Concerning this Salvation

What if the greatest threat to this generation isn’t artificial intelligence… but artificial faith?

As we continue our journey through 1 Peter, we at a pivotal text where Peter reminds us of a salvation so extraordinary that the prophets searched for it and even angels long to understand it.

In this episode, we discuss the rapid rise of AI, welcome MG The Mortgage Guy to talk about InvestFest, and wrestle with one timeless question: What matters most in a world obsessed with what’s next?

Technology may shape the future, but only the Gospel secures eternity.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

What's going on, Street Team? We are back with another incredible episode. And uh this season, it just feels different. Yeah. It feels great. It feels uh very led by the Holy Spirit. And we're so honored to be on this journey uh with you. If this is your first episode of the Street Preachers Podcast, welcome to the Street Team. Yeah. You are officially a street team member. Yeah, and the street team is just our collective family all over the world that is helping to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, being intentional uh with your relationship with Jesus and going on this journey of discipleship with us as we walk through the word of God. You know, the last tour um was so impactful. It was impactful. Encouraging. Yeah. And um, you know, we kind of reflect over uh what God did through the BTS episodes, and and then we took a break, which was necessary.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

It's called Russ. Russ is holy.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

You know, people tried to say, you know, there must be something going on between them, must be beef between them. The only beef between us is Phillip Mignett. You know what I'm saying? They don't they don't know, like off the camera, this is real relationship. This is real, man. This is real brotherhood. This is a it's crazy how people just be creating narrators, right? Man, AI, they got us out here on AI videos just uh, you know, fighting in the streets, all type of stuff, man. It's just wild, bro.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

It's crazy because with the rise of AI, yo, I seen I seen uh somebody try to somebody had an AI video of me promoting their church. Saying, like, yeah, this is my mentee. And it's my voice too, bro. It's like a joke was scary. It was it was my voice, and they took a video of me sitting on the couch, my voice promoting some person I never met, saying, Come to this person's church. This is a mentee of Philip Anthony Mitchell, crazy. And we had to get out, we yo, we had to get out that dude. Absolutely. Yo, we had to get like yo, bro, and but it's crazy because people are doing that. And let me let me just say this since we are talking about AI, right? Tim and I are not condemning AI. AI is not going nowhere. Um, it will it will change industries, it will, it will shut down whole industries, it will, it will, it will affect jobs. I even believe that AI don't quote me on this, but I think AI shows up in the book of Revelation. Yeah. I'm gonna say why, because in the book of Revelation, there is a prophecy in the end. There is a the scriptures, the scriptures have a prophecy about a man who is going to come to power very soon in the world. He is called in the scriptures the Antichrist. Right? The scripture tells us we can feel his spirit in earth, and according to the book of Revelation, he will be a political leader. He's going to emerge on the world stage, and through him, he will control the world economically, he will control the world spiritually. One world religion, one world government. We probably will not see paper cash. That's why everything is moving towards electronic, everything is moving towards tap. Just pay attention. We probably will not see paper cash, it'll be one world currency, one world government, one world order. And according to the scriptures, he's going to emerge on the scenes and he will be the leader of the world for a seven-year period. What the scripture calls seven-year tribulations. He will lead the world. And um during that time, the scripture prophesies he will set up an idol in the temple that will be rebuilt in Jerusalem, and the idol will talk. And the idol will speak, and it will blaspheme God, and it would it will speak to the whole world and cause the whole world to worship the Antichrist and his false prophets. So now we read in that in scriptures, but in context, what is it? A talking idol in context? Yep. Right? What are we talking about? Maybe a hologram. We're talking about AI technology, uh, uh, uh, uh, an assistant AI technology that will speak all day to prop up that Antichrist and to blaspheme God. So when I read things like that, when I first read that 20 years ago, I was like, well, how is that gonna happen? The technology didn't exist for something like that 20, 30 years ago. But now, yeah, with AI, the fact that that there's AI videos of me talking. Follow this. There's AI videos of me sitting on a couch talking, saying somebody's my mentee who I've never met, promoting his church with my voice. It's crazy. There's an AI video of me preaching to somebody's platform I've never even met. I'm standing behind this pastor's podium, and I never even met this particular pastor. AI is doing that with my voice and with my likeness. So when you read the scriptures about this talking, it like this figure, whatever it is, right? The scripture talking about this talking figure blaspheming God and exalting a person antichrist. What is that?

SPEAKER_03 4:40

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:41

If you have a better idea, throw it in the comments. We love to read what it is. I believe that's gonna be AI technology, that the Antichrist will use AI technology to set up that hologram in Jerusalem, and it will it will proclaim him and blaspheme the name of God. That's crazy. And so there is a lot of things happening right now in the world, from the rise of AI to things we've seen in world governments that just it's it's screaming at the body of Christ that we're in the fourth quarter and that we're getting closer to the end. And so that's why we see societies trying to move towards paperless societies. We see the rise in everything being electronic. Um, they're talking about a 10 uh a 10 nation confederacy right now in Europe. They're having those conversations. The scripture does talk about the Antichrist leading a 10 a 10 nation confederacy. Like so, all the things that's happening right now in the news, we we we see we see the unfolding of things in the news globally.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

These are the seeds of things in biblical prophecy that are screaming to the world, we are near the end. Yeah, right. And we we read these things in scripture, but we see them unfolding right now in society. We see all of the pieces coming together. And um and and so anyway, uh I don't want to I wanna belabor the point.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

Nah, but but I think it's important, you know, because I I think AI can be used as a tool, but we want to encourage you, use your AI. What is your AI? Actual intelligence. You know what I'm saying? Don't don't don't rely on artificial intelligence more than you depend on your actual intelligence. And if you can do that, I'm telling you, it can work as a benefit to help you.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Oh, I was I was I didn't mean to cut you off, bro. I was thinking, I was sitting in my mind trying to think, why are we talking about AI on our podcast? And you were saying people was pointing out AI videos saying that you and I was fighting each other when we took a break. Right. So now we need to say to the street team, like, ain't no beef on the couch, right? This is real relationship. You know why we took a pause? A pause is called rest. Rest. Rest is holy, rest is godly, and God created everything in six days, and on the seventh day he rested. God did not rest because he was tired. God rested to teach us a lesson. He rested to give us a model that we need to know how to work and rest. And that is godly. Yo, having hustle to the point where you kill yourself is not godly. No. Right? Rest is godly. That's why vacations matter. Yes. Pulling away matter. Yes. And if you got pushed back on this, then just follow the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. It said he himself would slip away often to be alone with God. We see Jesus preaching and slipping away, teaching, slipping away, feeding, slipping away. I've said this before. Uh doing ministry in the thousands. He had a crowd of thousands, doing doing conference style ministry. And then slipping away. Right. And so Tim and I did our first season. We went on tour, we traveled, did all the things, we had to take some rest. And uh and here we are.

SPEAKER_03 7:44

Rested, ready to go, season two. And it's a beautiful journey. I mean, this this season, these episodes that we have released have been my favorite so far because of the text and the time that we live in and how important these kingdom conversations are uh to be infused in the culture and society. Just like AI, you know, we live in an AI generation, and every generation has its own uh mechanism that provides industries. Yeah. You know, there was the industrial era, there was the technology era, the dot-com era. Now we live in this AI.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

And AI AI will create new industries. Yes. And like I said before, it will it will dismantle other industries, but it's not going anywhere. And and again, I think we will, we I think AI technology, I could see how that unfolds in biblical context, but AI is here, it's not going nowhere. Um let me let me can I just say let me let me put this out there real quick too, because like our attorneys is constantly dealing with fake pages, AI pages, and all the things. Listen, I have one page on Facebook and one only. Right? I have one page on TikTok and one only. I have one page on Instagram and one only, and I have one page on XM, one only. And so I don't have 25 pages on all these different platforms. I am not asking you for money in your DMs. I'm not, I'm not prophesying to you. It's crazy. Like, we'd be getting emails from people saying Pastor Phil prophesied to me and saying this, he needs so many seconds. I need to say, like, listen, man, I don't do that kind of stuff. I need y'all to hear me. I'm not that kind of dude. I'm not I'm not selling holy water and prophets lying, and that's not me. I'm not that kind of dude. So if you got some DM from me saying Pastor Phillip, you know, prophesied to me and told me to meet him in this city at this time, and that's not me. Okay, I don't engage in DMs like that. I don't ask people for money. I barely take up offerings at my own church. So if somebody's saying I'm in your DMs asking you for money, that's not true. That's not me. Okay, so I don't get down like that. So I'm not nobody's DMs begging them for capital and giving out false prophecies and selling holy water. That's that's just not I'm not that I'm not that dude. I need to just get that straight because we do see a lot of people that's being taken advantage of by that stuff. And they, you know, and they they sent us emails saying, you know, PAM said this, and no, I have not. Right? So anyway. Yeah, man. Um, so yeah, we're not, I know there's AI videos of Tim and I beef. No, it ain't no beef. We took a rest and um and we're here now. Absolutely. Yeah, we in First Peter.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

First Peter, and what verse we in for this.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Yeah, we in First Peter, uh a letter that was written to a church under persecution in the first century, and Tim and I want to keep repeating that in the culture we're living in. We see hostility against Christianity. Yeah, it's increasing around the world, around the globe. In fact, uh more Christians are being put to death now than even in the first century. In the last century, we've lost more brothers and sisters, and there is an intolerance for Christ and an intolerance for the people of God that is increasing. And Peter's writing a letter to people that's feeling that pressure, they're feeling that heat, and he's trying to encourage them, not with empty platitudes or with materialism. He's trying to encourage them with things that are eternal and things that cannot be taken from us. And uh, in our study together, man, we're right here at verse 10, right? And so he starts his encouragement at verse 3. That encouragement, we read that all the way we came to verse 9, and then he comes to verse 10. He says, Concerning this salvation, what salvation? Right? Concerning this salvation, there is only one salvation, right? The word this is very important. There is no multiple salvations. Yeah, there's no multiple roads to God, right? If there's multiple roads to God, then Jesus was a liar.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

Yep. Say it again, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:26

If there are multiple roads to God, then Jesus was a liar. And I know there's a lot of influential people say there's multiple roads to God and they mean well, but they're mistaken. And there's a lot of other religions say there's multiple roads to God and they mean well, but they are mistaken. And you could be strong and wrong at the same time. And there are a lot of false religions that are strong and wrong, and there are a lot of people who have influence who are strong and wrong, right? Somebody's lying. Either Jesus was lying or your favorite influencer's lying, right? Who's credible? Now, this this is where I stand, right? Jesus, when he was alive, because Peter says this salvation, you know what this is? This is exclusive. It is narrow. That means there's not multiple rules. So let me just put it like this: When the Lord was alive in the earth, he said something that was very exclusive and very narrow. He said, I am, watch the word, the way, singular. Yeah. The truth, singular, and the life, singular. No one comes to the Father, God, but through me. Now, Jesus made a statement that was very controversial. Philip Anthony Mitchell did not make this statement. Timothy Timberlake, dang, I'll put your whole government in call. Tim Timberlake did not make this because you know I'll call you Timothy off mic. Like, what's good, Timothy? Whole government. Tim Timberlake did not say that. So pause, right? Right? Before you sent us any hate speech. Jesus said, I am the singular way. I am the way, the truth, no multiple truths, the life. No one comes to the Father. That's God but through me. So now we got to make a decision. Either Jesus was credible or he was a liar. If Jesus was credible, there is only one God and one pathway to God. If Jesus is not credible, there are multiple pathways to God. Now, how do we know if Jesus was credible? He is not the founder, he's not the only founder of a major religion. There are other founders of major religions that people are practicing all around the world. However, no one in history, there is no documented evidence in history of anyone ever coming back from the grave who was a founder of a religion. But one. Jesus was seen alive by over 500 eyewitnesses who wrote accurate accounts that have been preserved in history. We saw the man who was crucified and buried. We saw him alive. We touched his hands, we ate food with him, and he talked to us for 40 days. And based on that, we wrote down accurate accounts of his life after death. Watch. And they went on, some of those men, to give their lives for what they saw. Very rarely can you find a man to die for the truth, let alone die for a lie. And those apostles, with the exception of John, gave their lives as martyrs for what they saw. Peter was crucified upside down. James was thrown off the temple and his head bashed him with a club. Another man was flayed. That means they skinned him alive, then killed him. One was thrust through with spears. All those apostles died for what they saw. What did they see? A resurrected Christ. So you got to choose either what your favorite influencer says or what Jesus says. Somebody got to be credible. Everybody's not credible. Right?

SPEAKER_03 14:47

Phil, let me let me let me insert this because oftentimes people believe that you're talking from one position. They don't know this because we ain't never talked about this on the podcast. But at one point in your life, you practice another word.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

I did practice another religion.

SPEAKER_03 15:01

And so you're talking from the posture and the position, not of what you think, but of what you know because of revelation.

SPEAKER_01 15:10

So you're right. So we've never talked about this on the podcast. When I graduated college, uh, I went to North Carolina Central University. Shout out to all the HBCUs. I graduated college two months after 9-11, and uh and I I was brought into um another religion. And I was in the other religion for a little while, you know, and I did all the things. I stopped eating pork, you know, praying five times a day. I was doing all the things. And after a while, I just felt empty. I just felt like I'm doing all of these things, but it's like it's like synapsis, right? It's like something wasn't connecting. And I'm like, I'm I'm praying, but I I don't, I'm not, I just felt empty. Yeah. I felt like something was missing. And um, and I remember after a while, uh, it I just had questions that were unanswered and I had frustrations. And uh and so, yes, I'm not speaking as a man that has only been a Christian, I'm speaking as a man that also practiced another religion, and I knew the emptiness of that religion. I know what it is to now to be in Christ and be alive because the Holy Spirit is alive on the inside of me. Yeah, right? The Holy Spirit is alive on the inside of me. You know what I'm saying? And um I'm I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go further than that. Right now, as I'm talking, right now, as Tim and I talking, one of my best friends in life is sitting in the studio, right? A dude I've been in the street, I've ran the street with since I was 12, right? And we was in them streets hard. He's from New York, I'm from New York, he's here. You know what I'm saying? Uh he's one of the founders of Investfest. My man, uh, I know him as Matthew Garland. Y'all know him as MG, the mortgage man, right? One of the most uh influential mortgage loan bankers in the country, right? He's one of the founders of InvestFest, he's in the studio right now. We've been in the street, you know, since we were 12 years old. He's seen my whole life. You know what I'm saying? We've been rocking for three decades, right? But he he also saw when my life made a change. My wife made a pivot. He saw when something changed in my life. It was evident we would have conversations about this. Something happened to me that he saw, right? It wasn't just rhetoric. He saw something happen to me. He saw my life change. I mean, he's sitting in the room right now. He he saw something physically with the life, something happened to my man DAP. Right? That's what he used to call me, DAP. Something happened to him. You know, you know, you know what happened to me? I got filled with the spirit. You know what that happened when I gave my life to Christ when I was suicidal in a bathroom over a toilet seat. And I met the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who who unzipped me, zipped me up with the Holy Spirit and transformed my entire life. That other religion I was in did not do that. You know why that didn't happen to other religion? Because the Spirit of God has attached himself to only one word religion, Christianity. Come on. And at the center of the church is this massive light, the person of the Holy Spirit who empowers the church. So wherever the people of God are, power's there. Yes. And wherever the church is, power's there. Why? Because on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit united himself to the church. So our testimony goes beyond rhetoric.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Right? Let me tag, man. We we the whole episode is gone. Our whole testimony goes beyond rhetoric. It goes beyond speeches, it goes beyond proclamation, it goes beyond songs, it goes beyond writings. It goes beyond that. Why? Because we have a book that was written through men, 40 of them by the Holy Spirit. Watch. 40 human authors writing over 1500 years, writing on three different continents, speaking three different languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. Yet from Genesis to Revelation, there is a unity of thought.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

There are multiple people in the studio right now. And if you put us in separate rooms and gave us one topic and say, everybody write about this topic for two hours and then put our writings together, we would not have a unity of thought. How did 40 men do that over 1500 years, three different continents, three different languages? Impossible apart from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So we have a book that was inspired by the Spirit. We have a body of believers around the whole world that's empowered by the Spirit. And so was our preaching, and so was our songs, and so was our witness, and so was the men that died for what they saw. This salvation, Peter said, a resurrected savior. Talk to talk, Phil. A resurrected. That's why we have the faith. This salvation, the word of God. They died for what they saw. A resurrected Jesus, right? Ain't no multiple roads to God. One. One. Right? So when Peter says, I gotta hop off my soapbox, no bro.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

I love soapbox fill. I gotta hop off my soapbox.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

So when so when Peter says this concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully. How about that, Tim? Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be, even when he talked about the prophets who prophesied. This book I have in my hand that Tim have in my hand is the watch this, the only religious book in the world. How many? Only that have hundreds, maybe thousands of prophecies that have come to pass. Watch this word accurately. Not one prophecy from the scriptures from the Bible has ever fallen to the floor. It cannot. Because it was inspired by the Spirit of God. Who, if God cannot lie, then we know that this Bible can be watched this word. Trusted.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Man, you you're talking and yo, my bad, bro.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna hop off my soapbox right now. I'm about to, I'm about to you know, I shouldn't even call it a soapbox. This is love. This is proclaiming the truth.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

But I'm about to put gasoline on this fire. Man, throw the gasoline on there. So some people they they only see who you are now, right? But they have no idea who Jesus kept you from becoming. Right? Think about that, Street Team. Everybody they see who you are now, but they have no idea who Jesus kept you from becoming. Just for a second, Phil. Just think about and talk about who you would have become separate from Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I was uh I was twelve years old when I started selling crack cocaine. I was thirteen when I started, you know, having sex with women and ruining their lives. I was seventeen when I first robbed somebody at gunpoint. Um I spent my eighteenth birthday uh in a prison cell in Rikers Island, right here in the city of New York. Um this dude, uh MG and I, we ended up, you know, in in another state, North Carolina, in your state, pushing weight. You know, pushing weight and and all kinds of shootouts in the streets and the clubs and um blanketing campuses with you know with all type of drugs and you know, and and I just think like if I were to continue down that path, you know, and you know, my man MG is here, he could testify, we got friends that's not here. Yeah. I mean he's a businessman today, you know what I'm saying? I'm a minister and you know I have businesses and um I I could probably say I either do be doing a long-term bid somewhere, or I'll be in a box, you know, or I'll be in a box. And and truth be told, people never you never talked about this on the podcast. But people don't know your story. They could say the same thing about you, you know what I'm saying? You you took a bullet to the side, right? You took a bullet to the side, you was pushing weight in the streets of North Carolina. I mean, you had Christian parents, but you were crazy. Yeah. And I think a lot of people don't know that part of your story. You know what I'm saying? I know I would probably be doing a long-term bid off being a box, but tell them your story and where you think you would be if it wasn't for this salvation that Peter's talking about.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

Yeah, I I I could not envision my life beyond 21. Like I couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

Yeah, but why don't you tell them?

SPEAKER_03 23:22

Just because of the life that I live. You was crazy. I was I was a nut. Yeah. Just riddled by anger, angry with God, wanting to do anything. Messing with cartels. Yeah, want to do anything to make God angry with me the way I was angry with him. Yeah. And um my mom, man, I remember just breaking her heart just so many times. Yeah. And looking at disappointment in her face, and she told me, either you're going to die or you are going to go away for a very long time, and you have to make it a decision. Yeah. What do you want to do? Yeah. And I honestly didn't know. And I knew what I didn't want to become. I didn't know how to achieve it. Yeah. I didn't know how to go about becoming someone different. Yeah. That was all I knew. And you know, I look back now at that kid and the various uh 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18-year-olds in our churches now. Yeah. And I think that's why we preach with the passion that we preach with. Because it's a version of us sitting in that congregation. Yeah. Sitting across the screen somewhere. Yeah. Sitting listening to this podcast. That don't have hope. That don't know how in the world God would ever use someone broken like them. And I'm just telling you, if God can use us and our broken past and our dumb, absolutely dumb decisions, like neither one of us are supposed to be here right now. Yeah. By by all accounts, we are both supposed to be dead. We are both supposed to be locked up. Yeah. We're both supposed to have completely different lives. But thank God we'll never experience that difference.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

And that's because of what Peter said here in this text. This salvation. You know, and um, you know, I I wanna I wanna say this, you know, you mentioned about, you know, not being able to see past 21. You know, I remember when even when like MG and I was in the streets, I don't I don't even think like he when he and I was in the streets and we went to Andrew Jackson High School in Queens, you know, I didn't even think like like we didn't even talk about the future. Right? We didn't even yeah, right? We never Yeah, we never had a we never had a real conversation about the future. I don't even think like I don't even think we ever talked about any day but the day we was in. We was just trying to survive each day we was in. We never talked about the future. We never talked about we never talked about yeah, we only talked about throwing parties, you know what I mean? We always we always talked about throwing parties and um we never talked about the future. I remember when uh remember when Hash Brown, when we found out uh he had actually applied for college, all of us was confused. He got accepted to college, right? He got accepted to Hampton. And I remember when MG and I graduated, well we barely I don't even know if we really graduated high school. They shut our high school down, they just pushed us out. So I don't even I didn't even know if we officially had to go summer school. So I didn't even know if we even officially graduated from high school. We went to Andrew Jackson in Queens, it was like the second worst high school in Queens outside of like Springfield, and our high school they shut it down. So we was the last group of seniors and we terrorized that school, bro. And um, and I they shut the school down, so they just pushed us out. So I didn't even know if we like on paper officially graduated. That's crazy. But we didn't, we never took no SATs, we didn't plan for college. The point I'm trying to make is we never thought about tomorrow. Yeah, we had no hope beyond the day we was in. That's the way that that's the way that we live. We just he and I we just live, and the team we ran, we just live for today. Yeah, we had we had no hope beyond tomorrow, you know what I'm saying? And so I never thought about today. I wouldn't even imagine he'd be where he is, you know what I'm saying? Or I'd be where I am, you know what I mean? And um, and yo, and uh, yo, bro, I'm about to pray out. Come sit on this couch for me real quick, bro. Yeah, I'm dead serious. Come sit over here. Yeah, just just sit right here. You know what I mean? And just cop a squat, man. You know what I mean? Impromptu, yo. Um, so you know, it was like um we never, you know, we never thought about, you know, tomorrow or anything like that be, you know what I mean? And um, and uh I can't even imagine what his life would be. So, you know, but we we we survived. We made it out of we made it out. And um, and so I just I just want to say, you know, I just want to say to somebody watching right now, you know what I mean, like, um I don't know where you are. You know, maybe maybe there's somebody watching, somebody listening right now, maybe you lost hope. Maybe maybe there's a parent right now watching you have a teenager that was like us, just just like Tim, you know, like us three. Maybe you have a teenager who's just crazy and in the street, just wow. Maybe you have a teenager that's just just out there. Yeah and and I want to say they don't give up on them. Yeah, and I mean don't don't give up on them, don't let them go. You know what I mean? Um belief, right? Belief. And um I'm talking to I'm talking to two categories of people right now. I'm talking to people who are not thinking about tomorrow, um, who've maybe lost hope. The trials of life has pushed you to a place where you can't see beyond tomorrow. I'm talking to you. I'm talking to people who have people in your life who you love. Maybe they can't see beyond tomorrow. Maybe a teenager is crazy, whatever the case be. But you know what we have? We have this salvation that Peter talked about. We we have a God in heaven who loves and who cares. We have a God in heaven who could transform lives, who can pull men out and all the things, right? And so, and so I just want to encourage you. Um, I want to encourage you in this salvation that we have. This salvation is a message of hope. Uh, this salvation has a future. Uh, this salvation has an eternity to put us in with God. Uh, this salvation gives us strength. Yeah. This uh salvation. Um, that's what I want to encourage you in. And I want to take a second right now to just speak life to you. Uh that there is life for this salvation, and and and and and maybe you know somebody that needs to hear that, right? Remind them of the power in this salvation. So uh Father, in the name of Jesus, um we just thank you uh for your grace that kept us alive in our ignorance. Yeah, Lord. We all three of us could have been dead and gone, um burning in eternal flames. Um, but you've kept us alive. Even when we were far away, you kept us alive, and for that we'll be thankful. And right now, I just want to pray. Um this salvation for somebody watching. Uh one for the believer, they remember the hope that we have in our message that must go out to the whole world. And I want to pray for one who is just struggling in hope. If life has beat them down, uh, would you just encourage them right now that they'll find hope in this salvation? I want to pray for the parent that has a teenager that's out there just wild and reckless and crazy, far away. And they've shed tears over that teenager, shed tears over that child, maybe an adult child that's far away. I want to pray they will not give up hope. Um, but they would uh they would they would pray and believe and remember and not give up. I want to pray for the person, Lord, on the sound of my voice who can't see past tomorrow. They're not even thinking about the next day. Help them to know there's hope in a future in this salvation that Peter talked about. And um and and Holy Spirit, I just pray that you would do right now across the camera when I'm not smart enough to say, because I don't know everybody's circumstance, but we all will find hope in this salvation. And uh and I pray that over the person watching and listening right now, uh in the mighty and the majestic and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and all God's people, man. We just say amen together. Hey, listen, um, if you're gonna be in Atlanta um August, when is Investfest?

unknown 31:23

Uh weekend of August 7th.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

If you're gonna be in Atlanta uh the weekend of August 7th, my man MG is one of the founders of Investfest. It is the world's probably largest. It is the world's largest gathering of uh investors, business professionals, entrepreneurs. It is educational, it's powerful. Uh Tim and I are gonna be there. Absolutely. Yeah, Tim and I are gonna be there at Investfest, and so I want to give, I want to take a chance to just plug investors. So if you're in Atlanta, you're anywhere in the country, man, get your tickets, come to investors. We didn't plan to do this, right? So I'm not getting paid to do this. It is impromptu, right? Like it is like it's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_04 32:06

Like I even got on black.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

Yo, this is so impromptu, right? This is not the plan, yo. It's not the plan. Um, but uh I I had a chance to speak at Investfest last year. That was really dope. Tim and I will be in Investfest this year. So if you're an entrepreneur, business professional, listen, real estate, you just want to get up on game, you want to move your company forward, man. Uh Investfest, um, dope lineup this year. It's happening August.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

This weekend of August 7, Investfest.com, get your tickets. Um, you want me to do a full drop? Yo, bro, go ahead, bro. You know, pass the mic. So look, Investfest, it is the largest, the largest financial literacy festival in the world. It is. Last year we had 25,000 people a day. This year we're gonna probably do about 30,000 people a day. Um, Investfest.com. Uh shout out to my partners, uh, Earn Your Leisure, Troy Mike Rashad, Ab. Um, so get your tickets, man. It's everything you want to learn, no matter, and I want to say this, it's not just for beginners, right? It's not just like if I'm trying to buy my first home or I'm trying to buy my first stock or something like that. This is for entrepreneurs, this is for the W-2 worker, this is for just anybody who's looking to scale and grow no matter what level you're at, right? We have content for everybody. There's three stages. There's always a lot of information education. There's not just a lot of motivation because I think when you go to conferences and things like that, there's always like motivation. Yeah. People want to motivate you and inspire you. We want to give you resources so you can go out there and execute, right? And that's what Investfest is all about is ex execution, right? The information's on us, the execution is on you. Say that again. Right. The information's on us, the execution is on us. I don't know, man. Say that one more time. Information is on us. Information is on us. The execution is execution is on you. Right. So Investfest.com, come network. And also, I want to tell you, when you go, even if you go to tour, um, see street preachers, you go to Investfest, I know you come to see the people on the stage, but you got to realize the person that's next to you is there for the same reason you're there.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

And I think too many times people want to do like the meet and greets, they want to do this, they want to do that, but they're not even looking to the left and the right of them. Yeah, right? Those people are right next to you, got the same mindset. Because sometimes in your inner circle, you're talking about now we're gonna we we're gonna extend this episode. So now you're talking about like growing up, right? And we didn't think about the future. And fast forward 2026, there's still people in your circle today that are not thinking the same way you're thinking. Yeah, they don't have the same ambitions, the same goals, they don't have that drive, right? Yeah, so sometimes you gotta go out of your inner circle to get into a new circle. Say that again. You gotta go out your inner circle to get into a new circle and build a new community and build out your new community. Right? Because sometimes your brothers, your sisters, your aunts, your uncles, your co-workers, they're just not there yet. And that's okay, right? Sometimes you gotta leave people where they are. Yeah. Right. And go and walk in your own greatness and be next to people who can motivate you to a level to where it's gonna help you execute. That next business partner, that next prayer partner might be right next to you. And you never know unless you open your mouth and start talking to people. So when you come to these events, whether it's InvestFest, whether Street Preachers tour, you have to network with the people that is next with you. You got a fellowship. That's what it's all about. And if you're not fellowshipping, you're doing yourself a tremendous disservice at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

And that and that goes to and that goes to the power of community, right? It goes it goes to the power of community. Um, I love a love of my man MG seems very important, right? It's even like in our in our Sunday morning gatherings, you'll come to Sunday morning gathering, but you won't have conversations with people in the role, and you never know what people are going through, or God might have your blessing in the person right next to you. You won't have that conversation, right? So like what MG's talking about, the power of community, and I think that's very, very powerful. Yo, thank you for sharing that, bro. You know, and thank you for just an impromptu invading the podcast. That's true. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 36:23

Stay ready. You ain't gotta get ready. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Yo, stay ready. And and that's why, and that's why Or Jose, a prepared messenger, will always be better than a prepared message. Come on. Right? You know what I'm saying? And Tim and I want to be prepared messages, is why we don't script our podcast. That's it. Right, we want to be prepared messages. And so, so boom, Investfest, August. August 7th, weekend August. August 7th, August, and then the website Investfest.com. Investfest.com. And Tim and I will be at Investfest. So yeah, if you come to Investfest, you get a chance to um just you know, boom, we all chop it up, we meet each other. Absolutely, right, Tim? Absolutely, man. Yo, uh thank you for joining us on this episode. This, I don't even know what we're gonna call this. On this impromptu episode of the Street Preachers podcast with Tim Timberlake, Philip Anthony Mitchell, MG, the mortgage guy. Listen, if this episode was a blessing to you, do us a favor, like, comment, talk to each other in the comments, right? You never know who you meet in the comments. That's right. Like, comment, talk to each other in the comments, subscribe, and share, right? If this message was a blessing to you, this episode was a blessing to you. Copy, paste, text, share this with somebody, it'll be a blessing to you. Um, we hope to see you at Investfest. Tim and I hope to see you on tour. Yeah. All information is at our website, streetpreachers.tvtv. Yes, sir. Uh, we love you, Street Team. Can't wait to see you in our next episode. You'll go in peace.