Our God is in the
"Restoration Business"
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Stay tuned to meet a
man for whom God has turned
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lemons into lemonade.
My name is Yvonne Lewis
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and you're watching Urban Report
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Hello, and
welcome to Urban Report
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Today, my guest
is Jeremy Anderson
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author, speaker and entrepreneur
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Welcome to
Urban Report Jeremy...
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Thank you for having me,
Doc, Thank you for having me
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How are you? I
am doing just great
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praise God... How are you doing?
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Oh... blessed, blessed,
blessed and highly favored.
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You know... we have had
you on a couple of programs
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on Dare to
Dream, but I haven't had
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the opportunity to
interview you before...
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so this is great for me
because I get to talk to you
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one-on-one and share
some things with our viewers
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that they might
not know about you.
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Amen... amen... So this
is great.. this is great
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Jeremy, before we get
started on what you're doing now
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tell us a little
bit about your past
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because, as I
mentioned in the tease,
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you have been
brought a long way.
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Tell us a little
bit about your journey.
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You know... I was the
typical young Christian
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Adventist guy...
my father is a Pastor
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in Adventist Ministry in Atlanta
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my grandfather is actually,
currently an Adventist Pastor
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As a matter of
fact... my great-grandfather
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was even a Pastor...
so I come from a long line
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of preachers in my family
and I was really on fire for God
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in High School but when I
left High School Service...
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I didn't have any
areas where I could serve
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and I began to
play with the world
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and one thing...
when I travel the globe
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and I tell our young people...
is not to play with the enemy..
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and I went from saying... I
would never go to Night Clubs
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to I'll never
smoke, I'll never drink,
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I'll never do drugs,
I'll never sell drugs,
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I'll never have
pre-marital sex to doing...
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all of that... to the extreme...
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and the Devil used me for years,
I was operating in several
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Night Clubs... I was
selling a lot of drugs...
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by the pound...
complete alcoholic
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fornication... just
the whole nine yards...
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my life was a mess and
the enemy was just completely
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using me and I had a
transformation period
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where God
completely restored my life
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and now I live my
life, sharing my testimony
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empowering people
from all walks of life...
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letting them know
that God restores...
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Praise the Lord... you know...
it's so interesting Jeremy
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how God... and we
always talk about this...
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God has a plan and
Satan has a plan...
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and Satan's plan
is to destroy you
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so he is not going to do it
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in a way that...
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he's not going to
take things that you hate
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he's going to
introduce things to you
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gradually and slowly and
then you're going to just
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spiral downward... Is
that what happened to you?
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How did you go from
being Mr. On-Fire-For-God
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in High School to
drug dealer, alcoholic...
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you can unpack that
a little bit for us...
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You know... when I
travel, I let people know
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it started with me...
with the small compromises
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Ah... The Devil
never comes and says
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"Here's what I have
for you... this is going to
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destroy your life... "
You know... he starts off with
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something small...
and then it moves up,
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and it moves up, and
it the next thing you know
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you find yourself
deep within, in a mess...
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in a world of sin... and
that's what happened to me,
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you know... my
first year of College
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I fell off.. the
mark a little bit
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then in my Sophomore year
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then after graduation,
then out here in the real world
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making some good
money, you know, my world,
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and my whole view
of life was changing
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I was chasing money... and women
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and looking for the next high
and looking for the next fix...
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looking for the newest car, I
was just consumed with myself,
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and with wealth
and money and fashion,
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and all of that, to
where... I was just...
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completely a
different person, and I lived
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approximately 10
years of my life...
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held in captivity...
and through the prayers
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of my parents...
my mom... my dad...
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and my
grandmother, my grandparents,
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God answers those
prayers... Yes, yes...
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From the prayers of
their's God put me in a position
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He's so deep... Doc...
God put me in a position
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where I lost everything...
as a matter-of-fact
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in one experience... I
lost $10,000 in one night,
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and so... God
just closed every door,
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everything just
went upside down,
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and... He put me in a position
where He got my complete
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undivided
attention... and He told me
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that He wanted to use me...
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Yes... isn't that
something how sometimes
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God has to
allow things to happen
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to turn us around...
There are a couple of things...
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I mean... you just
said so many rich things,
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let me just go back for a second
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one of the things
that we know about God
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is that... when He
has a direction for us,
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even though we
stray from that path,
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He will allow things to happen,
to put us back.. on that path...
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and you said that for ten
years, you were in captivity,
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what people don't
realize, I think, Jeremy
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is that... when
we're seeking after...
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after things and when we
are consumed by materialism
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and sex and all of these things,
when we are consumed by them,
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it is bondage.. it is not...
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you know... people think...
"Oh well... you're making money
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you're living large...
" No... it's bondage...
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because you have to keep
trying to make that money,
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you have to keep
on top of the fashion,
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you have to keep
on top of all this...
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it is bondage... So,
for you to use that word...
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captivity... that's
exactly what it was,
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you were held
captive... by that lifestyle...
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One of the
things I want to ask you
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is about the
values that we have now...
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as the young people... have now
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with the
materialism, with fornication,
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with the
objectification of women,
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all of these
things... are really promoted
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by the culture, by the music,
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Tell us, if you
would, how much of an impact
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that whole hip-hop
culture had on you...
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Huge impact... Huge impact...
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It's funny because
a lot of people say...
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"Oh, it's just
music, it's just this,
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it's just that,
you know, I am not one
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to really get caught up
into the beat or the rhythm
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of the music, but I
know, specifically for me,
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it was the lyrics...
there were specific songs
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I would listen to,
over and over again,
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and they would
tell you to count money
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and to chase women and excel...
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and to do what
you've got to do...
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and what it does is
that it tends to brainwash us
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and we're putting all
these thoughts into our brain,
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and what people don't
recognize a lot of times,
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is that... it's not our
arms, it's not our chest,
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or our back or our
heart that connects with God,
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it's our brain, it's our mind,
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Come on, come on...
... And so... for years...
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I was putting
filth in my mind...
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by what I watched on TV... Hmmmm
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by some of the
music I would listen to...
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by some of the
movies that I would watch,
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the people I
surrounded myself with
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and who were
speaking into my existence,
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those negative
things all had an impact
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and I began to
adopt the lifestyle
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of what I saw on the
videos, I began to chase...
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and want and
desire what they had
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and that was slowly
eating away at me...
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You know,
Jeremy, that is so true,
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it is brainwashing...
it absolutely is...
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How do you brainwash somebody?
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You can use rhythm
and rhyme and so...
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you got the rhythm
going... so you got the cadence
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that helps you to remember it...
so that cadence is in there...
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and then you have the rhyme
which helps you to remember it
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and it goes into
your sub-conscious mind
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and shapes your values...
so if you're listening to
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this stuff and I... one
of the things that I notice
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about young parents... is
that... they don't realize...
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they're playing this
stuff around their infants...
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and the infants are
hearing it and it's getting into
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their minds... it's
brainwashing young children
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so young children are, you know,
repeating these rap songs and
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the lyrics and
stuff... it's in the brain...
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and so... How do we change that?
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How do we let young people
know what's happening to them?
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because I think
that it's so hard because
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it's such an
intrinsic part of the culture...
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How do we do that?
That's one of the things
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that we seek to do,
here, at Dare to Dream
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to kind of re-shape
the values of young people,
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because... not that every
young person is brainwashed...
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No... but if young
people are listening to that
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on a regular
basis, you can believe
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they're
brainwashed. You can believe it.
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So what are some of the
things that you would recommend
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to kind of lead young
people away from that culture?
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You know... it's going to be a
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choice that they're
going to have to make
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you know... you
can't start guiding them
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and you can't
serve God and Money
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you have to decide, you know,
which path you're going to be on
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you know... what do
you want out of life?
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It's funny...
because I've interviewed
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so many young
people and a lot of them
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know the effects of
the music... some of them
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don't quite understand...
how serious it is...
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with the Spirits and the
Demons and the possession...
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and some of them
do... and they just choose
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to go on that way... but
if I make a recommendation
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I'll vote for
one... ask for the umption
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ask for the Spirit
of God to speak to you.
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The Word of God says...
that if we ask.. He will give it
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and so I will say to
ask for the Spirit of God
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to speak to our young people...
they need to ask for that...
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and then... they need to
be obedient to it... OK...
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We could ask... and
God told me a year ago...
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He said, "Son, you've
been asking for my voice...
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you've been asking for my Spirit
and I've been giving it to you
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but you're not
obedient with everything... "
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and Dr. Collette
told me a few weeks ago...
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we were talking... and he said
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that partial obedience
is complete disobedience...
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Hmmmmm... Partial obedience
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is complete
disobedience it blew my mind...
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and so when it comes to
being faithful to God...
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we really want to
be committed to Him...
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we really want a
real relationship
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we have to ask
ourselves "If I want to have a
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relationship with
God... is there anything
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getting in my
way... is there anything
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separating me from
God... and if so...
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how badly do I
want that relationship
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because if I truly
want that relationship
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I'll make the
necessary sacrifices
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to put some things in
place, that would not separate
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me from God. "
The question is...
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Are our young people willing
enough to make those sacrifices?
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That is a great...
great point, if we're...
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and you know what...
this goes for our young people
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and old alike... you know...
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because whether you're
entrenched in hip-hop culture
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or whether you're
entrenched in consumerism,
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materialism... whatever it is...
adultery... whatever it is...
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if you are not making... if
you are not choosing... Jesus
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if you are not
choosing to be obedient...
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on... on... we don't
have to do this alone
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we can have the power of
the Holy Spirit to help us
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but we have to make a choice...
and so what you're saying
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is so, so, true... We
have to choose... Jesus
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and make decisions...
another thing that you said,
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early on in this conversation
was... your decline happened
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one choice at a
time... basically
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it happened with compromise,
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so that's another thing
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that we have to look at...
if we hear the voice of God
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and the Lord told
you... "I'm speaking to you...
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I'm talking to you...
but you're not obeying... "
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I've had that same
thing... I've asked God, Jeremy,
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for an answer to
something, He gave me the answer
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I knew it was
Him... and I went and did
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something else... and..
I reap the consequences...
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when we're disobedient...
we reap the consequences...
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What were you going to
say? And I believe that
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disobedience breeds delayed
success Oh come on now...
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...and a lot of
times in our lives...
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for whatever
reason... we allow self
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to kick in and
you know what, Doc...
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I'm so glad that Jesus
got the victory over self,
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Could you imagine
when He was in the
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Garden of Gethsemane if He said,
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you know... "Lord can
this cup pass from me"
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and it ended right there...
well, luckily... luckily...
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Praise God...
He had enough sense
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and enough loyalty to
God and enough love for us
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to say, "It is not my will...
but Thy will be done... "
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Yes... so that's what
we're battling here...
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this is the battle of self,
and we have to figure out...
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how can we overcome this thing
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so that we can
move forward in God.
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If not... we will
continue to fight this battle,
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and we will continue to
fail. As long as we are putting
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God's will over our will...
Yvonne: Will continue to fail
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as long as we are putting
our will over God's will...
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That's right...
Right... right... absolutely
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Tell us about...
because you've written a book
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called Self-Destruction...
Hmmm... correct...
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Tell us about the
importance of self...
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in this whole spiritual
battle, what does "self"
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have to do with anything?
You know, it's funny...
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people say that "Money
is the root of all evil"
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or they say, you know, of
all the things you got to do
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to get to
Heaven... The reality is
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if we look to look
where sin came from
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and if we look... and
search the scriptures...
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In Isaiah it says that
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"Iniquity was found
in the heart of Lucifer"
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I mean... it didn't
begin with Adam and Eve
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he made the first
sin... when he began to make
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his existence about his "self"
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he's like, "I'm beautiful...
I'm bright... you know...
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I can sing... you
know... he was supposed to be
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on the worship
team... his existence was to
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worship and lead
others in worship to God...
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but for whatever
reason... iniquity was found
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in the heart of
Lucifer... and he began to make
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his existence about "self"
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so I really went
through a series of emotions
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and the phase that God took
me to... to get my attention
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and He cautioned me
and He made me aware
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that the Devil is not,
all that he seems to be...
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that the Devil
can't stop you or I
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from making it into
the Kingdom of Heaven.
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At the end of the
day WE make the choice
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whether or not we are
going to do... our will
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or whether or not we
want to do God's will.
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So God convicted me
about a year ago this time
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through a series of events...
He just got my attention
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and it's crazy, Doc...
because I was asking God
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I said, "Lord, I'm
traveling the globe...
00:15:05.03\00:15:06.53
take me to that next level... "
"Take me to new heights Lord...
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like... I want a deeper,
richer experience with you"
00:15:09.50\00:15:12.34
and He gave me
that... He showed me...
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Sometimes we have to be
careful what we ask for, right?
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You better believe it,
you better believe it...
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And so He showed me
through several experiences
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that our number one
battle is not with Satan
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not with the
enemy... it's with "self"
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and if we can get to the
point where we destroy "self"
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that's when we
can get the victory...
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Because Society...
Society has this mind-set
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you know... be a...
"self-made millionaire"
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"self-made entrepreneur"
and to have a high self-esteem,
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and it makes everything
about us... the music...
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the cars... the
reality shows... the glamour...
00:15:43.14\00:15:45.67
we tend to... we're in a culture
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that's really selfishly driven
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and that's not the spirit
of God and in Luke 9 verse 23
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it simply says...
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"If you want to be my disciples,
if you want to be classified
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as the real Christian...
you have to do three things...
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Deny yourself...
Pick up your Cross...
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and Follow Me... "
and the number one thing
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was the denial of
self... and I believe that
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Christ specifically
mentioned that first...
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because... you're not
going to follow Christ
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you are not going
to pick up your cross
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if you cannot get the
victory... over "self"
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And so, that's what
led me to write the book...
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"Self-Destruction"
to show Christians...
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how to die of "self" and
live in the Spirit of God.
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That's tremendous Jeremy,
because that whole idea of
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"self"... everybody
battles with it on some level...
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on some level... you know...
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I just cannot
receive... in my mind...
00:16:34.49\00:16:37.49
that people don't
battle with self...
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everybody... there
has to be some level of
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"selfishness" in most people...
and Jesus has called us
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to deny "self"...
what kinds of steps...
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do we take to do
that? What do we do?
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I think the first
thing that we have to do is
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to recognize who we are...
to recognize why we were created
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if we recognize... a
lot of times... people don't
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fulfill their purpose in
life... because they don't know
00:17:05.12\00:17:07.32
what their purpose is... and
so how can you fulfill something
00:17:07.36\00:17:10.53
how can you achieve something,
how can you reach a goal...
00:17:10.56\00:17:13.70
if you don't even make
the goal in the first place...
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and so, I think,
when we recognize
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that we were
called... we were made to...
00:17:17.60\00:17:20.10
created to bring glory to God...
The Bible says that all things
00:17:20.14\00:17:23.44
were created to
bring God glory...
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that we were
called to worship God...
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I think... when we
come... to that realization
00:17:26.88\00:17:29.81
and recognize that
God wants to fellowship
00:17:29.84\00:17:31.58
He wants to partner... He
wants to tabernacle with us
00:17:31.61\00:17:34.48
and He wants us
to seek Him first...
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I think that if we can
grasp that knowledge first...
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that's the first
step... to "self-destruction"
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and so throughout the book...
I have 19 different chapters...
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and each chapter is talking
about something difficult...
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self-esteem,
self-worth, self-centered...
00:17:47.30\00:17:51.93
just different areas
and aspects of our lives...
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and the book is talking
to... the average preacher...
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to the average housewife...
to the average 16-year old...
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people from all walks of life,
it gives them tips on how to
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"self-destruct"...
but we have to first
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get to a point...
where our whole existence...
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is to please God...
and so I have a real simple
00:18:09.35\00:18:11.92
formula that I
do... daily... like...
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God reminds me
daily to do this...
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and it's simply this...
before I make a decision...
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before I make a phone call,
or if I'm talking to somebody,
00:18:18.13\00:18:20.76
before I'm making a decision
or whatever is happening...
00:18:20.80\00:18:23.40
I have to ask
myself... Is this my will
00:18:23.43\00:18:26.07
or is this
God's will? Come on...
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And then
sometimes... the degree area...
00:18:28.57\00:18:30.34
because I really
don't know... and I'd say,
00:18:30.37\00:18:32.54
"OK, from this
action that I'm about to do,
00:18:32.57\00:18:34.68
is God going to be glorified
00:18:34.71\00:18:36.61
or is the enemy
going to be laughing... "
00:18:36.64\00:18:38.71
"Is he going to
be snickering at me?"
00:18:38.75\00:18:40.58
so when I talk to my wife...
or if I deal with a client...
00:18:40.62\00:18:44.15
or if I'm talking to
someone, or I'm going to decide
00:18:44.19\00:18:46.29
where am I going to
go, what am I going to do,
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I have to really ask God and
say "God, is this your will?"
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"Is this what you want me to
do" because, for years, Doc...
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I led life...
trying to please Jeremy...
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As long as Jeremy felt
good... as long as Jeremy
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enjoyed himself...
It was all about me...
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and so I'm making
now... as a mature Christian...
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I'm able to receive
what Psalm 37:4 says...
00:19:04.97\00:19:07.74
Delight yourself in the
Lord, and He will give you
00:19:07.78\00:19:10.91
the desires of your
heart... Yes... yes...
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But the problem
is... that we're not really
00:19:12.81\00:19:14.58
delighting ourselves in
God... we're just kind of
00:19:14.62\00:19:17.02
floating along...
and we give Him a little
00:19:17.05\00:19:18.79
devotion, here or there,
00:19:18.82\00:19:19.92
and then we wonder why
we're not really, truly, growing
00:19:19.95\00:19:22.59
with Him... so
daily... like... Paul says,
00:19:22.62\00:19:24.69
"I die daily... " and
the beautiful thing about it
00:19:24.73\00:19:28.76
is that... if we ask God
for it, if we ask God for it...
00:19:28.80\00:19:32.73
Simply say, "God, speak
to me, God, give me clarity,
00:19:32.77\00:19:36.37
God, help me to die of
self... " He will quicken you,
00:19:36.40\00:19:39.67
He will remind you... He
will move upon your heart,
00:19:39.71\00:19:42.91
at that point...
you have to decide
00:19:42.94\00:19:44.65
whether or not
you're going to be
00:19:44.68\00:19:46.55
obedient to Him,
or whether or not,
00:19:46.58\00:19:48.42
you're going to do
what you want to do.
00:19:48.45\00:19:50.22
That's a beautiful thing...
that's a beautiful, beautiful
00:19:50.25\00:19:54.22
thing... to... it
not only acknowledges
00:19:54.26\00:19:58.13
God's sovereignty in
your life, but it also...
00:19:58.16\00:20:02.90
maintains the intimacy...
you know... so often,
00:20:02.93\00:20:06.03
when we're doing things, I
read something... somewhere...
00:20:06.07\00:20:09.44
I don't remember the
author but... it alluded to...
00:20:09.47\00:20:13.31
"Practical Atheism" you
know.. where... we're not...
00:20:13.34\00:20:17.15
we might have an
intellectual assent... you know,
00:20:17.18\00:20:20.58
where we believe in
God, but we're not really
00:20:20.62\00:20:23.55
hanging with God we're
not really, you know...
00:20:23.59\00:20:26.49
we're like...
God is over here...
00:20:26.52\00:20:28.86
and I'm just going to do this,
I got this Lord... I got this...
00:20:28.89\00:20:32.19
so I'm just going
to do this and do that
00:20:32.23\00:20:34.23
and do this and do
that... and in the meantime...
00:20:34.30\00:20:36.26
God wants... He
wants us to ask Him...
00:20:36.30\00:20:39.07
we have, we have the
omniscient, omnipotent God...
00:20:39.10\00:20:43.84
who wants to help
us... and we're like...
00:20:43.87\00:20:46.14
"Oh, I got this...
" What? it's like...
00:20:46.17\00:20:48.38
that's just crazy...
But "self" gets in the way
00:20:48.41\00:20:52.75
and we think...
we can handle it...
00:20:52.78\00:20:55.05
in this book... really...
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I mean, our Pastoral Department
really enjoyed this book as well
00:20:56.92\00:21:01.39
and said it is very practical...
very well written...
00:21:01.42\00:21:04.19
So... I'm very thankful,
that you've written this book...
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What are you expecting...
What outcome are you looking for
00:21:09.26\00:21:14.27
with this book? What
are you looking to achieve?
00:21:14.30\00:21:18.67
You know... I asked
myself about a year or so ago,
00:21:18.71\00:21:23.08
you know, what was
my purpose in life...
00:21:23.11\00:21:26.01
what's my purpose in Ministry...
you know, what's the passion
00:21:26.05\00:21:29.72
that God has put within
me... and for a while...
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.15
I was about 50/50... half of me
was strictly community related
00:21:32.19\00:21:35.79
reaching people, touching people
that haven't heard the gospel,
00:21:35.82\00:21:39.39
like the Bible
says, "Go ye, therefore,
00:21:39.43\00:21:41.10
and teach all Nations...
" Street Ministry like...
00:21:41.13\00:21:43.67
out there... in the trenches...
but I also have a passion
00:21:43.70\00:21:47.17
for the Lukewarm
Church... Oh, come on...
00:21:47.20\00:21:50.61
I have a passion for our Church.
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.81
Yes... yes...
00:21:52.84\00:21:53.94
And this is my mentality,
like, I'm on tour right now,
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.14
so I can travel all around...
and preach to all these people
00:21:56.18\00:21:59.55
that haven't really met God,
and the Spirit of God will move
00:21:59.58\00:22:02.92
and get them baptized...
or, I can go to a Church
00:22:02.95\00:22:06.82
and sit in front of a 100
or 500 or 2,500 people and then
00:22:06.86\00:22:11.89
help them break out
of their lukewarm mold...
00:22:11.93\00:22:14.56
and turn into real
disciples for Christ...
00:22:14.60\00:22:17.03
Wooo... hooo... we can
reach that many more people
00:22:17.07\00:22:20.00
and so... that's
what my passion is...
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.00
it's shifting the way... I
still have the Street Ministry
00:22:22.04\00:22:24.41
but I have a passion
for our Church members...
00:22:24.44\00:22:26.54
those of us going to
Church every single week...
00:22:26.57\00:22:28.68
and just going to go...
00:22:28.71\00:22:30.25
but they are not
really getting fed...
00:22:30.28\00:22:31.98
or they're not
really receiving the message
00:22:32.01\00:22:33.82
or they're not really...
they don't really have a real,
00:22:33.85\00:22:36.32
true walk with God
because... they're lukewarm...
00:22:36.35\00:22:39.25
they're neither hot nor cold...
and we know what Revelation 3:16
00:22:39.29\00:22:43.06
says... the Word of God says...
00:22:43.09\00:22:44.29
I will spue you... spit you...
vomit you out of my mouth...
00:22:44.33\00:22:47.46
Yes... Oh... ... and it just...
00:22:47.50\00:22:48.66
and I have a
pure heart for that...
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.57
Like... all of us were at my
10-year reunion... homecoming
00:22:50.60\00:22:53.57
and I just saw friends from the
East Coast to the West Coast,
00:22:53.60\00:22:56.50
and I know where some of
them are... in their lives...
00:22:56.54\00:22:58.77
I'm like... "Man, you
have so much potential
00:22:58.81\00:23:00.94
if we can just get radical...
if we can just have this
00:23:00.98\00:23:03.81
"Jesus Thing" if we can be real
00:23:03.85\00:23:05.35
within our lives... if we
can just turn the temperature up
00:23:05.38\00:23:08.62
God can do amazing things...
and we can finish His work...
00:23:08.65\00:23:11.89
So that's what I'm
hoping... to get accomplished
00:23:11.92\00:23:14.52
through this
book... "Self-Destruction"
00:23:14.56\00:23:15.99
it's to really wake
up the average Christian
00:23:16.02\00:23:18.93
to say... you know
what... I am to die of "self"
00:23:18.96\00:23:21.36
so that I can live
in the Spirit of God
00:23:21.40\00:23:22.86
and when we do
that... God is truly operating
00:23:22.90\00:23:25.10
and working in our lives...
That is tremendous, Jeremy,
00:23:25.13\00:23:28.10
that's tremendous...
because that's one of the things
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.07
that I see... in our Churches...
00:23:31.11\00:23:33.51
that Lukewarm
Thing... where... again...
00:23:33.54\00:23:37.08
that Practical Atheism...
where we're just kind of
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.55
going through the
motions... but not having that
00:23:39.58\00:23:42.25
passion for Christ...
not having that passion
00:23:42.28\00:23:44.89
that we might have had
10 years ago, 20 years ago,
00:23:44.92\00:23:47.69
or whenever we
first found Him...
00:23:47.72\00:23:49.59
And that's what you want to do,
you want to turn up the fire,
00:23:49.62\00:23:53.19
I'm loving that...
Praise God... you'd better stay
00:23:53.23\00:23:56.46
prayed up though Brother...
Let me tell you something...
00:23:56.50\00:24:00.17
Let me tell you
something... I told my wife,
00:24:00.20\00:24:02.00
at the beginning of this year,
I said, "Honey, we cannot afford
00:24:02.04\00:24:05.21
to be disobedient
to God... " you know...
00:24:05.24\00:24:07.81
So, we are all the way in...
my mornings.. believe it or not
00:24:07.84\00:24:11.31
my evenings... in the night...
00:24:11.35\00:24:13.01
by 9:00
o'clock... I'm knocked out...
00:24:13.05\00:24:14.28
and I typically wake up around
3:00 o'clock in the morning...
00:24:14.32\00:24:17.55
just to get that fresh
dew... I mean, like that...
00:24:17.59\00:24:19.89
you know... they say...
the early bird gets the worm...
00:24:19.92\00:24:21.62
and I believe...
the early Christian...
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gets that extra dose
of the Spirit... Amen
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Come on... And so, I have to...
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I love to rest... and I
have a beautiful wife...
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but I have to leave
the comfort of my bed...
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and really seek my Father...
to get the next assignment...
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for the next day...
because I'm not naive
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I'm still a
knucklehead... and I know that
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if I'm not in a 110% with
God, I could easily revert back.
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But there's a song that
says, "I can't go back... "
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Come on.. I can't go back to the
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way I used to be... and so...
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and so I spend my
time... early in the morning...
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with God and then I
walk and talk with Him
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throughout the
day... and it's been
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an amazing experience...
and I really want people to
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experience what
I'm experiencing...
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like... I've had a lot of money,
I've worked from this luxury car
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to that luxury car...
like... I've experienced life
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in the world... and it's nothing
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compared to the
peace and the joy
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that our Savior is
trying to give us...
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Isn't that true
though... isn't that true...
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Like the world offers the
bling and all of that stuff
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all these... you
know... temporary pleasures...
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nobody is going to say
it's not fun sometimes...
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but that steady, peaceful,
wonderful thing that you have
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with God... you
wouldn't trade for anything,
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I would not go back to that
whole worldly deal that I had
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years ago... for anything...
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there's no amount of
money... there's nothing that
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anybody could give me
to turn my back on God...
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and say, "You know what... I'm
going to go back to my old life
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No way... because this
is the abundant life...
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and you want everybody
to know, it's so good...
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you want everybody to
know... By the grace of God...
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if they order this book...
how can they get this book
00:25:57.32\00:26:00.72
from you? You can
go to my website...
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jeremyanderson. org my
first and last name dot org
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and you can order
copies from there...
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you know...
something else I did...
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is I have a video
series... so along with each
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chapter of the book...
I have the video series
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that you can get from my App
or YouTube or on the website...
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where I shot the
specific video that talks about
00:26:21.54\00:26:24.68
the details of each chapter...
that kind of helps you go along
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and that's been real productive
for groups and small studies
00:26:27.72\00:26:30.32
as well... so when it
comes to this Ministry
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me and my wife are
one hundred percent
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committed and we're just moving
forward in whatever direction
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God takes us. Praise the Lord...
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Wait a minute... wait a
minute, wait a minute...
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you said... your
App... you have an App too?
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Yeah.. let me tell you
something Tell us about that...
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God is amazing... I
had this App where I had
00:26:45.80\00:26:48.84
daily devotionals
and videos and the Bible
00:26:48.87\00:26:51.81
and parts of my book...
and all sorts of things,
00:26:51.84\00:26:54.81
you can
download... and it's for free,
00:26:54.84\00:26:56.85
I'm not trying to
make any money... Amen
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.78
Jesus paid it all...
Amen... You can go to your
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Apples... you
know... you get iTunes...
00:27:02.48\00:27:04.25
your Apple Store...
you can go to Google
00:27:04.29\00:27:06.05
play it... via
Android or a Smartphone
00:27:06.09\00:27:08.46
or a Tablet and type in
Jeremy... my first name...
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and then type in
Daily... for daily devotionals
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Jeremy Daily is
the name of the App,
00:27:14.10\00:27:15.46
download it and I
just put everything
00:27:15.50\00:27:17.93
that I have on my
Ministry on that App
00:27:17.97\00:27:20.27
and it's... making it
accessible and that's important
00:27:20.30\00:27:22.84
because we're dealing
with a technical world here...
00:27:22.87\00:27:25.37
you know... everything
has to be so fast-paced...
00:27:25.41\00:27:27.84
and so... you
know... if the enemy has Apps
00:27:27.88\00:27:29.68
and I've seen some
foolish Apps out there...
00:27:29.71\00:27:31.55
Why can't God's
children have Apps...
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God puts me to the
limit... Absolutely...
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Well, Jeremy, thank you so much,
00:27:35.62\00:27:38.32
for being with us today... I
don't know where the time went
00:27:38.35\00:27:40.86
the time always
flies... you know that idea...
00:27:40.89\00:27:44.16
time flies when
you're having fun
00:27:44.19\00:27:45.76
Right... right...
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Thank you so
much... May God bless you...
00:27:46.93\00:27:49.36
and I want to have you
back because you're doing
00:27:49.40\00:27:51.20
under the unction
of the Holy Spirit
00:27:51.23\00:27:52.97
you're doing
great things for God...
00:27:53.00\00:27:54.74
Thank you so much. God bless.
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.64
And thank you so
much for joining us...
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Tune in next time...
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It just wouldn't be
the same without you.
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