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To Unlearn · Outcast

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  All right, welcome back to those that have been listening.
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  Thank you so much. And for those that are new,
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  welcome. Stay tuned for more episodes
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  too. But before we get started, we
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  always pray, so I'll lead us in prayer right now.
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  Thank you Father, for just allowing us to to be here, guide
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  us and lead us into the absolute truth.
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  For You are the one true living God, and there is no one who is
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  greater than You. Thank you for everything, O
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  Lord, for another day of life, for giving me breath.
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  Praise your holy name, Amen. Amen.
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  All right, Well, last episode we talked about being tempted,
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  right? And we spoke about, like, how
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  there's a difference when you struggle and when you suffer.
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  There's a huge difference. Yeah.
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  Yeah. And especially as a follower of
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  Christ, you know, you, you start to unlearn, like a lot of
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  things. And because you are unlearning,
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  you also do suffer along the way.
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  Yeah. You know what I mean?
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  The unlearning, I would the unlearning is like there's a
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  little bit of struggle in this in the beginning, I would say
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  maybe. In the beginning, yeah, I say
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  when when you first start because.
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  You're just trying to unlearn it.
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  Yeah, you're trying to unlearn it.
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  And, and, and let's be real here, your faith is, is maybe
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  not as strong as like, compared to like, I know wisdom, wisdom
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  does not come by by age. I know that, right?
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  But like, you know, with faith, you know, you keep depending on
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  God, you keep building that firm foundation on Christ, right?
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  Then your faith, you know, will grow and it'll become strong.
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  But like, you know, in the beginning lust, I would struggle
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  with lust a little bit, you know, and then afterwards, now I
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  can say now confidently now I have a lot of faith in Christ.
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  I do not struggle, I just suffer.
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  Yeah, I think it's not when you mean like faith being strong,
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  meaning it's not that you don't believe, right, Right.
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  You know, you're, you're, you're the work of the Father based on
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  what Christ said to his side, but this is the work of the fact
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  that you have faith. Yeah, right.
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  They believe in SO. That it's a faith, it's just
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  distrusting, it's ongoing trust, the going on thing, it's just
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  conviction. You start to build loyalty.
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  Exactly. You believe it, but now you're
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  acquiring it more and more every time.
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  Yeah. Then when you unlearn these
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  things, you then start to suffer in a good way because you now
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  know the flesh wants it where you're like, no, this is this is
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  just right. This is not it.
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  Exactly. So, like for me growing up in a
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  family, just growing up, and for you too, 'cause we went to the
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  same church, others who, who, who take upon the faith in a
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  cultural way more like, Oh yeah, we're Catholic or yeah, we're
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  Orthodox. Yeah, we're even Protestant.
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  Even them too. They just take it culturally.
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  So it's not like they they just, Oh yeah, yeah, my family, yeah,
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  this is what we are. Or someone from the world when
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  they come, when they come to the faith like with so much
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  intensity and conviction, they've learned so many things
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  in the. World, Yeah.
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  That now has to be unlearned, Correct.
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  And unlearned meaning like, you're going to just forget
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  about it. No, it's you did it.
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  Now you're just going to learn a different way.
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  Exactly. And that's what repents mean,
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  like a change of mind. Exactly to unlearn that.
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  Yeah. And so my sister in Christ did
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  say that that that really intrigued me, what she said.
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  I was like, this is a key point. That was a key phase, what she
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  said. Unlearning.
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  Unlearning, yeah. And and, and and so, yeah, so a
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  lot of the people come to the faith.
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  They're not necessarily taught to unlearn.
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  It's almost like, you know, it's OK.
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  Right, absolutely. It's OK, right?
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  Like, they, they, they, you're saying like, they accept it.
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  Like they're just like, oh, OK. Coddle it.
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  Coddle it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  Because, you know, when you come to Christ, you are a new
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  creature, right? Yeah.
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  So that means you're going to unlearn a lot of things.
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  Basically everything. Pretty much, yeah.
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  Yeah, but to them, repentance, that change of mind is the the
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  change of mind is now they they believe they that's what they
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  consider the change is that you now believe, right.
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  But that's not necessarily the case.
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  Yeah, by repenting also means changing your mind away from the
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  things that you used to do before.
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  Right, right. Like in all 5 senses, right?
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  Yeah, yeah. That in the world used to mess
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  you up mentally, physically, emotionally in every way.
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  You now have to unlearn it and learn another way, correct.
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  If someone who has been addicted to, for example, sex or has been
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  fornicating and for them and that's normal, that that will
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  they start to learn that that's not normal.
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  Why is that not normal and why does God see this way?
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  Yeah, exactly. You start unlearning.
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  Exactly. Yeah, absolutely.
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  So like, that's what the episode was about last week.
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  The the sin scratching at the door.
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  Yeah. And can't having to rule over it
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  and what that means describing what that that middle part of it
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  when when you're entice by what does it feel?
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  Yeah. And then learning it would would
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  otherwise mean opening the door every time.
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  Exactly because learning is you start practicing it.
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  So either you practice the truth, or you practice on
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  righteousness. Based on what John says exactly
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  so by that like opening the door constantly, constantly,
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  constantly, you're just learning something new where the when
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  you're getting ticed that nor feels normal.
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  It's OK, it's OK, right, right. It's the norm, right.
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  And we do live in a time where everything is sexualized.
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  That's true, yeah. Commercials, ads.
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  It could be a Netflix show, movie, anything.
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  Yeah, even even if you just go to a restaurant or just go walk
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  in public, it's like people are walking like very like, how do I
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  say prerogative? I can't even say that.
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  Word. No, no, that's right.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's like, I'm like, whoa.
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  I'm like, dude, all right, chill out.
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  Yeah. And also, I wouldn't say old
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  churches, but churches, men and women.
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  I'm not going to just say women too.
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  Men and women, they. Absolutely present themselves
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  very prerogative where you know you're going to be taking
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  people's attention away, right? Does that mean that a whole
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  world they should have self-control?
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  That's not the case, right? If why would you cause your
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  brother and sisters to stumble? Exactly.
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  Exactly. Do you know what I mean?
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  Like it's logic, it's common sense.
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  We're not. We're not dumb.
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  We know what we're. Doing exactly, you know.
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  Yeah, so there's a lot of things, but it seems like it's
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  sad to say, but a lot of like Christians, like you said, we're
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  we come to Christ, you know, and he, he guides us, the Holy
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  Spirit guides us so we can unlearn, yes, all that what is
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  in the world. But it seems like that the
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  churches are starting to coddle the things of the world.
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  If if anything, they're being like, oh, you were taught that
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  in the world. OK, let's see how we can teach
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  like leave that teaching there, but make it like some just put
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  like a sticker over it so we can like make it positive.
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  Doesn't work that way. It's either you give your
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  obedience to God or to the world to sin or to, you know, to your
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  spirit you know. And another thing too, when you
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  come to Christ, you're no longer a Sinner, right?
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  So that's true, right? Yeah.
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  Yeah. But that doesn't mean sin is
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  exempt from you. Exactly.
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  You're just no longer a Sinner exactly because you and I are
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  following God, your obedience system through Christ.
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  Yeah. You can also find ask for
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  forgiveness. Amen.
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  You're no longer that what you are of sin.
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  That's Sinner. Yeah, exactly.
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  You are a child. Of exactly God, and then you
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  become a slave to righteousness. Exactly.
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  And so in order to understand those things or for wisdom to
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  guide you, you have to unlearn certain things.
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  For example, if like, like I just said, I use that example of
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  fornication or addicted to that, right?
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  Or now to drugs, to alcohol, to money, to materialism.
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  Yeah. All these things that you've
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  learned in the secular world. Right.
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  Right. That there's certain aspects of
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  it where you have to learn in order to survive and bring food
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  to the table. That's true in regards to having
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  a career or a job, right to feed your family.
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  But then there's then you, you have to at some point draw the
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  line, whether if you're a business owner or an employee
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  where you say, well, this is enough.
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  Right. Yeah, yeah.
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  But then you want more and you want more and you want more and
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  you want more, and it's never satisfied.
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  And you need to own this and you need to be a billionaire.
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  You need to do all of this. Yeah.
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  That's great and all, but then when you find yourself with God,
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  then how do you unlearn all that exactly where then all of a
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  sudden it now becomes an instinct to you?
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  Now you have to unlearn not what is an instinct to you.
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  Right, right. Yeah, basically what you're
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  saying is like that way you've learned you depend on it.
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  So you dependent on on that so much that like you start
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  neglecting God, right? That's what you're saying,
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  right? What do you mean?
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  Like like, because you've learned, like for example, you
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  know, Scripture does teach about like you either practice
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  righteousness or unrighteousness.
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  And let's say you start like learning a system and you become
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  dependent on that system. Is it like you're saying like
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  that? Well, that's another aspect.
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  I'm talking about someone who is from the world coming to God,
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  trying to unlearn. Right.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one aspect.
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  And and they're learning wisdom to guide them to unlearn it.
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  But it's so hard because they've been used to this certain way in
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  the secular world. But then we have a believer,
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  right? And then what we're talking
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  about is just these things. Someone who is an unbeliever now
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  becomes a believer and has to unlearn all these little or the
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  not little, all these bad habits of sinful acts that keeps them,
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  their allegiance to sin. But in this case, the point
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  you're saying a believer, right? Then they comment, they learn,
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  they let wisdom guide them. And to a certain point, they're
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  like, yeah, we got this, Amen, glory to God.
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  But then they keep going and going and now they're almost
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  just like depending on the church, which there's nothing
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  wrong with that. One more, one more time.
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  I wanted to clarify that there's nothing wrong with that.
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  With church. The church, yeah, there's
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  nothing wrong with that. But if you make it all of that
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  in order right to to be suffice before God, that's.
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  Yeah, that's not. No, it's true.
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  That's not it either. Yeah, yeah.
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  Dude. So then when someone then
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  realizes that, then they have to unlearn certain aspects and
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  systematical things that the church has set them up to follow
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  and be depended on. Once again, not a bad thing, but
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  when you don't depend on God, right, that's a problem.
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  Now, I'm not saying to disobey your leaders, disobey your
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  passage, no, be obedient in church, right?
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  And all of that and whatever 'cause you're in, But also
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  remember too that they're men, right?
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  Your, your, your eyes should be on God.
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  Exactly. But that's one aspect of
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  unlearning things within. What I'm saying is someone who
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  comes from the world, right, who used to, you know, used to do
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  music, go to clubs, that was normal to them.
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  You know, sexual relationships, normal, right?
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  Drugs normal. A lot of the things normal,
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  which that's one of the most common ones, but there's other
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  ones, right? Yeah, maybe I could say toxic
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  relationships, hypocrisy, gossiping, so many other things,
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  right? Theory stealing, right?
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  There's so many different things that to the world is normal.
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  Yeah, absolutely right. So then when you come to Christ
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  and you start to unlearn things that especially if there's
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  certain things that you were addicted to, you have to.
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  Unlearn that. Yeah, you have to.
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  Yeah. And what helps you unlearn that?
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  The wisdom of God. The Holy Spirit, Yeah.
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  That guides you and directs you. Absolutely.
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  To the, to the to the proper way of learning.
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  Yeah, no, it is true, you know, and also for a lot of Christians
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  to be careful with science. You know, I, I do like science.
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  I think science is very interesting.
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  It, it points to God a lot. But sometimes you want to
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  involve science too much into the the supernatural.
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  Sometimes with the supernatural things, they can't be really
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  explained through science. For example, like I know that
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  like we have so much information about our bodies now that we try
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  to involve it with our spiritual life, right?
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  Don't confuse the physical with the spiritual.
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  You know what I mean? Because let's say like you start
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  depending on the physical, then then you involve the spiritual
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  things. You are going to confuse like
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  what is spiritual with physical and what is physical with
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  spiritual things. Can you describe that a little
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  bit? Like I'll give you an, I'll give
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  you an example. For the audience.
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  Yeah, I'll give you an example. And and for me.
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  Yeah, I'll give you, I'll give you an example, all right?
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  This is just a, a simple example I can think of right now, like
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  sex. Sex, right?
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  Right, right. All right.
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  Sex, you know, is, is a gift from God.
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  You know, we were used so we can, you know, like be one with,
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  with our, you know, with the female, like, yeah, with the
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  partner, with the partner we get married to, you know, recreate,
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  you know, to make babies and to multiply, multiply.
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  And, you know, at the same time, you're also connecting with that
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  person, making love with that person at a spiritual level.
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  At a spiritual level. Now we have so much technology
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  now that we know like, for example, how like orgasms work
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  so much more advanced now. The climax, the stimuli.
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  The climax uh huh and and we know what spots to hit, you know
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  what I mean? Like a guy now knows what spots
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  to hit in a female and and then they start involving that with
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  that spiritual sex. And but what if at the end of
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  the day, like, let's say the man does orgasm, like, you know,
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  like shoots his sperm into. The yeah, yeah, the the a man is
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  able to pretty much like ejaculate.
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  Yeah. Ejaculate.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the woman, you know, she
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  didn't have the orgasm experience.
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  But nowadays, like since we have so much technology, we know
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  where to hit, right? Sometimes, you know, a a
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  Christian can involve that information into that sex and
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  make it all about that, all about the satisfaction.
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  Satisfy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  When, when, when it it should be used like for the glory of God.
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  That's you know. What I mean that is.
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  True, so so stuff. Like that, you know what you're
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  saying? I know you know what I'm saying.
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  Yeah. So, so stuff like that can, can
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  be mixed into spiritual things because sex is to me, it it is
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  something spiritual when you're married.
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  We've perverted it to a whole another level, but it seems like
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  with so much science and everything, we're so focused on
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  that when in God's eyes, it's like I'm giving you this gift to
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  glorify me, but you were going to use it, but all of a sudden
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  you're starting to use it for your own satisfaction.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you start.
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  To satisfy themselves and. Then you start depending on
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  that. Yeah, yeah, I know what you
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  mean. Yeah, so.
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  Oddly enough to know a statistic right.
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  So, so stuff like that, like it science is cool, very amazing,
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  very beautiful. But it like there's some things
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  bro, like with the spiritual things that can't be.
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  It cannot be explained with sciences because we're too
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  small. For it, Yeah, Yeah, I know what
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  you mean. That's a that's a good one.
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  That is a good one. Yeah, that's a good one.
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  And so back to what you were saying about the physical and
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  the and the spiritual, not not to mix them up.
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  Right, right. Yeah, yeah.
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  So like, so like that's, that was just like a brief example.
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  I'm, I'm pretty sure there are many more, you know, oh, let's
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  just say emotions, emotions, right, Like gospel music, you
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  know, you know, rhythm can play a huge effect in our chemical,
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  you know, the chemical, you know, in our brains, in our
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  brains, you know, the chemicals in our brains.
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  And we could start crying and all that and and then we confuse
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  it with Ohio. That was the Holy Spirit making
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  me cry. Are you sure about that?
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  Pause the music play and stay in silence.
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  Let's see if you start crying and dwelling in the presence of
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  God. Let's see.
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  Let's see if that's for real. Or was it the music that was
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  making you entitled to cry? Yeah, you're enticed to cry.
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  Enticed, enticed to cry. Yeah.
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  You know, the moments I realize I'm like, this is the Holy
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  Spirit is when it's a moment of like, that's like, there's no
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  way I would cry right now. And I'm crying right now.
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  I know this is the Holy Spirit because it's convicting me.
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  Yeah, I know. What you mean?
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  You know what I mean? And then there was one time this
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  actually happened. Oh, by the way, shout out to
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  Angelica. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  And and her husband. Yeah, they got baptized.
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  Welcome to the family. It's one, it's one of you to
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  give you guys a shout out. So, you know, I when I was
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  watching people baptized, I'm like, damn, this is beautiful,
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  man. This is awesome.
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  And then they were playing like, you know, some Christian worship
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  music in the background. And all of a sudden, yeah, I
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  started getting so emotional. Like so emotional to the point
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  where like, yo, am I gonna tear right now, bro?
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  Am I going to tear? I'm like, I'm like, Nah, Nah,
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  don't let your heart deceive you, bro.
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  I'm like, this is maybe it's just the music playing.
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  But you know, obviously baptism is a sacred thing, a very sacred
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  thing, very beautiful thing. And I'm so happy for them that
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  they got baptized, Right? Right.
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  But the music was playing in the back and I was watching that.
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  And then the music paused for a second and the emotion went
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  away. The, the emotion that I felt
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  went away. So I was like, ah, so it was the
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  music, even though I was so joyful that they got baptized.
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  But like, you know, like the, the part of getting so emotional
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  to the point of tearing. I'm like, so how's the music?
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  So people can easily confuse that with something spiritual,
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  like the physical with the spiritual.
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  But to be honest, it was just the music that was making me
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  emotional. Right, right, right.
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  You know what I mean? The Holy Spirit, like the times
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  that it's, it's like, you know, I felt.
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  It So what you're saying is when someone who's an unbeliever
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  believer or a believer who starts to read Scripture more
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  and starts to see certain things in church that well, they seem
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  not to really do too much good, but not that they're bad, right?
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  But they set you up to just keep you there, right, Right.
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  You're saying that when they learn not to mix Yeah, physical
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  with the spiritual? Yeah.
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  Yeah. Be very intentional.
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  Be very you know what's physical and know.
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  What's, you know, what's spiritual?
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  So I've actually, that's one thing I unlearned, you know, I
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  used to, I used to like kind of like get very emotional with
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  this, with gospel music. But then I unlearned.
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  I'm just like, dude, it just could be the rhythm of the
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  music. It's I don't think it's the
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  holy. I think it's just the rhythm,
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  you know, and then I've learned when it is the Holy Spirit
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  because, yeah, I feel this conviction.
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  I'm like, God, I'm so sorry. You are king.
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  I'm not nothing, I'm just an unworthy servant.
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  You know, those are the moments when I'm like, this is the Holy
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  Spirit because I feel convicted. I feel like going on, you know,
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  even more for God, right? So like, those are things also
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  like where I, I've had to unlearn and as a new believer,
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  be careful for the, for those things.
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  Be careful, you know, do not confuse the physical with the
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  spiritual things and the spiritual things with the
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  physical things. You know, that can, that can be
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  something where you start to adapt and in, in the future, if
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  you get really close to God, you're going to have to unlearn
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  that. And, and it's, it's going to be
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  a journey and God is merciful. He will teach you that he's,
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  you're his child. But it's better not to open
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  doors if there's no need to open the door.
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  You know what I mean, right. And I've heard Christian say
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  like, oh, I've had, you know, I had to open this door to
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  understand that, you know, I don't like that.
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  I don't like that sin, that sin makes me feel bad.
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  I'm like, then why'd you open the door in the 1st place now?
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  Peter does talk about. It right he says now you've
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  waged war you know like now there's going to be war there's
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  going to be conflict it would have been better for you not to
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  know than to know so now that you open that door you're going
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  to have to unlearn it now it's better just to just trust God
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  the. Consequence now has compounded.
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  Exactly. Right when you didn't have to.
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  Exactly. So it's just better not to know
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  yeah, than to know yeah. So that's a good advice to
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  unlearn, as you're unlearning to not confuse physical with the
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  spiritual. Right, that's just one example,
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  there's many. Examples, of course.
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  Of course there's many. There's one that you were
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  talking to me about a couple days ago, but I forgot.
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  But that is true based on what you said also about.
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  And that's probably going to be one of the most common things
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  for a lot of unbelievers or certain certain believers within
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  the unlearning the concept of of sex and yeah, and also to what
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  it means with the alcohol beverage and drugs, because
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  that's the most common thing that everybody's addicted to
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  because again, everybody's chasing.
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  Dope at me exactly. And those things, those things
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  because of so much of that actual inevitably take you to
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  feel that, you know, yeah, quote, UN quote depression,
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  right? Right.
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  Because you're so fixated in yourself.
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  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The same is true too with
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  fitness. You will also learn, unlearn
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  that. I had to.
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  That was one of my back in 2000 and when I was like 280 lbs and
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  my brother and another friend of mine decided to help me and I
• 22:24
  started running, running, running.
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  I lost too much weight where I kind of looked kind of sick
• 22:28
  right there. You have run, but you got to
• 22:29
  start lifting, you know, And I started lifting and that was
• 22:32
  that was it. Right, right.
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  I would lift like twice a day while working and then going to
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  school. Wow.
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  So in 2020, when I had cancer, that's when I had to unlearn.
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  It's almost like God did that for me, right?
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  Right. You are not going to learn it,
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  brother. I will do it for you.
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  Yeah, man. Your day.
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  I'm not saying to be unhealthy. Yeah, yeah, no.
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  You need to take everybody so that you can function for the
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  Kingdom of God. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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  In his business, 100%, but I would also want everybody to
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  know that if if you think that the ancient people were cut like
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  that all the time, probably not. They're definitely a lot
• 23:13
  healthier, definitely a lot slimmer, but not like they're in
• 23:17
  5% body fat. Yeah, not true.
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  So. That was a thing for me, right
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  as well. There's other things too as well
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  that you go like. For me, the music, I had to
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  unlearn a couple things that that's just not it.
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  Right, exactly. You know what I mean?
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  No. And you know, you know who's a
• 23:34
  good example of someone who had to unlearn?
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  Well, there's actually a few, but like I can think of right
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  now as Paul. I mean, Paul was like a Pharisee
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  right in the beginning. He was killing Christians.
• 23:45
  Persecuting them. Persecuting them.
• 23:46
  He, he probably like acted like the Pharisees, you know, he did.
• 23:50
  He probably stoned people and all this stuff.
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  And then once he encountered Christ, he had to unlearn so
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  many things, so many things that he did as a Jew, as a Jew.
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  And you know how hard that must have been, cuz yeah, he
• 24:06
  basically revolved around the law of the Jews and.
• 24:09
  Cuz it was. Cultural, just cultural.
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  So he had to unlearn so many things.
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  So he's a good example of what it meant to unlearn and just
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  trust God in the Holy Spirit, you know?
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  Exactly. If anything, all of that
• 24:22
  unlearning he did, he also use it to his advantage because then
• 24:25
  he was able to help people. Yeah, understand what the law
• 24:29
  meant. Exactly.
• 24:30
  The law of God and then the law of man.
• 24:32
  Exactly. And all those, the intricacies
• 24:34
  of of, of, of what's right and what's not.
• 24:36
  Yep. You know, so although yes, we
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  unlearned these things, but that what you unlearned you will use
• 24:44
  to help others understand what's going on absolutely and how they
• 24:47
  can. Go about it.
• 24:49
  Absolutely. In the end, what guide, what
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  should guide you through all of this is the wisdom.
• 24:54
  Amen. Wisdom guides you and it will
• 24:57
  direct you. And as you read Ecclesiastic or
• 25:00
  Proverbs, you would you would you start to read and you start
• 25:04
  to see that like Solomon and David treat wisdom like this, it
• 25:09
  presents like an entity like this thing.
• 25:12
  That guides them, right? That guides them.
• 25:13
  Yeah. You know, as we know, it is the
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  Holy Spirit, right? And it guides you, convicts you,
• 25:19
  gives you and it gives you wisdom.
• 25:20
  What wisdom? Wisdom And that it tells you.
• 25:21
  And it helps you think. And this is where this is where
• 25:25
  it's cool. You already think logical.
• 25:28
  You can already think common sense, right?
• 25:30
  That's great. But then he then comes this and
• 25:33
  gives you wisdom where it gives it gives your logic clarity to a
• 25:38
  much different level exactly where it doesn't just stays on
• 25:41
  the physical, but it in this case it doesn't makes physical
• 25:44
  and spiritual. It connects both and you then
• 25:46
  understand the difference. Absolutely.
• 25:49
  You understand? Absolutely, I agree.
• 25:50
  So, yeah, so once again, a shout out to Angelica and her her
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  husband. And, and this is a little bit of
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  something we wanted to talk to you about.
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  And it seems like we're going to be talking about this.
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  Who knows, until when, what it means.
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  We spoke about temptation, what it means to unlearn and this
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  thing called lust, right? Yep.
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  And what it makes us do and how it works.
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  And hopefully people can have a better understanding and share
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  with their brothers and sisters in Christ, share it with
• 26:28
  whomever. And we will close it with a
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  prayer. Thank you, father, for this
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  opportunity to speak about the process of, of, of changing our
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  minds or that mindset that's changing towards you and, and
• 26:51
  allowing ourselves really to, to humble ourselves to, to hew the
• 26:55
  Holy Spirit to attend to his conviction in our lives and,
• 26:59
  and, and apply it in our lives so that our obedience to you is,
• 27:06
  is always so tighter every time towards you.
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  And we thank you for this. And we hope that in the future
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  many can learn and hear all of these moments of wisdom that
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  you've given us. And you're so perfect.
• 27:24
  You're beyond perfection and always forgive us and then and
• 27:29
  help us forgive. Forgive those who you know who
• 27:34
  has done us wrong and help us love our enemy as well, which is
• 27:37
  all our hard things to do. But throughout it all that you
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  name be glorified because your will will be done in heaven like
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  it is on earth. And we thank you for this.
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  Amen. Till the next time guys.