24:16.89\00:24:19.62
handed over to the
Medes and the Persians.
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So God, He's gonna
do everything to save us
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.49
but if people don't want God,
00:24:24.53\00:24:26.19
He will actually respect
their decision even to be lost.
00:24:26.23\00:24:29.76
But I believe as long as
people have to ears to hear,
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God can help us see.
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There are false pillars
00:24:33.87\00:24:35.24
that are being presented
through hip-hop culture,
00:24:35.27\00:24:38.54
they sound good
but the problem is,
00:24:38.57\00:24:41.18
there is a way that
seems right unto a man
00:24:41.21\00:24:42.94
but the end thereof
are the ways of death
00:24:42.98\00:24:44.71
and God has pillars in His word
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that we need to pay attention to
00:24:47.08\00:24:48.78
because they
keep us from falling
00:24:48.82\00:24:50.35
and helps us
enter into eternal life.
00:24:50.39\00:24:52.82
That's right.
00:24:52.85\00:24:54.19
And there is gonna, you hear,
00:24:54.22\00:24:55.56
you know, in hip-hop
culture there is also,
00:24:55.59\00:24:57.23
there is always a
call for objectivity.
00:24:57.26\00:24:59.79
You know, that
you can't subjectively
00:24:59.83\00:25:01.86
look at culture
like subjectively,
00:25:01.90\00:25:04.60
you know, comments on
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or that culture by
definition is subjective, right?
00:25:07.80\00:25:10.91
And, but the goal is
to look at it objectively
00:25:10.94\00:25:13.41
and so these
principles and those things,
00:25:13.44\00:25:15.41
the pillars and the
elements is the objectivity
00:25:15.44\00:25:18.48
that helps to
guide the subjectivity
00:25:18.51\00:25:20.78
that, that is
associated with the culture.
00:25:20.82\00:25:23.52
But we have to accept
the fact when we talk,
00:25:23.55\00:25:26.89
remember we're
talking about the dependents
00:25:26.92\00:25:28.92
and the independents, you know,
00:25:28.96\00:25:31.13
accepting what the
truth that God is presenting
00:25:31.16\00:25:33.93
through His word
requires total dependents
00:25:33.96\00:25:36.77
of the created being, the
human to the creator, God.
00:25:36.80\00:25:41.00
And when we think
about objectivity,
00:25:41.04\00:25:46.41
really the only way
00:25:46.44\00:25:48.41
to look at the
world to look at morally,
00:25:48.44\00:25:52.48
to look at culture
objectively is from God's word.
00:25:52.51\00:25:58.12
The creator is
really the only one
00:25:58.15\00:26:01.32
that can by both
creation and redemption
00:26:01.36\00:26:05.59
has the authority
to dictate to creation
00:26:05.63\00:26:09.86
what is right, what is wrong.
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.13
How do you do
this, how do you do that?
00:26:12.17\00:26:14.57
And if we, once we
step away from that
00:26:14.60\00:26:17.04
and we start consulting
humanity for objectivity,
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.48
we're going to find ourselves
in a real messed up situation.
00:26:20.51\00:26:23.04
Well, the truth
of the matter is that
00:26:23.08\00:26:24.41
if somebody came to you and me,
00:26:24.45\00:26:25.78
I said it before
and I'll say it again.
00:26:25.81\00:26:27.68
You know, if somebody
came to us and say hello,
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.52
I'm deceitful above all things
00:26:29.55\00:26:31.12
and I'm desperately wicked,
please accept my counsel.
00:26:31.15\00:26:34.26
You know, you and I would
have enough intelligence to say,
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.46
I'm not listening to
anything this person has to say,
00:26:36.49\00:26:38.56
they just told me
00:26:38.59\00:26:39.93
they're
deceitful above all things
00:26:39.96\00:26:41.30
and desperately wicked.
00:26:41.33\00:26:42.66
And now they ask me to
listen to their counsel,
00:26:42.70\00:26:44.03
I'm not doing it.
00:26:44.07\00:26:45.40
But the Bible tells us
that all of our hearts,
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.27
all of our
hearts, all of humanity,
00:26:47.30\00:26:49.47
all of our hearts
00:26:49.50\00:26:50.87
it is deceitful above all things
00:26:50.91\00:26:53.51
and it is desperately wicked.
00:26:53.54\00:26:54.88
So why would we
consult our hearts
00:26:54.91\00:26:56.28
or another human's heart
00:26:56.31\00:26:57.65
to know what righteousness is?
00:26:57.68\00:26:59.01
We do not have an
understanding of that naturally
00:26:59.05\00:27:00.92
or an over standing of that,
00:27:00.95\00:27:02.28
whatever term a
person wants to use,
00:27:02.32\00:27:03.65
you don't have it.
00:27:03.69\00:27:05.02
So therefore we
have to go to the one
00:27:05.05\00:27:06.39
that has it and that
is none other than God.
00:27:06.42\00:27:08.19
Yeah.
00:27:08.22\00:27:09.56
I mean, we got to a point now
00:27:09.59\00:27:10.93
where we're once again
get in towards our closing.
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Friends, we know that
this has been a blessing,
00:27:13.03\00:27:15.43
it's been a blessing to
me just to talk about it.
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.63
And I'm very
grateful for the time
00:27:17.67\00:27:19.23
that we were able
to spend together.
00:27:19.27\00:27:21.07
Remember, the Bible
says in 2 Corinthians 5:17,
00:27:21.10\00:27:25.87
"If any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature
00:27:25.91\00:27:30.45
and old things are passed away."
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.35
When we are new
creatures in Christ,
00:27:32.38\00:27:34.35
we have entered
into a new culture,
00:27:34.38\00:27:37.32
that culture is
called Christianity.
00:27:37.35\00:27:39.99
And this culture
00:27:40.02\00:27:41.52
is a superior
culture to all other cultures
00:27:41.56\00:27:45.53
and our lives must be in
harmony with this culture
00:27:45.56\00:27:48.30
if we would see the
Lord face to face at last.
00:27:48.33\00:27:51.20
It is our hope and our prayer
00:27:51.23\00:27:52.57
that you've
received the blessings
00:27:52.60\00:27:53.94
that God wanted to give today.
00:27:53.97\00:27:55.30
We want you to stay tuned.
00:27:55.34\00:27:56.67
Remember that we have
more sessions coming up.
00:27:56.71\00:27:58.41
We're gonna dig
deeper in the words of God
00:27:58.44\00:28:00.44
and until then
remember Proverbs 2:6,
00:28:00.48\00:28:03.51
"That it is the
Lord that gives us wisdom
00:28:03.55\00:28:07.32
and out of His mouth comes
knowledge and understanding."
00:28:07.35\00:28:10.79
God bless.
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