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How y'all doing today?
How you doing, brother? My question is, I want to ask who baptized Jesus.
Say that again.
Who baptized Jesus?
Who?
Who baptized Jesus?
Who prophesized Jesus?
Who baptized Jesus?
Who, who baptized Jesus?
John. John the Baptist. Yeah. Yeah. Good question. You want to know why he baptized them?
It was actually foreshadowing the Levitical laws. So when you look at Leviticus as well as Exodus, a priest, a high priest named Aaron or Moses's bloodline or the Aeronic bloodline, they come and they place their hands over a lamb without blemish, confess their sins over it, which is called the transfer, the Passover of sins. Everything is foreshadowing Jesus. When you look at John 5:39, it says, "Search you the scriptures. In them you think you have eternal life, but they are they which testify of me." This is Jesus speaking. So every single thing from Abraham and Isaac, right, the son, the father that's sacrificing, the son who's carrying the wood, prophetic of Jesus. You following me? So everything when you read the Bible, if you want to learn a lot, you got to search for Jesus in every line. And that's how you have this wisdom. You follow me?
All righty. Amen. Okay.
My name is Adam Jones. I got about 19 more days before I go home.
Amen. Short of the house.
It says in the Bible that they had a person doing witchcraft in the Bible.
Do you know where that's at? And while they were doing that, to raise the dead.
Yeah. So, Jezebel, Jezebel is known for doing witchcraft. She's also very lustful. I, I'm sure you've heard of this, the Jezebel spirit. Jezebel was King Ahab's wife. And what she did was she prosecuted and persecuted Elijah. Elijah is one of the greatest prophets. He, you know, defeated all the balls, you know, all those people and the, the, you know, all those evil people. So, what he wants us to recognize is there will be witchcraft. There will be idol worship. Everything is a distraction. See, Satan doesn't need to drag you to hell. He's just got to distract you from heaven. You understand? So that's all he has to do is make you focus on chakras and different things. But Jesus Christ is literally the hand of God. And our, our heart is like a glove, right? If you try to put a foot in it, if you try to put money in it, if you try to put drugs in it, it don't fit. You need the hand of God to fit inside of your heart. And that's what's going to cast out all the, all the darkness and make you happy. So, yeah, thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Good question.
Which was the greatest prophet apostle?
Greatest prophet. Yeah. So that's two questions.
I'll be looking at Paul myself.
Amen. Paul, Paul, he wrote 14 epistles, right? It's debated, but he did write, you know, 14 epistles of the New Testament. He had Pauline disciples. So people that, you know, basically were under him, Titus and Bartholomew and all these different people. So, yeah, I love Paul 100%. I love quoting Paul. Paul's great. But the greatest prophet, they would say, is Elijah. Yeah, Elijah's really good, too. He didn't taste death.
Enough, right?
Amen. Amen.
Does hell burn forever? I mean, like, if you die, you going to burn forever?
Yeah. I mean, there's It's kind of weird, right? When you read the Bible, you got to read it contextually. So, the Bible says that it's a place that hell is a place that burns, but then there's also a place of darkness. So, how do you have something burning in darkness, right? A lot of the Bible is also talking about our hearts, right? There are people who are in darkness, who are on in hell right now. Just because you guys are locked up doesn't mean you're not free inside of your heart. And don't think that just because you guys are free outside means you're not locked up in your heart. You get what I'm saying? The gospel is beautiful in that it removes the prison. It removes you out of prison, but it also removes the prison outside of you. It casts it out. So, yes, he does obviously, you know, burn and, and you know, things like that. But the reason why God allows people to go to hell is because love is by choice, free will. I cannot force you to love somebody because that's not love, right? That would be corruption. That would be abuse. So God allows us to choose. He honors love as free choice. We have to choose. You get what I'm saying? So that's why we don't push this message on to people. We provide the all you can eat buffet. I don't know about you guys, but Asians, we love all you can eat buffet. Right? You guys have that in Mississippi, right? You guys come in. We ain't trying to force you. Hey yo, check out the chow mein in the front. We're not doing that. You come, you pay, you take whatever it is, you accept it inside of your heart in God's time.
Amen. Amen. All righty, brother. Good question.
I want to know like when, when did you get into part in your life where you had that moment to where like you just knew the Holy Spirit was trying to grab you and you know what I'm saying from everything you were doing? Like how did you know that you was literally experiencing that?
Uh, so how did I know, like, not fall back into into my sin basically after receiving salvation through the Holy Spirit? How it convicted me? So the Holy Spirit, when you look at the scripture, it calls it the spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit leads you to all truth. And if you do the math, Jesus says, "I am the way, the life, the truth." But Jesus also says he's the word. John 1:14 says, "The word was flesh, right? Became flesh, dwelt among us, and uh, you know, lived among us." So when I think about myself and I try to confirm my salvation with myself, I never do that because I'mma live like a roller coaster. When I'm doing good, I'm gonna be like, "Hallelujah. Amen. I'm doing good." But when I'm doing bad, then I start to judge myself, condemn myself, feel bad. So I always confirm my salvation and my walk, not amongst myself, that changes, but with the word of God that never changes. You get what I'm saying? So if you follow on and, and, and you're in the word, I've read the Bible a lot front to back. It's not because I'm trying to flex. It's not because I'm even trying to get closer to God. It's because I know that all my thoughts are evil if the Bible says it. And so I need to replace those thoughts with the word of God. The Holy Spirit will always lead you back to the word. A lot of people ain't in their word, they're in their feelings. So that's why they live happy, sad, happy, sad, sin, repent, sin, repent, up and down, up and down. Understand what I'm saying?
Amen. Amen.
It says in the Bible that God and people took a boat, a boat on the wall. When Peter took his eyes off God, he begin to sink. Once he kept his eyes on God, he can walk on water. He took his eyes off God, he begin to drown. What that just say?
Good question. So Peter, he was one of the greatest of the apostles, right? He was established. The Catholics and the Orthodox love him, right? Um, St. Peter, as they say, the reason why he was the greatest apostle was not just because he walked on water. When he focused his eyes on Jesus, who represents the gospel and the testimony, he was then able to walk. You get what I'm saying? But when once he took his eyes off of Jesus, he began to sink. Right? So that's what we do as human beings, too. And exactly to the to the last point, when you focus on yourself, you're going to sink, right? Because you're going to see all your blemishes. Oh, I'm a gang member. I did this. I got this much time, X, Y, and Z. But if you focus on the word of God that says you're perfect and righteous and you're a new creature, then you're now able to combat all the thoughts that come to you, right? There's times where I get, I'm going to keep it real with y'all. There's time I did a lot of drugs. There's times where I get cravings. So, the thought will pop up. Let's do a line, right? Let's do this. Let's sip Henny. Let's, right? And it starts to go like this. What I've learned was if I trust my thought, this thought, what's going to happen to me is I'm going to fall back into my flesh, right? Because one thought leads to 10 thoughts. And the way you think affects the way you feel, the way you feel behavior, right? You guys don't just wake up in sin. Are you guys following me? You have a lustful thought, which then gives you lustful feelings and lustful behavior. The reason why we keep messing up is because we don't know how to cut it at the root. We're trying to fix it from behavior. It's too late already. You guys understand what I'm saying? You, I used to be a jack boy. I used to rob people. And we would knock on houses, right? And when you go to these houses, we rob these houses that have value inside, right? Why? Because things are valuable. But there's times where they would deadbolt. They wouldn't let us in. So, we'd move on to the next house. You guys following me? It's the same thing with your thoughts. There will be evil thoughts that come to you. If you let it in, it will rob you of your happiness. Are you following me? You have to be very clear when you look through the peephole, which is your thoughts. Is this thought from God or is it from Satan? If it's from Satan, you cannot let it in no matter how much it looks good or feels good. You guys following me?
Amen. So, all righty. Nice.
Um, first, do you agree that God doesn't rely on time? If so, um, when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed and um, Lot was told that the clock was had already started ticking, what clock was he talking about?
The issue here is, uh, very good question, by the way. Um, so God is not constrained to time, space, or place. Otherwise, he wouldn't be God. He's omniscient, omnipotent. When he's talking about time, what he means is from then on, Lot had a change of heart. Do you understand? He loved Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah represents the world. So, there's a timing for us because we're inside of time. What he was explaining was a description of Lot. And many of us are in the same way. You may have kids. You may have people that you want for God to come to, but it's not timing for them yet. Jesus died 2,000 years ago. But not every one of us believed right away when we were born. We had to go through prison. We had to go through our trials and tribulations. And then that salvific salvation clock started because we have a physical age, but we have a spiritual age as well, right? A lot of people could be 40, 50 years old but just came to the Lord a month ago. So you're a one-month baby, basically. You understand what I'm saying? So God is talking about time in that aspect. He is not constrained by it. He's saying, "Okay, now you see what happened. You left the world behind. Now is my time to start leading you back into ministry." And that's what Lot eventually did. Eventually, he, you know, had the bloodlines and extended the faith and all kinds of stuff. So it's God's timing, essentially, is what it means. Amen. Good question.
Adam was the first person sin.
Yes, sir.
Well, I figured I thought that it started in heaven with Lucifer to get Jes. But Adam brought it into this world because he accepted the word of God. I'm sorry, accepted the word of Satan. Does that make sense? So, the first sin definitely came from Satan, but through free will, he accepted it. And that's why it says it like that. Through one man, sin entered the world. We know Satan is not a man. Uh, his word, his name in, uh, Hebrew is nakashim, which is the the serpent, right? So obviously it was through Satan he did sin, absolutely. But he passed, he passed it all the way down to Adam. And, and I'll expand a little bit more on that. The reason why Eve was able to eat the fruit was because Satan is working the same today as he did during that time. He made Adam and Eve, who were made in the image of God, question their identity. Let's think about that for a second, right? She didn't, she didn't sin when she plucked the fruit. It was when he said, "You will be like God's knowing good and evil." Right? Then if she knew her word and she was with Adam, she should have said, "Wait a minute. I'm righteous. I'm perfected like Jesus. I don't need you." Or I would have said, "Then why don't you eat the fruit?" You get what I'm saying? Satan, you want to be like God? Why don't you eat the fruit? Right? So what he does very well, Satan, is make you, you, you, all of you guys question your identity. Jesus died for our sins and switches. Exactly. So you sit there and you go, "Man, I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner." What we're actually doing is we're amening Satan in our thoughts. The word of God doesn't say that. To say that you're a sinner means that Jesus failed on the cross. Why did he say to Tetelestai, which is, it is finished? Why? Because all of our sins, past, present, and future finished, washed away. We are to come into agreeance with that. Do you understand what I'm saying, bro?
Amen. Good question. Good question. All righty.
When the Bible says, "Old things are passed away and behold, all things are become new."
Does that mean that
the old things I used to do,
they're like on the back burner, but all things are becoming new? Does the things that are old, they still interfere with my life now?
Yeah. As well as the second part. If you are saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongue, does that give you some type of strength to fight off the old ways?
Good question. So, for the first part of your question, when he says that your old ways are past, it's not God who brings up your past, right? Because God in Romans 8:1 says there is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. In Revelation 12:10, it says, "Satan is an accuser of the brethren." Jesus will never bring up the things he paid for. You get what I'm saying, right? It's Satan who says, "Hey, bro. Remember you did this? Remember you did that?" That's why Isaiah 43:16-19 says, "Do not think about the former things. Don't do it. It's a commandment." Because he knows that Satan is going to try to plague you with your past. But Satan had influence on that. Basically, what he does spiritually, brother, is he takes your hand and he slaps you in the face and he goes, "Why you hitting yourself?" You understand? And then he makes you take ownership. We don't take ownership that's not our own. You understand? Satan did those evil things for us. We are to push it onto him, assume our new identity. And to the second part of your question, speaking in tongues, if you read it in Koine Greek, the word for tongues in Acts chapter 2, when they came down with cloven tongues is glossa. Glossa is a literal language. They were Galileans, people from Galilee speaking in tongues. So imagine I come here and I just start speaking, let's say I go to Russia. I don't speak the language, but I start preaching the gospel in Russian. People are going to trip out. You get what I'm saying? That's exactly what happened. That's the scenery. So yes, there are unknown tongues, sure, but the tongues that he's talking about is the word of God. It's the gospel. The gospel is your armor. The gospel is your shield, and it overcomes. The more fluent and literate you become in the gospel, you start to have wisdom to overcome all things. All right. Amen, brother. All righty, guys. That concludes everything. Appreciate you guys.
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