Hello, I'm 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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We were privileged to
go through the Word of God
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and we were able to see that
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as the Lord was
revealing unto us His pillars,
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as He set them
up in the scripture,
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especially through
the Book of 2 Peter 1.
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We were looking at
it, especially in contrast
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with what we see
happening in culture today,
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especially hip-hop culture.
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And our goal was to see,
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if there is a
blending or if in fact,
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there is a contrast,
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and thus far we've
been seeing a contrast
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over and over and over again,
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especially, as we look at
the very foundational pillar
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of the Christian faith,
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but also looking at
the foundational pillar
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even of hip-hop culture,
which is none other than love.
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We were able to define it,
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we were able to see
from the Word of God,
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how God defines love,
and we saw the selflessness,
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we saw
self-sacrificing of one's self,
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we saw the
importance of consistent love
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even towards those, who
would be named our enemies,
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and we looked at that in
the context of the cross.
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We were able to look
at the cross of Calvary
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as a means by which God
was seeking to bridge the gap
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that was made as a result of sin
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and bringing humanity
back in harmony with Himself.
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And so it is that when we
look at this concept of love,
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we saw that it
was quite different
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from what we see generally
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taught
throughout hip-hop culture,
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as the love is
not clearly defined
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neither does it have true
steadfastness if you will.
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It seems as if it's very
wishy-washy or up and down,
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or open for
private interpretation
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and as a result of that,
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it does not have
the stick-to-itiveness
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that is needed in a society,
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where almost
everything is in disarray.
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So as a result of this,
we started to dig deeper
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and we looked at not
only the love principle
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but today, we're gonna
talk about the second principle
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that was
mentioned, which was peace.
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Peace is also
recognized as a cornerstone
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when it comes
to hip-hop culture,
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and there are many
things that are connected
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with the concept of peace,
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as it relates to social justice.
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And of course,
community is growing
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and becoming
stronger and better,
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even in the midst of
different ethnicities.
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And it's because of this that,
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we know peace is
something very, very necessary.
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God is certainly a God of peace
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and we should be
a people of peace,
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if we're seeking to
reflect His character.
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But, Lance, as
we were, you know,
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looking at some of
these concepts of peace
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and really
seeing the need for it,
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it also dawned on my mind
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that there's a need
once again for definition,
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delineation, qualifying,
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because peace is something
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that also is very much
an abused term just like,
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you know, love unfortunately.
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There are many
things that are being done
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in the name of peace today,
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that if we were to compare it
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especially to
the biblical account,
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we would see that it's
actually contradictory.
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Even to the point
that prophetically,
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the Bible shows us
that there are efforts
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that's gonna be made
in the name of peace,
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but in fact, it's
gonna lead to destruction.
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And it's funny because
you would think to yourself,
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peace is the clear
opposite of destruction.
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But yet, the
Bible actually shows
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they're gonna be efforts
made through a certain power,
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which was referred to
as the fourth beast power
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in the Book of Daniel 8.
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And it does bring out the fact
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that peace is gonna be
one of the very efforts
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that it's going to
use to cause destruction.
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I'm gonna read it.
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It's found in
the Book of Daniel 8,
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and we're gonna consider
Daniel 8 and look at verse 23,
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and again, it's talking
about the fourth beast power
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that came after the
goat with the four horns
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and then eventually
a little horn came up.
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And we know that in
Daniel 8, it makes it clear
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that the ram was none
other than Medo-Persia
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and that the goat was Greece.
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But then the next kingdom
that will come after that just,
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you know, from basic history
would be none other than Rome.
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So let's talk about
this fourth beast power,
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it's really talking
about the system of Rome.
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And here's what
it says, it says,
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"And in the latter
time of their kingdom,
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when the transgressors
are come to the full,
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a king of fierce countenance,
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and
understanding dark sentences,
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shall stand up.
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And his power shall be mighty,
but not by his own power:
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and he shall
destroy wonderfully,
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and shall prosper, and practice,
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and shall destroy the
mighty and the holy people."
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Here is clearly a power,
that is working against Christ
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and not for
Christ because it says,
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that it's gonna
do a destructive work
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and it's gonna be
against the holy people.
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Yes. Then it says in verse 25.
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"And through his policy
also he shall cause craft
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to prosper in his hand.
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And he shall magnify
himself in his heart,
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and by peace shall destroy many:
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he shall also stand up
against the Prince of princes,
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but he shall be
broken without hand."
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It is amazing to see that
prophetically the Bible says,
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that this beast
power is gonna exercise
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its power in such a way
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that by peace,
it's gonna destroy many.
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This is the reason why
peace has to be broken down
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because when we think of peace,
we don't think of destruction.
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But the Bible even
shows prophetically,
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that there will be powers
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that will work in the last days,
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that's gonna use
the instrument of peace,
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but it's gonna be, it's
gonna lead to destruction.
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In fact, 1 Thessalonians
5 spells it out like this.
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And this is why again,
peace needs to be defined,
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it needs to be delineated.
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It needs to be very, very clear.
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In 1 Thessalonians 5,
it says in verses 1-3,
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"But of the times and
the seasons, Brethren,
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ye have no need
that I write unto you.
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For yourselves know perfectly
that the day of the Lord
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so cometh as a
thief in the night.
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For when they shall
say, peace and safety,
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then sudden
destruction cometh upon them,
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as travail upon
a woman with child,
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and they shall not escape."
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Well, here it is that
when we look at this concept,
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the Bible is making
it emphatically clear
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that peace is
gonna be something,
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that's gonna be used as
an instrument for the devil
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rather than for God.
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And it's gonna work
as a very deceptive power
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to try to get
individuals to buy into it,
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but the Bible says,
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beware when this
false peace comes
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because sudden
destruction is gonna come.
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It's because of
this that we actually
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need to define peace,
we need to understand it
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because it's not enough
for somebody to just say,
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"Hey, we believe
in peace." Right.
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Because, you know, the
Bible student understands
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what kind of peace.
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I mean, what does
your peace constitute
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and how does it function?
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And that's the way
we can help arrive at,
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you know, whether
this thing is true or not.
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So this is gonna be a good point
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now to segue into a clip,
that we need to take a look at
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because we know that
one of the cornerstones
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of hip-hop culture is peace,
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and they promote
it very strongly.
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And in and of
itself, peace is beautiful,
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it's wonderful
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and it is the
right thing to advocate.
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And I'm thankful for
those of sincere heart,
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even in hip-hop culture
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that are really
trying to put forth piece.
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But as we've been saying
over and over and over again,
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you can be sincere
and you can be genuine,
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but you can
still be wrong. Right.
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It's because of this that
we have to test everything
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by the Word of God.
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So we're gonna go ahead
and take a look at this clip,
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where it's gonna talk
a little bit about peace
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from the perspective of
hip-hop culture from again,
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many of this thought
leaders and then, we'll go ahead
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and share some
comments on it as we come back.
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All right. All right.
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So let's take a look.
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I stand here before
you a representative
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of something we
call hip-hop culture.
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Words mean very
little without definition.
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We are here to discuss
the definition of hip-hop.
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Once we deal
with the definition,
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meaning, purpose,
intention of hip-hop,
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the words will change.
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Since 1994, we've
been having a meeting
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about preservation
of hip-hop as a culture.
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This has been Harry Allen,
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the Media
Assassin held a discussion
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at the chambers
for an organization
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called the Rhythm
Cultural Institute.
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At that meeting,
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I decided to document
the history of hip-hop.
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I also begin to
teach spiritual principles
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through the language of hip-hop.
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This then went
on to the creation
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of the Temple of Hip-Hop,
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which is at first a
society that preserves hip-hop.
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So the Temple of Hip-Hop rose up
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and collected 29 paragraphs
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from various
people in the industry
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to create the
hip-hop declaration of peace.
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This is a document
that advises hip-hop culture
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on ways in which
it can sustain peace
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and join into the peace process.
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We then went to
the United Nations
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and pretty much
presented ourselves
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before an
organization called UNESCO,
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the United Nations
Educational Scientific
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and Cultural Organization.
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It is honor that
the hip-hop generation
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has joined us in this
quest for peace in the world.
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The hip-hop declaration of peace
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is a informal document
that we have put together.
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And in this
document it's the first step
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to something
legitimate and something real.
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Now I'm gonna tell you,
some of the things that I saw,
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I have to say
is also commendable
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which is this,
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"We know that there's a mixture
in hip-hop culture there,
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you know, as we mentioned
in one previous episode,
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there is the gangster rap
and things of that nature,
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which is certainly
as even Afrika Bambaataa
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equated it to evil.
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I mean, you know, promoting,
of course gangster lifestyle,
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taking lives, glorifying guns,
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and calling women,
these derogatory terms.
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Anybody with sense at least
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should know that
that is not good.
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But there's also
individuals like KRS-One
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and many others
Carmen and so on,
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that are trying to
promote a consciousness,
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to try to help people see,
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"Listen, there's a
higher level of understanding,
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there's a higher
level of morality,
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and we need to
get up on that plane,
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and this is why
knowledge is essential."
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This is
ultimately a good virtue,
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it is something that
they are trying to do
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and that is
commendable but again,
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the problem consistently keeps
coming back to the same place,
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which is who
determines these things
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that you're doing.
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How do people access power
that they can accomplish this?
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Are you even a living example
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that this has been
demonstrated or accomplished,
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what you're trying
to promote so strongly,
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not just on
camera but off camera?
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You know, there's a
lot of question marks
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that come along
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when these type of
things are put together.
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So here it is that, you
know, hip-hop culture has said,
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"Hey, we are
seeking to, you know,
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put forth a
declaration of peace,"
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and you know, try
to push out something
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that appears to
be very, very good.
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Now this is some of
the things that I'm seeing
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but I see a lot more,
but let me pause on it.
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What are some of your thoughts?
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What did you get out
of it seeing the video?
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Yeah, I mean, similar things
and also to add the fact that,
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you know, we're looking at
something that's, you know,
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dated, I mean,
it's back from 2001
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because we noted,
we notice in the clip
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that there was a
meeting between UNESCO
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and this Temple of Hip-Hop,
you know, representation.
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Right.
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And this is actually
when the Temple of Hip-Hop
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was established and as you heard
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mentioned the Temple of Hip-Hop
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is kind of the
cultural front office,
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if you will for
the hip-hop culture.
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And so, what we have
to recognize is that,
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the Temple of Hip
hop, or hip-hop in general
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is an officially
recognized culture
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by the United Nations.
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So this is not just
something again that, you know,
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people talked about was
just a fad back in the day.
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That's right.
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It's a
recognized official culture
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and on the global
diplomatic landscape,
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and so that's
important, number one.
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Number two, when we get
back to this declaration aspect,
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again there are
commendable attributes to that.
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It's not
necessarily dishonorable
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to do something like this.
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However, we have to find out
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and we're gonna
look at these things
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in a few
moments, but we have to,
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you know, acknowledge the
fact that there is no human,
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there are no human solutions
to the problems of this world.
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To sin problem, to
the violence problem,
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to the corruption problem.
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You cannot
simply issue a document
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and then expect it to magically,
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you know, transform the
hearts and minds of the people
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that read it if they do read it.
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Right.
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Whereas, what God offers
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is something that
has the actual power
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to transform the
hearts and minds of the people
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that say, yes, to it,
that accept it, that hear it,
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that listens to it.
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So that is a real
interesting contrast,
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again that we have
to discuss further,
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and really look at
this declaration of peace.
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The Bible's gonna bring
out some important points,
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but what are they saying?
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What are they declaring? Right.
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We're finally
saying, you know what,
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here's a definition,
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here's an official
document that says,
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this is what we
mean when we say peace,
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when we say this,
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this is a document to
represent our culture.
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Right.
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So let's look at some principles
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and what does this say
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and I think we
have to go from there.
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Yeah, you know, I'm
glad that we can assess this
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because I'm scaling back,
I'm looking back at my life,
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I remember
growing up and I remember,
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that I had a really bad temper.
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And I got into
lots of fights, I did.
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When growing up, I got
into a lot of fights, in school
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and, you know, my
mother and father saw
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that I had a bad temper.
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And they were so
scared about what
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I could potentially
become or do to somebody else.
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That I remember one
time, I was on the phone
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and I was talking to somebody
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and this is right
there in front of my mother
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and the person
got me really upset.
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So I remember
telling them "What, what?"
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And I said, "All right,
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I'm coming by
your house right now,"
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and then I hung up the phone.
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So immediately my
Mother's trying to stop me,
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and she's like, "Pee, Pee,"
you know, calling my Father,
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she called him Pee.
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And she's like, "Stop Dwayne."
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You know, and Dad is just like,
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"Boy, you're
not going anywhere."
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And I had such a
violent character
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at that time.
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I wasn't a troublemaker,
I didn't start trouble
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but if you got me mad
enough, it could get to a level
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where you just kind
of lose your control.
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So my Mother and Father,
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because they also did
not know of the power source,
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they tried to handle it
from a human standpoint.
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And what they did was,
they sent me to karate school.
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Literally, they
said, "That's it,
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we're sending you
to karate school."
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And they're doing this
like it's a punishment...
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I'm looking at it like
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this is the best
privilege in the world,
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I'm about to become Bruce Leroy.
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So, you know, I'm
absolutely excited.
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So when I went to karate school,
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I remember they presented...
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I studied Shidokan,
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which is the
Japanese martial art.
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And they had something called
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the five principles of the Dojo,
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you know, the
school, the classroom,
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the five principles of the Dojo.
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Now watch this... Yeah.
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Here are the five
principles of the Dojo...
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Yeah.
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To seek perfection of character.
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All right. Yes. To
be sincere and honest.
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To show strong
spirit, to practice courtesy,
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and to control bad temper.
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All good. Yeah, all good.
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And the problem was is
that, when I went through school
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and I excel tremendously,
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I went from white
belt to orange, to yellow,
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to blue, to purple, then brown
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and, you know,
I'm just excelling,
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going to karate
tournaments and everything.
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But I didn't
change in that one bit.
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What happened was I just
had a little bit more knowledge
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on how instead of taking you out
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with five punches,
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now I knew how
to do it with one.
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It didn't change my character,
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it did not help me
go from being a person
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with uncontrolled temper
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to now a very
patient docile person.
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All they did was just trick me
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into thinking that I
could control myself.
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And I'm not an
advocate of martial arts today.
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I believe martial arts
is very much associated
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with spiritualism,
and as a result of that,
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I can't
advocate it today. Right.
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But I'm making a
point in principle,
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whether it be martial arts,
whether it be hip-hop culture,
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there are lots of declarations,
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there are lots of
principles of the organization,
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that sound fantastic.
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Seek perfection of character,
be sincere and honest,
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show strong
spirit, practice courtesy,
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control bad temper,
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what parent doesn't
want that for their child?
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What person doesn't
want that for themselves?
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So these terms
in and of themselves
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sound fantastic,
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but when you look
carefully at these declarations,
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there's one word
that keeps coming up.
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How? Yeah.
00:17:06.65\00:17:08.02
How?
00:17:08.06\00:17:09.39
All right, you're
telling me a fantastic story,
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the question is, how?
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How does this get accomplished?
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As an example, if we, you know,
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we have the
declaration of peace right here.
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Yes.
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And this is the
declaration of peace
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from the hip-hop culture.
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And you'll see
that there are things
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that they are stating in
here that sound fantastic
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but the question is, how?
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How do you define this?
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You know, break it
down, help me understand it.
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So I'm just gonna go
ahead and go through a few,
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there's about 18, it's very long
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and we can't go
through all of them.
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But it's just to
bring home the point
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of what we're talking about
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and to help our
viewers understand
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how important it is to think
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through these
things that sound good.
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There's lots of
things that seem right
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but they can have
an adverse effect.
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So as an example,
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if I'm looking at
these declarations here,
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here's one
declaration where it states
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and they did
say it was informal.
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Informal. They made it clear.
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They said, this is informal,
you know, a first step,
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so this very
much may be modified,
00:18:02.78\00:18:05.01
but we're gonna take it
for what it is right now.
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And here's what it
states, as an example, it says,
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"Hip-hop culture
respects the dignity
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and sanctity of life
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without
discrimination or prejudice.
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We shall consider
our duty to protect..."
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Yes, "We shall consider our duty
00:18:21.40\00:18:22.73
to protect the
development of life,
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over and before our
individual free choice
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to destroy it or seek to
alter its natural development."
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Now, what would be some thoughts
00:18:32.54\00:18:34.11
that would come to your
mind as we consider this
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because it sounds good.
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I would imagine
in society today,
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a lot of people would say,
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"Well, yeah, that
sounds fantastic."
00:18:41.45\00:18:43.08
They might even
give an amen. Yes.
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So, you know, the
question is, how would we assess
00:18:44.69\00:18:47.46
this one
principle we're looking at?
00:18:47.49\00:18:49.29
I mean, really again
back to the definitions.
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So the idea of
what are you saying
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dignity or sanctity
is, what are you saying,
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you know, protecting
the development of life.
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And the key here is just to seek
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to alter its
natural development.
00:19:08.18\00:19:10.45
Yeah.
00:19:10.48\00:19:11.81
Well, what is
natural development?
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What does that look like?
00:19:14.15\00:19:15.48
That's a very
important question,
00:19:15.52\00:19:16.85
let's make a
practical example. Yeah.
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We are living in a society today
00:19:18.25\00:19:21.06
where it has become,
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I would dare to say
popular to be homosexual.
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Yep.
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And it seems as if everybody
who comes out of the closet
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is being posted on
the news and, you know,
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it's just a totally
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celebratory type of
thing happening right now.
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Yeah.
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The Christian
position is that this is wrong.
00:19:41.68\00:19:45.38
This is a lifestyle
that God cannot endorse,
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God loves the sinner
but He hates the sin.
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And homosexuality is
something God cannot endorse
00:19:50.75\00:19:53.59
and it's not something
that God has put in man
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or anything like that. Right.
00:19:56.42\00:19:57.76
Yet there is a consistent cry
from the homosexual community
00:19:57.79\00:20:02.76
that says, this is
a natural development.
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This is something
that just took place in me.
00:20:05.40\00:20:07.74
I didn't ask to be gay,
I didn't choose to be gay,
00:20:07.77\00:20:10.94
homosexuality chose me,
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and therefore
I'm just functioning
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in my natural capacity. Yeah.
00:20:13.71\00:20:15.04
For the Christian position,
00:20:15.08\00:20:16.41
we believe that we
have all a sinful nature
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and that sinful
nature can manifest itself
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in several ways.
00:20:21.78\00:20:23.12
Some people are profuse liars,
00:20:23.15\00:20:25.49
some people are
incredibly violent,
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other individuals love to,
00:20:27.59\00:20:29.99
are very lustful in their minds.
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And then you have
others who may say,
00:20:32.66\00:20:34.23
I desire
someone of the same sex.
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In the Bible, all of
these practices are condemned,
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all of these
practices are called out as sin.
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And God provides a
solution that says,
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"Come unto me all ye that
labor and are heavy laden,
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I will give you rest."
00:20:48.98\00:20:50.31
I will deliver
you from these things.
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So this is the
Christian position
00:20:52.58\00:20:54.42
that just because
something feels natural
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or naturally develops in
you does not mean it's right.
00:20:56.79\00:20:59.32
Right.
00:20:59.35\00:21:00.69
It does not mean it's right,
00:21:00.72\00:21:02.06
and therefore I may
have to speak against it,
00:21:02.09\00:21:04.16
I may not be able to endorse it.
00:21:04.19\00:21:06.29
It may set limitations
in my interaction with you
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.83
and that can easily
be called discrimination.
00:21:09.86\00:21:11.93
Yes.
00:21:11.97\00:21:13.30
But in the Christian position,
00:21:13.34\00:21:14.67
it's called
"Living by a Standard".
00:21:14.70\00:21:16.50
So how could
something like that be fulfilled
00:21:16.54\00:21:19.67
if we were to take a very
general principle like this
00:21:19.71\00:21:23.21
and just accept it
00:21:23.24\00:21:24.58
for what it says for face value.
00:21:24.61\00:21:25.95
Right, and it's also at
admittance of the fact that
00:21:25.98\00:21:30.52
what this culture is
00:21:30.55\00:21:32.42
and represents cannot
change the course of nature.
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Right.
00:21:35.56\00:21:36.89
Which is not what
the Bible teaches,
00:21:36.93\00:21:38.36
the Bible teaches that
it can change, transform,
00:21:38.39\00:21:41.60
you can become a new creature,
old things can pass away,
00:21:41.63\00:21:44.53
all things can become
new with the power of God
00:21:44.57\00:21:47.44
and the Holy Spirit
can change the heart.
00:21:47.47\00:21:50.04
So we don't have
time to get into it
00:21:50.07\00:21:52.37
but there's a
scientific, you know,
00:21:52.41\00:21:55.01
field of genetic
research called Epigenetics.
00:21:55.04\00:21:59.38
And, you know, now they're
able to show scientifically
00:21:59.41\00:22:02.45
that these very changes
00:22:02.48\00:22:04.42
that the Bible talks
about can take place,
00:22:04.45\00:22:08.22
can literally take
place scientifically,
00:22:08.26\00:22:10.49
they're able to
see it and measure it.
00:22:10.53\00:22:12.59
So, you know, the old
battle of nature versus nurture,
00:22:12.63\00:22:16.33
and do our
characters and our ways
00:22:16.36\00:22:18.43
and habits formed by our DNA,
00:22:18.47\00:22:21.54
or is it formed
by our environment
00:22:21.57\00:22:23.74
and culture
environmental stimuli
00:22:23.77\00:22:25.64
both in the womb
and, you know, coming up.
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What is it that forms who we are
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and informs our decisions?
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And what they're
finding is it's absolutely both,
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it's both culture, I mean,
it's both nurture and nature.
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And the
revolutionary development,
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which is not revolutionary
from a scriptural standpoint,
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but it is revolutionary
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from a scientific
and academic standpoint,
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is that even if you
were born a certain way.
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Let's say you
had a pre, you know,
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genetic
disposition to alcoholism,
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to becoming alcoholic.
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Your grandfather,
your great grandfather,
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your uncles, your father,
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on your mother side as
well were all alcoholics.
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When you are
born, you do have a,
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you know, an epigenetic
marker that basically,
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these are like
identification switches
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that can either turn on or
turn off genetic expression.
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Meaning, it can hit a
switch that reveals the DNA code
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so it can be read
or it can hit a switch
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that closes it, you know,
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with the chromatin that
shields the genetic code
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so it can't be read.
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So it's either
expressed, if it can be read,
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if it's closed and
kind of shaded over,
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it can't be read and
expressed genetically.
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So if you have this
disposition for alcoholism,
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then your genetic expression,
the code for alcoholism
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is exposed in your DNA.
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So if you were
to consume alcohol,
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you would be
genetically susceptible
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to becoming addicted
and becoming an alcoholic.
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However, if you
never touch the alcohol,
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then it would be impossible
for you to become an alcoholic.
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If you never consumed
alcohol, it would be impossible
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for you to become an alcoholic.
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And what they're finding is,
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even the person
with the predisposition
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and they indulge in alcohol
and they become an alcoholic,
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by changes if they were
to stop drinking alcohol
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and other things that
these epigenetic markers
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can actually turn
off the expression.
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So even though,
"They were born that way",
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and they indulged
and they got exploited
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and genetically they were
just enslaved to this thing,
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they could make
changes and those changes
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would actually shut off
that genetic expression,
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so it can no longer be read.
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And so you
could literally change
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and change at a
genetic microscopic level.
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So I mean, again, I
could go on and on about that,
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and there's videos
and all kinds of research
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but, you know,
epigenetics is what it's called.
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And so when we
talk about, you know,
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these ideas of the
natural development,
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we have to understand that
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natural development
is fairly subjective.
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And if we go outside
of authoritative reality,
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which we're
referring to a scripture
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in the Word of
God, then you can say,
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"Oh, this person
is just naturally
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a violent person..."
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Yeah, don't interfere with it.
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Yeah, they're
naturally a gangster,
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you know, they're naturally,
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they're just
talking about their reality,
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so they can't possibly,
I'm not gonna tell them
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that they can't
express themselves this way
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because that's who they are.
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That is extremely dangerous
and it leaves, you know,
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everything open to just say,
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"Well, everybody's gonna behave
the way they're gonna behave,
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there's nothing we can
really do to change it.
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As long as that's the reality,
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they're free to
express their reality."
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And what that does is
say, "Well, we are slaves"
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to whatever natural development
and natural expression
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that we feel is,
you know, warranted,
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in this case or that case
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and you really
can't do anything.
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So you're really sitting there
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and admitting that
this is the way it is,
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there's yin and yang,
good and evil in every one
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and in every
situation, in every household,
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in every
culture, in every society,
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and there's nothing
we can do to change it.
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We can only seek to
improve it a little bit
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and make it a little better.
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And isn't this exactly
what Satan was trying to do
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right there in
the very beginning?
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God's intention
in the original plan
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of true
education was that mankind
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would know good and good only.
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Satan was the one that said,
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"No, no, I think it
would be better for you,
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more helpful for
you, if you disregard God
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and enter into this
brand new knowledge,
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where you can now
know good and evil.
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And as a result of
this, you'll ascend
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and become like a God."
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And this is
again being perpetuated
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in society today.
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And God wants to break
us free from these things
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because they truly
are a deceptive force
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that is
captivating the minds of many,
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even individuals
in hip-hop culture.
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I know we only
got a chance to visit
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just one principle
but this is just the point
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of what's all throughout
all 18 quite honestly.
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It's just a constant revelation
of open ended statements
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that's calling for something
but not practically showing
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how it can be done
and the power source
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by which we can get it done.
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Friends, this
is again, you know,
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the Lord trying to help us think
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to reason and to consider
what has been set before us
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and then make decisions
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according to
his spirits leading.
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We've been quoting
a lot from 2 Peter 1,
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and you will find
that in that verse,
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there actually was a solution
00:27:32.08\00:27:33.42
to those who even
have these predispositions
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as Brother Lance
has been talking about.
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It said, "Whereby given unto us
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exceeding great
and precious promises
00:27:40.22\00:27:41.99
that by these you
might become partakers
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of the divine nature,
having escaped the corruptions
00:27:44.29\00:27:49.53
that are in the
world through lust."
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Through Christ, we
can get victory over,
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even our most highest
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hereditary
tendencies and besetments
00:27:55.80\00:27:58.21
through the power of His Spirit.
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And I say, praise God for that.
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We thank you so
much for joining us,
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we look forward
to you coming back.
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Please remember Proverbs
2:6, which clearly tells us,
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"It is the Lord
that gives us wisdom
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and out of His mouth
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comes knowledge
and understanding."
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God bless you.
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