Back To The Kingdom

We’re back on the mics, and we’re not pretending the break was just “busy.” Life hit our homes: health issues, stress, sleepless nights, and that slow drift that happens when you stop keeping the main thing the main thing. We talk openly about what it felt like to come home again, why listeners checking on us mattered, and how easy it is to let weeks turn into months when your spirit isn’t being led on purpose. 

Then we get into the real tension a lot of believers are living in right now: social media algorithms that feed fear, constant outrage, and the subtle way doomscrolling changes your tone before you notice it. We share why we pulled back from social, how “fix the structure first” beats performing for aesthetics, and why prayer is not a ritual but ongoing communion with God through the Holy Spirit. We also unpack a heavy lesson from going deep into dark content while researching Tupac’s life, how disobedience compounds stress, and how spiritual issues can show up as mental and physical breakdown when you ignore the warning signs. 

From fear of tornadoes to fear of the economy, we treat fear like a diagnostic, not a personality trait. We talk therapy, childhood roots, taking thoughts captive, and why the resurrection destroys the fear of death and re-centers us in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. We also challenge tradition-driven Christianity, discuss how the faith mutates into endless denominations, and bring it back to Jesus’ promise in John 16:33: tribulation is real, but He has overcome the world. If this helped you, subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find a kingdom perspective that restores peace.

Transcript

Welcome Back After The Hiatus

SPEAKER_00 0:03

This is the Gospel Twins with your host John 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_01 0:22

The gospel twins are back. I am John. What up?

SPEAKER_02 0:25

I'm John. What the deal, man? How you doing, bro?

SPEAKER_01 0:29

Oh man. Hey, before we got on, before we got online, we were talking and holding this end. I just wanted this this yell, bro.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

You did, dude. I love it, dude. I love it. This is what's up. This is home. Feel like we we've been going on a long trip, bro, and back home again, dude. Come on. Let's get it, bro.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

And so people are got we're on a hiatus. And we're gonna get, you know, pull the curtain back and tell you, you know, what was going on behind the what was behind the scenes of what's going on, man. But it was a lot going on. Yeah, yeah. And I would like and I would like to thank some of the listeners that reached out to me and say, what's up with y'all, man? Last time I saw a podcast was February, such and such. Like, I know. And like, and we allowed things to get in the way. We were planning on going video, and we got held up and just never went back to it. And then life was life and growing and growing, and yeah, this and that.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

Man, and something how in that world, like you like you say, when life starts, life is so easy, man, because a date or a week and week, a month, and it just goes by so fast, bro. When you said the last time we was on was February, that was baffling, man. I was like, oh snap. But yeah, yeah, it was cool, man. Showing you sending over, showing the love and like how people were still downloading old, you know, podcasts and stuff. I'm like, yeah, man, that's we gotta get back home, bro. We gotta get back home.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Yeah, that was that was really encouraging, and you know, and forgive us people, you know.

Family Health And Sick Dogs

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Uh yeah, life, bro. As they would see when people say life be life, and I always say, but Christ be Christ and dog. So man, yeah, what up, dude? What's happening?

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Ah man, this was a challenging weekend. Mom's is, you know, her health is up and down. Man, both of my dogs were sick this weekend. So dealing with you and the youngin'? The youngin', man. Man, I don't know what he got into, man, but he was just squirting everywhere. Oh, snap. Hey, are you pet lovers? I hope you have a carpet cleaner. I can't live without my carpet cleaner. Oh, man.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

And he was, you know, he I you know, he was he had a little episode and he feel bad about single thing about it is uh with my dog, usually just when he's healthy, when he's feeling good, when he goes outside, he goes, he gets all anxious and jump on the bed. But when he's sick and he needs to go outside, he doesn't say anything. He just stares, he just stares at me. Wow. And I was like, you know, and you know, I was taking care of my business, man.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 3:32

And so I'm like, all right, man, you know, he just kept, we kept staring at me. But every time he would leave the bathroom, I would call him back, like, hey. Yeah, the last time he didn't come back, I was like, uh-oh. There it is. Yeah. And it was, yeah, so I had some work to do. Um, and um, you know, uh, I didn't have any set. My wife, my wife showed my wife chose to have Mondays and Tuesdays off, so the weekend.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

I was just I was straight so you trying to hone it down. Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

You're talking about lack of sleep? Whoo! I think I have like before today, man, I think maybe three three and a half hours. Um because uh Sophie was on the schedule where I had to give her medicine at crazy hours to fulfill the eight hour every eight-hour thing, and it was like, uh I told Jen, she like, what's wrong with you? I was like, what you mean? What's wrong with me? I said I was like, I said, when that dog is sick, it's hard for me to sleep because when I hear one loud noise, I'm thinking Sophie might have a seat. I'm jumping up. I said, but you you in there sleeping like a bear, you know. Yeah, she couldn't help but laugh when I said but uh you know big up to wifey, man. She was yeah, remember I told you, man, she went on that mushroom hunt. She didn't get back in till she didn't get back in till almost 10 o'clock, like I told you, man. Man, I had to go back to working.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

You wanted to find that mushroom so people know what you thought.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Oh, oh yeah, morales. And the morels, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

That we eat people, that we eat people, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Uh morels and um turkey tails, but really the morales, the morales is man, she's like we're talking 35. I think she sold$45 a pound.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

Man, that's what's up, dude.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

And she found two and a half pounds yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Come on, man. Yeah, so you're talking about the Lord giving you some provision from the earth, bruh.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

And that's how she took it, too.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

That's she was saying, that's what's up, man.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Yeah, straight provisions, man.

Keeping The Main Thing

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Yeah, love that, dude. Love that, man.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Hey, but uh, you know, you and I talked about this uh when we get since we back on the microphones, back in with the people of God. Yeah, we the thing is now is keeping the main thing, the main thing. And the main thing is uh always kingdom.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Gotta keep it kingdom, keep it kingdom, dog. Keep it kingdom, got to, man. Got to, bro.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

We you know, I lost my way. You know, and you said you lost your way. Go ahead, go and speak, man. Go on and speak, man.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

Well, man, it like you said, bro, it's it's you not keeping the main thing, the main thing. And uh, like, you know, man, I since it wasn't just uh the podcast that I had pulled back off of, but you know, I I just pulled back off of social, you know, pretty much uh completely. You know, I was dropping some things here and there, but man, and what that was, man, is that I was starting to be affected, you know what I mean, by all of the different, you know, as you know, they call it doom scrolling or whatever. But, you know, when you just get your algorithm starts to just keep giving you all this, you know, this negative stuff, man. And it was starting to overwhelm to where it was starting to come out in my speech and in my character. And then I wasn't speaking, you know, life only, man. I wasn't, you know, I wasn't speaking as, you know, as a kingdom first, you know, pursuant person, man. You know, I was I was kind of taking on the mimicry of what was going on, man, because that's the effect. And algorithm isn't reserved to, you know, our our phones and our devices, man. Our lives have a particular algorithm that they flow in. And when you start letting that get, you know, thrown off, and you start and you start taking on the stuff that's just coming, you know what I mean? Like just letting life be life in on you, and you don't have no, you know, the insulation, the kingdom, you know, that starts to, you know, to to thin around you, man, and you start getting affected with with all that stuff. And uh it was happening, dude. I mean, man had, you know, some things happen around the crib, you know, that uh, you know, arguing was starting to, you know, happen and you know, and all that man, you know, I love peace in my house, bro, you know, yeah, and uh as you do. And um it just man, it just things was just happening that wasn't cool. And the thing is, man, I'm not about staying on social for the aesthetics, bro. You know what I mean? When I got when I got structural problems, yeah, it's time to pull back, fix the structure, man, and you know, because it's supposed to flow as as we say, you seek the kingdom first and the righteousness of it, and everything else comes out of that, yeah, you know, and it's supposed to flow from that, man. And you know, just trying to keep up facades and stuff, man, just for the sake of. I ain't trying to hear that. And that ain't just social, that's in my life, period, man. I, you know, bro, I want to live authentically. So, you know, I had to pull back and uh and let uh you know me and Holy Spirit work on no structural issues, bro, that that was happening. So and and then when it came down to it, it was simply no longer putting the main thing as the main thing, you know.

When Content Starts Changing You

SPEAKER_01 9:20

So yeah, uh one thing I've learned from this hiatus that uh don't take God for granted. No, I did and I did. Yeah. Um I took his covering, his protection for granted. And um as you all know, I have another podcast, and I went deep, dove deep dive. I had a deep dive into Tupac's life. And uh when I say deep, I mean uh you said deep, bro. Yeah, and I studied a lot of people, but I really studied him. Um books, videos, I even even the music, which was I already know, and I know better. And I know better. And I was and it's hard to find the clean versions of his music. So I just let the bad ones ride, and then yeah, yeah, and it affected me. Yeah, and I didn't pray before, and I've never felt I never felt the need to pray. Well, we all know we need to pray in everything.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

But I never felt I never felt the need to pray when I was doing these podcasts, the music book. Because I never experienced anything.

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Because the relation, because you the relationship was between you and the Lord, man, is that's the insulation. And I want to say that, man, and not to cut you off and let you get right back to that. But the true insulation, it's not about just the trying to pray covering on you and all of that, it is the proximity of the relationship that you have with the Father through the person of the Holy Spirit, man. That is where all of it comes from. But when you just begin to start doing things without consulting him, I mean one of the main purposes of Holy Spirit being in your life, man, is to be that that counselor. You know, he he ain't gonna force you to do anything. He's gentle, man. So, but when you don't consult with him and you just do things like you said, man, I haven't I hadn't had to do this before. And but when you went into this particular person's life, you know, you went, you it's bro, you you went deep diving without scuba gear, man. You you know, bro, that that's that's detrimental, you know what I mean? You know, that stuff can cost you. And so, man, yeah, keep keep go, please. Continue.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Yeah, it was and and I was disobedient. It wasn't like the Holy Spirit was like, no, right, right. Like, I could do this, I could just listen to this one song because I want to, I I really want to cover this song. I really wanted I want to explain, express what he was feeling in this and this thing. No, I was hearing no. It was several times I heard no, and I'm gonna just kept going. Yeah, yeah. And so bam. And uh dealing with that, and also I I ended up taking a month off, almost a month off of work. I had to take a stress medical.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Um just so much going on. You're talking about inside the home, uh my parents' physical, uh, their their health, my health, my dog's health, my wife's health. It was just like everything just came crashing down at one time, and I looked around, it's like, oh. So I get back into prayer, and um and then uh Holy Spirit's like, you might need to take some time off.

SPEAKER_03 12:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

I never I've been for it 31 years. I never took a stress medical. Yeah, I never never thought about like uh I'm gonna take some time off for mental health. And um, because it was gonna initially be for my back because maybe because I I mean I was I not maybe I know it because I was going through so much stress that my my body started to uh start to give off those symptoms, man.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Yep, I couldn't even get out of bed. And yep, it was it was a tough time. I don't I don't want to experience that.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Dude, I mean in the terrible season, and I was in the desert. That's what it was. That's what it was, bro.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Wow, bro.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

That's what it was, and and people got the one of the things that you you know, the the father is so gracious, man, especially in our time, because we have so much access to information that people, you know, that we just can by our just thoughts, just be like, oh man, I wonder what this is. Oh, hey, let me, you know, hit it up right here. And a lot of times we don't, and and that's good. And the father's all he he provided it, he wanted this for us, he desired us to have this. It's a reason why we got it. All good and perfect gifts comes down from the father light. So we give him glory for all of the technology, but nothing is ever supposed to take the place of our relationship with him. You know, he said everything by prayer and supplication, make your request known to God. So, and that's not just to stop in the middle of everything and you know go into a posture of prayer. It's just prayer is just our relationship with him, period, from moment to moment. You know, when I when I just like Lord, I appreciate this, that you're praying now. You know, as soon as you do that, you know, when you open up the word, you know, to go in and and to you know get nourishment, you're praying now. It's just prayer and communion are synonymous, man. You know, it's just you're doing what you're doing, fellowship, all of that. And um when we don't do that, we our lives, there is nothing to compartmentalize. That's why, man, when me and you had that, you know, we had that dog, you know, tenacity after that, trying to separate sacred and secular stuff. You know what I mean? It's we don't compartmentalize our lives. It's you just it's no such thing. You know, you can't say, okay, I'm doing this, and this doesn't have anything to do with my spirit. It's impossible to do that. You know what I mean? Everything has something to do with your spirit. You you are spirit, you know, so you need to know that first. So everything is happening. So when you have issues in your spirit, in your soul, it's gonna manifest in your body, whether that shows up as a sciatic nerve, yeah, if it if it shows up, you know, with with poor circulation and everything, you know, people can say, well, some stuff is just chemical and it's just clinical. It that's what man says. Let God be true, and every man be a liar. Don't not pay attention and do the maintenance to the body, but rest assured it's a spiritual issue first. It's a spirit, it's structural, it's always a spirit, you gotta track it back to a spiritual issue. And it may not even be you, it may not be, you know, it could be something else, but know this it's spiritual.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

Always.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

The the physical is the extension of this of the spirit, it's it's not a version of it, it's the extension of it. You cannot disconnect one from the other. So I just wanted to say that, man. So yeah, so taking that time off, go.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Yeah, it was just it was just a lot to learn in real time. Yeah. Under those circumstances, oh man. Um, but uh learned my lesson. Um, uh by get have a difficult topic like that, especially somebody who has a uh difficult life. Um I'm definitely gonna stay prayed. I'll put that armor on.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

And I'm I'm still I'm still not out of it. I'm still in it. Not not like the mental part.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Right, right, right. It's like coming, it's like, it's like the tail end of a cold or coming out of a, you know, when you wasn't feeling good, you know, you're on the other side of it, but you you recognize you're not at 100%, you know. This and this again, bro, it's all diagnostic. It's about knowing who you are, man. It is about knowing who you are, dude. You you know more than anybody when your body, when you're not feeling a certain way. When you like, I should, that ain't normal. You know what I mean? I don't feel this is don't just let it go to I'm getting older, and I guess that's just you know, part of this. And no, when you start feeling some things and like I shouldn't, man, I shouldn't be having that problem. Or I normally, this isn't normally me, I don't normally do. Those are diagnostic, man. Pay attention to your body, pay attention to your spirit when you're not when your mood ain't right, you know, just like man, I'm not having a good day. That's crap. Don't ever settle for that. Yeah, that's not normal. God, show me anywhere where God said, Well, you're gonna have, you know, about 30 bad days, and you got this, this, you know, never, bro. Never. And and that's what we one of the things, man, that we have is that the scriptures, the whole all scripture is given under the inspiration, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Then he gives a list. It's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. It's it's giving you, letting you know anything in scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit, but all of it is not for the same thing. Some of it is, do you need correction? You know, do you need do you need instruction? You know, do you need reproof? Do you need to be reproved, you know, reproved in the area? What do you need? And it's up to you to be able to stop and diagnose that.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

You gotta be able to do that, man. What, bro, what do doctors do when we go see them? They, all right, what up? What's wrong with you? Well, man, this is what I'm having, this and that. And then they start asking you questions. Why are they doing that? Because they can't, you have to tell them what's wrong. And then they will prescribe something based off of what you are telling them. They'll run certain tests based off what you are telling them. Doctors don't just run gamuts of tests just willy-nilly, like give them an MRI, give them a CAS scan, give them this, this, this. No, they're they're doing it following the instructions of what you're telling them you're experiencing. That's a problem.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

We're not we're not trying to be before you all uh for a long time today, congregation.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Right. No, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

No, I'm gonna tell you what you gotta say.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

No, it's like we we we ain't here for a long time. We here for a strong time.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

So we won't be before you along today.

Scripture Debates And Delayed Hope

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Yeah, this is just this just us, I'll come back. I'll come back. We just letting you know we back in the house, and uh, you know, we're gonna be, you know, keeping keeping the kingdom, man, keeping the you know, the main thing, the main thing.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

You know, yeah, because it was really refreshing going back and listening to uh Miles Moreau. I miss him so much.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Oh my god. Oh man, he was such a a gem to the world, bro. He was a gem.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

And it um it all started by a sister of mine. Uh it was two videos. One video was AI, somebody was using um Miles Moreau's voice as AI. And then the second one, you know, he was talking about uh you know heaven and being held up, delayed by man's actions. So that went to a deeper conversation. Oh man, so I re I I remember because I when people ask me these questions, you know, most people when you especially when you represent in the kingdom, you don't want to be wrong, but it's not, but then you gotta think about it's not about me. It's not about me. It's it's not it's about God, it's about the word. So all you gotta do is present the word and let the rest happen. And The thing about it is I I'm in my head. I don't want to be wrong. I want to make sure. Not only do I want to be wrong, I want to make sure I'm leading this person to the right direction.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

That is one of the main things. I want to I want you I want to lead this person to the right direction. So I'm kind of just like I reached out to you, like, hey man, I need some scriptures, bro. Sure. Because usually I I mean I know where to go and I know how to find them. Um and and some of the scriptures that you sent me, I sent them to her. Uh and I was trying to, but what this sister particularly wanted was just to read it in writing and have a clear state this man, you can delay the coming of the Lord. So but I was uh showing her scriptures that surrounded that theology, but that's not what she wanted. She was like, Well, you gave me my answer. Uh, thank you. And this is this is predictable. Okay. We started going back and forth. But I appreciate you saving that scripture because it opened it up and you know she said, Yeah, this is pretty much what she was really looking for. That particular scripture.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

I can't remember which one it was, but yeah, it was yeah, it was the one in Acts when uh Acts 3, when it says the heavens are retaining or they receive the Lord and to the restitution of all things. So man, yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

So she don't understand um my frustration, my frustration with with with uh Christianity and religion. So when we have these conversations, a lot of it's soaked in that. And I don't, I mean, when then I'm in that frustration, and then I get and I get and then I get triggered. Absolutely, and so then I'm losing the no no I'm losing her.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Yeah, I'm not realizing it's coming from a different place now. Right. Holy Spirit ain't no longer back in the plague, you know. Like, okay, you off on some other stuff, man.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Okay, and I was just trying to get her to understand that that frustration is become because of that scripture that we just read, it's it's the delay, but she she wasn't aware of the delay, you know, you know, because also, you know, uh Jesus talked about the flood, the Noah, right, and people just but at the end of the day, we just gotta be ready.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Just gotta be ready and not be, you know, and you know, uh, she was sending me scriptures that were soaked in fear in the last days, yeah, this and that.

Fear, Algorithms, And Taking Inventory

SPEAKER_02 24:41

And yeah, and bro, that's one of the things that I hadn't I had to step back from, man, because that my algorithm was starting to produce a lot of that fear-based stuff. And and that fear was creeping in on me, bro. I don't, I'm just not a person, man, that is afraid of a lot of stuff. You know what I mean? I mean, of course, I don't like snakes and stuff like that, you know what I mean? But but it's not like life situations don't make me afraid. And I'm not afraid of a of an economy that's going through some problems. I ain't afraid of bad inclement weather and all that, man. When that other night that a few weeks ago when the the sirens and everything went off, and they was like, take cover because the tornado was, you know, warnings and all that, bro. That is not, that is something I would normally sleep through. You know what I mean? It doesn't even matter what the panic is. You know, I started feeling the panic. And I'm and see, man, that's when you gotta stop and take inventory. Like, okay, I am absolutely not operating, you know, the way that I'm normally operating. You had those things are diagnostic, man. It's for you to stop. Take, why was I afraid? You know, why why did that fear get in me like that? Well, man, I had been sowing fear in me for weeks, you know, through social media. I didn't realize it, you know what I mean? And getting frustrated and getting angry with stuff and getting mad at the administration and then all that stuff with ice and everything. That stuff was getting in me.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Low-hanging fruit, as you called it.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

What'd you say? Say that.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

I say, I said you was caught on a low-hanging fruit.

SPEAKER_02 26:20

Low-hanging fruit, bruh. Low-hanging fruit, man. And I was getting caught up in it. I'm having debates and arguments with people about stuff that I would would normally have never been on my radar, dude. You know, I mean, because you you were letting people bring you in to that situation. And and and the scriptures are there to bring comfort. You know, it's it's Paul says we have comfort through the scriptures, man. So when you go back, you're supposed to diagnose, okay, I'm afraid. Why am I doing this? You know, why am I afraid? And don't just, you know, God, of course, you can reference God is not giving us the spirit of fear, but power, love, and the sound mind. Absolutely reference that. But why am I afraid? It's not just knowing that God doesn't give me the spirit of fear. I know, okay, this is not from God. So I got that. But why am I afraid? Why was where did the door of this fear, what door was open? Because if you don't know where it came in, how you gonna close it? Yeah, you know, if you don't know where the rats and mice is getting into your house, uh, how how can you plug up the hole?

SPEAKER_01 27:28

I will say this though, uh, me having uh going through therapy, and I applaud that, man, as I always say. So it makes sense when you look back and think about it, but in real time you don't think about it. Yes, every most of the time you're going through something is is from childhood, trauma. Something happened. A lot of it is, you know, something something happened when you were a child. So try to identify that, right? And then you can go forward. Um and I'm still identifying. Identifying some things, absolutely, and uh trying to figure out what is the origin of that. And absolutely, man, that fear because when we was growing up, man, tornadoes, yeah, it's gonna happen. I remember seeing um I remember seeing a TV show. Matter of fact, Matt, thank you. Here we go. I saw a TV show. Uh was uh man, dude. Matter of fact, thank you, thank you, Holy Spirit. Oh man, I was remember watching the TV show and it was talking about tornado, and this man looked out the window. I don't know why he was looking out the window while the tornado was going on, but the tornado pulled him out. Oh, snap, yeah, yeah, it pulled him out. Woo! And ever since then, bro.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the C that was that first that was the C and you and this is and this is and see, and this is why you have to know how to implement and do the word. This is what you know, you gotta be able to do it. When he said cast down all imaginations and every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought captive unto the obedience of Christ. Don't try and bring the thought and get it out of your mind. Yeah, you know, like I don't want to think about it. I'm just gonna. He did not say that. He said, Bring it, keep the thought, arrest it, and make it obey Jesus Christ, bring it under the obedience of Christ. And then he says, and people typically stop right there, then he says, and then avenge all disobedience once your obedience has been fulfilled. See, people don't ever read that part, they stop at the bringing every thought captive. Okay, now that I brought you captive and you in the interrogation room, bro. If I don't get the if I don't deal with you and get the information from you and and then go out and fall of the crime based off of the information that I got from you, what difference do it make? Just putting a person in an interrogation room, I got you now, you know, and you don't do nothing with that. How are you gonna stop the crime? The crime is you were violated, bro. Your peace was disturbed, your peace is disrupted. How do I fix that? How do I get it back? And you gotta, man, bro, we have to do actively engage in restoring this stuff because this world is actively putting the fear in you. You gotta actively use your faith. This is the only fight. This is the only we ain't all this spiritual warfare that we trying to tear down principalities and all that, bruh. That is God never told us to do that. You got one fight, and Paul said, fight the good fight of faith, bro. That's it. This stuff is coming after your faith, after what you believe. And what is faith? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Life is coming against what God has said. Yeah, you gotta put that stuff back into you know, alignment and order with what God has said. And yeah, man, you fear is untolable. You ain't even supposed to ever negotiate with fear. Jesus dealt with that, you know. Absolutely. That was 100%.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

That was the purpose of the resurrection. I mean, that's that's it.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

That's it. I went after the biggest fear y'all have, and that's dying. And I just showed y'all that even that don't have no, I got power over that. So don't be afraid of nothing.

Resurrection, Kingdom, And The Holy Spirit

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Yeah, let me read my notes real quick. Yeah, the purpose of the resurrection, right? To prove Jesus' victory over sin, to restore mankind's power over death, to destroy man's fear of death, to complete the final act of God's redemptive plan, to deliver the Holy Spirit, oh our God, back to earth. Let me say that again. To deliver the Holy Spirit back to earth, come on time to deliver the Holy Spirit back to earth. Come on, to reestablish the kingdom of heaven back to earth through woohoo!

SPEAKER_02 31:59

Come on, through the Holy Spirit, righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, bro. That's the kingdom, that is the kingdom. If anything is is is is coming against the righteousness, deal with it, it's coming against the kingdom. Anything coming against your peace, deal with it. It's coming against the kingdom. Anything coming against your joy, deal with it. It's coming against the kingdom, but you gotta do it through the person of the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

That's it.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

Yeah, that's it. You putting more getting more going out here trying to create and get more money to try and stop your, you know, your economic look, you know, if bro, if I can put seven figures in your bank account and that stops you from quaking over the economic crisis, then that's a problem because the money is your salvation. You know, for people in for people with this death thing, you know, well, yeah, well, it's gonna be better, you know, once you, you know, die and on the other side and you come and get the glorified body and all that after. So death is your savior, it's not Christ. Anytime you think something is better through death, that's your you you're putting salvation in that. Well, they were well, they're in a better place now. Why? Because they die, yeah. That's bruh. Come on, man. Jesus didn't come for that, bro. He can't the resurrection has took care of that, just like you just said.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

But uh, people that's in the box church, y'all know we say that word a lot or that phrase, uh, that term. Uh they see that cross, and that's another thing, too. No, man. That's that's all that says is death, man. That's it. But people like, oh, that's how that was his sacrifice. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

That's your salvation, is the cross. No, it's not. That's your redemption. That's your redemption. Once you redeem something back, you don't keep going to the pawn shop to keep getting something back over. No, once I got it back, I got it. You know, I got it. Somebody keep telling, I bruh, you ain't even got to talk to me about sin no more. Once once I receive Christ Jesus and have placed my faith in Jesus Christ and his finished work, bro, sin ain't even a conversation meaning you need to be having no more. It should be about righteousness. Paul said, awake to righteousness. He said, Sin and death don't even have any more dominion over you. Now wake up to who you are.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Yeah, you know, uh Miles Moreau, Pastor Miles say, you know, the cross was a means to an end. And you know, that wasn't the end, that was just part of it. Like I said, right? It didn't end right there. It was a lot of other things that happened after that, and people don't talk about that or focus on that.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

But what was the cross was the means to the end of sin. Yes, that's what it was. The end of the mean, it wasn't the end of the mean, the means to the end for again, it wasn't the end all be all situation, bro. It was for it was if you go to the doctor to get a cure for a particular problem, man. But that doctor didn't cure all your problems. You don't he just dealt with that. He dealt with that. Sin was the issue that was stopping us from experiencing, like you just said, couldn't even because of the sin issue, we couldn't even have the infilling of the Holy Spirit. He could come on us, but he couldn't come in us. And I'm talking about pride to Christ, I'm talking about pride to Christ. So I gotta make that, you know, yes clear, clear. But once Jesus did his work, the Father promised, he said, I'm gonna in the last days, I'm pouring my spirit out upon all flesh, upon all flesh. So that means every single person has the Holy Spirit upon them, yeah. But every person hasn't received the Holy Spirit within them, and that is what we're supposed to. That's the gospel, is that you're back fully reconciled to God, there ain't no more sin issue, that impediment been resolved. Receive the gospel, receive Holy Spirit. When you receive Holy Spirit, Jesus said the kingdom shall be in you. Who did you think the kingdom was gonna be in you through? It's through the person of the Holy Spirit. So when you receive him, you have fully received the kingdom. Now you need to now understand and wake up to the that reality, and then now how to operate according to it. Technically, seeking the kingdom is not even still the priority mandate. Now it's that was them at the time, but now the Holy Spirit is fully here. It's now to awake to the to the kingdom, to the righteousness, to expand the kingdom, to show forth the glory of it, man. Not not just looking for it. We don't have to look for it anymore. It's been found, yeah, you know, through the person of the Holy Spirit. So it's one thing. It's alignment.

SPEAKER_01 37:11

If one thing we're gonna talk about here or teach is that we're gonna just we're gonna beat y'all over the head with that. Holy, oh man, you gotta get it. Because it opened my eyes, and and it will help you to get out of religion when you think about it. I mean, and like I was telling my stepdaughter, I told her to get the blue letter Bible. Um I said, I said, because now I'm I'm starting to try to learn these Greek and Hebrew words. Yeah, I said, so when I see cross, when I read the word cross, I see star rose. I don't see cross, I see stars. Right.

SPEAKER_02 37:43

Right, the word, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

And that, and what they when they were saying star rose, s t a u r o s that was primarily referring to a pole.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

Right.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

A state. Right. So when you when you look at it and think of that in those terms, yes, it it takes you, it takes you away from that cross, which people glorify and even I don't know. Yeah, you know, because it's like if you just if I think if that was taught that way, if it was just an upright pole, I don't think people would be sitting around there having it on rounding necks. No, no.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

Because it's not accurate, because it's inaccurate. I mean, bro, Jesus literally told us, he said, look, just like just like Moses wrote put the golden, you know, the bronze serpent was raised up in the wilderness, which was on a pole, so shall the son of man be you know be lifted up. He literally giving you the visual picture of what it looks like. It's just like Moses did with the brazen serpent in the wilderness. Just like that. Yeah. This is how the son of man is gonna. Just like he said, the son of man is gonna, just like in Jonah's day, this is the sign, the son of man is gonna, just like Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, three nights, so shall the son of man be in the earth, the belly of the earth for three days and three nights. He's making a direct, direct comparison. So he's giving you an actual picture to look at to know what it's gonna be like. So Jesus doesn't immense words, so let him say what he says, believe what he said, and reject all the tradition that came with it. Because he literally said, that is what makes the word of God powerless in your life.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

When you put your tradition above what the word of God says, and that's all the box search. I ain't gonna say all, but a lot of it do.

Tradition, Denominations, And Mutated Christianity

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Because look, because Christianity, like when you told when you brought up the 47,000, yes, different denomination. I'm out there. You know, I'm out there. I'm sorry. Well, what you was about to say about Christianity, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

I was just I was just saying that just the root of it comes from Constantine, and when he legalized it, when he legalized Christianity, Christianity is a hybrid of all the things that was going on around.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

All of it, all of it. All the Judaism, all of it. Everything.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

He wanted everybody to be included, he wanted everybody together, so you got a hybrid, and and this hybrid is growing.

SPEAKER_02 40:26

And it's like a mute, it's a mutation. Every generation has a different strand. It's like right now, bro. We just had COVID in 2020. That was six years ago. Do you know how many different mutated strands of COVID didn't already happen just in six years? It's not the same strand. It's not even, it's not, that's why the anyway. I'm not gonna even go into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, you know, it's not even the same strand. So it's like the version of Christianity that's today. Do you know how many times Christianity has mutated over the generations since then? This is why you have 47,000 variances of it. Those denominations are mutations, bro. That's all they are. They are they are different, mutated strands of the when they first called them Christians in Antioch. And that was Jesus never called nobody a Christian. Ever. He never did. And when he preached, he did not preach himself. He preached, bro. I'm gonna hit the I'm gonna hit this, and then man, then we can shut it up. But yeah, um, John the Baptist, bro, and I was just having this conversation with the Holy Spirit this morning. Um, John the Baptist, bro, he the one that was the forerunner for Christ. He himself said, when he saw Jesus, he said, Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. He said it twice on two different occasions. So, out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. You know, John would Jesus himself said John was the greatest prophet there ever was, born of a woman. After life had got to life on John, six months after he made this declaration, bro. Six months later, he literally, because life is life, he done been for his preaching of the coming kingdom. He's now sitting in jail and he's going through this, and he got the enemy playing on his mind, and he sent his disciples and said, Go ask him, is he the one that should come, or should we look for another? Bruh, do you see? Don't you tell me that we can't get caught up in some stuff? He walked with Jesus, he knows Jesus, he's he baptized Jesus. Yeah, he heard the voice of God say, This is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. John beheld the the dove, the Holy Spirit come down on him like a dove, bro. He saw all that. He was standing literally next to Jesus in the Jordan when the when God's voice came down and said that. And six months later, bro, he's questioning his whole ministry. He ain't just questioning Jesus' ministry, he questioned his own because he said, I'm the voice of the one that's crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. He the one know who he is, according to scripture, bro. He he picked himself out of the scripture and said, That's me in Isaiah. When it said the forerunner in Malachi, when it said the forerunner, he literally know who he is according to the scriptures, bro. And he is doubting everything. Why? Because life be life, and bro. Yeah, life be life and he questioned everything. Question his whole life, bro. And wondering, like, because it wasn't happening the way he thought it should happen.

SPEAKER_01 44:08

Man, that is tough, man. I'm glad you brought that up because when you think about that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

It's it's rough. And all Jesus did is say, go back, tell John how the blind see, the death hear, because scripturally, the same in the same book that John saw himself in, in that same book, Isaiah prophesied that the deaf was going to hear, the blind was going to see when the Messiah came. He literally is scripturally laying it down. He said, Go tell John, the deaf do hear, the blind see. He said, and the death are raised. See, Isaiah never even said nothing about the deaf, the dead being raised. Jesus threw that in as a caveat, extra, and tell him the dead is being raised. And the poor are having the gospel preached to them. And they go in and then he said, Hey, and tell John, blessed is the is is everyone who is not offended in me. What was Jesus doing? He was letting let John know get out of offense. Because if he doesn't, it's gonna be his detriment. And we see John was beheaded, man. So bruh, you know, people can say that was what was supposed to. No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

No.

SPEAKER_02 45:25

John wasn't supposed to be beheaded. He his offense opened the door and let the enemy, he did not take the words of Christ and apply them to where it could cover him from that. Because the scripture said the Herod was scared of John. He wasn't touching them because he knew he was. And he was, but what did he do? He opened the door, let the enemy come in through that offense, and the rest is history. But he still got an amazing place in the kingdom because Jesus turned around and said, Oh man, there's nobody. He knows the position John is in. And he was like, look, before y'all start clowning John, because he's having moments of doubt and disbelief, he is the greatest prophet that's ever been born of a woman. Not one has ever been greater. Not Moses, not Elijah, not Isaiah, none of them is greater than John.

John The Baptist Doubts And Closing

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Come on, man. Come on, man. I think we should leave it there, but I'm gonna leave it with this scriptures. Uh let's tie the bowl on the end of this uh conversation. John 16, 33. These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

Share up. Jesus said, share up, yo. I've overcome the world.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

You ain't got nothing to worry about. Yeah, I always gotta keep that in mind, man. Yeah, when you're going through something like, yeah, he said he okay man.

SPEAKER_02 47:04

These tribulations, he said you was gonna have them. It's gonna have it. I didn't come to insulate you from from trouble, bruh. But I came to where in the midst of it, man, you ain't got to lose. Uh you can be joyful right in the middle of it. And what did and what did James say? Count it all joy, bro. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

And also say, I'm with you too.

SPEAKER_02 47:24

When you're going through always, bro. Always.

unknown 47:29

Come on.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

All right, man. Love it. Love it. Love it, bruh. Love it. All right, man. Oh man, it's just good to be back. Don't want to let it go, but we got to do it. So, yes, we love you, people of God. DT back in the building. Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 47:54

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