The Gospel Twins Podcast
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The Gospel Twins Podcast
Kingdom Freestyle: Normalized Chaos
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What happens when chaos becomes our normal? Sean and John introduce the concept of "normalized chaos" - that unsettling state where constant unpredictability becomes our standard way of living. They share personal experiences with setting boundaries against chaos, particularly with family members who bring disruption into peaceful spaces.
The conversation shifts to a fascinating exploration of personality types that goes beyond the typical introvert-extrovert spectrum. The twins discuss ambiverts (who thrive in both social and solitary settings) and omniverts (whose social preferences swing based on mood). This understanding brings freedom from the limiting labels others place on us and helps us navigate relationships with greater compassion.
At the heart of this episode is a powerful discussion about dominion - the authority God gave humans in Genesis 1. Sean and John challenge the religious notion that believers should focus on "going to heaven" rather than exercising authority on earth. "God came to be with us," John emphasizes, not to take us away from earth. This perspective transforms how we view our purpose and relationship with God.
Speaking of relationship, the twins explore how connection with God extends beyond scripture reading to direct communication through prayer and listening. They share remarkable stories of divine guidance received through the Holy Spirit's voice, demonstrating that while the Bible is invaluable, relationship with God transcends any text.
The episode concludes with a surprising health tip about watermelon's remarkable benefits - from hydration to cancer-fighting properties. Sean and John's characteristic blend of spiritual depth, practical wisdom, and authentic brotherhood shines through, offering listeners a refreshing kingdom perspective that renews the mind piece by piece.
Ready to break free from religious constraints and embrace the freedom Christ died to give you? Listen now and join the Gospel Twins on a journey toward true relationship with God.
Podcast Introduction
Speaker 1This is the Gospel Twins, with your hosts, sean and John, your go-to podcast for the kingdom perspective on current events and the good news God has for the culture. Get ready to renew your mind, one piece at a time.
Speaker 2People of God, people of God, welcome back to the Gospel Twins podcast, where you get your mind renewed piece by piece, episode by episode. And I am Sean.
Speaker 3And I'm John, and we are the Gospel Twins. Yeah, what's up, dude Y'all working.
Speaker 2Yeah, man how about you, man.
Speaker 3good, good man, man, it's good to be back. Well, uh, to have to take a couple weeks off, but I always love it, man, when we get back at it bro, yes man um bruh uh, I want to thank the father man because you know he put this on my heart.
Speaker 4Uh about, because you know he put this on my heart uh about I would say about yeah 2016.
Speaker 2He put this on my heart, man. I remember going having a dream. I had a dream like three days in a row about podcasting wow and I couldn't shake it. Uh, kept, you know, woke me up out of my sleep a few times.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2And so I was like this is hey, I'm here, I'm doing it, man yeah.
Speaker 3That's bro living in it, man. Yes, Ain't that something dude.
Fall Season and Favorite Time of Year
Speaker 4Yeah, just doing it.
Speaker 2I love it, man. Yeah and hey, man, it's my favorite time of the year.
Speaker 3Oh, bro, bro, no doubt about it. Are you talking? And hey, man, it's my favorite favorite time of the year. Oh, bruh, no doubt about it. Are you talking about fall?
Speaker 4fall football all over the area it come bundled bro.
Speaker 3It come bundled man. I love it, man. This is harvest.
Speaker 2This is actually harvest season yeah, I would say my favorite month of the year is September. Through September, you know, I would say Labor Day.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2Till New Year.
Speaker 3Those are dope.
Speaker 2Give me that time, all the time.
Speaker 3Yeah, no doubt man, all the significant stuff man. Yeah, no doubt man, all the significant stuff, man. Fault Bruh, now that you say that man Just most like targeted events man in my life. Birth of my daughter October. Engaged my wife October. Got married in October. Born in December. Wife born in December. Dude in December uh, dude, it's just man, it's just packed in in that fall season, bro, I love it man hoodies, sweaters, man yeah.
Speaker 2I got already browsed. Yesterday I was chilling out, I was burning the candle.
Speaker 3Man, it was just oh, come was just, it was a fall like pumpkin, he uh smelling.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2And with the heart through through the whole house. Man, I read this. I had it in the kitchen. I could smell it upstairs. It was just beautiful. I was like it made me want to just lay back and just chill.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, that's that has taken. Yeah, taking a Sabbath legit bro.
Speaker 2Yes, it was.
Speaker 3Love it, man Love it.
Speaker 2And also I'd like to thank the Father about the technology. I know a lot of people get scared about the technology. Oh man, but we reconnected through technology.
Speaker 3Man, dude, I mean all the blessedness of this technology, dude, all the informationness of this technology, dude, all the information, man, you turned me on to, bro, I mean, uh, getting me re-acclimated to, uh, you know, focusing on my, my physical health and everything, man, all that stuff came through the technology, man, and uh, me, you would have. You know, I, I don't know, I can't say that we'd ultimately reconnected man, but, uh, this is the technology that the father used for that to happen, man.
Speaker 2so, dude, I, I thank him for that for sure yes, man, I see a lot of people so scared of technology and you know, yeah, people are looking for the, the, mark of the beast and all this stuff man, but it's a tool, man it is that's all it is, dude. That's all it is it's a tool and what's in your heart. Just use it for good that's bruh come on, I gotta just use it for good that's, that's 100 man.
Speaker 3You hitting it right on the head, you're hitting it a hammer, that's all it is is a tool, but can you kill somebody with it? Absolutely, it's creative for building, but I can tear down with it. So, like you said, it's just whose hand the tool is in is what makes it what it is.
Speaker 2Yes, because anything can be perverted. That's all, absolutely, even a spatula. You know, right, right, only want to flip pancakes and eggs.
Speaker 4Right, right.
Speaker 2Right, yeah, you can do somebody bodily harm.
Speaker 3When you can do dirty with it. You know, the dirt with it. No, bro, absolutely, I admit.
Speaker 2Anyway, bro, Even like my only example grits, Grits.
Speaker 4What Right Come on, I know.
Speaker 2Come on, Come on bro and I'm not making light of that situation.
Speaker 3Because it's real. Because it's real.
Speaker 2What happened to Al Green man it?
Speaker 3did man Do your body good, or you can do your body harm man. It's just the intention of the heart. That's why God is always talking about the intent of the heart, bro. That's it. That's all he ever focused on. It's like what's in your heart concerning this man? Where's this coming from? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2Since we're talking about technology, I want to give a shout out to our supporters. Hey, I don't know if you ever listened to a podcast and you got your name called on the podcast.
Speaker 3It makes you just feel good, oh, oh, that's dope, yeah, um.
Speaker 2so hey you know I was telling you before before off uh, off air yeah that we have some supporters from bangladesh. We got man we have that was crazy five listeners from bangladesh, bro. So I want to give a shout out to those people, hey send us some messages, uh, so we can see your name. Let us know your name, I like your name absolutely I like to thank you for your support all the way for bangladesh man dude, I thought it was three. I thought it was three, that was five man dude, I'm tripping.
Speaker 3That is one bro. Yeah, I thought it was three and I was five man dude. I'm tripping. That is one bro. Yeah, yeah. So the technology is amazing, bro. To two young boys from Aangstuh, Michigan.
Speaker 2Aangstuh, it's Aangstuh.
Speaker 3Speaking to people in Bangladesh.
Speaker 2Man, man. When I saw that I was like whoa, it popped off the screen.
Speaker 3That blew me away. When you said that dude, it blew me away.
Speaker 2Listening to Germany and Nigeria as well. Shout out to you.
Speaker 4Yes.
Speaker 2Give a shout out to my wife who listens to it all the time Big ups to sis man.
Speaker 3She our most faithful supporter, bro, yes, shares it online a facebook facebook account.
Speaker 2Her family members, you know our family members nice, nice uh, so she shared because she was trying to figure out. You know, I got to ask you a question, so if somebody asks you like, what episode should we share to somebody who's new? I didn't have an answer for that. So I told her to share the whole show and I don't know what part of Walkie is. Yeah absolutely. You know, look at the show notes.
Speaker 3Search the subject matter.
Speaker 2Yeah, see what speaks to you for sure, give them the whole thing.
Speaker 3Absolutely.
Speaker 2Absolutely, and so that's what I told her to do.
Speaker 3uh, so, uh, I think so and I want to say this real quick, since we're on this topic people of god, you know, even if it's just a snippet, or you, whatever reason you tuned in, if, even if it's not your flavor, share it with someone that you know, because somebody's gonna come, I promise you the Holy Spirit is going to put it on your heart. That is somebody who would benefit from from the GT podcast. I promise you he would and just share it. Don't even think it, don't overthink it, overanalyze it, just share it. And because this is this is a message that you know, the kingdom message. Although a lot of people say kingdom, the true message of the kingdom is is being suppressed. So much, man. And yeah, we it me. But this is what it's all about, though. Everything is kingdom, bro.
Speaker 2So, yeah, I just wanted to say that and our mission is to get us, get everybody out of religion and to the true worship of god yes relationship the relationship yeah so this is not for beginners, but share for beginners. You know, everybody needs to hear this absolutely, absolutely man.
Speaker 3The kingdom is for children yes. Yes, jesus said unless you become like a child man, you can't even enter the kingdom. That ain't not getting into heaven y'all. Kingdom in heaven is two different things, so that's gotta be understood too.
Speaker 2Well, you know we get deep though. So, like you know, we challenge people's religion, and so I know, I know it like turns a lot of people off but, but it's the truth it is I want to finish my shout out. I want to shout out also to my girl, our sister in christ, jill desimone, who I work with I call her. I call her I call her Illy Jilly from South.
Speaker 4Love it.
Speaker 2She listens to this show, so you know, shout out to her.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, I love it, man yeah.
Speaker 2And whomever man, but yeah you got anybody you want to shout out.
Speaker 3Oh, man, you know, man, just this, the people man is just putting, putting the effort in, man, I just give shouts out to them. Man, uh, el book, lindsay levec, from from canada, from british columbia, look that go a faithful listener right there, man, yes, british columbia, bro, yes, and uh, you know happen to be a, you know happened to be a, you know, faithful brother in the Lord whom we love, man Ray, bob, raymond Mertens, man Props to him and, of course, man wifey, she dude, she's, actually, even though she don't listen to all episodes because they can get lengthy, she's just kind of like cut to the chase type person. So she loved the little snippets we put out. But you know, she looks and when she say I were what, oh, I just do that because she do that with anything, right, right, right. But shouts out there, man, because a lot of what we get into in here is is this real world stuff? Man, because uh, you know things that me and wifey have uh been through and challenged with. So chance out to her man my daughter.
Speaker 3she's tuning in. Uh, now you know getting some things, so we want, and we'll have questions based off of it. So love it, man, Just just. Yeah, it's just bro, I like. Yeah, it's just bro. I like that it's just gaining momentum, which happens to be my wife's you know her business name, but that's dope too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Shoutouts to International Listeners
Speaker 2All right, man. Hey man, I want to give a shout out and I spoke about this guy on the podcast before. I want to give a shout out, and I spoke about this guy on the podcast before. I want to give a shout out to Gavin Newsome the governor of.
Speaker 3California.
Speaker 2I know why he get garner in your south Anybody who stands up the bullies.
Speaker 4I love them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2This guy, he got some hey.
Speaker 3Hey man, he's standing up to number 47.
Speaker 2Yeah, ain't got no yellow on his spine. I can tell you that I'm sorry. Yeah, you know I don't agree with all his politics, but I do agree that he's challenging. Yeah, I want to get his shout out to him hey, man, big, big ups, man, big ups, bro all right man uh the last podcast he had a word quagmire. So this one, this the new word or new phrase, is normalized chaos oh man, I got that man, I got that from, I got that from my therapist man.
Speaker 2I was having a conversation and she threw that, all that through that phrase on me and, uh, I was like that explains so much.
Speaker 3Normalize chaos.
Speaker 2And normalize. Chaos is a concept where a chaotic or unpredictable environment becomes the standard, something that people get used to and adapt to over time. It can happen in workplaces, organizations or in daily life, where constant unpredictability, frequent changes and lack of clear structure become normal.
Speaker 2Wow, that kind of environment might lead to high stress, but also some, some greater, some greater flexibility and creativity, but you have to recognize what you're in for you to get to that part but right, right but there's, you know, when she said that I was like man and I think about the time when jesus came and before he, uh, when he came and did his first mission statement repent because the king of the god is that hand absolutely? And they was in normalized chaos and he was like things is about to change it's about to shake up, big bro and that.
Speaker 3but man, that's, that's a concept, man, and and what people? I just want to say this real quick too man, when people listen to us a lot of times when you're presenting some of this stuff, we haven't had this conversation off air, so when you just hit with that, that was legit shock Not shock, but to hear it, because I'm big on language, man, and once you have language for something, you can deal with it. You know what I mean. You can actually bring clarity to it and normalize chaos. That's probably one of the best terms I've ever heard you know.
Speaker 2So that's that's man, that's dope, because I got family members just so used to chaos well, don't we all, you, you know to the point where it seemed like they crave it.
Speaker 3Like when it's, when everything is peaceful. It's like, man, cause, that's the norm, yeah, Right, no, cause, peace is not the norm, right, the chaos has become normal, man. And and right that, bro? That speaks to self-sabotage. You know all of that stuff, man, when people did all of the noise. That's, that's why it's so much noise in this world, man. Think about it. It's very few things or very few places you can go where you can just be still and there's just quiet. Even in your dreams, bro, most people are sitting there, tormented with night terrors and and all of this stuff, man. I mean it's like, where do you really go to get? The normalcy is peace, man. The kingdom of god is righteousness, peace and joy. But here's the thing with that. You also got to protect that, because your crib can be normalized by chaos and so that's why I reject it, man, because I I've had it, I had.
Speaker 2I had somebody try to come in with that malarkey man you give me the word, bro. I came over here with that malarkey man like and I asked for an apology. And family member said you know, I was like. You know, don't be cussing at my house. Yeah, they said technically, I was in your house, I was in your garage. I was like what? Oh my goodness, I wasn't about to get into semantics.
Speaker 4Right.
Speaker 2So I just got off the phone and I was like that person cannot come over to, I get apology and I feel confident that this behavior won't happen again and I'm not normalizing that over here.
Speaker 3I'm like that's nothing with them. Boundaries, bro, yes, tie right into boundaries, thank you.
Speaker 2And like, and you know some people because it's family members seem to allow it. No, I hold my family members to a higher and a higher standard apps. Absolutely yes, no don't treat me like somebody off in the street. You know, saying I, I stumped stuff in the street that you, you know, you uh, come in contact, to contact with you, don't have control over but you have control over what's in your crib, in your home Absolutely, and so yeah. I put my foot down on that and I'm like this is it.
Speaker 2You know that's no, you don't keep coming over with that fecal matter.
Speaker 3AKA malarkey Bro, bro, aka malarkey bro. But, man, I'm so glad that you're talking about this, though, because it's again the people, man, the people take stuff so personal, but when you're putting your foot down and you're drawing that like, look, setting that boundary, you're actually declaring this in the spirit world that, at this, this place is not, is not going to tolerate that, you know. So you can continue to try and put your resources over and and utilize people to try and bring it here, but you're just wasting your time because I'm not doing dealing with it, man, and and that's what we have to start looking at when we are taking on, when there are things that are contrary to what, how we want to set up our environments, man, is that when something is violating that, it's not the people, it's not the people, it's it's the entities that are behind the people, because this is one, and you don't get mad at the people, just like when Peter Said what he said to Jesus, you know, and Jesus said get behind me, satan. Your presence is an offense to me. This is his boy, this is one of his best friends, bro, and he said get behind me, satan.
Speaker 3Peter got two things, man. He can either recognize that Jesus has the wisdom and understand what he's saying and just flow with that, or he can get offended, and if you get offended you cut yourself off from the blessing. And that's just a fact. Jesus said blessed is the man who's not offended in me.
Speaker 3If you get offended at the wisdom of Jesus man, you cut yourself off from the blessing. And that's all the enemy wants, bro. That's all he wants. So when you put your foot down and you're demanding an apology, bro, you are not only saying that to the physical person, you are actually demanding a recompense in the spirit against that entity that tried to violate your sanctity of your home. And this stuff is always deeper than than imagined, or or you know, or, for people just assume you know off the cuff, and if they get offended, then they couldn't they. Then that's on you. You know what I mean. You're cutting yourself off from the blessing, but I'm not going to let you come in here and and bring chaos and that that is not normal here and I'm not, and it's unacceptable.
Speaker 2And, bro, I love it, I love it yeah, man, because the spirit world, the, the demons, they get attracted to the anger absolutely and those type of that language they feed off of it.
Speaker 3That's that's. Yeah, that's, that's their substance, that's their substance.
Speaker 2And I try to try to articulate that to the family members like that. You know there's deeper reason why I don't want that type of behavior over there. And you know, but I got to put my foot down. I can't allow this.
Normalized Chaos and Setting Boundaries
Speaker 3You can't, because if you can't, because, if you don't guess what's gonna happen it's getting normalized it's gonna get normalized, absolutely, absolutely man that's such a good word, bro. That is such a good word I. I love it, man, I love it.
Speaker 2Uh, hey, uh, nothing I want to come talk about. Uh, the many personality traits you and I talk about it oh yeah yeah extrovert, introvert, omnivore and endover yes, yes hey, man, break it down. That's your foot. I know how you received it when you looked it up.
Speaker 3Well, man, what, what it? Well, what sparked it, man, is you. You sent me that video withL Cool J when he's talking about introverts, man, and he said that introvert it has nothing to do with not liking people. You know, he was like I love people, it's all love he was like.
Speaker 3But what an introvert does is they actually struggle with their energy depletion when they're having to go out and do things. People think you're antisocial or you just, you know, want to be standoffish. But it's just the fact of your disposition as an introvert. It's energy sapping when you go to do certain things like that. And it has nothing to do with judging the people or anything. It's just who you are, your disposition and, and the same with the extrovert, it's the same thing across the whole vert spectrum. It's just you know, recognizing where you are on that spectrum and and actually in in formulating your, your time and orchestrating and designing things according to your disposition. You know we diagnose each other. We always try and diagnose each other instead of trying to take time to get to know each other. So I'm an introvert, you're an introvert, but an extrovert is somebody who's the opposite. They, they thrive off of social, you know, gatherings and being out in the public, and they prefer that and that's how they are energized by all of that um, but the ambivert is the person that's in between, you know they, they actually um, are good with either one. You know what I mean. Neat to them, neither one of them is a, is a is a compromise, or or energy drain. They like, oh, man, if you want to, you want to go, let's rock, let's go. Man, you're like man, no, I just want to stay at the crib. Cool, cool, let's do that. And they're, and you know they really are good either way. But and they say that usually, that ambivert is the bridge, you know, between you know, the extrovert and the introvert, which I don't think that there needs to be a bridge because it speaks of there's a separation, right, and there's no separation between introvert and extrovert or any of these. It's just a disposition that we all need to understand and respect in each other.
Speaker 3So, but the omnivore man, and so you put me on this, this trail, and uh, and it man, it was freeing, it was liberating to me, because I never had the kind of language for my disposition before. So when people say he quiet, you know, when I was growing up he's quiet, he's shy, he's antisocial, he's this when they were putting those biomarkers on me, man, and diagnosing me because I didn't have my own language, for you, take it, you know what I mean, you, you, you let people put those things on you and then you start seeing that something's wrong with you and then you're trying to work through that. So this is where the fakeness come. This is when you got to put on airs and this is when you got to. I got to be about my first impression and all of this stuff, because you got to come out of who you are, to be accepted in this, in this environment or whatever. But, man, that, that that little clip you sent, man, it, it delivered me so much, bro, that, um, I was talking to my daughter and I let her see the video and everything, man, because she's been you, you know they diagnosed her with borderline disorder and the thing is, bro, it's like all these diagnoses because and I ain't mad at the physicians and therapists and stuff, because they're trying to figure it out and help you, but they don't, they don't recognize that once we understand and can identify who we are and ourselves, bro, it actually empowers us and like, okay, I can do this, I can go, and I can go and do this, and I know it's a compromise, but when I do this, know for a fact, I'm going to need time to recharge. You know what I mean. It's, it's, it's okay, man, but in all of that, and I begin to search it and get on the net and you know perplexity and all that and start searching the vert spectrum, she kicked out something to me that I did not or it. You know people like get mad and like call ai she or he, but but anyway it kicked out something to me that I never heard. I never heard of an omnivore, you know.
Speaker 3And an omnivore is not an extrovert, they're not an introvert or an ambivert, they're their own. But what it is, they swing off mood. You know, if they're in the mood for going to out, that's all they want to do, let's's go out. And if they don't get to go out, they're going to be pissed, they're going to be upset, they're going to get frustrated or whatever. But they also, if they're in the mood and they out, and they just man, I'm ready to go, they ready to go. You know what I mean. They don't they? If you keep them there in that situation longer than they want to be, that's going to be trouble. You be trouble, you know what I mean. So they swing, you know, of course, and it's sudden, you know. So they can be all other things on the spectrum, but it's just according to their mood, how they feel in that moment.
Speaker 3And that's kind of a challenge. And the thing is, man, my wife that's. That's her vert behavior, she is an omnivore man and but now that I have understanding and language for it, I can see it and I can flow better with it, instead of it feeling like it was a, you know, a challenge to go through. This knowledge. I just know, okay, this is how she, she's moving, you know, because this is the, the mood that she's in and it helps, bro, it helps man, yeah, as I looked at those personality traits, um yeah, I realized when I was younger I was the amoebvert yeah, okay, I was down for whatever I had, the spontaneity to me man.
Speaker 3Oh, nice Okay.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was, but now, now that I got more mature and more settled, I'm more of an introvert. I am introverted now.
Speaker 4Okay.
Speaker 2So I, man, I dread when we get an invite somewhere. I dread.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's a hurt. That's hard, that's hard, that's hard to turn the dread off is what I mean. Yeah, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 2Especially, like I told you before, uh, I've I've worked 31 years at my job and it almost, it almost takes me nothing to call off work. I don't like the stimulus man.
Speaker 3Yeah Right, the drain Absolutely.
Speaker 2And so, uh, I try to avoid, like various, I try to avoid activities on Sunday because I usually like to use my Sunday to prepare for the work week. I like I'm a preparer, I like to prepare stuff out and think it out and have my clothes set out, my full prep. I just like to prep, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And so if something comes up on Sunday, it cuts into that and then I'm like oh man so I started dreaded, like we're invited somewhere tomorrow, and I'm like, dreaded, like we were invited somewhere tomorrow, and I'm like my wife and I were talking.
Speaker 4I was rolling my eyes.
Speaker 2You know this, this family member, you know, supported me and my, my endeavors, yeah. Yeah, so there's a compromise.
Speaker 3And bro, and compromise is a beautiful thing. It's something that the Father gives us. It's a tool, because it's part of that, part of that, that soft skill set that we, that we've been given, because compromise just means to be. It's a, it's an agreement with the promise like, but it's mutual. You know what I mean. That's why it's compromised. Com in Latin means together and promise me. You know this from improvise, or it's promised, so we're, we're promising together. You know that. I acknowledge this is not really a big thing that you would love to be a part of, and we're gonna go do it. I'm gonna be mindful of that. And whereas maybe we just stay two hours, we'll only stay an hour and a half, you know, or whatever. It has to an hour, whatever.
Speaker 2I was like give me an hour I was.
Speaker 3I was trying to lean more towards you know, I went from compromise to concession you know, you know, you say I just want to show my face.
Speaker 3Right, right, right, right. I just wanted to show my support, man. I was there, but no, but you're right, You're right. And just while we own this, I want to, man, thank you for the blessing that you said earlier in life you were an ambivert, blessing that you said earlier in life you were an ambivert, and that is such a good point to make that also because you have a natural disposition.
Speaker 3It doesn't mean it can't change, because it's an epigenetic response. The environment can dictate where you reside on it. You know what I mean. So, whereas things were much cooler back in the day, it wasn't. It wasn't such a peace, painstaking, peace stealing thing to go do stuff back in the day. Things have changed. You know what I mean. So the, the environments and everything has changed. So it's almost like a, a micro adaptation or an evolution to where it went. You know my where. I was an ambivert once, I'm now an introvert because of so much change has happened in the world where I can't find as much peace publicly as I can privately anymore. So you kind of shifted on on the spectrum. But we also got to recognize that too, that it can change and and and don't think, oh, you just fickle or whatever, and this and that cause you used to it. Just, things have changed and it's kind of recoded how you process things and and you can change on that spectrum. So that that is a great point, bro.
Speaker 2I love that and I can think about. I could think of the, the event where I realized things were changing for me, because I was an avid concert goer oh, okay, okay anybody in my heroes, anybody I, I or influence whatever um you was there, I, I was there, man, I went to see Stevie Wonder man.
Speaker 3I've never seen Stevie, never.
Speaker 2Stevie jams bro.
Speaker 3Come on bro.
Speaker 2He goes non-stop.
Speaker 3I love it.
Speaker 2I was enjoying the concert, but then I found myself looking at my watch. Yes, I was like dang. Where did this come from? Yeah, yeah I was enjoying the music, I was joining the performance, but I was definitely was looking at my watch looking at my watch. So yeah, this was 2015 14 14 14 so I think started to change and um wow, yeah, that's dope.
Speaker 3Well, you can actually pinpoint when it's time. Yeah, shift. Oh, okay, all right, that's what's. That's what's up, man. A lot of self-awareness.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, because a lot of people stopped going to concerts as much because of COVID.
Speaker 3Yeah, my shit started way before that Way way before Wow.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Wow.
Speaker 2Not saying. I won't go but it had to be somebody I really, really want to see for me to want to go out there Because I saw the eagles at little caesar's arena man, which wow. And also the combination the accommodations also got to be on par. I don't like little caesar's arena. I'm a I'm a smaller guy and I couldn't enjoy myself because I was. I felt like I was packed into the chair are you serious?
Speaker 3oh well, then I better never go then man I don't my knees.
Speaker 2My knees are in the back of the chair, in front of me that's just greed, man.
Understanding Personality Types
Speaker 3That's when you didn't put the seats in, packing them that much, just probably to get the numbers in there yeah that's just greedy man and I'm sitting at an angle, bro, oh man, I was gonna imagine somebody right next to you. Yeah, you know, on both sides.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I was either standing up or sitting at an angle wow, yeah, it was.
Speaker 3So I'll never go there. I better never go I, I think I.
Speaker 2I was told I'm not sure, but I think the closer the seats are to the floor, you know, they're more spacious.
Speaker 3Oh, of course, yeah. And when I'm like, what am I going to have to do? I'm going to pay for that, right.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3OK, yeah.
Speaker 2Or get that. What is those? Yeah, get you one of those suites. You get you a suite or suite right.
Speaker 3So either way I got a, I got a, yeah, ok, way I gotta, I gotta yeah out to get, okay, well, I guess that's anywhere, I guess the more comfortable first class online.
Speaker 2You just gotta. And I like sweets, man, but they take away because I, I, I was more like having much fun with the layout, the food yeah I wasn't even watching the concert man when I went to, when I was at the suite man, oh really sitting there kicking it, I'll go out every so often, go out on the balcony and listen to the music right come back chew on some chicken wings back in the day, back in the day, yeah yeah, that's something, man okay I would.
Speaker 2I also want to talk about domin. I was having this conversation with his brother about dominion and he couldn't understand the concept of dominion. A guy giving us dominion, and I mean he knew the scripture, but he just couldn't. He couldn't grasp the definition of dominion. What I was trying to articulate and we know the first two chapters of the bible of genesis is God's perfect will yes and uh, bro, you know what you know, I love confirmation, right, so I'm taking notes last night and excuse my dog.
Speaker 3My dog is going berserk hey man, look, this is real life stuff, okay, so let it go so I love confirmation.
Speaker 2Uh, I took notes last night and I the scriptures I'm about to read right now. Uh, I opened my my email and I uh subscribed to praycom okay and, uh, the scripture that they had. It was a scripture that I was studying and looking at last night. Okay, I just love the confirmation man, I know, I know. So what I'm about to read is New King James Version Genesis 1, 27 through 31.
Speaker 4Okay, all right.
Speaker 2And it says so. God created man in his own image. In his own image and in the image of God. He created him Male and female. He created them. Then God blessed him and God said to them be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea Now, just, we're going to stop there, just think. Have dominion over the fish of the sea now just we're going to stop there. Just think about he said fish of the sea. So he's speaking that right fish of the sea.
Speaker 3So you can't, you can't separate the two, right right? Oh right right.
Speaker 2Good point over the birds the over the birds of the air. You can't. You can't separate the birds in the air of the air.
Speaker 4You can't separate the birds in the air In the air.
Speaker 2There are some flightless birds, but we know.
Speaker 3Right, exactly.
Speaker 2But yeah, birds of the air and over every living thing that moves over the earth. And then God said I see, I have given you every herb. Oh man, I'm at 26,. Man, I'm tripping.
Speaker 3I am tripping, okay, well, no you good. Yeah, I got you back up.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, I get back up, get back up, yeah, okay. God said let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion. Yes, yes, he said man and domain, so we can't separate the two man from dominion he can't separate.
Speaker 3Any said let them from Dominion you can't separate. And he said let them have it yes.
Speaker 2Yeah, and fish of the sea, birds of the air, and you can't separate, like I said before, the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, right? And so I was trying to explain to him like we got Dominion man. Like nobody, like when you in a contest you don't want to lose, I know, I know, like man, I avoid some if I I might get into a contest, I know I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 3You know you absolutely can't win, right I? Won't I avoid it man, because I just, I don't want to have that feeling of just right, I just get upset man just did it for the sake of doing it, even though you knew you had no chance in winning. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2Or people getting locked up. People don't want to be locked up. People being oppressed. People find a way to get out of these situations, absolutely. Because the man is built in us.
Speaker 3Built in yep.
Speaker 2You know you have property, you feel it's your own property. You don't know by come and take it.
Speaker 3you know you fight over it, we'll fight for it Literally. We'll fight for it Absolutely.
Speaker 2And so that's huge and and he just couldn't grasp that, which I was surprised because he was Joe witness and so, yeah, we were talking about that and so yeah Right.
Speaker 2And, and I want to finish reading and say, god said I see, I have given you every herb that you'll see, which is on the face of all the earth, and every trees, tree who fruit yield seed to you. It shall be for food also to every beast of the earth, to every bird in the air and everything that creeps on the earth in which there is life. I have given every green herb for food, and it was so Then.
Speaker 2God saw everything that he had made and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. He said that was good man.
Speaker 3Yes, it's very good, very, very good man. Yes, it's very good, very good. Now, god seemed very good, bro, that's that he's saying. This is truly, truly what I, what I desire. This, this is it, and that's a.
Speaker 2That's a beautiful thing, man man, that's uh, it says so much and we just read over that and not really meditate on it and really understand that that's God's perfect will.
Speaker 3Perfect will, bro, as we always say, like you said, those first two chapters or two pages. When you hold up a Bible, think about all of the pages after that, all the way to Revelations is to get us back to those first two pages or the first two chapters there was.
Speaker 2So, uh, there was no bible at the time. No, no, no, no choir, no pastors, preachers no no apostles prophets none of that. No box churches.
Speaker 3No.
Speaker 4The phrase.
Speaker 2I got from Matt McMillan.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2Box churches and it was all fellowship.
Speaker 3It was all relationship, man. It was father son. Then it was father son, daughter, you know, when the female came. So it was all about relationship in the beginning and that's all it was ever supposed to be, about god's whole vision for christ coming and sending him to reconcile us back to him and pay the sin debt, and all that was strictly to get us back in position to be in full relationship with him in reciprocity. That we can. Man, people don't think and realize that we can love god as much as he loves us. You know, I mean we can.
Speaker 3I remember I used to say this to the lord when I used to pray for my daughter. I'd be like lord, I just know you love her. You love her more than than I do. And and then one day I used to say that. And then one day I said, you know, said it. And he was like why do you keep saying that? And I said what well you're, you're, you're god, so you love her. I couldn't love her as much as you do. He was like, why not? He was like I I've, you have my love, you have my spirit, you have every fruit that I have. You have without measure. So why do you say that I was like. I'm so sorry. He was like I do.
Speaker 3When you used to say I, you, I know you love me more than than I love you. He was like man. Just cut that out and and then teach. Ask me to teach you how to love the way that I do and the man, because we have every trait that the father. He said let us you just read it Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over all of this stuff. So, and it's in the earth, it's the earth that where we belong, people, so, um, but everything that he is, we are, john says it does not yet appear. You know what will be, but when, when we see him, you know we're going to be just like him because we're going to see him as he is. And he also said and beloved, now are we the sons of God in this earth. We are right now. So it's it's just things that we have to start getting to learn and know and understand about ourselves.
Speaker 3And that dominion piece is is focal, it's a focal point, and when you're sitting here talking about how much you want to leave the earth and go and be with God in heaven. You are literally telling him I want to abnegate everything that you gave me and lay it down so I can just be with you. And the problem is we don't understand that God came to be with us and this is where our authority is. You know, like you always say, go to heaven and have no authority. God, that's his place, that's his house. You don't want to go move into your father's house. I love to visit, you know, but I don't want to move in, you know.
Speaker 3And the thing is, I visit my father's house every day. You know what I mean. What do you think prayer is? What do you think when I'm meditating on them or talking? You know, you know to him specifically from his point we're in heavenly places. That's just a letting us know that, the realm of authority and everything. But we're in heavenly places here on Earth. We don't have to leave this planet. We're not supposed to leave it, but you know.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we talked about this off air too, about what would followers of Christ be and how would they relate to with God, be without the Bible.
Speaker 3Do you think they would be able to survive or navigate through life without the Bible, bro? I would say it would be eventually, because you would have no choice. It's like what do they say Necessity is the mother of invention. Like what do they say Necessity is the mother of invention? Because you wouldn't have the scriptures and you wouldn't have that to lean on and to actually be your premise of your relationship with the father. Then you'd be eventually forced to seek him with, as Jesus talks about, with your whole heart and your whole soul.
Dominion and God's Perfect Will
Speaker 3The Bible actually, in many cases can be a hindrance sometimes from seeking the Father with your whole heart, because you're actually pursuing him through the heart of another individual, like David or whoever, ezekiel, moses, you know the prophets, even Jesus, and this is what Jesus was telling his disciples. In John 17 he says and these are just written so we can see, you know, so we can understand some things. But it wasn't, we weren't supposed to be trapped within the context of the text. It was just supposed to give us an understanding of the heart of God and looking at him, dealing with the different personalities of the people and what often man, what we connect with different individuals is when we can. You know, I relate a lot to this person in the scripture because they remind me a lot of me. That's what. That's what's making you connect.
Speaker 3But you're your own individual and God wants us to be who we are with him, and that's why Jesus told him. He told his disciples, he said look, the father loves you just like he loves me. And he said and it's coming a time now where you're not going to ask me for anything, you're going to go straight to the father and deal with him as a son because he loves you the same way. And Jesus prayed for a father. Please let them know that. You know you love them, just like you love the son. And this, yeah, man, so you strip the Bible from people. And this, yeah, man, so you strip the Bible from people. It would be a panic, probably, for for maybe first generation that it happened, but eventually people would connect.
Speaker 2Yeah, and there's a lot of people now you know you was raised maybe going to church and then you stop going and you'd only read your Bible on a daily basis and they have that relationship. I know people that uh. Uh, my boy, jerry Gardner man he don't know the Bible man, but he, you can tell me he doesn't have a relationship with God.
Speaker 2Cause I um, god speaks to him, navigate him through life on certain situations. I remember it was a situation where he had to. He was living in Texas. He had to leave Texas and come back to Michigan and he didn't have any money. Only thing he had he had a little bit money, little gas money to get back. He had the car that he took down there. But the car needed to be in the shop but he had the money to get to the shop, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2So he prayed on it and God told him you'll be all right come on man he drew, he drove from texas to michigan that's a faith move, bro without a breakdown
Speaker 2that's, that's a faith move, bro when he told me that that testimony, I was like why he said hicks, I'm telling he's like yeah, I prayed and he, he gave me confirmation. Go ahead and make this move, because you need to make this move. Go back home to mom's and he was like you know, he didn't have a job man, he just had a little money on him and his car needed to go to the shop Come on dude, I love it.
Speaker 3Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2And he navigated through life like that. And so when we reconnected and I was, you know, going to church and all that.
Speaker 2I was trying to encourage him to get that deeper relationship, like I did, because I was out in the world like that. But I had a relationship and God guided me and got me out of situations. Sure, I remember I'm going to tell you this story Story time. Sure, I remember, uh, I'm telling the story story time. I was uh djing and I had a. I was djing this, I was djing at this pool party, but then we were supposed to go back, go back into the club that I used to dj and help dj. The guy was up something subbing for me, right?
Speaker 2and go up there and I walked in this place and it was just a different crowd in there. Man, it just was just a different crowd and I I didn't feel comfortable. My spirit was. My spirit was just shaking. Holy spirit told me to leave, like, okay, I'm gonna. I'll holler at y'all later. Y'all got this set. Y'all going to do what y'all got to do.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, man they was doing karaoke and apparently this guy from Detroit had just gotten out of jail I'm only talking to Belleville man so he drove from Detroit to Belleville for this little mean. Yeah, so he took a. He drove from Detroit to Belleville for this little country bar that I used to and he was going up there and emasculate men who was up there singing? Oh man he was going up there licking dudes necks, and I mean just just unsavory, just unsavory yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And putting guys in a position to defend themselves, and right, but this guy. He brought a crew with him and they had weapons, bro, and I'm like oh, I was so glad that I was. I was talked out, I was given a heads up out of there because I could bounce. I couldn't even imagine being in that situation, because I was. I was a karaoke guy, you know. Yeah, for sure For sure I've been up there and having some guy doing that.
Speaker 3Oh man.
Speaker 2So I think about that time and it's all the time.
Speaker 3It's for sure, for sure. But yeah, those are the. There's a lot of moments to stay. Stick out, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, but yeah, it was stripped down to just relationship and I was guided to that. But I know I needed to get a deeper relationship because I had promised God that when I was going to the Kingdom Hall and I stopped. I said I'm coming back, I'm coming back.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 2And when it was time he reminded me it's like it's time to come back.
Speaker 3There we go man.
Speaker 2I went back and I haven't stopped man.
Speaker 3There ever since dude man, that is so good and I don't want to leave it out there like man. The scriptures, I love the scriptures.
Speaker 2Oh, I love them.
Speaker 3Adore them. I don't read them every day, but I'm I meditate on them, I meditate on them. There's not a day that goes by that the word of God is not, um, you know, pulsating in my, in my spirit and in my heart. But I don't always crack physically, crack the scriptures open and look at them. But the Holy spirit constantly brings them to my, my remembrance, you know, into into my mind. So it it's, it's you just meant.
Speaker 3So many people have a relationship with that, with the scriptures, with their reading of the scriptures. But most of the part, most of the things that paul write about, he tells you in galatians what I learned. I learned by revelation of Jesus Christ. But there would be times when people he would be in prison and he would ask people like, bring the parchments, you know, bring the scriptures to me. So he's letting you know he ain't got the scriptures with him. You know what I mean. It's his relationship with the Lord. It's the Lord revealing himself to him, you know, by the spirit. That is what made Paul so powerful man. So a lot of people think, because they can quote a lot of scripture that that it brings power in their life or life to their life and it really doesn't. You know when.
Speaker 3When Paul says that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of god. He's saying the scriptures. He's saying when god's speaking to you. You know on a daily basis that's how faith comes. Like you was just talking about your boy, uh, jerry, shout out to jg um, getting a word from god, that you know I got, everything gonna be all right. You know you can do it and that faith was born in that. And then once you're moving in that, then the power of all that comes with it, all of the angelic resources, all of the. You know, whatever you'll need, it'll come with that because you are following a direct word from God. Jesus says man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of god, it god is speaking to us.
Speaker 3I hear preachers say god don't even everybody talking about god talk to them. God don't talk to nobody that much. Well, I don't know who, what they talking about, but I've had the lord wake me up when I was asleep to have a conversation. It's just getting sensitive to that man. But no, if a person pulled my Bible from me like, oh, we're shutting down, there's not going to be any more Bibles sold, or apps or anything like that. Bro, would I miss the fact that I couldn't just grab the scripture? Yeah, of course I would. Would it hinder my relationship with the Lord? Not in the slightest. Not in the slightest.
Speaker 3Yes, we're here to bring the freedom, you know uh, that's, that's that's why, that's why we're doing it and that's why christ came you know people like I talk about gracey you know like free to say no, you're not free to say because once you have once you're in a relationship with god, his, his goodness makes you not want to sin, or be done.
Speaker 2Right, yes. You know that, goodness, man, like man, I don't want to.
Speaker 3I don't want to disappoint my father man Absolutely, and that's a love thing, man. What is?
Speaker 3the thing that you know. Okay, man, let's just keep it a buck. Man, are you telling me, being in marriage, you don't ever decide, you don't ever have a thought that comes. Like, man, you know, I, I could do, I could do this, so I could do something contrary to my covenant. But, man, I, I can't hurt my spouse like that. I could never do that.
Speaker 3And the thing is, it's not just the fact that hurt them, it hurts me that I hurt them. See the thing, the thing is with God, not sinning against him is not just not just about him, it's about me too. I don't want, I don't desire to disappoint him, because disappointing him hurts me. I don't like it. You know what I mean. It's not that I'm worried that he going to drop wrath on me, I just I okay, let me put this way I, me and Holy Spirit had this conversation the other day I like the fact that God likes me. Yeah, I like that, he likes me and and I like him. But here's the thing, holy spirit, I mean he's like, but don't get it twisted, I don't always like you. And then I'm like oh, I know because. No, he's like, it ain't just because.
Speaker 3And the thing is. You don't always like me. So let's just be honest with that. You know you don't always like everything I tell you. And I was just be honest with that. You know you don't always like everything I tell you. And I was, I was hesitant.
Speaker 3This is true. This is like you don't always like your wife, your wife don't always like you, you don't always like your children and your children don't always like you. Not liking somebody does not have anything to do with the love at all. You know the like has to do with the behavior, and you don't always behave and you don't always like the way I behave towards you. When I get stern, say you can't do nothing or hold it for a minute. You don't like the fact. I said that. You know what I mean, but because of the relationship, I'll chill, you know. Okay, I'll do that. God changes my mind, but guess what? I've changed his. This is a relationship, bro, and we see and we see in scripture where God's mind has been changed by his people that he's in relationship with. So we don't always have to repent and be the only ones in the situation that repent. God will change his mind too, so you know. But that is a relationship, religion would fight this I was thinking.
Speaker 2I was thinking that when you just said that I was like no people like oh you changed.
Speaker 3You said you changed. That's mine. You better be able to change his mind. You better be able to change this. Dude. You, you talking about the creator of the universe. That don't have to take no stuff off of no one. And he's long-suffering, he's gentle, he chooses to be humble. He don't have to be humble, he chooses to be humble.
Speaker 3And there are moments, man, when the Lord I can tell, when the Lord is like you know what man? This? Yeah, they want it. They always talking about wrath, they always talking about it. This that you want it, I'm gonna give it to you, man, I'm gonna give it to you. And you had to be sensitive enough in the spirit to be able to intercede, to stand in the gap and to bring him into remembrance of things that he said, lord, you said you'd never do that. Christ, christ paid the price of all that. And people would say you ain't got to talk to god like that. You're delusional if you don't think you have to talk to god like that he says put me in remembrance of my, of my word.
Speaker 3Why? Because there's times when I want to lay. Because even if god do act on it, he's not unrighteous in anything that he does right, absolutely would he have the right to crush america for, for, for things we've done to each other? Yes, absolutely he would, should he no?
Speaker 2people want, people want God to bring the rest. So bad, so bad, but not why I'm here though.
Speaker 3Wait a minute now. Get me raptured out of here first, and and then let your anger and wrath come down on the people.
Speaker 2Yeah, Give them the business, give it to them. God give it to them.
Speaker 4They had no clue what they were asking for, oh man.
Speaker 2I didn't want that so bad.
Speaker 3I don't know. Normalized chaos, bro. There it is, normalized chaos. We think that's okay. And who? When do you determine that it has gotten bad enough to? Oh, now it's time for God's wrath. Now, because of this, then you're the judge, so you're telling God when the wrath needs to happen. And the thing is, he already showed you. My wrath took place at the cross. This is what Christ came. He absorbed it.
Speaker 3People use that scripture and this is what happens when you have a wrong relationship with God. Because you'll misinterpret the scripture through the void of the relationship. So you'll say, because you think that Christ is just all about everybody getting saved, being delivered from sin, so they don't have to go to hell, so they can come to heaven. You'll think when he say stuff like if I be be lifted up, then I'll draw all men to me, like all we got to do is just are living up the name of jesus and everybody would come to him.
Speaker 3Well, how many times have you lifted up the name of jesus in a, in an environment, and nobody acknowledged what you were saying about jesus? Oh well, you know that draw don't have to happen. See, we always got a christ playing, something where the draw don't have to happen right then, because he's working on them. You know this is that? No, yeah, read the scripture and understand the the thing he was talking about judgment. In that scripture, and if you look at draw, all men men is italicized. So what you need to understand is when you see italicism in the scripture. Somebody added that, the translator trying to live.
Relationship with God Beyond Scripture
Speaker 3You know, I'm trying to help bring clarity to the thing and sometimes when they do that and they mean well, but because they're processing it through their own mental disposition of God, want to, you know, save everybody from hell to get them to heaven, it misses the point. Jesus said if I be lifted up, he was talking about the cross. He said I will draw all judgment unto me. And that is what Christ did on the cross. He brought all of God. He was the lightning rod for sin that God had to judge it. He postponed judging sin in its fullness until Christ came and he literally was God's offering and he literally was God's offering. Christ offered his soul for sin and the Lord destroyed him right there on the cross. We saw it and his soul went down into hell and people said that's not true. Well, he said you will not leave my soul in hell. He said you will deliver me from the pains of death. So that means Christ was experiencing all this stuff. He didn't go to hell for three days. He didn't go, he didn't die, he went into eternity. It was no getting out, but because he was sinless and he absorbed all the wrath, who raised him up? And he, he did not deserve this and god raised him up and jesus set the tone. He said the day he's like, you won't leave my son. He said in three days I'll be raised up.
Speaker 3You know, christ could have said in five days, he could have said in two days, he could have said the next day. Why did he choose three days? Because in scripture, when he read and compared himself to jonah, jonah, just like jonah was in the well for three days, so the son of man will be in the earth. He said it based on what he was reading in scripture and what what bore witness with his spirit. And he gave the time three days because he didn't have to do it at all. I mean, do we even realize that he didn't have to do it?
Speaker 3he humbled himself he did there, it is humbled himself to the death of the cross. How many times did death come for jesus man during his ministry, his life? Who knows how many times before we saw him publicly? Yeah, right death constantly came for jesus. Do people even read?
Speaker 3this, this is an obscure passage of this guy. I've been really studying the obscure passages of scripture lately, but this when it says that jesus is in the wilderness. One of the gospels it might be mark. They say he was in the wilderness with the wild beast. Do you know? Why would this? Why would the lord put that in there? Why would the holy spirit put that in there? Because he wasn't just in the wilderness and it was hunky-dory out there for 40 days and everything it. He was out there with stuff that could kill him yeah yeah, it's, it was snakes out there, bears he's in.
Speaker 3Do you do realize that he was in the region? He was in the area where all of the biblical stuff that's recorded was that there was a. There were people that got. What about the bears and the lions that came for david's sheep? And he destroyed them because there's bears and lions in that region. What about the sea bears that your boy Elijah had killed the kids, you know because because they in the region, the snakes that they're in the region, bro, where they have all that stuff. And he was in the wilderness alone where a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3Okay, satan tempted him after 40 days, but what about them 40 days? He was just out there, no food, and stuff that he was could have been food for other animals. Yeah, we, we don't think about that man. So, dude, he christ's life has been marked for for death and things. All he's trying to take is life, bro. But he said he wouldn't humble himself to death. The only death he humbled himself to was the cross, and that's because he was taking our punishment on himself.
Speaker 2There it is, there it is.
Speaker 3Come on bro.
Speaker 2How's it going there? It is, I love it.
Speaker 3How's it going there? It is, I love it. I love it, dude, I love it. And bro, uh, you do. You got a health tip I have to man.
Speaker 2Yeah, because last one we didn't last, you didn't, you didn't get it in.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah it was so deep man. Yeah, that was. The subject matter was yeah I know.
Speaker 2So yeah, I'm talking about the seasons and stuff like that. So now we're we're getting to fall. So, if you notice, I'm a person that I love watermelon. The watermelon is so magical, it's a magical fruit, it's it's so. It has so many benefits. Yeah, and so right now, while the season is over it was ending a lot of these growers are doing all these tips and all these strategies to bring rushed watermelons to ripeness. So if you go to the store.
Speaker 2Man, you see these weird-shaped watermelons, weird color, they're just dark green, oblong, like I get to see the watermelon. They look like two feet and oblong, just weird shape. You can tell they've been modified and so.
Speaker 4Wow.
Speaker 2But I will say I just want to talk about the benefits. How do you even eat your watermelon when you eat it? I know some people put salt on it. Some people use have you heard of Kool-Aid? People put Kool-Aid.
Speaker 3No, I haven't.
Speaker 4Get the.
Speaker 2Kool-Aid pack and sprinkle it all over, or put the chunks of watermelon in the bag. Put the Kool-Aid pack in there, shake it up and eat it that way, no, or put the.
Speaker 3put the chunks of watermelon in the bag, put the kool-aid pack in there, shake it up no, I never heard that, yeah.
Speaker 2Oh, that's the thing, brother, that's so ethnic bro, yeah no, I saw.
Speaker 3I saw a white a caucasian do this.
Speaker 2Oh, I still don't change the fact that's an ethnic thing. Yeah, right, hey, what's funny though. What's funny? You say that the the yeah right. And what's funny, though, what do you say? That the example they use? They had the grape Kool-Aid great on top.
Speaker 3You know. You know what they got.
Speaker 2But this guy, yeah, the guy was like oh, the grape was delicious Well well, that's a person that likes pure and clean stuff.
Speaker 3I would never do anything like that. I don't put nothing on, I take it bareback with no facts bro.
Speaker 2I use lemon juice. I grab a lemon and I squeeze the lemon juice out of it, but you using the fruit on the fruit though.
Speaker 3Yeah, right, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Because some people I saw people talk about this online. A lot of people put salt like you're ruining it. Oh, my God you know you, you, you you you, you, you, you you you, you, you you you, you, you, you you you, you, you you you you, you you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you you you, you savory man, but the watermelon is meant to be sweet, so I look up the watermelon benefits Hydration, of course, it's 92% water, which is crazy.
Speaker 2Think about we talked about the earth and we come from the soil and we come from water and man that's to show how connected we are with the earth and everything For sure, absolutely. So make you know water. By being 92% water, it's making one of the most hydrating fruit available Idea for hot weather and after exercise.
Speaker 3Let me ask so if you're just eating, so you can stay hydrated, eating watermelon and you wouldn't even have to drink water, no, you just eating the watermelon yeah, you know, I told you about the people that do these watermelon fast man, they just juice watermelon oh, they don't need. They don't even drink regular water.
Speaker 2Doing that fast no, just, just the watermelon juice, that's it, watermelon and I and I did that for three days. So yeah, wow and you?
Speaker 3you didn to drink water. No, just watermelon, only watermelon juice. Yeah, wow okay.
Speaker 2So he's antioxidants and nutrients. One is a it's a. Watermelon contains lycopene. It's a it's a cancer fighting agent. And then we got vitamin c, vitamin a, potassium and magnesium and antioxidants uh, protect from cell damage and inflammation. It's good for your heart and kidneys, you know, uh, it relaxes your blood vessels, man, supporting heart health and lower your blood pressure. And it helps kidney function. Uh, also, weight management, lowering calories to keep it, you know, keep make you feel full when you, you know, eat a lot of it. And so, uh, when I squeeze the lemon juice over it, it adds the vitamin c. You know, that's good for your immunity. And also when you um, you know, when people drink like lemon water, you know, that's, um, that's supposed to be immune booster. And also it helps your body and your blood absorb it so that's, that's the purpose of the lemon.
Speaker 2So and also an alkali and the alkalizes water or the watermelon. So, uh, when you put that on your watermelon it helps metabolize, metabolize and give you a ph balance and diet and it cleans and helps your digestive tract and it reduces acid and so it's all that from watermelon yes, and and also, adding the lemon, try to eat as much watermelon.
Speaker 2And you know, uh, you know, back in the day when our ancestors were given, they were given watermelon seeds, and so our ancestors did the best out of it. You know, they grew these watermelons and they saw, and so the slave owners saw how profitable it became. So then they put the narrative out there. So now you know, then we were like we have to have water man, and so you got these stupid cartoons.
Speaker 3Right, that does. The stereotype was born.
Speaker 2Yes, and so stereotype come out there, to where now black black people are like oh, I don't want to, I don't want to fulfill the stereotype, no no, eat that watermelon, eat that watermelon.
Speaker 3Eat that watermelon 10,000 a day growing up bro, I never ate it growing up.
Speaker 2Stick your chest out. Ten toes down and it's in each award it's super fruit, Eat it, Juiced it I got. When I cut my watermelon up. I got a big old container of it and then whatever's left I juice the rest of it, I drink that. It helps keep you A person like myself who dealt with adult acne cleared my skin and everything. I'm also an aphrodisiac. The ingredients that's in a lot of yeah, the ingredients that's in like a lot of prostate supplements that like lipokeen I was saying all that is in watermelon in the water so you had the water you had the lemon juice.
Speaker 2It goes to your blood. He got a lot of blood flow down in that. The nether regions down in your pleasure principle, I'm gonna say this dog though some religious folk go trip.
Speaker 4But the love, the love, muscle man, the love the love muscle.
Speaker 3God gave it to us man, but it's supposed to be utilized in the covenant.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 3Of marriage. So let's keep that. A book, yeah, but, but yeah, but yeah. Love. I'm happy to hear why.
Speaker 2I heard this. Oh yeah, this guy was talking about I got to lose weight and stomach. You know, you had a big belly.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2And the dude's like man. He's like, don't stress over that gut man, just tell people that's love muscle root. He didn't say love muscle, he said something else.
Speaker 4Right, right, right, right, right, root. He didn't say love mode.
Speaker 3He said something right, right, right, right oh the gospel twins. You know it, you know it, you know it.
Speaker 3That's my love, love it, yes, yes, yes. It's all about the freedom. It's freedom, bro, it that that spirit of freedom, man, is what I pray, infects the listeners, man, because this is for freedom. That Christ came to make us free, broke, and you know the truth, and the truth makes you free, and this is where we bring people to truth. We don't bring all of that, that dogma and all of that, you know, theological trap things and all of that, bro. We just come with the straight gospel, the good news that the kingdom of god is here and judging people all in there.
Speaker 3We all image bearers all of us, bro, all of us, one big family, bro, and and once we realize that and that love starts permeating, that's when it's heaven.
Health Benefits of Watermelon
Speaker 2I understand people on different levels and you know different, absolutely their walk is and you know just their walk is different. But that's family bro, that's family I got bro, we got grandkids.
Speaker 3You know what I mean. We got children, we got grandchildren. We're all walking in different variances and realms in life, man, but we all find out.
Speaker 2Yeah, All right people of God. All right people of God.
Speaker 3I love you.
Speaker 2Love you, peace, peace.
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