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S4 59. FLF – Akande Exposing Music, Ears a Sacred Gate to your Mind · Millennial Mustard Seed

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drivers of mind control because we have to take every thought
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Welcome back to the Millennium us to see podcast.
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I'm your host Rod thanks for being here with me, I am joined
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by flf he was previously known as Davis.
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Absolute he is a Christian hip-hop artist and producer from
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California and we dive into his testimony.
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And we uncover some of the darkness in music where he
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talks. A symbolism.
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All the strange occultic things that's in the music industry
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today, since I last talked with Ethel up, he's dropped two new
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EPS, but fear God and Shalom and buff, your God has seven songs
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on it and my favorite Jam is on that EP, it's called run to you.
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I'm gonna play that song at the end of this episode year.
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So make sure you guys stick around for this whole
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conversation. Also, there's going to be links
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in the Option the show notes Here on the episode you guys.
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So you can go click a link and go right to flx YouTube page.
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Some of these videos of him chilling doing what he loves to
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do. Talk all things hip-hop and
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expose the darkness because he is flooding light for having
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come on. I'm the millennial Mustard Seed.
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I'm a 90s kid. I love the instrumentals.
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I love the hip hop all that stuff, but it's really hard to
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find. Good music, Good lyrics.
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I should say where we can. Trust the words.
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Has spoken on the record in our minds because we have to learn
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to protect our minds and our hearts because the issues of
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life flow out of our hearts. And what we put into our mind,
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is really going to make the difference about how we view the
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world around us. How we treat people and how we
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see ourselves. Now, most importantly, it's just
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the right thing to do. So with all that being said, you
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guys, I am ready to jump into this episode.
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You guys ready? Let's go.
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Hey, what's up, what's up? All up here and I'm excited to
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welcome you to the Millennia Mustard Seed, blood light
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forever brother. It's an honor to be here with
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you. Yeah.
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Thank you so much for having me man.
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I'm really looking forward to talking with you.
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And man I honestly I just want to start off by saying run to
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you. Hey it was bro.
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Oh my God. That song literally just Choked
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me up and I sent it to like all my friends.
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Everybody was banging it over here on the East Coast for like
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a minute, man. We loved it.
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Let's talk really quick about just your album so but fear God,
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you have seven songs on this new album and do you kind of just
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want to give us a real quick down low on that?
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And then we'll jump into your testimony and just kind of, I
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got some questions for you. Yeah.
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But fear, God was one of the projects that I created, you
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know, I had kind of been taking somewhat of a Hiatus from music,
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just focusing on different areas of life.
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Life and you know, identifying the ways I wanted to surrender
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this music more fully to God because it it can very easily
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become something that's all consuming from the standpoint of
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making music to promoting it and marketing it and it's easy to
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get caught up in everything else but fear God was kind of born
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out of that. And and one of the things that I
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kept reflecting on when I was reading through Ecclesiastes,
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was the different areas where Solomon who we kind of infers,
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the writer talks about, you know?
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But the whole lesson is this fear God and keep his
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Commandments. But fear God and keep his
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Commandments and that idea of fearing God like we have so much
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that we could do in life. We have different things that we
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could turn to different ways that we can even serve God, but
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the end all from what I took away while reading Ecclesiastes
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was, you know, to keep in mind but fear God and keep his
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Commandments. For this is the whole duty of
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man and that's always kind of stuck with me and that was kind
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of the inspiration behind that project in particular.
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People need to hear that so that's awesome to know that
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that's how God was working on your heart and that's what
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inspired the album. So let's jump into your
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testimony here. Give us like that 10,000 foot
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view of just what life was like before Christ and a little bit
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of your testimony. There, I was like to say that I
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grew up in a Christian household, from a, maybe a
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cultural standpoint or for maybe a you know, very religious
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standpoint. In that we went to church every
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week. We were constantly adhering Our
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Lives within the home around Godly principle.
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So like my parents didn't drink. We try not to cuss and no
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smoking things, you would expect.
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But Never really had a personal relationship with God in a
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meaningful way. You know, sometimes you go to
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church or church event and you might hear something that kind
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of sticks with you. But you know, I didn't have a
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relationship with God in that sense.
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And then I went to a couple of like private boarding academies.
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Develop my relationship with God a bit more got baptized when I
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was around 18, but in the pursuit of music and kind of
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making that an idol in my life, I went to a school in Florida
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and ended up backsliding pretty heavily into just the world.
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You know doing a bunch of different things that weren't
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productive to My spiritual walk. But while out there, I had a
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Reawakening again with Christ and for most Christians who have
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kind of been in this walk for a long time.
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There's a few moments in time where you have like a really
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significant Greek commitment of your life to Christ.
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And while I was informed, I had that in.
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And that's what I really surrendered.
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My music and my Pursuits largely to the Lord and I won't say it's
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been a Flawless walk ever since then, everyone's going to
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struggle and you know, backslide and fall into different things
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and temptations and trials. But that was a defining moment
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because it was really the point that I Rendered a lot of what I
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was doing to Christ holy and I never had encountered this idea
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of surrendering music to God. It was kind of like I'm going to
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make music and keep God as a priority in my life but not have
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it reflect hand-in-hand. So that was a big moment for me
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and then obviously you know big mile markers getting married,
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having children all of kind of strength in my walk is time was
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going on and allowed me to move into a situation where yeah, I
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can I can surrender and use this gift for God.
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While also maintaining, you know, the most important
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ministries of family of local Ministry of church.
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Each Ministry, different things like that and not not allowing
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it to be so consuming, but yeah, it's been an incredible journey,
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man, but but that's like the 10,000 foot view.
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Now, if I remember hearing correctly, were you born here in
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the states? Or I want to say, I don't know
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if I remember where you born in Germany.
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Yeah. That's right.
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Yeah. So I was born overseas.
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Okay. Military family.
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So okay. Yeah.
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And did not adjust certain by that stretch, you know, parents
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are American but we were missing for some military stuff.
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You know what things really changed for you after coming to
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Christ? So you kind of talked about
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having music and then wanting to live holy and then these two
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merge together, right? So like what was the defining
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point for you, somewhere in this journey, in this process of God,
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just removing the veil and calling, you closer to him.
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That you realized like I am all in.
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I'm going to flood life forever for the kingdom of God.
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When was that defining Point? Yes, I think, I think it's like,
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you know, to your point. It's kind of You see a lot of
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Christians and you know, I was I've been there and often times,
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I will slide into this kind of mindset where you're culturally
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Christian. You know maybe you're doing
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things, are you have Christian friends, you go to church.
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You have like this community built around the church, but as
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far as your personal relationship or your personal
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life, think every single aspect of your life hasn't been
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surrendered and I felt like a very much a cultural question.
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So, you know, like I kind of, I kind of would sanitize my sin in
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a way where I was making music when maybe I wouldn't curse as
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much. Or if, you know, maybe I
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wouldn't do drugs or, you know, it's abstain from certain things
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in my life because I knew that they had a detrimental effect
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overall, but I didn't really surrender those things to God.
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So when I was in Florida, I think is probably there's been a
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couple times in my life obviously that I could look back
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in hindsight and really attribute.
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The Holy Spirit moving on my heart.
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But in Florida there was one particular time.
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I was really pursuing music full-time in many ways.
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I had a lot of scenarios that had kind of come up and fell
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through like opportunities that didn't pan out.
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Well, I was expecting or that my pride was really injured, and I
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felt very diminishing that sense and a couple things happen and
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really made me just, you know, essentially, surrender Reliance
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completely to God and I can't really describe.
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You can't really ever. I don't know how to articulate
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it but it was almost like I was asleep.
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You know. And I was awake and there was
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this. Yes.
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Yeah. Late night where I was just
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looking at. Like I was in my room and I was
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looking at all the stuff around me and all the stuff that I had
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kind of built up as an idol. So, like these posters these
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CDs, these different things that I I knew they were idols and I
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was like, Lord. I don't, the reason that I've
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been failing or the reason that I'm in and I haven't surrendered
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this part of my life to you. And once I realized that, I
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literally just as many testimonies people have heard, I
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literally just like was invigorated.
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Wept got all that stuff and I was in my room, threw it into
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the trash. Can, the dumpster went online
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and deleted all my social accounts that had anything to do
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with that old. You know, that old life and that
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old sort of music and I just surrendered myself fully to
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Christ and Have this Idol that are always kind of nurturing
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and, that was kind of the most significant moment in coming to
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Christ because it was really a full and complete surrender
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wasn't. Okay.
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Lord, I'm going to give you 80% of me, but I'm going to keep
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this 20% for myself. It was literally a full
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surrender. So when that happened, that was
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a huge turning point because it flipped my perspective on the
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world, that flip my perspective on Christ, you know, it was less
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about, like, I don't know if it's just, you know, maybe if
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you're culturally Christian, you don't have the sense of urgency,
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See, I guess maybe, but I'm looking around.
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I'm looking all these people. I'm going to point.
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These people are not saved, you know and judgment is coming,
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right? They don't know the way out,
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they don't know. This relationship that I've
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known and then it just gave everything so much perspective
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for me and was a huge moment from that standpoint.
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And well, while I'm back slid, a little bit in different areas
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throughout my entire walk, you know, and gotten into things
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that maybe I shouldn't have or make decisions that were not,
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you know, not Guided by the Holy Spirit, I can definitely point
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to that being a Moment where that perspective on me, has
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never been lost. I've never lost that
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perspective. Of this is an eternity and
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Eternity that we're looking at right now.
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And what decisions are we going to make to inform that?
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That's so powerful. I've talked a little bit about
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my personal story, like coming to Christ almost 10 years ago.
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I reckon it to like this long kind of drawn out process where,
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like I was being critiqued and kind of learning like God was
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fathering me because I didn't have like a good influence.
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Yeah, and so I can resonate just like a defining moment.
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And I love capturing that because I know there's people
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out there that are somewhere in a process similar, like there's
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an audience that only you can reach.
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And so when we share our testimonies the power that's in
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that, the ripple effect is, praise God.
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Amen. And I'll watch a channel on
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YouTube and I highly recommend all the listeners.
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You could, you check him out on YouTube.
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I'll include links in the show notes so that you guys can
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directly go and see how you've been exposed.
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Using this Darkness, that's in the music industry, the
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symbolism. But I want to ask in the sense.
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How do you kind of maintain with, like diving into the
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secular music and still keeping the biblical filter and keeping
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that that Holy standpoint? I think there has to be a
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surrender of your life in every way for that to kind of really
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hit home and again, not to critique anyone or say that
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certain people have it. But I know for me, like, When
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when I first had that when I had that experience in Orlando and
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you know, God kind of just snatch me out of my boots.
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I was like, wow, like listening to the music that I used to
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listen to didn't have the same appeal.
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You know, it grew very dim from that standpoint and I was like,
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man, I really want to listen to music center.
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Glorify God and the more I was like kind of looking at
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different music and different things, you know?
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Even maybe a tie back into Ecclesiastes a little bit.
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It was all just vanity. I was like this is for no.
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Reason, you know, even love songs like the most beautiful
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love song of my just vanity like what are they even talking
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about? They talking about exactly, it
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kind of just grew dim. And for me one of the things
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that I think strict strikes home as well as that even though I
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had this really hard rope shaking awake and I was totally,
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you know, unappealed by the stuff over time, I stood start
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listening to secular music or listen to certain artists or be
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curious about what their music was going to sound like.
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And I think it's very, very important to note like there's a
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lot of talent that exists out there and when you're at,
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Artist. There's a desire to appreciate
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or hold to high esteem, this other talent that might exist.
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But ultimately, the message in the end goal is what it's going
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to be part of the story of me, kind of coming to Christ in
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those first, little drops way before I actually surrender my
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life. I remember going to Orlando to
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the school Full Sail and full transparency like smoking a lot
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of weed. And I remember having these
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conversations with the people that were there was like, hey
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have you heard about XYZ conspiracy and we would dive
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into these music? It's piracies and they would
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reveal these things. And I remember thinking like
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this is kind of crazy like you start seeing signs and symbols
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going way back or even someone like DMX, which is it's not a
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conspiracy, right? But he has these songs called
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Damian, where he talks about this conversation, he has With
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the Enemy, or what the devil, it seems like, and you're like,
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wow, this stuff is in our faces and it's just been out there for
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a long time. So, having that Awakening
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moment, I'm looking at everything with that lens in
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mind, as well to say. Okay, if that was happening on
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the surface level, The transparent way, what else are
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we going to actually see as a result of that and whenever I
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see stuff in news media or entertainment media, I'm really
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looking at it like Sodom and Gomorrah I'm really looking at
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it. Like are they walking with the
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Lord because if they're not, they're going to be susceptible
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to anything we're in this war, this spiritual war and there's
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propaganda coming from the enemy side to sway the truth to
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provide people with an alternative that seems more
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palatable. Truth be told, even though I'm
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kind of plugged in with what's happening, That Media or what's
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going on with different artists at a surface level, it doesn't
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take much to even identify, what's going on to give you
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context. You know, when this interview is
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going to release, there's a brand new song that just came
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out by Halsey and another singer.
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They've collaborated, I haven't even heard the song.
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I haven't listened to one word of the song, but I read the
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lyrics and I watched the music video and it's called Lilith now
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just based on the mainland. Yeah, so you might be familiar
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like the idea of Lilith and That even entails, right?
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And then it's like, okay, this song just came out what this
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song came out because it's the theme song for this video game
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called Diablo. So it's kind of like, oh, yes,
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there isn't much to sermon that you need to rolling out this new
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video game called Diablo, which has been around for a long time.
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The primary antagonist for this video game looks to be a female
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character. They're making a song called
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Lilith, you read through the lyrics, very clear, what they're
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indicating. And the music video shows her
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walking into a church and then turning into the Tagging to
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support this video game so it's like, oh well that's that's the
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message right? It's not even available you have
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slams tool, making the song. Holy little, nozick's making a
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song called Montero which is packed full of the stuff.
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So it's very easy when you study the truth to know what the truth
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is not. And I think whenever I see the
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stuff in the media, I'm like okay.
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My relationship with Christ kind of informs everything in my life
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and I want to surrender my discernment to the Holy Spirit
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and the Holy Spirit, makes it really easy.
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Nine times out. 10 and the one times out of 10 that it's not
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easy. It's probably because of my own
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into adequacy that I'm relying on you.
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Yeah. And things that are spiritual
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need spiritual discernment like we need the Holy Spirit to see
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it. I was talking with a listener
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who reached out to me and her son is going to Florida after
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the summer here, to go to college.
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And he's going to listen to the podcast and diving into what
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some people are saying conspiracies.
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But at the end of the day, most people are like, hey, can you
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come up with a new conspiracy because You've been talking
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about 45 years is true. All right.
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We see those memes floating around and she was talking about
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how her son wants to dive into a Ministry where he talks with
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people face-to-face about these, real issues, in the music, and
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in the culture. And he's 18, he's only 19 years
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old and that blew me away. I was just praising God when I
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read that message because like what you're saying is is so
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important because there is different parts of the Our
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Generations and people in our influential.
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That just may not be focused or tuned in to what you are seeing
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and exposing the darkness. And that's why it's so important
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as the body, we just were aware of who's who where we're at.
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And kind of like the word says, bearing each other's burdens is
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to fulfill the law. Not that it's a burden to hear
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this kind of stuff, but in the sense of yes, is a battle.
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And you know, on this show, we've dyed into like Sr a
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Satanic ritual abuse survivors, you know, we've dived into
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Genesis for everything is through a Biblical filter and we
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are all learning and growing if we're in Christ.
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So, I love the fact that you're bringing up these different
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aspects of the music. There was a an interview that
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Tyrese Gibson recently, did who, I mean, very big, I did hear
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something about that, well-known celebrity in Hollywood, maybe a
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cultural Christian in some ways, but even Tyrese Gibson was just
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in this movie Fast and the Furious.
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It's a violent movie, you know, action-packed.
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He's going on this radio station with big boy.
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In LA and he's on the station, he's talking about the movie and
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then he slips and he's like, you know, I want to talk about this
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movie and promote this movie but people are treating God, like
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he's a little buddy that you reach out to when you get scared
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and were glorifying the devil. Now, this is Tyrese Gibson,
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right? Which blew me away when they
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close out the actual show, he has, I'm not entirely sure of
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the relationship but an elder in her in his church or something.
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This woman he hasn't he brings her over and has her prey on on
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air and I mean that just blew me away because you have someone.
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Who I would say is contributing to the system in one way or
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another. And I'm not I'm not trying to
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say Tyrese is a bad guy or anything but he's not even he's
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participating in the machine made Christmas.
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Do I think that's important thing but he's in there and even
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he is seeing it right? And I've never thought of Tyrese
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Gibson is being a stand-up Christian guy, never crossed my
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mind. I just, you know, it's a
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celebrity, maybe he grew up in the church but he's even coming
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on this radio show to promote. One of the biggest movies of the
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year and say, man, people are making the devil popular.
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We need to focus on Jesus. Sounds like yeah, if Tony's
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Gibson has discernment but people within the church don't
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have the sermon. Something is going wrong, right?
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Like something is yes, there's a disconnect very well said and
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that is that's critical. How many people have we seen?
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Like, even with Kanye and there were some questions with like
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Eminem, just different people because my generation who grew
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up listening to like, 50 Cent and Eminem, you know, that was
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popular, you know, there was groups of friends over listening
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to like Sublime in some of the other like, you know, guitar
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rock out music. But But yeah, even some of these
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people are starting to make this public stance.
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So it really makes makes a guy like me.
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Sit, back and go. Well, if they're involved in
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these occultic background groups, which I believe
21:02
wholeheartedly, they are, or were, and if they see
21:07
something's gone wrong, if they're seeing the shift in
21:09
power or they're seeing, you know, the darkness for really
21:13
what it is. And they're willing to make a
21:14
stance and put the Target on their back, knowing they
21:17
willingly serve the enemy before.
21:19
How much Or should the church be standing up and just saying
21:23
we're not going to tolerate our children being targeted by these
21:27
these demonic entities that have infiltrated so many system.
21:30
I don't mean to ramble too much but I get excited about these
21:33
kind of conversations. You know, music is one thing
21:36
that I've like, covered quite a bit because it's something that
21:39
I'm pretty familiar with and I can, you know, pick up on themes
21:43
or topics pretty quickly, but it's not just music, right?
21:47
It's film, it's education's. It's, you know, philosophy, it's
21:52
eating, you know, in Christian theology.
21:54
You know, literally if you just look at the landscape of what's
21:58
Happening, we know that every area and like I kneel again,
22:02
people call this like, maybe conspiracy, but every area or
22:05
every facet of our world's going to be attacked in some way,
22:08
right to manipulate us to get us to follow us Doctrine or false
22:13
prophets or false Christ. We see it all the time and
22:16
that's why I think I'm more may be on guard or vigilant.
22:20
And things because at the end of the day, man, like once you kind
22:23
of get a peek behind the veil and I have like stories like
22:26
personal stories that I can't really share but stories about
22:29
like other very prominent figures in the music industry
22:32
who have been knowingly or unknowingly manipulated or been
22:39
involved in these things. And I have like these
22:40
first-person accounts, which I do trust, right?
22:43
But it just kind of again. If I'm hearing that from someone
22:47
on the music side, I can only imagine in these other.
22:50
A huge sectors of government and and corporate, you know, life,
22:53
where if you have a company wielding, a billion-dollar
22:56
multi-billion Dollar Arm in media and education and whatever
23:00
it might be. You can expect that the devil's
23:02
going to try to use it for his sake, right?
23:04
And the same way, absolutely not a doubt is trying to use us so
23:08
and that's one of the things like just I've covered some of
23:11
that with just people that I know have a heart to expose it
23:16
on this show and it's humbling man.
23:18
Because when the word says that the devil's time is short, he's
23:22
like a roaring lion seeking whom to devour that he was a liar, a
23:26
thief, a murderer, since the beginning.
23:29
His tactics are the same in our generation, we just see, he
23:32
changes the mask a little bit, right changes.
23:34
Some of the details or the Persona of whoever, and whatever
23:39
organizations, that this enemy, this eternal enemy against our
23:43
souls is working in and I love seeing a generation of people
23:47
waking up to that reality. And what you're doing is so
23:51
important through the music creating music, that that's
23:54
praising God because yeah, the eyes are a doorway, right?
23:59
So we can watch secular movies and I believe that that can come
24:04
with strongholds in bondage just by what our eyes.
24:06
See, but our ears, we gotta remember the Devil.
24:09
He's described in the word as he was leading worship at one point
24:12
in time. He was covered in all these gems
24:14
and stones and had windpipes like beautiful music equipment,
24:18
right? And so So, how many people out
24:21
there right now? Are starting to feel this gut
24:23
feelings like yeah, something's wrong.
24:25
I think it was the David Scott concert or something like that
24:28
or what was that guy's name you had covered it up Scott.
24:31
Yeah. Travis Scott people even secular
24:34
people like yeah something really creepy is going on there.
24:36
So what was that? And the church we should be on
24:39
The Cutting Edge. We should be like literally on
24:41
The Cutting Edge, having the word of God ready and we're
24:45
ready in season out of season. So I've been wanting to ask you
24:48
this for a while f. F flood light Forever.
24:51
This is the name that you're using now to represent your
24:53
music and in the ministry God's given you.
24:56
Can you tell us about how that name came about, for a long
25:00
time, I was doing music under an alias called Davis.
25:02
Absolute and I felt God calling me in many ways and not not by
25:08
any means of him, but more. So of myself that I had kind of
25:11
turned it into this thing in my life that I needed to kind of
25:14
purge and get rid of. So, I decided.
25:16
Okay, I'm going to restart with a very purpose-driven.
25:19
Open concept of mind and FL left really stands for flood light
25:23
forever and there's kind of two components to that.
25:25
So one is like, we were made in the image of God.
25:29
We are rather justified by Christ and through
25:32
sanctification will be glorified and will we will flood light
25:36
forever. We will flood the Light of
25:37
Christ for all eternity and be able to speak about his
25:40
worthiness and and praise and worship him for all eternity.
25:43
So I like the idea of that that we're designed to flood light.
25:47
The Light of Christ for eternity.
25:49
The other component was also the way I break it out.
25:52
And history is the three kind of components of History.
25:56
So before there was the flood, now we have the light and we're
26:00
looking forward to forever. So that was kind of the concept
26:03
behind that as well. And I wanted something that
26:05
could kind of open up a dialogue and, you know, dig a little bit
26:08
deeper and and make it less about me, you know as a person
26:11
or personification or an artist in more so as a message.
26:15
So whenever anyone asked so what is f?
26:16
F stand for, I can give them a good answer before when I I was
26:20
making music is David's absolute.
26:21
I really have a good answer to why I chose that name.
26:23
I was just like I'm following absolute truth and if I was
26:27
being genuine is because I just it just sounded appealing it
26:30
sounded easy to remember a sound a distinct, no one else had it
26:33
and this this I think had carries a lot more weight with
26:36
the message and the mission that we're trying to accomplish.
26:39
You're an ambassador for the Eternal King, brother.
26:41
That's awesome. I love that, but I know right
26:45
now you are releasing a steady stream of content through your
26:49
YouTube channel, Instagram, and Tick-Tock, but you release two
26:53
new EPS. Let's talk a little bit about
26:56
Shalom and--. Let's dive into just some of
27:00
what was going on in your life during, you know, producing the
27:04
but fear, God, and I got itoh, I need to know what spawned the To
27:09
use song. That's like my favorite.
27:11
So I need to know the inside scoop on that.
27:14
Yeah, well, it was funny, man, is like so, but fear God, I even
27:18
forget my released, I think early 2022, but but fear God was
27:23
really, you know, kind of a coming off this Hiatus.
27:26
And I really just wanted to create music and I just felt
27:29
like the songs that I have and the production that I had
27:31
sitting there, I was like, okay, this is, this is stuff that I
27:33
really want to hit on. What's funny, is run to you,
27:36
even though it is the last track on the actual project.
27:39
T'. It was one of the first tracks
27:41
that I've recorded for that project so I actually yes yes, I
27:44
had the project and I think a lot of the theme and a lot of
27:47
the songs was really was really kind of the start of this
27:50
process that I had put in place with myself to when I'm working
27:54
out of music, I was going in and I was going and I was like,
27:57
okay, I want to have a Bible verse, that's the Cornerstone or
28:00
the foundation of every single one of these songs.
28:03
So I want to have a scripture that I could go to and look at
28:07
and every single one of these, these songs And for run to you A
28:10
lot of that was based out of Isaiah.
28:11
So you know the idea of like if I humble myself and seek your
28:15
face but essentially saying that God hears those who humble
28:19
themselves and seek his face and those who don't, he doesn't hear
28:22
their prayers and I was like, okay lord well what does that
28:24
mean? What does that mean for me?
28:25
So I just was like, okay let me just start going through this
28:27
process of understanding. What God is really trying to
28:30
tell me through these different things?
28:32
And yes, time kind of went on. I was able to kind of just
28:36
really dig into this idea of like, okay, every A song is
28:40
going to be about him, that's a given, but every song also has a
28:43
baseline of what I want to talk about.
28:45
So run to you was that first one and that kind of led into all
28:48
the other songs that ended up coming out and I really wanted
28:50
to make something that was very, very scripture focus in
28:54
scripture Centric and not to say that music in the past wasn't.
28:57
But I wanted to get away from like testimonial type music or
29:00
Ministry where it's I'm just talking about myself and how I
29:02
came to God, which is great. And I think there's a time and a
29:04
place for that. But I holy wanted to focus on
29:07
the word and tie it into You know, my experiences and given
29:11
that kind of come out of this place where I was really craving
29:14
this Idol, I didn't want to do that.
29:16
And that's why I run to you I think ended up being the first
29:18
song that I recorded because it was all about just turning back
29:20
to God and running to him, you know playing from the devil
29:23
towards the Lord and with that in mind Shalom kind of came a
29:27
little bit later but the the principle I think for Shalom is
29:31
very similar to that of but fear God we're in Shalom.
29:34
I'm talking about different Commandments of God what he kind
29:38
of outlined in the The Old Testament and the new you know
29:41
specifically talking about the type of piece that he brings
29:44
Shalom, the title track goes over the Ten Commandments in a
29:47
way that I wanted people to remember because I have a hard
29:49
time remembering the Ten Commandment sometimes.
29:51
So I was like okay Lord song, I could just go back to that
29:54
calling and always reference like the different Commandments.
29:57
Like okay this is what this means.
29:59
This is what that means. And then also just looking at,
30:02
you know, kind of that process of justification.
30:06
You know, we're justified by Christ, sanctification were
30:08
saying Find daily through Christ by walking with him and
30:12
glorification when we receive glorified bodies because of
30:15
Christ. And I really wanted that to
30:16
reflect on some of the other songs like higher 3x and just
30:20
some of those different tracks. But that was kind of the
30:22
process. I think a lot of the music I've
30:24
been creating has reflected my journey and reflected my study
30:29
scripturally while taking into account.
30:31
Some of the things I really think we're missing out in a lot
30:33
of Christian music today. And again, no shot at any
30:36
existing Christian music, but I think Christian rap in Tickler,
30:39
it's hard to maintain total, humility and scriptural focus in
30:46
a genre. That is usually totally the
30:48
opposite and if you have earphones sonically that are are
30:52
not aligned with scripture, it makes it even more difficult,
30:54
right? Because if you're listening to
30:56
XYZ artist on a consistent basis and they're they're not
30:59
reflecting the values of God, how can you do that?
31:02
Exact same thing with the music that you're creating, you know?
31:05
So that that would be kind of a breakdown.
31:07
I hope I didn't segue too far off the Of the truck there but
31:10
but that's kind of where those two projects came from.
31:12
You know, the word says was stored up in a man's heart is
31:15
going to flow out in his speech and just to see what you were
31:18
thinking and kind of feeling and how you're reflecting on what
31:23
you're surrendering to God and how the music is being
31:25
attributed to God alone and then that separates us, like we may
31:31
be walking through the valley of the shadow of death will we're
31:35
going to smell like heaven when we are praising God and seeking
31:37
him first seeking his kingdom. Um, first, so I love hearing
31:41
that just because in your music, I can hear.
31:45
I can hear like the different passions that you're bringing in
31:48
and I can almost in my imagination.
31:50
Be like, yo, he is fighting a battle, and the Breakthrough
31:54
came and that's where the song came from.
31:55
I mean that's what my imagination does.
31:57
As I think America percent, man, a lot of ways.
32:00
Like, I'll be writing songs sometimes and you know, all
32:03
legitimate Lee be like, okay, I like out the song will be done.
32:07
I'm like okay God this is what you wanted me to.
32:09
Take away from it, you know, and and you know, there's a blessing
32:12
when creating anything for God or doing Ministry for God, when
32:16
the like there's been so many times when I've listened back to
32:19
old songs that I've done and the old song spoke to me as if it
32:23
was present time. But I know that's only through
32:24
the deleted. That's so cool.
32:27
You know, the guiding of God like God is essentially saying
32:30
I'm making this song for you right now and also down the line
32:34
when you need it, it's going to be here for you, you know?
32:36
Which is pretty cool. That's so cool.
32:38
And That's the thing. That's so important with me for
32:40
music is all the years that I was really living secular.
32:44
I grew up secular and committing these songs to memory it.
32:48
It, I believed it lends to iniquity in our lives, like
32:52
serious bondage because the proverb says, so a man thinketh,
32:56
he is. So if you you're running around
32:58
bumping, this secular music. It's not that like just
33:01
lyrically or the words alone or as harmful, I mean they are, but
33:06
people have different sensitivity levels for me, I
33:08
just grew up. Public hearing and seeing stuff
33:10
we're like I'm like, oh well nonchalant like it just is what
33:13
it is but once I realized yeah I have committed to memory.
33:18
These Satanic Verses, you know, cleansing.
33:21
My mind was important. And it there was a weird
33:23
exchange where I had to learn it was okay to listen to rap music.
33:28
Again, if it was Christian but it had to be like it had to tug
33:31
me in the spirit which I had trouble finding people for a
33:35
couple of years there that I could really just settle with
33:38
based upon. On everything, not just one
33:40
song. I don't want to judge an artist
33:42
on one song or a season of their life because none of us are
33:46
exempt. We can't say, we have no sin and
33:48
deceive ourselves but we don't teach sin, we're striving for
33:51
Holiness. So trying to find an artist who
33:54
their Broadband spectrum is literally glorifying God.
33:57
Capturing their journey and just pumping out life-giving words
34:02
that are going to be stuck in the subconscious mind of The
34:05
Listener. Yeah, amen.
34:07
Amen, it's important. As Even important.
34:10
Yeah man, definitely thing too because, you know, to your point
34:14
coming from a secular background, I'm like, okay, if I
34:17
put out a song and somebody commit to memory, what do I want
34:20
them to be saying? And I honestly, yes, exactly.
34:23
Only thing I could come too - like I want it to be scripture,
34:25
right? So if you remember a good line
34:27
or something that sticks out to you, I don't want it to be a
34:29
clever pun. A punchline, really great
34:33
metaphor. I want it to be something that
34:35
is scripturally based at you. You know, you are just
34:38
reflecting all the time and you know, the other day I was like,
34:42
riding the Peloton in the house and, you know, they have music
34:45
that that goes on and a song came on and it's not like the
34:48
worst song in the world, but it's been stuck in my head for
34:50
like a day, right? So I'm like, Lord, if if my
34:54
music or any music for that matter, has the ability to be
34:57
stuck in someone's mind and I'm repeating his lyrics over and
35:00
over and over. What kind of weight does that
35:03
carry as a messenger of the Gospel?
35:05
You might watch a movie one time.
35:07
In the movie really sticks with you or the a line of dialogue
35:10
really sticks with you but you probably won't watch many
35:12
movies, 40 50 times where you might listen to one song, 40 or
35:15
50 times, you know. Just trying to that point.
35:18
They're like who's your favorite artist right now?
35:20
Like what music do you choose to go to and listen to Just when
35:24
you're kind of in Chill Zone, like not creating content
35:27
families, all cool, and settled. And do you ever get like a kick
35:31
where you're like? I just want to listen to
35:32
something, like some background noise.
35:34
Like who would you listen to today?
35:36
Autumn answer the So, what's kind of cool is a lot of the
35:39
people, so, like a couple of songs that I've released in from
35:42
this guy, Mark then parlay and he does Lo-Fi Christian music.
35:47
So I've been really liking a lot of Lo-Fi Christian music because
35:50
there's no lyrics and I really like the interpretation that
35:53
many of them will do with what like popular worship songs or
35:56
hymns. They'll turn them into like a
35:57
loaf. I sort of be.
35:58
So I've definitely been loving that quite a bit.
36:00
No big deal. It's kind of been a go-to you
36:02
know definitely love his music. Holvey is another another
36:05
artist. So I feel those Two guys in
36:07
particular I feel their music is very very scripturally based and
36:12
like hope she has a music video for a song called Holy Spirit
36:16
and the whole video just people getting baptized, it's just a
36:18
bunch of clips of different people getting baptized and I'm
36:20
like, whoa, what a beautiful, what a beautiful concept.
36:23
So those guys I really love, Brian Trejo, and Kingdom music
36:26
Ministries, Antoine Hill. All those guys, as well.
36:29
There's a lot of really great guys in the like Christian rap,
36:32
space that I enjoy. And then from this music in
36:34
general man, just whatever is on the radio is Usually pretty cool
36:37
with me, I do like Maverick City music and stuff that they
36:42
produce for the most part. Try to keep in mind like
36:44
different things going on and, you know, some of these some of
36:47
these other artists or whatnot. But yeah, man, I mean honestly
36:51
if I'm listen to the music and glorifies God and I don't hear
36:53
anything off with it, I'm usually loving it but but you
36:57
know, nine times a little slow, I'm defaulting to Mike Rap and
36:59
R&B just because that's what I enjoy.
37:01
I went through like a bit of a period where I was listening to
37:05
like bio Craddock. So it was just like in
37:07
instrumental music because I was terrified of like anybody else's
37:10
words. I'm like I'm trying to hide the
37:12
word of God in my heart so I don't sin against him.
37:14
I'm trying to read. So like what I was listening to
37:17
a lot of just instrumentals for a while there.
37:20
Yeah but I have found a couple solid people.
37:22
You being one of those people on be my absolute mint.
37:26
Keep it up. Keep it up because I talk a lot
37:28
about the ripple effect on this. Show the interviews that take
37:33
place here. Yeah, it's a podcast interview
37:36
but but If the Apostle Paul was here, he would be on a podcast.
37:39
He would utilize everything he had accidents to, you know?
37:43
And so music is a really important part of just its
37:48
accompanying us through life. You know, we're going through
37:51
this process and sometimes the right word at the right time
37:56
makes all the difference or it can make a bad difference.
38:01
If it's the wrong words at the wrong time.
38:03
I'm sure. And I learned that the hard way
38:05
growing up, I was the youngest So I had my older siblings and
38:08
my older cousins and stuff like that and it was they were big on
38:11
DMX in the beginning and I think it stands for like Darkman
38:14
extreme. And that's not really.
38:16
Yeah, yeah. It's really tough for and I know
38:20
other Millennials out there can relate to this to have that.
38:23
As your starting point, as your young mind is developing.
38:26
You have all these things in there that don't belong to you
38:29
and it can alter the way that you kind of conduct yourself, or
38:32
view the world around you. And I so I want to just give you
38:36
a spanking Iceman where I want you to talk about what you've
38:39
been doing with YouTube and The Tick-Tock and Instagram and just
38:44
some like climax points of exposing these symbols and go.
38:50
As far as you want to talk about as much as you want in this
38:52
space of exposing the darkness in this music aspect.
38:55
I really want to drum up more interest with the listeners so
38:59
that we can get some people over there to really check you, check
39:02
out what you're doing, because my jaw hits the floor and I do
39:05
this in like other areas, like, Debunking aliens.
39:08
And, you know what I mean? Like going, like, I do this from
39:11
something, which, I mean, they're expecting one of the
39:13
last few days. I don't know if you've noticed
39:15
that a lot of a lot of conversations and whatnot around
39:18
that actually saw something today, where it was some sort of
39:22
spacecraft, or what they're saying is, yes.
39:25
And there's a knife, who knows? I think probably, you know, what
39:33
really kind of solidified a drive to push this as I remember
39:37
Was in. We were in our last place that
39:40
we move recently and I was it was like December or something.
39:43
And I was like, you know, there's this Playboy cardi merch
39:46
that just dropped and it was all like super occultic super say
39:50
satanic stuff and I was like, you know, it drop but who really
39:53
cares, you know, and I say that because it's just seems like
39:56
room was kind of like cool with it.
39:58
No one really cares about like what this means or represents so
40:01
I made a video on it, got a few hundred views but also, you
40:03
know, I enjoyed this process of being able to speak about this
40:06
and started picking It up. And as good as God is, Man, he
40:09
blessed it right away with a couple of videos.
40:12
In particular that really took off, I recorded a CD series on
40:16
the weekend, kind of exposing his catalog and the things that
40:20
he was showing and shortly after doing that, he had us his Super
40:24
Bowl concert so that Super Bowl concert got a lot of people
40:28
questioning. A lot of people you know like
40:30
what the heck is this if you ever saw it and the videos took
40:34
off in a major way, got hundreds of thousands of views which was
40:36
pretty Exciting to see. And then again with that Travis
40:39
Scott concert that happened again, jam-packed with symbolism
40:42
a cultic like stuff was able to cover that and share that.
40:45
But I think the biggest thing has been people reaching out to
40:47
me and saying like, hey, I never even thought about this stuff.
40:50
I suffer from depression and XYZ, do you think this could be
40:53
part of that reason and I'm like well, 100% is contributing to
40:57
it. You know, think you're listening
40:58
to the yes, frequencies of sound, whatever it might be.
41:02
And just having those conversations with people who
41:04
are genuinely searching for God or trying to figure out who Ooh,
41:07
God is and and maybe not able to decipher who he is through the
41:10
noise or hear his voice to the noise, and it's been a blessing
41:13
to be able to talk to people like that.
41:15
You know, I think there is some excitement around.
41:18
Oh, you know this got so many views or so much common, so much
41:20
traction. You know, they're, there is an
41:22
Allure of that. But it's one of those things
41:24
that I try to not focus too much on because it was a problem in
41:27
the past for me, and I think the biggest time I felt blessed is
41:30
when people like wow, I never looked at it like that.
41:32
This is really going to help me inform like my decision-making
41:36
and and Surprised actually had one person in particular and you
41:40
know, God is working on these people and multiple ways not
41:43
just with me but I one person in particular who was going to get
41:45
baptized as a result of us talking and that like, brought
41:48
me so much joy. I haven't talked to them in a
41:50
while, I don't know if they follow through with it, you know
41:52
we pray for those people and pray that they make the right
41:54
decision to move forward with a relationship with Christ as a
41:57
result. And again, I know God is
41:59
working. I'm one of the small cogs in the
42:01
wheel in this person's life but hopefully it's enough just to
42:04
kind of peak their interest in and get them looking More into
42:07
these different things. Those powerful.
42:09
The word says, we are not to be ignorant to the devil's devices.
42:13
We are to expose the darkness. Now, that's not like an end, all
42:17
be all like, 100% of the drive and time is to doing that.
42:20
Yeah, but because it's so absent in the body, like, in the, well,
42:25
in the church. I think the body is actually.
42:28
It's very peculiar. I'll stuffs happening.
42:30
Well, yeah, nobody's are becoming somebody's in the
42:33
somebody's are becoming nobody's in a nutshell.
42:36
Yeah, but It's interesting how like from the pulpit and I don't
42:39
judge churches. My goal is not to try to cause
42:41
division. My thing is, I'm trying to find
42:44
the people that are like me, that are rest because I know how
42:46
hard this season was wrestling through these questions, not
42:49
having anybody really to go to. But it did teach me to lean
42:53
closer, to God, but but we're a body.
42:55
So, this is supposed to fit together and function.
42:58
Well, like, I love when a kneecap Moves In Motion, like a
43:02
kneecap should an elbow can do its job without them trying to
43:06
pretend to be each. Other, you know what I mean?
43:08
It's like it's really cool to see an area, like the music
43:14
industry getting, you know, just getting the Shakedown for what
43:18
it is for Shane. And when I see God using you to
43:21
do that, I'm going, this is good because everybody listens to
43:27
music. You can't go shopping without
43:29
music playing in the background. Like it's such a common part of
43:33
life that people really do. Forget that, that is a
43:36
frequency. Now it reminds me, I just want
43:38
to drop this one real quick popped into my head, there was a
43:41
Japanese Christian Scientist from.
43:45
This is back in the day. I remember this book came out,
43:47
but he does a study on water and just by looking at water
43:51
molecules and how under the microscope water responded to
43:56
the words being said, he even did a study, where he would have
43:59
write different words on a little piece of paper and tape
44:02
it to the water bottle, and they make drastically different
44:05
images like it. Goes from hideous-looking.
44:08
If it was a dark or, you know, satanic word or like hurtful
44:12
words. And if he spoke life around that
44:15
water and made a beautiful Crystal and he documents this in
44:18
his book, I can't believe. I'm forgetting the name.
44:21
I've talked about it before on the Pod but like we're made of
44:25
70% water. Yeah.
44:28
What do you think's happening when we were walking around?
44:30
You know what to say to these these frequencies?
44:33
So it's so dope to see this generation.
44:37
And who God is calling forward to kind of really lead in these
44:40
areas that are unchartered because people just are like,
44:43
oh, come on anything. But the music, right?
44:46
Yeah, me and you know, I know what my music some assholes is,
44:50
oftentimes, I'll have people and like, you know, take this for
44:54
what it is. But oftentimes, when I call out
44:56
something I'm like, hey, this song is talking about x y z.
44:59
We probably shouldn't be listening to it as Christians
45:01
because it's gonna, you know, it's going to affect us
45:03
negatively. And usually, that's my Approach.
45:06
I'm not usually. They don't listen to any secular
45:09
music. It's all and yeah, honestly like
45:11
a part of me is like, you know just about right?
45:13
Just about it is but I don't want to be so extreme.
45:15
I want to approach it with the tempered ways that people can
45:18
digest, it fairly right and take the point for what it is.
45:21
But so often I'll get a you're overthinking it, it's just
45:25
music. And then, you know, at the exact
45:28
same time you have music. If you were to ask somebody
45:31
personally, hey, how important is music to you, how important
45:33
are the most favorite songs that you have or your favorite
45:35
artists. And they would be You mentally
45:37
important, right? So it's, it's either, I'm over
45:40
right or music has no Worth, right?
45:43
So it's either one of our, these other things.
45:45
So if we're overthinking our analysis, it's because the music
45:49
isn't worth anything. But we know that's not the case.
45:52
We know people have songs have artists that they idolize,
45:56
right? And you know, from the world
45:58
standard, that's okay. But I've I remember when I was a
46:00
kid walking to like a friend's house and they had posters of an
46:03
artist all over the room, covering every Square.
46:06
Air into the room and I'm like, you know, hindsight looking
46:09
back. I'm like, that's not idolatry.
46:11
I don't know what it is. Right.
46:12
Or if you know every single one of their songs with use your
46:14
mind with them on the street either the it's not important
46:19
and I'm overthinking it or it's immensely important and we're
46:21
under thinking it just to just to kind of dive into a couple
46:25
other topics like I really didn't want to shift fully that
46:29
direction. I hopefully you'll come back
46:30
again in the future and we could just really unleash on just
46:33
other things that are going on in the world.
46:35
But you brought up the spaceship That was getting left out five
46:38
years ago for taking some of the stances.
46:40
I was taking just because of what you just said with about
46:43
music. Now let's apply that.
46:45
Same critical thinking through what the holy spirit is
46:48
provoking us, right? Because it is not God's will for
46:51
people to be walking around. Confused, God doesn't give us a
46:54
spirit of confusion so I was on a another show, doing an
46:59
exclusive interview for the first time recently and I'm
47:02
talking to them and I'm saying, all these people are watching
47:05
Ancient Aliens right there. Watching all this secular stuff.
47:08
I grew up outside of Philadelphia, a lot of culture
47:11
diversities, you know, a lot of different topics.
47:13
A lot of Supernatural stuff happen over the course of my
47:15
life and everybody's like there's a sacred or secular
47:19
divide of some sort between the church if you're a Christian or
47:23
if you're even interested versus the world.
47:26
But I started to see in the gospel.
47:28
Christ is risen from the grave bro.
47:31
He conquers death the Lamb of God comes as the physical image
47:36
of God. Holmes, this is the gospel,
47:38
right? And he shows up, pays for sin is
47:41
risen on the third day, according to the scriptures, but
47:43
there's also he's dethroning these lower case G gods that
47:49
were allotted to the Nations. And people like some people were
47:52
like, oh no, I'm like own Ancient Aliens and said this,
47:56
I'm like, you're so close. You're so close, but wrong.
48:01
Well you'll get one, you know, you'll give them enough to make
48:06
them Curious. It's almost kind of like it's
48:10
almost like I'll show you every workout and like, you know,
48:12
you'll you, if you follow these workouts, will get the perfect
48:14
thing but your diets all wrong. So you'll never get the body.
48:16
You're looking for something to keep you coming back shows like
48:21
Ancient Aliens over like oh we're going to give you the real
48:23
truth and the Deep truth in the hidden truth but then the
48:26
episode will usually end from what I remember seeing it is
48:29
like but we don't know you know we don't know the answer and
48:31
it's like okay well there isn't it.
48:33
That's right. There is an answer that reflect
48:37
But yeah, man. I mean, it's one of those things
48:39
and, you know, even to tie into that food thing.
48:41
It's kind of like you need to eat, right?
48:43
You need to know what foods are healthy but if someone's eating,
48:46
you know, the worst kinds of food that's packed with all
48:49
these terrible things or pesticides and they're like and
48:52
they're telling you, hey, why are you saying this food is bad
48:54
and Our obligation, to show them why it is like, okay?
48:57
Do you know what a pesticide is? Let me show you, right.
48:59
You know what, it's not organic or whatever, it might be right.
49:02
When we think about our physical diet, we also have to consider a
49:06
spiritual guy. I had our spiritual diets
49:07
usually made up of by what we see and what we listen to.
49:11
And and you know, the way that we interact with the world, may
49:15
say that one more time. Just say, one more time, that
49:17
last part I'm on our physical dying, and our spiritual diet
49:20
and, you know, are going to inform our makeup.
49:23
Right? In our spiritual eyes made up of
49:24
what we see and what we hear. And the things that we consume
49:27
and you know, by beholding would become an Interior point, you
49:29
know out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
49:32
And if we're filled with, with wickedness or intolerance or
49:36
hey, Trade or whatever else the world is giving to us.
49:39
That's what's going to come out of us.
49:40
You know. It's not going to be anything of
49:41
God, that is so powerful Gordon. I want to piggyback on what you
49:45
were saying. Uh, just a minute ago, people
49:48
keep coming back to that ancient alien stuff because you really
49:51
don't get an answer because we were designed with in Turkey
49:54
eternity in mind. So, people do long for these
49:57
Supernatural things, but they're going to the wrong places and
50:00
that's why it's imperative. We the church like this.
50:03
We are the church, right? So we have to be on The Cutting
50:06
Edge. Hedge.
50:07
But at the same time, we have to be meeting people with love and
50:10
compassion, not just words, right?
50:12
Amen. But, but we use these platforms,
50:16
it's like a weapon or a tool for a job and I literally had to
50:20
kill a rattlesnake the other day.
50:21
Like we moved in December. Yeah, I know, I was living in
50:24
town. I had a front yard that was like
50:26
three feet by three feet in between two different pieces of
50:28
sidewalk. And now we're we have like, two
50:31
acres and we were up on a little Hillside, right?
50:34
And so I come home from work, my wife scared.
50:36
She sees, it's a Timber Eastern. Diamond, timber rattlesnake.
50:41
So Pennsylvania has like three poisonous.
50:43
Snakes is sitting at my front door and I'm like, I got a
50:47
six-year-old. I'm like, there's no way like
50:49
this is not how this goes down. I don't like killing stuff but
50:51
from I had to grab a shovel and I'll chop his head off.
50:54
Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. You know what I mean?
50:55
I'm not a snake Hunter. I don't like killing animals or
50:58
whoever wants to send me an email and say, oh my gosh, what
51:00
did you do? Just save it.
51:02
Okay, because this highly venomous.
51:04
He was out front of my front door, but we liken that to the
51:08
reality of sometimes even going throughout life, we're going to
51:11
find some very, very dangerous and venomous things.
51:15
And if we're not training and we're not preparing ourselves
51:18
for that. It's doesn't end well, it
51:22
doesn't end well. I think about the Greek word for
51:24
training goo Gonzo and it's these intense intermittent
51:29
training sessions, right? And that's how we got to be with
51:31
the word of God. Amen.
51:33
And bro, I can see that light in you in the beginning you talked
51:36
about your journey and how it was a process that resonates so
51:39
deep with me because I don't judge people but I have met
51:42
people who are like oh I just changed overnight and did this
51:45
in that and it's almost like you can see the pride in what
51:47
they're trying to be like, oh yeah, I'm done.
51:49
The circles around you but but God is a good father.
51:53
So, he's gonna train Us in every area of Life.
51:56
All of these different, the plethora of rabbit Trails of
51:59
what whoever you, as a listener, whatever you're dealing with,
52:02
and going through take it to the Lord in prayer.
52:05
Amen. Take it to God and trust in him.
52:07
He's the Strong Tower that we can rely on, but we got to seek
52:11
him with all of our hearts. Now flf I want to ask you, what
52:13
would be your message for the millennial generation?
52:16
Like, if this was the last time you were on air and God was I
52:20
want you to speak to the listening people here.
52:22
What would your message be? Yeah, that's a great question.
52:26
I think my message would be to follow where God is leading you
52:29
and to surrender your will to the holy spirit's.
52:32
I think I think for a very long time, what hindered my
52:37
opportunity to perform Ministry and and maybe it was a necessary
52:41
thing for me to grow but it was just largely not adhering to
52:44
what the Holy Spirit had for me and placing my pride or placing
52:47
my art in a place that couldn't be touched or could it be
52:50
affected by anyone but myself I think surrendering self is a key
52:54
part of it. It and removing any selfish
52:56
ambition, I think if we are selfless and determined and
53:00
driven, and willing to surrender everything to God, he can use
53:03
this in incredible ways and I'm always humbled like, you know,
53:07
reading through what, like, I'm going through the Bible again
53:10
and I'm reading right now, I'm in Romans and I'm reading
53:12
through how like, Paul's pretty much saying, you know, hey, I'm
53:16
a Tent Maker by trade, you know, and this is what I'm doing.
53:18
And I made I made ashamed for the, the the gospel of Christ
53:23
and you guys are glorified for the gospel of Christ.
53:25
You just kind of, you know, going through these different
53:27
areas and there's a lot that he talks about, but I think that
53:29
stuck out to me in this season of life, because there are
53:32
certain moments and times where you feel like, man, it got, is
53:35
this really where you want me to be.
53:36
It's really where I need to be and I'm just reminded of like,
53:39
okay, I'm going to surrender, my will surrender.
53:40
My pride, my selfishness, whatever, that might be to you
53:43
and still, I didn't work for me and I think everyone can benefit
53:47
from that, and I don't know what that's going to mean to
53:49
individual people. But there are there is nothing
53:52
better than giving God. Leti for everything that you're
53:56
doing. It makes life a lot easier.
53:57
I can assure you that dr. Laura Sanger.
54:01
And you were the two people that when this podcast, I almost came
54:05
to a screeching halt and I did it temporarily came to a
54:08
screeching halt. I shared that testimony who so I
54:14
you and Laura both, like, have this place in my mind where you
54:17
prayed with me and sent me some encouragement through because
54:21
people don't really see this stuff.
54:23
Like the microphones, not oh, On when life is happening right,
54:26
then your camera's not always on.
54:28
So I just got nothing but love and respect for you man and I
54:31
love what you're doing music. Watch plug-in where people can
54:35
find you so they can go experience, just the anointing
54:38
on your music. What social medias YouTube or
54:42
websites. Anything you got a got man.
54:45
Thank you. I appreciate it man.
54:46
And yeah, being able to connect with, you has been a big
54:48
blessing man and I'm glad we finally got it in and, you know,
54:51
things were able to align and we're able to have these
54:54
conversations. Man.
54:55
So God bless you. Then you've been up like
54:56
blessing even during this conversation if you search
54:59
floodlight Forever on Instagram or Tick-Tock just one word.
55:02
No spaces. No, hyphens floodlight forever.
55:05
You'll be able to find me on YouTube, Type in flood light
55:07
forever or FL left or FL forever.
55:11
The last word is spelled out, go to find on YouTube.
55:14
But honestly, anywhere there, socials, I'm happy to connect
55:17
with people. I don't get keep, I love talking
55:20
to people chatting with everybody.
55:21
I can. So feel free to reach out and I
55:23
try to answer as many questions. I can't around the content, we
55:26
release O, Lord God and his name.
55:28
And yeah, I'm looking forward to meeting more people and being
55:31
able to bless people with this podcast.
55:33
That's it, that's the show everybody.
55:36
I know this episode was edifying for me.
55:38
Personally, if you heard something on here that just, you
55:42
know, open up your mind a little bit and said, you know what, I
55:44
need to dive into this, what's going on in the music world.
55:47
I need to pray about this and come to the Lord with it.
55:50
Share this episode pass it along to a friend, a family member,
55:53
share it with your pastor. And don't forget, we're all
55:57
called to flood the light to put our light up on the hillside,
56:02
not to put it under a table, coming to you from Southeastern
56:06
Pennsylvania. Goodbye.
56:13
I don't know if this is my Cesar pray, I'll give it to you.
56:24
Blessings that you give what you pour them out.
56:28
Dip your finger in the water. Cool.
56:31
My tongue let your worship proceed from now my mouth this
56:36
hell on Earth. Let it be overcome run to you.
56:44
I'll run to you. I'll run to you run to your son,
56:52
people humble themselves and seek my face.
56:54
Face kneeling a breakdown in from the wickedest way I can
56:59
hear from heaven knows who called by my name still
57:02
forgiving. He is call me back at Kingdom,
57:05
but that's a fact that trumpet Rhythm.
57:07
We allow, we caught up with him. Let's revive.
57:09
The dead are raised, and that's a step.
57:11
That's a million. That's a billion.
57:13
Guess a tree, I can't count it as a bigger out for, you know,
57:16
that forgetting Omega and there's the Finish as guy.
57:19
Why I like a box in a dark room, gotta keep your eyes while folks
57:23
on the hit me up like a bride. Is it because they're half?
57:25
I've been against the law since Mount Sinai, written on my heart
57:28
ever since Christ. Then he rose up from the grave.
57:31
Robbers, made away saved by the blood.
57:32
And I know what the name. Jesus will give what you pour
57:36
them all. Keep your finger in the water.
57:39
Cool, my son, that your worship receive from how my mouth this.
57:44
Hello to you, I run Run to you, run to your learning, some time,
58:01
more than any son, I Stables to faint.
58:03
If you lead the way we will be to find his knees and mine have
58:06
been saving face. You have Saving Grace that I
58:08
need to find search and now you're blind.
58:09
What more can I take life? A piece of cake when you chase
58:11
the piece of pie, you get the crumbs of me and my so crazy,
58:14
I'll hate and love you. Read the fun.
58:16
That's a new Leaf. The trees.
58:16
Repeat the LIE. We need deep in the sea.
58:18
Green lies. All she piece won't believe
58:20
defeat. The pride.
58:21
Every Iowa's to the east. Receive the priests every man
58:23
will hit the knees. Its own beeping cry.
58:24
Smashing teeth atheist to the Catholic priests equalized.
58:28
I know you gave me purpose of this one thing I know I lean on
58:32
you, for courage, can't do this thing alone and I am far from
58:36
perfect faith in. You can make me home before the
58:38
judge. I know the verdict.
58:39
Jesus. Cover up my soul of my soul of
58:42
my senses that you give. Would you pour them all.
58:46
Keep your finger in the water. Cool.
58:48
My tongue let your worship proceed from now my mouth this
58:53
hell on Earth. Overcome run to you.
59:01
I'll run to you. Run to your son.
59:12
I don't need. No I just need you.
59:18
If there's my Caesar, pray, I'll give it to you.
59:18
If there's my Caesar, pray, I'll give it to you.