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Dimensions 09/19/25: Don't Take My Word For It...
if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like boy. I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 2:Wow, listen now, if I hear that I'm telling you right now, if I see a black man as a pilot, you're going to be going to question some things, man, if that's all that, I saw, man, I'm calling him a racist, straight up and down. Straight up racist. But listen, don't take my word for it just because you heard it from me. You got to get into the word and do your own homework, right? That's what we all got to do. Stay tuned. More of this coming up on Dimensions. What's going on? Everybody? It's your boy, pastor J Anthony Gilbert, right back here at Dimensions, coming at you at the very least five days a week, monday through Friday, every single evening at 8.30 pm. Listen, I'm so excited, I can't wait to get here each and every day just to share with you what I believe God's putting in my spirit helping prepare the body of Christ and the bride of Christ for the return of Jesus Christ, because he is coming back, ladies and gentlemen. Yes, he is, he is coming back and I want to. Yes, he is, he is coming back and I want to get you prepared.
Speaker 2:God gave me three things. He said. Tell my people keep oil in their lamps, love in their heart, sin and leaven out of your life. I just did a series, started a series on leaven and you can look at that there on YouTube. And I did a series called Living Leaven Free. Just started it earlier this week. It'll be a blessing to you.
Speaker 2:Leaven are those things in your life that cause your spiritual senses to dwindle, causes your fire for God to dwindle and your things and your passion for the things of the world to begin to accelerate and to increase. Begin to feed the passions of the things of the world, to begin to accelerate and to increase. Begin to feed the passion for the things of the world. But when you keep sin and leaven out of your life, the oil stays in your lamp, which means you stay burning bright, come on somebody, which means you're illuminated from the deception and the darkness that's happening in the world. When you have oil in your lamp, oil can be used for heating and so it keeps you warm, so the coldness and the darkness of this world doesn't infiltrate your heart and mind and your emotions and cause you to be deceived and discouraged and, as a result, you keep that love in your heart and when you have that, ladies and gentlemen, you can share the truth and love. You're not getting burned out, you're not discouraged, you're not frustrated with the things of the world. You can keep peace and love and joy in your heart, regardless of what's going on, because you have God's perspective on what is happening Hallelujah.
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Speaker 2:I don't know how many episodes we got, but I did so many different things, my goodness. I did stuff on spiritual abuse, I've done things on the end times. I've done things I mean, you name it, I have talked about it y'all and I got a whole lot more. Because I believe you're somebody that wants to know what God is saying in the prophetic. Now you want to know, just like we all do, what is God saying to this, to the body of Christ? What does God feel about these moments? What, what exactly is happening? I want to know. I remember back in the day she's saying inquiring minds want to know. We need to inquire of the Lord, we need to seek him, and that's why we use platforms like this, so then you can hear what thus saith the Lord and what's happening, and you can have a keen eye.
Speaker 2:It's so easy, ladies and gentlemen, to get caught up by what you see on the news. I tell people this all the time I don't go by what the news says. I don't go by what just somebody online says. I don't go by those. That's why I put down the title for today. Don't take my word for it. Why is that important? I don't care whether a preacher comes unless you have done your own research. We are in a day and an hour. We have information overload. Ladies and gentlemen, information overload it's everywhere. I mean there's information everywhere. I mean you go online.
Speaker 2:You can have one subject matter and have 15 different views. How do you know which one to draw from? How do you know which one you should go with? How do you know what's really happening? Number one you've got to get your own relationship with Jesus Christ, that you hear from him for yourself. Number two you've got to get into the word and do your own homework. That's 2A, 2b. You've got to do your own homework on what's being said and what's being done. I just showed you that clip just for a moment. Play it again for me, mr Producer. Play that clip again.
Speaker 1:If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like boy. I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 2:If I see a black pilot boy, I hope he's qualified. If I see a black pilot boy, I hope he's qualified. Who wouldn't take that as a racist comment? I mean, of course, I look at a black man because now what I'm doing like I gave you the definition a couple days ago about racism and white supremacy it takes something and it says OK, now remember this is very important when you're dealing with racism and white supremacy, they're not dealing with a person and an individual. They are making the class of people. Using that statement alone would clearly clearly make him a racist, because he's saying anybody that's black can't fly. Cool, totally understand that.
Speaker 2:And the reason why I'm saying this to you about don't take my word for it this thing with Charlie Kirk is bigger than you know what I mean by that. I'm using this as an but don't take my word for it. This thing with Charlie Kirk is bigger than you know what I mean by that. I'm using this as an example to teach you things. Just because somebody says something in the word of God and it sounds good, just because a preacher says that abortion is okay, just because somebody comes online which I've heard it said before there was a preacher that came out online and said hey, listen, I want you to hear this. This is very, very important. Zoom in real quickly and just pause and hear this with your ear. This is a preacher. I don't really mention a lot of names of preachers because I'm not one into bashing preachers. My purpose in doing all of this, ladies and gentlemen, is not to get caught up in clickbait and to get all. I don't want people being deceived. I don't want people taking a narrative that is not correct and driving it home, because many times people are too lazy to really research and do the homework. That one clip if I were to play that right there and cut it, of course you would think somebody is racist. And the reason I'm saying this is because in the news media, whether it's the left or the right, they are driving a narrative. For us in the body of Christ, our job is to find the truth. The Bible says buy the truth and sell it not. We need to find the truth, identify it and then walk in it. I'm using this to teach you something completely different Not to go in and on about what happened with Charlie Kirk and all of that and whatever. Teach you something completely different not to go in and on about what happened with Charlie Kirk and all of that and whatever, but to talk about the narratives that people drive and how, what we do, we sit down and we get on our computer, we get on our phone and we look, listen to what somebody said and we just take the word. A little soundbite they had and that's all that we do. How do you know they're telling you? That's why I said don't take my word for it. If I'm preaching something, don't take my word for it. Go home and study it, study for yourself, study it, so then you can find out what it is that's actually being said.
Speaker 2:It's very, very important in every single area of our lives. Ladies and gentlemen, there was a preacher that came out not too long ago and he said listen. He said we have to come up with a new way of preaching the gospel here, because you know, if you're dealing with someone that's 14, 15, 16, never been sexually active, then of course you need to preach abstinence to them. They are the ones that need to stop having sex. They can't have sex until they're married. But if you're 34, 35, 36, you were married and got divorced. We got to come up with something different, because you know they've already been sexually active and you know, as a result of that, there's got to be another way that we can help them out.
Speaker 2:Now this is stuff that's coming forth out of people's pulpits. I mean, I've seen people in pulpits taking two women and then saying, ok, we're going to dedicate their children and call them a family. If I were to mention their names, some of you listen to their music, their worship, leaders of national prominence. I mean, we've got all sorts of things that are going on in the world, ladies and gentlemen, that are happening, and my thing is this it's not to be hateful towards people, because, let me say this as well, one of the things about Charlie Kirk now, listen, everybody has their own call and their destiny.
Speaker 2:So I don't judge anybody when it comes to how they say things. He says things that I believe, but I probably I might not say it the same way. He would say it, I would say it differently, I would probably season it with salt. But you know, one of the things I look at too is I've been preaching the gospel for about as long as he's been alive, and if I had to go back into my early twenties and my twenties and my early thirties, there might be things I would say differently now. Now, knowing what I know now, because I've adjusted some things, I've grown, I've tailored some things, there were times I had to go back and correct. Now what I was saying was right, but how I said it may not have been correct, and sometimes people don't know how to listen for the message. How many times do people do that in relationships? Somebody can be saying something and you hear their words, but you don't hear their heart, and so you take it and you translate it how you want to.
Speaker 2:And it's very, very important when you are a person of wisdom is to be able to hear the whole contextualization of what's saying. Do you know how many times people I heard? Somebody came to me not too long ago where the Bible says in the book of Genesis that God gave every herb bearing seed for you, for fruit and for meat. So a person said well, god, so back in the day I don't know if they call that still now, I don't know all the lingo on it, but marijuana back in the day was called a herb. You know, you got some herb, you're going to roll up some herbs. So they would say so. One person actually said you know, that's how some people gravitate to make marijuana a spiritual thing and they say, okay, a spiritual thing. And they say, okay, I'm a Rastafarian because God gave every herb bearing seed, so that's the herb, so God gave that to me, and they take it completely out of context. Context is very important, ladies and gentlemen. That's why I'm saying don't take my word for it.
Speaker 2:And sometimes you have to hear, and even when you're reading a scripture, you can't just read one scripture and develop like one of my favorite things is Jeremiah 29. People talk about Jeremiah. I believe it's 29, 11. Behold, for I know the thoughts that I have towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a hope and a future and a good and expected end. And people put that scripture up, do you? Most people probably have no clue what the context of that scripture is, and we quote it and put it up like yo, god's got great plans for me, which he does, and he was saying that to them. But the context of that scripture is he's saying listen, I'm about to send y'all into 70 years of slavery. You're going to be kicked out of your house. You're going to be kicked out of your land, you're going to go into slavery. But I know the thoughts that I have towards you and so a lot of times people don't realize you can't just take one scripture and make a theology around it.
Speaker 2:You have to be very, very careful. You have to be careful of soundbites you listen to on the news or something that you watch on Facebook or something that you hear on YouTube or whatever it is. And if you don't do your homework, like what I just showed you right there, most people that's all that they quote when they come to me. Somebody actually came to me just a day ago or so and said I heard that quote. So I said, all right, I'm going to do some more research on it. I already knew he wasn't in my opinion. I don't believe he's racist at all. Do I believe that there were some areas where he could have tampered his words a little bit better? Maybe said a little bit differently for me? Yes, for me, but that ain't my call. I mean, he's got to. That was. I'm not the person for that message, but I'm not God's man in that area. So I'm very careful.
Speaker 2:But as I've gotten older you know, I'm 48 years old now. I've been preaching the gospel for almost 30 years. I've learned how to share things a little bit differently. I realized too, ladies and gentlemen, that the truth will work all by itself. Now I'm not a big fan, like some people do it, like they'll get into calling people names and things like that. I don't, that's not how I roll. I believe the truth will cut all on its own. The Bible is a two-edged sword. The Bible says it's a two-edged sword, which I believe is why it's two-edged. It cuts going in, but it also heals coming out. It will cut and work all by itself. It doesn't need my added name calling.
Speaker 2:I look at our president many times that he'll say different things and call names and things like that. That's not how I roll. I don't feel that's what God's called me to do. I don't think. Matter of fact, the Bible says let your speech be seasoned with salt. So it's important that you know even Jesus. I mean the way he dealt with people. Now don't get me wrong. He called him a brood of vipers. There are different things that he would say, but Jesus and the way that he was going about it and the way some people are going about it today.
Speaker 2:Sometimes people get into what's called a bickering match, and I don't believe that's where we need to go. I believe you can have a debate, but I don't believe in name calling and things along that line. I believe that our speech should be seasoned with salt. But it's important. Ladies and gentlemen, don't take my word for it. Don't take somebody else's word for it. Don't be lazy. Go out and put the work in. Go out and find out what it is that you need to do. You know, it's very, very important that you study for yourself. Ladies and gentlemen, very, very Look at this here. I've been spending time in this actually all day today.
Speaker 2:2 Timothy 2, I want you to read something Verse number 14. Look at this here. Remind them of these things. See, ladies and gentlemen, I love the word of God. It helps us to get back to square one, helps us get back to ground zero, helps us to get to where we need to be. This is my roadmap B-I-B-L-E basic instructions before leaving earth. B for basic, I for instructions. B basic instruction before the other. B before L leaving E earth. B-i-b-l-e basic instructions before leaving earth. So this is what I use to navigate these things. Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord, not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. So that's why you got to make sure you got to know what's to profit and what's not. Look, I love this here.
Speaker 2:Be diligent and study to show yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. I believe he's talking about studying the scriptures here, because there was a lot of hypocrisy, there was a lot of heresy that was going around, and he's telling Timothy, who is a young preacher hey, make sure you study and know your stuff. Don't just talk from one little line that somebody gave you. Don't just talk from one little thing that somebody gave you. Make sure you do the research for yourself. Do you know how many things that I've done?
Speaker 2:Even when the pandemic came out in 2020 and they had the shots and all the different things, you know what I did. Nobody asked me to. Nobody told me to. I went through. I studied every vaccine since the 1800s. I have notes right now Every vaccine, how long it took, how many of them had side effects. And I, when I studied, you know what the shortest one was? The shortest one was seven years before it was approved. And the reason why I only proved it for seven years is because it was during a military time and they sent it out quicker because the men need it and they're willing to take the risk. So for me I'm not a. If you wanted to get a shot, get a shot.
Speaker 2:I told people in our church nobody's to condemn anybody. Let every man abide where he feels he is called. You can't live by my faith. I can't live by your faith. Some people like I know one preacher. He never takes an aspirin or everything. He's never taken one for 30 years.
Speaker 2:Andrew Womack, I mean, praise God for him. That's wonderful. That ain't my calling. If I got a headache, I'm taking an Advil and I'm not saying that I'm right or wrong. I'm not saying I won't try to come up in that. But my point is you've got to abide where it is you're called. I had to study. I got to live by my own faith. Work out your own salvation. Philippians, chapter two, verse 12 and 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you both to do and to will for his good pleasure. So the ability to will and the ability to do. It comes from the Lord, and what God may be giving him to do, he may not be giving me to do. And what God? That's why every man has to abide in his own call, amen. So that's why you've got to study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing truth, rightly dividing truth, ladies and gentlemen, not just in the scripture, but in every area. Study to show yourself approved.
Speaker 2:You hear something on the news. Study it. If you don't know, don't have an opinion. But if you know, then do it. But don't just take somebody else's opinion in one little soundbite or something along that line and then run with it. How much research have you really done? How much time have you put in figuring out what the truth is?
Speaker 2:You take a look at a major court case. They dig for evidence. Now, what we do? We just want to say guilty or innocent. What do they do? Oh, they showed us this little piece of evidence. That's it. Okay, that's enough for me. Wait a minute. There's a whole story here. You have what's called forensic studies, forensic science. You've got all these things that they go through and study the DNAs and they studied footprints and they ask witnesses and they do different. I mean they got all these things to put the whole thing together to make sure they come up rightly dividing the word of truth.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, let me say this to you You've got to understand that we're in a day and hour now that anything comes forth out of the pulpit. If you don't want to be deceived, you've got to study for yourself. People say how come you stay in the way that you do? How do you say the things you say? Well, one of the things because I've studied to show myself approved. I study, I look into things. I don't just take things at face value. I don't just grab any old thing and run with it. I make sure I study to show myself approved. I don't take one little piece of something and make the whole picture.
Speaker 2:Some people take one little area of their life and then paint the picture of God based upon one thing they went through. If God's really real, then why would he allow people to suffer? Okay, but if God's really real, why would he allow someone to win the lottery? Why would he allow somebody to get promoted? Why does he allow? I mean, you can go on and on. Why did God allow you to live and someone else didn't live? How come you got healed from cancer and someone else didn't? Why did God allow that? I mean, we have to look at the whole picture. Ladies and gentlemen. You can't take one puzzle piece and call it. You've got to put everything together. Study to show yourself Don't take my word for it. Take my word, but go find it for yourself. Study to show yourself approved.
Speaker 2:A worker who does not need to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth. Hallelujah, I love that there, that rightly dividing the word of truth speaks of a father that knows how to break apart the word in a way and divvy it up to every child according to their individual need. Hallelujah, they know how to apply truth into their lives. See, some people are either all right or all wrong. And what I mean by that? Listening to people's opinions. Some people listen to one side and not the other. Some people listen to one piece and not the other. Wisdom gets the whole council. The Bible says in the multitude of counselors there's safety.
Speaker 2:When you do a research project in a school, they don't say just get one source. They want you to list. Your sources Show you have dug out the truth. People take one soundbite from Charlie Kirk and then make it a whole thing. People take one thing from the Kirk and then make it a whole thing. People take one thing from the pulpit and make it their whole life. Why don't you go study it for yourself? Maybe there's things God wants to reveal to you.
Speaker 2:And then what happens? You can develop a case based upon you. Take a look at someone that is a lawyer. They go through and they develop a case. They take previous cases, they line them up, even with other studies. They'll say like Jones versus the state, myth versus this thing, smith versus that person, and they'll take that case. And well, how that got lined out. And then they'll take the constitution or they'll take this certain law and they have points of law that they argue and then they build their case around the different points of law. What do we do? We just take one piece of evidence and then we run with it. No, I'm hanging on this and I'm going to die with it.
Speaker 2:Now there are times that you can take things that really at face value. But my question is in this day and hour, with so much information, what do you have to prove your case? How much time have you put into it In anything? I'm not even talking about just Charlie Kirk. I'm using this as an example of how people get deceived in their lives. And then what the devil will do? He'll take one little piece Like, say, for example, people that are looking for a reason for find racism.
Speaker 2:They're looking. I'm not denying that there's racism out there. I know there's racism out there. I'm not denying the fact that people are racist. I'm not denying the fact that black people need jobs. I'm not denying the fact that there are qualified black people that have not gotten jobs. I'm not even denying that. I am clearly saying I know there are Matter of fact. In the NFL, the NBA, there needs to be more black owners.
Speaker 2:But one of the things I tell people this all the time not until lately, in the last maybe 20, 30 years, have we started seeing black billionaires. We've got to have the money to do that, which big shout out to all the African-American brothers and sisters out there that are coming up, people like Oprah and people like now you've got Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. All these guys they've all come up to the rankings. Now, thanks be unto God, because the racial barrier was broken through the blood of MLK and even Malcolm X. I even put him out there. He was willing to stand up for black people, even though I didn't agree with his ways. Still standing for black people. He gave up his life for his cause. You have RFK and JFK and you got Abraham Lincoln back in 63, 1863. Took 100 years to get there and then from that point on, from 68 by 2000, we started seeing billionaires coming into the ranks. Come on somebody.
Speaker 2:And so my point in saying all this is that you've got to develop a whole case, though Round about it, not just one thing, can't just take one piece and say I'm just going to run with that. You've got to study to show yourself approved. So then you know, you have a case, ladies and gentlemen, and that's one of the things that people do not do nowadays. We just take Facebook and YouTube, we find one little clip and then we run with it. We just run with it, we just going to go with it. We don't do any type of study. We are one clip by somebody else. That has a point.
Speaker 2:And my point in saying this is because, if you already have had dealt with racism and now someone throws out there oh, there's that narrative. Oh yep, see, I knew it. I knew white people were racist. Are there white racists out there? Of course there are. Of course there are. I mean, come on, it's still out there. But but that don't mean every little sound bite means somebody's racist. You've got to go through and do your own research.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen. Look at what it says here 2 Timothy 2, verse 16. But shun profane and vain and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. Shun them. Why? How do I shun profane and idle babblings After you've studied what this boy is preaching up in here right now? My good God, I wish I had an amen in the chat I'm preaching right now.
Speaker 2:See, a lot of times we allow profane and idle and vain babblings that increase to more ungodliness, more tension. You know we talk about fact-checking. I think for every presidential debate, when they bring something up, they should not be able to bring it up unless they can fact-check it and prove it right there on the scene. I mean, bring up a video, what they said, bring up an article, something. You can't just throw stuff out. I mean nowadays people just say any old thing. Oh yeah, unemployment's been down the lowest it's been in 100 years. Prove it, show me 1977, 78, the statistic that you have, and have somebody that facts check it, I think things would completely change. But now we can just say anything. If they say, well, it must be true because they're a president or they're running for office, so they got to be true. They wouldn't lie about that. Since when I mean fact check everything, then you can shun. I mean fact check everything, then you can shun profane and idle babblings. Why? Because if you start arguing profane, vain, idle babblings, it increases to more ungodliness. Look what it says and their message. See the message of the profane, the message of the idle, the message of the vain individuals will always increase and the devil uses these people and the left or the right, or preachers or whomever, to people that do not look at what go back to.
Speaker 2:15. Study to show yourself approved, a worker. So people that don't study are lazy. I'm going to say that again People that don't study to show themselves approved are lazy. They're not a worker and therefore they don't rightly divide truth. They'll just take any old thing and run with it versus. Let me make sure I've got all my I's dotted and my T's crossed. Look what it says in verse 17. And their message will spread like a cancer, quick and easy. I love this statement here A lie has speed, but truth has endurance and their message will spread like a cancer.
Speaker 2:Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already passed, and they overthrow the faith of some. So a lot of people got people calling people names that they shouldn't even be called. You got a lot of people calling people liars that ain't liars. Why? Because somebody decided to paint a narrative. I heard a phenomenal man of God.
Speaker 2:Tomi Arayemi said something very powerful that stuck with me. He says when you're dealing with haters, they're not the ones that kill you. Watch this. It wasn't the Jewish people. Watch this. It wasn't Herod and Pilate that crucified Jesus. It was the Jewish people's narrative that drove the nails.
Speaker 2:Listen to me when I tell you this In this day and hour, you have to study every narrative. You have to study every narrative, or otherwise your faith can be overthrown. You can be deceived because you believe whatever your feelings tell you versus really going forth and studying it. Verse 23, and I'm almost done Verse 23,. But avoid foolish and ignorant, unlearned disputes, knowing that they generate strife. You want to know why there's so much strife? Cause nobody fact checks, nobody does their research.
Speaker 2:How many sources do you have? Those of you that say Charlie Kirk is not racist and Charlie Kirk that is racist? How many sources do you have? You want to take one statement and give a man his whole life's work that was willing to take a bullet for what he believed, and take one statement he made and encapsulate that without knowing the full context. People do that to Jesus all the time. They'll take one scripture and develop a whole context of beliefs about the Bible based upon one scripture. The Bible's full of contradictions. Next time somebody says that hand them the Bible, say show me it, yeah, but Didn't study. And so what happens? They're foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.
Speaker 2:People say, patrick, why would you get on here and talk about Charlie Kirk in the race? Because I did my research. I've listened to hours and hours and hours and hours of his talks and I've pulled together a body of work, not a one-liner, a body of work. And I do that with preachers I've been studying about for 30 years. I do it with preachers. I do it with every person. That's why, even with the vaccine, when it came out, I studied y'all, me and my family. We never did it Just based upon my studies. That was what I did. I'm not ashamed of what I stood for and I have faith in what I stood for because I studied it. I'm not listening to just the government, not listening to just somebody else.
Speaker 2:In this day and hour, in this information age, where everything's at the click of a button, you click up one thing, you'll get a million different answers online. Man, you got to study to show yourself approved. Look at this. A servant of the Lord must not be quarrel, be gentle to all, able to teach patient humility, correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth and that they may come to their senses. See, some people don't come to their senses because they don't study and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. Wow, I hope that y'all are getting something out of this, because I really want you to catch the reality of what I'm saying. I got. I wish I had more time, but I'm running out of time. I gotta go. Maybe I'll come back later and do another teaching on this. I want, I want to do, I want you to do me one more favor, mr Producer.
Speaker 1:Show me the first clip one more time if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like boy. I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 2:I hope that he's qualified. I've heard that say a million and one times. Listen to just 45 seconds of this context, of this clip. I'm about to show you Just one. I can show you a whole lot more, but just listen to this 45 seconds instead of a three second clip. Listen to the whole 45 seconds. Listen to what it is that he shared, just to drive home the narrative of what was he really trying to say and why did he say that statement. Let's play it.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. If I see a black pilot I'm going to be like boy.
Speaker 2:I hope he's qualified Well, that's the you wouldn't have done that, you wouldn't have. You know, and that's, that's not an immediate no, you wouldn't have done that before. That's not who I am.
Speaker 1:That's not what I believe it is the reality the left has created. I want to be as blunt as possible, because now I'm connecting two dots. Wait a second. The CEO said that he's forcing that a white qualified guy is not going to get the job. So I see this guy. He might be a nice person. I say boy, he's not a Harvard-style affirmative action student that has points for. And he landed half of his flight simulator trials. That's the thing.
Speaker 2:Such a good point and, by the way, it also.
Speaker 1:it creates unhealthy thinking patterns. I don't want to think that way. No, and no one should.
Speaker 2:I don't want to think that way and nobody should think that because a man is black, he can't fly. But if you do your research, like he did, the reason why he said that statement was because from his research, he was saying that people from a certain airline are going to take. We're going to take 40% of people, whether they're good or not. Even if the white man is better and he can fly better, we're going to give it to the black man, even if he's not qualified. When you take things into a full context even if now, watch, just stay with me for a second, I know I'm going a little bit longer Even if Charlie Kirk is incorrect, say for him his information is incorrect that doesn't make him a racist, it makes him ignorant. Racist is saying I don't care if he's qualified or not, he's black, he ain't qualified because he's black. He's saying the research I have done. I was talking to a CEO. He said listen, we're going to put 40% of black people in there where they're qualified. They'll only land half of their stuff. I'm still going to put them in there. Wait a minute. I'm putting my life in this guy's hand because he's black. Wait a minute. That doesn't make any sense to me. Is that a racist statement, though what he just said? Based upon that, is that really a racist statement? I'd love to hear from y'all. Show me how it is. Show me how it is. Let me tell you this If you are a black man and you found out there was a white man flying, he was flying and you found out okay, he only landed 40% of his flights in the simulator how many of y'all hopping in the cockpit with him? I'm not. Is it because I'm a racist? No, you don't know how to fly. What Charlie Kirk was saying and all that. Now, he didn't always say it the best way, but I did research to show this way and he even said he goes. I don't want to think that way. He goes. Nobody should think that way about black people. Somebody help me with that, please. You want to know what happens.
Speaker 2:People find one narrative and they run with it. They take one scripture and I'm using the thing with Charlie Kirk as the error of our day. One person says you can have sex. One person says a man and a man can get together, a woman and a woman can get together. What research have you done? Have you done any research. Have you studied to show yourself approved in any area?
Speaker 2:The vaccine people are arguing about the vaccine. How many people studied about vaccines? And even though I was studying about it, I still never drove the narrative to anybody that they shouldn't or should take it. I just said, hey, if you ask me, I'll tell you. I had people actually ask me say would you send me your research?
Speaker 2:Sure, I didn't make a decision based upon what CNNnn said, msnbc, fox news, the left or the right, and you can't trust anybody in this day and hour. Really there are some, but you got to do your own research, ladies and gentlemen, and I wanted to show you that in the beginning and at the end, because a lot of people, people say why do you make this answer? You said because I did my research, I study, I looked at things. Did he always share things the best way? No, but he was 31 too. But let me say this too he probably did more at 31 than some people do in 3,100 years. And the man died a full life and an empty life at the same time. He was full of what he was going to do, but he emptied out everything that he had within him, and I'm not saying that he said everything perfectly. I'm not saying that he said everything perfectly. I'm not saying that. But for me that's not a racist man. He's saying based upon my research and what I've seen, I don't want to think that way he goes. That's not even how I think. Who did that research? How many of y'all saw that clip? Did they show that on CNN? Did they show that on MSNBC? Did they show that on Fox News? Did they show that on the clip that you said he's right? Did they take that whole thing into context? Probably not. If you would take one clip, run with it Instead of studying the whole body of work.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, as I prepare to close, I hope that you will take from this Because I may not go back into more of this now. I believe now I've given you what I believe the spirit of the Lord has given me to do, and the thing that I want you to take from this whether you agree with me or not is irrelevant. I'm not even saying you would have to agree. Maybe you still feel, I still believe he's a racist. Well, that's okay. That's your right to believe what you want to believe. It's my right to believe what I want to believe, what I'm saying. I'm asking you to challenge yourself in anything you stand up for.
Speaker 2:Have you studied to show yourself approved? Have you done your own research? How much time have you put in on digging out, rightly dividing the word of truth not just with the scripture, but anything that goes on? And I'll be honest with you, if I can't find the research on it, I just won't have a comment or a comment based upon a place of, to a limited place of knowledge. But I've done, I did hours, hours of research on Charlie Kirk when I put together the whole body of work. Now, do I believe that he put together everything the way he should have? And I might've shared it differently? Yeah, there might be some things I wouldn't say, say like that, like I've said before, the one area that I would critique him I would have a black man with me in that. But just because he made a mistake and I always said that doesn't mean his whole body of work is wrong. Sometimes we just don't study enough to get the full truth. I'm going to say something to you as well. I might even leave you with this as I prepare to wrap up.
Speaker 2:Some people watch this. They study enough to believe they're right, but don't study enough to know they're wrong. And see the reality is, if you only study enough to believe that you're right oh, I got enough just to believe I'm right, but you haven't studied enough to know that you're wrong, you will be in error. I'm asking everybody everywhere get your facts right, even when you're dealing with somebody that is talking and maybe you have a disagreement with somebody. Before you cast judge and jury and conviction and death penalty on somebody, find out. Did your friend really say that? Did they do that? Give them an opportunity to come to the table. Some of you are listening right now.
Speaker 2:You wrote people off and didn't even give them an opportunity. Go get all the facts. Just because somebody told you they said that wait a minute. How do you know what their motive and narrative is? Remember, narratives drive nails. It was the narrative of Jesus being a bad man. Pilate and Herod. They both said ain't nothing wrong with the guy. But the narrative was driven hard enough that eventually, herod and Pilate both said all right, you're good, kill him, crucify him. Matter of fact, he said I washed my hands, I don't find anything wrong with him, but the narrative drove the nails and I can't take ownership of that. I got to get that to tell me around me. Man, that was powerful. I'm saying this to y'all.
Speaker 2:Even in that I did research and I'm asking everybody, in every area of your life, with all the things that are coming out have you studied on transgender? Have you studied on marriage? Have you studied on any of the results? Have you studied on statistics? Have you studied on what happens when kids becomes transgender? Have you studied the effects of mental health on people? Have you studied people that are talking about addiction? Have you studied on addiction? Have you been around anything? I mean, have you studied? Do you know for people, oh, that guy is bad, he's terrible. Have you? Do you know about his life? Do you know why he's done what he's done and why he's doing, whether they're right, wrong, different, but you might look at things differently once you know the whole story.
Speaker 2:Ladies and gentlemen, study to show yourself approved. Don't sit back and just let any narrative drive the nail. Find out about the narratives. Where do they come from? How do you know? Their motive is pure. I just gave you scripture. The evil narratives have been driven way back. When I'm asking you study. Show yourself approved. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Speaker 2:I'm Pastor J Anthony Gilbert and I approve this message. I hope that you've enjoyed today and I hope that you will take the time to study. Know this. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend operating in truth, finding out the real narratives of what's going on. And listen. Next week I'll be here Monday through Friday, by God's grace, at 8.30 pm, rightly dividing the word of truth. Get in on the word like subscribe, follow, share. Do me a favor and do that. Go get that podcast. Listen to this again. I promise you it's going to bless you. That's going to be a blessing to you Until next time. I'm Pastor J Anthony Gilbert signing off and I'll see you next week at 8.30 pm, right here on Dimensions. We'll be right back, thank you.
