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Book of Jeremiah Episode 49 Jer 20:1–6 — “The Cost of Speaking the Truth” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 2: moving into Jeremiah chapter 20. We're going from verse one
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Speaker 2: all the way to verse six. Jeremiah has been faithfully
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Speaker 2: delivering God's message, but now the opposition gets personal. Now,
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Speaker 2: there is a high priest called Asher. Hopefully I'm pronouncing
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Speaker 2: his name right, who was also an officer in the
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Speaker 2: house of the Lord. Now, here's Jeremiah prophesying about the
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Speaker 2: coming judgment. And instead of repenting, Asher has Jeremiah beaten
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Speaker 2: and put into stocks. Jeremiah is about to experience something
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Speaker 2: treat you well. Sometimes obedience comes at a cost. So
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 2: All right, family, let's dive right into it. So I'm
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Speaker 2: going to start in verse one. It's like you lost
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Speaker 2: another one. Now, Asher, the son of Imur, the priest
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Speaker 2: who was also chief governor of the house of the Lord,
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Speaker 2: heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Okay. All right. So
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Speaker 2: we have a whole new character who is coming on
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Speaker 2: the scene. Now, remember, Jeremiah isn't speaking his own message.
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah is delivering what God told him to say, but
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Speaker 2: Asher doesn't like the message at all. Now, Jeremiah's message
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Speaker 2: was increasingly unpopular because he was warning Jerusalem about judgment.
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Speaker 2: And calling the people to repentance. Now, religious leaders or
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Speaker 2: religious leadership, should I say, was not receptive to Jeremiah's
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Speaker 2: message because his message challenged the people's false confidence. And
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Speaker 2: it also exposed their very own disobedience. Now, this is
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Speaker 2: important because sometimes the hardest people to reach aren't people
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Speaker 2: who don't believe God. Sometimes they're the people that are
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Speaker 2: hard to reach who think are the people who think
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Speaker 2: that they already have things figured out. Right. Asher was
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Speaker 2: a priest. Now he was serving God. in the house
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Speaker 2: of the Lord, but being around religious things doesn't automatically
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Speaker 2: mean you're willing to hear God's correction. You can be
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Speaker 2: around the word and still you can reject the word.
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Speaker 2: That is how deceptive our hearts can be. We cannot
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Speaker 2: trust our very own heart, beloved. Amen. Verse two. Then
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Speaker 2: Asher struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the
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Speaker 2: stocks to wear it to wear in the high gates
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Speaker 2: of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord. Now,
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Speaker 2: this brother was bold. So verse two says right here
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Speaker 2: that Asher, this priest, right? He smoked the prophet and
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Speaker 2: put him in stocks. Now, Jeremiah wasn't just merely criticized
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Speaker 2: by him. He was physically beaten and he was publicly humiliated.
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Speaker 2: And after that, he was locked up. Now, imagine being
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah at this point. You obey God. God calls you
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Speaker 2: at a young age. God gives you a difficult task
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Speaker 2: and he empowers you to do so. And you are
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Speaker 2: faithful to God and you deliver the message. And no
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Speaker 2: doubt Jeremiah had hope that people would take heed the message,
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Speaker 2: repent and avoid judgment. But what does he get? He
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Speaker 2: gets beaten. And a night in the stocks. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is where the reality of ministry hits for most of us.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we think. If I'm doing God's will, everything should
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Speaker 2: be OK with me, right? Everything should work out. That
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Speaker 2: is not what scripture teach, beloved. Sometimes you're doing exactly
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Speaker 2: what God told you to do. And things still get difficult.
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Speaker 2: And I am a witness. Doing Club His Hop for
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Speaker 2: seven years, I thought that the people in the community,
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Speaker 2: especially the church community, would welcome this. This was effective
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Speaker 2: in reaching the youth. People all over the city came
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Speaker 2: out to our events until things turned. Pastors, disobeyed their
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Speaker 2: youth from coming over and people that we once helped
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Speaker 2: turned against us. That was heart-wrenching. Jesus never promised his
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Speaker 2: followers that obedience would would make life easy at all.
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Speaker 2: Faithfulness isn't measured by how comfortable your life is. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: faithfulness means standing firm when standing firm costs you everything.
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Speaker 2: Let me say that again. Sometimes faithfulness will make you
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Speaker 2: stand firm when you know if you stand firm on
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Speaker 2: God and his word, It could potentially cost you everything.
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Speaker 2: It could cost you relationships. It could cost you ministry. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Verse 3. And it happened on the next day that
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Speaker 2: Asher brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. And Jeremiah said
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Speaker 2: to him, the Lord has not called your name Asher,
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Speaker 2: but Maggar Mishib. I know I probably butchered that. Magor Mishib.
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Speaker 2: All right. If you got the correct pronunciation, you're feel
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Speaker 2: free to post it in the live chat, right? So
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Speaker 2: here the next day, Jeremiah is released. Jeremiah gives Asher
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Speaker 2: a new name. Now, that name means essentially fear on
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Speaker 2: every side. Wow. Now, I've seen it in the Bible
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Speaker 2: where God would change the names of his people that
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Speaker 2: he's working with. Like, Abram became Abraham. And Jacob became Israel.
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Speaker 2: But this was done because judgment was going to happen
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Speaker 2: to this priest, to this prophet. Or should I say
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Speaker 2: false prophet? Now, Jeremiah explains that this is what the
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Speaker 2: Lord has called him. Fear on every side is what
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Speaker 2: his name means. Asher thought he was the one putting
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah in fear. But Jeremiah tells him that fear is
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Speaker 2: actually coming upon him and upon the whole entire nation.
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Speaker 2: That is strong. You cannot intimidate God at all. Now,
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Speaker 2: there's an important lesson here. People can temporarily control your circumstances.
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Speaker 2: But Asher could not put Jeremiah. I mean, he can
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Speaker 2: put Jeremiah in the stocks. And he can beat them
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Speaker 2: and he can even humiliate them. But Asher couldn't stop
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Speaker 2: God's word at all. So you can imprison a messenger,
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Speaker 2: but you can't imprison God's truth. Now, let that encourage
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Speaker 2: those who have been incarcerated for the gospel sake. Maybe
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Speaker 2: you're listening to this podcast right now. Maybe you're a
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Speaker 2: missionary overseas. You may be in China or Europe somewhere
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Speaker 2: and you were locked up.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Or even in the United States, we're not exempt. Persecution
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Speaker 2: could very well become an our way. But even though
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Speaker 2: they imprison us, they cannot stop God's truth. God's word
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Speaker 2: doesn't become less true because somebody doesn't like to hear it. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Let that encourage us that God's truth can never be stopped. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Verse four, for thus says the Lord, behold, I will
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Speaker 2: make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends.
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Speaker 2: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies,
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Speaker 2: and your eyes shall see it. I will give all
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Speaker 2: Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
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Speaker 2: he shall carry them captive to Babylon and slay them
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Speaker 2: with the sword. Wow, that is a strong word right there.
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Speaker 2: This word means judgment is coming.
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah tells his Asher guy, right? That God will make
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Speaker 2: him a terror to himself and to his friends. Now
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Speaker 2: he would see his friends fall by the sword. That
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Speaker 2: had to have been terrifying and horrendous. Imagine your friends,
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Speaker 2: your loved ones, Just getting killed right in front of you.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I would hate to bring up a traumatic incident.
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Speaker 2: Maybe some of you have, you know what it feels like.
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Speaker 2: And I would not take light of that at all.
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Speaker 2: But for the sake of this podcast and being faithful
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Speaker 2: to the word of God, this is what God's word
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Speaker 2: says to this false prophet here. Right? All his friends
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Speaker 2: and family members will fall by the sword. Now Judah
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Speaker 2: will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.
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Speaker 2: Now this is the very message Asher had been resisting.
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Speaker 2: And he's confronted with this message even after he beats
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah and puts them in stocks. Now I need y'all
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Speaker 2: to look up stocks. That's where basically it's like two
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Speaker 2: pieces of wood. One goes from the bottom up where
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Speaker 2: you put your head and your hands through. The other
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Speaker 2: one comes from the top down going over your head,
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Speaker 2: over your neck and hands. You're basically in this position.
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Speaker 2: And he was in this position 24 hours all night.
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Speaker 2: That had to have been uncomfortable and painful, right? But
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Speaker 2: he did this and he attempted to silence Jeremiah because
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Speaker 2: he didn't want to hear the prophecy of judgment. But
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Speaker 2: the judgment Jeremiah announced was still coming. Now, rejecting the
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Speaker 2: message does not change the reality of what God has declared.
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Speaker 2: When you say that again, rejecting the message does not
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Speaker 2: change the reality of what God has declared in the
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Speaker 2: United States. My prayer is that this country will wake
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Speaker 2: up before it is too late. Now, we need to
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Speaker 2: remember this ignoring, ignoring a warning doesn't make the danger
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Speaker 2: disappear at all. If the smoke alarm goes off and
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Speaker 2: you turn it off because you don't like the noise,
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Speaker 2: what does it that doesn't mean that the fire is gone?
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Speaker 2: The warning is there for a reason. God's word sometimes
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Speaker 2: tells us things are not or things. I mean, what
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to say is God's word sometimes tells us
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Speaker 2: things that we don't want to hear. Right. But that's
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Speaker 2: exactly why we need it. We don't need to be
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Speaker 2: around people that just tells us what we want to
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Speaker 2: hear all the time.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: We don't need a Bible that simply tells us we're
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Speaker 2: doing everything right. We need God's word to correct us
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Speaker 2: when we are wrong. And that is why we push
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Speaker 2: the accountability partner segment, because we know that even in
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Speaker 2: this very book, the book of Jeremiah tells us that
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Speaker 2: the heart is wicked and desperately, the heart is evil
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Speaker 2: and desperately wicked. Who can know it? And that's why
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's good to have a faithful brother or sister
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Speaker 2: who knows the word that they can bring us back
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Speaker 2: and they could remind us what, Thus says the Lord.
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Speaker 2: In a personal testimony, I had to reset on my
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Speaker 2: family last night. Our family, sometimes there's six of us,
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Speaker 2: my wife and I, and we are raising four children together.
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Speaker 2: and sometimes my wife and I we don't see eye
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Speaker 2: to eye and so you know our pastor calls it
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Speaker 2: intense fellowship sometimes we have disagreements and we try not
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Speaker 2: to disagree in front of the children but Sometimes you
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Speaker 2: just can't help it. And so my wife and I
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Speaker 2: were having a discussion, one of these intense fellowships, didn't
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Speaker 2: actually know our daughters were going at it. And so
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Speaker 2: we had to pull the daughters in the room. And
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Speaker 2: my wife was like, okay, well, what should the punishment be?
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Speaker 2: And I had to pause for a minute. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: wait a minute. We just got into it. We cannot
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Speaker 2: blame them for getting into it as well. We don't
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Speaker 2: know how to get it right and be the good
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Speaker 2: example in the home and correct our stuff. How are
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Speaker 2: we going to correct the children? And so I called
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Speaker 2: the whole family in the house and said, look, we
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Speaker 2: need to hold hands. We need to forgive each other.
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Speaker 2: We need God. We need to repent. We need to
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Speaker 2: get it right. We called upon the name of the Lord.
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Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, the Lord showed up. So, beloved,
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Speaker 2: if your household is getting out of hand, if your family,
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Speaker 2: your children are just fighting and it just doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 2: If there's no peace, things are just going on. Well,
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Speaker 2: why don't you grab everybody in the room, hold hands
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Speaker 2: and pray and ask God for a reset. See what happened.
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Speaker 2: Watch him show up. Call upon the name of Jesus
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Speaker 2: and ask God for forgiveness. I had to repent. And
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Speaker 2: I am grateful and thankful that God gave us another chance,
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Speaker 2: another opportunity. We need to do this before it's too late, beloved,
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Speaker 2: because we truly believe that the Lord is soon to return. Now,
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Speaker 2: in church yesterday, The teacher was teaching and the scripture
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Speaker 2: was brought up that one, two will be in the
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Speaker 2: field and one will be taken and one will be left.
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Speaker 2: And how that's a 50% ratio. 50% of the people
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Speaker 2: who call themselves Christians who go to church and who
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Speaker 2: are involved in religious activity will be left behind. This
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Speaker 2: is what the Bible says. So how much more Do
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Speaker 2: we need to make sure that we're ready? Amen. That's
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons why we go verse by verse,
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Speaker 2: because the only thing that will help us grow spiritually
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Speaker 2: is God's word. Hallelujah. So if you guys tune in
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Speaker 2: His Heart Radio podcast. Amen. All right. Verse five. We
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Speaker 2: got a couple of more, two more verses to go, beloved. Moreover,
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Speaker 2: I will deliver all the wealth of this city, all
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Speaker 2: its produce and all that its precious things, all the
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Speaker 2: treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into
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Speaker 2: the hand of their enemies who will plunder them, seize
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Speaker 2: them and carry them to Babylon. Wow, it would be
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Speaker 2: horrible if that would happen to us as a nation.
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Speaker 2: We know how prosperous this country has been over the years.
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Speaker 2: Just imagine our enemies coming and just taking all of
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Speaker 2: our possessions. Now, Jeremiah, he's telling Azure that God would
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Speaker 2: deliver the wealth of the city to its possessions, and
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Speaker 2: its treasures into the hands of Babylon. The things Judah
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Speaker 2: treasured and trusted in would not save them at all.
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Speaker 2: Their wealth could not protect them. Their city would not
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Speaker 2: protect them. Their religious position could not protect them from
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Speaker 2: this judgment. Their political power is not able even to
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Speaker 2: protect them, the things that they trusted in. Now we
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Speaker 2: can put confidence in a lot of things. We could
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Speaker 2: put confidence in our money, our career, our house, our position,
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Speaker 2: our platform, our reputation, our success in business, even in
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Speaker 2: our own ministry. But none of these things should become
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Speaker 2: our ultimate source. of security. Everything on earth can change.
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Speaker 2: God is the only constant. God is the only one
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Speaker 2: who will not switch up on us.
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Speaker 4: Amen.
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Speaker 2: Verse six, and you Asher and all who dwell in
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Speaker 2: your house shall go into captivity. You shall go to
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Speaker 2: You and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies. Wow,
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Speaker 2: could you imagine this? You have this great religious position
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Speaker 2: and you try to shut up this prophet and you
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Speaker 2: hear a prophecy like this. Now he finishes by telling
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Speaker 2: Asher that he and everyone living in his household would
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Speaker 2: go into captivity. And Jeremiah specifically says, thou has prophesied lies.
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Speaker 2: Asher had been part of a system that gave people
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Speaker 2: a false sense of security. Instead of confronting their sin,
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Speaker 2: they were telling people that they wanted to. They were
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Speaker 2: telling the people what they wanted to hear. The Bible
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Speaker 2: calls is itching ears, right? That's one of the most
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Speaker 2: dangerous things a spiritual leader can do. Tell people everything
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Speaker 2: is fine. When God is saying you need to change.
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Speaker 2: That's one thing I do love about my church. They're
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Speaker 2: always calling people to change, always calling people to come
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Speaker 2: to repentance. Amen. There is a difference between encouragement and
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Speaker 2: false reassurance. True biblical encouragement doesn't ignore sin at all.
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Speaker 2: It points people towards repentance, restoration, and towards Jesus. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: the most loving thing you can tell somebody is you
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Speaker 2: need to get things right. And that's exactly what we
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Speaker 2: said to the children last night. That if Jesus came today,
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Speaker 2: do you think you would be ready? Do you think
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Speaker 2: you'd be ready to face? God's judgment. Do you think
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Speaker 2: you would make it into the kingdom? We were honest
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Speaker 2: enough to say that we probably would all miss the kingdom.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you hear me here on this podcast, you
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Speaker 2: hear me preaching and teaching the word of God, I'm
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Speaker 2: not exempt. I could miss if I allowed myself to
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Speaker 2: get deceived, if I get complacent in pursuing God and
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Speaker 2: seeking God, if I allow Other things become more important
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Speaker 2: than my relationship with God. I can slip right into
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Speaker 2: hell just like anybody else. The word of God tells
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Speaker 2: us to abide in Christ. Who are you abiding in?
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Speaker 2: Where are you abiding? We don't believe in one saved,
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Speaker 2: always saved. That is from the pits of hell. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't make sense once you think about it. Because if
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Speaker 2: you can just say a prayer and still live a
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Speaker 2: life of sin, then what was the point of the cross?
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Speaker 2: I am daily trying to submit and surrender. I am
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Speaker 2: daily trying to put my flesh down and allow the
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Speaker 2: spirit to lead. And I tell you what, I get
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Speaker 2: more out of these Bible studies probably than anyone else.
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Speaker 2: This is feeding my soul. I'm just taking y'all along
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Speaker 2: for the ride. This is engrafting the word in my heart.
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Speaker 2: These are things that I need to confront myself with. Amen.
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Speaker 2: The leader should be the first partaker. Now, let's get
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Speaker 2: back to the lesson here. Don't let opposition silence you
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Speaker 2: at all. Jeremiah chapter 21 through six teaches us several
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Speaker 2: important lessons right here. Obedience doesn't guarantee popularity. Jeremiah was faithful.
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Speaker 2: And he was still attacked. We esteem him as one
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Speaker 2: of the major prophets in the Bible. We study his word.
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Speaker 2: But look at how his peers taught him in his day. Also,
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Speaker 2: religious position doesn't guarantee spiritual obedience. Asher was a priest.
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Speaker 2: But he opposed God's message as a priest. God's truth
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Speaker 2: doesn't change because people reject it. Jeremiah was beaten, but
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Speaker 2: the message remained true. It doesn't matter what happened to
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Speaker 2: the prophet. The message was still the message. False reassurance
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Speaker 2: can be very dangerous. We need God's truth, not merely
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Speaker 2: words that make us feel comfortable. Earthly security is temporary. Money, possessions, positions,
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Speaker 2: your job, your promotion, power, political power, all of that
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Speaker 2: cannot replace God at all. So our choice, the only
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Speaker 2: choice we have is to stay faithful when obedience becomes difficult.
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Speaker 2: That's when your faithfulness matters the most when it's more
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Speaker 2: difficult than ever to be faithful to God. All right,
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Speaker 2: let's take a break, y'all.
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Speaker 3: Nothing, nothing too good for love. Nothing, nothing too good
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Speaker 3: for love.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just gotta be me when I walk
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Speaker 4: in the room. I'm fine. Only give truth, but I
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Speaker 4: can't show pride. My life a movie and I don't
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Speaker 4: know why.
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Speaker 2: I can feel low and I'll.
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Speaker 1: Still go high.
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Speaker 4: Wake up fresh, squeeze juice with the ice. I done
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Speaker 4: said a prayer twice and I'm trying to move nice.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to lose life, so I'm trying to
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Speaker 4: do right. I don't want to lose sight, so I
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Speaker 4: only choose light.
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Speaker 2: I'm free.
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Speaker 4: Found maturity in the trials life bring. Found security when
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Speaker 4: I found my king. My insecurities left in 2019 But
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Speaker 4: I can't find purity if I still like trees Going
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Speaker 4: through the motions Trying to find peace in a piece
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Speaker 4: when I'm hopeless I ain't going dorset, I'm just being
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Speaker 4: open Trying to find another mechanism I can cope with
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Speaker 4: But anywho, I ain't proud to be moving like a
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Speaker 4: senator Shut it down, try to move like a winner
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Speaker 4: do Talk to God, I'm like, give me something new
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Speaker 4: to do. Got the job, I ain't even do no
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Speaker 4: interview chosen. Remember all the days when the prayer life
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Speaker 4: was frozen. Now I'm on stage and my prayer life
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Speaker 4: be open. Now it be in motion. Now I see
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Speaker 4: the fruits of it, think I found a potion. Now
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Speaker 4: I'm living good. Everything great, like child understood. Everything straight,
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Speaker 4: ain't nobody understood. Had to change states, now it's looking
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Speaker 4: like it should. Cut off every snake, got that dirt
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Speaker 4: off my slate. Got that work off my plate, I'm
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Speaker 4: too worried about my faith. I don't worry about no hate,
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Speaker 4: don't be spending every day. Put that money in the bank,
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Speaker 4: when I'm tempted I just pray. After that I gotta skate.
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Speaker 4: I just gotta, I just, I just gotta be me G-O-D,
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Speaker 4: don't be worried about what everybody see What they think,
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Speaker 4: don't be worried about what everybody preach These days it's
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Speaker 4: a reach, everybody wanna speak Uh-huh, these days everybody wanna
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Speaker 4: be Uh-huh, these days everybody wanna leave Uh-huh, these days
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Speaker 4: everybody tryna leap So I stay up out them streets,
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Speaker 4: I just worry about me Be elite, be the one
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Speaker 4: they all know me to be Uh-huh, be the one
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Speaker 4: God told me to be Uh-huh, be the one that
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Speaker 4: I was chosen to be Yeah, I just gotta be
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Speaker 4: I just gotta be me I just gotta be me. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Gotta be me. Gotta be.
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Speaker 4: I got to be me and you got to be you.
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Speaker 4: Comparison only a theme for your happiness. You got to
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Speaker 4: know how to move. Comparison only leave you with unhappiness.
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Speaker 4: You got to focus on you. Don't follow the trends
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Speaker 4: and try to get friends. You don't got to do
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Speaker 4: what they do. You don't got to follow the money.
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Speaker 4: You don't got to follow the dollar. If you want
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Speaker 4: to get to the money, it's better to follow the father.
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Speaker 4: Don't got to follow the lust. Don't want to see
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Speaker 4: what's inside it. The lust make you want to touch
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Speaker 4: until you.
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Speaker 3: Feel that it's fire.
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Speaker 4: You gotta, you gotta stop, drop the roll, but get
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Speaker 4: up and still be on fire. Ain't it annoying to
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Speaker 4: stop when you on the road to learn that the
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Speaker 4: devil a liar. That'd be Delilah. Ain't it annoying when
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Speaker 4: people that know you don't even support when you grind it.
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Speaker 4: You got to stay on your toes, stay in compose,
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Speaker 4: stay in alignment. You got to call on the Father
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Speaker 4: when you need some help. Strengthen your mental and physical health.
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Speaker 4: You only become what you think of yourself. You got
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Speaker 4: to put down the idols that's holding you hostage. Watch
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Speaker 4: and delete what you felt. Don't try to be no
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Speaker 4: one else. You be yourself. I be myself. I got
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Speaker 4: to be me. I got to be me and you
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Speaker 4: got to be you. Comparison only a thief in your happiness.
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Speaker 4: You got to know how to move. I got to
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Speaker 4: be me. I gotta be me and you gotta be you.
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Speaker 4: Comparison only leave you with unhappiness. You gotta focus on you.
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Speaker 4: I gotta be me. I gotta be me and you
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Speaker 4: gotta be you. Don't follow the trends and try to
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Speaker 4: get friends. You don't gotta do what they do. I
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Speaker 4: gotta be me. I gotta be me and you gotta
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Speaker 4: be you. If God put you in this world, it's
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Speaker 4: something we need that he put in you.
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Speaker 2: You gotta be me.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: This is the HizHop Radio Show. All right, all right.
36:37
Speaker 2: We are back from that break that was carrying a
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Speaker 2: light with you, me. You got to be you. I
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Speaker 2: got to be me. Amen. Before the Lord on our
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Speaker 2: music break here on the podcast. And right now, I
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Speaker 2: want to give a huge shout out to our live chat.
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Speaker 2: and to our community we got a great update we
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Speaker 2: want to share with you guys but we'll wait for
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Speaker 2: that when we get to the community shout out segment
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Speaker 2: I'm going to shout out Zone 3 I want to
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Speaker 2: shout out our brother Corinth for showing up and everybody
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Speaker 2: else who's been popping into the live chat and also
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Speaker 2: check out our community we can do a little bit
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Speaker 2: more in our community we could go back over stuff
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Speaker 2: uh that we've done you know weeks ago in a
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Speaker 2: live chat it only goes so far in the history
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Speaker 2: we could upload video upload pictures we just made it
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Speaker 2: an actual community our little social media platform so we're
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Speaker 2: trying to provide tools and you know who says that
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Speaker 2: serving god can't be fun right It's time for the
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Speaker 2: accountability partner segment. One of my favorite segments on here,
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Speaker 2: because I know that when we're interacting and we're actually
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Speaker 2: putting God's word into practice, there is a built in
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Speaker 2: blessing to that. So we give out a daily challenge
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Speaker 2: and today's challenge is ask your accountability partner. Is there
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Speaker 2: an area where I'm compromising what I believe because I'm
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Speaker 2: afraid of how people will respond? I believe we all
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Speaker 2: deal with this as Christians, right? Now we got to
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Speaker 2: be honest with each other. Sometimes we're not actually confused
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Speaker 2: about what God wants. We're just afraid of what people
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Speaker 2: will think if we obey him. And then the answer
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Speaker 2: to that is ask God for courage. Amen. Ask him
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Speaker 2: for courage. There's nothing wrong with saying that I'm afraid
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Speaker 2: to step out in faith. That's what faith is all about.
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Speaker 2: But don't forget that God will supply you the strength
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Speaker 2: that we lack. Amen. Also, I want to let you
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Speaker 2: know that His High Radio is a monitored and a
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Speaker 2: reporting radio station. We don't just play music over the internet.
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Speaker 2: We do monitor. We do chart. and yes we do
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Speaker 2: keep record collect data every time your song is played
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Speaker 2: on our station you can look it up type in
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Speaker 2: his hot radio and you can see what's getting played
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Speaker 2: on our stations So if you have a project you
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Speaker 2: want to get out there, you want to get exposure,
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Speaker 2: I believe it's a great witness if Christian hip-hop takes
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Speaker 2: over the charts. Amen. It's a powerful art form. Then
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Speaker 2: go over to our website, hishopnation.com. Hit the submissions tab.
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Speaker 2: Submit your music. We just recently had some music submitted
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Speaker 2: to us from... artists this particular platform who works this
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Speaker 2: particular person he works closely with the stellar awards and
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Speaker 2: so he decided to check out our promo packages our
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Speaker 2: advertisement our services and we're excited to be able to
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Speaker 2: service people like this so yes if you're thinking about
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Speaker 2: it don't hesitate our prices will not break the bank
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Speaker 2: very affordable And we're out here to lift up our genre.
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Speaker 2: All right. Also, it's time for our His Hop Bible
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Speaker 2: Trivia Challenge. Let's see who's going to be crowned the
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Speaker 2: new trivia champion this week. So the challenge is today.
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Speaker 2: is what new name did Jeremiah give Asher and what
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Speaker 2: did that name mean? You'll need to actually open the
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Speaker 2: passage and go over the scriptures that we just went
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Speaker 2: over and dig a little bit. But the question is,
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Speaker 2: what new name did Jeremiah give Ask her. I know
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Speaker 2: I'm probably just butchering his name up. Please forgive me.
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Speaker 2: And what does that mean? The first one to post
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Speaker 2: this in a live chat will be the trivia champion
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Speaker 2: for today. All right. It's time for the community shout out.
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Speaker 2: I want to give a huge shout out to the LVBNM,
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Speaker 2: the business mixer. They hired us to service them last Saturday.
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Speaker 2: We were on the strip, y'all. Check out our social
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Speaker 2: media pages. We got some behind the scenes footage of
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Speaker 2: us going up to this conference room. We set up
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Speaker 2: our DJ booth. We set up our photo booth, our 360.
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Speaker 2: People were having a ball. People love it. People were
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Speaker 2: vibing to it. We had business owners there. We had guests,
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Speaker 2: keynote speakers in the house. We just had a beautiful
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Speaker 2: and awesome time. And so I just want to give
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Speaker 2: a huge shout out to my family. Check us out every, well,
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Speaker 2: not every month. We get, we do. This is the
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Speaker 2: first year we did it, but we took a break
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Speaker 2: over the summer. But I believe October, we're going to
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Speaker 2: start it right back up. Our business mixer every month
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Speaker 2: we meet together. Right now, we are at the University
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Speaker 2: of Nevada. Okay, I'm probably... It's a new location, so
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Speaker 2: I better hold off on that. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: if you go to our website, go to our calendar,
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Speaker 2: you will get the location. Click on it. LVBNMEvents.com And
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Speaker 2: if you're a business owner, if you're thinking about going
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Speaker 2: into business, we want to invite you to come out
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Speaker 2: every month. It's good to make some great connections. Amen. Also,
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Speaker 2: what I wanted to say is we got some cool features,
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Speaker 2: some cool updates on the app. If you go to
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Speaker 2: the top left menu again and drop down, you'll see
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Speaker 2: tab that says request a feature now if you're an
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Speaker 2: artist out there and you're looking for artists to feature
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Speaker 2: in your project this is for you now you can
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Speaker 2: go to the his hot radio app you can find
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Speaker 2: artists who are willing to feature you can click on
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Speaker 2: them click on their pictures and you can get a
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Speaker 2: sample of their music what they sound like see if
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Speaker 2: you like their flow and their delivery and And you
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Speaker 2: can request an artist for a feature. You can get
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Speaker 2: all their info right there. Right there on the app.
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Speaker 2: And check this out. This is also a place for you.
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Speaker 2: If you are willing or available to feature on other songs.
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Speaker 2: If an artist wants you to come and feature for them.
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Speaker 2: You can get listed on there. It's for the His
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Speaker 2: Hop community. I mean, actually, it's also for singers. as
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Speaker 2: long as it's godly and positive and uplifting yes we
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Speaker 2: created a network where you can find artists who are
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Speaker 2: willing to feature on your project or if you're willing
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Speaker 2: to feature and then we connect you guys you guys
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Speaker 2: do the negotiation if there's a price involved a payment
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Speaker 2: involved you guys can work it out but we are
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Speaker 2: offering the service and there is a small fee for
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Speaker 2: the service for referring the artists and musicians, whatever, DJs,
45:52
Speaker 2: if you're a spoken word artist, whatever talent you have
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Speaker 2: or whatever you would like to do, now you can
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Speaker 2: sign up right here on the His Hop Radio app.
46:03
Speaker 2: And if you click on it, you'll see my family
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Speaker 2: and our brother Zone 3 already in place. And... You
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Speaker 2: can check out who you want to feature on your project.
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Speaker 2: Courtesy of the His Hot Radio app. Also, we want
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Speaker 2: to let you know that His Hot Radio is a
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Speaker 2: nonprofit organization. We started a Christian club back in 2012. 2018,
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Speaker 2: we had to vacate the premises. There were some things
46:39
Speaker 2: there that was going on that God had to correct me.
46:43
Speaker 2: And there was some correction that had to be taken
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Speaker 2: in place. I will be transparent. I had some failure
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Speaker 2: in my life as well. It wasn't just the people
46:52
Speaker 2: around me. But God is a good God. God is
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Speaker 2: a God who loves to restore. So I'm thankful to
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Speaker 2: be able to be in the process of being restored.
47:02
Speaker 2: And I believe that God wants to restore the club
47:07
Speaker 2: as well. I do believe that we are good ground.
47:12
Speaker 2: I do believe that we can make more of an
47:15
Speaker 2: impact in our community, but we need your help. We
47:20
Speaker 2: need monthly supporters, monthly donors. We need grants and grant writers.
47:25
Speaker 2: We need sponsors. We need to be able to sustain
47:29
Speaker 2: the vision. Amen. We need a new building, a new
47:32
Speaker 2: location to open up our venue. We have youth programs.
47:37
Speaker 2: We need our classrooms open up. to the community. We
47:41
Speaker 2: want to offer services as well. And if you would
47:44
Speaker 2: like to sow into that, please go to our website, hishopnation.com.
47:51
Speaker 2: You can donate there or you can donate on the app,
47:54
Speaker 2: His Hop Radio on all platforms. Or you can go
47:58
Speaker 2: directly to our nonprofit website, hishopnation.org and get more information
48:04
Speaker 2: about the youth programs we have on there. And the
48:10
Speaker 2: good news is that it's all tax deductible. We appreciate
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Speaker 2: every support. Two dollars, one dollar. We appreciate every bit
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Speaker 2: of it. Amen. I love it. Now it's time for
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Speaker 2: our closing remarks.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes there is a cost when we stand for God's truth.
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Speaker 2: Jeremiah was beaten. He was imprisoned. He was humiliated. And
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Speaker 2: yet he continued delivering God's message, even though they tried
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Speaker 2: to silence him. He cannot be silenced. And God will
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Speaker 2: never be silent. You cannot silence God. Amen. Amen. that's
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Speaker 2: the lesson i want us to carry with us today
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Speaker 2: don't let opposition determine your obedience people may misunderstand you
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Speaker 2: people may even criticize you people may even reject you
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Speaker 2: some people may even try to hurt you because they
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Speaker 2: don't like the truth you're standing for. But God has
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Speaker 2: called you to do something. Don't abandon it simply because
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Speaker 2: it gets difficult.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 2: Amen. I'm thinking of marriage. I'm thinking of families, children
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Speaker 2: running away. Just because it gets difficult doesn't mean we
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Speaker 2: need to abandon what God wants for our lives. Amen.
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Speaker 2: And at the same time, make sure you're actually standing
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Speaker 2: on God's word, not just your own opinion. That's also important, too.
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Speaker 2: We don't need to be stubborn for the sake of
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Speaker 2: just being stubborn. We need to be faithful to Scripture.
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Speaker 2: So let's stay humble. Let's stay teachable. Let's stay in prayer.
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Speaker 2: And when you know God has called you to stand
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Speaker 2: because popularity is temporary, platforms are temporary, money is temporary,
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Speaker 2: but God's word will remain for all eternity. Stay faithful
50:39
Speaker 2: when you know God has called you to stand on
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Speaker 2: the standards and principles of his word.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 2: That's my time for today. And remember, it's not about us.
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Speaker 2: It's all about the Christ in us. God bless y'all.
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Speaker 2: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 2: is the HizHop Radio Show.