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EPISODE 60 Jeremiah 23:9–15 “False Prophets and a Corrupt People” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 3: want to do, we want to get back into the Word.
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  Speaker 3: We're in the book of Jeremiah. This is our verse
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  Speaker 3: by verse Bible study, our online discipleship, our online community. Now,
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  Speaker 3: This is episode 60, amen, in the book of Jeremiah.
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  Speaker 3: And so we're going to pick up in verse 23, no,
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  Speaker 3: I mean chapter 23, verse 9 through 15. That's how
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  Speaker 3: we're going to go. In our last episode, we saw
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  Speaker 3: God condemn the shepherds who scattered his people while promising
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  Speaker 3: that the righteous branch shall be coming to save the people.
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  Speaker 3: And we know the righteous branch is none other than
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  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ himself. Now Jeremiah turns his attention to the prophets,
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  Speaker 3: men who were supposed to speak God's word, but instead
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  Speaker 3: were lying and they were living corrupted lives. They were
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  Speaker 3: leading God's people astray. And these are the false prophets.
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  Speaker 3: And God gives us serious warning, serious warnings in his passage.
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  Speaker 3: Never use God's name to validate your own message.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Never use God's name to corrupt. And to Man, it's
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  Speaker 3: just wow. I just now, I mean, just saying that,
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  Speaker 3: coming out of my mouth, people use God to do
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  Speaker 3: horrible things. They use his name in vain. And so
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  Speaker 3: let's pray that our hearts will never lead us into
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  Speaker 3: So let's go before Father in prayer. Heavenly Father, we ask,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus' name. Amen. All right, well, let's dive into it, beloved.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to Start off in verse 9. I'm
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  Speaker 3: coming at you from the New King James. It says,
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  Speaker 3: my heart within me is broken because of the prophets.
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  Speaker 3: All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man
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  Speaker 3: and like a man whom wine has overcome because of
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  Speaker 3: the Lord and because of his holy words.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of course, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Obvious that this is Jeremiah speaking here in the passage.
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  Speaker 3: He says, my heart breaks within me. My heart is broken.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever had a broken heart before? I am
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  Speaker 3: a poster child. I don't know why, but ever since
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  Speaker 3: my youth, I've had one heartbreak after the other. But
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  Speaker 3: his heart is broken because of the prophets. It looks like.
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  Speaker 1: You lost another one.
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah is... deeply disturbed by what he sees among the prophets. Now,
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  Speaker 3: he is not excited because he gets to expose God's people.
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  Speaker 3: He knows that God loves these men, even though these
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  Speaker 3: men are in error. It may be false prophets, but
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  Speaker 3: our hearts need to break as well. Biblical correction should
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  Speaker 3: come from our heart that desires restoration and not destruction. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we need to stand firmly in God's truth without hating
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  Speaker 3: the people who are wrong, right? God never told us
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  Speaker 3: to hate anyone. He told us to love our enemies,
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  Speaker 3: as a matter of fact. And we can get so
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  Speaker 3: riled up, especially when it comes to false prophets, especially
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to correcting biblically. I've had people, even
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  Speaker 3: in my ministry with the club, they prophesied against it,
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  Speaker 3: almost like they're smacking their lips when they wanted to
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  Speaker 3: bring corrections. But I believe it was more out of
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  Speaker 3: an envious heart than a loving heart to try to
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  Speaker 3: restore me and keep the ministry on the right path.
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  Speaker 3: It was almost like a rejoicing that we had to
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  Speaker 3: shut down.
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  Speaker 2: And close the doors.
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  Speaker 3: Right that is not the heart of God God's heart
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  Speaker 3: is the person who will come broken with the message
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  Speaker 3: amen of correction verse 10 4 The land is full
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  Speaker 3: of adulterers. For because of a curse, the land mourns.
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  Speaker 3: The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their
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  Speaker 3: courses of life is evil and their might is not right. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Their land is full of adulterers. The corruption wasn't limited
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  Speaker 3: just to the prophets. He said that the land was full.
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  Speaker 3: The entire nation was affected by bad teaching, by false teachings.
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  Speaker 3: The leaders are corrupt and their influence was spreading that
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  Speaker 3: corruption throughout the people. What leaders normalize, people can eventually accept.
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  Speaker 3: That's why influence carries responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: I know that.
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  Speaker 3: We may be at the end of the social media
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  Speaker 3: influence era, but we still have celebrities. We still have leaders.
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  Speaker 3: We still have people that are called to a large
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  Speaker 3: group of people. And we have to be careful with
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  Speaker 3: that because whatever we're dealing with, can spew on the
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  Speaker 3: people that we're trying to reach. If we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: minister and we are living a life of sin, of compromise,
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  Speaker 3: if our godliness is just for a pretend or for show,
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  Speaker 3: we're godly in church, but we're not godly in private,
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  Speaker 3: in our private homes. We're beating on our wives and children.
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  Speaker 3: Our wives are disrespectful. The children are rebellious. The children
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  Speaker 3: can see and they know When they come against hypocrisy. Right?
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  Speaker 3: We got to be careful because we can affect. It's
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  Speaker 3: like we are opening a portal and we're allowing demons
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  Speaker 3: to come feast. People don't understand it's spiritual warfare. Demons
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  Speaker 3: feast on bad emotions. They love the contention in marriage.
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  Speaker 3: They love the rebellion in our children. They love dysfunction.
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  Speaker 3: They thrive in it. They love the filth. The energy
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  Speaker 3: of it gives them fuel to where they get stronger.
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  Speaker 3: The spirit in us, the Holy Spirit, gets weaker. We
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  Speaker 3: have to be careful how we live. We have to
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  Speaker 3: be careful to live in obedience. If we are in leadership,
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  Speaker 3: is a stricter and a higher accountability. So because of
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  Speaker 3: these false prophets, the whole nation.
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  Speaker 2: Went astray.
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  Speaker 3: And they have to give an account.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 11, for both prophet and priests are profane. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: in my house, I have found their wickedness. Says the Lord. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Both prophet and priest. In my house, I have found
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  Speaker 3: their wickedness in the house of God. Now their wickedness
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  Speaker 3: was being found in the bold part about it in
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  Speaker 3: his very own house. Now, this is sobering. You can
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  Speaker 3: have a church building. You can have a ministry, a podcast,
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  Speaker 3: a radio station, a record label or a Christian platform.
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  Speaker 3: But the label doesn't automatically make everything happening in the
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  Speaker 3: label holy. God examines the message, the motive and the
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  Speaker 3: character of every minister, every pastor. I've heard it said
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  Speaker 3: I've been around a lot of Christian ministries. Should I
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  Speaker 3: say Christian hip hop ministries and artists? I've been an
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  Speaker 3: artist myself and I've heard it said that at Christian. Now,
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  Speaker 3: these are Christian. concerts i've been to the stellars i've
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  Speaker 3: been on the red carpet when the stellars are in
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  Speaker 3: vegas i've been behind the scenes i've met people like
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  Speaker 3: kurt franklin and i met mary mary i've got pictures
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  Speaker 3: with them and i mean you see all these things
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  Speaker 3: you know i don't boast and brag about it because
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  Speaker 3: it's not about where i've been and who i've met
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  Speaker 3: and the celebrities i've worked with It's all about our
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  Speaker 3: relationship with the Lord. And what I've heard and what
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  Speaker 3: I've seen was a lot of corruption, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: drug use, alcohol use, a lot of sexual immoral acts,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of rampant homosexuality in these settings. And even myself,
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  Speaker 3: my godliness can be a display I can sound godly
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  Speaker 3: on this podcast. I can look godly online. The fact
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  Speaker 3: that we opened up a Christian club and everything we
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  Speaker 3: had going, but I fell into compromise as well. I
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  Speaker 3: idolized the platform. I spent little time in prayer when
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  Speaker 3: things were real busy. You know, prayer is still a
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  Speaker 3: struggle at times, but to whom much is given, much
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  Speaker 3: is required. If I chose not to apply these things
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  Speaker 3: that I teach on this platform, don't seek the Lord
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  Speaker 3: in private, don't love my wife or my children if
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  Speaker 3: I'm a selfish person and not, and I can still
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  Speaker 3: have a Christian platform, but then I will be held
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  Speaker 3: accountable and hell is way too high. I ain't going
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  Speaker 3: to hell for nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: This is not to condemn anyone or even myself because
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  Speaker 3: God's mercies are new every morning. But we just have
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  Speaker 3: to make sure our hearts are not looking to the
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  Speaker 3: grace of God to excuse a life of sin or disobedience.
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  Speaker 3: But we tap into the grace of God so that
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  Speaker 3: we could turn from a life of sin and disobedience
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  Speaker 3: and draw closer to him. And today, every day that
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  Speaker 3: we have is another opportunity. to be saved and to
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  Speaker 3: be closer to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: You see our salvation is a process of sanctification. It's
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  Speaker 3: not say a prayer and then you live how you want. No,
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  Speaker 3: we have to continuously. We got is preparing us to
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  Speaker 3: enter into the kingdom of heaven. We could forfeit that.
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  Speaker 3: If we choose to love this world, More than we
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  Speaker 3: love God and his kingdom. And that's what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with these. False prophets. Even though they had the platform.
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  Speaker 3: Somehow they went astray in their hearts. In verse 12.
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  Speaker 3: Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery ways.
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  Speaker 3: In the darkness they shall be driven. On. and fall
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  Speaker 3: in them, for I will bring disaster on them. The
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  Speaker 3: year of their punishment says the Lord. Wherefore their way
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  Speaker 3: shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness.
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  Speaker 3: God compares their path to walking on slippery ground. In
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  Speaker 3: the darkness, like walking on thin ice. I've been told
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  Speaker 3: that before. I haven't been told that on my job.
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  Speaker 3: I've been told that in ministry and relationships like yours.
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  Speaker 3: walking on slippery ground you are about to fall and
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  Speaker 3: stumble compromise makes the path increasingly dangerous Now, one compromise
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  Speaker 3: can lead to another until the person no longer recognize
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  Speaker 3: how far they've moved from truth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: There's always a progression. It's one small decision here. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell a lie here or maybe I'll steal something small.
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  Speaker 3: Or maybe I'll just take a quick look and I'll
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  Speaker 3: just look a little bit, knowing that we should turn away.
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  Speaker 3: These small things can quickly add up. Verse 13. And
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  Speaker 3: I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They
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  Speaker 3: prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is serious.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder why Jeremiah's heart was breaking so When he
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  Speaker 3: was bringing his message. And I have seen. Falling in
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  Speaker 3: the prophets.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: God points. Back to the prophets of Samaria. Now they embrace.
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  Speaker 3: Bowel worship.
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  Speaker 2: And caused.
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  Speaker 3: God's people. To go. Astray.
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  Speaker 2: Now they.
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  Speaker 3: Were not just. Simply making. Private.
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  Speaker 2: Mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: They're. Teaching. was influenced by other people. Now we have
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  Speaker 3: to be careful because the enemy can influence us and
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  Speaker 3: the enemy can empower us. The enemy loves to counterfeit
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  Speaker 3: the kingdom of God. Now the Bible tells us that
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  Speaker 3: our gifts are without repentance. So just because you have
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  Speaker 3: a gift to prophesy. Some people may have spiritual insight
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  Speaker 3: and some people can be very accurate. I mean, look
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  Speaker 3: at these psychics and these fortune tellers and it's all
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  Speaker 3: a part of witchcraft. You can go to a psychic
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  Speaker 3: or a fortune teller, somebody who's gifted in this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And if they've given themselves over to the enemy, they
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  Speaker 3: can give you accurate information. They can talk about your
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  Speaker 3: Dead grandmother, they could be accurate. They could talk about
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  Speaker 3: a family member, your history, things going on in your life.
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  Speaker 3: But just because they're accurate doesn't mean that they are
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  Speaker 3: speaking on God's behalf. Familiar spirits know your past. They
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  Speaker 3: know your family line. They know your history. The enemy
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  Speaker 3: studies us. And he sends monitoring spirits to monitor our lives.
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  Speaker 3: And the enemy has power to influence some type of
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  Speaker 3: a witch or a warlock to get your information and
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  Speaker 3: to target you, to bring you down. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: why through prayer and worship, we have to dismantle every
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  Speaker 3: threat of the enemy. So we really need discernment, especially
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  Speaker 3: in the days we're living in, because the Bible says
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  Speaker 3: that evil men will wax worse and worse. There's always
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  Speaker 3: a progression. It'll start out with a small compromise and
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  Speaker 3: then it will lead to a place. You'll go further
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  Speaker 3: than you're willing to go and you'll pay more than
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  Speaker 3: what you're willing to spend and you'll stay longer than
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  Speaker 3: you were willing to stay. We start off thinking that
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  Speaker 3: we can control it, think we can handle it. But
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  Speaker 3: when we find ourselves in trouble, in bondage, that's when
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  Speaker 3: we need to cry out to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah. Verse 14. Also, I've seen a horrible thing in
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  Speaker 3: the prophets of Jerusalem. They commit adultery and walk in lies.
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  Speaker 3: They also strengthen the hands of evildoers so that no
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  Speaker 3: one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are
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  Speaker 3: like Sodom to me and her inhabitants like Gomorrah. And
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  Speaker 3: as we know, Sodom and Gomorrah were morally corrupted. They
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  Speaker 3: were guilty of the sin of homosexuality don't let anyone
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  Speaker 3: lie and try to twist the scriptures it was homosexuality
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  Speaker 3: that brought destruction on that nation and Sodom and Gomorrah
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  Speaker 3: has always been a standard of when our iniquity and
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  Speaker 3: wickedness our full judgment shall follow See, God waits until
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  Speaker 3: a certain level and then judgment is unavailable, right? Now,
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  Speaker 3: I have seen also the prophets of Jerusalem, a horrible thing.
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  Speaker 3: They committed adultery. Now, this can be spiritual as well
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  Speaker 3: as physical. Both of them will send you to the
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  Speaker 3: pits of hell. You cheat. You sleep with someone's wife.
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  Speaker 3: That is idolatry and there's spiritual adultery when you worship
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  Speaker 3: other gods and you have committed yourself to the true
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  Speaker 3: and living God. When we walk in lies and even
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  Speaker 3: strengthen the hands of evildoers, this is deep. These are
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  Speaker 3: the leaders and these are the prophets that are doing
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  Speaker 3: these things. Now, this is probably the most disturbing part
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  Speaker 3: that the prophets were committing the adultery. The prophets were
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  Speaker 3: walking in the lies and strengthening the evildoers. Instead of
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  Speaker 3: calling people to repentance, they were making it easier for
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  Speaker 3: people to remain in their sin. Now, beloved, false comfort
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  Speaker 3: can be more dangerous than honest correction. Let me say
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  Speaker 3: that again. False comfort is more dangerous than an honest correction.
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  Speaker 3: I've had to have conversations with people before as brothers
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  Speaker 3: and sisters, if we really love God, right? And we
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  Speaker 3: really love the people, right? People want to come and
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  Speaker 3: they want to bring their sin before our face, you know,
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  Speaker 3: as ministers, right? And people want to bring their little
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  Speaker 3: homosexuality or they want to smoke their weed. I've had
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  Speaker 3: an artist that wanted to be a part of the ministry.
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  Speaker 3: And she invited me out to, uh, the wetlands. If
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  Speaker 3: you know where the wetlands, it's like a park, but
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  Speaker 3: it's like, uh, out in the middle of the desert.
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  Speaker 3: And she said she got tired of hiding her weed smoking.
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  Speaker 3: Like she wanted to be up front. So she wanted
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  Speaker 3: to smoke weed in front of me. So she invited
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  Speaker 3: me out to the park and she, smoked her weed
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  Speaker 3: or whatever and trying to at least be honest about
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  Speaker 3: it and let me know. I told her, okay, I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate you showing me this, but you can't be in ministry.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't put you on a platform until you
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  Speaker 3: repent and get this right. And she was also dealing
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  Speaker 3: with homosexuality and I was working with her, discipling her.
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  Speaker 3: She was repenting. She wanted to turn from that. Because
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  Speaker 3: I gave her honest correction and I've lost relationships because
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  Speaker 3: people wanted to live the way they wanted to live.
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  Speaker 3: But I told him, I'm like, look, that is sin.
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  Speaker 3: And God will judge that lifestyle. And people walked away
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  Speaker 3: from me and had attitudes. But I'd rather be honest
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  Speaker 3: and correct them than give them false comfort. Let them know, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's okay. God knows your heart. It's fine. You can
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  Speaker 3: do ministry.
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  Speaker 2: You can do this.
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  Speaker 3: You can do that or the other.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: We have to be bold enough, even if we might
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  Speaker 3: lose a relationship, we have to be bold enough to
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  Speaker 3: speak the truth. Sometimes we can say in love, you're
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  Speaker 3: doing great. But sometimes, sometimes love says this isn't right.
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  Speaker 3: We need to deal with this. Right. We need to
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  Speaker 3: call it on the carpet. And I'm in the place
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  Speaker 3: in my life where I'm tired and I'm fed up
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  Speaker 3: with the enemy. I am fed up with the enemy
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  Speaker 3: taking territory that does not belong to him. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be calling the fast in prayer. And, you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: if we're dealing with things in our marriage, for me,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: it's marriage. There are things that I am dealing with
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: in my marriage. And I'm going to fast and pray
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  Speaker 3: that God will turn these things around because I'm getting mad.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a holy anger that the enemy is still
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  Speaker 3: doing things that he has no right to do. He
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  Speaker 3: only has authority to do things because we allow him
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  Speaker 3: that authority.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 15. Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts concerning
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  Speaker 3: the prophets. Behold, I will feed them with wormwood and
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  Speaker 3: make them drink the water of Gal. For from the
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  Speaker 3: prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone out into all the land.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's break this verse down. Therefore, thus says the
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  Speaker 3: Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, Behold, I will feed
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  Speaker 3: them with wormwood, Now that sounds bitter. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to be eating no wormwood and make them drink the
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  Speaker 3: water of gall. That sounds even more bitter, right? But
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  Speaker 3: God here is announcing judgment against these prophets. God is
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  Speaker 3: going directly to the source of the corruptions. They've been
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  Speaker 3: given the people's spiritual poison instead of truth. Now they
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  Speaker 3: would face the consequences of their own corruption. Now that's
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  Speaker 3: sobering as well. So if we.
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  Speaker 2: Allow people.
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  Speaker 3: To be comfortable in their sin and we don't correct them,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: we don't challenge them. We are bringing judgment on our
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  Speaker 3: own selves. Now that is scary by itself. We can
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  Speaker 3: get on our platforms and we can say, oh, your
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  Speaker 3: sin is okay. Just live your lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: This and any other.
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  Speaker 3: And we are considered worse than them because we know
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  Speaker 3: the truth and we are strengthening them in their sin.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: A lot of pastors are going to have a lot
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: of to account for just think about the United States
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: of America think about the darkness that is coming on
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the land today think about where we've started as a
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: nation the Christian influence was strong but the leaders started
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: to corrupt And I'm talking about, I'm not talking about politicians.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the leaders in the church, the pastors
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and the prophets, the evangelists, the five-fold ministry became corrupted.
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  Speaker 3: They want it to be seeker friendly, which I don't
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  Speaker 3: know where that came from. We need to be Holy
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Spirit friendly. God has called us to correct our ways.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: God has called us to change. That's what repentance is
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: all about. God, Jesus would say all the time in
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the New Testament, go and sin no more. Now, he
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: would not give us a commandment without giving us the
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  Speaker 3: power to fulfill his commandment. We just need to seek
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  Speaker 3: him for the grace to get over whatever sin is
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: befalling us. So we have to constantly examine ourselves and
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  Speaker 3: we have to constantly judge ourselves according to scripture and
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: according to the word. And we have to be bold
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  Speaker 3: enough to confront ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: Or we could go the way of the false prophets. Now,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: this passage emphasizes the serious responsibility of anyone who claims
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: to speak for God. Wow, could that even include me
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  Speaker 3: on this podcast? I consider this a Bible study because
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: we need the word.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: But then I'm in the position to where I'm speaking
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: on God's behalf. to those who are listening to this podcast. Now,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: these prophets that we're reading about were not seriously, they
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: were not simply mistaken, but their lives were corrupt. Their
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  Speaker 3: message was deceptive and they were leading others away from God.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: So instead of comforting sin and calling people to repentance,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, excuse me, not comforting, but instead of confronting
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: their sin is what I'm trying to say in calling
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: people to repentance. They gave people false assurance. So the
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: lesson is clear here. Those who teach God's word must
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: take the responsibility serious, not lightly.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Now this applies far beyond ancient Israel, right? Today we
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: have pastors, teachers, artists, podcasters, YouTubers, influencers, and ministry leaders
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: with thousands or even millions of people listening to them.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I would love to grow this platform. I see hundreds,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: of people who tune in throughout the world. I'm not at,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: at least I don't think we're at thousands of listeners
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: or even millions. Even though that's my desire to reach
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: that many people, the reality is that increases the responsibility.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: And so I believe it's God's grace that he doesn't
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: give me a larger platform until I He works out
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: things in my life and things in my marriage and
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: things that need to be worked out so that I
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: won't have a greater judgment or responsibility before him. I mean,
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: I have enough. I don't care if it's one person listening,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: that is still responsibility. But my point is, God will
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: still work on our character before he gives us the
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: bigger platform. And I appreciate that. But the question is simply,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: do I have a platform? The question is not, do
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I have a platform? But the question is, what am
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I doing with the platform God is giving me? It
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: could just be leading your family, right? To walk with God.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: So before we say God said, we need to know
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: God actually said it. That's why I'm careful when I
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: try to prophesy. I've been told that I'm a prophet.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: God revealed to me that I was a prophet in prayer.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: But I take it seriously. I don't just willy nilly
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: just throw out prophecies out there. I try my best
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: to be accurate if I do give a word and
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: I feel the Holy Spirit put it on my heart
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: to say something to somebody. I take it very seriously.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Before teaching others, we need to be willing to study ourselves. Amen.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Before we correct someone, we need to examine our own
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: hearts and And before leading people, we need to make
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: sure we are following Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: We need to apply it before we attempt to apply
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: it to others. All right. Time for a break. You
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This is
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: It's the His Hop Radio Show.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: I don't even know.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: How this works, God.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Do I stand? Do I kneel?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Am I supposed to do this at.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: A church or a priest?
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Or Father?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Or in heaven? Hallowed be thy name.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: And it just feels so fake.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: God, I just need you to listen to me.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: To do my life is a lie yo i have
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: been hiding behind the disguise yo a giant facade yo
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: they might think i'm fine but i'm dying inside the
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: advice i was getting was trying to get rich and
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: get fly for the chicks to get high and i.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Listen but i get I am in.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Need of grace.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I'm asking in Jesus' name.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: Can you save me? I don't want to be the same.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Can you lead the way?
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: It's your love that.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Can take this disease away. On my knees I pray.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Come on. Coming with your Holy Ghost.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Don't know if it's the end it do. Yeah. Coming
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: with your Holy Ghost. Yeah.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Please do what a surgeon does with his patients. Open
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: me up and replace this heart because it is corrupted
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: so take it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It's so full of lust that it's aching.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Do what a potter does with his clay wind. He
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: takes a club and creates his art with his love
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: and touch he gets shaping.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: From nothing to something amazing.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Do what an artist does.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: With his paintings.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: That need a touch up and make Your brush, you
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: can save it My homie said you loved and embraced
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: him And there is nothing to chase And Lord, if
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: you really love me the same thing Can you help
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: me unplug from the matrix? Father, I'm done I don't
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: like what I have become I spent too much time
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: on the run But despite my foolery, you keep pursuing
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: me And I'm just tired of fighting you one I
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: wave the white flag Help me stay on the right
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: path I am ashamed of my past But my homie
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: told me you forgive anybody That calls on the Savior
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: So I ask.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: My God Please tell me Don't love is the end of.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Time That's where I found everything I've ever wanted, bro. Grace, mercy, forgiveness, joy, peace, fulfillment,
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: and purpose.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: It was all in Jesus.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: The day you remember died that day, bro. He ain't
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: never coming back. He found an antidote in Christ.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: is the His Hop Radio Show. Yo, yo, we are
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: back from the music break. That's our brother Dayton with
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: the song Antidote on our musical break on the podcast.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: We appreciate y'all. A quick shout out to the live chat.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Shout out to our brother Zone 3. My brother Zone
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: has been waiting for us to come back for my
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: little trip, a little getaway we had. So appreciate you
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: brothers seeing you back in the live chat. Our brother
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Kermit has been showing up. He's been letting us know
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: his work schedule. He's been popping in there.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of listeners out there, but we
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: want y'all to log into the live chat. So that
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: we can give you a shout out. So we can
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: build our community. So that we can pray for each other.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: So that we can encourage each other. And. Just like
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: today's episode. Bring that godly correction when necessary. It's a
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: safeguard for us. It's safe. I want to shout out
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: also my brother D. I've been working with him in ministry.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: And lately we've been.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Developing a brotherhood and I've been able to just openly
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: share a few things with him and he's been giving
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: some godly counsel some godly words so we all need
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: that we all need that father in the faith and
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: he was telling me that discipleship is forever like you
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: never get to the point even though I've been walking
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: this walk for a long time I still need someone
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: to speak into my life just as well as all
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: of us our wives, our brothers. We need to pray
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: for our wives that a godly woman can come and
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: speak and minister to them as well as our children,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: that other children around them, godly children will be pouring
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: into their lives. That's discipleship.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: And even if there's not someone around, we need to
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: be pouring into our own lives by studying the word.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: And then go find someone else that you can pour into.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: That's how the kingdom of God advances.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, shout out to the live chat. That is
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: our motive. That is our desire is to pour into
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: others as a login, join the online community, all that
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: good stuff. This is a tool that, for that purpose.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: Now, with that being said, it's time for our accountability
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: partner segment.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: This is where we hold each other accountable. Like I
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: was just talking about. So call, text, or email your
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: accountability partner. Hopefully you do have someone that can pour
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: into your life that you can fight in and just
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: share with.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Them, you know what I mean?
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Just your heart so that we can make sure God's
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: word is where it's supposed to be, right? And we
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: give out daily challenges so you can find it in
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: the community as well as in the live chat. So
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: today's challenge is ask your partner, am I telling people
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: what God says Or am I sometimes telling them what
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: I think they want to hear? That is a good
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: topic to talk about and to examine ourselves with, right?
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Them ask, am I easy to be corrected? Or is
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: it difficult? Sometimes you don't want to correct a person
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: because the person will turn around and correct you. That's
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: the mark of a fool. I mean, I correct you,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: but attack you. Some people will be offended because we
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: try to correct them. And some people is like, man,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: it's like the Bible, even the read the book of Proverbs.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: It tells you you can't even speak to a fool.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: But it says a wise man will love you when
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: you bring the correction. It says, give them the permission
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: to answer honestly and be willing to listen. And man,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: if we go through these steps, it will save our bacon.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: This is very important to go through these things. And man,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: this is a part of the process. Because it's easy
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: for us, like we can easily read something and then
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: try to ignore it or forget it. But we're supposed
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: to wrestle through it. We're supposed to, it's like a
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: math problem. We're supposed to apply this to our lives
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: and to figure these things out.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Amen. Amen.
• 48:25
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  Speaker 3: to head on over to the community. If you're in
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: the live chat, head over to the community because it's
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: time for our trivia challenge. I want to give another
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: shout out to our brother Zone. He has been our
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: trivia champion. Today, hopefully it's a little more challenging. My
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: wife I said she needed harder questions. So the first
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: to answer the correct question is the champ for today.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: The question is, according to these verses, how were the
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: prophets of Samaria different from the prophets of Jerusalem? And
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: what specific actions of the Jerusalem prophets caused God to
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: call their behavior A horrible thing. Now, if you have
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: to read passage carefully and find the answers. Like I say,
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: today's challenge is a little more challenging. You can find
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: it in the community. Answer it there. Be the first
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: one and you are the champ for today. All right,
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: time for the community shout out. This is where we
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: give you updates of our actions, our whereabouts in the
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: upcoming events. We also like to share if you have
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: events and things going on. We would like to announce
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: that as well, but you got to let us know.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: So as I said earlier, we just came back from
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: our cruise and we had some ups and downs. We
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: went to the Bahamas. And actually, we had, I don't
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: want to say a bad experience in the Bahamas, but
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: we were going through the shops. You know, it was
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: a little hot muggy on the island and the children
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: were complaining a little bit about that. It was a
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: lot of walking as well. We didn't really make it
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: to the beach, but we went through their shops and
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: we went to get souvenirs and different things.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: And then.
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  Speaker 3: We went to the ATM machine. to pull out cash
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: and the machine took my debit card so we had
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: to walk like five blocks to go to the bank
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: because the people were not responsible for the machine the
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: security guard kind of told us how to get there
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: and then the bank told us well we cannot get
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: it until like three o'clock and we had to be
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: back on the boat by five and so that kind
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: of cut our time short on island And the family
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: and the children, they were ready just to go back
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: on the boat. There was a lot of activities on
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  Speaker 3: the boat we could do. So that was our Bahama experience.
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  Speaker 3: But we had a lot of fun on the boat.
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  Speaker 3: There were a lot of things that, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I said, we could do on the boat.
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  Speaker 2: We could eat.
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  Speaker 3: We could go swimming and different things like that. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: we went to the Bahamas and we went to Coco Cay.
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  Speaker 3: Coco Cay was like a private Island. Um, we didn't, uh,
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  Speaker 3: purchase any excursions or anything like that. Uh, we just went,
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  Speaker 3: the water was kind of cold. So we just kind of,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's a little different when you travel with children,
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  Speaker 3: you know, children are kind of picky nowadays and what
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: they want to do.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was a great experience. I enjoyed it. But traveling, we
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: have four kids, right? So traveling with four kids makes
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: it a little different from just traveling with your spouse.
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  Speaker 3: So it was cool. Like I said, we had some
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: ups and downs. The cruise, the boat was great. We
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: took Carnival the first time we cruised. This is our
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: second time. And we took the Royal Caribbean. It was
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: a bigger boat. This boat was large. A lot to explore.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't explored everything on it. But we appreciate your prayers.
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  Speaker 3: God brought us back safely. And so we just want
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: to give you an update. That's why we were gone
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: for a week. We took a little family getaway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Next time we'll probably just go without the children. I
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: don't know. I guess I have to pray about that
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  Speaker 3: and talk to my wife about that. Or we'll take
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: the children to closer places instead of way out there.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: But also we have an event actually coming up tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: October the 6th. We're going to be in town square.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: We are participating with Metro their national night out. We're
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: going to have our, so everyone's seen a situation out there.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: People are going to be available to be able to
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: paint and, They're going to sit down. I'm going to
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: be there with his table. I'm not going to be DJing,
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: but I'll be passing out flyers and bringing awareness about
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: our organization and things like that. So if you want
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: to come out and volunteer or just visit us and
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: check us out, we will be at the town square
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: tomorrow night. So, yeah, we came back from the cruise
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: and we're hitting the ground running. We do have another
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: event coming up this month. but I have to get
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: the info. Just got back from the cruise, so I
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: have to get all the details so I can share
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: that with y'all. I do have the flyer, but I
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: got to put it out there and update the website.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: So check us out on that.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Also, we want to let you know that His Hop
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: Nation is a nonprofit organization of 501c3. We are looking
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: for monthly donors supporters, sponsors. We're looking for grants and
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: grant writers. We opened up a Christian club in 2012,
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: the first Christian club in Las Vegas, Nevada. And so
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: we're looking to relaunch, reopen that club and we need
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: support from our community. So if you know pastors, they
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: have a budget for inner city ministries. That's what we
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: are considered an inner city mission. We target the at-risk
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: youth and young adults. We have some other youth programs
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: that we're getting up and running. But we need help.
• 56:31
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• 56:59
  Speaker 3: With that said, I have a few closing remarks as
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: we get ready to close out the podcast for today.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: So Jeremiah 23, we went from verse 9 to 15
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: and it warns us about The danger of spiritual leaders
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: who live contrary to the message they claim to represent.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: So the challenge for us is simple. Know the word,
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: live the word, teach them the word faithfully. Be willing
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: to be corrected by the word. Don't blindly follow people.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Don't blindly reject people. You need to search the scriptures.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: And we need to keep Jesus at the center of
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: our motivation. The center of our heart. So this is
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: episode 20 of the His Heart Radio podcast presents verse
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: by verse Jeremiah 23 9-15 it also reminds us that
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: influence comes with responsibility if God is giving you a
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: voice use it wisely if God is giving you a
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: platform use it faithfully and if you're going to speak
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: for God make sure you're actually listening to God Do
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: not ignore his voice or his correction. So once again,
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: I'm your brother, Mr. His Hop. This is a His
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Hop radio podcast. Verse by verse. This is what we
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: call this thing that we do.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: And I'm going.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: To close out like this. I always do. It's not
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: about us. It's all about the Christ in us. God bless.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
• 59:31
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