Change Of World After Change Of Nation

Men of Israel, blow trumpets. [Music] Trumpets down.

Heavenly Father, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Yahawah, we come to you in prayer today, Father, thanking you for another Sabbath day. Thanking you for giving us another opportunity to come and fellowship on your most holy day.

Father, we come to you, Father, humbly confessing our faults before your face. We ask, Lord, that you have mercy upon us as a nation. Father, forgive us for the sins that we've done against your laws. Forgive us for the sins that we've done against your people. Forgive us for the sin we've done against our own body and spirit.

Father, we ask, Father, that you continue to build us and strengthen us in the bond of unity in the covenant. Father, help us, Father. Heal us of our infirmities. Heal us of the evil ways, Father, that have turned us astray from your covenant. Father, heal us of the sin that does weigh us down, Father. The sin that does break our spirit, Father.

We ask, Lord, that you send your Holy Spirit upon us, Lord, that we may change our character, that we may walk in the fruits of your Holy Spirit. Father, help us from our mental infirmities. Help us of our spiritual infirmities, our physical infirmities. Father, heal us, Father, of depression, anxiety, alcoholism, lasciviousness, fornication. Father, forgive us for lying, gossiping, stealing, murmuring, complaining, hatred. Father, heal us of all the evil that we've done against your laws.

Father, have mercy upon your people. Remember the covenant that you established with our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And deal with us, Father, according to your mercy and not according to your wrath, Father.

We ask that you put your Holy Spirit upon Bishop. Allow him, Father, to send words of wisdom throughout the congregation of Israel. Put a humble heart and humble ear upon us that we may receive instruction and not be offended by your word. Father, we ask Lord that you give us, Father, a fleshy heart and not a stony heart. Father, help us to have mercy and compassion for one another as we ask for mercy and compassion from you.

Lord, we ask, Father, that you heal us of all the evil that has been done to us as a people. Father, strengthen us as we prepare for persecution. Let us not turn our heart to the left or to the right. Let us, Father, not walk in the spirit of fear, but let us boldly confess your word before all the nations. Father, set us up as a righteous nation before the enemies and bring forth shame and destruction and damnation upon all the evil enemies and the heathen that have done evil to your people.

Father, in the name of your son, Father, we give you glory. We give you honor. We give you praise and we want to exalt your name before all. Lord, we thank you, Father, for all that you've done for us. And thank you for all that you will continue to do for us, Lord.

We ask, Father, that you put your hand upon the sisters, Father. Bless them. Bless the children. Bless bless all of the leadership, the brothers, the captains, the officers, the deacons, the bishops. Father, and Lord, we ask that you'll bless our food and our drink. Father, in the name of your son, Father, we thank you and we glorify you. And we ask the congregation of Israel to say, "Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah."

In the name of your son, Jesus Christ, Father, we magnify you, we glory you, and we say, amen. Amen. [Applause]

Men of Israel, sons of God. Patient saints, sons of God. Hand salute. Christ bless. Salute down face sisters. To the honorable mothers and daughters of the nation of Israel, we say shalom. Christ bless. All praises be seated. Just let it sit here for a moment. Earlier. 121212 all praises. Um, shalom to the nation of Israel. Shalom to my brothers. Shalom to my sisters. Uh, all praise to the most high. We were able to make it safely into Dallas. Uh, I'm teaching this class from Dallas, Texas, right? That's where I'm at. This is Dallas. Um, so all praise to the most high. I know that we are not supposed to, some of us are not supposed to announce where we are, but um, let the Lord continue to keep us keep us in his protection as we do the evangelical work of the Lord. Um, I'm going to take a few moments to get my stuff together because that's what I wanted to do. That's why I said I wanted to be up here a few minutes earlier. I want to have my Bibles and everything set up. So, um, before I get started, I want to take a few moments to, uh, get my things together. Could y'all say something for the moment and then I'll get right into it. All right, Dallas. How y'all feeling? Hey, all praise to the most high. We have the bishop in Dallas. Y'all showed up. Hey, and it's quite a few of us here today, too. So, uh, we got this beautiful family here. Um, listen, brothers, make sure y'all get your Bibles, take notes. If you don't know how, you might want to get it together now so you don't miss anything. All right. Um, in the meantime, there's we got the thumbnail up, the name of the class, change after I'm sorry, change of the world after change of nation. So stay tuned. Stay tuned. Yep. All praises. Um, bear with me, brothers and sisters, for just a moment. Brothers, make sure y'all got your pens and pads ready, got your Bibles ready. Y'all know how we do. Ain't the Christian church, man. We don't come in and just listen, right? That's right. We take notes. Every last one of us has learned from the notes that we've taken. So, make sure that you take good notes because this class here is about to be a uh, it's about to be a uh, a mirror. It's about to be a real mirror, as all of the word is. And uh, hey, clap it up for Bishop. He he he real humble, but clap it up for Bishop. We we appreciate having him for the days that he's been with us. We appreciate him. Sisters, make sure that y'all are paying close attention as well. Uh, the word that's coming out is not just for the men. It's for the nation of Israel. Like Bishop said, it's for the whole nation. So, we know that Christ deals with the men first, but our sisters, y'all have to understand that y'all are in this walk with us. We're not separate. This is a together thing. When the scripture says gather yourselves together, it's not telling the men to gather themselves together. It's telling the men and the women. So, what you hear come out today, make sure that you understand that this is for you to study and to be able to reflect on. You ready, Bishop? That right? All right. All right. All right. Officially, I'm on now. All praise to the Lord. Uh, yeah, as y'all know, I don't like those kinds of delays. I like to get right into it to make things happen. But we're about to make it happen now. Uh, put the thumbnail up again. Let me just illuminate that for just a second. Okay. Change of change of world after change of nation. That's why I wanted to say it that way. Now, um, this title make really makes reference to us as a nation. We need to change first before we can even think about changing the planet. We are the sons and daughters of the most high. And the Most High meant for the Israelites to run this planet. Give me second Ezra, uh, 6:54. Let me tell you what I mean by that. Yes, sir. Second Ezra chapter 6, uh, verse 54. I'm just using this to open up as to why I'm why I'm saying what I'm saying. The book of 2 Edris chapter 6 and verse 54. And after these Adam also whom thou madeest lord of all thy creatures of him come we all and the people also whom thou has chosen. And the people also whom thou God have chosen. God chose the nation of Israel. Go ahead. He didn't choose anybody else. He chose the Israelites. All this have I spoken before thee, oh Lord. All of these arguments the prophet Ezra was making to the most high because Ezra was tired of being in captivity. That's what the that's what the conversation was about. That's why further down he says, "If we be thy fervent people, why is it that we don't possess an inheritance?" So that's what the issue that's what the discussion was about. Read that again. All this have I spoken before thee. All of these arguments have I put before you, oh Lord. Oh Lord, because thou madest the world for our sake. Because you, God, you made the nation, you made the whole planet earth for our sake. Meaning to rule it in righteousness. To rule this earth in righteousness. That's why it says that in the Lord's prayer when the Lord said, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth." The will of the Lord is going to be done through his people. That's the point. He's going to exercise his will of righteous rule through his people. This thing went out again. Is it this thing still working? Okay, that's the point there. Okay, read that again. For thou madest for thou madest the world for our sake. So the Most High created the Israelites to rule this planet. So before we can get to a point of being able to rule the planet in God's righteousness, the first thing that we need to get rule over is our own spirit, is our own being, our own attitude, our own uh relationships with each other. If we can't even govern ourselves properly as as an Israelite congregation, how in the world could we ultimately talk about ruling the planet? So you we cannot have a change of the world until we change the mindset of the nation. That's what my title is about. Y'all all right? So my class today is going to be focused on how we need to be real with what we deal with. We need to be real with the things that that we know that are not right that we that that we sometimes we it's taboo to talk about certain things. We have to be real with that. We we we will lose out with basic temptations. And we talking about saying we ready for the world. We ready to subdue the nations and we ready. We ready to subdue all this evil that's out here. While at the same time we got things that's going on with us that we're not even really ready to look square in the eye and say I if I expect to do this and that I must be able to check what I know that's wrong with me or that I know that's what's wrong with us. So I want y'all to understand that. So before I go even further into that, put up the disclaimer. Put up the disclaimer. I'm jumping to that for a second and I'm going to get back to my lesson. Put the disclaimer up that Right. Come on. Bring that out. We are not a hate group. Now, I'm going to tell you the reason why I'm doing this today. Now, often times on the Bible book of our fathers, uh, program that we air on Fridays. I haven't been on it in a while, but I'm looking to get on there uh pretty soon. Um, but we make the point of reading this out loud. We actually read it every time we come on. And it's important to put that out there because there is there is a concerted effort by our enemies to sully us as if we are a hate group or if we are uh people that is not worthy of respect of nobility and sending all kind of slander. We got we got all kinds of evil things that's being said against the quote unquote black Hebrew Israelites which is not what we are. We are the Israelites. Period. Even the term Hebrew Israelite is wrong. Now, let me tell you what I mean by that. Because the word Hebrew means language. There were several families that came out of Shim that was called Hebrews. If you want to use the term Hebrew, you can say Hebrew Edomite, Hebrew Moabitete, Hebrew Ishelite. This means the line that he ca the line that those groups of people came out of. The word Hebrew actually means from the past. Okay. Meaning the language that was being spoken. Yeah. Thank you. The language that was being spoken during the time of the tower of Babel when you had Jan and I forget the other one. Pleg. Pleg. Pleg and Jan. The sons of Salah. I think it was. Salah named his son uh Ebber. I think I'm saying it right. Right. Named the son Eba because that was in reference to the language that was being spoken of during the time of Genesis the 11th chapter. Remember it said that that um that it was the whole earth was of one speech and of one language. After that came the rest of the came um where he started the dividing up the nations. The the 10th chapter gives the table of nations. I think I got my chapters lined up uh a little bit, but I know I'm on right with that historical part. Okay, you figuring that out? Okay, so Solah names his son Eba in reference to the language that they was that that the people were speaking then. Everybody else was going to go away from the language. So all of the people that came out of out of that line, Eba, they all spoke Hebrew. Okay, they all spoke Hebrew. If Ishmael was the son of of Abraham and Abraham because it tells you that Abraham was called the Hebrew then the nation of Israel as a nation wasn't even in existence at that time in terms of the nation of Israel. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob began began the nation of Israel. But Abraham was called he was his name was changed to Abraham. It said Abram that he could can we get that? Yes, sir. Read that real quick. I'm just saying these things just to deal with that term. And I know I'm kind of went off the topic a little bit, but I just want to bring these points out because it's important to know that when people try to throw these labels at us, we need to be accurate about what these things actually mean. Okay, you found it, Abra. It says, "And one had escaped." The verse goes like that. You found it. Genesis 14:13. That's it. That's it. I remember it. That's it. Read it. The book of Genesis 14 and verse 13. And there came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. And told Abram the Hebrew. Told Abram the Hebrew. So if Abraham was called cuz he's lab his name later was changed to Abraham. So he said Abram the Hebrew. Ishmael cames came out of came out of uh Abraham. So what language would would Ishmael be speaking? Hebrew. Was was the IshRaelites Israelites? No. So the term Hebrew or the Ebers were making reference to the language. So you had the you had the if for the case of you say the Hebrew Ishelites, the Hebrew Israelites, the Hebrew [ __ ] That's right. Hebrew Moabites, Hebrew Ammonites. That term Hebrew would apply to all of those families that came out of that line. So to say that we are Hebrew Israelites, you're saying you you're mentioning the name, but that's not our nationality is not Hebrew Israelites. Our nationality is Israelites because that's what Jacob's name was changed to. Israel. He didn't say that his name was changed to Hebrew Israel. His name was changed to Israel. Hebrew is simply the language. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. So, going back to the to the disclaimer, read the rest of that thing again and just get past that. Yes, sir. We are not a hate group. We are not affiliated with any other Israelite group. So, we're not going to call ourselves BHIS, black Hebrew Israelite. That's not who we are. We are the Israelites, the only Israelites on the planet. That's who we are. Read. Israel United in Christ is a nonviolent Bible-based movement. And this is exactly what we mean. We are not to inflict violence. We are not to uh to ex uh to advocate for violence. That's the reason why we put this up here. Okay. Read. We do not advocate or condone any acts of violence against any race, ethnicity, or gender. That's the truth. And we don't do that. And we don't encourage it. Our the Bible says if it be possible, be at peace with all men. That's what we teach. The Most High said that we are a noble, righteous people. That's what we teach. Read. We advise that if anyone hears or knows of any plots to cause harm to anyone or to break the laws of the land, you must contact the proper authorities to bring awareness to any possible threat. As stated in Leviticus 5:1, that's what we teach. Okay? We teach to keep the commandments of the Most High. That's what we teach. So, myself and Deacon Malachi a few weeks ago, we had this conversation and we we we thought that it was uh imperative that we illuminate that statement because again, people are trying to find reasons to turn people against what we're teaching, meaning the Bible. They're trying to sully us, try to try to make us uh to be out some kind of hate group and all that type of madness. All for the purpose of keeping our people from repenting and getting their lives changed so changed for in righteousness. So the objective of what we do as teachers is to be able to teach our brothers and sisters to walk in the commandments of the Lord and take all and remove from ourselves all of the evils that the that the that our enemies would love to say we are a part of. They like when we do things wrong. They like when we do things uh against God's laws. Okay. So, we have to be mindful of our own actions. We have to be mindful of that thing. All right. Okay. Uh, yeah. So, I'm looking at this here. America's largest. Just Just show that real quick. Look how they got it. They got the Proud Boys. They got America's largest hate groups. Proud Boys, Nation of Islam. That's number two. Proud Boys number one. I guess they figured that because they tore up the capital and all that. So they said we we got to put them up there for Jesus Christ's sakes. We just can't say it's Israelites. Well, we we just had a whole event on the January 6. We got to say something. We put them in number one. Hell. Then they then they got in the Nation of Islam. They threw them up as number two. But they said, "But what about the group that we really want to put us number one?" Well, we put them number three. Well, what about the KKK? They known for burning and murdering and dragging people in the street. We ain't did nothing like that at all. As a matter of fact, go back to the top. None of these groups from, let me see, from six on up has done anything that's close to what was what happened in Jasper, Texas. Right. James Bird clan members on video in documentation. What number are they? Drop down. Look at this. The American Christian Dixie Knights of the Kucks Clan. So, we're more violent than them because we teach the word of the Lord. These are the these are the kinds of things that we must be mindful of in terms of knowing the opposition that's out here to keep us or to try to try to get us to uh to live up to a false narrative. They actually want us to operate so that they can say yes you are a hate group. Yes, you are evil. Yes, you are this and that. The worst thing that can happen is when they see this same nation, us operate in righteousness because it goes against their narrative. That's a problem for them. But our job is to do exactly what that Bible said. Keep the commandments and be righteous examples of gods and princesses on this earth. That's what our job is. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. Okay. Um, now show the thumbnail. Did we? Yeah. I'll finish that. We're at Leviticus uh 5 and 1. Okay. I'm still warming up. I'm still warming up. Uh, show the thumbnail. Now, I want to explain the thumbnail to y'all. I had the brothers put this together. Shout out to the uh to the art department. Shout out to the uh the AI brothers and sisters. Yes, sisters are involved in this thing. Do great works in the body. and we applaud you and we thank the most high for putting the spirit on you to accentuate this gospel. Okay. So as you see you have on one side when you see on the I guess this would be on the that would be on their right right on the right this would be on their left side on their left side right on their left side you see us that's us as a congregation dealing with our people that's the um that's the people who we are to be an example to above okay we are to be an example to our brothers in righteousness an example to our sisters in righteousness as a congregation. So as we make the change as a congregation, as we make the righteous change among us, we can influence our people properly to change their ways. And once we are able to do that, then we can move to the other side of the thumbnail where it says change of world after a change of nation. So once we get our nation in proper order, then the Most High will allow us to change the world. But that's not going to happen if we are ignoring things that are that are detrimental to our growth, that are detrimental to the to the unity. The Most High said in the Bible that we must endeavor to keep the unity. That's work. It takes work to make sure that the unity among us is proper. We have to work towards that. That's not going to happen on its own. So that's what I'm explaining in the thumbnail. Okay? So that's what that is about. All right. Show them other show them other thumbnails cuz there was some some uh animation and all that. Just run them and then I'm going to get right on into the class because as this is being shown as y'all take a look at it. It's nice, right? That is all right. I that's that's all right. All praises to the Lord. That's y'all trying to put spirits on me. But that's all right. Good spirits, right? That's fire. All praise to the Lord. I wanted to illuminate that by making a point about image is everything. So, some people say that we go over the top with our thumbnails. Some people say that we go over the top with the art and and the way we do things. We don't we don't confine ourselves to the uh to the box of just being mediocre. They said, "Well, that's grass." They said, "You should stay grassroots level. Why are you trying to operate on a quote unquote professional level? Why are you trying to put make it so extravagant and such and such?" Because we are the Israelites. That's why. And everything we do, we do it to the absolute best of our ability. And that's what I want to see. I want to see the best of our people come forward, men and women. And that's what I want to talk about. I want to talk about us being the best version of of ourselves that we can be with no holes or no holes are barred. Let it all come out and be the absolute best that you can be. And don't let nothing get in your way. men and women, regardless of what you've been through, regardless of where you come from, when you come in here, you're supposed to get your minds right, get your spirits right, get your families right, get your husbands right, get your wives right, get your children right. That's what this is about. And don't let nothing get in the way. So when I make the point about image is everything, our people need to see imagery of greatness so that they can properly emulate themselves after that. So we're not going to halfass it, so to speak. We're going to give you the absolute best to cause you to aspire to be the best. That's why we do it that way. You ought to know that we are not far from you. When I say we, I'm talking about us in us in IUIC. Our job is to be that illumination to our people that are on the outside of IUIC. I I further clarified that classes like this are not necessarily 100% geared to the people in the congregation and what I mean by that is that yes there's going to be elements definitely elements is going to deal with us as a congregation but I am also pretty mo uh more importantly interested in how we are seen beyond the doors of IUIC. How do the people on the outside view us? And this is the reason why I make it such a a point of saying that you're not going to sully us with a label because the people outside need to know what we are really about as opposed to the lies that they being taught. So when the people actually sit and talk with us, they might they end up saying, "Wow, I thought you guys were a hate group. I thought you guys was this. I thought you guys did beat up on your women. I thought you guys was talking about multiple holes. I say multiple hoes for a reason. Because ain't none of these women that's calling themselves multiple wives or wives at all. That's right. Multiple [ __ ] Forgive me, sisters, because I love you and I'm trying to pierce your conscience to cause you to stop that foolish behavior. Stop that mess. You're being played. And if you see yourselves as this as the daughters of God, why would you allow yourselves to be denigrated like that, right? That should never be. If that was the past yesterday, you stop it today. You put an end to that, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. So, image is everything. Image is everything. And that's the reason why I want to make those points. Now, scripture uh wisdom of Solomon chapter 7, we're going to read 24 on down. Wisdom of Solomon 7:4. The book of Wisdom of Solomon chapter 7 and verse 24. For wisdom is more moving than any motion. She passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her per of her puress. The wi the wisdom is the Bible. Read it again. For wisdom is more moving than any motion. She passeth and goeth through all things by reason of her puress. This Bible is going to be felt all over this planet earth. Go ahead. For she is the breath of the power of God. For this Bible is the breath of the power of God. Come on. And a pure influence. And the Bible is a pure influence. Influence. That word is going to come up quite frequently in this lesson. Influence. Read that verse again. For she is the breath of the power of God. For this Bible, the wisdom in this Bible is the breath of the power of the Lord. I'm still trying to get my stuff together here. Uh, read and a pure influence. And is a pure influence. So this Bible is a pure influence against those of us who were tied up in evil uh activity, whoredom, drug dealing, wife beaters, adulterers, sinners, thiever uh thieving, robberies. It is a pure influence that can correct the conscience that can correct your wild evil behavior. the pure influence. There's no influence that's better than the Bible. It can cure every disease. It can spiritual disease. It can cure every problem that we have. The Bible is the solution to our people's problems. We have to make sure that we apply it. We have to make sure that when it's when we are studying it and we're going over it in the midst of us. If we see something that is outside of what the Bible is saying, it is it is up to us within that circle to say this cannot be. Sister, get yourselves right. The Bible says this, that and the other. Brother, get yourself right. The Bible says this, that, thou shall not this. Thou shall not that. We have to correct our brothers and sisters. But we have to make sure that we hold each other accountable. That's the one thing that's big with me. We have to hold each other accountable. It is outright evil for me to sit by and allow you to be in sin and I know you're in sin and I won't say anything. That's not holding you accountable. That's me going to get jacked up because I saw my brother in sin. I saw my sister in sin and I didn't say anything. And when they get judged for being in sin, that punishment is also going to go to me because I knew better and I didn't say anything. That's the same charge that's laid on the prophet in the book of Ezekiel. You see your you see your people in evil that you don't warn them of their evil, you yourself will also bear that punishment. So we have to be mindful to make sure that we correct in love. When I say in love according to what the Bible says, okay, in meekness meaning in truth and inherence to the Bible because our objective is to win our brother, to win our sister back into the good graces of Lord. Do not allow them to sin because that would be the hatred. Y'all know about that. Suffer not sin upon them. Be have no grudge against your brother and your sister and allow them to be in sin. No, you don't do that because that is a demonstration of hate. Then you can call us a hate group for real if that be the case, but we're not going to allow you to be in sin. We're going to tell you whether you like it or not. These things need to be told to you because that's how we can all band together in righteousness and get the kingdom. And if once we get the kingdom, then we can rule the world in righteousness. That's the objective. Read that verse again where you was at. Yes, sir. Wisdom of Where you at? Yes. Come on. Wisdom of Solomon chapter 7 and verse 25. Mhm. For she is the breath of the power of God. Go ahead. And a pure influence. And and the Bible, the wisdom in this Bible is a pure influence. Come on. Flowing from the glory of the Almighty. Flowing from the glory of the Almighty. That's how powerful this Bible is. It can literally change everything on this planet. That's the reason why they can't get rid of it. Read on. Therefore, can no defiled thing fall into her. Therefore, can therefore can nothing defile mess it up. So, we need to understand that. So, that's the reason why although we have all this evil from uh from the nations, our enemies that's trying to sully this truth, ultimately they're going to lose. And that's the faith that I have in this pure influence that we're going to win regardless of how you feel about it. Regardless of how you feel. And that's the faith you have to have in this. Read. For she is the brightness of the everlasting light. Go ahead. The unspotted mirror of the power of God. Go ahead. And the image of his goodness. And the Bible shows us the image of God's goodness. So we have to live up to that standard. Never accept mediocrity. Never accept half half this and half that. The absolute best is supposed to be applied when you put your hands on something. Men and women, put your absolute best into it. Go ahead. And being but one, she can do all things. And remaining in herself, she maketh all things new. and in all ages entering into holy souls. She maketh them friends of God and prophets. You hear what the Bible does? The Bible makes us friends of the most high. Read that statement again. She maketh them friends of God and prophets. She maketh us friends of God, men and women and prophets. That's what puts us in the proper alignment with the Lord. And once we're doing that, we're unstoppable. Go ahead. For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom. Did you hear what the Lord said? For God loveth no one else but those that deal with the wisdom of the Lord. The Bible was given to the nation of Israel. That's who God loves. Exodus 4:21. Exodus 4:21. Exodus 24. Exodus 4 21. Yes, sir. The book of God love. Go ahead. The book of Exodus 4 and verse 21. And the Lord said unto Moses, "When thou goest to return into Egypt, when we were in Egypt serving captivity under Pharaoh, and we've shown you, the bishop last week showed you the the terracottas and the war releases that was on those tombs, that was on those castles, that was on those palaces. us chained up black people, the Israelites that was forced to build treasure cities for Pharaoh. Black, that's our people. Read that again. And the Lord said unto Moses, when thou goest to return into Egypt, when thou go to So this was when the Most High was dealing with Moses. He said, listen, Moses, I want you to go back and tell the Egyptian king. I want you to give him these words. What I want to show you like what we just read earlier uh in uh wisdom of Solomon, what was that part that he said that uh let me just look at it because I got it on my board. Yes, sir. He said uh and maketh all Let me see where Yes, sir. Uh verse 25. Yeah, read that. Wisdom of Solomon chapter 7 and verse 25. For she is the breath of the power of God and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty. Come on. Therefore can no defiled thing fall into her. Read, for she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God. Verse 28. Verse 28. For God loveth none, but him that dwelleth with wisdom. So the Lord was only going to deal the Lord was dealing with Moses and he was dealing with Moses to the point where he allowed Moses to understand like he wrote like like Moses recorded the most high. I mean Ezra's recorded it about Moses. He said that he showed Moses the beginning, the end, and the midst of the times. So Moses knew about all of this cuz the Most High gave it to him for him to know these things. So when the Lord told Moses to go back and speak to Pharaoh, listen to how he's listen to how he did it. Read it. And the Lord said unto Moses, we're back in uh Exodus. Yes, sir. Come on. Exodus 4 and verse 21. And the Lord said unto Moses, "When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand." Go ahead. But I Now, you're in the fourth chapter, correct? Yes, sir. The earlier parts of the fourth chapter shows when Moses put his hand in his bosom. So, he was showing Moses that he was with him. That was the power. So he said, "When you go before Pharaoh, show him the things that I gave that I showed that I was going to be with you." Like four and six when he says, "Stick your hand in your bosom." And when he pulled it out, it became leopards of snow and all that. Because he was showing Moses that he was behind him. So I want you to go up against big bad Pharaoh and I'm going to be with you and I'm going to show you that I'm with you because I'm going to show you my power by showing these miracles before you. Y'all All right. So read that again. And the Lord said unto Moses, when thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, all those wonders mean everything else that he showed him. Go ahead. Which I have put in thine hand, which I put in thine hand. Go ahead. But I will harden his heart. Wait a minute. The Lord told Moses, he says, "Although I'm giving you all this backing and all this power, and I'm going to send you in there for the purpose of convincing him that I'm with you, I'm going to also make him resist." And I want you to know that before you go in there. Think about that. Think about that. Moses goes in to deal with Pharaoh. I'm showing you the connection that we have with God. That's the point. I'm showing you how special we are. That nothingness is to get in our way. And when you have that kind of confidence, you don't allow sin to stay among you. You don't allow evil to stay among you. You make sure that you make sure that all your brothers and sisters are in their right mind so that we can get the kingdom together because we love each other. I don't want nothing to happen to any of you. For those of us that come in this truth and pass, we want to know that they're going to get the father like we know. We've seen the good works of our brothers. We've seen the good works of our sisters. And we know that good works do follow them. So, we can rest assure that they have been received. That's what we want for all of you. And that's what you should want for me, y'all. All right. Read that statement again. But I will harden his heart. But I will harden his heart, Moses. Although I'm giving you all this power to go in there, I'm going to make him say no. And I want you to know this before you go. Before you even go in there, read on. That he shall not let the people go. That he shall not let the people go. So Moses, I'm giving you the power to shake him up, but I'm going to make him resist. What do you think the understanding is with that? It's going to tell you. Keep reading. And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son. We are the people of the Lord. Thus sayaith the Lord to Pharaoh, Israel is my son. That's what the Lord told Moses to tell him. Israel is my son. Go ahead. Even my first born. Even my firstborn. Let me dwell on that part for a second. Firstborn. So if we are the first born of God, there is no other that was born of God. Only the Israelites are born of God. And this is in the Old Testament. So when you get to the New Testament and you read words like being born again, how could the nations be born again when they were never born of the father in the first place? That's right. So the only people that can repent are the ones that were the people that was first born of God. So the whole Bible is for us. So you can understand why there is such a concerted effort to make us forget this, to make us walk away from this, to make us turn away from this because this is where our power is. So if we are his firstborn, that mean everybody else is not his children. That's why he says it in Romans the 9th chapter. That is they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise accounted for the chosen seed of God. That's in the New Testament. So, it's talking about us as the Israelites. We supposed to have that understanding and to know that we have that connection with the father. That's why I was going back and reading what we was reading in the wisdom of Solomon. For God loveth none else but him that dwelleth with wisdom. Psalms 147:19 and 20. Right. That's the scripture. Yes, sir. Yes. And then no 148. Yeah. Well, both of them. Psalms 147:19 and 20. For he showeth his word unto Jacob, and his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He has not dealt so with any nation. And as for God's judgments and his blessings, they the nations have not known them. Jesus Christ in the New Testament said, "For it is not right, it is not meat for me as the savior of the nation of Israel to take the children's bread and the blessings and the healing power and to cast it to you dogs." That was Jesus that said that. That's not hate speech. That's the Bible. That's right. Y'all All right. Yes, sir. But my point is is that that's the connection that we have with the most high. And we need to relish in that thing and make sure that all of us are walking in that spirit together. Be your brother's keeper. Be your sister's keeper. Look out for each other. Love each other. That's what we need to practice. And when we see each other going off, take the moment to find out what's going on with that brother. Take the moment to find out what's going on with that sister, y'all. All right, sir. All right. All praises. Uh, read on in that Exodus. Yes, sir. Exodus chapter 4 and verse 23. And I say unto thee, let my son go that he may serve me. Go ahead. And if thou refuse to let him go, now remember Moses saying this to Pharaoh. Go ahead. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son. So he said, "If you wi if you refuse to let them go," he already told Moses that he was going to make him refuse. So Moses is in there basically talking to a man who's got a dead son coming. That's right. Moses knew that before he even went in there. Read that again. Read that statement again. Yes, sir. and I say unto thee, let my son go that he so so the Lord told Moses to tell the Egyptian king, tell him that if you don't let my children go, I will slay your son. I will slay your firstborn. And that's exactly why the firstborn of everything in Egypt died. Read it. And I say unto thee, let my son go that he may serve me. And if thou refused to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. So Moses knew that that was going to happen before he even went in there. What kind of power is that? What kind of wisdom is that to know that before you even go in there? What kind of confidence does that give to you knowing the outcome before you even go in there? We know the future, brothers and sisters. We because it's written in the Bible. It's already laid out. All we got to do is follow the blueprint. We already know the outcome. That's the confidence that we should have. And if we know the outcome, why would I allow you to be in sin? Why would I allow mediocrity to be among you? Why would I allow you and others to to do halfway with your efforts in this gospel? Put your best into it because the best is yet to come. Yes, we got to go through some tribulation. Yes, we got to go through some trying of our faith like Deacon Malachiah brought out in his class today. Excellent class. Excellent class. Building up our faith. Deacon Josua, the class that he just did, I love that subject that he was going going over because a lot of that what he talked about was already in my plans. Some of it anyway because we going to talk about that, y'all. All right. But it's it's how we have to be unified in spirit. to make sure that we all as much as we can save all of our people. I don't want to say especially all of the brothers and sisters that I've come to know over the many years of this gospel. It bothers me to a degree that brothers that I've came up with, sisters that I've came up with and they have fallen out of this truth and they're gone. The Bible says he's not willing for any of us to perish, but that we all come to repentance. That's the love that we have to have for each other. Y'all All right, sir. Now, I did a lot of talking, but I want to get more into the lesson. I'm just loosening you up a little bit, y'all. All right, sir. Uh, so I want to make this point. I want to make this point. Uh, I wrote this. I said this lesson is primarily geared to enlighten those who are without the congregation of the body of IUIC. Like I said earlier, we in here we we we we have uh levels of understanding on what we learn in here because y'all are blessed to have the bishops, the deacons, the captains and the different teaching uh that the different teaching avenues even the uh daughters of Sarah uh Titus 2, you got all types.

of teaching avenues. I call, I collectively call all of those things a virtual IUIC university. Y'all all right? That's right. I said virtual because the building is coming. That's right. Y'all all right? The land and all that, that's coming. So I'll leave that to the side. Y'all all right. But on the virtual level, I'll say that for now, virtual because you, all the topics that you can think of, all of the different scenarios that affect, that affect all of our everything, there's a subject on it. That's a university. That's a university that gives you knowledge of everything that pertains to you. Y'all all right? Yes, sir.

So, we are blessed to have that. So, that's us in here. We know that. But our brothers and sisters, they're not, they're not tuned in to the levels of the education that we're receiving. So it is our job to be an illuminating light to them that are on the outside, on how they should walk, on how they should be, or how they should govern themselves. Like when we have certain events, outings and so forth, family fun day, things of that nature, when brothers and sisters are allowed to come among us from family, family, and they get to come and they get to see how we really operate outside of what they've been told, lies. They really get to see how we really are. And many of them say, "Gee, I didn't know y'all were like that. Y'all are so much in order. Y'all have a real love for each other and it's genuine." And the people see that and they're not intimidated by it because why would you be intimidated when I'm literally, 'cause many of them be your actual family members, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. And they were like, "But I thought this was a cult. I thought this was this. I thought this was that. And y'all ain't nothing of the kind from what people's been saying about you. Y'all are really a righteous, upstanding people." Well, that's the image we want to put out to our brothers and sisters that are on the outside of us.

So, when I make the point of saying that, when I'm teaching and I'm, when I say I, I'm really speaking about the teachers collectively. Although we are speak, we're teaching the congregation, the objective is for this word to reach the people that are on the outside of these doors, show that light unto them so that the Father can be glorified when they repent along with you. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. That's the, that's the point there.

So, I make the point in saying that, uh, those of us who are within the congregation of IUIC, for the most part, are activists of the principles learned in IUIC university. That's what I was saying earlier, the virtual, uh, though the vast array of classes and subjects taught by our bishops and deacons who enlighten us on how to change our behavior into being righteous examples of what we're really supposed to be in every part of every section of the society where we dwell. We're supposed to be beacons of light everywhere we go. Y'all all right?

But going back to my original point, how could we properly be able to do that if we don't deal with what we loosely call the elephant in the room? Y'all all right? And when I say the elephant in the room, we have to talk about, 'cause it's not pervasive among us, but there are things that we see from time to time that we know we need to correct our brothers on, that we know that we need to correct our sisters on. Y'all all right? And we have to do that. One of the things that I'm going to talk about, and I'm jumping the gun, and I shouldn't jump the gun. Maybe I shouldn't use that word, right? They say using the word guns, your hate group. Oh, Lord have mercy. I shouldn't jump the bow and arrow. No, they, that, that hurt people, too. All right, y'all. All right. All right. Um, I'm not going to jump the point, but, um, make me almost forget what I wanted to say. I'm going to read something. Give me Deuteronomy 4. Maybe this will put me back on my track. I'm saying all those things, I end up forgetting what I wanted to say. Oh, I remember what I wanted to say. One of the, one of the things that Deacon Yosua spoke about was alcoholism. And it is somewhat, I don't know if the right word is tabooed, but I'm going to talk about alcoholism. I want to talk about some other things, too. I got some videos and all that I'm going to show. We going to go through them, y'all. All right.

I talk about, I talk about alcoholism because I personally have seen how alcohol have destroyed whole families, how it destroyed communities, how it have destroyed generations of people. And we justify it. And there's a reason why we do that. Y'all understand it? And when I say that, we should not sit back and watch it happen and be like, "Oh, she'll be all right. He'll be all right." No, no, no, no. We supposed to have an understanding on how destructive this thing really is. Now, on one hand, because once you say that, go what? They said, "Now he's attacking alcohol." You'll get people that immediately would say, "Well, it ain't against the law." You'll understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And immediate defense comes up. Immediate defense. I'm not saying that I'm against it. No, I'm not really a drinker. I think many of y'all know that. If it ain't the breaking of bread and the, the, the thing, the thimble is very little because that's the commandment, okay, that we breathe every, every week when we breaking bread. But there's no law that says I have to drink. So you don't have to run that on me. But there's nothing wrong with it if it's done in moderation. And moderation is different for different people. Moderation to me is zero. I don't need it. That's just me. I'm not trying to make anybody else think that way. And I shouldn't say that because, you know, I might want, I might want a little bit, you know, head there, whatever. But I know when and where and how. I put it like that, you know. So, I, I'll leave it that way for, for, for legal sake. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. But most people that know me, they know that, "Now, he don't really mess with it." I mean, you know, so I just leave it that way. But it needs to be understood how we know the effects of this thing and we still won't really step on it and bring it out. And although we've seen the, we've seen the abuse of it to the point where it has destroyed generations of our people, families, whole families. And we going to talk about that. We're going to talk about that. But before I do that, let's read the Bible. Uh, Deuteronomy chapter 4. We're going to read one down. We going to get right into, we going, we going to start to get into it. I'm going to read some scriptures. Then I'm going to get back into the topic of what I just mentioned about alcoholism 'cause we got to talk about it. And like I said, alcoholism is not the only thing I'm going to talk about. Okay.

Go ahead. The book of Deuteronomy chapter 4 and verse one. Read. Now therefore hearken, O Israel. So what am I reading this? Why am I reading this? 'Cause I want to illuminate the fact that we are to be a wise and understanding people. We have to carry ourselves that way. We have to aspire to be what the Bible says we are. Read it. Therefore, hearken, oh Israel, go ahead. Unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you. Read. For to do them that ye may live. That ye may live. He that wandereth out of the way of the, what does it say in uh Proverbs? Out of the way of understanding shall remain under congregation of the dead. So we want to live. We want to live by God's commandments. Read on. For to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. Read. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it. Neither shall you diminish ought from it. You should not take ought means wrong. You should not take anything away from it because the Lord's words is meant for our righteousness and our blessings. Don't mess with the word of the Most High. Follow it. Come on. That ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Notice he said our God which he commanded us. Come on. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did. Now recognize what we reading. These are the same people that Moses led through the Most High led out of Egypt. Okay, read that again. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal Peor. Mhm. For all the men that followed Baal Peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. So, you remember this part of the history when you had people that was going after this same God thing here and he, and the Most High told Moses, "Find all of those men that was following that dag on thing and hang them up high and put them to death in front of everybody." So, the Lord is not playing. That's the point. And we need to remember this. Hang them high. Go ahead. But ye did cleave unto the Lord your God. But you that remained, you cleave to the Lord. That's what we ought to do as IIC. We cleave to the word of the Lord. Come on. But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive. Every one of you this day, behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments. The Lord said he has given us an education. I have taught you statutes and judgments just like you're getting today. But again, this is mainly, this is for us in here, but it's mainly also for our brothers and sisters who have not yet learned this truth of this gospel. And the way they're going to get it is by following your example. Let me explain what I mean. You can read the Bible to people all day long, regardless of how magnificent it is. But if they don't see an example of that Bible in you, they say, "Well, if it's not even making a change in you, why should I follow it?" I don't care how deep your breakdowns are. I don't care how magnificent this and that and the other. If the people that you're talking to cannot see what the Bible has done for you, why would they follow it? So, it needs to be uh illuminated through our actions. Can I get some water, a bottle or something? It needs to be illuminated through our actions, through our speech, the way we carry ourselves. People are supposed to see an example. All right. All praise. Thank you. Uh, read on. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land, whether you go to possess it. Go ahead. Keep therefore and do them. Keep these commandments and do them. Read. For this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations. That's the verse I want to get to. For this Bible and what we've learned and how we conduct ourselves. The beauty. I love looking at the pictures when you sisters are out doing your things in, you know, movies and you when you go out as a group. That is a bre you. I'm telling you, man. I like to see that thing. I'm getting tired of seeing my sisters hoochie mama butt all up in the street. I get sick of seeing that. That's right. When you sisters come out there with your righteous clothing on and you looking like royal princess. I love that thing. [Applause] That's all right. Let me sweat. It's all right. Ain't nothing wrong with some sweat. Read for, for, uh, sorry. Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation." That's what, that's what needs to be said. And that statement goes against this lie talking about we're a hate group or we about this, all this other stuff that they say about us. These are the words that's got to come from everybody. And regardless of how much they don't want to say it, they can't speak nothing evil against you if you're not in fact doing evil. That's right. It's hard to condemn somebody who's actually doing right because somebody's going to see that righteousness and they're going to speak up on your behalf. And if they don't, Christ will, y'all. All right? Yes, sir. Read. Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. That's the reputation that I want for this nation here, IUIC. And when the people on the outside see that among us, that action will provoke to emulation, to will provoke them to emulate what they see here. I'm talking about the rights now. I'm talking about that, the, the other definition of emulation. I'm talking about emulate, follow our example as we follow Christ. That's the point. Read on. For what nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them? That's the, this is the, this is the language that I want spoken about us. For what, when people see us, they're supposed to see royalty. And that's the reason why I said what I said earlier, when I see you sisters on the different groups and doing your thing, I'm like, "Wow, this is a, this is a beautiful, uh, breeze of fresh, beautiful air." That thing. I don't care what you were before this. The pure influence would turn you from whatever you was to this. And that's beautiful. That's the power of the Lord. That's right. Read on. For what nation is there so great? Who hath God so nigh unto them? As the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for. Read what verse when? Verse eight. Read. And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself. Do you see what the Lord says? With all this greatness that he gave us, he only gave us one requirement. Do what? Take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget things which thine eyes have seen. So, for us to keep our souls in diligence means that we have to watch each other, endeavor to keep that unity. When I see my brothers going off, it is my job to say something. It is my job to correct you the same way I would hope that you would have that same love for me to correct me if I'm in the wrong. Same thing for my sisters. We supposed to have that in us. Take heed to that thing. That's what the Lord is asking for us to do. Read on. Unless they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life. Come on. But teach them to thy sons and thy sons' sons, especially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb. When the Lord said unto me, gather me together, gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my word, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth. So you see the Lord even back then, he said, "Gather unto me." That's the same thing he says in, in Zephaniah. That's the reason why we read that often. Gather yourselves together, oh nation not desired. Because at that point, we were, we were being persecuted and hated because we were God's people. Back here, the Lord was just showing us favor. He had already destroyed our enemies. He said, "Now I'm getting ready to make a nation out of you during the time of the wilderness." That's the type we're reading here. But now when you go to Zephaniah, we have been through some captivities and we have experienced a hatred from our, from the nations. And the Lord even again said, even at that time, like I told you before, gather yourselves unto me. And that's what we're doing. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. Read on. And that they may teach their children. And ye came near and stood. Ye came near and stood under the mountain. What verse you in? You in 10 now, right? Uh, I just finished 10. Read, uh, read that last line in 10 again. Yes, sir. That they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children. So, we ought to teach our children this same righteousness that the Lord has blessed us with. Passing that thing down, y'all. All right.

So here we are again where the Lord is commanding us to gather ourselves together after we have been through our university of education through the punishments and judgments, 'cause at this point, at this time, we've learned through not only the Lord just giving us the commandments, now he gave it to us with judgments because we broke those commandments. So, we've learned on both fronts. We learned from the Lord just simply giving it to us in the Bible for us to read it. And we also learned by getting torn up by punishment for when we did not want to obey it. So, we've learned this, this education is something else. Definitely practical, y'all. All right. Uh, so, we ourselves in IUIC have learned this. Now we ourselves must teach the rest of our people that are currently without the congregation, and thus teach the entire planet the way of the Lord, so that the earth itself can enjoy her Sabbaths and obtain rest. So the earth is waiting for us to get ourselves together so that the earth itself can rest. So we have a lot of work to do and it begins with us here first. We must deal with the things that are an impediment to our righteous, uh, ascension into the kingdom. We got to look at the things that are holding us back as a nation. We got to look at those problems. We got to look at those habits. We got to look at certain things that we see that we might not want to say anything about. We have to correct that, too. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. All right. I'm getting down, getting down to my, getting down to it. Getting down to it. Our history of past atrocities are mental and spiritual goss o a ds like guides, shepherds that are useful for proper direction of our future. In other words, a good behind weapon will set you on the right path. That's right. So the judgments and the things that we went through put some heat on our behind which sent the message to the mind to do better. Y'all all right? So we learned this. So we've seen the degradation. We've seen the destruction of our nation. How do we feel about it? That's the question. Are we comfortable laying in squalor? Are we comfortable in having our nation destroyed, fathers destroyed, mothers destroyed, brothers, sisters all messed up? Are we okay with that? I often question that because I look at it and say, "Well, we are men." Talking to the men now. If we as men who've been given a charge to clean up the planet, when God said, "Let us make man," he didn't make man and something else. He made man. That's right. And he gave man the ability and the, and the, and the foresight and knowledge to put the whole earth in righteous subjection. That's what men do. How could we call ourselves men in our communities, in our nation, and will allow squalor? Then you ain't no damn man. How could you be comfortable and allowing things to learn to the way to lay on the wayside and you as a man standing there witnessing the destruction talking, can the other nations come in and clean up? And I'm sitting up here with my man self allowing my nation to go to hell and I'm going to call some other man to come in and handle my business. That's not a man. The Lord said, "Let us make man." So, as a man, what are you going to do? And you wonder why sisters have a hard time respecting brothers and they got their eyes on other men that's doing your job and you're comfortable with that. Talking about some video games and alcohol and pornography and all that BS. Where's your discipline at, y'all? All right. Yes, sir.

So we see the decay, we see the rot. Where does the question come? And who is going to be a, who is going to stand up among us and say, "That's enough. We are men. Damn it." And if we are men, it is incumbent, as incumbent upon us as men to fix what men supposed to fix. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. That's what we supposed to do. And if you find yourself unable or unwilling to do that, you need to get a spiritual checkup because the mere fact that God put you on this earth as a man, meaning that there is, there is an inherent duty that is lined within you that you're supposed to exercise. And if you can't do that, you live in pain because you know that you're supposed to stand up as a man, but you're comfortable living in squalor, in spiritual squalor, and not doing the things that you know you as a man supposed to do. And because of that absence, and because of that non-realization of you coming into your manhood, you got to quell that voice that's cursing you out within yourself. Your, your own spirit will beat you down and say, "How in the hell could you as a man allow your nation to suffer the way it's suffering and you as a man too damn weak to do something about it?" That voice would tear you up and you trying to drown that voice out and then you go to alcohol, then you go to drugs, then you go to promiscuity. Start doing all things to silence that voice of conscience. That's be the spirit of the Lord trying to agitate you to do what God made, built for you to do. That's the point, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. I ain't even hit the alcohol stuff yet, but it's coming. But my point is, when you watch and you see your nation in decay, how do you feel? Give me the book of Haggai. Give me the book of Haggai. Yes, sir. We're going to impact. We're going to unpack elements of this lesson. Okay, I want to unpack the elements of this lesson and also understand the purpose of this lesson, to agitate you, to pierce your conscience, to make you want to stand up, to agitate you to do righteousness. We're wise to do evil, but we have to be wise to do righteousness. Haggai chapter 2 verse one.

The book of Haggai chapter 2 and verse one. In the seventh month, and the 1 and 12th day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, "Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?" So, that's what I want to get to. This was during the time when we was to go and rebuild. This is coming out from the time period in, and, uh, Ezra, Nehemiah, all that area during that time when we came out of the Babylonian captivity when the Persians came and then overthrew them. So now we have a little bit of liberty to rebuild the temple. That's what this was really about. That's the, that's what this is, this, uh, chapter is going into. Read that third verse again. So the prophets, the word had to come down on the brothers to say, "Listen, we need to get this house. We need to get this, uh, sanctuary built." Read it. Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? And how do you see it now? How do you see it now? So, I'm bringing things up to date. We looking at our nation. And I know you are a great people. I know that you are untouchable. You are un, you are, you are the absolute best thing to ever put your foot on this planet, bar none. And then for me to see the foolishness and the evil among us bothers me personally. It bothers me. You're the house that got to be first built. Your temple got to be first built. You brothers, you got to be first built. You don't allow some woman to just mess over you. You sisters, you don't allow some brother to just mess over you. That temple that God put your body, you supposed to make sure that that is taken care of properly. You don't let people mess that up. That's right. Take care of that house first. Get your head right first and it'll tell you how to take care of the body. And once people see that you got your mind right and you're living right, that will inspire our brothers and sisters who've been told that they have no hope, no vision, no nothing. And then they say, "But you live right around the corner from me. What makes you so great?" Now you have to give them the hope like the scriptures talk about the reason of the hope that straighten you up. You get to illuminate to them about what this word did for you. And you can say, "My sister, you're not much different from me. We all came out of the same community or whatever. I changed for the better." And so can you. Same thing with you brothers, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. Where we at? Read. Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? Read. And how do you see it now? And how do you see it now? Go ahead. Is it not in your own eyes in comparison of it as nothing? As it is, as it look at it the way it is now. It looks like it's nothing, but you remember the greatness of it. When we read the history about our people, we were a great, wonderful people. How dare we come to the point of being a degenerate plant of a strange vine that God can't even recognize anymore. And we're comfortable with that. I can't put the alcohol down. I can't stop pornography. All these things is destroying you. I can't put the dope down, the marijuana down. I can't stop the fornicating. I can't stop this. You got a mind. Damn it. Your mind is supposed to have power over your body. That's the reason why God put it on top of your head. Your mind ain't up your behind. Your mind is up here to govern the body. A master maker made you. Look at the way he fashioned your bodies. Look how he fashioned your eyes and your all of that. It's done for the proper, uh, guidance of how you guide that body that God gave you. And you're going to mess it up with alcohol. You're going to mess it up with dope. You're going to mess it up with promiscuity and drugs and all this kind of craziness. You're out of your mind 'cause you have not connected with your maker. I even talk about the way a woman's body is made. Excuse me if I sound like I'm getting into vulgar territory, but understand what I'm saying to give you an example on how God made the woman. I just use that as an example. Notice where he puts the woman's vagina. Y'all all right? Mhm. He puts it in an area where you just can't say some slick words to get to it. You understand? It ain't on her shoulders. That's right. It's not on her back. That's right. Like a bird, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. God put it there for a reason. Because a brother is going to have to be able to be in his right mind. She gets to measure his intelligence. She gets to measure how well he can deal and the rest of it. Then she'll say, "Okay, after all of the other boxes have been checked, fathers, family, all that, the courtship, all that." Then she says, "Okay, you can have access to this." And even then, she'll have to contort for you to even get there, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. I'm showing you that there's a, there's a reason why God made bodies the way he made them. He put your head, your brain on the top for you to see danger before you get there. He give you ears that can detect whether I should go over there because I hear some shooting over there. I need to go this way. Just understand how the ears work. The stereo effect of ears. If the soundwave hit the left ear before it hits the right ear, the soundwave of a sound of a bullet tells you that the bullet is over there. I need to use the intelligence to walk this way. You can smell if a house is burning even though you can't see it. You got touch when you could touch the door to see if there's heat in there. Intelligence, all of that is within God's plans when he made you. He gave us that wisdom. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. This is the kind of God that we are familiar with and we have to carry ourselves with that understanding and show everybody else the specialness that they don't even know about. Women treating themselves like garbage because they don't understand their value. Right? Men treating themselves like garbage because they don't understand how special they are. You are the image of God. [Music] Talking about something I can't put down the damn alcohol. Shut up. That's craziness, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. All right. All right. Calm down a little bit. Where we at? Read verse the book of Haggai, chapter 2 and verse 4. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord. And be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Read. And be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord. and work for I am with you saith the Lord. The Lord said he is with us when we start with the rebuilding of our bodies. Eventually we'll get to the temples and so forth and building up the kingdom. But we going to have servants going to build these things. But you can't get to that level until you get to mine right first. Read according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt. So my spirit remaineth among you. So the spirit of the Lord, the Lord is with us to this day. Read, fear ye not, for thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once is it a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth. Did you hear what the Bible said? What verse is that? Verse six. Read it again. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while. Go ahead. And I will shake the heavens and the earth. He gonna shake the kingdoms. Go ahead. And the earth and the sea and the dry land. Read. And I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come. Come on. And I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. So he's going to fill, not only because this is going back to the time when the temple was being rebuilt, but he's also going to ref, he's going to fill our temples with God's glory. When, when the light of the Lord shines through you and the people see it. Go ahead. The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts. Go ahead. The glory of this l, this latter house shall be greater than of the former. Did you hear that? That's what the Most High going to do for us. He going to make us better than anything after this year. He going to turn us into fine gold and you sisters going to be palaces. Y'all going to be so doggone deck, man. Shoot. Y'all already looking, like I said earlier, y'all be doing your thing and get the videos and the cameras and the, you know, the different shoot. I can't imagine us in our full strength. I don't even think the eyes can hold all that glory. But that's all right. I'm going to have some better eyes in that day. I'm be, I'm be able to uphold it all, y'all. All right. Read on. The glory. Yes. Verse nine, right? Yes, sir. Read. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former. Come on. Saith the Lord of hosts. And in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts, in the four and 20th day of the ninth month. So that was verse 9, right? Yes, sir. Give me First Maccabees 3:42. I'm going to start moving now. I'm about to get into my stuff. So, I'm taking my time, right? Y'all all right? Yes, sir. Come on. First Maccabees 3:42.

The book of First Maccabees, chapter 3 and verse 42. Now when Judas and his brethren saw the the miseries were multiplied. There it goes again. We see the miseries of our people. We see the miseries of our brothers and our sisters. We as men, we see this. Well, what happened with these men when they saw it? And we're supposed to emulate this. Go ahead. Now when we emulate it, we have to get the spiritual understanding of it first. And then the Most High going to give us the power to physically put it into subjection. Y'all all right? But the Lord is not putting a sword in a fool's hands. You got to get your mind right first. That's the reason why the ghetto got guns all over the place because ain't nothing but fools handling them. I saw a video bishop sent a video of the, of, of a white woman. She would say, "Oh, you black men talk about you want a race war." She was a guy with a plaid flannel shirt on, you know, looking real, the way they look, country looking. And she said, "Uh, y'all really want to start a race war with us?" She said, "You boys can't even shoot. You're holding a gun sideways 'cause you saw something in some stupid rap video." She said, "Let me tell y'all something." This is what the white woman said. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. She said, "These white boys, they, they hunt every day. They shoot ducks for fun. So, you ain't going, they ain't going to miss." That's the point, right? They, they, they, they train all the time. They blessed with that thing, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. And here we talking about something what we want to do. No, man. No. No. That ain't that. Our power comes from us getting ourselves right with the Most High. That's right. That's the point, y'all. All right. That's what we really have to do. But we don't believe that. We believe in carnal measures rather than the spiritual measures that the Lord is talking about. The Most High. So you can understand the Most High put a stick in Moses' hand and he took the whole Egyptian Empire down with a stick, right? Y'all all right? Yes, sir. I know it was called a staff in the Bible, but I'm showing you the significance of what he can do. A stick. I call it a stick to what the Most High can do with us. We just need to be connected to him. That's right. Y'all all right? Where am I at? Verse 42. Read. Now, when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders, the nations, because they knew we was, they knew that we had broken the Most High's commandments early on. So the, the Greeks and all of the nations always felt that they could come against us because they knew that the majority of us was breaking the commandments of the Lord. Okay? Then you had the Maccabees, the brothers, they said, "We got to turn this thing around." So as real men, they looked at this and they said, "Listen, we got to change this." And that's the spirit that we have to have. Get our spirit right first and the Most High will back us up. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. Read. For they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people and utterly abolish them. That's what the king, that's what the Greeks did. They said, "Get rid of all of them." Listen now. They had torn our temple down again. Go ahead. They said one to another, "Let us restore the decayed estate of our people and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary." So, let us fight for our people and the sanctuary. Again, this is what men do. It for a man to see his people, women and his children and his nation. These are the, these are the members of your community that are an offspring of us men. How would you feel knowing that your children are destroyed, that your wives are destroyed, that your families are destroyed? What kind of honor does that leave for you? That should bother a man, a real man. So when these brothers saw that, they said, "This cannot be." And in our case, we need to get our minds right first. And I'm about to show that to you. I'm about to show that to you. What? Where you at? So that was 43, right? Yes, sir. So I'm going to leave that. I'm about to get into what I want to talk about. I said, "Let us open our eyes to the decadent rot of our spirit in these times today and examine how we got here and think on the solutions to these problems that we see today." Y'all all right? The restoration of our nation starts with the restoration of our own selves. When I said a restoration of our own selves meaning that our thinking has to change. As a man thinketh in his mind, his actions will follow. So if we think like men, if we coh collaborate as men, only men things could come from that. If we collaborate in righteousness with the Most High as our center, only good things is going to evolve from that. Many people are in awe about the order that they see in IUIC. And this is just very, this is a pebble in the beach in terms of the greatness that he has lined up for us. But because we've made this little bit of progress, the people are like, "This just can't be." They're blown away. And this is nothing, y'all. All right, sir. This is nothing compared to what the Lord is going to do for us. But we have to stay on that course and get better as we go. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. 2 Corinthians chapter 13:5.

The book of 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5. Right? Examine yourselves. This is what I was saying earlier. We sit among each other. We sit in the company of each other wherever we go, social outings, wherever, what, whatever we do. And if we see certain things are not right in our own brothers, in our own sisters, but even beyond that, within your own self, the first examination has to happen within your, in your own self. If I know I got a drinking problem, I don't have to wait for you to tell me that. Yes, sir. If I know that I got a problem with pornography, I don't have to wait for somebody because I can see how it's affecting my marriage. I can see how it's affecting my relationship with this and that. I supposed to have enough sense to know if I'm operating in the right way of what the Bible says. Why? Because I'll look at my own actions and read the Bible and see, am I fitting what's written? Y'all understand that? Yes, sir. Examining yourself requires that. Read that again. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Whether you be in the faith of this Bible, of these commandments. Go ahead. Prove your own selves. Prove your own selves. Listen to that. Prove your own selves. Well, before we got married, those of us that was in this truth, we had to prove each other spousewise. You'll understand. When you proving a spouse, you're proven to see, are they about keeping God's commandments. That's when you're trying to prove a spouse. But before you even get to that, you got to prove your own self to see if I'm even ready for a spouse. So, you line your own actions up against what the Bible says. Once you do that, then you say, "Okay, I got all my balance, my checks and balances in order. Now, I'm ready to look for a husband. Now, I'm ready to look for a wife." Those kinds of things, y'all. All right. But that's the checks and balances that we have to do for ourselves. If I got an alcohol problem, I know damn well I ain't ready to prove nothing. If I got a drug problem, I ain't ready to prove nothing. If I got a porn problem, I ain't ready to prove nothing. Read. Prove your own selves. Prove your own selves. Come on. Know ye not your own self? Don't you know your own self? Everybody knows their own self. How in the world you going to say you don't know your own self when other people pointing it out to you? You mean to tell me somebody else knows me better than I know my own self? Lies. You know what it is. That's right. You know what it is, but you're too damn weak. You're too chicken-hearted to actually check that. Then when other people bring it to you, you get mad at them. Check that thing. Read that again. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Check. Examine yourself to see whether you be in the faith. Come on. Prove your own selves. You got to prove your own self first against the commandments of God before you can prove anybody else. Go ahead. Know ye not your own self? Don't you know your own self? Why you think it said that in the book? Hold it. Hold that. Give me, uh, Luke 14:26. Watch this. To show you the level about knowing yourself. I want to deal with that part there. Luke 14 26. If a man come to me, that's the scripture I want. Yes, sir.

The book of Luke 14 and verse 26. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother. These are external, uh, relationships. Your mother and father is not you. So they say, "You don't put your mother and father's ways above your ways dealing with the Most High." Read on. And wife. And wife. Your wife is not you, even though you're one flesh. So such and such, but she's not physically you. That's still external. Notice where I'm going. I'm, I'm dealing with the part about prove your own selves. Know you not your own self. That's what I'm dealing with. Go ahead. In other words, you can hide things from the wife. You can hide things from your mother and father. You can hide things, but you damn sure can't hide nothing from your damn self. That's right. Read. And children. And children. You don't, your children are not exactly you, but you don't put their ways above God's ways. Read. And brethren. And brethren. Go ahead. And sisters. And sisters. Go ahead. Yea. And his own. Notice it. It gave us space. It say, "Yea." In other words, we can to go a whole another level deeper. Yea. What? Yea. And his own life also. And his own life also. That's the part that you know about yourself. You know your own self. You know your own life. You know exactly how wicked your mind is. You know exactly what you're struggling with. Even if your mother, father, wife, and such and such didn't see it yet, but you yourself know. You got to be able to deal with that even though nobody knows about it yet. And if you ain't even ready to deal with that, the Lord say you can't be my disciple. Dig it. Know you know you your own selves. Read that statement again. Yea. And his own life also. And his own life also. You know, look at that, that, that scene there. You in the room got the door closed. Is you and Satan. Mama don't know nothing. Wife don't know nothing. Husband don't know nothing. And look at Satan got you around the neck. Damn. Look at that. That's a hell of an image. Damn, boy. Man, that's something else. Got him. Just you and me, baby. Go ahead. Yea. And his own life also. He cannot be my disciple. He cannot be my disciple. So the whole point is you got to be real with your own self. Go back to that Corinthians. Yes, sir.

The book of 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5. Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves. How that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobate. Except you

be reprobate. You get to the point where you don't know right from wrong, and nothing. Your whole everything is skewed. Brothers are trying to tell you that you've got the demon on you. Brothers are trying to, sisters are trying to tell you that you've got an evil spirit. All of these things, people, people are trying to wake you up, but you are so locked into your evil, you become reprobate, and you can't see nothing but sin, and then you begin justifying it. Christ said, "You can't be my disciple. You can't be a paneria. You cannot be an example to the believers. You cannot be an example to those that are on the outside. You can't be an example nowhere."

No. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Heavy deal, ain't it? But it's easy. All you got to do is just follow the blueprint and put, and put some, some real action in these thoughts. What do you mean you can't stop? Just stop it.

Yes, sir. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Uh, you finished reading the fifth verse?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Now, y'all. All right, sir. Video time. I said, man, I was waiting on the video. Well, here it come. Video one. I'm going to name it "Alcoholism and Its Effect on Our Households." And its effect on our households. Okay. I'm going to play now. Only thing you brothers that's in the uh booth, all you got to do, I made it easy. Put it up and hit the button. When I say stop, stop. And we're going to talk about it. Then we're just going to play it to the end. I'm going to play everything. I'm going to do that, y'all. All right. We're going to open up our minds a little bit today. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

So, I want to make this point before we start. We lie to ourselves through alcohol, uh, uh, through alcohol abuse that makes us euphorically acceptable to our quote-unquote friends in social settings, and also, I highlighted, and also to our other sober side, though, our other sober self. Now, I'm going to clear all this up. In other words, there is a duality within us. There's a part of you. That's what I was saying earlier. There's a part of us that knows that we are in wickedness. There's a part of us that knows that we don't have the strength to stand up to the wickedness that we are about to indulge in. Y'all understand what I'm saying? When I said that other self, how many of y'all have ever done something and when you came out of it, your conscience, which is that righteous spirit in you that tried to speak before you shut it down, comes back and says, "Why did you allow yourself to do this and do that?" That's the other self that I'm talking about. That's what Paul was addressing in the seventh chapter of Romans. "The things that I would do, the things that I would want to do." That's the righteous side of me. But there's another, uh, evil thing in my members that's causing me to entertain this evil. And there is a duality that goes on in your mind. Should I do this? Should I not? The righteous side says, "Well, if you do this, you're going to destroy your house. If you do this, you're going to mess your children up. If you do this, you're going to mess up this. You're gonna mess up that." Y'all follow me? But then the, the wicked side says, "But man, it would feel so good, and it would this, and it would that." You follow me? So now you want to deal with the evil. So you have to find a way to shut out that righteous voice. You drown that righteous side in alcohol. You drown it in drugs. You drown it in, in sexual promiscuity. All of the bad habits that we do. When you know that there's a spirit in you that says, "I should not be doing these things." But when the euphoria wears off, then you're left with that conscience that says, "You know, you should not have done this. Look at you now." And then you begin to beat yourself up, and you get more alcohol. You get more dope to quiet that conscience. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

That's what I'm talking about. So when I made the point about the other self, I'm talking about that alcohol that we indulge in, and I'm going to call it a social lubricant. What I mean by that, I'm, I'm going to explain it. I'm, I'm going to explain it. I'm going to explain it. Don't let your minds go anywhere else except for what I just said. I said lubricant. Where the hell do their minds go? Right. Right. Damn you, brothers. Damn. Is this only in Dallas, or maybe this went all, all over the place? Yeah. What's wrong with? Do you lubricate cars? What the hell? What's going on with you, brothers? You dirty minds. Yeah. The hell is this? Damn. Social lubricant. I said it again. Alcohol is basically a social lubricant. And what I mean by that is that without the alcohol, you may have certain, uh, what's the word? Um, inhibitions that would say, "Don't do this, and don't do that." But when you drink this alcohol, it numbs all of that, uh, inhibitions. It, it numbs all of those things, and all of a sudden, you're confident to go into a place where you normally wouldn't go. So, it makes you sociably acceptable. That's what I said. Social. It lubricates your ability to just be a part of anything. Y'all all right? That's what I mean. It makes it easy. If the Bible talks about it, alcohol takes the king and the beggar and puts them on the same level. For an example, you're supposed to understand that there's a serious difference between the two. But the, but the abuse of alcohol makes it all fine. You come out in the middle of, of an, of, of a dignified group, somehow crazy and think you're okay, and you look like a complete ass, but because you were drunk, you laughed at it. It lubricated your ability to be in any circle, although you know damn well you don't belong in it. A woman will let her guards down to be accepted by some piece of garbage. You dig it? Because that's how it works. So, I say those things because I want to get right to the video. Let's start it.

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I was done. I was like, "I'm never going to drink again." Any more than two drinks a week is risky. So I was a functional alcoholic, um, for many years. We need to move away from this alcohenic culture. Alcohol stop. We need to move away from this, what does she call it? Alcogenic culture. So I didn't want to let that slide by because in many circles, and we're familiar with this, it's okay to excessively drink. And we see it on brothers. Sometimes we see it on sisters. We get events at certain events, Passovers and such and such, where the security team got to go and throw whole people out because they went over the limit, acting like they didn't know that kind of stuff. Read. I mean, hit the button. Alcogenic culture. Alcohol lies to us. Alcohol causes damage. I know that alcohol is, uh, usually like bad for you, but I didn't know like how bad it was. The quality of my life just sort of declined and declined and declined. It's a poison. It's a, it's a drug. Alcohol is a really bad drug.

Pause it. You notice the word that he said alcohol again? Because you, you know, you know, as you teach, you can feel somebody. There's an, there's an advocate for alcohol in the spirit. Well, don't you know that it's legal? It ain't against the law. You already have advocates speaking. I'm talking about spiritually now, as I'm bringing this out. I am not talking about it at that level. So don't defend it as if it's your buddy. You dig it? Like you're going to come up and you're going to be Alcohol's lawyer. You dig what I'm saying? I want to talk about it so that I can get the real point to your head. Y'all right. This is going to step on. Remember I was saying, I said this is going to step on a lot of toes. Because there is a culture among us as black folk. I use it loosely like that. That we can't go without a drink. Again, again, it's not illegal, but what the Bible says, not all, what it say, uh, expedience? Quote it for me. No, all things are. Somebody quote. Bring it out. Bring it out because I'm, I'm, I'm too excited. I can't even get the words out. Uh, "All things are lawful, but they're not always expedient." That's it. "All things are lawful, but they're not always expedient." My point is, yes, you can have a little here and there, but I don't have to. I'm not breaking the law if I don't have it. So if I said that I don't want it, and I only drink it, drink during the, uh, breaking of the bread, which is lawful, I don't need it no other time. Now, again, I'm not against it because I might, like I said, me and the, me and the wife, we be, you know, whatever, we, we, we laying back, want to have a little something. There ain't nothing wrong with that. I'm at home. Ain't no cops getting called. Ain't nobody getting run over. None of that madness at all. Right. So it's okay in that sense. Y'all all right? I'm just saying it that way because I know I'm, I'm, I'm appealing to the, to the alcohol lawyers. I got to say it that way, y'all. All right. So, but it is a drug, and I'm going to show you that it's a drug, y'all. All right. Very uncomfortable. They said, "Unplug the mic." That's what they say right now. Back it up a little bit. Let's get these points in here. Like I said, I'm going to play all this. Just a little bit. Just go back a little bit. Slide it back a little bit. Come on. I'm looking at the cursor here. Okay. Right there. Hit, hit the button. Declined and declined and take some of this bass out, too. I want to hear the words. I'm sorry. Take some of that bass out. I want to hear what's going to. Because they usually have music in here, and it'll be rumbling deep and all that, which is, I know it sounds good, but I'm here to teach now. Yes, sir. Hit it.

"Alcohol is a really bad drug." Well, initially, it made me feel like myself. It was like this miracle self where suddenly all it was like this, what, what did it say? It was like this. So he's making a point. Now, notice he goes, you know, we will find ways to not give this credit, but that's nothing but Esau. Hell, what, what wine do you make? All of the wine and the stuff that we drink came from. So, shut the hell up, y'all. All right. Uh, play on.

"Like myself, it was like this miracle self where suddenly all of the unconscious anxiety and sense of difference between myself and others seemed to conscious."

Hold it. Now, I wanted to deal with those parts there. I'm sorry, brothers and sisters. Back it up a little bit. I want to deal with those, 'cause a lot of stuff will slide past. You know what I'm saying? He said that when he drinks this miracle salve, that's like an ointment that helps him to be socially lubricated to deal with anything. His inhibitions are, are, are out of the way. He's free. That's what alcohol does. It makes you think that you could do anything. You can be a part of anything. Nothing holding you back. That's why we do it. 'Cause we don't have the courage to stand up being sober. Some men can't talk to women unless they're high. For an example, they said, "Well, why you going to go talk?" I'm talking about when I was younger. You know what they call the daddy scene and all that? Some brothers have to drink, right? And get tipsy so they can have the nerve to go and talk. You'll understand what I'm saying? Stuff like that. Some sisters will allow themselves to get drunk or to get tipsy so that the man could do all kind of things with them, because if they were sober, they're going to come to their senses. "I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't do that." Y'all all right? Y'all okay?

Yes, sir.

So, I'm making a point of what this man is saying about this miracle salve. Go ahead. Play it.

"Miracle salve where suddenly all of the unconscious anxiety, unconscious anxieties. Unconscious anxieties. These are fears that you might not even be really aware of, but you know they're there. I want to nullify those as well. And alcohol helps me do that. When I take the alcohol, it takes my nervousness out because I'm nervous about this. I'm nervous about that. I'm conscious of this. I'm conscious of that. But when I drink this miracle salve, all of those inhibitions are laid low. And I am, I do not have to be conscious of those anxieties that would have kept me out of that circle." Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Play on.

"And sense of difference between myself and others seemed to vanish. And that discomfort in my own skin turned into comfort. Like I suddenly felt like, oh, maybe this is how everyone else feels all the time. I've discovered this thing where now I feel like, okay, like I can exhale and I can be around other people." Every time I had done something or said something that, do y'all, y'all picking it up? Y'all hearing what he's saying? I want to ask somebody. Do y'all, are, do y'all really hear what's being said here? Brother said no. He, he's not getting it. He's not getting it. Does anybody else get it? Huh? Who gets it? Explain it to him. Give him my mic. Get my mic. Stand up.

Shalom, Bishop.

Shalom.

Um, so basically what he's saying is, is that him drinking the alcohol is like a social drug. It helps him to relax. Keep the mic. I want to hear you. It helps him to be relaxed and open up and feel comfortable in a situation where he normally wouldn't be comfortable in.

That's it. 100%. You get it now? That's what, that's why people do what they do 'cause normally they would not feel that they are part of that circle. They know that they, they know they weren't brought up in that. They were not brought up like that, but they want to be daring. So, in order for them to lay down those, those disciplines, they drink or they get high, or the man to give you a date drug to help you get over that inhibition. I just use that as an example. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Play on.

"Now I feel like, okay, like I can exhale and I could be around other people. Every time I had done something or said something that I regretted, it was when I was drinking. And I thought at one point, maybe I don't want to live a life where I'm continually or even sporadically wishing that I hadn't said or done something, you know, and I'm very much unlikely to do that if I'm sober and clearheaded. You know, I grew up in a pub." Did y'all catch that part there? If he was sober, he would be very unlikely to do the things that he end up finding himself guilty of doing because he, or she, was under the influence. Influence. The only thing that is supposed to influence us is the Bible. The pure influence. We're supposed to be influenced by that because there's no wrong actions in that. You're not going to wake up the next morning talking about something, "Why did I do this? Why did I do that?" Play on.

"It was like there was always drinks going on and you know, parties and I was jumping on the bar and singing songs and so alcohol was just like a real normal thing in my family and it was fun. It was, it was just a fun time for me in my 20s but then when I would wake up, it'd be like silent and it wouldn't feel nice." "I have family members who will say, 'I need a drink.' That is a sign of somebody that can't regulate their nervous system, right? Like, 'I need a cup of coffee' is a, and I'm not being disparaging of these statements. I've, I've said, 'I need a cup of coffee,' but what you're really saying is that your system requires this chemical to get a lift. It's not a crime for most people, but if you need a drink in order to relax, in my mind, you have, you don't actually have control over your nervous system." "I just decided to do." Did y'all get that? "I need a drink." What do you mean you need a drink? They said to take the edge off. Stuff like that. They use little calm things, but in reality, I don't want to face life sober. Play on.

"In my mind, you have, you don't actually have control over your nervous system. I just decided to do Dry January. And in doing Dry January, it really scared me because I had a really tough time. I couldn't quite wrap my head around how much I was struggling without booze in that first month." But hold on, hold on, hold up. If a person that was used to drinking, used to getting high, used to being tipsy, all of a sudden was made to not have the alcohol for a month and he had to go through it sober, it's scary because now he has to face it with intelligence. He has to face it with a working mind. And normally he was numbed. Normally he was put to sleep, tranquilized. I saw somebody wrote that in the comments. He was tranquilized. But if you have to face these things sober, it's uncomfortable. It's scary to people. So we run to the drugs. We run to the alcohol to nullify our real response to these things that we're supposed to be dealing with. Go ahead.

"Had a really tough time. I couldn't quite wrap my head around how much I was struggling without booze in that first month and it really scared me. By the time I'd done six months sober, I really started feeling the benefits. I started sleeping better. I was handling stressful situations better. My relationship was better. My relationship with my family was better. My relationship with my work was better. And I just sort of said to myself, 'Let's do a year. Let's get through the first year and then that would be a wonderful achievement.' And then by the time I'd crossed that annual mark, I was done. I was like, 'I'm never going to drink again because this is the best version of myself.' It was my go-to to celebrate and my go-to to commiserate." Who constantly? Like, you hear what he's saying? Alcohol was his go-to to be able to celebrate. Can't celebrate unless I'm high. Can't commiserate in, in the social settings unless I'm high. That's a problem there, right? And your life is constantly going up and down. That's what he's explaining. Go ahead.

"I was like, 'I'm never going to drink again because this is the best version of myself.' It was my go-to to celebrate and my go-to to commiserate. You're constantly like this, which means that you always have a reason to be drinking, or I felt like I always had a reason to be drinking. I was never a bad drunk or anything like that. I just keep going. When I started, I just couldn't stop." You got a problem. Mhm. So, you call it sociable, but he noticed that when you started, he couldn't stop. I've had family members that had this thing so bad the doctor said, "If you take another drink, your behind will be dead." That's how bad it got. The doctor had to tell him that. That's when he got the message. Y'all all right? Sometimes it comes down to that. Sometimes you got to really get on your brothers. Sometimes you got to really get on your sisters to cause them to to come out of these kinds of things. You dig it? Where am I at? Uh, so that was the end of the video, correct? So, there was a part of the video that said that alcohol is a drug. Did y'all hear that? Right. Well, let's see. Read it. Come on. Put it up there. So my question is, is it? I looked this up. Is alcohol a drug? Go ahead.

"AI Overview: A drug is a chemical substance that produces a biological effect in a living organism." Stop. Does alcohol do that?

Yes, sir.

Does alcohol, is alcohol literally a chemical substance that produces a biological, meaning it affects your biology, your brain, your actions, your thinking? Does alcohol have an effect on how you think, on how you behave, on what you put decisions on?

Yes.

That's known as a drug. It produces a biological effect in a living organism. Are you living?

Yes, sir.

You pour alcohol on the street, it doesn't make a difference. But with this poured in your head, it's going to make a difference 'cause you are living. Read on.

"With common examples including medications to treat, cure, or prevent illness." That's what drugs do. Come on. "Or substances that alter the body's function for other purposes." Other purposes is you to be socially lubricated, to be inside these other groups. Go ahead.

"Drugs can be taken in various ways, such as by mouth, injection, or inhalation, and are often classified by their therapeutic use, mode of action, or legal control, such as prescription or over-the-counter drugs." That's some kind of drugs. Go ahead. What's under this? Go ahead. Read that. Raise it up some, y'all, 'cause this light is in the way. Raise it up. Raise it up, y'all. Come on. Okay. Well, let me read it. It's 'cause I'm looking at over here. I, I got it, Bishop. I got it. Okay. All right. "A chemical substance that." What is a? What? "A drug is a chemical substance that is not a nutrient or essential dietary ingredient." Is alcohol an essential dietary ingredient? Is it a nutrient? No. But it is a chemical substance. Again, if you're going to deal with it, very moderate, but you don't have to do it. I know I'm going against a lot of things by saying that. They said, "This man is going against the whole culture of what we do." No, I'm not. I'm not doing that. But do you know, you are not going to use the fact that we is that is not unlawful to use that as an excuse to be drunk. You're not going to do that around me. I'm sorry. You just have to hate me. I'm not going to have you around me being that way. I'm just telling you how I am. I'm sorry. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Uh, read. When, when administered to a living organism, it produces a biological effect. When, when that's the point there, when alcohol is administered into a living organization, in a living organism, your brain, it produces a biological or drunk effect. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

So, there we go. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

All right. All right. So, now let's see. Let's see. Y'all ain't got nothing to say on that? Nothing at all? Everybody's in, everybody's frozen. Come on now. Check.

Yes, sir.

Bishop, one thing that's heavy about that, too, is that Tom Holland character is the Tom, who, Tom Holland in the video that you said, where the young man, right? He plays Spider-Man. Oh, I didn't recognize who he was.

Yes, sir.

He plays Spider-Man and he's considered one of the top Avengers. Wow. So, on the outside, he has this mask and he's saving the world, but on the inside, he's dealing with. He's battling a little bit. Wow. I didn't know.

Yes, sir.

So, this, I didn't recognize that he was. Okay. I didn't know that. Wow. That's, that's, that's, that's heavy. Sociable. What they call it? Uh, uh, functional alcoholic. "I can handle my liquor" kind of thing. Wow. Wow. That's, that's, that's heavy. All right. Um, Romans chapter 7, verse 14. This is what I was talking about earlier.

Yes, sir.

The book of Romans chapter 7 and verse 14. "For we know that the law is spiritual." Now, while you're reading it, I actually have scriptures on the effects of, of, of alcoholism. And I'm talking about how it really just dulls the senses, have you doing all kind of crazy things, making mockery of you and all of that. There's scriptures on this. Go ahead.

"For we know that the law is spiritual." So, we know that the law is spiritual. The laws of the Most High. Drunkenness is a sin. So, wait a minute. What happened to that? Drunkenness is a sin. Let's get that. I, I, I got to, got to shut the lawyer, I got to shut the alcohol lawyers down for just a second. I know they teaming. They, they teaming. They teaming up. Give me the, give me the, uh, one of them scriptures that, that, that they got to go on. Drunkenness. What it? There's one in, uh, what it, Corinthians 6? Yeah, let's read that one.

Yes, sir.

Because we always read about the other things, but we don't really hit that drunk one. But we're going to talk about it just a little bit. The book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 6 and verse, you know, there's one. What's, what's the one that was that put away from you? That person, that wicked person, 'cause it's in there, too. Oh. Uh, chapter 5. And all that. Yeah. Bring that out.

Yes, sir.

Bring them both out. The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 10. Uh, I started verse 9. "I wrote unto you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators, yet not all." So that's a problem among us. So although I'm beating up on alcohol a little bit because nobody really beats up on it. They're too afraid to be, well, I don't want to say afraid, but it's taboo. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

You dig what I'm saying? You don't, you don't, you don't really find people com, completely like fully dedicating a, well, he's, I'm not even doing it, fully dedicating a class to alcoholism, right? I'm not doing it 'cause I got other things that I'm going to bring up as well. But it's not something that's really, really talked about in open circles. I'll put it that way. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Come on. "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters." For then must ye needs go out of the world. Come on. "But now I have written unto you not to keep company." If so now, he's talking to the people in the congregation. Go ahead. "If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a [ __ ] or a drunkard." You see that? Or a drunkard. So we're not supposed to allow that among ourselves. If you see somebody even getting close to being that, it's your job to stop them. You're not supposed to have hatred to your brothers or your sisters if you even see them going in that, in that direction. They may even say, "Well, I'm going through problems. I'm going through this." And you, you get some counsel for them. But don't just let them drink the, 'cause the alcohol never fixes it. That is never going to be the solution. Never. Never. Never. No kind of drug is ever a solution for anything you're going through. That's right. Never. So, it's better for me to intervene and try to learn why you're doing this. Why are you putting yourself in that way? You don't just quote unquote leave him to his misery as if that's going to help him. It's not going to help him. You're going to wake up the next day and his problems are still going to be there and worse because perhaps he lost his job in the process. He done ran over somebody in the process 'cause he was driving. You don't leave them alone. It's a drug, brother. You don't need to be doing that. What's ailing you, brother? We're your brothers. We're your sisters. What's going on, sister? What's going on, brother? You could talk to us. What's happening? I'd rather you lay it on us and see if we can find some solutions in the Bible to help you. But certainly don't do this. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

This is the, this is the image that we have to project to our brothers and sisters outside of these doors. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Where we at? Uh, verse 11. Read. "But now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a [ __ ] or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one know not to eat." So let me stop right there 'cause it says, "Put that person out the body." Right? So my point that I say to that is that we as men, again, going back to us as men, this problem and other problems, if we see and we know them to be destructive, why do we allow it to continue? And you see the destruction. There's not a soul in here that does not know what the effects of alcohol has done to our community. There's not a soul that's watching that does not know what, what the abuse of alcohol has done to our people. Not one. You go in Harlem where I'm from. I remember in the '90s, you had this preacher, me, I was talking to Bishop about it the other day. You had this Abyssinian Baptist preacher, Calvin Butts. We used to get on them, you know, back in the days, different, uh, camp brothers would speak about him because of course, it's Christianity. But the one thing that I would say about him, and there may be others, but it's not many of them that are were outspoken. I was in New York when this was going down. He had a campaign not only against the negative rap lyrics and the rap records that was out, gangster rap and all of that stuff like that. He was against those things because he saw what it did to the degradation of Harlem, what it did to the degradation of the community. Now, I can't speak for whatever other works he's done. I'm not trying to hype them up. I'm just saying what I know and what I saw. And he was also against the alcohol advertisements that was posted on damn near every other billboard in Harlem. I was there and saw it. And he, him and a group of people went and was painting over with the white painting over the, uh, ads because he said this is destructive. But my point is, they, our enemies was pushing that thing on our people, made it sociable for us to continually drink, drink, drink, and look at the damn problems that it caused our people. Just that alone, I haven't even gotten into drugs, promiscuity, nothing else. Just the damn abuse of alcohol and how it have ripped families apart. Tore families. Call him up. So, I'll just leave that there. Uh, Romans. Where were we at? Uh, you said you wanted 1 Corinthians 6:9.

Yes, sir.

That's, I want that, too. I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The book of First Cor Showing the brother now, Calvin, but just show him. I didn't really need to do that. I ain't trying to glorify the brother, but, but yes, that's him. I don't even know if that makes a difference to many of y'all 'cause this was, like I said, in the '90s. I don't know if he's still doing his thing or anything like that, but the reason now, I, I, I, I'll tell you the reason why I mentioned this, and me and Bishop was talking about it. Y'all know that we tried to have some kind of, uh, what's the word? Make some inroads with some of these preachers. Remember we went to General's name? Jen, Jennings. General Jennings. Jennings. And Bishop and the brothers was like, "Yo, you got to look at the woman over there with her behind all out in the street, and you got this big church here. How come ain't nobody dealing with that?" Right? And you could see the problems that this is causing our people, right? So, we were not there to make a problem with him. We was trying to, on some level, join, have some kind of alliance to recognize the problem that's common to all of us. And if we could put together an effort to address some of these issues, we'd be all right. We know that we're not going to agree with what you got going on in terms of Christianity and all that. And you might not agree with how we, how we roll, but at least we can have some common connection to address these problems that are common to all of us. Same thing with the Nation of Islam. We would, we walked on that front. Fortunately, a lot of those brothers, at least a good portion of them, portion of them had that understanding, and we were able to work to some level on dealing with these very problems. I admire that. I'm just saying it that way. Well, I mentioned this to, yes, sir. I mentioned, we, me and Bishop was talking about it because we both from Harlem, so we remember that particular situation, and I said it would be nice, but I remember he's much older now. I don't know who's running this church or anything like that, but I was using that as an example on how some of these other mega preachers or whatever should be when we try to deal with the problems that we see that is, that we both as men see the problem in our community. Like I was saying before, these preachers saying that they are men. Can't they themselves see the ugliness? We ourselves see the ugliness. That's the point. That's what we were trying to do, and that's what we are continually trying to do. Y'all understand that?

Yes, sir.

So, I just make those points. What you got? What you, what you brought up here? 1 Corinthians chapter 6. No, no, no. You had something on the board. What's, what's this? Let's bring it out. Come on. All right. So, we did a little, we're going to read, we're going to read that Bible. Hold on. You know, we got to read the Bible.

Yes, sir.

Don't go nowhere now.

Yes, sir.

Bring that out. We did a little search real quick, um, about the, the, the highest density of, uh, neighborhoods that has, uh, al, uh, liquor stores in it. So, let's read that real quick.

"Communities with the high with the highest density of liquor stores, predominantly black, low-income neighborhoods tend to have substantially more liquor outlets." Wow. Go ahead. "For example, certain census tracks that are both that are both low-income and majority black have up to eight times more liquor stores." Eight times. Eight times. Eight times the stores. So if, if one community have 10, we got 80 of them. Yeah. Yeah. And then they say they give it to who? Low income. Right? Because low income affect. There's a lot of things that's tied up with low income, right? Low self-esteem, low aspirations, low expectations of each other, low value for my sisters, low value for my brothers. He ain't worth nothing. Bam. She ain't worth nothing. Let me just run through her. Low expectation, low self-esteem, vacant esteem. What do they give us? That miracle salve to make our poverty okay, to make our destruction okay. It's a tranquilizer. It's a sleeping pill to make you sleep and accept the degradation of your people. And we, it has become sociable in many circles. Read on. Come on.

Yes, sir.

"Blacks, low-income and majority black, have up to eight times more liquor stores per capita than wealthier or predominantly white areas." Damn. That's by design. Go ahead. "Urban tracks with higher proportions of black and Latino residents." Yes. Holy, the 12 tribes of Israel. That's right. The northern kingdom getting it, too. That's right. 'Cause they definitely got. I saw somebody posted in the comments said, "Gad got this problem." Yes. Read. "Urban tracks with higher proportions of black and Latino residents also show elevated alcohol outlet density. More licensed retailers providing off-premises alcohol." More licensed retailers providing off-premises. In other words, it's lucrative. M. They said, "Well, sell it to the ends because they have no hope." That was in Godfather, right? If any of y'all remember that scene, "Sell it to the nooks." Mhm. They said, "Don't sell that around our good Catholic so and so. Send that stuff up in Harlem. They ain't got no soul anyway. Sell it to them." Right. That's bas, that's the reason why the liquor stores are there. This is some stuff. But again, as men, what are we going to do, right? We got to first check it among our own selves before we can even deal with the rest of this thing. So, this cannot be a culture when we allow this to flourish among us because it's quote unquote sociable. And when we see the destruction of it, it's almost like, I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you something. The Apostle Paul made a point that he won't, if he went into, I'm trying to make, I remember. Um, if he's among, he goes inside the, uh, give me the scripture about, "I will not cause my brother to offend," because you understand what I'm saying, and he won't, right? It's cause a stumbling block. I won't. I won't drink if I know that you got a problem with it. Y'all understand what I'm saying? A lot of brothers don't understand what I'm saying. You, y'all know what I'm looking for? Anybody? Anybody? Anybody? Just call it out if anybody know exactly what I'm looking for? No, no, no. It's in, it's in the New Testament. It's a New Testament. Yeah. Read that real quick. First Corinthians. Yeah. The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 8. I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to bring the context of what I'm saying using the scriptures. Read that.

The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 9. "But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak." So the point is, is that we know that if we go, is because if they were offering the meat up to idols. Let me say it that way. We know that that these idols are nothing. There's only one God. Y'all don't understand what I'm saying. Listen to what I'm saying. We know that that that the, the only power is the power of the Most High. So if nobody sees me, if nobody's witnessing, and I just want to get something out of it as long as it's clean meat or whatever, but if they're offering it to idols, somebody might think that I'm dealing with it and going to deal with idols, when there is no such thing as idols in my book. But if you see me doing it, you might think that I'm that I'm crediting the idol. So because of that, I won't even touch it. Y'all get my point?

Yes, sir.

That's what I'm saying. I won't drink even if I wanted to because I don't want you to think it's okay in that regard. Because to me, a sip and I'm done. I ain't looking for no tipsiness or whatever. But somebody else, and I don't do this, I'm just saying. I'm just using myself as an example. Somebody else might take it and say, "Oh, Bishop is drinking, so let me do it," and he doesn't know his limit and he gets carried away with it because he saw me just touch it. You understand? I would rather restrict myself from the whole thing rather than for your conscience to be defiled and thinking that you can take it and knowing that it's going to affect you much different than it affects me because I'm not into it like that. You dig it? That's what I'm saying. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

All right. Go back to where we was going. I hope that made sense. Uh, 1 Corinthians 6:9.

Yes.

You want that one, too?

Yes, sir.

Let's get through it. What time is? How much time I got? 'Cause my time is all jacked up. 'Cause who can help me out? How much time I got left? How much time I got left?

As long as you want, Bishop.

Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. Come on. Let's go. Let's roll. The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 9. "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of." All of these things are problematic, but I'm focusing on one thing right now. Go ahead. "Nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards." There it is again. Nor drunkards. Nor drunkards. Nor drunkards. Obviously, there's something very, very sinful about being in this condition. So, we should not even be thinking about allowing anyone to even get close to that substance in that regard because alcohol will bite you. It'll sneak up on you and bite you, and you get you looking crazy. Come on, brothers. Come on, sisters. Let's do better. We got to be an example to our brothers and sisters that are on the outside of these doors. Have some discipline over your actions. Come on. Where we at? Romans. Uh, which verse did you want? But you caught Romans 7. Yeah. Romans 7:14 down. 14 down.

Yes, sir.

The book of Romans chapter 7 and verse 14. "For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin." Mhm. "For that which I do I allow not." So the law is spiritual. We know that that we need the laws of God in our lives to be the bulwark against our impulse to be in sin. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

In the old school, we used to bring out this term about religion. The word religion. And every time we spoke about it, we spoke about it in a negative sense. Why? Because religion, as we know, we associated with Christianity. We associated it with those, what, what's those man-made religion signs that we could, we put that up there real quick? Parham and all them dudes. Um, put that up there real quick. Those man-made religions. That's the sign that we always bring up. When we think of the word religion, this comes up. And rightfully so. Rightfully so. Come on. So I'll lose my thought. Y'all know I'm not as young as I used to be. I, you know, it ain't because of no Swiss up in Mad Dog 2020. That's right. Okay. Put it up there. What is this? Yo, some, I got some, some reminiscent old drunks. Thunderbird bird without wings. You hear the dag on whinos talk that craziness. Anyway, man-made, man-made religions. The Bible clearly points out Colossians 2:8, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." So this is proper the understanding. So when we look at the word religion, we will, we will only associate the word religion with these types of things, and perhaps what other, other religions that I might not have listed on the board here. But I'm much, I want to focus on the word religion itself. But the, but the, I guess the word would be the negative connotation of our understanding of religion is attributed to these slave redoctrine Christianity type of things. So by natural understanding and acceptance, we will not, uh, uh, employ ourselves to even deal with religion, quote unquote, because it's associated with these things here. But the word religion itself, and we knew this back in the day from the Greek word *religio*, which means hold back, keep down, and restrain. So those definitions applied to these things here, to these religions here. But the Bible itself uses the word religion in the Bible a few times. Y'all all right?

Yes, sir.

So if the Bible has the word religion in it, certainly our understanding of religion in terms of these wicked doctrines is got to be another side to what religion actually means. I'm going back to my point of reading Romans 7. Religion: hold back, keep down, restrain. Another word, another way of understanding religion is culture. Culture does the same thing. Culture holds back, keep down, and restrain. But it's got nothing to do with Christianity. Understand me. Follow me. Has nothing to do with Christianity. Has nothing to do with Baptist, Mormon, 7th Day Adventist. I'm reading the things off the screen now. Jehovah, wickedness, Pentecostal, the man that started the slave trade, Pope Nicholas I, all these demons. The religion that the Bible is talking about is about our culture. Culture. I had a conversation. I was with the brothers last night. All praise to the Lord. We was able to get together. Had a little get-together during the Sabbath. All praise to the Lord. That was a good thing. I enjoyed that very much. And we were talking about this. And when you talk about culture, when you talk about religion as the way the Bible describes it, find a scripture on religion. Let's read it out the Bible. I'm doing a whole lot of quoting.

Let's read it. Let's see what the Bible. Let's see if it's actually in there. We'll go uh First Mcabes. Well, that's one. Give me the one. Give me the one. Yeah, that's one in there. You want? I want the one in James. Give me the one of James. James 1:27. Yes. Read that. Yes, sir. The book of James. We can also read that Mcabe one, too. That puts it in perspective on what I'm bringing. Okay. Come on. Yes, sir.

The book of James, chapter 1, and verse 26. Yeah. 26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and brightenealeth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Do y'all get that? His culture. Give me another verse with the religion in it. Verse 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this. That's the perfect one right there. Read that again. Pure religion. Pure culture. Pure. Hold it. Pure culture. Pure religion that is what? And undefiled before God and father. And how in the world could the Bible use the word religion and say that it is what? Un what? Undefiled. Undefiled. Before God. Before God. So the word religion has a positive connotation to it when you when you understand what it means in relation to our culture. Y'all all right? Yes, sir.

I'm saying that because when we was reading in Romans 7:14 when it says, "For we know that the law of God is spiritual," I'm talking about the law of God being our culture. It is what holds us. It keeps us from sinning. It keeps us in straight with God. It's it it breaks it it interferes with our impulse to commit sin. The reason when I was in college, we had foreign exchange students that would come from overseas. They wouldn't mess with none of the black people. I'm talking about, you know, different different nations. They came to get the education and go back to hell with this in their mind. You wasn't getting them to come to your parties. Don't come to their houses. None of that. They came to learn what they needed to learn, get the education, and get the hell out of here. Why did they not mingle or commiserate with the what the regular people there? Because they were adhering to a culture that their parents taught them. That's right. They were adhering to a religion that kept them from being enticed by the impulse that you and I might try to get them to break. Yes, sir. Y'all understand that? That's how we're supposed to be. Culture is what keeps you from going over the wall. That's the hold back, keep down, and restrain. When you talk about culture in the Bible, the Bible tells us who our enemies are. It tells us how to dress, how to what holy days to celebrate. It tells us that's culture. These are guidelines. These are gold. Like I said earlier, G.O.A.D.s. This is our shepherd. A shepherd is basically a religion to keep you from wandering off into the wolfpack, keep you in straight with God. Religion in the right sense, y'all. All right. Yes, sir. That's what it's talking about now.

Mcabes, since you brought it up. Yes, sir. The book of First Mcabes. You want the positive or the negative? Uh, Bishop, I want the whatever one you got. Yes, sir. The book of First Mcabes. I ain't going to be on this long. I got a lot that I got to cover, so I need to move on. Go ahead. The Book of First Mcabes. It's 8:30 in New York, so I know I got a little bit more time left. Go ahead. The book of First Mcabes, chapter 2 and verse 19. Then Matathias answered and spake with a loud voice. Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him and fall away everyone from the religion of their fathers. That's the good one right there. The culture of our fathers. Notice the the notice the interchangeability of the words because I'm letting you know what religion really means. It's to keep us in prostrate to our commandments. Keep us in the in the in the protection and the guidelines by which we're supposed to live. The golds like the shepherd have that stick that keep the sheep from wandering out. Golds. Read. Read that again. Then Mathias answered and spake with a loud voice, though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him. Go ahead. And fall away everyone from the religion of their fathers, from the culture of our fathers religion. So that's what the religion, the positive parts of it. But again, going back to why we had a negative connotation of it was because we were only using it in reference to our enemies causing us to follow their culture, follow their religion. So therefore, we were turned off by the word. Y'all feel me? But the religion that the Lord is talking about with us is that we're supposed to have our minds in our culture where we adhere to the things that pertain to us. Yes, sir. Y'all all right.

So now Romans 7. Thank you. Verse 22, Bishop. All right, real quick. Verse 22. We will not hearken to the king's words to go from our religion either to the right hand or the left. You hear that? That's what we was reading earlier when we supposed to teach our children, the generations behind us. Teach them that culture, that religion, our religion, the Bible. Y'all okay? Yes, sir.

So now Romans 7:14, the book of Romans chapter 7 and verse 14. Come on. For we know that the law is spiritual. Read. But I am carnal sold under sin. For that which So the law is spiritual. The Bible is our religion. And that's what keeps us from wandering into the impulses of sin which is all around us. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. Alcohol is one of Alcoholism isn't is one of those and you get put out for that thing. Promiscuity, sexual promiscuity. What get you jacked up? That's fornication. You got to go. You don't understand. Yes, sir. Our commandments, our religion protects us from going over the wall into these things. Read. For that which I do, I allow not. For that which I would want to do. Meaning I would want this was Paul to get the historical uh context of this. Paul was making a point about the thought of concupiscence. Notice I said the thought not that he was involved in actions of it. The thought of concupiscence, sexual immorality, those kinds of things. Let you know that we all have something that we're struggling with. But do we give us do we give into these impulses? The answer is no. Not saying that you won't be tempted by it. Not like I was saying earlier, brothers and sisters might be going through different things where they'll grab the alcohol. They're supposed to be reaching out say, "Listen, I'm I'm being plagued by my problem and I'm running to this bottle. Brothers and sisters, help me." You'll understand. Yes, sir. Come to that brother's aid. Come to that sister's aid. Don't let them get carried away in those afflictions. Be afflicted with thoughts and things of that nature. We have to learn how to be our brother's keeper. That's what the people outside need to see among us. And they do see that. I happen to learn of some great news in terms of the things that we do in the community. And people have responded tremendously with beautiful comments. So that was absolutely wonderful, but we want to keep that going. You sisters don't really realize how much of an impact you're making out here in terms of your righteousness and how you carry yourselves. I'm telling you. And they're seeing it. They're seeing it and they are emulating it in righteousness. So keep that up. Keep that up. You're doing a great service turning many of our sisters to righteousness. Little bits at a time. Don't give up. Keep it going. Keep that thing going. Our sisters need to see that. Our young girls need to see that. They need to see that thing. And we as men, we going to protect and we're going to make sure that you can continue to do that thing. As men, we going to protect and stand up to make sure that you continue to do the great works that you do. That's what you want to hear from your men. And that's what we going to do. That's right. Where I'm at? Verse 15. Read. For that which I do, I allow not. For that which I want to do, I end up not doing because I'm tempted to deal with these thoughts. So the battle is there. Go ahead. For what I would for the things that I would do in terms of not having these thoughts in my mind. I don't want these thoughts in my mind. Paul said and he went to the most high three times. Didn't he said three times? Thrice. Yes, sir. He said, "Take this thorn away from me." Cuz he did not want to have that thought in his mind. Christ said, "Man, my my grace is sufficient for you. You can handle it." That's right. Meaning we can handle ours. Cuz the strength of Christ, what does it say? His strength is is made perfect in weakness. When you overcome it, when you overcome your urges, when you overcome that sin by the commandments, you demonstrate how strong Christ really is. You demonstrate how strong these commandments are when you allow these commandments to help you overcome what you was originally just asking the Lord to take away from you. He said, "No, I want you to fight this thing. I want you to fight against the temptation of fornication. I want you to fight against the temptation of of alcoholism. I want you to fight the temptation against drugs. I want you to fight the temptation of the things that you say you can't do. You got the commandments, use them. That's how that goes. That's what the Lord said to Paul. You all right? You had something. Okay. Read. For what I would that do I not, but what I hate that do I. But I hate to entertain these thoughts and I end up entertaining them. I hate to entertain that I need a drink. I hate to entertain that I that I want to fornicate with this and fornicate with that. But you end up doing it anyway. Some of us and you feel like garbage at the end of it. You feel used at the cuz your real mind comes back and said, "Look at what you allowed yourself to do. You knew better than this. But you silenced me with alcohol. You silenced me with your wicked friends that that gave you evil communication to make you think that it was okay for you to bend those those commandments. For you to bend that that that wall, that defense, that inhibition that came up that said, "I shouldn't do this." But you allow some wicked friends to say, "Don't worry about that. You need to come on and get with this anyway." Same thing that we would do with the alcohol. You allow yourself to bend that rule. And then when you end up getting involved in that thing, then the alcohol say, you're on your own now. You're sober, ain't you? Alcohol out the window. The act that you done did with this one and that one is over with. Now you left with your own conscience that's whipping the hell out of you and you can't stand it. And the way the drugs work, you get more drugs to silence that conscience. That's some stuff. Read. If then I do that which I would not, I consent. What verse are you in? Verse 16. Read. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Because we need the law. We need the Bible. We need that religion. We need that culture. I consent. I agree that we need the law. Yes, sir. That's what he's saying, y'all. All right. Yes, sir.

I'mma move on a little faster. I'm going to move on a little faster. Uh, no. Read on. I ain't going to skip nothing. Read. Now, then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. We got to recognize that that sinful impulse is in us. And we have to recognize it and make sure that we keep that impulse at bay. Keep it from coming into your being. Keep it from becoming a part of your dealings every day. Keep it out of your thoughts. Read. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. In my flesh, that's that wicked side of us, so to speak, dwelleth no good thing. Go ahead. For to will is present with me. For to for me to do right is present with me. For me to deal with these bi with this Bible, these chapters a day, four chapters a day. For me to deal with this righteousness that's in me because I want to do that because I know that these things will ward off those evil spirits. Go ahead. But how to perform that which is good. But but for me to perform a way to make this actually happen, the sin of the temptation keeps on coming in. A wicked phone call. A wicked thing flashed across my phone. Big butt Betty does Dallas for you brothers. I'm in Dallas, a need to choose another city. Read. For I know that in me that is in my flesh dwelleth no good. For the will is present with me. But how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not. For the good that I would want to do, brothers and sisters, I want to stop the alcohol because I know I don't I don't know how to handle it and it's getting me in trouble every time I mess with it. That's a clear signal to stop it. That's right. If I know that I can't handle this, I can't handle those and it's getting me into dangerous territory, my intelligence say stay away from it. Flee from sin as if fleeing from a serpent. If you understand that that thing is like a serpent, you wouldn't even play around with it. That's right. Read. For the good that I would, I do not. But the evil which I would not, that I do. What verse is that? Verse 19. Okay. For the evil that I would do, read it again. For the good that I would, I do not. Go ahead. But the evil which I would not, that I do. I end up thinking on this concupiscence. That's what the apostle was saying. Y'all all right? Yes, sir.

So, I just bring those things out to mind. This is exactly why the Lord's prayer that I wrote this the in the Lord's prayer there's a section in there that said lead me not into temptation. Yes, sir. Beautiful prayer with some, you know, it should not be taken as it's just something redundant. There's the elements in that prayer means a whole lot. Lead me not into temptation. There's a lot involved because we are tempted every day. That's right. We ask for the Lord to keep our mind filled with righteousness so that we are not tempted to deal with behavior that will eventually destroy us. That part of the verse is so impactful because the battle is real. The spiritual battle that we're fighting every day is real. Real, real. And until we learn how to conquer the battlefield on our brain, we are not ready to deal with nothing else. You're talking about something you want to subdue the nations, but you got an alcohol problem. You're talking about you want to subdue the nation, but you got a weed problem. You got a fornicating problem. You got an adultery problem. This is sickening. And you told my son, "I'm ready to rule the world." You ain't ready to rule nothing. Start with your damn head first. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Play the second clip. Now, we going to play all of this. I'm moving into another territory now. This one deals with Yeah, that's right. Don't show it on the board yet. Um, okay. It was something I wanted to say about this. Hold on. Before we hit the button, before we hit the button, say something real quick, brothers. Bishop, this is this is all heavy points. And Yes, sir. Like I was saying in the beginning, um, this is one of the this is a mirror to the face because everything you you touching on alcohol, but the re reality is is that this goes into like the scripture says, the sin that doth so easily beset us. Yes. You know, whatever your particular sin is, this is uh this is something to focus on for each particular sin. Yours might not be alcohol. Exactly. It might be the the the new sister that's still going home putting pants on. Because she wants to show her shape in the world and get that attention or the the sister that's still spending every day, you know, posting her pictures and everything for people to to give her likes on Facebook because she has to have her ego and her vanity fed. Same with brothers. So this excellent class, Bishop. All praise to the Lord. All praises to the most high. Give all glory to him. All glory to him. All glory to him. Okay. I'm just looking for what I wanted to say about that particular video. Yes, sir. Uh I didn't put some other stuff up here. I need to go back. Ah, shoot. I done got What is this? What am I looking at on the on the online? Okay. Okay. I'm getting there. Okay. Um, all right. We're about to bring out this is video clip two that I'm about to show. I made the point and saying that our young girls seeking validation uh seeking validation and this society encourages abort uh this society encouraging abortion. But where is the hope and cure to correct this mindset? What I'm about to show you is going to be pretty sad. It's going to be pretty sad, but it is a reality that goes on in our communities. Okay, let's just hit the button. Soft white. Now, this was a uh Okay, this pregnant 14-year-old prostitute. Her name is Trophy. Hit the button.

All right, welcome back, Trophy. Hi, Mark. Nice to see you again. It's nice to see you, too. You've uh you've got some news for us, don't you? Yes. What's going on? Uh I'm getting a lot of rumble again. There's a is it the bass thing that's going on? Cuz I'm All right. Turn the bass. Could they turn it down on the woofer itself? Cuz I don't want it to affect the broadcast. Huh? Okay. Back it up again. I'm sorry, brothers. I should not be so conscious about sound and all of that, but I'm trying to have a a class that at least I can hear what's going on. Hit it again.

All right, welcome back, Trophy. Hi, Mark. Nice to see you again. It's nice to see you, too. You've uh you've got some news for us, don't you? Yes. What's going on? Um I am currently 17 weeks pregnant. Um, I've been going through a lot ups and downs and yeah. How How old are you now? I am 14. 14. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. 17 weeks pregnant. A a month is 4.3 weeks. So that's one month, two months, three months, four months, nearly 4 and a half months. She's pregnant. She's 14 years old. 14 years old. Our young girls, she's typical of what goes on in our households. I'm talking about in the community. You know, some some people in the body have experienced well wasn't this now some of the ones girl were a little older but real regardless had to endorse stuff like this here cuz it's letting you know these problems are real. This is real. No father wants to come up well most of the kids still don't have fathers in them in their lives and alcohol might have a lot to do with that. That shows you how these problems compound on each other. A whole lot of things, drug abuse, all a whole lot of things could have led to the scenario where this 14-year-old girl is 17 weeks pregnant. Play on.

Yeah, How how old are you now? I am 14. 14. And you're pregnant? Yes. You want to keep this child? Yes. You're going to keep the child? Yes. Now, have you Hold it. Hold it. This what I want to say. I'm going to let this play. But when I heard this because there was another video that I was looking for and it was a class that I brought this out on when I was in Connecticut and I remember showing the video where you had the I forget I think it was like a Cabrini Green projects type of thing. I'm going to remember exactly what video it was. I was trying to find it. Don't look for it cuz I, you know, it's going to throw me off, but I'll just make the point of saying that the woman, the girl that got pregnant from the guy that had no job or nothing, she said she did it because she wanted the guy to love her. She got No, no, now that's a lot of y'all looking like, "Wow, what? That don't make sense." Blah, blah, blah. Don't be so quick to dismiss that thinking. Girl didn't have a father in her life. She doesn't see any real role models in her community. She has no real outlook on what a husband should be. Have no real outlook on what a father should be. Have no clue at all. But she's a growing woman. And women want to want to be validated by men. They want their their value to be seen by men. They want that man to value them so that they can feel like a real woman. And if she cannot get that ordinarily, she said, "Well, I'll get him by giving him what he wants." And hopefully he will love me if I give him a baby. Y'all understand that? Not realizing that the man that she's dealing with is a kid in his mind. But now she's stuck with this baby. But my my my point is my point is is that there are so many problems among our nation. That's why I read the thing about who have seen this nation in its first glory was use the word house there about the sanctuary and the other thing in Mcabes. We see the destruction that's in our communities outside of these doors. But before we can really tackle that, we got to make sure that we ourselves are sharp in every aspect of our own being while at the same time try to cure the problems that are around us. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. That's the point that I'm making. Okay. Uh back it up again. Let's get it in.

And you're pregnant? Yes. You want to keep this child? Yes. You're going to keep the child? Yes. Have you thought that out? Yeah, [Music] I've been trying to. She thought it out because again, she's looking for the validation. Now, notice there's a flip side to how this man is talking. He's basically saying, "You should have bought the baby." That's what he's saying. Have you really thought this out? Because that's what these girls are going to get taught. And once they do that, their lives are messed up. Their lives are messed up because a lot of women, some women are just damn right damn demons. They'll kill a million babies or don't think about it or nothing. But ordinarily when a woman aborts a child, they that stays with them. They're scarred and that psychological damage stays with them. You'll understand that. So, there's a lot of things going on here. Play on.

You have the income to raise a child. Do you have Go ahead. No and yes at the same time. How is How is How do you have money to raise a kid? Um Kids are expensive. It is. Um I've been trying to save all my money that I get. Um And the money you get is off the streets sometimes. And like I'll like try anything to get some money like selling stuff that I don't need. Um yeah. You don't think maybe having an abortion might free you up to maybe stabilize yourself? Maybe getting a a high school education. Maybe things like that. Pause it. You notice the the the answer to sin is abortion, right? But the point should have been driven home. Sister, you don't need to be out here dealing with like this. But she has no man. She has no father. And again, how these things tie together? You don't know the reason why the fathers How in the hell is she born and there's no father there? That that has always made me sick. Where do these girls come from? Where do these young boys come from? How the hell you mean you got children in a neighborhood and there's no father? That really disgusts me. Where the hell are the fathers at? How the hell are these children going to grow up and there's no man to be over to make sure that this don't happen to these daughters? Damn. Go ahead.

Might free you up to maybe stabilize yourself, maybe get a high school education, maybe things like that. Yeah, I'm supposed to be going to school this month. Um, have you been going to school? I have. I did summer school. But before that, were you going to school? No. And yes, at the same time. Are you still talking to your mom? I talk to her, but I don't I'm not in the same household as her. Yeah. What did she think of your pregnancy? Uh, well, she knew I was pregnant. Like, she kept on asking me like, "Why is your stomach poking out? This, that, and the other." When she found out, when the doctor came out and told her she needed some time alone, and it's like it's really nothing she could do about it. You're one of those kids. But when she found out, I was already four months. So, it's like I don't know. Let me ask the big question here. Who's the dad? Damn. He's a 18-year-old. He was a boyfriend or somebody you knew or a trick or he was a gang banger pimp trying to be a pimp. Great. Oh boy, Darling, you should watch my channel sometimes and just just I'll watch your videos. See see the long-term story for girls that kind of got started the way you are. Mhm. See where they're at at 40 years old, man. But you want to do what you want to do. Mhm. Does he make money? Pause it. You want to do what you want to do. You want to have this baby. That's again encouraging the abortion. But what happened? Why wasn't she encouraged to live a life that did not lead this way? Because of many things that we do lead to our daughters growing up without a father, lead to our sons growing up without a father, in jail, incarcerated. There's a lot of work that we have to do on this end. We got a lot of evil to correct. I'm serious. We got a lot a lot of evil to correct out here. And I'm saying we because if we as men don't do it, who the hell will? If we ourselves don't fix it, what bird or what animal is going to fly out the sky that's going to do what we as men supposed to do? Learn how to organize and set things in order as men. I know that's a challenge, but a lot of a lot of times we don't want to face those kinds of challenge. But your head needs to you be need to be made to think, made to put on your best minds, made to organize and start right in the circle where you at and let that expand where we can eventually save sisters like this. Go ahead.

You want to do what you want to do? Mhm. Does he make money? Sometimes and no at the same time because is he gonna is is he gonna be in the picture? No, my baby I'm the father. Oh, great. This is perfect. I'm just I'm just saying as an outsider I I think there's you know when people laugh, you hear she's she's not really laughing. Often times we laugh to cover up the obvious pain of acknowledging that I don't have a father for my child. It's a coping mechanism. Thank you. It's a coping mechanism. All of these pain and problems that we deal with. It almost seems like it's help. It's hopeless. But we know that we got the power of the Lord behind us. And with through him, nothing is impossible. Nothing is impossible and we must believe that. I don't sit here thinking that we can't do. That ain't the way I think. I wouldn't be involved in this if I didn't think that we were going to win. My point is I want you to believe like I believe and like the rest of us believe and let's get the job done. I pay attention to the progress that we have made from the very beginning up to now. And if we've come this far, there's no end to how far we can go. We just got to stay the course of keeping God's commandments the way this Bible instructs us to do so. Play on.

I'm almost your decision-m should be questioned. Mhm. He says, "I think your decision-m should be questioned." Meaning, you should really rethink getting an abortion. The hell with how her mind is going to be after that. Go ahead. Just I'm just telling you as a friend. Not a friend. I don't understand. You're not a friend. That's right. You're not a friend to say that. They want to reconsider your decisions. Mhm. Cuz you can always get pregnant. You got another You got another 30 years to have a kid. Mhm. Almost 20 years. You don't need to rush that. Especially when in the situation you're in now. You are you're as unstable as can be. Mhm. And you think the kid is going to help you in in some way, it's going to make your life harder. Yeah. She said the kid is going to make her life better because again that validation like I was saying about the other video, the girl said that she wanted cuz she even looked, she said the kid got his eyes and all that. She was elated about that thing about the baby that she had this about the baby that she had from this man. And the man still didn't really want to deal with her, but she said, "Well, at least I got something from him." Y'all really got to understand the trauma and the and the and the sickness that's going on in our nation. We got to pay attention to these cues. Go ahead. Murder. Yeah. The only thing, the only positive I can see here is that you're not using drugs. Mhm. Are you not using drugs? No, I have not did any drugs since I found out I was pregnant. What were you using before the pregnancy? I was using helium. Stop. I saw that helium. Ain't that the thing they put in balloons? How the hell could you inhale helium? I had to look that one up. That one that's beyond my c vocabulary as a drug. I had to look that one up. Play on.

And you think the kid is going to help you in in some way? It's going to make your life harder. Yeah. The only thing the only positive I can see here is that you're not using drugs. Mhm. Are you not using drugs? No, I have not did any drugs since I found out I was pregnant. What were you using before the pregnancy? I was using helium. I was using weed and I was drinking sometimes. Oh man, she was using she was drinking. That goes back to what I was saying earlier. The drinking uh made it sociable, made it easy for her to indulge in behavior like this here, cuz it it blurred the lines between what I shouldn't do and what I should do. And she felt no barrier to keep her from doing something that's obviously she's going to regret. Not because she's having a baby, just because her life is ruined. The girl is only 14 years old, man. That's that's unheard of. She's still a child. And this is the reality that's going on in our communities. But again, that's where we as men come in, man. And we cannot be weakened by our own problems that we can't put in check. Sinful alcoholism, weed, fornication. You act like you ain't got no damn brain. You act like you're a damn animal. Like you can't have some discipline over your actions and God made you. Is that it on that? Uh, that was the end of that video. Okay. All right. Uh, so I'm I'm winding it down. And what I'm going to do because it's 9:00 in New York, so I know where we getting at. So I'm about to wind it down. Look like you found the video. That's the one. That was That was the one. So I being that you have that being that time is running out. You know, I wasn't going to get this finished, don't you? Y'all already know that. But here's what I'm going to say. Here's what I'm going to say. Um, and I got a few videos that I've did this before on a, you know, on a Sabbath class and I know I didn't finish it and then I said, I'll do the next part next week, whatever, stuff like that. Then I got to a point of saying, well, I'll do it on the Bible book of our fathers where I'll be more detailed and going into cuz I'll just do it in sections cuz this particular subject and the stuff that we're talking about is vast. Yes, you can dedicate whole segments just dealing on one part of this thing because you really want to be able to go deep, get some real analysis and bring out all kind of scriptures on things like the alcohol thing for an example. I got a list of of scriptures here that just deal with alcohol period and the effects of it. I'm going to bring that out, Lord willing, on the Bible book of our fathers, Fridays 6:00 p.m. Eastern time. That's right. So, I'll bring it out like that and I'll go through the rest of what's in this uh class, but I like I said before, I've said that about other classes that I said that I was going to do on the Bible book of our father. So, I am not forgetful of that for those who are paying attention to what I'm saying. There was a few classes that I've done on the Sabbath and I said that I would do the uh I guess the exploded view, you know, the the the the details of what I brought out collectively on the Sabbath class like the, you know, like a totality of it and then I give the actual breakdowns in detail on the Bible book of our father. So I know I have a few other subjects that I'm that I need to do as well. So, I'm not forgetting that. But I definitely will have to finish this one on that as well. One of the things that I will say, I'm I'm going to play a couple more videos. Couple more. Just a couple more. Uh but they're not nowhere as long as this. I want to get to the point of showing what we are about because again um I'm making the point that we have to be that example that that righteous city that sits on a hill for our people on the outside to see the righteousness that we're doing and they will be compelled to emulate us in spirit to follow us as we follow Christ and that the father may be glorified when they repent because of our light that's being shined unto them. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. All right. All right. All right.

So, now let's see. I'm going to show something. Um, I talked about this. I talked about I'm just looking at my lesson here. Give me Judges chapter 5 and 11. Yes, sir. I'll make this point and I'll say because I'm I'm skipping a lot. I'm skipping some pieces. Uh, nope, no, no, I don't want that yet. I don't want that yet. Uh, I'm going to play a couple of videos. Uh, yeah, you had it up there on the board. I want to read something before I play it, though. In order to Let's see. Um, read first. Read first. Mcabes. Nope. Nope. Nope. I'mma I'mma read these things. I'mma I'mma roll through here. Give me Give me Jeremiah chapter Give me Jeremiah chapter 18. Yes, sir. Why is it on our end or their their end? Well, our lights went out, so it's not the broadcast. Okay. All right. Um, well, they probably still heard me, so anyway, that works if they still heard me. Did we lose anything in the broadcast? Okay. All right. All praises.

So, what I wanted to point out is that, and I'm going to read this, so I'll make sure that I stay on point with what I was bringing out. I I made the point that the person that was dealing with the young sister, he asked her, he said, "How is this baby going to help you?" And she answers, and the answer is, well, this is what I'm this is what I interpreted, even though she didn't clearly answer it that way, but there's other videos that back this up. Her answer is spirit. I will say she feels that the baby will fill a will fill a void of feeling devalued and unvalidated because of no meaningful father figure in her upbringing. So that's why she said that I will be all right by having this baby. You'll understand that it's some sad stuff. Yes, it's very sad. And so somebody wrote that in the comments. But the thing that I want to mention on top of that is that our first temple is our bodies, men and women. And we have to value the we have to value ourselves. And anybody talking foolish to abuse that thing, you need to put his behind or her behind in check and stop that immediately because you know where it's going to end up. Takes fathers to tell you that. It takes elders to tell you that. Takes senior mothers to tell their daughters that, senior men to tell these young brothers that. And don't squander themselves. Satan is trying to destroy you. Jeremiah 18:12. This is what happens to a people that have no hope. This is what we did. We end up looking for things. Jeremiah 18:12. Read that real quick. The book of Jeremiah. And I know this was talking about the religions of of how we were messing up. So again, I'm reading this in the context of the class that I'm bringing out. Okay? Precept upon precept kind of thing. Read that 18 and 12.

The book of Jeremiah 18 and verse 12. And they said there is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices. This is what we said about these different religions that we were involved in. But in the case that I'm bringing here, the devices could be drugs. The devices could be alcohol. These are coping things that we use to get us to get us to the because of no hope. We look for for compensatory um measures, wicked compensatory measures, drugs, alcohol, fornication, promiscuity. We say that we're in love when you know you're not. You say that this man's going to be with you when you know he's not. And you give yourself them because you're looking for a quick a quick miracle salve to the emptiness that you have within you and you gave your body up for that. You destroy your liver because of that. You destroy your brain cells because of that. You risk the health of your you risk the righteous upbringing of your family. You fathers because of that you've lost your wife because of that. You've lost your husband because of different things. Read. And they said there is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart. So whatever evil concupiscence that comes, evil communication, you will indulge in that because you will use that as a crutch and an excuse to take drugs to indel to to to deal with with uh with deba with uh debaucherous type behavior. 1 Corinthians 3 and 16 and 17. I'm coming on down the line. I'm almost done about another 20 minutes and I'm going to stop it. Yes, sir.

The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 16. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God? Know you not, you sisters and you brothers. Don't you know that your body you are the temple? Remember we was talking about the temple with Zerubbabel and all that. But the temple that has to be first built is you. You got to value your own temple. Your own body that God gave you. Read that again. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God. You are the temple of God. Go ahead. And that the spirit of God dwelleth in you. And the spirit of God dwells in you for you to use your head that God put on top of that body to make sure that that body is covered with God's righteousness. Understanding that God fashioned you. Go ahead. If any man defiled the temple of God, if any man or woman allowed themselves to be defiled by alcohol, fornication, anything cuz that's that body that you got. You that's a price that for God to give you that that's not something that he wasted his time on building. You got to realize that this is God's creation. Your body is God's creation. You don't allow anything to mess it up. Go ahead. Him shall God destroy. Him or her shall God destroy. Go ahead. For the temple of God is holy. Which temple ye are? Which for the temple of God is holy. Which temple you are? Your body is holy. What do you mean? I can't stop doing this. I can't stop doing that. No.

1 Mcabes 3:44. The book of First Mcabes chapter 3 and verse 44. Then was the congregation gathered together that they might be ready for battle. That they might be ready for battle. So in the Mcabes, we've had to physically go to war because their minds were already ready. Our minds ain't ready yet for none of this. So the first battlefield that we must conquer is the battlefield of our mind to get rid of the things that mess us up of our own selves. You end up defeating your own selves by your own bad habits. You have to defeat that before you can even talk about doing anything. A change of the nation will eventually lead to a change of the world. But the nation, meaning us, we got to make sure that we change this before we can change anything out there. That's right. Where you at? Read. Then was the congregation gathered together that they might be ready for battle and that they might pray and ask mercy and compassion. Sometimes we have to pray and fast for some of these spirits that be on us. Get the leadership to pray and fast for you and mean it in sincerity. Don't ask us to fast and you ain't trying nothing. You got to try along with us. Have that have the Lord to intervene. Paul asked, "Can you take this away from me?" The Lord knew that Paul can endure it, but some of us might not be able to endure it on our own. Some of us, it's going to take fasting and prayer to get it out. And the Lord gives you that provision if you really want it. And don't make an excuse to not do it. My problem ain't this alcohol. You hear people say that. I said, "What the hell you mean it ain't that?" But the alcohol is a common denominator in every damn thing you did. So what the hell you mean it ain't a problem? Start with that. The minute you make an excuse to keep that, you ain't saying nothing. You ain't trying to change. That's right. If you first acknowledge that this right here is the accelerant that brings me into that, the first and easiest thing for me to be able to do is put it down, then I can work on the rest of me. But I got to stop the bridge, the vehicle that's literally bringing me into the problem. Let me start with that first. I got an addiction to porn. Get rid of the damn phone or whatever. Get rid of it. Flip it. Get a flip phone. Get a Fisher Price phone. That's right. Whatever they got. Get one of them. Yeah. Obama phone. Whatever. With no damn screen on it. That's right. Do that. I don't want to do that. And then you make excuses. Well, I I started my lessons with it. No, [ __ ] You ain't going to start no lesson. You going to use it for porn. You start making excuses. But yet, you talking about something. You want to deal with the You want to deal with the outside. You ain't ready yet. This is what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about. The first part of this battle is spiritual. It's the battle, mental temptations. It's that battle we got to fight that spiritual and that they uh and it's a battle where

We must resist the impulse to give into sin. That's the first thing. Get rid of the obvious thing. Stop it on that front. Wicked friends, cut them off. Get rid of those phones that that's got you connected to this to this and that.

If you're serious about it, we must learn the importance of operating and governing ourselves as a self-sufficient nation while we are still in captivity, in Babylon. Now, it sounds like I just jumped the subject because I'm like, as I'm bringing it to a close. In order for us to even be effective outside, we have to really learn how to be that nation that the Lord told us to gather together and become. Y'all all right? Yes, sir. That's what we have to do.

We talked about that in Zephaniah 2:1. We was reading that in uh in uh Haggai, and we're reading it in other scriptures about how we have to gather together and begin to truly employ these commandments and learn how to be that nation among ourselves and change mentally and spiritually and let that and let that force lead us to actually being an influence with the Bible on our people that are on the outside and thus we can change the planet Earth. It's got to be in that order. We got to get our minds right, then get our households right, then get our congregation right, then we can work on the community that's around us, 'cause they need to see the change in order for them to even believe. And then the Most High will continue to expand until we are eventually ruling this whole earth in God's righteousness. And that's what God wants, and that's what we want. We want to have the mind of God. That's what we want to be able to do, and that's what we need to practice in doing.

Video [Music] three, right? That's what I want. What was the one that y'all was about to show? Show that one. [Music] Little upbeat music. But notice what y'all looking at now. Notice what y'all looking at. We're just going to take it, take the sound down. I just want to just flash through some of the stuff. These are some of the Now, understand what you're looking at. The greatness that we've done in IUIC, right? In terms of us keeping these commandments and being strict with making sure that we have no sin among us. Do y'all realize that everyone that y'all see in this video, we came out of the world? Y'all understand me? And no telling what we were doing in the world. I don't know their backgrounds or anything like that. You follow me? But but looking at how they are now, I know that this work did great. This word and this gospel have done great works for these brothers and these sisters that's in here. This is the what we need to do among ourselves, and the people on the outside need to see the change. You see the sisters here, the kids room, the medical team, the sewing team, grill team, kitchen, hospitality, content creator, IT, photography, all of that. These are just different offices that we are dealing with nationwide, nationwise among us in here. But this transcends into the whole planet Earth.

Just want y'all to understand that uh Corinthians uh 12, read 4-6, and then I'm going to tell one more video and I'm about to end it. I'm going end it after this in one more scripture. Yes, sir. Read the book. Go ahead. The book of 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and verse 4. Come on. Now, there are diversities of gifts. There are diversities of gifts. I'm I'm making a reflection on what we just saw on the screen. Come on. But the same spirit. All of those different departments are underneath the umbrella of Christ. Okay? Of the same spirit. Christ is dealing with all of our brothers and sisters in these various departments that we have among us as a nation. We're governed under him. Go ahead. And there are diversities of operations. There are Did you skip something? No, sir. The administrations. You read that already? Verse five. No, sir, I did skip it. My Okay, come on. And there are differences of administrations. Administrations, and we have we have different departments and administrative offices in many of the operations that we have in IUIC. Some people know about them, some people don't. But that's all right for now. You dig it? Yes, sir. Uh many great things that's being done by women and men in IUIC because we understand that that's what nationhood is about. Read the next verse. I'm rushing through this, you know, because I'm going to I'm going to expound on these things in further episodes. Verse six. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the same God worketh in all of us to do righteousness in nation building. Okay. In nation building. Give me clip. Video clip number four. Video clip number four. Ecclesiasticus 38:1 says, "Honor the physician for the Lord created him." And we waking up now. We building towers for them, but we own nothing. The kingdom coming, and we waking up now. Deuteronomy 28:48 says, "In hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things." But we breaking free from bondage, and we waking up now. Romans 13:4 says, "The ruler is a minister of God for good." But our people suffer in these systems, and we waking up now. John 15:13 says, "Greater love hath no man than this to lay down his life for his friends." And we waking up now. Sirach 38:31 says, "They maintain the state of the world." I fix cars, but I'm building my people up, and we waking up now. Matthew 5:14 says, "We the light of the world." We wiring truth back into our people, and we waking up now. Ecclesiastes 3 says, "To everything there is a season." We feed our people, and we waking up now. Isaiah 40:31 says, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." And we waking up now. We hold many careers, and still not all of us are awake yet, but we waking up now. Give the Lord a hand. That's dope. Coming on down to the wire. I'm going to show you what it what it means to be a good light to our people that are on the outside when we do right. Okay, I'm going to run through this, and then we going to be out.

Our objective in this lesson is going to want to talk about our objection. Our objective is to fix not only ourselves but the entire earth and the world through God's instructions, which is the Bible. This is the purpose of our rehearsal. Give me Judges 5:11. The book of Judges 5 and verse 11. "They that are delivered from the noise of archers and the places of drawing water. There shall they there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord." So, I'm just bringing this up today. I know this is during the time of round Deborah with uh a um what's his name? Ahab and all that. Um, but read that again. "They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water," meaning in captivity. This is us in our captivity. Go ahead. "There shall they in captivity shall they rehearse the righteous acts of shall rehearse the righteous acts and the commandments of the Lord." Read on. "Even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel." Go ahead. "Then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates." Then it'll be ready for the Most High to take charge and to lead us out of captivity so that we could do the work that we are set to do. This is what we are doing in IYC. That's right. We are following the prophecy. We're following prophecy. We live through the prophecies and guidance of our Lord God and oblige our people to follow us as we follow Christ. That's the emulation that I was talking about that we seek to provide for our brothers and sisters who are that are on the outside who have yet to repent as Israelites. So, we want to be that guiding light to them to cause them to emulate and follow Christ as we follow Christ. So, it's a lot of work that we need to do on our end. I'm almost done. Play my next clip, my next video. Video five.

I want to make a point before you hit the button. I want to make this point because I'm about to speak about the good works of what I've seen the organization of the youth violence conflict resolution seminar is doing, and I mention that because at one point I was I was invited as a keynote speaker to come and speak at this event. So this was actually done in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I again want to focus on why it is important that organizations like this that I'm that you know that I happen to be able to come and say a few words at. But the great works that those brothers are doing in that organization is the kind of righteousness that I'm looking to see all of us do in whatever sphere, whatever sphere we're in, whatever realm we operate in, whatever office, whatever administration, whatever job that we have. Okay. So, like I said, I was invited to speak at this uh YCRS youth violence conflict resolution seminar event in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I was making the point that the change must begin with us. Hit the button.

"I need to escape this hell that I'm in." That's what's going on in the mind. Because he has no hopes. Has no aspirations. Have no no visions. And he said, "Well, I need to be comfortable in this hell that I'm living in. Give me that dope. Give me that give me those drugs. Give me that give me give me this alcohol. Give me that gun. Let me go settle my problems now." 'cause he made me happy and he he stepped on my manhood, kind of stuff. "You trying to do better than me. Your sneakers look cleaner than mine. Your car look better than mine. Let me offer him up." That's what's going on. Read it again. "Hope deferred maketh our hearts sick." So it makes us crazy. Makes us do crazy things because we have no hope. That we've been a test that we see that woman that was sitting there. I remember her. She actually came there and her son was killed in a bar in a barber shop. So uh that he just came friends lured him there and killed him. So we was actually speaking to her and you know the situation that involved with her and I think we got brothers in uh youth violence that was actually dealing with her. So we trying to keep in touch with that sister. And there's a few other people that I've learned through this or through this uh organization that we definitely are uh supportive of. So it's a good work that these brothers are doing this and that. And I believe there's some sisters involved in that as well. But uh play the rest of it as we move on.

"Our hearts sick. So it makes us crazy, makes us do crazy things because we have no hope that we can attest there. We can attain to right there to change our direction. That's why I say we as men have to fix this. We as men have to see the deficit that's in our community. We have to see the deficit in our lives to step in and do something, not just clap your hands." Y'all get that? Play the next clip.

Now, I'm going to show you something, some some other some other good stuff. The same organization, why the Youth Violence Conflict Resolution Seminar. And this was beautiful when I saw this here. Hit the button. So today we had a youth violence conflict resolution seminar here at today at the Reeds Foundation. We were actually doing it right across the street where they were having a funeral of Jashari Jackson. She was a 23-year-old woman who was killed senselessly by two teenagers. This right here led the mother to come over to our seminar, and she invited us over to speak at the funeral about the senseless deaths of her daughter and also the violence that commu that happens in our community. Where we invited them back to the the Reed Foundation after the funeral, where they came over, they heard what we had to say. We have many guest speakers talk about the problems in our community. And so we hope that this opened the ears of the people in Tulsa where we can have a change and we can come together and change this community for the better. Give the Lord a hand for that thing. All praises to the Lord. All praises to the Lord. All praises to the Most High. I'm going to close with one scripture. One scripture. I'm close with one scripture. Uh, let's see. Let's see. 2 Peter's chapter 3. I'm going to read this kind of quick. Second Peter's chapter 3:9. I actually had a lot going on here, but I'm going just read that. Yes, sir. Nine to the end. I'm going just go through this and we going to close up.

The book of Second Peter chapter 3 and verse 9. "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise." The reason why I wanted to speak about this because the prophecies like I've read earlier and like I mentioned the prophecies, knowing the prophecies, we live through those prophecies, knowing that the Lord is going to bring judgment. And the reason why I'm saying that is because we as men, we cannot be lazy knowing that the Lord is going to bring judgment. When the Lord said in Zephaniah 2:1, he says, "Gather yourselves together, oh nation not desired, before I bring the decree to destroy." So, he's not asking us anything. He said, "If you men don't do the things that you need to do as men, I'm going to kill you." That's what he's saying. So we don't have a choice. He gave us a body. He gave us a mind. He gave us the ability to stand up like men and fix things. That's why you have that intelligence. That's why you're here. And if you squander that through alcohol, through promiscuity, adultery, any of that foolishness, the Lord is going to destroy you because you were not put here to be some damn spiritual baboon acting crazy. That's right. You're supposed to do the things that the Most High challenge you to do. And that's what we going to do. Read that again.

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering toward us." He is longsuffering to us, meaning he wants us to repent and get ourselves right and do what he commanded us to do as men and as women. Go ahead. "But is longsuffering to us." We come on. "Not willing that any should perish." He don't want any of us to perish. That's why I said it earlier. It saddens me that brothers and sisters who once walked this truth fell out. Go ahead. "But that all should come to repentance." That all of us should come to repentance. This is what the Lord wants for us. Certainly, we should want that for each other. I see a brother and sister getting all in kind of trouble. The Lord would want us all to get ourselves right. I want my brothers to get right. If you fallen, get yourselves right, brother. We want you to regain yourself and walk in with us in righteousness. Same thing with you sisters. Pick yourselves up. Lift yourselves up and be the jewels that God made you to be. Come on.

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." So, we are compelled to be what the Lord told us to be. He said, "And if you don't do that and prepare, I'm going to come as a thief in the night and catch you off guard." Read. "And the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise." Read. "And the elements." The great noise is nuclear explosion, nuclear destruction. Read. "And the elements shall melt with fervent heat." That's that missile that's going to come down and vaporize everything. Go ahead. "The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." So, like I said earlier, we know the future. We know the future because we're reading it. And if we know the future, we should act accordingly. Go ahead.

"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved," seeing that these prophecies are going to come to pass. Go ahead. "What p What manner of persons ought ye to be?" What manner of persons ought we ought to be to not allow ourselves to be knocked off by alcohol, to be knocked off by drugs, fornication, gluttony, and all the rest of the things that destroys our spirit, our minds, our decision-making, destroy all that. And we are intelligent human beings. We are intelligent people that was made in the image of God. We must carry ourselves that way. Read on. "All in all holy conversations." So that's how we ought to be. Read that verse again. "Seeing what?" "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved." Seeing that we know what's coming. Go ahead. "What manner of persons ought ye to be?" What manner of persons are we to be knowing that this is coming? Go ahead. "And all holy conversation and godliness." And our conversations need to be holy. Holy. Go ahead. "Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being of on fire," meaning that these kingdoms going to be burnt up and destroyed. Go ahead. "Shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." That's the reason why God calls these scientists to build these missiles. Go ahead. "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, looking for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." That's what we're looking for. When we get to that point where we're dwelling in righteousness, that's when we can change the whole planet Earth. Read on.

"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blameless." Without spot. Can't be an alcoholic. Can't be a drunk. Can't be a fornicator. Can't be a [ __ ] an an adulterer, an extortioner. Can't be any of that stuff. We need to purge all of those evil spirits from us. Read. "And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation." Go ahead. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you." Read. "As also in all his epistles speaking of them in these of these things in which are some things hard to be understood." It's going to take the prophets to properly break this Bible down. That's what we're doing now. In Paul's letters and all the and the records all over the Bible. The Most High gave this word to the prophets to bring out the truth. Ain't nobody else going to be able to do this. Go ahead.

"Which they that are unlearned and unstable rest." They are unstable with Christianity giving you lies. That's the reason why that can that apologetic crap cannot stand up to the word of the Most High. Read on. "As they do also the other scriptures unto their own destruction." A lot of black people that's tied up in that thing, they're going to die because they're going to wrestle with the Bible being lied to, and they're going to wrestle to their own destruction because they never going to come into the knowledge of the truth if they don't come out of that mess. Read on.

"Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things," seeing that you and I know these things, come on. "Before, beware, lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfast." Be led by the error of these other religions, other religions, not the true religion, but these other religions. Be led away from that, and you'll be destroyed. Read on. "But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." To him be glory both now and forever. All praise to the Most High. All praise to the Most High. We say shalom. Most High in Christ bless you all. Happy well Sabbath is over pretty much. But thank you for tuning in all brothers and sisters. Stay in the commandments. Keep the word of the Lord. All praise to the Most High. Shalom. What do we got? What do we got? Hey, that was an excellent class by the bishop, right? Yeah. All praise to the Most High. Turn me up a little bit. Just a little bit. All right, we got some announcements. We got some announcements. Are we ready with the first video?

A hate group. No, I don't think you're a hate group. How can you be a hate group when you're not talking from what you know? You're actually reading from the Bible. And the question is, why don't you ask of them? That's what you should be concerned about. And when you're concerned about that, you're going to live differently here. So, we have to return our women back onto the law, statute, and commandments. They have to take this law right here. 63 LG white. The problem is is when you say that you are a [Music] man shining light up on your past. You know he's been lying. He's been corrupted. Now disgusted. It's time to break them down. You ain't never had a spirit. I learned a lot today, and the most important one is to repent for my sins and also to preach the gospel and to keep this Sabbath holy. All praises to the Most High. IUIC Boston held down 31 days of camp in New England, hitting and areas, hitting Massachusetts, Rhode Island, even Maine. All praise to the Most High for another victory. Next video.

Hey, shalom Israel. Most High Christ bless. Hey, look. We here at the Afra Festival. We're here to teach our people their true history according to the Bible. This is the second time we were able to come out here, but look, we hitting them hard. We had some scoffers. They can't even box against the word of God. Sir, before you head off, I'mma show you. Revelation chapter one and verse one. "The revelation of Jesus Christ." Now, this going into the revealing of Jesus Christ. The word revelation is just expanding from two reveals. So, you got to keep the commandments to be kept by the blood of Jesus. You can keep the commandments. So, you can't be covered by the blood of Jesus then? Yeah. But you said you I just asked you a while ago. I said, "Can you keep the commandments?" Yes. Yes. Yes. Keep them right now. I'm not buying and selling on a Saturday. I'm keeping it. Watch this. Are you in jail right now? Are you in jail right now? Are you without sin? Are you in jail right now? I got a question for you. Are you in jail right now? Why are you not in jail? Oh, so all them laws and rules in in the white man's book, you can follow them, right? So why can we follow God's? What are we talking about? If you don't believe and we believe, that's okay, brother. You can die on your own. We believe Christ is the true Messiah, the black Messiah, and we got to keep the commandments in the faith. That's it. All praise to the Most High. At the Delaware Afra festival, we brought the truth of our heritage to our people and proclaimed the message of the real black Messiah. Even with scoffers in the midst, the word went forth with power. All praise to the Most High. Next video.

Shalom. So most High in Christ bless. This is Officer Samuel with IYC Nassau Bahamas Camp, and we just got through with another [Music] time someone do something. I mean, what you doing now? It's a very good job. You know, a lot of the church be walking and there a getaway. So people hide and do foolishness. You're doing a good job. Keep it up. So, not only is Israel United in Christ taking initiative to clean up the minds of our people, but we actually come out here in this camp spot and teach on the Sabbath. All right. So, this is the area that's familiar to us, and we want to show our brothers and sisters in the community that not only we going to clean up our mindset, we're going to clean up our communities, one community at a time. This is the very first camp that leadership ever came down to see us here at Nassau Bahamas. And this is where they taught from that time to now it is not being cleaned. The prophets are putting in the work to make sure the people see the example to help their minds and to help our people 'cause right now it's political season here in the Bahamas. Uh, we just want to let our people know this is biblical. We just tell a barber shop mission about two weeks ago. Nobody could have parked here. Look at it now. Okay. Look at the before and after photo. It speaks for itself. We here at this United N Obama, we here to do this work, and this work is for the Most High. With that, we say shalom. Shalom. All praise to the Most High. That community cleanup is setting examples for sure. IUIC Nassau Bahamas completed another community cleanup. The residents in the area were inspired and shocked that we were doing it for free and without a political agenda. We'll be in different areas in the near future to keep our communities free of trash, both physically and spiritually. Subscribe to IUIC Nassau Bahamas to support the troops in the islands. All praise to the Most High. Next video. [Music]

So, we just had our family and friends barbecue, and all praise to the Most High. It went well. My God. Burn up with a burning murder. [Music] Children have fun. The men got the chance to build on the scriptures. Got the chance to, you know, play some flag football. Princess who who's the fastest in the congregation. I had a really good time today. One thing that I really really enjoyed was just how welcoming everybody was and how kind everybody was. So, I really really appreciated the the warm welcome, and it is so good to come together with your people, you know, because we don't do it much, and I enjoyed it. So, it has been a good day, and I thank my niece for inviting me out here, and I will be back next year, if God's willing. Thank you. All praises to the Most High. [Applause] Hey, they saw a righteous gathering. No weed, none of that. All right. Uh, I see Toronto got the opportunity to let their light shine at their annual friends and family day. If you are thinking about congregating and or in the greater Toronto area, don't waste any time. Reach out. Next video.

Shalom Israel. Most High bless. This is IYIC New Orleans. What we did today is we brought out the young men, the young prophets to fish today so they can learn a new skill and learn how to bond amongst each other because this is something that's going to actually benefit them in the long run. That is more to life than just football, basketball, things of that nature. They had a good time. They enjoy their self. Now we are able to show them how they can use their skills further on in the future to better themselves, even better their own sons one day. Shalom. [Music] All praises to the Most High. IC New Orleans took the young man fishing to teach him a life skill coupled with brotherhood and unity. All right. Next up. Next up. What we got? Memorial blowing of trumpets. Who coming? Who coming? Man, y'all ain't. Come on now. All praise to the Most High. So here are the dates. Here are the dates. You got Memorial Day blowing of trumpets going to be September 7th at sundown. You got Day of Atonement, September 16th at sundown. And then, of course, we all waiting on this one, too. Feast of Tabernacles, September 21st through September 28th. Get your stuff together so you can be there. All right. All praise to the Most High. All right, next video. Oh, we got class dates here. Uh, September Oh, fasting dates. I'm sorry. The fastest days, the third quarter. You got September 12th, and then you got September 16th, which is Day of Atonement. Sundown to sundown. Y'all, let's get ready for it. All right. I never heard this before. That's some crazy crazy stuff. And the man say you can't keep the law. But we don't understand that. Christianity say you can't keep the law. But when you quote yeah, we have to keep the law but we under grace confusion. Christianity is a drug, and our people are destroyed. [Music] All of the Most High God departments are on the four corners of the world. We right here in France. We got brothers in the Netherlands, Germany, Kenya, everywhere doing the work, doing the Passover. We must work up the people 'cause [Music] all praises, all praises. Isaiah 11 and 11 Ministries. The mission continues. Subscribe now to IUIC Diaspora on all social media platforms. If you would like to join this great mission, email us now at IUIC.asper at Israelite.org. 12 tribes. All right, let's keep it rolling. [Music]

A lot of our own people like to say, "Why does it matter the color?" When he was white, you never said that. When he was Chinese, you never said that. But the moment we point out in the Bible that he's a black man, you know, old people say, "Why don't I hide? Hide yo?" This man's kingdom got to go. This man got to go. You church ministers that's listening, invite us to your to your church. Let's sit down. Let's have a discussion. Let's figure out how to help Grenada. How to help all of the islands that are surrounding us. Judge for my father is greater than I am. Nothing worse. Learn you came up here and ran up to some lions and got okay. The Bible said it would happen to the children of Israel. It also happened to your ancestors. So who does that make you? Israelites. You're an Israelite. All praises. All praises. Booster club mission number 175. IC Bliss, the island of Grenada for booster club mission number 175 led by Captain Gatalia and Officer Padiel. The word of God went forth strong to the tribe of Benjamin. Help us continue this great mission by supporting IUIC Grenada on social media platforms. 12 tribe worldwide. All right. Uh, take out your phones. Take out your phones. We got that QR code up there. All right. Next video. Next video.

This is Captain A. Hey, where we at? We're at Carol Fest out here in Calgary, Canada. You know what we doing? We blazing the streets over here. We trying to shut it down. Man, we had some adversities, but the Lord has favor with us. God chose you to be special and above above all people. Not the same, not equal, but above. I didn't think that was anything. It's just to tell you what it has been covered up. So, at the end of the day, the mission was accomplished today. The word went out and the seed was planted. All praise to the Most High. Or would it bigger and better next year so the people go get the word whether they want it or not, but the word of God is going to go out regardless. You guys need to do, but man, you stepped in front of my and once again the black woman tries to shut down the black man. How are we going to learn if we don't teach them and show them who they are? Idolatry, backl, carnival, all of these things is garbage. Know about The Bible don't tell or what? Oh, the Bible do. Oh, the Bible do. The problem is you're ignorant to the word of God and you hate God. That's the issue. Oh, praise to the Most High. Praise to the Most High. Oh, one second. One one second. Put the camera on me for a second. Put the camera on me for just a second. All right. All right. Hey, shout out to Deacon Malachi. Deacon Malachi. Why am I talking? Why am I saying that? Where that little thing at? He always does this. He be looking all over the camera. No, this What? What is on this side of the light? Here it is. Damn. This is hard to do. This is hard to do. Hey, uh Deacon, I I got you, brother. Hey, brothers and sisters, make sure that you support the booster club. Uh, you know, a lot of work has to be done all over this planet, and we need your support. We need your support. We need your support. So, please hit that QR code. Finger all over the place, but y'all see it. Donate to the booster club. Okay. The way it's written there, text give to 646982 30. What's that? 38. 38. 38 58. Brothers and sisters, we need your support to get this gospel out so that we could be that beacon of light to our brothers and sisters all over this planet Earth. And it begins by your donations and your help. Okay? So we thank you for supporting us so far to make sure that this word get out, and we ask that you continue to support because this this truth must get out to our people, and we have to bring this gospel to our people to uh get us out of this problem. Okay. So thank you brothers and sisters for supporting the bus club because without you, many of this, many of the great things that we do would not be possible. So just making that point and thanking you for your support so far. I need I guess I need to be looking down here at the camera. Support, support, support. Thank you, brothers and sisters. Shalom. Continue on. All praise to the Most High.

For that last video, uh, it's going to be Captain Naomi with the men of Seattle, Toronto, Edmonton, and Spokane. Went to the 2025 Carry Fest in Calgary, Canada to bring fire with the word of God. Although the imperious black woman wanted the camp shut down, many people were edified. All right. All praise to the Most High. Let's keep doing that work. Next video.

Hey, shalom is most High Christ bless officer. We out here in Reosa, Mexico. A place to the most High mission now. Now, instead of us being in the border, we're now inside the city. We got two brothers out here in Reosa who's repenting, trying to get built up. So off praise the Most High for this opportunity. Again, brothers, the scripture say he that is faithful in little shall be faithful in much. Brothers sacrifice the Most High, and now we got spirits that want to change. We got brothers who want to learn and get built up. So we out here Reosa by a big over here, and we're going to bring out the word of God. Yeah. Don't get us started. The prophets, we cross the up. They fearing them, but they fearing them. We going to bury them. We going up a scaring us. Oh, praises to the Most High. The prophets, the prophets of IIC touched down in Renoso, Mexico, bringing forth the word of the Most High God. All praises. We have two brothers there, repent, and Lord's will, we can continue to water the seeds there and build a little sanctuary as it is written. All right, next video. [Music]

A specific. We out here. We're trying out these different spots here in uh in Argentina. So, we're in this uh chief place of concourse here that we're going to try to see if we can compel people to come in and uh hear God's word. A lot of people coming off the buses, waiting for the buses and things like that. So, we'll see his will, Most High, to people be edified. The word help God's people to come in. For fire. All praise to the Most High. Watch as the spirit of God continues to dwell with the northern kingdom prophets as they break ground and bring the true gospel to the tribe of Naftali in Argentina for the first time ever. Premiering this Sunday on IUIC TV and IUIC events to 12 tribes worldwide. And this was Argentina mission 123, the search for Naftali. Next video. Levi newly married. import. [Music] [Music] [Applause] For me. [Music] [Music] Marad [Music] Hey, we making marriages great again. Please believe it. Please believe it. I DC, it's an honorable thing in the sight of the Lord to see a new union built upon the laws of God. Man, I tell you, that was royalty. The the way they had that that place decked out and the way that their garments looked and all that. That was that that's what our people need to see. Stuff like that, man. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. Get Hey, get that. Let that brother know that's that that suit is slick. I like that. That suit is slick. He had it going on. I like that thing. That's right. Congratulations to the House of Officer Levi. All right. This going to conclude the Sabbath announcements. All right. All right, let's get ready to break bread. Is everybody got bread and wine? Anybody missing? All right, we good.

The book of 1 Corinthians 11 and verse 23. "For I have received of the Lord that which also I I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread; And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ we pray. Amen.

We got to give a shout out to the uh to the bread team. That bread was all right. Shout out to the people in the kitchen, brothers and sisters in the kitchen. No, you know, I'm always happy to uh to uh to acknowledge and exhort, that's the word, the great works that that the brothers and sisters do all over IUIC. It's really it's really good to behold and see the greatness that continues to emulate to uh emanate from you. Like I was saying about when you out out on this, you know, when you're out on the outings and so forth, and the brothers are taking the pictures, and the different brothers and sisters who's dealing with the photography and all that, and get to show the greatness that and the good imagery that you bring out there for our people to see. And I'm and I'm I'm always looking for it on Instagram and different things. I love to see the things that I see. So keep it up, sisters. Keep it up. You're doing a great work. Like I said before, it's it's truly inspiring. Thank you. Uh, and your brothers, same thing. You're protecting these sisters as they go out. You know, that's a beautiful thing. And this is this what the nations need to see. They need to see that we really love our people. And that's something that is not always seen. So, you we're really uh breaking spiritual barriers and psychological uh walls that that we have this that our people have this uh this viewpoint about their own imagery. And we're shattering that with greatness and continue to do that thing. Never stop doing it. Never stop doing it. Believe me, you're reaching many hearts and minds. So, all praise to the Lord. [Applause]

All right. All praise to the Most High. Appreciate Bishop Yasab coming down. So, it was an excellent class. Great class. Give it up for Bishop one more time. Yeah. Yeah. On your feet. On your feet. Let's go, brother. On your feet. Brothers. On your feet. [Applause] We are living God. God. Glory to God. We are What time is it? What time? What time is it? What time? Who's the king? Christ. Who's the king? Christ. What color is he? What color is he? Who am I? Who am I? In the light. 12 tribes. Worldwide. 12 tribes. Worldwide. Unity. Unity. Unity. Unity. Never give up. Never give in. Never give up. Never give in. And finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord. His life. His what? His life. His what? His life. His what? His what? Oh, praise. It's good. Yeah.