Owe No Man Any Thing, but To Love One Another

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[00:05] Thank you. Thank you for at least not saying it's yellow. Can you do me a favor? Can you pick that up? Yeah, we about to start [00:12] right now. The video just started. That's interesting. That thing super [00:19] late. Uh, boys, come on. Let's move. [00:34] I don't know where you find a good pen around [00:44] here. Where are all my [00:52] pins? Zar, can you bring me up a pen? Can you bring me a pen? Oh, look at [01:00] this. A writing pen. All these computers and desks around. [01:06] That's crazy, too. [01:19] Did you touch your audio again? Uh, yeah. Same. I did. It was the same. Look, watch. Still the same. [01:28] That's won't be able to talk in my normal imitating the god [01:33] man. This is my voice. He just did it again. [01:48] What? Oh, that. Yeah, you probably should ate [01:54] before we started after. You're a little hungry. Oh, you [02:00] guys don't get hungry until it's time to sit down and do something responsible. Oh, thanks. Appreciate it. You gave me [02:07] markers. I'm supposed to write with this. Tell them to come in here and sit down. Are you sleepy? Hey, Sister Danielle. [02:14] Hot tea. Hot hot hot tea sound. Yeah, test the voice so she can hear. [02:21] Um, unique New York. Unique New York. Is he clear? Is he choppy? Unique New [02:33] York. You know, he got that soft, sultry voice. You know what I'm about? You know what I'm saying? Sounds good. All right. [02:38] Well, let's get to it. You know what I'm saying? If any point he cutting out or anything like that, you let me know. We gonna have to fix it. [02:47] Oh, clear. Sav peace. I'm talking about, boy, you know [02:53] what I'm talking about. This is what I need in the crowd. Let's do it again. Sab peace. [02:58] Oh yeah. It's going to be a good day. You know what I'm saying? We all come [03:04] together and uh to hear and learn of the word of truth as given to us by the most high God. All honor goes to the father [03:10] through the son whose name is Yahushua. In him lies the only hope for salvation. We know that it is obtained by grace [03:16] through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast and given freely as a gift to all who obey him. We understand that [03:22] if you do not obey him, it is made manifest or made obvious that you do not believe. In this state, you should [03:28] expect no good thing from the most high. However, anything that you do get, whether it be a gift of tongues, a gift of prophecy, or any supernatural [03:34] experience that you may have, it can and it will be used against you in the day of judgment. That said, peace to the [03:40] saints that are in the room, to the saints that couldn't make it, to the saints watching on the camera, to the saints in the chat, to the saints [03:46] scattered all the way around the world with no peace to the wicked. The only thing we say to them is repent that they [03:52] might live. So last week, we talked a little bit about Romans, right? We read [03:57] a little bit about Romans. We reading in Romans how um uh you know what I'm saying? How uh what what did we read? [04:05] Read what? Romans 7, Romans 8, right? how to deal with sin, how you wrestle with sin, going back and forth. And then [04:11] we ended up talking about faith, right? What is faith? And we talked about how faith and wrestling with sin, all of [04:17] that is related, right? Because to to have faith, that means you have to turn away from sin. To have sin means that [04:23] you don't have faith, right? So faith is always tied to obedience. It's just not something that's in your head. Book say [04:30] it's something that's in your heart. And anything in your heart lies to you, right? We don't know the truth of our [04:35] heart. So the only way to know what's inside of us, when we talk about the heart, we talk about what's inside of us. The only way we know what's inside [04:41] of us is by looking at what comes out of us, right? That's what we talked about last week. And we going to talk a little [04:47] bit more about faith this week um from a different perspective. So we going to pick it up in Romans chap 11. This is [04:55] Romans chap 11. We're going to read and start at verse 1. Romans chap 11 verse [05:04] one. Uh, God, where are you [05:16] at? I say then, has God cast away his people? God [05:21] forbid. Right? He talking about Israel, right? So, he said, "Has God cast away the Israelites?" He said, "God forbid." [05:28] Watch this. [05:33] For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. [05:38] God has not cast away his. Notice what he say. He said, I'm also an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of [05:46] Benjamin. Right? He's making a claim. You can see people nowadays that call theirelves Israelis, right? Meaning that [05:54] they live in the land of Israel. They might even call theirel Jewish, right? [05:59] But none of them can claim that they are of the seed of Abraham. Not honestly at least none of them can claim that they [06:06] are of the tribe of Benjamin nor any other tribe. Right? So he's telling you that by saying I'm of the seed of [06:12] Abraham. He's saying I'm not a convert. Right? It's very different. It's not like it's not like I was born into a [06:20] religion. Right? He's saying I was of a bloodline that ties back to Abraham and [06:26] Benjamin. Right? Abraham and Benjamin are his fathers, right? Keep going. [06:33] God has not cast away his people which he forneew. What ye not what the scripture said of in Isaiah? Well, of uh [06:41] the scripture says of Elijah, how he makes intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed [06:47] thy prophets and dig down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God [06:54] unto him? I have reserved to myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Aah. Even so, then at this [07:02] present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace then it is no more of works [07:08] otherwise grace is no more grace. Right? So he said look it's by grace. Now he [07:13] already told us what grace is. He told us anywhere there's sin grace abounds [07:18] even more. Then he told us, "So does that mean because wherever there's sin, [07:24] there's more grace that we should sin more to make grace come." He said, "God [07:30] forbid. How could you sin when you are dead to sin in the baptism?" Right? So [07:36] he already kind of explained what grace is. Grace is not a license to sin. So now he's saying by faith through grace. [07:44] Right? Read it again for me because I got that backwards. [07:52] Even so then at this point in time at this present time also there is a rem remnant according to the election of [07:57] grace and if by grace then it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace right so he said if it is of grace [08:05] it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace so what is he talking about when he says [08:11] works he's talking about the works of the law right remember the whole context [08:16] from the beginning of this was talking about the law. Remember, chapter 3 was talking about the law. Chapter two was talking about the law. Chapter 1 talked [08:22] about the law. So, this is all talking about the law. So, he's saying if it's by grace, it's not by the works of the [08:28] law. Why does that make sense? Because the law has a standard up here. Nobody met the standard. So, he says the only [08:34] way that you get accounted for making this standard is if it's by grace, right? If it were by works, that means [08:40] that you earn this this standard. And he said nobody did that. So, then he says it's either going to be by grace or by [08:46] works. And if you didn't do the work to meet that standard, then it has to be by grace. Right? Watch this. Keep [08:55] going. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace. Otherwise, work is no more work. What then? Israel has not [09:02] obtained that which it seeks for, but the election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded. Right? So now he's [09:08] separating Israel into two groups. So remember, he starts off, he said, listen, do you think God cast off the [09:14] Israelites? He said, "God forbid I'm an Israelite. I'm of the seed of Abraham of [09:20] the tribe of Benjamin." Right? So then he's saying it, God has not cast off [09:26] those who he forneew. In other words, the ones that God already knew was going to do the right thing, God still rock [09:32] with them. He still do it in one. So it's like se taking y'all and separating y'all into two groups, right? Let's say it's 20 of y'all. And I [09:39] say, I know Azariah gonna do the right thing. But [09:44] Eli and Zakai, well, I don't know what they about to do. So then I'mma take Aariah [09:52] and then the other 17 and I'mma be like, "Okay, we going to take them. We going to put them over here." Right? Because I [09:59] already knew that Aariah was going to do the right thing, y'all. I don't know nothing about what's [10:06] going on over there. So we do a separation. He's saying this is the group of Israelites that he forneew. [10:12] This is the group of Israelites that he didn't forno, right? And because of that, the most high God says, I'm still [10:19] rocking with them. I'm casting away the ones I didn't know. The ones that I I don't know what they about to do. I cast [10:25] they but away. But Aariah, I say, "Hey, Aariah, I I already knew. I already knew [10:31] you were going to do the right thing." You know what I mean? That's just how it work, right? Keep [10:38] going. According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that should not see and ears that [10:45] should not hear unto this day. And David says, let their table be made [10:51] a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, [10:57] and bow down their back always. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid. But rather, [11:04] through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, for the provoked them to jealousy. Right? to understand what [11:09] he's saying. He's saying God is setting this thing up in such a way that he gave Y'all got to understand our history, [11:16] right? Our history was such that there were all men and all men were [11:21] indistinguishable by their own nations and tribes. Then the most high God took one small little people, right, that [11:28] later became known as Israelites. He took one small little people and then he [11:33] took them. and they were in Egypt and from there he blew us up into a whole nation. Right? Then he took that one [11:40] nation and took them into a land although they didn't deserve it. It's not like it's not like our ancestors [11:46] were so righteous. Most high God told he is like I'm not bringing you into this land because you righteous or more [11:51] righteous than the people I'm judging. Right? He said but I'm doing it. So even that was by grace. So then we go into [11:57] this land. He uses us to judge this other these other nations, the Amorites, right? The Amorites get kicked out, most [12:05] of them, some of them. Then after that, we start doing some of the same thing that the Amorites was doing. And then [12:11] now he kicks us out of the land. And so what he's saying is our downfall. The [12:17] fact that he elevated us when the rest of the world were sinners, he's saying [12:22] now he's going to punish us after elevating us, which gives an opportunity for the rest of the world to know him. [12:28] So that's what Paul is trying to explain right now. Keep going. [12:33] Now if the fall of them be the God forbid, but rather through their [12:39] fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the [12:45] world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness, right? For I speak to [12:51] you Gentiles, and as much as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office. So now he's talking directly to [12:57] the Gentiles. Watch what he's saying. Cuz you got to imagine there's two sides. It's always two sides. And Paul [13:02] got to play the middle of all this stuff, right? So you got two sides. You got the Gentiles and you got the [13:08] Hebrews, the Israelites, right? You got the Gentiles over here and the Israelites over here. So the Israelites [13:13] is like, man, the God that y'all y'all talking about serving, man, that's our God. He gave us the book directly, [13:21] right? And the Gentiles is like, well, Paul said we can get in, too. And God, [13:26] you know what I'm saying? we got just as good of a chance to get in like y'all. Matter of fact, the most high God is [13:32] lowkey rejecting y'all because y'all didn't obey him. Right? So Paul is [13:38] trying to play the middle of it. He trying to play, okay, listen. So like, yes, God reject them, but he didn't [13:43] reject the ones that he knew before, right? And so he talking to the [13:48] Gentile basically. Okay. Well, if you think them being rejected gives you a opportunity to get in, how much more do [13:55] you think it's going to be when they are at their fullness, right? When the Israelites are restored and when the [14:01] Most High God say, "Okay, I mess with y'all. You are my children again." When that happens, he's looking like, "How do [14:06] you think it's going to play out then?" So, he's trying to explain it to him. Now, watch this. If by any means I may [14:12] provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, what what does emulation mean, Zakai? [14:25] Mhm. Take a guess. What? What is [14:34] it? Gather the people. It's a good guess, but no. What you got? [14:47] So emulation means like uh like jealousy. You know what I'm saying? It's like it's like it makes you [14:54] you know what I'm saying? Emulation is like I want to be So y'all play games, don't y'all? Y'all ain't never heard of [15:00] an emulator. So when y'all get older, some of the games that y'all play now are [15:07] going to be super old. So we used to play game. We used to play game called [15:12] like Mario, right? But the old Mario, Nintendo Mario, not Call of Duty, you [15:17] know what I'm saying? It was no Call of Duty. Like old Nintendo Mario, you know what I'm saying? Or you got Super Mario, [15:24] Super Nintendo, Double Dragons, you know what I'm saying? Battle Toades and uh Battle Toads and Double Dragon. That's [15:30] crazy. You know what I'm saying? We talking about uh Contra Battle. You know what I'm saying? Huh? Battle Toads [15:36] Double Dragon was correct. Battle Toad Double Dragon. One of the greatest games ever. You know what I'm saying? Then you got uh uh what was that other [15:44] one? What was the other karate game? You got Streets of Rage. Yeah, [15:49] Street. You know what I'm saying? But it was another karate game though. N do stuff. You got uh uh Ninja [15:57] Turtles. You know what I'm saying? So we got all these games, but they old games. So how can we play those games now? Do [16:04] you know anybody with a regular Nintendo, a NES? You know anybody with a Super [16:10] Nintendo? You got a Super Nintendo? Oh, you all right? Got no Super Nintendo. [16:15] Right. You gota You got to have a Super Nintendo or a regular Nintendo. It used to be a game called Golden Eye. One of [16:21] the best games, right? Golden Eye. There would be no Call of Duty if there was Wouldn't be No. Yeah. It wouldn't be no [16:27] Call of Duty. You know what I'm saying? Golden Eye, one of the best games ever. They They don't even like You can't play [16:32] that game. If I want to play Golden Eye, what I'mma do? You can't play it. So, you know what I got to do? I got to get on a computer and I got to type in I got [16:40] to type in Nintendo 64 emulator and what it does is it makes [16:48] itself appear as if it's a Nintendo 64 so that you can play a game like Golden [16:53] Eye on it. So emulation is basically wanting to be something else, right? And it it's like [17:01] a word that describes jealousy. You know what I'm saying? like you get jealous cuz I want to be I want to be what I [17:06] see. So what Paul is saying is God has used the Israelites to drive Gentiles to [17:15] jealousy, right? He made he made uh I'm sorry, vice versa. He's used Gentiles to [17:22] drive Israelites to jealousy, right? Cuz he made the the the Gentiles to appear [17:29] like us. And that's what we have like in in all the history. Even right now in the land of Israel, you got a whole [17:36] bunch of pale, you know what I'm saying? Big-nosed folks, you know what I'm saying? That now they think that they're [17:42] us. They think that they Israelites. They think they Jewish, right? And so [17:47] now when we look at it, when we learn who we are, be like, "Wait a minute. I come from the seed of Abraham. I read [17:52] Deuteronomy chapter 28. I read Psalms. I read all the different prophecies. I'm [17:58] the one. I'm the people. I read the names of the slaves that came off of the slave ship when they was going to the [18:04] Americas, right? I read all their name. I know what names they connected to. I read the history of of of the Spanish [18:11] Inquisitions and how they was after the black Jews, right? I read about the [18:16] history of how the the the Africans in West Africa had a town called Judah, [18:22] right? And had a called Kingdom of Judah, right? I read about how all up [18:28] and down the uh the Niger River on both sides of it, it was known to have Jews, [18:36] black, dark-skinned African Jews that was there. And they all claimed that [18:41] they were from the original town, original Jerusalem, from Judah, right? [18:48] So, our history runs deep, but we don't know our history. So, when we start to learn our history, guess what we say? [18:55] Man, them white folks in Israel stole our history. That's what we get to saying. Mad. But guess what part we [19:01] never realized? Yeah, that too, right? We [19:06] never realized that we here because our ancestors sin and now we still sinning. [19:12] We're still not doing the right thing. So why should God restore us? Right? So what Paul is saying is the [19:19] Gentiles are being used to make us jealous. Right? So then what happens [19:25] when the most high God restores us? Right? Keep going. Watch this. If by any means I may provoke to [19:30] emulation them which are my flesh and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling [19:36] reconciling reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be? But life from the dead. For if the first [19:43] fruits be holy, the lump is also holy. Right? So he said he said the first thing that happen is in order to bring [19:49] Gentiles in he cast the Israelites away. But he says when he brings the [19:56] Israelites back in that's going to be life from the dead. So that's talking about the resurrection. So when we had a [20:02] resurrection, everybody who died in the Messiah, everybody who died faithful to the Messiah, then that means they get [20:08] resurrected, right? They dead body going to lift back up and they going to have life that come back into it. So he's [20:14] saying that is the result when the Israelites are back restored. So that tells us a couple things, right? That [20:20] tells us before the resurrection, what has to happen? Israelites that too. But before the [20:27] resurrection, right, Israelites have to be restored. So it's a lot of brothers online right now. They going back and [20:34] forth talking about, "No, white people going to be our slaves in the kingdom. White people going to be our slaves in [20:40] the thousand year reign." All this type of stuff. It's like boy y'all don't know nothing about the scripture right what [20:46] has to happen first is we have to be restored in this life in this realm with [20:52] this reality we are going to be restored so it's going to be one day all of our [20:57] people who now live in America and Brazil and Cuba and Costa Rica and [21:03] Colombia little bit little bit in port I maybe I don't know if I don't know if we [21:10] live too many in Portugal but Some in Portugal. Yeah. Some in Portugal. Some in Africa. Some in Russia. Some in [21:16] America. A lot in America. Right. All over the place. Our people are right. Some in the Middle East. We ain't even [21:22] get way over there in the Middle East and in in Asia and all these different places, right? We got to Y almost took all money [21:29] off. Y still got it in me. Almost took all I didn't do it. You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you got to go. But we [21:36] going we going to pull them together from all these different places. says, "And the most high God using a prophet [21:41] is going to lead us back into Israel." But we going to y'all remember we just w read about the wilderness, right? Where [21:46] the children of Israel was in the wilderness and they walking around and as they walking around, you got all [21:51] types of stuff happening. Some of them rebelling, people getting swallowed up by the ground, all types of stuff. Well, that has to happen again. But y'all [21:58] going to have iPhones. You know what I'm saying? Like it gonna be a whole different like you have your iPhone and you gonna be walking around taking darn [22:05] selfies. You know what I'm saying? and doing all this type of stuff and then you going now instead of like us reading [22:10] about somebody who uh got swallowed up. We going to have it just like this [22:15] posted on Twitter. You know what I'm saying? On Instagram, somebody getting swallowed up out of the ground. You know what I'm saying? As I gonna catch it, [22:21] it's going to be one of y'all butts. You know what I'm saying? Aaria going to catch it. You going to get swallowed up. She be like, "Oh my goodness, that's my [22:29] brother." Right? But that's what happened. We going to see. We gonna have a migration back into our land in these [22:37] times. Maybe not too far away from the time like y'all might be adults when that happen. Who knows? We going to see [22:43] how it happened. But we going to have a migration. It's going to be crazy stuff going on. But that has to happen before [22:50] the resurrection. How do we know that? Because that's what the book say. Read it again. [22:56] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the [23:02] dead? For if the first fruits be holy, the lump is also holy. And if the root be holy, so are the branches. And if so, [23:09] and if some of the branches be broken off, and you being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with [23:15] them partake of the root that uh the root and fatness of the olive tree, boast not against the branches. But if [23:22] you boast, thou boastst not the root, but thou beareest not the root, but the [23:28] root, but the root thee. Thou will say then, the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Well, because of [23:35] unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high- minded, but fear, for if God spared not the natural [23:42] branches, take heed, lest he also spare not thee. Right? So, now he's talking about a a process that that applies to [23:50] plants. So, let's say I grow trees. That's what I do for a living, right? That's my job. So, I take trees and I [23:57] grow them. But then I got this tree over here and it's dying, but it has a particular fruit on it and I don't want [24:04] to lose it. So, what I can do is I can cut off a twig from this tree. And then [24:10] I have another tree that's of a similar type. I can take that twig. I cut a [24:16] little p piece off of this other tree. And I take the twig and I put it onto that tree right after I cut a little [24:22] piece so that it's getting you ever took like a tree trunk and then I don't even got tree. I don't even know nothing [24:28] about no but tree trunks you can like take off a piece of it and you can get to the inside of the tree and it's like [24:34] moist. You know what I'm saying? It's like kind of think of it like yeah your skin color but you cut your skin open [24:39] and then you got like blood and fluid inside of there. But that's how a tree is. You cut it open, it get moist. So [24:45] you get to that moist part and you take the twig from this other tree. You take the twig and you put it in there and then you wrap it, wrap it, wrap it, wrap [24:52] it. So what happens is this this twig becomes a part of this new tree. And so [24:57] this new tree supports the growth of this new this new twig, right? And so it [25:03] makes it so that the twig can continue to draw grow and produce fruit. But really, the twig belongs to this other [25:09] tree, but we just made it fit on this tree and now it acts like it's part of [25:14] the tree, but it's really not, right? It's almost like family, right? It becomes a part of family, but it [25:21] really isn't blood related, right? So then that's how the Gentiles are. When a Gentile turns away from sin and does [25:28] everything that the Messiah says, it's like that twig that gets placed onto a tree, right? And he's saying that that [25:37] twig, that gentile can't look around and be like, "Yeah, we're better than the Israelites because the Israelites got [25:44] cut off so that I could be here." So what Paul is trying to say, "Hey, make sure it makes sense to you. If the Most [25:51] High God cut off the natural branches of the tree, how much more do you think [25:56] he'll cut off the twig that don't even belong here?" So he says, "Don't boast." [26:02] Right? In other words, don't brag about where you are. Instead, have faith [26:07] because faith is what got you here and continue to have faith. And then for the for the natural branches, we know that [26:13] we natural branches. So, we just got to make sure we don't get cut off. That make sense? All right, keep going. [26:22] For God spared not the natural branches. Take heed, lest he also spare not thee. [26:28] Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God on He said, "Behold therefore the what? The goodness and [26:33] severity of God." The goodness and the severity and the severity. What does severity mean? [26:42] Bad, right? Like if you got a severe storm, what that mean? That's a dangerous storm. That [26:49] thing that thing tearing some stuff up, ain't it? You got a severe storm, that thing tearing some stuff up. You got [26:56] hail coming down. maybe have tornadoes. You know what I'm saying? Tears of stuff up, stuff getting ripped off, trees [27:02] getting knocked over, all that. That's a severe storm. So, he's saying also be [27:07] mindful of the goodness of God, which means God is good. He's loving. He provides for us. He makes sure that we [27:13] taken care of. And the severity of God, which means that God will tear some [27:18] stuff up just like a severe storm, right? Keep going. on them which fail severity but [27:25] toward thee goodness if you continue in his goodness otherwise you also shall be cut off. So it's important that we [27:32] recognize both sides. A lot of time people like to focus on just the goodness of God right? Oh God loves us [27:41] and God God cares for us. He provides for us. God offers us grace. God is a [27:47] forgiving God. Those are the things that often times, especially when you go to church, those are the things that that [27:53] people like to focus on, right? But we don't want to just focus on the goodness because we know there's another side. [27:59] There's a side of us that has to fear God, right? And when it comes to fearing God, that means you have to understand [28:06] his severity. If you understand severity, that means that when you do something bad, how does God look at [28:14] you? Like a slave? How else? Horrible [28:21] person like you're in trouble. How [28:27] else What's going to happen to a person that that that that keep doing [28:33] wrong? Don't. You won't get resurrected. What [28:39] happens if you don't get resurrected? If you already dead and you [28:47] don't get resurrected in the life, what happens to you? But wait, you burn in the burn. You burn [28:53] in the burning fire, right? That's what Azariah meant when she said hell, right? But she It's not exactly, right? It's [29:01] not exactly, but that's what we mean when we say hell, right? But in technically, you know what I'm saying? [29:06] It's the lake of fire, right? So, you go to the lake of fire and in the lake of fire, you burn forever. [29:14] It's a lake, but it's fire. [29:19] It don't die. It just continue to burn no matter what. Right? So, so that's the severity of the forever. It's a that's a [29:27] severity of the most high God, right? And we have to understand that like we have to know that God is not only [29:34] capable but is anxious. You know what I'm saying? Like most high God, he can't wait to throw some people in the darn [29:41] fire, right? And only by the grace of God is he holding it up for those people [29:46] who are going to turn away from sin in their lifetime. So we have to choose who we want to be. Do we want to be the [29:51] people that that turn away from sin or do we want to be the people that's rebellious and do whatever they want to do and end up burning in the [29:59] fire. Bad choice boy. Keep going. And they also if they abide not [30:06] still in unbelief shall be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. [30:11] For if thou were cut off out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into [30:17] good olive tree, how much more shall these, which be natural branches, be grafted in their own olive tree? Hey, [30:24] Eli, tell Israel to knock it off. Hurry [30:31] up. For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest [30:36] you should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness is part of Blindness in part is happened to Israel [30:43] until the fullness of the Gentiles be commanded. And so also Israel shall be [30:48] saved as it is written. There shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is [30:56] my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. [31:02] But as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without [31:09] repentance. or as he entire when he say the gifts and calling of God are without [31:14] repentance what he's saying is so think of repentance as mean people think people think repentance mean it's like a [31:21] feeling like regret right but it's not regret repentance is turning away right [31:27] it's turning around it's like making a 180 you know what I'm saying so he says the gifts and the callings of God in [31:35] other words he he's committed to giving them to you he's not going to take them way, right? So, he's saying he's saying, [31:42] "Look, if you meet these conditions, this gift and this calling is available to you." He's not going to switch it up [31:48] and be like, "Never mind, I changed my mind on that." Right? There's no repentance. In other words, he does not [31:54] change his mind about what he said. Right? So, uh the sister asked, she said, "The lake of fire is literal." [32:01] Right? She's asking, "Is it literal?" She's like, "Is that like where people go?" And it's like, okay, until Yahosua [32:08] come back, where do people go? So, think of it like this. People don't go nowhere. People die. Right? So, exactly [32:15] what we see is exactly what happens. A person dies, we put them in a casket, we [32:21] bury them, or we cremate them or whatever we decide to do. Y'all pay attention, right? We bury them, we [32:27] cremate them, or whatever we decide to do. That's what happens to that person. They're dead, right? So, then two things [32:34] happen. grab uh John chapter 5. Two things can happen from there. Yahosua is [32:40] going to come back and then you'll be resurrected onto life or after that you'll be resurrected onto the lake of [32:46] fire, right? To death, right? So the lake of fire is is very literal, but the [32:53] lake of fire is a feature that happens only after there's the resurrection of [32:59] death. Put your phone away, boy, unless you read. All right. Um the resurre what [33:05] you what don't get knocked out right he said the resurrection right the [33:10] resurrection is going to be one onto life and it's going to be one onto death now the resurrection of death put you in [33:17] the lake of fire so this is how it works a person dies today unfortunately right [33:22] then what happens is that person literally lays there dead or cremated or [33:28] buried or whatever fashion that we did they lay there lifeless There's nothing there. Their soul is gone, right? And [33:37] then the most high God resurrects them. Now is gone. Soul, right? Everything [33:42] gone. Everything they they they everything is dead, right? So then the most high God resurrects them, right? [33:50] When it resurrects them, it reanimates their body and they're resurrected onto life if they obeyed the Messiah. If they [33:58] didn't obey the Messiah, then when they're resurrected, they're resurrected onto death. Right? This is uh John uh [34:06] John chapter 5 verse uh [34:13] verse [34:19] 37. Let me see. John 5:37. Let me see what the book say. The father himself which has sent me has borne witness of [34:25] me. No, this is this is John 5 verse 23. [34:33] That all men should honor the Son even as they honor the Father. Watch this. He that honors not the Son honors not the [34:39] Father which has sent him. Mhm. Verily I say unto you, he said, "Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and [34:45] believes on him that sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death [34:51] unto life." Uh-huh. Verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the ver voice of the [34:57] son of God. So pay attention. He said the hour is coming and it now is where the people who are dead will hear what? [35:05] The voice of the son of God. They're going to hear the voice of the son of God. So now even though you have a dead [35:10] body, separate goes over there. Even though you have a dead body, right? He [35:15] said at some point that dead body is going to hear the voice of the son of God. Right? Watch this. And they that [35:23] hear shall live. Mhm. For as the father has life in himself, so has he given so [35:28] hath he given to the son to have life in himself. What what happened after that? And has given him authority to execute [35:34] judgment also because he is the son of man. Right? So now it's all Yahushua's judgment. The father gave judgment to [35:42] the son. So now the son gets to make the decision on who lives and who dies. You [35:49] have to pay attention to what he's trying to teach you. He's saying, "Look, before him, everybody just died, right? [35:56] You died and nothing happens after that. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There's none of that. You die and you [36:02] just are dead. That's the end of it, right? Yahosua comes and he says, "When [36:08] I speak, you going to hear my some people going to hear my voice. And the ones that hear my voice, they going to [36:13] live again and have everlasting life." In other words, they will never die again. right? They'll live forever. So [36:20] then he says the reason why that's that happens is because the father looked at [36:26] the son and was like, I'll let you decide, right? I'm giving you all the [36:31] power to choose who lives and who dies. Watch what he say [36:37] next. Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice. Mhm. and [36:44] shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life. Right? So if you done good, you go unto [36:51] the resurrection, which means you're dead, but you come back to life. And now it's the resurrection of life. That [36:57] means you live forever. But what else happened? And they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. So [37:02] the people that do evil, the ones that sin, the ones that never repent, they go to the resurrection of damnation. The [37:09] resurrection of damnation is the lake of fire. Right? So they go to the lake of [37:14] fire and they burn forever. So that's it is very literal right when we talk about the lake of fire it is very literal and [37:22] the reason it's not about where people go now people don't ne necessarily go to any one of them now but people what [37:28] happens to people now is they just die but the power is that Yahushua says when [37:33] I speak I'mma raise everybody back up to life and then I'm going to choose which ones live forever and which ones come [37:42] back to life and burn forever. Right? And those are the the the two options that that each of us have. And those [37:49] options are determined based on how we live our life right now. Let's go back. This is uh Romans. Go ahead and go to [37:55] Romans chapter 12. Is Romans [38:12] 12:1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, [38:19] acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to the world, to this world, but be ye [38:27] transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of [38:32] God. Mhm. For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly [38:38] than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as [38:45] we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we being many are one body in the [38:52] Messiah, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts deferring [38:57] according to the grace that is given unto us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the prop [39:03] proportion of faith. For ministry, let us wait on our ministering. Or he that [39:08] teaches on teaching. Or he that exhorts on exhortation. He that gives or he that [39:15] is giving, let him do it with simplicity. He that rules with diligence. He that shows mercy with [39:21] cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhore that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. Be [39:28] kindly, affectionate one to another with brotherly love, in honor, preferring one of another. Preferring one another, not [39:36] slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Rejoice in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing [39:43] instant in prayer, distributing to the necessity of saints given to hospitality. Bless them which persecute [39:50] you. Bless and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one [39:58] toward another. Find not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be [40:03] not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of [40:10] all men. If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceibly with all men. All right? He said, so he's giving [40:17] us this whole chapter, he's kind of giving us how we should treat one another. At the end of it, he's like, "Look, man. If it's possible, as much as [40:25] you have to do with it, be at peace with all me." In other words, don't be out there trying to start trouble. Don't be [40:31] out there trying to cause problems, trying to kind of have a fallout with people, trying to make things [40:37] uncomfortable, right? He said, "Just if it's if you're able to. Sometimes sometimes it ain't up to you, right? But [40:44] whenever it's up to you, make peace, be cool, relax, make sure everything is [40:51] calm, make sure everybody is happy, do what you could do, right? And and this [40:56] is what we're called to do, right? This is how we called to to to deal with our brothers and and to and to and to uh [41:02] live around our people. Keep going. That's the end of the chapter. Dearly, beloved, avenge not [41:09] yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says Yahweh." Mhm. [41:16] Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him. If he thirst, give him drink. For [41:22] in so doing, thou shalt heap coals on fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with [41:29] good. Wait a minute. Overcome evil with good. Notice what he said though. He said, "Listen, if your enemy is hungry, [41:37] feed him, right?" You know how the kids say? The kids say [41:42] the ops. You hear what I'm talking about? That what they be saying, right? The kid be saying the ops. You know what [41:47] I'm talking about? If your op is hungry, feed [41:53] him. You got to feed him. You got to make sure the op is taken care of. [42:00] Why? Read it again. Watch what he say. Watch the reason why. [42:07] For in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Listen, you got to understand this. We are being told these [42:14] things for a reason. Right? Sometimes we think, "Okay, I got to get my get back. [42:19] He disrespected me." Right? I got to knock him out. I got to make him look [42:26] bad. I got to talk bad about it. I got to make him look bad in front of everybody. I got to do whatever. But [42:31] that's not necessarily how you get your get back. If you want your get back, the [42:38] book is telling you how to get it. Feed him. Right. Right. Feed him. He hungry. You [42:45] like, "No, don't worry about it. I'll take care of you." Because by doing that, he says, "You put coals over his [42:50] head." In other words, the judgment of God becomes stronger on that [42:56] person. Right? That's how that's how you play the game, right? Is you treat [43:02] people right even when they don't treat you right. Don't hold no grudges. Don't be trying to get back at them. All that stuff. [43:08] Because I assure you, not because I assure you, but because the book does. The book tells us very clearly that God [43:15] will judge these people, right? We just have to be patient enough to do it. But once we [43:22] understand that and we believe it with all our heart, it makes it easier, right? It's easier for us to deal with [43:28] some of these things that we challenge with. Because a lot of time, like me, man, I don't like being disrespected. [43:35] I don't like being disrespected. I don't like nobody to play with me play like I [43:40] love getting the respect that I deserve. I ain't got to be honored. I ain't got to be woripped. I ain't I ain't looking for none of that. You know what I need? [43:47] I just need you to look at me and say, "I respect you. It's hot." But if I can rewire my brain to [43:57] accept disrespect and still treat the other person with respect, guess what that does? That make it hot for that [44:04] person, right? Most high God gonna look at that and be like, "Oh, so you treated my son bad even though he treated you [44:12] good. Oh, now I'm about to get your butt." And you going to see these people life start falling apart at some [44:17] point. Right? And it's okay to look at that and be like, "Yeah, that should have happened cuz that's what the Most [44:23] High God said." Cuz that's what he said. Right? People will try to convince us [44:29] and tell us that's fake. when I don't like a person, matter of fact, I might hate a person, right? But you know what? [44:36] I still treat them right. They try to they try to convince us that that's being fake or being phony. No, being [44:42] fake and being phony is saying, "Hey, you're my best friend." And then going to somebody else and be like, "I hate [44:47] that guy. That's fake and phony." Right? But if you hate this person and you [44:53] don't like this person and you looking like, "I'm still going to treat him with respect. I'm still going to treat him [44:58] the way I don't like him." That's not fake. Treating somebody with respect is not [45:03] fake, right? Treating somebody with honor, treating somebody uh nicely, [45:10] being at peace with a person, that's not fake. Those are not fake things, right? [45:15] That's what a person does when they have control over their emotions and they're not succumb to all these wild [45:23] temptations that come to us, right, over time. Keep going. [45:36] That's the end of the chapter. Yeah, we're on 13. Is it Romans chapter 13? Give me verse one. Y'all cut it out. Let [45:41] every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of [45:47] God. Whosoever therefore resists the power resist the ordinance of God. And they that resist shall receive to [45:53] themselves damnation. That's right. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Right. So they talking [45:59] about Trump. They talking about Biden when he was a president. They talking about Obama when he was a president. [46:04] They talking about Governor what's our governor? Lombardo, right? They talking about Governor Lombardo. They talking [46:09] about uh mayor uh whatever the mayor name is of Las Vegas, I can't remember. [46:15] They talking about all they talking about all the people that we would look at as government officials. They talking [46:20] about the police officers. They talking about everybody who presents themselves as officials, leaders or um or authority [46:28] authorities over us, right? Read it again from verse one. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For [46:35] there is no higher there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resists the [46:41] power resist the ordinance of God, and they that resist shall receive of them to themselves damnation. For rulers are [46:48] not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and [46:54] you shall have praise of the same. For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, [47:00] be afraid. For he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him [47:06] that does evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also [47:12] for conscious sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also. for they are God's [47:18] ministers attending continually upon this very thing. Right? So he's telling you the politicians and all that. He [47:24] says pay tribute. Pay tax. In other words, pay your taxes. Right? Cuz God put these people in [47:30] authority. How you think we got here? Bunch of white folks and black [47:36] folks joined together. Not regular black folks, Africans. You know what I'm saying? Bunch of white folks and [47:42] Africans joined together. You know what they said? Let's get them black Hebrews out of [47:49] here. They took us, right? Gaffled us up. First, they tried to tell us they, you know what I'm saying? They had their [47:54] swords and they spears. They came to us and they was like, "Listen, all y'all need to stop serving the God Yahweh and [48:01] y'all need to start serving Allah, right? We want y'all to change your religion. We want y'all to worship [48:07] Allah, who we learned about from Muhammad." Right? So after that, we looked at them, some of us, and we was [48:13] looking like, "Nah, we not doing that. We going to worship y'all." You know what I'm saying? Yahweh. After we told [48:20] them that, they look like, "Oh, that what y'all going to do?" They threw the spear. Got one of us right in the heart. [48:27] Then we died, right? Then the other one took off running, threw the spear, hit him, missed. He dodged that thing, [48:33] slipped it. But then he hit a corner. Boom. It was another Muslim right there. Clos line the bow. You know what? They [48:38] hit him on the ground. put some chains on his feet, put some chains on his arm, locked them up, called him a prisoner of [48:45] war. Right? So they kept doing that to our people. They kill some and they make us prisoners of war. Kill some, make us [48:52] prisoners of war. So they got these big prisons now in Africa. Then they strike a deal with the white Europeans. And the [48:58] white Europeans was like, "Wait a minute. So you mean all those black Hebrews that we've been sending down [49:05] there to you? You've been locking them up and putting them in prison. Well, we just found a new land. [49:12] You know what it's called? The Americas. Who ever heard of Christopher Columbus? [49:17] They don't teach y'all nothing nowadays. Nothing. That's crazy. You got to know. You learn about the the the the Santa [49:24] Fe, the Penta, and the Maria. Something like that, ain't it? Something like that. The Santa Fe, the Penta, and the [49:30] Maria. The Fanta want a Fanta? [49:40] What? So the mayor is the person, he's the leading official of a city. The [49:46] governor is the leading official of a state. And then the president is the [49:52] leading official of a country of this country. [49:58] Our governor is Governor Lombardo of Nevada. I don't [50:09] remember. So, a state a state is like Nevada or Texas or [50:17] California, right? But the country is the United States of America or Mexico [50:24] or Brazil or Canada or a lot of other [50:31] places. That's the difference. We'll go over it later. What [50:36] else? Good job. That's the mayor of Los North Las Vegas, Kelly Berkeley. So, [50:42] what was I talking about before y'all interrupted me? [50:49] Yes, we were prisoner. Very good. We were p the only one paying attention. The rest of y'all just knuckle darnhead. Look. So we were prisoners, right? And [50:57] then the white folks looked at that and they said, "We can do something with that." So they they struck a deal. They [51:03] said, "Listen, we will pay you for these prisoners." Right? And so Africans began [51:10] to sell us to Europeans. They brought us over here and made us slaves, right? [51:16] Then they built based off of our backs, right? And our hard work that we didn't get paid for, they built whole countries [51:22] on us, right? So they said, "Okay, we got a lot of money now because we have these slaves working for us for free and [51:29] they're making a lot of money for us. So now we're going to create the United [51:34] States of America or we're going to create Brazil or all these different places that they they came up with. So [51:41] not necessar Portugal was already around. So Portugal is the ones that that was the leaders in making the [51:47] slaves. Why you like Portugal so much? [51:53] Who? That's crazy. That's crazy. Times have changed. [52:01] So, so, so, so after that, you know what I'm saying? They build these countries [52:06] and then these countries have kings and governors and presidents that rule the [52:12] country. So, all this stuff was predicted by the most high God. You have to ask yourself, how did we get here? [52:19] But the most high God put us here. So if the most high God put us here and he used countries and officials to do it [52:26] and then he set up new countries and new officials. All of that is under the jurisdiction of God. So what Paul is [52:33] telling us is don't get it twisted. The most high God run the whole show. He's [52:38] the one who put these leaders in place. And if he put these leaders in place to oppress you and to beat your butt down [52:45] and to enslave you, the least you better do is pay taxes to that. Is that what he telling you? He's saying pay taxes to [52:51] him. So when people, if you ever heard somebody say, "No, I don't believe the Bible because the white man put that in [52:58] place to promote slavery." This is what they talking about, right? They talking about put the rules in place, respect [53:04] them, and pay your taxes. They don't like that cuz they looking like, "No, man. These people oppressed us and they did us wrong. This, that, and the other. [53:10] Why would I pay taxes to these people? This, that, and the other." But he's telling you he did that because your [53:15] butt was rebellious. you was a sinner and all your ancestors was sinners and ain't none of y'all did what you was [53:21] supposed to do. So that's why he put it in place that way and he put the leaders in place, the same ones that rule over [53:26] you and all that. He put all that stuff in place. So he's telling you don't resist it, right? Holy God, grab um [53:35] let's see how good you are. Let's see how good you are. Uh what book? If you [53:42] can guess what book, then that's a bad boy. If you can guess what book, No, no, no. What book? If you can guess what [53:49] book right now, that that's a bad boy. Let me see what book. You got 3 seconds. [53:54] Three, two, one. Say that. Say that. Huh? Yes, you. I thought you got it. No, [54:02] I don't. Jeremiah. Give me Jeremiah. Give me chapter. What chapter? What [54:09] chapter? Oh, if you can guess what chapter. That's a bad boy. What chapter? [54:14] What you got? 10. 28. You got 10. 28. 27 is the one. Give me uh Jeremiah [54:23] chapter 27. 27 ain't You wrong though, cuz it ain't what I want. Cuz I know I'm wrong, too. That's not what I want. 27 [54:29] is not what I want. But it's somewhere in [54:35] here. Where is it? Where he tell him like just go over [54:40] there. You know what I'm saying? Like don't resist it. Just go. I don't know. It might be 26. Jeremiah [54:46] talking to the people like go to Babylon. [54:55] What? No, that's not what I'm looking for. Give me 27 verse1. Let me see what the book say. I know this ain't the [55:01] beginning of the reign of Jehoakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this word unto Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, [55:07] "Thus says Yahweh, take thee bonds and yolks and put them upon thy neck." Oh, this is it. [55:13] And then send them to the king of Edom, king of Moab, and king of the Ammonites, [55:18] and to the king of Ty, and the king of Zidon, and the hand of the messengers which come to unto Zedekiah, king of, [55:24] right? So, he pretty much tell told him, "Put chains." It's not really chains, but for the for y'all to understand, [55:29] it's like, "Put chains around your neck and around your hands." Right? And then he said, "Now, after you do that, send [55:36] people to all these different nations." And watch what he about to tell them. Watch this. [55:43] and command them to say unto their masters, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, thus shall ye say unto [55:49] your masters, I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my [55:54] outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed good unto me. Right? Ain't this what Paul is saying? Paul is [56:00] saying, look, he put he put the rulers in place. He put the governors in place [56:05] and the presidents in place. Pay your taxes, boy. Don't resist them. This is what this is what Jeremiah is now [56:11] telling the nations. He's saying, "I made the earth, and I put the beast there, and I give all these things to [56:16] whoever I want to give them to." Watch this. Keep going. And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my [56:23] servant. And the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. And all nations shall serve him, and his [56:29] son, and his son's son, until the very time of the land come. And then many nations and great kings shall serve [56:34] themselves of him. Right? He said, "Everybody going to serve Nebuchadnezzar and they going to do it for a couple [56:40] generations until I come back and to make everybody turn on." Right? Watch this. Keep going. And it shall come to [56:45] pass that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar, the Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, [56:51] and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. That nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with [56:57] the sword and with the famine and with pestilence until I have consumed him by his hand. Right? He's telling her, he's [57:02] saying, "Listen, if you don't serve him, right, then I'mma punish you." And it's [57:09] not because Nebuchadnezzar is righteous. It's because all the people were rebellious. So Yah is using [57:16] Nebuchadnezzar as a way of punishing the people. So he's saying pretty much when you resist this punishment, you resisted [57:23] me. Keep going. Watch this. Therefore, hearken not to your prophets, nor to your divers, nor to your dreamers, nor [57:29] to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, You shall not serve the king, king of [57:35] Babylon. For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and you [57:42] should perish. But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those [57:47] will I let remain still in their own land, says Yahweh, and they shall till it dwell therein. [57:53] I spake also to Zedekiah, king of Judah, according to all these words, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the [57:59] king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live." Why will ye die, you and your people, by the sword, by [58:05] famine, and by pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? Therefore, [58:11] hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, You shall not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy a lie unto you, for I [58:19] have not sent them, says Yahweh. Yet they prophesy a lie in my name, that I might drive you out, that ye may perish, [58:26] ye and the prophets, and the prophecy unto in that ye and the prophets that prophesy unto you. Also, I spoke to the [58:33] priests and to this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh, hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, [58:39] saying, Behold, vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon, for they prophesy a lie [58:46] unto you. Hearken not unto them, Serve the king of Babylon and lives. Why should this city be laid waste? But if [58:52] they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Hosts, that [58:58] the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem go not to [59:04] Babylon. Right? So he's telling them if you just serve Babylon, you can stay [59:10] your land to be intact. So it's the exact same thing that applies to us right now. You got different groups. [59:17] Some groups are called pan-Africanist, right? These pan-Africanist groups, they usually say, [59:24] you know what, black people need to build their own. Black people need to leave and go to Africa. Black people [59:29] need to resist America and this that and the other. They're resisting it. But then there's another group called [59:36] right? doesn't resist. [59:41] says, "We're going to participate in the same rules that y'all set up. If y'all [59:47] say all people are equal, then we're going to advocate for all people being treated equal. If y'all say that we [59:52] should have got 40 acres in the mule, then we're going to advocate that you guys give us our just due and repay us [59:58] in reparations, right? But they use the political system. They pay taxes and [60:04] they promote Americanism, right? We are Americans. We are under America's yoke. [60:10] Now, let's participate in their system and fight for justice using their system. [60:17] That's that's no frozen only on this one. But that's that's what it looks like when when your neck is under the [60:24] yolk. And now many people might look at that and say that's weak. But Paul is [60:30] telling us that is how this thing goes, right? That is how you work. It [60:37] may look away. It may look sometimes you dealing with somebody and they [60:44] disrespect yo get back. But the most high God is saying all you got to do is [60:50] treat them with respect. And by doing that you heap coals on their head. And what does that mean to heap coals on [60:56] their head? That means you're putting the wrath of the most high God over them. And the most high God is going to [61:02] tear them up. So tomorrow, if we treat America correctly, [61:08] we participate and we obey the laws and we we we pay our taxes and then America [61:14] continue to oppress us as it has right now. They have 400 plus years of [61:20] oppression of our people at some point. Don't you know that the most high God is [61:25] going to judge these people right? We don't need to be a part of that judgment by trying to get our revenge right now. [61:32] God got the judgment. So that's how we have to think about it. We fight for justice. We call out what's right and [61:37] wrong, but we participate within the laws and the systems that are existing. [61:42] And if we decide to break a law or if we decide to to to go against the judgment of this country, then we have to be [61:49] accountable to it and be subject to the penalty. Right? If if if somebody give [61:56] me a law and they say let's say American let's say Nevada law change tomorrow and it says you cannot worship Yahweh and I [62:04] say you know what sorry I got to continue to pray to Yahweh then now I [62:09] have to be sub if they say if you get caught praying to Yahweh then you have to do 30 years in jail. Guess what I got [62:17] to do? Pray to Yahwa. afraid of Yahweh and then be like, "Give me my 30 years." [62:24] If you caught me, give me my 30 years. That is the way you participate in the system, right? It don't mean that you do [62:31] whatever they say. It means that you take whatever comes with it. You're subject to whatever the consequence is [62:37] if you don't do what they say. But don't go running and hiding and trying to trick and do all this stuff. No, that's [62:43] not that's that's coward stuff, right? Don't follow these pan-Africanists, right? Only thing we [62:49] need to follow is the most high God. Oh, we got grab Matthew. Give me Matthew chapter 22. Give me verse 15. [62:57] This is Matthew chapter 22:15. Watch what the book [63:03] say. What? You give me a half a cup of water today or something. Why does water go so quick? [63:09] Matthew Matthew chapter 22:15. [63:26] Eli, you going to bring my water up like this? Hands all over the rim of the darn cup. Just holding it. Just touch it [63:32] everywhere. My lips got to touch. You nasty darn butt. You know what I'm saying? When was the last time you [63:39] washed your nasty darn hand you touching caressing the rim of my darn cup? I'm [63:44] trying to drink from it. That's crazy. That's [63:50] disgusting. Verse 15. This is Matthew chapter 22 verse1 15. Watch the book say. Then went the Pharisees and took [63:56] counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. Mhm. And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, [64:02] saying, "Master, master, we know that you are true and teach the way of God and truth." Look at Look how they tried [64:08] to set him up like, "Oh, look, master. We know we we know we know you be teaching the truth. They don't believe [64:14] he teach the truth. They just trying to flatter them. We know you be teaching the truth. Watch them try to set them up. Watch what they say. Neither do you [64:19] care for any man, right? You don't you don't care what nobody think of you. You just keep it real no matter what you do, [64:25] don't you, boy? You know what I'm saying? Let me ask you a question. For you regard not the person of men. Mhm. [64:31] Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or [64:36] not? Right. He said, is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar or not? In [64:41] other words, is it lawful for us to pay taxes or not? Remember, we Israelites. [64:47] We got our own land. We don't have no darn taxes. We pay ties to the priests [64:52] and that's it. Now, we got conquered by these Gentiles. And we have to ask, what's wrong with you, [64:58] boy? We got to ask the question, right? Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to [65:04] these Gentiles or not? So they they thinking they caught Yoshua cuz they [65:09] looking like if he say it's lawful then we going to tell him man you a defector [65:15] to the Romans. You know what I'm saying? You serve the Romans. You ain't with our people. You ain't no Israelite. And if [65:21] he say it's unlawful then we can go to the Roman be like he don't pay his taxes. You know what I'm saying? So they [65:27] thought they got us right. Watch what it watch y'all a darn slick mouth. You know [65:33] what I'm saying? Watch y'all shoot a darn slick mouth. He can't catch it. Darn. But watch this. But Yoshua [65:38] perceived their wickedness and said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrite, show me the tribute money." [65:45] And they brought unto him a penny. Mhm. And he said unto them, "Who is this image and subscription?" Subscription. [65:53] And they said unto him, "Caesars." Then he said unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are [65:58] Caesars's, and unto God the things that are God's." H and when they had heard these words, they marveled and left and [66:05] went their way, right? He threw them for a darn loop because he didn't answer it the way that they expected him to. [66:11] Right? So he telling you right there, he's saying, "Listen, if you can acknowledge that this money is [66:16] Caesars's, then give it to him." Right? I didn't say it was Caesars's. You just said it was. So if [66:24] you acknowledge that that's Caesars's, then why wouldn't you give him his tribute? you using this [66:30] money, but then you make sure if you recognize it as God's that you give God his also. You know what I'm saying? And [66:36] by doing it that way and put him in a position where now they have to say, "Well, it's not Caesars's." And now the [66:43] same thing that they tried to put Yahweh up against be like, "Oh, well, y'all said that wasn't his coin. Come get your [66:48] butt, too. If y'all want to snitch on me, come get their butts, too." Right? So, he answered in a way where it made [66:55] them face their own hypocrisy. That's why he started off by saying you hypocrites. Cuz if I sit here and I told [67:01] you, "No, don't pay no taxes." You going to go to Caesar and be like, "He don't pay taxes." If I tell you, "Yeah, pay [67:07] taxes." Then you going to go to everybody else and be like, "No, he defect to the Romans." You know what I'm saying? Might as well be a Roman. We [67:13] don't want to listen to him. But when I tell you, okay, well, do it based off of what you say. You say it's Caesars's. [67:18] Well, give on to Caesar. What's Caesars's? Now it put you in a position where you got to say it is Caesars's or [67:24] it's not. And now you guilty of the same thing that you trying to put me in. Right. This is uh this is uh Matthew uh [67:31] I'm sorry, not Matthew. This is uh Romans chapter 13. Where we leave [67:37] off? This Romans chapter 13:6. Watch the book [67:43] say for this cause pay ye tribute also, for they are God's ministers, attending [67:49] continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues. Tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom [67:55] custom? Fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no man anything but but to [68:02] love one another. For he that loves another has fulfilled the law. For this thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou [68:08] shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any [68:15] other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [68:21] Love workketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. And that knowing the time that now [68:29] is high, it is high time to awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than we believed. The night the night is [68:36] far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness. Let us put on the armor of [68:42] light. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantingness, not in [68:48] strife and envying, but put ye on the Lord Yahosua the Messiah, and make no [68:54] provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Grab 1 Corinthians chapter 8 [69:01] for [69:07] me. This is 1 Corinthians chapter 8. Give me verse one. [69:16] Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but [69:23] charity edified. And if any man think that he knows anything, knows nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man [69:30] love God, the same is known of him. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice [69:36] unto idols, we know that in an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other god but one. For though there [69:43] be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods [69:48] many and lords many, but to us there is but one God, the father of whom are all things, and we in him, and one master, [69:56] Yahosua, the Messiah, by whom are all things, and we by him. How be it, there is not in every man that knowledge, for [70:04] some with science of the idol. Oh, my bad. For some with conscience of the [70:10] idol, unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol, and their conscience being weak is defiled. Right? [70:17] So he's basically telling us at the end of Roman, go back to Romans uh Romans uh [70:24] uh 13. Give me like verse uh give me like probably like like verse [70:33] 11. This Romans chapter uh Romans chapter 13 [70:40] 11. And that knowing that time now is high time to awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than we believe. [70:46] Mhm. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on [70:51] the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in a day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and [70:57] wantedness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Messiah, Yahosua, and make not provision for the flesh to [71:04] fulfill the lust thereof. Right? So, he's telling us to deal with each other in a way that makes [71:10] peace, right? Not in a way that that creates arguments that it puts us in a [71:16] position where I'm proving something is right and something is wrong. Figure out a way to make peace while still being [71:23] honest. Right? So what am I talking about? Right? If we are having an argument about eating, right, and we say [71:33] pork, pork is okay to eat, right? And another person say pork is against the [71:39] law. Right? One person thinks that eating [71:46] pork will cause you to sin. The other person thinks that [71:52] God doesn't mind whether you eat pork or not. Who to make peace in this [71:59] situation? Who's best to say let me restrict myself so that we don't have an [72:04] argument? the person who thinks it's okay to eat pork or the person that thinks it's not okay to eat [72:11] pork. You think the person the one that says it's not okay to eat pork should eat the [72:16] pork or should the person that thinks it is okay should eat the pork should not eat the pork. [72:23] person that thinks it is okay to he should not because the person who [72:29] says it is is okay to eat pork in his mind whether I eat pork or don't eat pork god still loves me so that mean he [72:37] has if what he believes is true that means you have more of the responsibility because you have more [72:43] options I can do it this way or this way the person who thinks that if I eat that pork I'm going to hell he doesn't have [72:51] options his only option is don't eat the pork. So if y'all have a conversation [72:57] about eating pork, then it's your knowledge and believe that they have the more options. They should restrict [73:02] theirelves to less options. But is that what we see today? No. If you mention no, eating [73:10] pork is against the law like we all know and believe, right? If we mention that, [73:16] the Christian gonna say, "Oh, well, I serve God. Ain't nothing wrong with eating no darn pork. I like pork. M [73:21] fact, I like pork chop and they want to boast about it even if they were right [73:27] in what they were talking about. Now you're taking this and boasting your knowledge to a brother that might be [73:34] lesser in faith and that is a sin for us. Right? Our mindset has to be to make [73:43] peace. Right? If we believe that if if we talk to a brother that believe you [73:49] cannot cut on lights on the Sabbath because technically that's kindling the fire and I believe I can turn on lights [73:58] or I cannot turn on lights, right? It's not a sin for me to turn the light off, nor is it a sin for me to turn the light [74:04] on. If we visit that brother, are we gonna have an argument with him about [74:09] lights? No. No. I ain't turn the lights off. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, [74:15] brother, you know what I'm saying? If it's your house, you know what I'm saying? Turn the lights off. If it's my house, turn the lights [74:21] off. If my brother come to my house on the Sabbath and he believe the lights got to be off on the Sabbath. Guess what [74:27] we doing that Sabbath? Lights off. Everybody, you know what I'm saying? [74:33] Brother Jerry coming. You know what I'm saying? Brother Jerry on everybody turn all the lights off. brother Derry on his [74:39] way over here because why would I why would I have an argument with my brother for [74:46] something I think is optional? It doesn't make [74:51] sense. Now once my brother gains my trust then we can start talking about these things. But I'm not going to create strife and and and and beef [74:59] because of it for something that I think is optional. Now it's different when it's not optional. A brother come [75:05] cussing in lying and and and cheating. That's not optional, right? That's just [75:11] wrong, right? But let's say, let's let's play it out. Let's play it out the other way. Let's say one brother believes, [75:17] "No, it ain't against the law to cuss, lie, and cheat. I can do all those things and God [75:23] still love me. But guess what I believe? You lie, cuss, and cheat, your butt [75:28] going right to the fire, right?" So now in who in each [75:33] person's mind, who has more options? who thinks he can do it again. The one [75:39] that think he can do it. So who has the responsibility of restricting themselves? [75:45] That's right. The no matter what, it's all going to end up the same way. Right. [75:52] It ain't no way around it. It's always going to get up. If you in your mind believe you have more options and that [75:57] you could do it this way or this way, then restrict yourself to the to the way of the brother that you're dealing with. [76:03] It's a brother that you love. This somebody that you rock with. Sure, they may not have the same belief as you, [76:08] they may not have the same understanding as you, but restricted to your way, as long as the way that they restricting it [76:14] to or the way that you restricting it to doesn't end up causing you to sin, right? If somebody telling you, "Well, [76:20] you come my house, you got to worship Buddha." Well, that's different. You know what I'm saying? That shouldn't be nobody akin to you. All right? Because [76:27] their way is offensive to your way. That's different. But if you looking like I can turn the light off or on, it [76:33] don't matter to me. Sometimes the lights be off and sab it when I go to sleep. [76:40] Go ahead and get Go ahead and get the lights off. Get the darn lights off [76:47] right now. No, man. We on camera. That's quite quite a [76:53] conundr like savage. They got all them lights on like how I'm going to do the video. You know what I'm saying? But you [76:58] know, brother go through what they go through. If I had a conversation with I'm cutting them off. That's how I go, right? Uh, grab U actually, no, we we [77:07] good. We'll we'll pick it up next week. We'll pick it up at uh Romans chapter 14 next week. Kind of pick it up from [77:13] there. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions [77:19] in the chat? What we got? We got one question in the chat. What that say at the bottom, [77:27] boy? What? [77:33] Oh, you didn't lost me on this analogy. What you learning? Go ahead. Ask Ask a question. What is it? Oh, you eating [77:39] pork. That what you got? Hold on, Miss B. That what you got out of this? She got That mean she got stuck at the [77:46] beginning? You know what I'm saying? At the very beginning, she got stuck. [77:56] What? Yeah. If you if you eat pork, it's a sin against our law. Yeah. It's [78:02] against our law. So, so we we had a we had a law of Moses. The law of Moses tell us don't eat pork. So, anything [78:09] against the law of Moses is a sin. That's a sin against our law. However, our law is not the determining factor of [78:15] us entering into the kingdom. So, now when a person goes to enter into the kingdom, they got to do whatever [78:20] Yahushua says. So, Yahushua in his law, he never told us we can't eat pork, [78:26] right? So although it's a a sin against our law, our people, we come from Israel, right? So our people, we don't [78:32] eat pork. That's just not what we do. So it's a sin, it's definitely a sin against Moses's law, but it's not a sin [78:38] against Yahosua, right? And so in order for us to get into the kingdom, Moses's [78:44] law won't get us into the kingdom, but the only thing that gets us into the kingdom is Yahosua's law. Didn't get to [78:52] that. Why we still reading about Moses? So we don't Ain't nobody eating no darn pork. Yeah, [78:59] ain't nobody eating no pork. No, it's the opposite, right? It's like when you start off, you don't eat pork. [79:06] No, what he's saying is it starts off telling you not to eat. Right. The whole book tell you don't eat pork. It ain't [79:11] nothing in the book that's ever going to tell you to eat pork. It's just a it's just it's just the requirement is not [79:17] mentioned when it comes to Yahoo. So my kids would be telling you pork bad. Don't ever do it. But it did. Ain't [79:24] nothing wrong with that. Right. Pork. Pork is bad. Um, pork is bad and we shouldn't do it. It's It's bad in every [79:30] type of way. All right. It's bad in every type of way. But no. Uh, no, Sister Pam. I'm definitely not eating no [79:37] pork. Definitely not eating no pork. But nevertheless, it is true. What is true is that whether a person eats pork or [79:45] not or eats a dog, let's just take it off of pork, right? A person can eat dog or cook a dog or whatever. And as long [79:51] as they not doing it in America, they can still enter into the kingdom, right? Let's talk about the [79:58] Sabbath, right? A person a person could never keep the Sabbath and they can still keep it make it into the kingdom. [80:05] So it is appropriate for Paul to say, listen, like don't cause arguments on [80:11] stuff that's not going to keep you out of the kingdom. Now, if a person is fornicating and they committing adultery [80:19] and they lying and they stealing, argue about that, right? It's like that stuff, [80:24] you should not be doing it, right? However, and when it's about stuff that's not going to keep you in, I mean, [80:30] that's not going to be in the kingdom, then restrict yourself to the lowest common denominator. Y'all ever learn [80:35] that in in school? Lowest. Who learned about denominators? The lowest common denominators? You. You. Right. So you [80:42] got you got the denominator in order in order to simplify a fraction or simplify [80:48] a a number. You got to find the lowest common denominator. And that's all we [80:53] trying to do, right? All we trying to do, we trying to reduce ourselves to the lowest common denominator so that we [80:59] have peace with our brother. Now if the do denominator is not common, if you talking about worshiping Buddha, you [81:05] know what I'm saying? If you talking about eating pork in the grove and and bowing down to some other god, well [81:11] that's different. That's different. I can't do that. But if I'm telling you you [81:17] shouldn't eat pork and you over there and be like, "Oh, but no, I know Jesus Christ so well, right? It doesn't matter [81:23] whether I eat pork or not." Then that means you have more options. You have to lower yourself to my common denominator. [81:30] Your butt shouldn't be eating pork around. But I told you I don't eat pork and I think it's wrong. [81:37] Right. What? [81:47] Yes. Moses. Good question. That's Moses law. [81:54] On the the Sabbath day comes from Moses law, right? The the requirement that we [81:59] can't work rather comes from Moses law. Any other question? That's a good [82:06] question. All right. Well, let's pray out. Mind hitting the the end stream for [82:11] me over there?