167. Top 3 Rewinds of Q3

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Episodes:

• Biblical Dialogue of Tamar, Part 1
• Biblical Dialogue of Joseph, Part 2
• BUT God, Part 1

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A Call to Salvation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

I will say this to any woman who is listening don't take matters into your own hands. Trust God through the process, because God knows what is best for you. Sometimes we have to understand and realize that just because it doesn't happen and the timing that we believe it should happen, does not mean it's not gonna happen. It's just God's timing is perfect. I think that's a lesson I had to learn from Tamar, because what happened? She had the set of twins and then Judah moved on with his life.

Speaker 3: 0:36

So you never hear anything about Tamar at that. Welcome to the Call by God podcast with Adne.

Speaker 1: 0:39

Godet and myself, Nixon.

Speaker 3: 0:41

Sylvain.

Speaker 1: 0:42

This show is about dialogues of biblical characters and testimonies of Christians who submit to the will of God.

Speaker 3: 0:49

Each week we're bringing one guest so that they can share their story how they were called by God. I hope this show inspires you and enjoy. Hello and welcome world to the Call by God podcast. I'm yours truly, brother Nick, and I'm here with Sister Adne. Sister Adne, how are you doing on this blessed day?

Speaker 1: 1:32

I am doing great, brother Nick. It is currently nice and cool in Atlanta. I prayed and I asked God. I said, lord, I wanna live in a state where I could experience all four seasons. And he said you sure you won't fail, you don't even like the cold like that. And I was like, yeah, I was tired of just staying one place where you don't get to experience the seasons. And I'm definitely saying that I am able to see God's hand in every single season here to see fall the trees turning. The leaves are looking so beautiful and red and falling off of the trees. So it has been very like man. If you wanna see God, I will say this to anybody walk in nature, walk outside, just take a walk outside. Go to like the beach or a lake Lake. You will see God in everything. It's so beautiful. It really truly is. How are you doing?

Speaker 3: 2:31

I'm blessed, I can't even complain. I like how you pointed out that if people wanna see God, look at nature, and then it's amazing the things that you see in person, even on television, because we know that God is the artist. So sometimes when you see a masterpiece or a portrait, you'd be like man that artist, sure enough, could draw. When you look at nature itself and even humanity Like man, god is a world of an artist. He showed them how to hook things up. He make things look beautiful. That'll make your jaw drop. But I like how you pointed that out. But I'm excited. I'm excited this week, this week, actually, this episode we're doing some rewinds, so this is the top three rewinds of quarter three. So I'm excited just to talk about these three episodes.

Speaker 3: 3:21

Now, look, listen, we don't knock any episodes or anybody that we have had on our show. It just so happened that these particular episodes are gaining a lot of traction. Apparently, a lot of people like it, so probably people have been sharing it. Oh, let me not forget. Also, we wanna thank all of our listeners. We wanna thank you guys, and also we wanna thank our Lord and our Savior, jesus Christ, just for giving us the energy I need to still persevere to doing this platform, this podcast, and also, as we continue to grow, we ask that you continue to share. I would say like share and subscribe, but we're not fully alive on YouTube yet, so I would say they could just share it or subscribe. And also, if you feel the need to support our show, you could make a support by simply just clicking on the link that says we have some support links down in the show notes.

Speaker 3: 4:14

But let's get right into it. Addy, I'm excited about these rewinds, so we have the top three. So the first rewind that we wanna talk about in this episode it's about Tamar, and I know you was on there with two other sisters and y'all went in. Y'all did a really good job. So I'm gonna just play a little snippet and we'll just have a quick dialogue.

Speaker 4: 4:34

I also read that back then, I guess to speak to why she chose to dress like a prostitute because back then it was coming in that culture, in the pagan culture. It was coming for prostitution. So if it was coming, then that would probably her, I guess, reasoning because she knew that since it's coming, then let me choose to dress like a prostitute and I know I can get them like this.

Speaker 3: 5:04

Amen, amen. Addy, I'm gonna let you go ahead and start this off, because I know you's on here with the two other sisters. What is your take on Taymar?

Speaker 1: 5:14

From the research I've done. Taymar was a woman who was married, had no children, but widowed. Taymar was regarded as what you would call the lethal woman and, and Judah, you know, put her away because he didn't want his son to die, right? But what Judah did not realize and understand his first son was wicked and the second son was feeling the semen. Life is in the semen right. The only way that Taymar could have a baby is for him to go into the intimate space and allow the egg and the semen to meet together. But he didn't want to do that. He didn't want to fulfill that vow.

Speaker 1: 6:05

But what I love about Taymar, well, she was very patient. That's something that the Lord had to show me. She was extremely patient. She went back to her daddy's house to live with him, but when she realized, hold up, she was older and he ain't give she little me.

Speaker 1: 6:24

Oh yeah, I'm gonna take matters into my own hands. I will say this to any woman who is listening don't take matters into your own hands. Trust God through the process, because God knows what is best for you. Sometimes we have to understand and realize that just because it doesn't happen in the timing that we believe it should happen does not mean it's not gonna happen. It's just God's timing is perfect. I think that's a lesson I had to learn from Taymar, because what happened? She had the set of twins and then Judah moved on with his life. So you never hear anything about Taymar after that. So I believe that sometimes we need to learn to learn patience. That's one thing I learned from reading the story of Taymar. In the beginning she was very patient, very, very loyal, because I don't know how she looked, but I'm almost certain there was some men who were looking. So that's what I got from her story.

Speaker 3: 7:30

Yeah, that was a good take and I know, like I earlier, you know your sister, your sister did a wonderful job and when I hear these stories about women that do certain acts and certain things in the Bible, especially like earlier, especially with Taymar, you know, we know what Judah did wasn't outright but I believe to some degree he was trying to protect his little one. But it looks bad on his end because he was in following through on what was the custom back then. So it's kind of like they I want to put it like in a sense in a modern way that if a dude is with a woman they might consider that woman a curse. You know, I don't know if you've heard that in the past with dudes be like it'll mess with her man because every time you're around her she brings some bad luck right. But I like how you pointed that out. Even the Bible pointed out that Judah's sons, they did things that wasn't pleasing in God's sight. So, yes, taymar had to do things according to her own personal will because at the moment she didn't have a husband. And this is where I feel bad for women, because when women don't have a husband and they don't have a go to somebody they could consult with about certain matters. They got to do things on their own and those things may not be according to God's word, will and way.

Speaker 3: 8:59

It just so happened that she ended up getting pregnant and we know, through God's sovereignty. It's like this, adi. So my mother had a lot of kids out of wedlock. She did that out of her own personal will, but through God's sovereignty. God still blessed us all, my brothers. God still blessed us along the way, and that's what I see in this story. I said, like sometimes we just make decisions. That's not right. We'd be like man. If only I didn't. If only if I didn't make this decision, I would have been in a good space. But I know, through it all, that God is still sovereign.

Speaker 3: 9:34

So, yes, she lost two husbands. That's hard, adi, because we got to think back to when she lost the first husband. Folks always say you know, when you lose a loved one, you know better. Yet if you lose a spouse, that's like that, right there. That's why they say when elderly people, when they lose their spouses, they feel like they want to go too. They feel like they want to go where they are. They have no reason to live here on earth. So this woman right here lost two. Now I don't know about you, adi. I haven't met a woman yet that I could think of right now that lost two husbands and Baron don't even feel valued enough to have another mate because of course we know the custom back then was to pass it along. But I'm speaking in terms of modern.

Speaker 3: 10:25

If a woman lost two husbands she may consider herself a curse. Okay, I'm not trying no more. She may just give up and may do things out of the norm. Maybe she might have a Taymar spirit and later on regret it. But I like how the Bible highlighted her. Sometimes we do things that's not what we deem is not right, not morally right, but I know God is merciful and God is gracious and God is sovereign, even through it all, and we see it all through Taymar. All right, all right, let me go on to the next top three episodes of this third quarter, and I like this biblical character.

Speaker 3: 11:06

So so far we had, we tackle one biblical character, one biblical person in Tamar. So we go on to the next, and his name is Joseph. Most men fall short of this. This is where most men get in trouble. Golly men too. Golly men. It could be any man, but we're gonna talk about since this is the context of talking about the Hebrews someone that God is with you. Know cause, we know that, children of God, god is with us. Golly men, including myself, we could get in trouble when women trying to entice us to fall short try to get us to do, to do, something that God did not authorize.

Speaker 3: 11:47

This woman is trying to cheat on her husband, but Joseph has so much respect and reverence, not only for Potiphar but also for God Cause, remember, ooh, we, you know, addy, I respect Joseph, I respect this dude man. I can't stress it enough. I know we we tackled several episodes about Joseph and Joseph episode been getting a lot of traction and I've said this in numerous episodes that there's one person that I could compare myself to in a Bible it showed enough will be Joseph, and I respect Joseph to the point where this is an individual that's in a position not any position. I don't look at the other dude, I don't know what brother, that if a woman got him in a secluded place they ain't nobody around, it might be dark, might be playing some Luther no, they wasn't playing Luther, but it probably was playing harps. And then this dude said no, I'm going to take off Like I respect your husband so much that I'm not, I'm not going to do that, I'm not going to commit adultery because I respect not only your husband, but I have a respect for God.

Speaker 3: 13:14

Addy, I don't know, I don't know too many dudes that that would, yeah, dudes. Let me just say this so I'm, I don't want to, I don't want to throw godly men under the bus, but I'm just. I'm just saying, like when I was in the world, addy, this is before Christ. So when I was in the world, I used to, if a woman was interested in me, I'd be like, yeah, I'm interested in you too. It was like nothing. And even if they had another partner because I don't know if it's like that nowadays, but I know people dated multiple people Like you'd be like, hey, you got a. You tell the girl yeah, you got a boyfriend, yeah, I got a boyfriend, but we ain't that serious. You know, those were the things. Yeah, we ain't, we ain't like that. You know what I mean. And then, and then you'd be like hold up, you got a husband. He ain't my husband, I mean, he's my boyfriend, we just kicking it. So I don't know too many dudes If a bad chick got them in the space, if he would just run.

Speaker 3: 14:18

And that's why I respect Joseph, because he denied his flesh. You know, one preacher would say that that we got to learn to overcome dust. He would say dirt. He said don't let dirt or dust have power over you, meaning the flesh y'all. So when y'all hear me say dirt or dust, of course we know God created man from the dust and he'll be like don't let dust have power over you. Cause that's pretty much what it is, because once we all die we all go back to the ground, we go back where God has created us from. So I respect Joseph in that regard.

Speaker 1: 15:04

I think for me, what, what, um? Why I respect Joseph is it's not even the fact that he respected Potiphar is when he said how can I do such a wicked thing against God? It don't have nothing to do with your husband. It's like I reverence and love God so much that I would not commit this sin against God. And, like you said, not many of us love and respect God that much that we would say I will hold on to my virginity, I will hold on to my purity, I will hold on to my, you know, put my flesh under God subjection until God says okay, you know, let me go ahead and take you to the next level, in the next phase. Not many of us love God that much.

Speaker 1: 15:55

And what it says to me is that it says something very profound about Joseph. Like he wasn't perfect. You know he bragged to his brothers and you know his daddy about his dreams. But through his trials he matured and through his trials he became intimate with God and in that intimacy with God he understood that, no matter what was going on around him, god always had to get the glory and he must always be pleasing to God.

Speaker 1: 16:23

That is what I got from Joseph, is that, and even for us, if we're saying that, and let me say it for me, even for me, adne, if I say that I am a Christian, I am to become like Joseph and love God so much that the thought of sinning against God should break my heart, and I believe that's what the heart of the matter should be, and that's what he had. He was like how could I do this to God? Like, yeah, your husband has given me rain over everything except you, and how could I do this wicked thing against God? So that's something that we all, as Christians, must take into consideration. We need to be in, so in love with God that even the thought of sinning makes us think, oh my gosh, I'm not just doing this to myself, I'm doing this against my father in heaven. So that's what I loved about Joseph.

Speaker 3: 17:18

So the last episode is but God, part part one. This episode right here is very powerful. This sister definitely got a story, a long list of testimonies. I don't think we won't even have time to go through all the testimonies, what she shared, but we just gonna share a brief snippet.

Speaker 2: 17:35

Oh, I'm going to church I'm still shaking, and I'm going to church and I'm still drinking, but I didn't have a conscious about it, like I can do it. It wasn't something that I had to think that I would be in trouble for, because I knew I was gonna get up and go to church and after church or before church was still, you know, be doing the same thing. Going before going to church, I know I'm I'm shaking, and then when I get out of church I'm still shaking. So it was just like I'm doing the 5x of what I supposed to be doing on Sunday. I just knew that on Sunday I had to be a church, on Wednesday I had to be a church, but at the same time I was still living the double life.

Speaker 3: 18:22

So Lord have mercy. Person living a double life. Let me tell you what she said, right there was so profound and powerful. Let me share some. I'm gonna share, share with you a personal experience or testimony of mine before I got saved.

Speaker 3: 19:33

You know, like, as you know, we'll both raise up Catholic Baptists and you know, when I was young, the preacher used to always say do not fornicate, wait till you get married. Well, he's just say, bo, you're gonna go to hell, right? And when I was young, that always stuck with me. Like if I, if, like, if I'm not married to a woman and I live with her and I'm doing the doom, I'm doomed, right, I'm doomed. So I was young and I always had that mindset. So you know, I'll have a lot of brothers, all my brothers. They end up having kids and they all left the house. I was the last brother to leave the house and I only left because I got married.

Speaker 3: 20:17

Obviously I got married, but throughout the years in my 20s, there were women that used to tell me like, okay, let's move in together. And I would never do it. I would never. And I always had in my mind like you're not my wife, like why would I try to build a house with you when you're not even my wife. So and I wasn't even saving I still had that mindset Like why would I build a home with somebody that I'm not married to? That mean boyfriend and girlfriend, you can always up and leave. If things not working out, you could just up and leave, or you could just cheat. There's no commitment. So when there's no marriage, there's no commitment, there's no covenant, so you could go and do things as you please. So what I wanted to share with you, adne.

Speaker 3: 21:03

So before I got saved, I had all these women because I was dating and I remember I didn't want to get rid of the women that I had before I got converted, before I obeyed the gospel, because I started thinking about that stuff. I don't think I told too many people about it. I was like man. So if I get back in the church, I mean I got to stop dating all these women. I'm like man. I said man. That's going to be kind of like tough for me, man, because it was kind of like dating different kind of women and having conversations with them. But at the same time I remember the Holy Spirit whispered to me. It was like OK, so either hell informant with these women or you're going to submit to me. And I thought about that stuff, adne. I said you know what I said? There ain't no woman worth my salvation in my eternal life. Man, adne, I gave up those numbers so quick, I was getting rid of the numbers out of my phone so quick. One of my older brothers, he was like, hey, man, since you getting close to God, let me get those numbers, man, so I could call those women. I say, nah, bro, I'm just going to get out rid of all those numbers Because right now God is calling me to his kingdom and he's calling me into ministry.

Speaker 3: 22:13

So I brought that up because relationships will hinder a person, adne, from getting close to God, relationships that's not structured in the standard of God. So what? Our dear sister was saying that she was shacking and she was living a double life, going to worship and shacking, so living that double life. So she was in the middle. She was great, she was in the cold or hot, she was in the middle. So she's the type of people that God said I'll spew you out, because you're like a lukewarm, you need the cold or hot, you're like in the middle. So I say that. To say it is that if a person is in a relationship that's ungodly and they shacking, they know they're not living right. They ought to think about that stuff. That's why I like what Sister Cooper shared that, because I'm sure she got her breakthrough when she realized that, like, oh man, I got to stop living a double life, I need to start taking this stuff seriously. But that's all I had to say.

Speaker 1: 23:10

I think and I have to be honest and I'm speaking for me when I got baptized a year later, I had my son. I wasn't shacking with his dad, but I was still with his dad. I think, like I said before when we just discussed Joseph, it's a matter of really falling in love with God and understanding A relationship with God is more important than a relationship with another human being. That's going to come, but it's about building that bond with God. Get to the point where even the thought of living with someone that is not your spouse will make you cringe and say how can I do this against God? You're not even thinking about yourself, it's you thinking about how can I dishonor God in this way? And I love how she said that I was just doing the five acts. How many Christians, how many of us, have just ran through the routine of OK here, believe, repent, confess and be baptized? Ok, I got to go sing, take the Lord's Supper, give my offering, listen to a sermon and hey how you doing, sis?

Speaker 1: 24:21

Oh, I'm good, all right, see you later, see you next Sunday. And that's your life. We have to realize the relationship that we have with God. Number one is communion communion between us and him and communal between us and our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we allow ourselves to stay in that sinful state, we're not doing ourselves any justice. Who's sharpening you If the person that you with ain't walking the same path as you're walking? What's the point? Y'all both going to go to hell together anyway.

Speaker 1: 24:55

So you have to realize that it's about the relationship with God that matters. And that's one of the things I had to learn, even after my thing with my son's father was that I didn't love God enough. And even still now I'm learning that relationship that I need to have with God. It has to be so deep that it consumes my heart, it consumes me. So I don't live that double life because it's easy. It is so easy to fall into the double life because, again, sin is pleasurable. Sin is extremely pleasurable. I can stick in the pleasure. Or I could say you know what, god, I'd rather have the pleasure when I get married. It's all in the mindset. So that's what came to my spirit.

Speaker 3: 25:44

Yeah, that's a good take. But also what I wanted to bring up that Sister Love Cooper mentioned, and sometimes it could be tough for women, adne, because look at it this way, they live in with a guy that's unsaved and they get saved and then, like Sister Cooper mentioned, she was like this is all like God. God, like where am I going to go? Now, this is a grown woman, like she want to, she have a desire to do the right thing, but the flesh is like saying, like she stuck with this dude at the house and she's like God, I want to do right, but where am I going to go?

Speaker 3: 26:22

But through it all, god eventually blessed her in that regard, because there's a lot of individuals, either male or female, they may be stuck in a position like that. They want to do right by God, but they're asking God, like God, I want to do right by you, but where can I go? I've been stuck here for so long. I mean, if I just leave, we know rent is high, we're in a recession. We're in a recession, we're kind of stuck. God, you got to help me out, lord, lord, you know what I mean. But Sister Cooper explained it well in the way she pointed it out and during the course of her interview she did a wonderful job of explaining that and I think that's where a lot of people get stuck and that's what it just got to trust in God through the process, because our flesh and sin will lead us far away from God. But God knows if you want it bad enough. God is faithful, faithful enough to open those doors.

Speaker 1: 27:22

I mean, I agree, I agree 100%. But again, it's all about a faith. Walk right. If we stay here and say, oh my gosh, rent is high, that means that we don't trust God. If we look at the increase of life, knowing that our Father owns a cattle on a thousand hill and I'm not speaking against my dear sister, I'm speaking for us now, if you're in that situation, it's either you're going to have faith and trust God will move in your life and get you out of the situation, or you're going to stay there because it's comfortable, because a lot of times being comfortable in knowing versus being uncomfortable and not knowing is easier. It is so much easier to be in a comfortable situation versus packing your bag and leaving that situation and moving on. What I am grateful and thankful for, like you said, is the Lord delivered her. The Lord delivered her out of her situation and she is thriving. She is really truly thriving and she's growing spiritually. Sometimes it's a matter of letting go of the path and allowing God to move in your future.

Speaker 3: 28:32

So that's well said. That's well said. I think that's about it, but I hope you all enjoyed the top three episodes. Go back and listen to them. Also, leave it in the show notes. Tame R we have a part one and a part two.

Speaker 3: 28:44

Joseph go back and listen to all the Joseph episodes and you can go ahead and listen to but God, part one and part two. So remember world again. We thank you again for tuning in. Remember to share and subscribe, and you feel the need to make a donation? For as little as 99 cents, you can make a donation or support the channel as you please. So remember that Jesus Christ, he is the King of Kings and he's the Lord of Lords, be blessed. That's it for now, but before we go, please continue to listen, subscribe, share our podcast. Also, if you want to support our show, please scroll down to the bottom of the show notes and click on the link that says buy me a coffee. We would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for listening and remember God is good all the time and all the time God is good and also Jesus Christ loves you. Thank you.