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Book of Jeremiah, episode 56. Jer 22:11–17 “A House Built Without Righteousness” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 3: and we're going to cover verses 11 through 17. This passage.
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  Speaker 3: Teach us to value righteousness over riches, O God. Integrity
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  Speaker 3: over image and serving others over serving ourselves. Search our
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  Speaker 3: motivated by greed, oh God, anything motivated by selfish ambition
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  Speaker 3: or the desire to appear successful. God, help us, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: whether you're giving us And help us, God, oh Lord,
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  Speaker 3: in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. All right, well, let's
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  Speaker 3: get into it, beloved. We're going to start off verse
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  Speaker 3: 11 and 12, and I'm coming at you from the
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  Speaker 3: New King James. Like I said, there's two different kings
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  Speaker 3: that are in this passage today. Shalom, if I'm saying
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  Speaker 3: it right, is one king. And Josiah. For thus says
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  Speaker 3: the Lord concerning Shalom, the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
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  Speaker 3: who reigned instead of Josiah, his father. went from this
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  Speaker 3: place he shall not return here anymore but he shall
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  Speaker 3: die in the palace where they have led him captive
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  Speaker 3: and shall see the land no more now that is
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  Speaker 3: very direct and that is very straightforward I tell you
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  Speaker 3: God is not somebody to be trifling with. Amen. If
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  Speaker 3: I was these kings, man, I would have been repenting
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. But God speaks about Shalem, the
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  Speaker 3: son of Josiah. Now he had become king after his father, Josiah,
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  Speaker 3: but his reign would be very, very short. He would
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  Speaker 3: be taken away from the land. It would never return
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  Speaker 3: to Jerusalem. God was showing that being the son of
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  Speaker 3: a righteous king did not guarantee a righteous outcome.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: God does not have any grandchildren. Now, this is important
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  Speaker 3: because you cannot inherit somebody else's relationship with God. That's
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  Speaker 3: what I mean by that. You have to have your
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  Speaker 3: own relationship. You might have grown up in church. My children,
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  Speaker 3: they grew up in church. Your father may have been
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  Speaker 3: the pastor. Your mother may have been a prayer warrior,
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  Speaker 3: but your grandparents might have been faithful Christians, but you
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  Speaker 3: still have to make your own decisions to follow God.
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  Speaker 3: A godly heritage is a blessing, but it isn't a
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  Speaker 3: substitute for a personal Relationship with God and personal obedience
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  Speaker 3: to God's will. Verse 13 and 14. Woe to him
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  Speaker 3: who builds his house by unrighteousness. In his chambers by injustice.
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  Speaker 3: Who uses his neighbors. services without wages. It gives him
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  Speaker 3: nothing for his work. Now that is powerful. That is good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to break that down, but let's get 14
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  Speaker 3: who says, I will build myself a wide house with
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  Speaker 3: spacious rooms, chambers and cut out windows for it paneling
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  Speaker 3: it with cedar and painting it with vermilion right I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you're like me I love a great
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  Speaker 3: paint job I'm a painter by trade let's go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and break it down now So we see the problem
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  Speaker 3: right here. Jehoiakim wanted a magnificent house. He wanted large
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  Speaker 3: rooms and he wanted cedar. He wanted expensive decoration. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted the appearance of success. Right. I mean, all of
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  Speaker 3: us enjoy luxury. Luxury by itself is not evil or sinful,
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  Speaker 3: but there was a problem with how he was going
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  Speaker 3: to get it, how he was going about to get it.
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  Speaker 3: He was building his house through unrighteousness. He was benefiting
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  Speaker 3: from the labors of others without properly paying them. Now,
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  Speaker 3: how many times have we seen that happen? People lowball
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  Speaker 3: or even get free services or even con artists. They
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  Speaker 3: know how to rip people off. The Bible speaks of
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  Speaker 3: extortion or exploitation. God says woe to him. In other words,
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  Speaker 3: God sees how you obtain what you have. It isn't
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  Speaker 3: just about the finished product. God cares about the process.
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  Speaker 3: How did you get what you got? Now, this is
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  Speaker 3: a word for anybody who's chasing success. It's easy to
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  Speaker 3: look at somebody's house, car, business, clothing, look at their platform,
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  Speaker 3: their bank account and say, man, they are doing well.
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  Speaker 3: But God sees what people cannot see. God sees the contract.
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  Speaker 3: He sees the deal. He sees the employees who have
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  Speaker 3: not been paid or paid fairly. He sees a person
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  Speaker 3: who was taken advantage of and God sees manipulation, the
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  Speaker 3: dishonest business practices. God sees exploitation. God doesn't just inspect
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  Speaker 3: the house. He inspects how the house was built. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: God cares more about character than success. So this is
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  Speaker 3: very powerful because we live in a culture where success
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  Speaker 3: can make people stop asking questions. If somebody is wealthy,
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  Speaker 3: people assume that they're wise. If somebody has a huge platform,
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  Speaker 3: people assume that they're legitimate. If somebody has influence, people
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  Speaker 3: assume God must have blessed everything that they're doing. God
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  Speaker 3: must be blessed in everything that they're doing. But Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: 22 tells us, don't make that assumption. Don't just assume
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  Speaker 3: it that God has approved and God is blessing people
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  Speaker 3: because they seem to be successful outwardly. The devil can
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  Speaker 3: bless people as well. Now, verse 13 specifically addresses someone
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  Speaker 3: using another person's labor without giving them wages. Now, that
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  Speaker 3: principle matters. People are not tools. Employees are not disposable.
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  Speaker 3: Contracts are not like machines. Right. Volunteers shouldn't be manipulated.
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  Speaker 3: Contractors should not be manipulated. People who work. deserve to
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  Speaker 3: be treated with dignity and fairness. And this is essentially,
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  Speaker 3: especially important for Christians, right? If you have a Christian
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  Speaker 3: business or organization, if we're representing Jesus, our business practices
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  Speaker 3: should reflect Jesus. And it's sad to see how crooked
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  Speaker 3: some churches are when it comes to business practices. Some pastors.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know, you know, there's been mismanagement of
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  Speaker 3: money in a lot of churches and a lot of organizations.
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  Speaker 3: And also. I just saw a video on social media,
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  Speaker 3: this woman coming out talking about how women are compromising
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  Speaker 3: their bodies for a social media platform to represent certain brands.
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  Speaker 3: on social media. Now, I heard about this in the
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  Speaker 3: music business, how people would compromise their bodies, sell their bodies,
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  Speaker 3: if you know what I'm saying, or even in the
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  Speaker 3: entertainment business. These actors, a lot of people have had
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  Speaker 3: to sell their souls, but now they're even doing this
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  Speaker 3: on social media just to be an influencer, just so
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  Speaker 3: you can have somebody's brand On your platform, you have
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  Speaker 3: to go this route like, man, darkness is really trying
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  Speaker 3: to swallow up our nation. We don't have to compromise
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  Speaker 3: to be successful. Amen. Do not allow the enemy to
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  Speaker 3: manipulate you or to manipulate us just so that we
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  Speaker 3: could say that we appear to be successful. Amen. Now,
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  Speaker 3: check this out. Jehoiakim wanted a nice house, right? He
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  Speaker 3: wanted wide rooms, large chambers, windows, cedar. He wanted expensive decoration.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted some nice paint on the walls. And there's
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  Speaker 3: nothing inherently wrong with having a nice home. But the
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  Speaker 3: problem was the unrighteousness behind it. Now, that's a very
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  Speaker 3: important distinction. God isn't teaching that having possessions automatically makes
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  Speaker 3: somebody sinful. He is exposing greed, exploitation, and self-ambition. It
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  Speaker 3: matters how you got that success.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 15. Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
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  Speaker 3: Did not your father eat and drink and do justice
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  Speaker 3: and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: So he had a righteous father. He had a godly father.
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  Speaker 3: And so these questions are powerful. how many of us
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  Speaker 3: have had a parent or family member that was awesome, successful,
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  Speaker 3: and had integrity, a great example in front of us,
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  Speaker 3: but we failed to follow these good example. So God
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  Speaker 3: is asking the question, do you think you're a king
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  Speaker 3: because you live in luxury? That is a powerful question.
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  Speaker 3: Jehoiakim seemed to associate greatness with his possessions but God
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  Speaker 3: reminds him of his father Josiah also ate also drank
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  Speaker 3: also lived but also did justice and judgment that is
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  Speaker 3: what truly matters Now, his father's greatness wasn't primarily found
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  Speaker 3: in what he possessed. He sought to do what was
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  Speaker 3: right before God. Jehoiakim, on the other hand, was focused
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  Speaker 3: on building an impressive household. while disregarding the people who
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  Speaker 3: labor supported his ambition. You got to treat your people good.
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  Speaker 3: You got to treat them well.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: And this makes me think of Club His Hop Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: There were times where I was able to pay the
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  Speaker 3: DJs or the artists. I wasn't always able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just, I don't know, just something that makes
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  Speaker 3: you go, hmm, maybe I should have put something in
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  Speaker 3: place where I was able to pay the people on
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  Speaker 3: more of a consistent basis. And I repent right now. Father,
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  Speaker 3: forgive me for using people's services to build my platform.
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  Speaker 3: I did it out of ignorance, not out of greed.
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  Speaker 3: But Lord, you know my heart. And if it was
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  Speaker 3: greed there, I repent for that as well. By the
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  Speaker 3: blood of Jesus. Amen. You know, I never really considered
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  Speaker 3: these principles, but they're right here. This is why we
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  Speaker 3: go verse by verse, chapter by chapter. It's right here
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  Speaker 3: in the word of God, right? God doesn't want us
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  Speaker 3: To build a platform off of other people's backs and
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  Speaker 3: not pay them or not reward them, right? Or not
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  Speaker 3: bring value to the people that we serve. But for
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  Speaker 3: the king, the issue wasn't just simply architectural architecture, but
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  Speaker 3: it was the heart behind the lifestyle. A person can
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  Speaker 3: possess beautiful things and still be spiritually bankrupt. We see
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  Speaker 3: this all over the place, right? True prosperity is not
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  Speaker 3: measured merely by what you can build for yourself, but
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  Speaker 3: by whether your life is being led according to God's righteousness.
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  Speaker 3: That right there is true and complete prosperity. Verse 16,
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  Speaker 3: he judged the cause of the poor and needy. Then
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  Speaker 3: it was well. Was not this knowing me, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Was not this knowing me, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: I guess that was in a question format, but let's
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  Speaker 3: break it down. This verse is extremely... He judged the
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  Speaker 3: cause of the poor and needy. Then it was well
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  Speaker 3: with him was not this to know me, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to go to the King James. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you lose something in different translation. So God explains what
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  Speaker 3: made Josiah's leadership different. He cared about the poor and
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  Speaker 3: the needy. This is something that God has always cared
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  Speaker 3: about through the scriptures. He didn't just know religious information.
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  Speaker 3: He demonstrated that he knew God by the way he
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  Speaker 3: treated people. And then God says, was not this to
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  Speaker 3: know me? That is a huge statement. Knowing God affects
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  Speaker 3: how we treat people. Let me say that again. That
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  Speaker 3: should be a t-shirt somewhere. Knowing God affects how we
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  Speaker 3: treat people. Now, you can memorize scriptures and still mistreat people.
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  Speaker 3: You can know church language and still exploit people. You
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  Speaker 3: can sing worship songs and still take advantage of people.
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  Speaker 3: You can preach about Jesus and still refuse to pay
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  Speaker 3: somebody fairly. You can have a Christian business and still
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  Speaker 3: operate dishonestly. Jeremiah 22 challenges that because God says, was
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  Speaker 3: not this to know me. In other words, your relationship
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  Speaker 3: with God Should show up in your treatment of other people.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people need to hear this podcast. Make
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  Speaker 3: sure we send it out. Get it out to everyone
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  Speaker 3: out there. And this is a powerful, powerful truth. Because
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  Speaker 3: I know some mean Christians. I know some Christians that
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  Speaker 3: I try to avoid because they're so mean. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the old saying, meaner than a junkyard dog, right? All right,
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  Speaker 3: verse 17. Yet your eyes and your heart are for
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  Speaker 3: nothing but your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood and practicing
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  Speaker 3: oppression and violence. Now, this gives us an insight on
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  Speaker 3: why this king was judged. He is showing us the
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  Speaker 3: inside of a man's heart. You know how people say
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  Speaker 3: that only God can judge you? Yes, and that should
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  Speaker 3: be a scary thing because God sees everything. Everything is
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  Speaker 3: naked and open before him.
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Now, so he exposes his heart. His man was covetous.
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  Speaker 3: He shed innocent blood. This man was an oppressor in violence.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like a gangbanger. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Because they sell their drugs to make their money and
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  Speaker 3: to be initiated in a lot of gangs. They tell
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  Speaker 3: people just to walk up and just take people out.
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  Speaker 3: Innocent people just going about their business. There were our oppressors.
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  Speaker 3: Usually in the game, you have you're controlled by the leader,
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  Speaker 3: the shot caller in violence. Usually in a game, you
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  Speaker 3: guys gain up, you know, you get your get back,
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  Speaker 3: they get their get back. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's the same spirit. But imagine you're the president
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  Speaker 3: living like this, your king living like this. It's the
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  Speaker 3: flesh is demonic. It is evil. So again, his problem
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  Speaker 3: was not merely what he owed. His problem was what
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  Speaker 3: he wanted and what he was willing to do to
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  Speaker 3: get it. Could that be the same with these social
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  Speaker 3: media influencers who are compromising to get a platform? And
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  Speaker 3: this is the heart of the passage today. The real
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  Speaker 3: problem is the heart. Notice that God says, thine eyes
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  Speaker 3: and thine heart. What you look at can affect what
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  Speaker 3: you desire. And what you desire can influence what you're
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  Speaker 3: willing to do. That's why we have to guard our hearts.
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  Speaker 3: Unchecked desire can become covetousness. Covetousness can become greed. Greed
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  Speaker 3: can lead to exploitation and exploitation can lead to people
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  Speaker 3: getting hurt. It starts internally before it becomes external manifested
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  Speaker 3: in the physical world. Be careful what you are desiring.
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  Speaker 3: Be careful what your eyes are looking at. And be careful.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be so desperate so that you're willing to do
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  Speaker 3: anything to get it. That is not God's will. That's
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  Speaker 3: not what God wants us to be. God wants us
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  Speaker 3: to be patient and to wait on him. Seek ye
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  Speaker 3: first the kingdom of God and all things will be
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  Speaker 3: added unto you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: All right, y'all, let's take a quick break.
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  Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 5: is the His Hop Radio Show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. The diet's game. Feel the pain.
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  Speaker 3: Feel the rain.
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  Speaker 2: Feel the true life. A lot of things that you
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  Speaker 2: just can't explain. Don't even try. Hard times, dark days,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the tunnel, I see the light.
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  Speaker 4: I see the light. Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Can't stop now. I got a cue i'm gone don't
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  Speaker 2: know how but we still on strong look like we
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  Speaker 2: don't got work in the morning try try try we
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  Speaker 2: can slide never mind i ain't going in tomorrow just
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  Speaker 2: start working out because i know i'm a star not
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  Speaker 2: listening to you you ain't make it this far good
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  Speaker 2: night good luck goodbye before it goes down let you
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  Speaker 2: run them out when it gets too wild at the
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  Speaker 2: rodeo will it all work out on I don't know
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  Speaker 2: for sure, but I'm still enjoying the ride Let me
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  Speaker 2: know where you're trying to go There's really no limit
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  Speaker 2: like Calio But until it all ends like saxophones At
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  Speaker 2: the end of the tunnel, there's light Don't stop, take
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  Speaker 2: me higher Higher, higher, higher to the sky Don't put
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  Speaker 2: out that fire Fire Burning under Mmm Don't play, don't act,
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  Speaker 2: no roles. Act tough, get past it home. Get back, click, click, reload.
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  Speaker 2: Cash app, PayPal, Venmo. They act, they play, they rose.
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  Speaker 2: Don't ask me, I don't know. Act tough, get past
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  Speaker 2: it home.
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  Speaker 5: Get back, click, click, reload.
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  Speaker 2: What it's really gonna be? Who you really wanna see?
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  Speaker 2: Do you wanna see a black man get uncivilized?
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  Speaker 3: When I move, you move.
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  Speaker 2: It's real ludicrous, the rules that they incentivize. I really
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  Speaker 2: wish I could make them see it my way, but
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  Speaker 2: that revolution won't be televised. Deuce, deuce, two fingers to
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  Speaker 2: the devil eyes. Huh, hold on. Can't stop now, got
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  Speaker 2: a cue, I'm gone. Don't know how, but we still.
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  Speaker 4: Gon' show em.
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  Speaker 2: Look like we don't got work in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Chow, chow, chow, we can slide.
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  Speaker 2: Nevermind, I ain't goin' in no more. Just start workin' out,
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  Speaker 2: cause I know I'm a star.
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  Speaker 4: Not listenin' to you, you.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't make it this far. Good night, good luck, goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Before it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Down like Geronimo, and it gets too wild at the rodeo.
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  Speaker 2: Will it all work out? I don't know for sure,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm still enjoyin' the ride. Let me know where
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to go There's really no limit like Calio
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  Speaker 2: But until it all ends like saxophones At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the tunnel is life Don't stop, take me higher Higher, higher,
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  Speaker 2: higher to the sky Don't put out that fire Fire.
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  Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: is the His Hop Radio Show.
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  Speaker 3: Yo, yo, yo. What up, what up? We are back
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: from the break. That was our brother Aja Gazelle. On
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  Speaker 3: our musical break, check him out. He's got some hot
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  Speaker 3: CHH for you. Want to give a huge shout out
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  Speaker 3: to the live chat and to the community. Want to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: show some more love to our brother Zone 3, one
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  Speaker 3: of the hottest CHH artists in Vegas. My brother's been
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: holding it down. Appreciate you, bro. I hope you come
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  Speaker 3: out with some new music soon. You have a gift
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  Speaker 3: and a talent. Amen. Appreciate you for logging into the
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: live chat and in the community on the down as
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: the trivia champ. Shout out to our brother. Corinth is
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: a Christian comedian, comedian, comedian. Like to laugh and get
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: some giggles. Check him out on social media. I believe
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: he goes by play too much on YouTube. And everyone
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: else who has slid through over the time of this podcast.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I believe it's been almost a year since we started
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: this podcast on the radio station. Meet us here every day,
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  Speaker 3: 11 through Saturday. I mean, 11 through Saturday. Okay, let
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: me start that off. Meet us here every day at
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  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock Pacific Standard Time, 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
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  Speaker 3: I got to talk slowly here. We are live in
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: the live chat and in the community here to, for one,
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  Speaker 3: pray with you and agree with you and to listen
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: to the podcast together. And we do this Monday through Saturday.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Now the weekends, you might get a couple of replays,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: but we still log into the live chat to say
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: what's up to people because our heart is to minister.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Amen. And speaking about ministering, let's go to our accountability
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  Speaker 3: partner challenge today. Accountability partner, this is where we encourage
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  Speaker 3: you to call, text, or email somebody in your life
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: that you allow to hold you accountable and go over
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: certain topics. If you don't have your own topic, these
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: are suggested topics. So you don't have to strictly do
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: what the topic we tell you to do, but Allow
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: people in your house. If you're dealing with something, hey,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: get some help, right? Call people, talk to people that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: you can trust. Not people who will gossip and not
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: people who will just tell you their opinion. Not people
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: who want you to live according to their preference, but
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: people who will bring you to scripture and tell you
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: this is not the will of God. So ask yourself,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Am I more concerned with looking successful or acting or
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: actually being faithful? I don't know why I'm stumbling my
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: words today. Am I more concerned with being successful or
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: actually being faithful to God? Amen. So what is more
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: important to you being successful or being faithful? Then ask
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: your accountability partner, is there any area where my ambition
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: could be causing me to overlook people? And of course,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: we always say, don't be defensive. Listen and pray about
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: what God has revealed. Are you overlooking? Do you see
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: people as an ends to a means? Are you seeing
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: people in a way where you can just take advantage
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: of them? God wants us to be loving. He wants
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: us to love each other. If you haven't gotten it
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: by yet, he wants us to be a community that
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: loves each other. So everything that comes with love, that's
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: what he wants us to do. A selfish person will
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: exploit others and take advantage of others. It's all about
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: them and what they can get. But leadership in the
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: kingdom is a person who serves other people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Also, we want you to know that His High Radio
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: is a monitored and a reporting radio station. We are
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: here to serve you on our station. If you got
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: new music, if you're putting out a new project, go
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: to our website, hishighnation.com. Hit that submissions tab. We do
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: pay royalties. We do monitor and chart our music. Check
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: out our promo packages. They are very affordable. You can
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: advertise on our radio station and on our entire platform.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: So make sure you take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, beloved.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now it's time to head on over to the community.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: If you're in the live chat, meet us over in
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the community. I told you how to get to it earlier.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Just go to the top menu, scroll down a little
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: farther and log in. Now in the community, I do
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: believe you do have to confirm your account. So make
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: sure you get registered and get confirmed so that you
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: can participate in today's trivia question. So you know how
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: it goes. The first one to answer and to get
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: it right is a trivia champ for today. So according
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: to these verses, what specific actions did Josiah take that
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  Speaker 3: demonstrated that he knew God. Amen. Let me say it again.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: According to these verses, what specific, specific actions did Josiah
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  Speaker 3: take that demonstrate the fact that he knew God?
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: There should be an outward manifestation That will tell people
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  Speaker 3: that this person. Knows God. Amen. All right. Community shout outs.
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  Speaker 3: Community shout out. Actually. I'm kind of sad. I got some.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Not so good news. I had to cancel like two events.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you could say I have mixed
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: feelings because I. booked a cruise for my family earlier
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: in the year and it's at the end of this
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: month end of September and we won't get back until
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: the beginning of October and so there were two events
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: there's one at the end of September and one at
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: the beginning of October one was a glow night youth
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: event that I thought I was able to pull off
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: I was going to just leave from the airport and
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: go do the event but It happens that the dates don't...
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: line up so yeah I was looking forward to those
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: but I was able to contact the people and give
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: them enough time so if they need another DJ or
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: to do something else they were able to pivot and
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: do those things But we do have other stuff coming up.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: We were working with the police department. We're going to
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: do a trunk or treat with them. So we're going
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: to have a fun time serving them. And then October
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: the 6th, we'll be in town and we will do
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: their national night out as well. So you got some
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: more things that are cooking in the kitchen. So let
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: us know if you're an artist and you're listening. We
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: would love to take artists with us to rock the mic.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: CHH artists, that is. Of course, Zone 3. I love
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: you to be with us every time we make moves,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: my brother. So if you do have any time or
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: if they fall on your off days, let us know.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Hit us up. Also, we want to let you know
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: that His Hop Nation is a 501c3, a non-profit organization.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: We opened Club His Hop back in 2012. 5,000 square
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  Speaker 3: foot warehouse. We made it into a venue. We were
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  Speaker 3: able to operate it for six and a half years.
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  Speaker 3: But some things happened. One decision led to another. We
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: had to vacate the building. It was 2018, so it
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  Speaker 3: was before COVID. So I can't even say COVID did it. No,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: there was compromise. I had made some compromises in my
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: personal life. There was compromises in the camp. I will
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: be transparent. But I've learned and have repented since then.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm watching and praying to see if God wants
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: us to relaunch and reopen if we get another run
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  Speaker 3: at that.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Also, we became a nonprofit organization so that we can
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  Speaker 3: get support from our community. I was sustaining the whole
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  Speaker 3: ministry out of my own pocket. I worked a lot
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: of overtime to keep the club running. And that was
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: not a wise move. Now I understand that guys, people
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: are blessed when they have the opportunity to give and
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: to sow into good ground. And so my job is
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: to make sure it stays good ground so that people
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: can sow into it If it's not good ground, don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: sow into it. Amen. As we saw today in today's episode,
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: God cares about the process. So pray about it before
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: you sow into any ministry, including mine. If the Lord
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: is leading and the Lord gives you the green light,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: then by all means, you can donate on our website, hishopnation.com.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: or our nonprofit site, hishopnation.org, or you can donate through
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: the app, His Hop Radio, on all platforms. It is
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: tax deductible.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: All right, beloved.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I got some closing remarks, some final thoughts about
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: today's podcast. Now, Jehoiakim wanted a great house, God wanted
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: a righteous king. Jehoiakim focused on cedar. God focused on character.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Jehoiakim focused on what he could build for himself. God
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: focused on how he treated others. And that gives us
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: a powerful principle. Don't measure success only by what you
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: have built. Measure it by what kind of person you
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  Speaker 3: became while you built it.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Let me say that again. Don't measure success only by
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  Speaker 3: what you have built. Measure it by what kind of
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  Speaker 3: person you became while building it. You can build a
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: business and lose your integrity. You can build a ministry
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: and lose your humanity. You can build a career and
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: lose your family. You can build a platform and lose
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: your purpose. You can build a house and still have
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: an empty heart. But If you build according to God's principles,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: you are building something that has eternal value. And that
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: is the important thing. Only what we do for Christ
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: will last. Can you imagine having a work schedule to
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: where all you can do is go to work, go home,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Go to sleep. Maybe spend time for your family and
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: then get up and go to work. God did not
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: put us on this planet just to go to work.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: God wants more from us than just paying the bills
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: and taking care of our families. There's nothing wrong with
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: those things. But the day you stand before him in eternity.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: What are you going to bring? What fruit are you
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: going to bring? How many people have you reached? How
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: was your prayer life? How were you seeking him? Were
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: you hitting the streets, outreaching, passing out flyers, passing out food,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: passing out clothing? Are you concerned about those who are
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: needy in society and vulnerable? That's one of the things
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: we do on this platform is we believe in outreach.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: We believe in reaching the next generation. Our DJ services
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: are not just because we wanted to start a business.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: We want to get out there and let them know
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: that there is positive, uplifting, godly hip hop that they
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: can listen to and partake in. And once they listen
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: to it, they're going to hear godly lyrics. They're going
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: to hear the word of God's scripture. You want to
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: let them know about this podcast. Maybe you reaching people
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: is just sharing this podcast with somebody. Because you know
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: they're going to get the word. They're going to get
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: the unadulterated. This word is not sugar coated or sugared down.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: We go through all.
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  Speaker 4: Of it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: And maybe you can reach people that way. Let us
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: not be so tied up in this temporary world to
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: where we miss out on building for eternity.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Because God says that we will either lose rewards and
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: gain rewards if we do make it into the kingdom.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Some people will miss the kingdom altogether because all they
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: care about is building their own success, paying their own bills,
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: and all these other things. But build with integrity, build
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: with justice, and build with God. I'm your brother, Mr.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: His Hop. Find me on all social media platforms, mr.hishop.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Check out our website, hishopnation.com. Check out our nonprofit, hishopnation.org.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Download that app, His Hop Radio, on all platforms. And remember,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: it's not about us. It's all about the Christ in us.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: God bless.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: is the His Hop Radio Show.