Episode 30: Perfectly Imperfect

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How y'all doing? Hey people. Guys, uh it's like these days are flying by now. Yeah. It's like they don't even have time to breathe. But hey, we made it back to one another so we do it. All right. For the video. What's the main idea today, Tina? Being imperfectly perfect. That's imperfectly perfect. Or perfectly imperfect. That's even better. Perfectly imperfect. That's even better. I like it. Perfectly imperfect. Alright, y'all. Y'all better stick around because it's gonna get a good one, honey. You already know. All right. Sounds like transparency coming up. Okay. Talk about it, be about it, be real about it, honey. Don't play with it, all that. Alright. You already know. I'm coming through the back door. If you had a birthday, if you had a birthday, if you had a birthday, happy birthday. Happy, happy, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy, happy, happy birthday to you. It's your birthday, and it's June, y'all, and it's about to be warm. So if you had a birthday, I ain't got nothing else to say to this song. Anyway, happy birthday, y'all. Happy birthday. And we wish you many, many more. Absolutely. All right. Here come this mood. Okay, mood chick, mood chick. You want me to go first? Yes, I do. How you feeling today, Jay? So today, I, you know, this morning when I woke up, I wasn't really too hot. So I I don't know. I was feeling a little sick and I'm like, what is going on? But then, you know, it didn't last too long. Okay. And I guess I am. I don't know. I feel like there are no clouds in my sky. All right. Ooh, wee. I like that. I like that. There are no clouds in my sky. It's a clear day. The sky is blue. The sun is out. That's all right. Perfect for flying? Yes, the birds are chirping. Wow. You know, it's like a little breeze out there. So if I want to put my kite up, I can, and it's gonna fly. Right. You know, I feel good. All right. I like that. I like that. It's a little, you know. I like that. I love the way you explain that. She said my skies are clear. There is no clouds. No clouds in this sky. I feel good. I feel good. I feel um, I feel decent. I feel very um. How do I explain? So I've been working, working, working, working, working. So you know how it is when um you're on a um adrenaline high? Yes. Okay. And you just work and work and work and work and working because you like, I gotta get this done. I gotta get this done. And I promise you right now I'm working off adrenaline. And you know what happens after the adrenaline kind of? It's usually a crash out. Yeah, and so pretty soon I'm sure it's probably gonna come. So if you call and you don't hear from me, it's because your girl is just trying to get a little bit of rest. That's all. That's all. Okay. Well, I'm on an adrenaline rush. Yeah, well, you better answer my call because I'm gonna call everyone. I want to your kids. I will and she will. And she will and she will. I don't care. I will answer your call, Jay. All right. Everybody else, I just need y'all to give me just a second. Okay. Quick second. Jay's gonna just tap in real quick and then be like, you got it? Okay, talk to him later. Yeah. And my nephew's gonna be saying, uh He will. You need to call Jay. He will. Girl, I'll tell you, as soon as I walked in the house, you had called the other day. And I had just gone out. Um, I had just gone outside because I had to go grab something. And I had come back in, and as soon as I come back in, he was like, call Jay. I was like, okay, I got it. Yeah. Period. Because I've been looking for her. Y'all, the check-in is for real with us. You need to make sure that you check in with your people, make sure that your people are good. You never know what's going on with folks, you know. Um I was watching, um, I was watching um trying to catch up on Zatima, right? And, you know It's new episode. Well, it was for me because I had to play catch up. I had to get through season four. I had to go. I don't know where I am. Yeah. I I I left off somewhere at season three. But anyway, um I noticed something in you know in that show. They are always constantly checking in on one another, and they check in on one another um in the perfect timing because you just never know what's happening. And I know that's a TV show, but what I'm talking about is like for is like real life. If you truly have people in your life, um friends, family that you truly do care about, check in on your folks. If you call them and you don't hear back from them, check in, go by, don't just go by, go in, walk in the house to see about your people. Go by if these people aren't answering the phone or whatever, because it could be anything. You know, on that last one on that last episode in uh season four, um, it just so happened that uh spoiler alert. Yeah. Go ahead. Maybe I shouldn't. It's fine. Go ahead. Maybe I shouldn't. It's important. It just so happened that Fatima ended up going over to check on a homegirl, and home girl was laid out on the floor. Y'all, life is real for real. You don't know what people are doing because we don't tell everybody everything that we got going on what we're doing. And and the thing about it is we talk about it all the time, but it is our responsibility to take care of one another. It is love our neighbor as as you love us as as you love yourself. That's right. So you have to make sure that you are intentional. And you have to make sure that it's even if it's just, hey, I just want to hear your voice. Right. Like, I mean, because let's face it, we all living in this world together. That's right. That's right. And it's not favorable right now, it doesn't feel good. That's right. Gas is $29.52. Ain't it? Food is $100 for uh for a p a hamburger. Yeah. Like, it's just ridiculous right now. And I don't care what your status is, it's just not, we don't have enough for what we need. Right. To be honest. I don't care what the status is at this point. Like, we we should all be feeling it. And we all are feeling it. That's right. So check it. Save it or not. Again, check in. Check in and make sure that you know people are good. If you got some extra rice, see if somebody needed. That's right. That's right. And it doesn't make a difference what it is that you have to offer. We sometimes look at things like it's not enough, especially if we're offering something to somebody. You don't know that could be somebody saving grace. What if they have absolutely nothing in their case? I've been there, done that. I have I have seen that before. You know, people look at you. We talked about this. They look at you and they see you in your glory and they see you in your beauty. Don't know what in the world you come from, what you've been, you know, what you've been doing. I have been there. I can remember us not having, it was hard because the boys were just born, they were babies, and money was it seemed like non-existent. And it wasn't because it wasn't because um my uh husband wasn't working or anything, it was just because it's expensive to keep up kids. And then you gotta keep yourself up. Girl! And one thing about it is as parents, parents gonna sacrifice themselves to make sure they're getting sure their kids are good. Girl, I remember them covers. I remember them covers being bare and looking at it and being like, oh my lord. And I remember one day I said, I opened up the cover and I looked in it and I said, it was empty. And I looked at it and I said, Tomorrow we eating steak. Guess what? Mm-hmm. The next day, God blessed us. I believe that's steak. I believe that, Tina. I remember growing up single parent home with my mom and things just appearing. Like out of nowhere, like gas money. Yeah, in the couch. She finds $20 on the on the on the um beer. Girl, there's $10 or exactly what she asked God for. And we know that we had looked through everything already. Or somebody just showed up to your doorstep with groceries. That part. And you like, what in the world? That part. I can't tell you, there's been multiple times for that to happen to us, you know, for me and my family. That's why I'm like, people do not. God is your provider. Jesus will provide for you. He is. And I mean, Jehovah Jara, like, come on now. I know that to be so. Ain't he? And not just when I was growing up. I'm talking about in a damn hood. I'm talking, I'm talking about not qualifying for things and then the Lord changed things around just by one little sentence. Yeah. And then you qualify and you approve for it and you get it. Like Nourage the people today. Somebody needed to hear that. Yeah, like you got to know who you serve. You got to know who you believe in and who is and who believe in is providing for you. That's right. So check in, guys. Yes. Check in with love on them with open arms. Don't go to anyone with your arms closed or your hands closed. Right. Because as you're providing love and as you are pouring out to them, keep your hands open because God is gonna pour back to you. Amen. Good word. All right, y'all. Well, here we come. It's your favorite. It's my favorite. It's the nephew pup's favorite. It's everybody's favorite. Everybody's WYD. Guys, I'm just gonna pause. I don't know if y'all can hear, but we we near training. And sometimes it'll be trying to it'll be trying to mess with us, but I don't think y'all can hear that, but it's okay. Anyway, WWYD, baby. This is where you get to come on this podcast and sit right here with me and T in the studio. And you get to talk to us, have a conversation. Let's talk about it. If you got suggestions, if you need advice, if you're dealing with something right now, and oh my God, I just don't know what to do. I don't know what decision to make. I need a little help. I got a thought, but maybe your thought might be better. I don't know. We're here for it. We are here for it. And guys, we encourage you all. You all are our listeners. We got so many listeners. We appreciate y'all. Engage. If you if if we say something, you're like, no, this may work for them. Right. Put it in the comments. Yes, yes. Like, we want you to engage. Unlike other people, we actually like listen. And we appreciate it. And appreciate it. And we'll talk about it. Yeah. Yeah, we're like to hear. Because Lisa said, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, we'll say that. Like, oh, that makes good sense. You know what I mean? Perfectly great sense. So, yes. So you can um DM us on any of these socials that we are on because we are on all of them. Or you can send us the email to Jesscas80s at gmail.com. We are waiting and ready to talk to you and have a conversation. All right, y'all. This one right here is from April. Hey, April girl. April bring May. Oh no, that's May. Okay. Hey. Hey, April. Hey, April. Hey, I am graduating this year. Oh, you're a baby. Well, you're not a baby, but you, you know, coming into your adulthood. But anyway, I am graduating this year, and all I know is I want to go to college, and I have been accepted to UNC Charlotte. Wow. So that's University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in um Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. But I am undecided about my career. W W Y D. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So you want to go first? You want me to go first? You want to go first? Go ahead. April! I am so excited. Okay, so April, I used to live in Charlotte back in the day. But um you were undecided about your career. This is amazing. Like, that's great. This is a time that you can be. This is a time that it's perfectly normal to have a question mark. I don't know what I want to be. I don't know what I want to do. But you get to explore. This is so much fun. You get to go to school, you get to hop into the career center, you get to hop into and talk with your counselors and explore the world of all that UNC Charlotte has to offer. And you get to determine what you want to be. You get to determine and say, you know what? This sounds interesting. Oh, I may feel more comfortable over here. And the wonderful part about it is you just getting started. So you got time. Yeah. Absolutely. What do you think? Absolutely. Same thing. I I completely agree with everything you said. April, you have plenty of time. Go ahead, get registered. Um, take your first year. Your first year, do your core core classes. You don't know what you want to do, then do core classes. Those are classes that you have to take. Yeah. You have to have those classes done before you can graduate. And in a lot of cases, there are prerequisites in order for you to do other classes. So take your core classes first. That'll give you time in the um in your first year to try to figure out what it is you like to do. Like while Jay said, you're talking, you're going to the business center and talking to um counselors and things like that to help you figure out what it is that you like to do. Pay attention to, it seems like to me, you know, we always say we don't know what you a lot of us say we don't know what we want to do. Some people know, but a lot of us um are undecided about what it is that we truly want to do because we don't have experience in that field until we kind of learn how it works and to navigate it. And so the good thing about that is there are internships. Yeah. You can try out different things. Yeah, you can shadow, you can do, you know, you can do these different things to try to see if it's something that you that you like or that you're interested in. And even your the things that um also consider the things that might be your hobby. Um the things that might be your hobby, it may be your gift. Yeah. You know, so pay attention to those things. And that's interesting too, because April, when I went to undergrad, um, my mom has always worked with health professionals in the university, in the health career center. And she has like produced so many doctors, dentists, all these different people in the medical field, you know, physical therapists, all this. So in my mind, when I went to school, I'm like, oh my God, my mama probably wants me to be in the medical field or something. So here I am, like, I'm gonna be a psychologist. Okay, all right. If that's what you want to do. Okay, no. I was like, and I got that, and I said, Jay, well, yeah, this is not what you want to do. This is not your passion, this is not nowhere near what you're interested in. And I have always been intrigued and captivated by film and television. And I say, you know what, she might be mad. That's okay. But I gotta dive into this because that it with the school that I was at, this was their first um year having the program. It was brand new. I was a trailblazer with it. So I was like, oh yeah, the beginning of things, let's go. Right. So I encourage you, don't do what you think someone else wants you to do. Do what you want to do and that you have a passion and desire to do. No matter how taboo it may sound, no matter how you may think that people may feel a certain type of way. This is your life and your career. That's exactly right. You are the one that has to live it. You're not living your life for anyone other than yourself and hopefully Christ. But you it's your life to live and for you to be pleased, um, pleased with what you, you know, what you choose to do. And you don't what you don't want to end up being is like these people that are sour and they're um unsatisfied about the decisions that they made with their lives because they made those decisions based off of other people and the needs and the wants and the desires of other people. So you make your decision based off of you. Yeah, your interests, your desires. You know, like I said before, sometimes, sometimes the things that we're gifted in ends up being, I heard a saying a long, long, long time ago is that your gifting is what make it brings you prosperity and blessing. I heard that like a long time ago, and I did not understand it when I was young, but as I got older, and by the time that I got ready to graduate, I understood it. God gave me um an ability, an artistic ability to draw and you know, and to do use the computer and to do all these things. So He so he blessed me to put those things together. And I became because I wanted to glorify God with the talents he gave me, right? So some people, because they can draw, they become artists. They catch a lot of you know, talking and stuff or whatever. But guess what? They when they become famous, ain't nobody complaining. You know what I'm saying? So anything that you do is gonna require that you put a lot of effort into it and that you believe in yourself anything that you do. But I took the talent that I had because I love to draw. I love to draw, I love to draw. And then God blessed me with this ability, just this know-how to build computers, make computers, and to utilize software on computers and and all this different stuff. She started to put it together. She really I started to put it together and I realized, okay, I love to draw, I love, um, I love working on the computer. Let me learn how to do um, you know, illustrator, let me learn how to do, and I love to do, you know, photography, let me learn how to do Photoshop. Let me and so I became a um graphic designer and I started doing that stuff freelance because, you know, I couldn't get my foot in the door. So what? See, that's another thing. You don't have to look at obstacles as them being um set in stone to where it says, no, you can't move forward. No, what you do is you just climb over it. That's all you climb over it, and that's why it's very important that you do what you want to do. So because when those challenges come, because they're gonna come, when those challenges come and when it gets hard for you in your career, you're gonna have the perseverance to push forward because you got the desire and the want to do it. That's good. If you're doing something just because you're not gonna finish it because you don't want to do it. That's exactly what it is. If it becomes hard, if it becomes difficult, like Tina said, you're not gonna jump them obstacles, you're gonna walk away from them obstacles like I can do something else. Right. You know? That makes so much sense. Yeah. So much sense. So, April, you got this girl. Girl, that that makes so much sense. Yes, April. Yes, you got this, you got this. It makes so much sense. She said, persevere. It helps you to persevere. It does. Some things you be like, why can't I put this down? Because it's what's in you. Because what's in you. Yeah. And it's hard, and and you, it's hard. It's not even hard. I believe I'm a believer that you can't get rid of what's in you. You can't. Because your creator put it in you. That's right. And so he's gonna make sure that it's fulfilled and it's carried out. So period, April. All right, baby. Well, we are proud of you. You have done the work to get here. Yes, you've done the work for UNC Charlotte to say we want you and we are so happy that you are going there and that you're gonna be brilliant and be amazing with all that you do. Keep us posted, honey. Please do. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right, y'all. We're about to dive into these me and these potatoes and these good old mixed vegetables, okay? Perfectly imperfect or perfectly imperfect. You can start it out with when I hear perfectly imperfect. I think about me. I want to say my whole entire name, but I'm not gonna do that today. I think about Jay. I think about how imperfect I am. I think about my flaws. I think about those things that, and I'm not just talking about like physically or um the things that you see with your naked eye. I'm talking about this stuff that. In me. This stuff that's in me. I would people if you know me, you know me. This mouth. And just because family, I know that y'all know me because I say it all the time. I don't know about what I'm gonna say. I don't know what's about to come out or whatever. But it those are the things that are imperfect in me. And those are the things that I have to battle and deal with daily. And I have to sacrifice daily. I was telling Tina about this today. And I was just like, I have to rebuke myself. Like I have to rebuke those things or come against those things that come out of me and say, look, you got to go. Like I'm not doing this today. And I know that it's gonna show up. I know I'm gonna say the wrong thing. I know I'm gonna respond the wrong way. And I gotta come back to the drawing board and get myself together and try again. And I kind of groan now, y'all, because I think about it before I say it. When I used to then think about it before I say it, and it would come out, and then I have to come back and apologize and try to clean it up. Now I do all that internally. That's growth. And then I try to, you know, push it out there and say what I need to say. Y'all gonna love it when we start doing these videos because I am so animated. See the faces. I am so animated. But I say that to say, I think about all those imperfections, and I know that they are made perfect by Christ, by my belief, by who I believe in. And because he is perfect, and because he is without sin, he is without any blemish, he covers me, and he is helping me and working with me daily. So it's a try. It's like your ability. Y'all listen to this train. Listen. That train is so disrespectful. I know this is not a rant, but it's so disrespectful. You didn't know that we was recording today. You didn't know? And so instead of you just coming by, you want to blow the horn? Yeah, right. When you get here. Disrespectful. Anyway, I'm back. So yeah, so I know that things are made perfect because of who lives in me, who dwells in me. And because God dwells in me, I know he is constantly cleaning up this house. That's good. Because he he can't continue to dwell somewhere where mess is. Come on. So he gotta clean it up and gut it out of you for him to be able to live there. Come on, you're preaching good. So I be like, Lord, take it out. Well, at least you be like, Lord, take it out. Some people don't ask that the Lord take it out. Some people don't ask that they be changed. Some people don't have a repentative heart. Some people are just like, it just is what it is. But no, but you follow, you follow the conviction that the Holy Spirit Spirit brings to you. That's how change happens. That's how maturity happens. It's when you don't do that. And it's when you think that you are beyond um reproach and you are beyond being um um like you're perfect, like you're arrogant. You know, it's it's when you're like that, when you think that you got it all together. You are so righteous, you got it all together. You are already perfect. You don't you don't need to be deemed righteous. You are already righteous. No, let me tell you something. You are not already righteous, you have to be deemed righteous by Christ. We walking around here talking about we we're the righteous. Yeah, we're the righteous because of Christ. We are called the righteous because of Christ and because of his sacrifice and because he because of what he did for us. But guess what? Every day, even though we're called the righteous, even though we call the righteous, every day we make mistakes and we mess up. Are we righteous in our in our mistakes? Are we righteous in our sin? God can't look upon the sin. And if he can't look upon the sin, then that means we still have to always be in a repentative state. So be careful, you know, be so careful as you know, calling yourself so righteous. Because are you righteous or are you self-righteous? Because sometimes we get ourselves and our mind in this in this state to where we believe, oh well, because I'm saved, and because let me ask you something. You know, we always talk about this thing, you know that that once saved, always saved mess ain't right. That ain't real. That's not real because you can change and go back to what you came from and you not meet Jesus. But if you have a repentative heart, and that's where the Lord tells us to leave room for that. So if you're always, if you think in your mind you're that arrogant, and you think in your mind you're always righteous, that's a lie. That's a lie straight out of the pit of hell. That's straight out of the pit of hell. There's no way that you are always in a in a righteous state. There's no way that you don't mess up. There's no way, every last one of us we mess up. We mess up, and that's why God gives us something called grace, because we mess up. We're only considered righteous because of because of Jesus. That's the only reason we're considered righteous. But guess what? We're not deemed righteous until we go before his throne. At that point is when we're deemed righteous, and a lot of people don't pay attention to that fact. And that's exactly how you can mess around and miss heaven because you're walking around down here thinking that you got it all together because you're quote unquote righteous. You're the righteous, you know, because you live your life right and all this stuff. You live your life right on some days and on some occasions, and it's most as and to and to the best of your ability, but you're not perfect. And the only way to go before Christ is that we be perfect because he cannot see, he cannot have his eyes upon sin. So we are not made in our perfection until we go before him, and that's when we're deemed righteous. So we have to have, we have to have that um that window, and we have to have that grace so that um we're not expected to be. Jesus knew it that we're not expected to be perfect. He said, I did not come for the well, it's the sick that need a doctor. That's his word. I think it's like um Matthew 9 and 12 or something like that, but that's his word. He said, I come for the sinner. Okay, well, guess what we are? We were shaped and formed out of out of sin and out of iniquity. So guess what we were? We are. We are sinners, we are sinners saved by grace, so we're not that perfect. We are we are perfectly imperfect. Well, I have a question, Tina, because it's like I have grown up in church and I've seen it done so many times from a child through like young adulthood, like being a teenager and stuff. Why do believers that are seasoned, that are veterans, and they get new new souls to come in? And they look at them, it's all it's that it's that so it's that self-righteousness. They look at them as like they are beneath them, they treat them as though they've never been out there in the world before, or they never done anything that was wrong or whatever. And so then I'm talking about like mothers of the church and deacons and stuff like that, and then you're looking at them like snaring up your nose. Okay, yeah, her skirt is real short. If nobody ever taught her that, you know, you don't have to do that, or if you're coming into the house of the Lord to reverence and honor God, then these are the things that you do. How are people gonna know if they don't have a teacher? My point exactly. If people have to come into the church clean, like I said before, Jesus said that the the well do not need a doctor. If people come in clean already, then what is the job? What is the job and what is the purpose of the teacher and what is the purpose of the pastor and the ministry? What's the purpose of all that? And here's the thing people don't change people, God does. We talk we talk about it so many times that you have to lead in compassion and you have to meet people where they are, right? But I think the misconception and the problem is that as believers, they feel like they make the change in the person. Because of the judgment. Because they feel like they have, they feel like they have the scepter of judgment. And see, that's why I say that's a very, that's a very dangerous line to walk, to put yourself in a position where you feel as if you can judge someone. We're not supposed to judge anyone. What we're supposed to do is lead by example and to teach and to minister and to show love and to show grace. Why would we want to be gatekeepers? We how can you be a gatekeeper of something that does not belong to you? Yeah. Heaven belongs to Christ. The kingdom of God belongs to God. How can we be gatekeepers and try to keep people out? What's funny is you're trying to keep people out of a place that you'll never make it into. Because if you're trying to keep people out of where it is that God has designed us to, um, he's designed us to make it to out of his perfection and out of his change and through his conviction, but because they're not they're not clean enough or righteous enough or um well enough or good enough for you in your eyes that oh, they can't be a part of this or they can't, you know, they won't make it into heaven. When you have a mindset like that and you're the gatekeeper, you're the one that's the sinner. Maybe it's you that need to bow down on your knees before Christ and ask for forgiveness. We are all supposed to, we should all have a repentative heart at all times. At all times. At no point do we ever get beyond where we got it all together. At no point. Because how is it that, let me let me, this is my thing. How do how do we how do we get to call being us thinking that we are the righteous, right? Quote unquote the righteous. How is it that we get to choose who's called and who's chosen? I don't understand. Like that's that's something, that's something, but it's a mindset though, because that's what creates the judgment, and that's what pushes a lot of people away from Christ because we look at people and say that they're not worthy. Let me let me let me put it to you like this. This is something that the Lord has really been dealing with me about, and he's really been speaking to me about. He said, He said to me, you know what? The very people that say, You ain't gonna make it into heaven because you an addict, you ain't gonna make it into heaven because you do this, and you ain't gonna make it into heaven. He said, Those are the very people that think that they are the ones that do the calling and the choosing, and those are the very ones that will not see me. Those are the very ones. So, how is it that we can feel like we know, we know the mind of God? We don't know the mind of God. And let and and let me break it down to you even further. Suppose, suppose you make it into heaven. Suppose, okay? Because at this point with the way it's rolling and and with your judgment and all that stuff, you just might not make it. But suppose you make it into heaven, and then the very people that you looked down at, you looked your nose up and and you looked down upon them, and and you know, because because they were alcoholics or because, you know, they, you know, they just lived a life that wasn't that did not look pleasing to Christ. However, just because they lived a life that looked to you that wasn't pleasing to Christ, you don't know where their repentive heart was, and you don't know what their relationship was with Christ. You don't know if they got the opportunity to get it right because God is gonna judge us by our heart. I'm not saying, or making room for iniquity. I'm not saying that it's okay that we stay in our sin. Now I'm not saying that, but what I'm saying is we don't know the mind of Christ. We don't know that which is unrevealed to us. We don't get that option. So suppose you make it into heaven and then you look around, and guess what? Them very people that you was pointing at and that you were saying, they ain't gonna go to heaven, they ain't gonna go to heaven, and you see them, how you gonna act? And I the and the thing for that uh out of everything that you said, these people do not belong to us. They belong to our fathers. That's good. So how could you stand in a place to tell to tell the God that you serve that his sons and daughters, where they should be, where they should go, what they should do when they belong to God. We all belong to God. He he created us all, no matter what it looks like, because he knew what he the work that he was gonna do over here. He knew how he was gonna have to take this person through this or whatever. He knew that that person wouldn't have been able to handle the first dose. That's right. You know what I'm saying? That's right, James. And so these things is if I if I can allow you to go through this over here, or if I can um have you go through this, I'm raising you up because I need you to go out in the street. So that you can even so you can minister to them and pull and pull them people out. Because the same ones that you was smoking crack with, or the same ones that you was sitting out here on the corner with, prostituting with, right, or the same ones that you was in the strip club with, right? Whatever the case is. That's right. The same guys that you was on the street corner with, selling to, whatever, you gotta go back and get them. Say that. God is not a respecter of persons. And he was a respecter of person. We talked about it. He will. He will use whomever he needs to because why we all belong to him. That's right. God can sober the drunk up. Yes, he can. To send a word to you because you're getting ready to walk straight into the hand of the enemy. That's right. So, so are you are you upset because the drunk told you? There you, that part. Are you upset because he ain't got a suit on and he ain't got no robe on? And when he talked to you, he ain't say, uh, come on. That part right there. That part right there. What is it? God calls us out of who we are. Yes. And out of the characteristic of who we are. He calls us for that particular purpose and for that particular ministry. If you are, like you said, if you are the stripper, you are the dope dealer, you are on the drugs, or you are the um the alcoholic, whatever it is that your issue is, and God calls you out of that, guess what? You got experience. You can go back and minister to those people. It's very hard for me to understand the life of someone, of someone that's been through those types of things if I've not been through. If you've never been through it, it's very hard for me to understand. I'm not saying that the Lord can't use me to minister to them, but I know that he can definitely use the one that's actually been through it because he will make us go through circumstances and experiences in order for us to use it for ministry. He's we overcome by our testimony. That's what the word of God says, which means that we go through these things so that we can testify to somebody else, so that we can bring somebody else out. It's for the glory of God and for the salvation of other people. If we are always looking at the next person, like, oh, well, you um you're not good enough that you can you can minister. You can't be used because you look this way or you look that way. Who are we to try to say that? Who are we to try to judge that? God has the say-so when it comes to that. God offers us all the same salvation. We act as if God offers different salvation. God offers the same salvation. There's a story in the Bible about a um a man that owns a vineyard. And the man that owns the vineyard, right, he needed people to come and work the vineyard. So he went out at different times of the day. He went out very early. He found some people, he told them, Look, I want you to come and work my vineyard. I'd be willing to pay you this amount. They said, okay, so they went with him. He went back out a little bit later and he seen some other people. They were just standing around, not doing anything. He said, I need some more people to come and work, and um I'm gonna pay you this amount. And it was the same amount. He offered the same amount because God offers the same salvation. He offers the same, it's not different. It doesn't change because you're this or you're the you're that. He went, he, those people agreed, they went back to work for him. He went back out again because this is how we should be doing ministry. We should be going in and out to go get the people, bring them back in, then go back out again and bring them back in, go back out again and bring them back again. That's what we should be doing. That's how ministry works. He went back out to go get another group of people, and it was later in the day. But guess what? He offered them the same amount. He did this again, I believe he did it four times and offered them the same amount. And guess what happened? The ones that were there, because see, these are those that are, you know, they self-righteous, they overly righteous, they're um greedy, they think it's all about them, they're arrogant. These are those that this is that group of people. They got angry at the owner of the vineyard because he decided to pay them the same thing, the same wage that um he told the rest of them that he would pay. You know what he told them? He said, How you gonna tell me what to do with my money? And God is the same way. How are you gonna tell me what to do with my people and how to save my people and how to um how to pull my people in? How you gonna tell me how to extend salvation to my people? And God's and anyway, so the man was like, How you gonna tell me that? He said, I can do with my money what I want to do with my money, or is it that you are you are angry and you're upset because I'm a generous, I'm a generous man, but you're not. Because, see, and that right there is the proof of the imperfection in those that think that they are perfect. Yeah, that's the proof right there. They got angry because those others that came later in the day were offered the same thing. God offers us grace no matter what time of the day it is that he calls us. And when I say that, I mean what hour it is that he calls us. He offers us the same grace, whether it's he gets that he gets the glory right before they close their eyes, or is that when they turn six years old, he already knew that they were called and had a plan for them, or it was in their 40s, it was in their 20s, whatever it is. Some people don't even get saved, they go to church all their life, and some people don't even go to church, and they're like in their 80s, and then they find Christ. God offers the same salvation. We are all imperfect, yeah, and God is our redeemer, He is the redeemer, He is the Redeemer, and you can't get it confused to think that you are. I don't care what your position is, I don't care who you think you are, I don't care how many um theological whatever you done done, it doesn't matter. Say so. You are not the redeemer God is, and you don't have a heaven or a hell to put anyone in. Say so, say so. And um I also think about like some of our um examples in the Bible that um, because let's face it, we talked about it before. The Bible is your instruction book, the Bible, the Bible gives you direction, it um gives you examples of how to even today of how um to apply to your life and how God will he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so when you think about the character flaws that many of these his mighty men and women had, and David was a womanizer. Right, he loved women that he was flawed, he had a character flaw. But God looks beyond our faults and he sees our needs and he still is able to use those things that that you would think or somebody else would think. Think about if they had been like, David, you love women too much, and because you love women too much, we need to cast you to death. Right. And do you know that's me? Do you know what would have happened? As mighty as David was, as might if God knew forward, if the plan did not go forward. Right, if God was like people, come on, was like man. Thank God he's not, thank you, God, you are not like man. Thank you, God, that you are better than who we are. Lord, I I thank you. I thank you that it is your heaven and it is it is your heaven and it is your salvation and it's your judgment, and it's not man's judgment because man is already ready to throw us off the side of the boat. Oh God, you done did something wrong. We're gonna throw you out the side of the boat. Yeah. Bible talks about that too. Yeah, you didn't did something, you didn't did something, you because you imperfect. We are all imperfect. We are all imperfect, but we're perfect in the eyes of Christ as long as we lead the life that He would have us to lead and that we come to Him when He calls. And that we're and that we're honest. That's that we're honest and that we're that we're that we are open and we are saying, God, help me, help me, lead me, guide me. I am trying. I want to see you, I want to make heaven, I want to. Like it's hard here. Nobody is saying that living on this earth is easy because it's not. That's right. The devil is very, very conniving. Yes. He is very present. Yes. And I will say it again. He is very present. He is very real. He will use whomever he wants to use as well. He has dominion over the earth. And so we're not saying that it's easy to do. What we are saying is, and and like I told you, because sometimes a good old custom word might be a might be to me what's gonna get you to understand what I mean right then. You know what I'm saying? And that's something that has to be stripped from you. It has to be taken from you. And God does it. And God does it. Because Jay can't do it. Right. Jay been trying. Girl. And Jay get get caught up in them wives every time, get caught up in that trap every time. What you talking about? And I have to, I've been kicking that that trap off my ankle, like, Lord Jesus, help me. Like, release me, Lord. What you talking about? Emotions will set fire. Yes, okay. Will set fire. But here's it here's the difference is that I recognize the the work that needs to be done. Amen. I recognize the what needs to be burnt off of me. You know? And I recognize that and I ask God to come in and to do it. I ask, I'm not fighting with God when He comes in to do it. I'm not fighting with Him. I like that. I'm saying, Lord, help me. Continue to instill in me what I need to help me to overcome. Because God, I am trying. Right. I like that. Let me tell you why I like that. So let's put it in these terms. You said, I recognize, and I'm so I'm like, God, I don't want to be like this. I don't want to do that. Okay, that's just like the addict. A lot of the addicts, they don't want to be like that. And because they have that heart, that means that God can help them, heal them. He can deal with them. He can He can bring them out because their heart is right. But those that already think that they're right. Oh, this is fine. I'm I'm I'm alright. You know, it's just a little bit. I ain't doing too much. Yeah. Like you're making it skin. Like you're like your small sin, because you want to call it small. Sin is sin across the board, period. There's not levels of sin. Sin is sin. God can't look on it, period. Whether you think it's small or you think it's big, sin is sin. So if God, if you look at something and you want to judge things according to a level and you want to say, this little bitty thing, you know, I tell a lie, you know, or I gossip, or, you know, I ain't killed nobody watch, I watch pornography or anything. I don't kill no. But I ain't killed nobody and I ain't stole nothing. It's all the same. It's all the same. And because you hold on to that, you hold on to that which you think is leverage, which you think is leverage, you hold on to that, and then you be the one that missed heaven. You be the one because now you are you are um shoeing away or you're you're pushing away conviction. God's already told you it ain't no good, but you keep pushing it away, like nah, it's okay because I don't do this. You don't want to find yourself in hellfire. Yeah, and that's it, and that's being so careful. God is your is your convictor. God will let you those things that you have to have a second thought about before you do it, you already know. You know. And if you push past that and continue to move forward, that's when you done had that reprobate mind. And you're just like, you know what? I'm still gonna go ahead and I'm still gonna go on and whatever. Yeah. Even though you done been tapped on your shoulder, even though you've been snudged a little lightning, you know. You know. Or you or you feel that little embarrassment, like, Lord, I hope you didn't see me do that. Right. But you cool, but you cool with it though. You're cool with what you do, but you're not cool with what somebody else does. Because you're gonna condition somebody else. We need to make sure that we might mind sometimes we need to mind our own business. And when I see sometimes we need to take care of our own stuff, worry about our own sin and get that right first. Yeah. Before you start coming down somebody else's pathway and they and they sidewalking, they doing, coming, knocking at their door, and ringing that doorbell, then on their ring camera. Mind your business. Mind it. But look, I got a cut, our cousin says, mind your neck. Say it all the time. Mind your neck. That's good. Yes. Yes. Mind your neck. Yeah, yeah. Because if you're minding your neck, your neck ain't turning to see nobody else. That's exactly right. Period. That's exactly right. Amen. All right, Tina. That's good. Well, we are perfectly imperfect. And there is nowhere that you can be that God is not aware of where you are and will not come to you. So He will reach you. Where it is. He will reach you. I don't care where you are. Amen. Alright. Well, rent it on out. We're about to rent it on now. Rent it on out. We're gonna rent it on out. Okay. We're gonna rent it on out. Okay. Well, I got one today. You know, I'm actually prepared today because, and let me tell you why I'm prepared. Because I keep seeing this same thing and that thing that got on my last nerd. It's that got on my last nerve. You know, I'm in real estate now. I'll be selling houses and properties and land and buildings and stuff like that. But this is the thing. This is the thing. Okay, you got folks that come to you and they like, oh, I just want to buy this house. And they want a house, they want a brand new house. They want a new construction house and a brand new neighborhood. Ain't nobody, it's brand new. You want everything new, right? Because you want it to look so beautiful and so gorgeous, right? Period. You okay, you got three or four people that have purchased houses. Then here you come along and you purchase your house, and you got seven more people to purchase the house out after after you. Everybody. Because everybody wanted that house, and they wanted a brand new house. They wanted it to be pretty and nice and all that stuff, and they had pride about what they wanted until they got it. Because here you come, here you come, you won't even keep yard mode. Here you come, your yard looks a plum mess. You won't mow the yard, you got crap all over the place out there, and everybody else's house and everybody else's lot look good. You the reason why HOA is always ignited in the middle of these subdivisions where people don't want these HOAs to have to pay all these extra fees, an extra $225, $125 a month on top of their mortgage because they want to make sure that people love what they have purchased. You ought to love what you purchase. Why are you coming in here and you just messing up the whole look and the whole aesthetic of everything because you lazy? Mow your grass, keep your stuff looking nice. You got neighbors that are around you and you are you are just messing up the value of the neighborhood. Keep your stuff together. You wanted it, take care of it. That's my rant. Period. Take care of your stuff. Mow your yard. Mow your yard. Clean your yard up. All that crap out there. Get that mess out of there. Trim your bushes. Trim your bushes. And get the trash out. And get all them daggum gnomes and all that crazy mess that you got out yonder. Get that mess out of there. Ain't nobody else got it. Look, you look all the way down the street and it knocks so nice. And then here we come to your yard. Oh my god. And that's what people say when they when they drive by. Oh my god. Right, exactly. Like, oh love. You got a half of a gate. It is this house. I kid you not. It is this house on my street. They will not, they will not mow the yard. Everybody else has their mode, yard mode, and it was a new, it was a new construction subdivision. Everybody else keeps the yard mode and it's all maintenance and it's it's really nice and beautiful when you get to this one house. Girl, they let the bushes in the ditch grow up. What are you doing? And then had the nerve to put up a gate at the beginning of the driveway with no fence attached to it. You doing too much. You doing too much. You got us all looking at you like, oh God, my oh Lois, what you doing? That's my rant. Tina said you need to move. Yes, we want you to move. Alright, guys. So my rant today is the DMV. Oh, wow. That's gonna be good. Department of Motor Vehicles. I got several things about this. Why every time I call, don't nobody answer? Oh. Lord have mercy. We can't get nobody on the phone. Why every time I come, I can come at 2 a.m. in the morning. I come at 2 a.m. in the morning. The line is all the way down the street. She said it's 2 a.m. in the morning. The line is all the way down the street. Why? At 2 a.m. Why are y'all here? They don't open at 8. Oh my gosh. And then what takes y'all so long? And then why are y'all so rude when we get to you? We the ones been waiting in line. Y'all been sitting down comfortably in this chair waiting for us to come up here, but you have an attitude. Right. Because I'm telling you that I need to renew my license. That's it? That's what you do all day. Yes, you got an attitude because I might be asking you about license plates. Or, well, I'm at the wrong place while I'm at the DMV doing this, but regardless of what, still, I might be asking you about some information of when when do y'all do the driving? Because my child needs to get their license. Right. But you got an attitude with me. Right. Baby, where is y'all's system? We need a system. I'm sick of picking a number. Right, that part. And waiting on the number. And now they got a little digitized. And I'm sick of it. Cause I might be the very next one. I might be 1,029. And you are on 1,028. Yes, on 1,028. But because only certain one of you are taking certain things, you skip over 1,029. And it comes up to 1,034. 1,034 is being asked to proceed. And I know I'm 1,029. Right. So why am I skip? And then I want to tear up the whole DMB. Right. Because I've been there since I'm not. Because I know that I'm next. Because I've been there since 2 a.m. in the morning. And I know that I'm next. And then when I get in there, you can't say, hey, or greet me with a smile, or I'm sorry for your weight. Or good afternoon. Uh-uh. They say, you got your license. Like, yeah. Like they've been there all day. They ain't get there until 8 o'clock. Yes. And um, baby, I've been here since 2 a.m. And if I don't have what I need to see you, then something is all wrong. Oh. That's my rant. So if you work at the DMV, listen to me. If you work at the DMV, if you work at the Department of Motor Vehicles, before you come to work, I want you to listen to your favorite praise station. Please, do you? I want you to get you your favorite piece of candy. Yeah, the piece of candy. I want you to get you your favorite cup of coffee or tea hot tea or whatever it is before you walk your tail in their office so that you are in the right mindset. Whatever you had going on, I need you to leave it at your door, your front door when you walk out of it. Right, right. And don't bring it with you to that because it is it is very stressful for us to see you. Yo, you just told the truth. Like for real. You just told the truth. These rants, they might be rants, but they are sick of it. People would rather walk than to come to DMV. What you talking about? Like, oh gosh, my license is expired, and they just leave them expire for a minute until they're ready to deal with that business. Because people actually do that stuff. Girl, Uber. Okay. I know that's right. I'm about to pay $100,000 to go up the street because I don't want to deal. Yeah, because I don't want to deal with the DMV. Alright, y'all. Well, we hope we sat down. We hope you enjoyed it. We love y'all. If y'all gotta rent, drop it, baby, because we're gonna talk about this. We dealt with we love the engagement. The engagement has picked up, so we love the engagement. Guys, shout out to iHeartRadio, Spotify, Pandora, um, Apple, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Amazon Music, um, what am I missing with? Catbox. Yeah, um, oh my gosh, YouTube, um Facebook apparently. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea about Facebook. Anyway, that is great though. But shout out to all of you guys because you all um support us, you all put our um our podcast up every week, and we are grateful for you. Thank you so, so much. And I know there's many that we missed, but thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, Tina, what are we gonna do? We're gonna live. We gon laugh, and we're gonna love. Until next time, guys. We have bye.