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Allen Jackson Ministries | Culture & Christianity Conference - Brandon Tatum | July 23, 2025
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- Allen jackson: you know, i know you know, but we're living
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- In a chaotic world.
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- Things are changing globally.
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- There's wars, there's threats of war, a lot of stuff happening.
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- But i want to make a suggestion: don't focus on the negative.
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- Don't get caught up in the uncertainty.
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- That'll bring fear and anxiety and worry.
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- It's not helpful.
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- Let's determine to focus our attention on the lord.
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- We've created a tool that i believe will make a difference.
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- It's called "awaken us."
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- It's a 30-day plan.
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- Each day is directed at a different topic that's a part of
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- Our current world.
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- It gives us a verse of scripture, a little devotional
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- Around that topic, and then a prayer for that specific thing.
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- The idea is we're gonna give the holy spirit an invitation
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- To awaken us to a new place of faith.
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- You know, we need an awakening in the midst of the people of
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- God and we wanna say, "well, i am awake."
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- Well, i get that but, you know, i was awakened yesterday, but
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- This morning i was awakened again, and my prayer is tomorrow
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- I'll be awakened yet again.
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- We need a daily awakening by the spirit of god to find his best
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- For us in this season, and i believe this book will help you.
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- Allen: we have a special program today.
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- Our presenter's brandon tatum.
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- He was a speaker at our culture & christianity conference
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- Last summer.
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- Brandon's a good friend and a powerful voice for truth in
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- Our nation.
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- I know you'll enjoy his presentation.
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- I wanna give you a personal invitation to join us this year
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- For our culture & christianity conference here at the church.
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- It's september 19th and 20th.
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- The website's on your screen.
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- It's got a list of all of our presenters for this year.
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- You can go back and see the presentations from last summer.
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- We're learning to lead with our faith, to take our christianity
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- Into our culture and be difference makers.
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- I'll see you in tennessee real soon.
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- Brandon tatum: let me start out with this.
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- I wanna talk about, a little bit about, my journey just
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- Real quick.
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- I don't want this to be about me.
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- It's not about me, it's about the lord, but i
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- Wanna start with my journey.
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- I grew up in a very diverse background.
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- Mom and daddy wasn't together, typical story in the inner city
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- Community, which is unfortunate but it's true.
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- And i remember the first time i got in serious trouble and i
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- Didn't get a whupping, which was shocking, 'cause my daddy
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- Believed in corporal punishment.
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- Nowadays they call it child abuse.
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- I don't know what to believe now.
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- But daddy used to tear it up, man.
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- How many of you guys ever got a whupping before?
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- See, this is why y'all saved today.
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- How many of y'all used to put your hand back there to try to
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- Block it a little bit?
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- Okay, it had never worked, but y'all figured it out.
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- So i--the first time i got in trouble and didn't get a real
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- Whupping was pivotal in my life.
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- It changed my life.
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- Me and my cousins were smoking marijuana in a vacant house,
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- Acting up.
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- It was seven of us, and i remember the police came, they
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- Broke in there, the swat team came in.
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- We were all just young kids.
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- I think the oldest was 17, all the way down to when i was 8.
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- And i remember them taking us, putting us into custody, and the
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- Crazy thing is i wasn't afraid of the police.
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- I was afraid of my daddy.
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- And i hate to say it, i was more afraid of my daddy than i was of
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- God at that time.
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- But he showed up and i remember he came in and got us from the
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- Detention center and i remember when he first came through the
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- Doors, it was shocking to me.
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- I had never seen my father that mad.
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- He actually said he was gonna kill us when he walked through
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- The front door.
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- He said, "i'm gonna kill 'em, i'm gonna kill 'em," and i was
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- Looking at my brother and i'm looking at the guard and i'm
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- Like, "no, y'all leave us here.
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- We need to stay here for a minute.
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- He's premeditating a murder and y'all not doing nothing
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- About it."
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- And he took me, we got in the car, we're headed home, and i'll
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- Never forget this.
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- He looks back while he's driving.
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- He looks back and he say--and nba was my dream.
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- I wanted to be like michael jordan.
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- He looked back and he said, "if you don't act with integrity and
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- Do the right thing when nobody's watching, you will never play in
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- The nba," and that hurt me.
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- That hurt me more than a spanking would, and it changed
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- My life.
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- It changed my trajectory.
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- I said, "you know what, i don't wanna be a loser.
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- I wanna make some of myself."
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- Going--moving forward, i was in high school, all-american
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- Football player.
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- I was the--a freak athlete is what they called it.
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- I went to the university of arizona and i thought that i was
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- Going to the nfl.
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- No question about it.
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- Growing up in texas, you play football and you went to church.
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- Now, we went to church and we were in the church, but the
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- Church wasn't in us.
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- And for those of you who may not know what that mean, that mean
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- We were going every sunday and we would listen to the pastor.
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- We would go to sleep, me and my brother, we were young, we would
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- Fall asleep in there, and my dad would take us, and the funny
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- Thing is my dad would always skip worship.
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- I don't know why he would.
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- We didn't even know there was a worship service.
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- We just thought the preacher preached and we were late
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- Every day, but he skipped worship.
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- We would listen to the preacher preach, but we would go home and
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- Do the same stuff we were doing before we went to church,
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- Listening to rap music, being crazy, nothing pertaining to
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- Jesus christ.
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- Maybe we'll pray before a meal, but that was about it.
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- So we were in the church, church wasn't in us.
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- I get to college playing football.
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- I'm going to the nfl.
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- I'm the man.
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- It's all about me.
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- Then things started going downhill for me.
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- I did not play the first year.
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- I had a terrible attitude.
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- Some of y'all will be shocked.
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- I used to have gold teeth in my mouth.
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- If my six-pack was good and we wasn't in church, i'd
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- Show y'all.
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- I got young savage tattooed across my whole stomach
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- Like this.
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- That's how crazy i was and that led me to having a terrible
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- Experience as a football player and like most of us in here and
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- Many people in the world, when you start feeling like your life
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- Is going down, where do you go?
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- You go to god.
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- And so my mission was to figure out is this god thing real
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- Or not?
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- Is god really gonna protect me?
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- Is god really the one i need to look to with all of this that's
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- Going on, all of my dreams being shattered?
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- So i went to church.
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- I said, "let me try this out."
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- My--the first church i went to, all they did was prophesy
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- Every sunday.
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- And i'm not talking about no real biblical prophecies.
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- I'm talking about the pastor would say, "young lady, you
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- Gonna have a good life tomorrow."
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- How do you measure that?
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- He just used to say stuff and i said, "this ain't the church
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- For me.
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- I--god bless them, but this ain't for me."
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- I went to a church and i heard the gospel of jesus christ for
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- The first time.
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- Do you know how--i think you guys understand this.
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- Now you are privileged, i just want you to know, because you
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- Have a wonderful pastor.
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- Pastor allen jackson is incredible.
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- His wife kathy, they like family to me.
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- Where my israel people at that went--i went to israel with a
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- Bunch of people.
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- Where are the boys at?
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- I've been looking for y'all.
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- Where they at?
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- They over there?
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- Oh, look at the boys over there.
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- I'm embarrassing them.
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- Don't be embarrassed.
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- So you guys are spoiled because you have an incredible pastor
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- That preaches the truth, preach the gospel, and expand your
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- Understanding outside of just american thinking of
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- The scriptures.
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- You guys understand how it relates to israel and all of
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- Those things.
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- You guys have it good.
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- Some pastors are just charismatic.
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- They step up on stage, they do theatricals.
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- They put scriptures together to make you feel good
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- And emotional.
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- They hire the best performance people up here so they can sing
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- A song and make you put your hands in the air and cry a
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- Little bit, and then they get on stage, they don't talk nothing
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- About jesus.
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- All they are is motivational speakers.
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- They pump you up, they prime you, but are you changed?
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- They can be charismatic, but are they anointed that when people
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- Come, god can deliver them and they go different than the way
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- They show up?
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- So i heard the gospel of jesus christ for the first time.
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- Pastor bishop, i call him bishop.
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- In the denomination, he's a bishop.
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- Bishop arthur pierce, little old man, he probably this tall, and
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- Holy ghost filled.
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- That man have so much power.
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- He would preach and a very humble man.
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- He preached the gospel.
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- I'll never forget that message.
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- He said, "jesus is the way."
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- You know how simple that is?
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- He had the articulation of jesus being a door.
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- You can't go around a door, you can't go underneath a door, you
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- Gotta go through the door.
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- And i remember thinking to myself, i really wanna be a part
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- Of this family of jesus christ.
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- I really wanna serve christ.
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- I really wanna do this for real this time.
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- And i remember and i'm--i'll save y'all the details because
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- It was a whole bunch of dreams i had and all these cool things,
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- But i'm gonna run out of time if i don't keep going.
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- So i ended up going to church and they prayed for me.
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- And the thing that he told me and it remind me of the book of
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- Acts when peter first started the church, and he said,
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- "i command you repent."
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- He didn't tell me to continue in the ways that i was going.
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- He didn't tell me, "keep on living your life, brandon.
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- Sometime maybe you'll come around."
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- He looked at me and said, "you repent and be baptized in the
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- Name of jesus and you shall be filled with the gift of the
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- Holy spirit."
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- Now i didn't even know what the holy spirit was.
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- I saw people in my church, in our denomination, we were--
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- People were speaking in tongues.
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- I said, "that ain't for me.
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- That's only for mom and them."
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- But god gave me that gift.
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- I remember it was on a tuesday night.
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- I went in there, my expectation was, you know, to just pray and
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- See if god would give me the gift, and he--and i received
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- The gift.
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- I was speaking in tongues.
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- Another man, it sounded like somebody else was talking out of
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- My mouth.
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- That changed my life forever.
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- And it was a tremendous blessing.
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- Going back to football.
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- I thought that "now i'm saved," from our denomination, "i'm
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- Saved and so therefore i'm gonna go straight to the nfl.
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- The coach is gonna start me this next--this next saturday and
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- Everything gonna be good."
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- What you think happened?
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- Nothing.
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- But i was still--god has still delivered me.
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- Threw away all my rap music, took my gold teeth out.
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- I used to have earrings in my ear.
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- I took them earrings out, i sang in the choir.
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- I did all--i was trying to serve god with all of my heart.
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- I used to clean the bathrooms.
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- That was a honor to clean up the church.
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- And on the football team, i would preach, i would talk to
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- People, people were getting saved.
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- Football still sucked.
- 00:10:14.465 --> 00:10:18.636
- I think i'm kind of still mad about that, but anyway.
- 00:10:18.636 --> 00:10:21.673
- I'm just kidding.
- 00:10:21.673 --> 00:10:23.508
- So i get to the end of my football career.
- 00:10:23.508 --> 00:10:25.977
- I still never played much.
- 00:10:25.977 --> 00:10:27.545
- I think i played on special teams a couple of times.
- 00:10:27.545 --> 00:10:29.280
- I was such a talented athlete that i was still in the 2010
- 00:10:29.280 --> 00:10:32.116
- Nfl draft.
- 00:10:32.116 --> 00:10:33.518
- And so the oakland raiders called my agent and said we're
- 00:10:33.518 --> 00:10:35.820
- Gonna draft brandon in the 6th or the 7th round, and i
- 00:10:35.820 --> 00:10:38.690
- Was excited.
- 00:10:38.690 --> 00:10:40.058
- I said, "god has vindicated me."
- 00:10:40.058 --> 00:10:41.526
- The draft was on my birthday, april the 22nd, which was just
- 00:10:41.526 --> 00:10:45.997
- Past birthday.
- 00:10:45.997 --> 00:10:47.331
- It was on my birthday.
- 00:10:47.331 --> 00:10:48.700
- I threw a draft party.
- 00:10:48.700 --> 00:10:50.034
- My whole family was there.
- 00:10:50.034 --> 00:10:51.402
- We were all excited.
- 00:10:51.402 --> 00:10:52.737
- They passed on me.
- 00:10:52.737 --> 00:10:54.105
- It broke my heart.
- 00:10:54.105 --> 00:10:55.440
- I ripped my--i remember going in the front yard.
- 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:56.808
- It was not christ-like.
- 00:10:56.808 --> 00:10:58.142
- I ripped my shirt off.
- 00:10:58.142 --> 00:10:59.477
- I was so mad at god, "how could you do me like this?
- 00:10:59.477 --> 00:11:01.746
- I served you.
- 00:11:01.746 --> 00:11:03.114
- I was on campus preaching, witnessing.
- 00:11:03.114 --> 00:11:06.651
- How could you not let my dream come true?"
- 00:11:06.651 --> 00:11:10.288
- But i realized that god has a plan that's better than your
- 00:11:10.288 --> 00:11:15.293
- Little plan.
- 00:11:15.293 --> 00:11:16.694
- All you have to do, because you read the bible, you know who
- 00:11:20.531 --> 00:11:25.002
- Jesus is.
- 00:11:25.002 --> 00:11:26.337
- All you have to do is just let god deal with it.
- 00:11:26.337 --> 00:11:29.774
- Now, i learned that later, but let me continue the story.
- 00:11:29.774 --> 00:11:32.944
- Tried out for the nfl one more year.
- 00:11:32.944 --> 00:11:35.346
- Nfl lockout happened.
- 00:11:35.346 --> 00:11:36.748
- I think that's the only time in nfl history they had a lockout.
- 00:11:36.748 --> 00:11:39.317
- When they locked out the nfl, you can't try out for the scouts
- 00:11:39.317 --> 00:11:42.987
- Anymore if you're a free agent.
- 00:11:42.987 --> 00:11:44.322
- I trained for an entire year.
- 00:11:44.322 --> 00:11:46.224
- I showed up at the facility.
- 00:11:46.224 --> 00:11:48.126
- When i got to the door, they said they "cannot look at free
- 00:11:48.126 --> 00:11:51.362
- Agents perform, i'm sorry."
- 00:11:51.362 --> 00:11:54.132
- I cried again.
- 00:11:54.132 --> 00:11:57.101
- But i met a man who was an incredible guy.
- 00:11:57.101 --> 00:12:00.037
- He mentored me.
- 00:12:00.037 --> 00:12:01.873
- That's a whole 'nother story how we met, but he mentored me.
- 00:12:01.873 --> 00:12:04.809
- He said, "when you have put the effort in, put a x on the
- 00:12:04.809 --> 00:12:08.079
- Calendar if it's not yielding results."
- 00:12:08.079 --> 00:12:10.481
- That's one thing that we have to learn to do in life, not just in
- 00:12:10.481 --> 00:12:13.484
- The spiritual realm, but also in your life, in your profession.
- 00:12:13.484 --> 00:12:17.522
- Sometimes when you're pursuing something and it's not yielding
- 00:12:17.522 --> 00:12:19.857
- Results, it's time for you to move on to something greater.
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- Let god deal with it.
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- Allen: hey, we have a tool that i think will help you overcome
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- Brandon: but i wanna talk a little bit about, now that i've
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- Gotten it out of the way, i wanna talk a little bit about
- 00:13:36.067 --> 00:13:37.835
- The state of our nation and the state of our church.
- 00:13:37.835 --> 00:13:44.108
- I said this, i had read this in the scriptures about how
- 00:13:44.108 --> 00:13:47.745
- Judgment starts at the house.
- 00:13:47.745 --> 00:13:49.914
- "how does that affect me?"
- 00:13:49.914 --> 00:13:51.249
- People are asking.
- 00:13:51.249 --> 00:13:52.683
- Well, judgment starting at the house means that the reason that
- 00:13:52.683 --> 00:13:55.987
- Our country looks the way that it does today is because of us,
- 00:13:55.987 --> 00:14:00.558
- The good and the bad.
- 00:14:00.558 --> 00:14:01.926
- See, we like to take credit for the good, right?
- 00:14:01.926 --> 00:14:04.562
- Because of our faith in christ, we have a country that is the
- 00:14:04.562 --> 00:14:07.098
- Freest country on planet earth, blowing up in excellence.
- 00:14:07.098 --> 00:14:10.334
- You can worship god anywhere, anytime, any day because of good
- 00:14:10.334 --> 00:14:14.138
- Men and women who believed in christ jesus.
- 00:14:14.138 --> 00:14:17.942
- But we also have to take responsibility for the bad.
- 00:14:17.942 --> 00:14:21.412
- The reason that we have so many young women out here who are
- 00:14:21.412 --> 00:14:24.815
- Confused about abortion is because we don't talk about it
- 00:14:24.815 --> 00:14:28.953
- In the church.
- 00:14:28.953 --> 00:14:31.355
- Now see, your pastor is good enough to do it.
- 00:14:31.355 --> 00:14:34.025
- Other people don't have a pastor who is connected that will speak
- 00:14:34.025 --> 00:14:39.096
- On these issues because they're terrified.
- 00:14:39.096 --> 00:14:41.699
- They're afraid.
- 00:14:41.699 --> 00:14:43.501
- They don't wanna--they don't wanna ruin their reputation to
- 00:14:43.501 --> 00:14:46.037
- Man.
- 00:14:46.037 --> 00:14:47.438
- They're not worrying about christ jesus.
- 00:14:47.438 --> 00:14:49.206
- But the problem is, and we all know the problem exists, what do
- 00:14:49.206 --> 00:14:51.976
- We do about it?
- 00:14:51.976 --> 00:14:53.644
- What do we do about it?
- 00:14:53.644 --> 00:14:55.479
- Love, compassion, and education.
- 00:14:55.479 --> 00:14:59.183
- When you speak from the pulpit, if you speak as a church in
- 00:14:59.183 --> 00:15:02.620
- Authority and you teach young women what the truth is, many
- 00:15:02.620 --> 00:15:05.923
- Young women would not make that decision.
- 00:15:05.923 --> 00:15:08.459
- But it starts in here.
- 00:15:08.459 --> 00:15:10.728
- We need to make sure our children are not ones who are
- 00:15:10.728 --> 00:15:14.165
- Participating in that.
- 00:15:14.165 --> 00:15:15.967
- We talk about transgenderism and all of these other -isms that go
- 00:15:15.967 --> 00:15:20.071
- On in our country.
- 00:15:20.071 --> 00:15:21.739
- What are we doing to combat that?
- 00:15:21.739 --> 00:15:24.275
- Are we bold enough to speak out?
- 00:15:24.275 --> 00:15:26.610
- Are we bold enough to go to the city council, the student--i
- 00:15:26.610 --> 00:15:29.680
- Mean, not the student council, but the school board?
- 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:31.716
- Are we bold enough to stand, is the real question.
- 00:15:31.716 --> 00:15:35.920
- We have to be the ones who are on the front lines advocating,
- 00:15:35.920 --> 00:15:41.092
- Not only locally but in the--on federal elections.
- 00:15:41.092 --> 00:15:44.528
- If you somehow think christians should not be talking about
- 00:15:44.528 --> 00:15:47.198
- Voting, you are crazy.
- 00:15:47.198 --> 00:15:50.634
- You--every, every aspect of our existence should
- 00:15:50.634 --> 00:15:57.408
- Be christ-centered.
- 00:15:57.408 --> 00:15:59.210
- On your job, it should be jesus all day long.
- 00:15:59.210 --> 00:16:03.581
- When you go to a party at your friend's house, they should get
- 00:16:03.581 --> 00:16:06.384
- Sick of hearing about jesus christ of nazareth.
- 00:16:06.384 --> 00:16:10.621
- Because all you should be talking about is jesus.
- 00:16:10.621 --> 00:16:14.992
- When i'm on the radio, they shocked.
- 00:16:14.992 --> 00:16:16.327
- They go, "brandon, oh, you a political commentator.
- 00:16:16.327 --> 00:16:18.195
- You talk about jesus all the time."
- 00:16:18.195 --> 00:16:19.530
- Well, because jesus saved my soul.
- 00:16:19.530 --> 00:16:20.898
- That's why i talk about it all the time.
- 00:16:20.898 --> 00:16:23.334
- That's what we should be doing in everyday experiences that we
- 00:16:23.334 --> 00:16:26.637
- Have is we should be talking about jesus.
- 00:16:26.637 --> 00:16:29.373
- But i would argue more importantly, we should be living
- 00:16:29.373 --> 00:16:31.475
- Like jesus.
- 00:16:31.475 --> 00:16:32.943
- Uh-oh, uh-oh.
- 00:16:32.943 --> 00:16:34.311
- In order to change a generation of people, in order to be an
- 00:16:37.448 --> 00:16:40.918
- Influence, your lifestyle has to reflect what you claim
- 00:16:40.918 --> 00:16:44.455
- You believe.
- 00:16:44.455 --> 00:16:46.157
- A lot of people and not y'all because y'all perfect.
- 00:16:46.157 --> 00:16:48.159
- I'm talking about the church down the street somewhere.
- 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:51.796
- A lot of people want people to find christ, but they're
- 00:16:51.796 --> 00:16:55.533
- Mean, mean-spirited.
- 00:16:55.533 --> 00:16:58.669
- They walk around with a frown on their face all the time.
- 00:16:58.669 --> 00:17:01.639
- Nobody wanna serve your jesus and you mad all the time.
- 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:05.109
- You complain on your job every day.
- 00:17:05.109 --> 00:17:07.745
- You said he was faithful, but you still doubting.
- 00:17:07.745 --> 00:17:11.182
- Those actions are deterring people from wanting to come
- 00:17:11.182 --> 00:17:13.984
- To christ.
- 00:17:13.984 --> 00:17:15.519
- And let me say this too because i think some people
- 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.089
- Conflate that.
- 00:17:18.089 --> 00:17:19.423
- I think you should have love and compassion for everybody.
- 00:17:19.423 --> 00:17:21.125
- You should love them.
- 00:17:21.125 --> 00:17:22.526
- People are not gonna listen to you unless they feel like you
- 00:17:22.526 --> 00:17:24.695
- Love them, but loving them don't mean that you're passive on
- 00:17:24.695 --> 00:17:28.432
- Telling them the truth.
- 00:17:28.432 --> 00:17:30.568
- People conflate these two things.
- 00:17:30.568 --> 00:17:32.903
- The person that loves you most will tell you the truth even if
- 00:17:32.903 --> 00:17:35.206
- It hurts your feelings.
- 00:17:35.206 --> 00:17:36.907
- How do you know that?
- 00:17:39.844 --> 00:17:41.812
- Because jesus loves us more than anybody else and he hurts your
- 00:17:41.812 --> 00:17:44.315
- Feelings if you really read the bible.
- 00:17:44.315 --> 00:17:47.918
- I was reading matthew the other day.
- 00:17:47.918 --> 00:17:49.487
- I said, "oh man, hold on, jesus.
- 00:17:49.487 --> 00:17:52.123
- That's kinda mean.
- 00:17:52.123 --> 00:17:54.358
- I don't wanna change that.
- 00:17:54.358 --> 00:17:55.693
- I don't wanna do that."
- 00:17:55.693 --> 00:17:57.728
- But once you hear the truth and you get past your feelings, then
- 00:17:57.728 --> 00:18:02.833
- You can be delivered.
- 00:18:02.833 --> 00:18:04.635
- Then god can really work in your life.
- 00:18:04.635 --> 00:18:06.904
- And we should try to model that when we want to encourage
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- Other people.
- 00:18:10.007 --> 00:18:11.342
- It's in abortion too.
- 00:18:11.342 --> 00:18:12.676
- I would never go and protest at an abortion clinic.
- 00:18:12.676 --> 00:18:15.212
- And i'll tell you why: unless i was willing to help the young
- 00:18:15.212 --> 00:18:18.315
- Lady who has to make a different decision.
- 00:18:18.315 --> 00:18:21.051
- I don't think it's okay for you to go and say, "you're going
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- To hell."
- 00:18:23.554 --> 00:18:25.489
- That's between them and god.
- 00:18:25.489 --> 00:18:27.525
- I'm here to love you and to serve you.
- 00:18:27.525 --> 00:18:30.194
- So if i'm going to tell you not to do that, i need to give you
- 00:18:30.194 --> 00:18:33.130
- Some resources to help you in this process.
- 00:18:33.130 --> 00:18:39.370
- And there's a lot of good churches and organizations that
- 00:18:39.370 --> 00:18:42.206
- Do that, but that should be our approach to it.
- 00:18:42.206 --> 00:18:45.409
- You gotta think about it for a minute.
- 00:18:45.409 --> 00:18:47.411
- We all have not been perfect.
- 00:18:47.411 --> 00:18:49.547
- We all have not been just living sanctified, filled with the
- 00:18:49.547 --> 00:18:52.316
- Holy ghost our whole life.
- 00:18:52.316 --> 00:18:54.185
- We have all did things that we regret.
- 00:18:54.185 --> 00:18:56.453
- Some are greater than others, but when you approach people and
- 00:18:56.453 --> 00:18:59.356
- You want them to change, you want them to know jesus, you
- 00:18:59.356 --> 00:19:01.559
- Have to show some love and have a connection with.
- 00:19:01.559 --> 00:19:04.862
- "i used to be just like you."
- 00:19:04.862 --> 00:19:07.231
- Now see, i'm in church, i don't wanna say too much to y'all, but
- 00:19:07.231 --> 00:19:09.600
- Hey, i know how it feels to be in these situations of sin.
- 00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:13.871
- I know what it's like.
- 00:19:13.871 --> 00:19:15.606
- I've had to make decisions before on that level.
- 00:19:15.606 --> 00:19:17.675
- I had to make a decision whether we're gonna have an abortion
- 00:19:17.675 --> 00:19:19.443
- Or not.
- 00:19:19.443 --> 00:19:20.778
- I've had to.
- 00:19:20.778 --> 00:19:22.146
- I'm not too proud to say that.
- 00:19:22.146 --> 00:19:24.582
- So you have to show them that look, i've been there and let me
- 00:19:24.582 --> 00:19:28.252
- Show you a better way.
- 00:19:28.252 --> 00:19:30.487
- You--i see people that are trans and stuff.
- 00:19:30.487 --> 00:19:33.057
- I went to--my wife go to this thrift store.
- 00:19:33.057 --> 00:19:34.725
- How many y'all women in here thrift?
- 00:19:34.725 --> 00:19:37.127
- God bless the thrifters.
- 00:19:37.127 --> 00:19:38.495
- My bank account is happy that my wife thrift shops.
- 00:19:38.495 --> 00:19:42.433
- She'd be getting stuff and i'm like, "baby, how much you pay
- 00:19:42.433 --> 00:19:44.401
- For that?"
- 00:19:44.401 --> 00:19:45.736
- "it was $300.
- 00:19:45.736 --> 00:19:47.104
- I got it for $20."
- 00:19:47.104 --> 00:19:48.606
- I said, "did you steal it or did he--do we need to repent?"
- 00:19:48.606 --> 00:19:55.946
- But anyway, i done lost my train of thought, talking about
- 00:19:55.946 --> 00:19:58.015
- My wife.
- 00:19:58.015 --> 00:19:59.350
- She probably mad at me.
- 00:19:59.350 --> 00:20:01.018
- But let me move on, let me move on from that point.
- 00:20:01.018 --> 00:20:03.921
- But i think that it is incumbent upon us as believers to also
- 00:20:03.921 --> 00:20:08.259
- Bring the light to the world.
- 00:20:08.259 --> 00:20:09.827
- You can't just be up in the church and getting filled and
- 00:20:09.827 --> 00:20:12.496
- Then go out and wait for the next sunday.
- 00:20:12.496 --> 00:20:15.332
- You have to go out and deliver this wonderful message to the
- 00:20:15.332 --> 00:20:18.936
- People, they need it.
- 00:20:18.936 --> 00:20:20.704
- And they need it, they also need you to be right.
- 00:20:20.704 --> 00:20:24.375
- We have to really focus on relationship, not religion.
- 00:20:24.375 --> 00:20:29.046
- This is about relationship, ladies and gentlemen.
- 00:20:29.046 --> 00:20:31.015
- It's not about religion.
- 00:20:31.015 --> 00:20:32.783
- We come here to recharge, like them electric cars they're
- 00:20:32.783 --> 00:20:36.220
- Trying to lie to us about and trying to get the whole
- 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:38.055
- Country--but in the--in the jesus sense, we have to come to
- 00:20:38.055 --> 00:20:42.426
- Recharge on a sunday, with the saints, loving and compassion
- 00:20:42.426 --> 00:20:47.064
- Hearing the word of god.
- 00:20:47.064 --> 00:20:48.399
- And then we need to go out in the world and be empty by next
- 00:20:48.399 --> 00:20:50.668
- Sunday because we're pouring out jesus on everybody.
- 00:20:50.668 --> 00:20:59.743
- And we also need to make sure that we are mentors to our young
- 00:20:59.743 --> 00:21:04.682
- Men and young women.
- 00:21:04.682 --> 00:21:06.684
- We talk about fatherless homes.
- 00:21:06.684 --> 00:21:08.752
- Fatherless homes occur because a lot of times that man didn't
- 00:21:08.752 --> 00:21:12.756
- Have a father and so he's doing the same thing his daddy did and
- 00:21:12.756 --> 00:21:17.795
- Also fatherless homes occur because a man didn't mentor
- 00:21:17.795 --> 00:21:20.898
- Another man about taking his rightful position in the family.
- 00:21:20.898 --> 00:21:24.468
- Young men, young men in the back, some of the young men that
- 00:21:24.468 --> 00:21:27.838
- Are in this room, and the men that are older, it's up to you
- 00:21:27.838 --> 00:21:31.308
- To teach these young men how to properly treat women.
- 00:21:31.308 --> 00:21:34.978
- They are listening to things that are going on in the world
- 00:21:34.978 --> 00:21:38.282
- And they are being influenced.
- 00:21:38.282 --> 00:21:39.650
- It's up to us, men of god, to teach other men how to be
- 00:21:39.650 --> 00:21:42.853
- Real men.
- 00:21:42.853 --> 00:21:44.188
- God has called us to be leaders.
- 00:21:44.188 --> 00:21:48.559
- God has called us to lead our families.
- 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.328
- God has called us to lead in every aspect of life.
- 00:21:51.328 --> 00:21:54.231
- When america is doing poorly, it's because of men are refusing
- 00:21:54.231 --> 00:21:58.001
- To lead.
- 00:21:58.001 --> 00:22:01.338
- I'm gonna bring adam and eve in this real quick and i'mma shut
- 00:22:01.338 --> 00:22:03.507
- Up because i wanna--i wanna actually be the first one that i
- 00:22:03.507 --> 00:22:06.243
- See in on time, like, 'cause i could talk for 3 hours.
- 00:22:06.243 --> 00:22:08.712
- Y'all already know i got a radio show 3 hours a day.
- 00:22:08.712 --> 00:22:10.814
- I talk for 3 hours.
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- Adam and eve.
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- God made adam first, then he made eve.
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- Eve was isolated from adam.
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- Without his leadership and influence, the serpent took her
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- Aside and got into her emotions.
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- Women are emotional, not all, and it's not a bad thing.
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- We complement one another.
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- It is beautiful with women exposing that emotion because
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- That's how we all were raised.
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- Unless you forgot, we all came from a woman.
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- I just want you to know that real quick.
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- Some--a woman with emotion and compassion that men don't
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- Have sometimes.
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- So he takes her and he get her emotional about life and death
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- And she eat from the forbidden tree, but you notice that
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- Nothing happened until adam.
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- And that's the same thing in society is that god is relying
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- On us men to take our position and lead this country in the
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- Right direction.
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- And i don't wanna get in trouble with the women.
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- It's not to say that women don't have a position because god
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- Obviously knew that women were important, he wouldn't have made
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- A woman for adam.
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- Adam was doing good by himself, right?
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- No.
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- God made a woman.
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- And like i said before, every human being came from a woman.
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- We are complementary towards one another, but we do
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- Have positions.
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- Everybody can't play quarterback.
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- I just want y'all to know that.
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- Somebody gotta play quarterback and somebody gotta block and
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- Somebody gotta be the wide receiver.
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- In life, this is the things-- these are the things that we
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- Need to embrace.
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- I'm gonna say this and then i'm gonna close.
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- Every single person in here, you have a calling on your life.
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- You may already know that.
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- Your pastor may be doing a incredible job, telling you
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- That, but i'm here to remind you.
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- I'm here to be a second witness or a third witness to remind you
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- That every single person in here, no matter how old you are,
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- Don't matter how young you are, don't matter what your
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- Disability is, none of that matters.
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- God has called you to something special in a time such as this.
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- This is our time to shine, body of christ.
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- This is our time to take our country back.
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- This is our time to show the world the love of jesus christ.
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- People are dying to hear what christ has to say.
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- It is up to us to deliver the message to the people one
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- More time.
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- There is a reason why our country is in the position that
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- It is in.
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- People like to believe that god only reigns when the person that
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- You like is elected.
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- Well, god is still in control right now.
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- But what he's doing is he's conditioning us and he's
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- Educating us on the power and what we need to do to make this
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- Country a better place by exposing us to the wrongs that
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- Could be if we don't stand up.
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- And i'm not here to just beat you over the head.
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- I'm here to encourage you.
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- I'm here to tell you that you got it in you.
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- I'm here to tell you that you may be feeling like you're in
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- The 4th quarter with 2 seconds left and you feel fatigued and
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- You feel beaten down, but it is your time to shine.
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- You got one more shot, one more punch, one more arrow, one more
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- Rock that you can throw and hit goliath right in the forehead
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- And put him down forever.
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- So i thank you guys.
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- God bless you for listening to me.
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- I hope you feel empowered and encouraged.
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- If i had more time, i'd preach and pass the offering plate.
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- But i'll finish it with this.
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- In the end--in the end--god bless you.
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- Thank you guys for having me.
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- Allen: hey, we have a tool that we think will help strengthen
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- You in this season.
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- A lot of confusion and chaos in our world, a lot of fear.
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- I hear from people every day, battling in their minds and
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- Their lives with the uncertainty of our world.
- 00:26:15.425 --> 00:26:18.528
- Well, it's a booklet called "awaken us."
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- It's a 30-day plan.
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- Every day has a theme with a scripture, a little devotional,
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- And a prayer for that specific theme.
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- The idea is that every day we're gonna ask the spirit of god to
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- Awaken us to a new aspect of god's provision in our lives.
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- You know, hopefully we wake up every day to the opportunities
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- And the challenges of that day.
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- Well, this is gonna correspond to that.
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- We're gonna ask the spirit of god to awaken us to what god is
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- Doing in this season.
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- We're not alone and we don't have to be overcome by fear.
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- Let's pray.
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- "father, i thank you that there's nothing that confronts
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- Us that intimidates or threatens you.
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- That you have made provision for complete victory in every aspect
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- Of our lives.
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- Lead us now as we turn our faces to you, to a season of peace and
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- Hope and wholeness, in jesus's name, amen."
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- This book, it'll be a blessing.
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