Latest / Dope Discussion With Normthegreat1 🔥 / The Power of Faith in Turbulent Times
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- Mr Normthegreat1: Welcome to Dope Discussions, where faith isn't quiet and truth isn't comfortable. We're having the conversations most people avoid about purpose, pain, leadership, relationships, identity, and the real walk with God. No pretending, no performance, no watered-down gospel, just raw growth, real convictions, and kingdom conversations. And kingdom conversations that challenge you to become who God called you to be. And now here's your host, Norm the Great One. Yo, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, man? You already know who it is. It's a great one. We back in the building. Yes, Lord, we back in the building. Another day, another opportunity. You know, that's how we start every show by giving thanks, man, to the most high God for all his many blessings that he stores upon us. And one of the biggest blessings of them all, man, to be back behind the mic one more time and have another opportunity to be great, man. You know, that's what I always say, man. Another day, another opportunity because If God wake you out today, you got another blessing and it's another chance to have another opportunity to do something great, man. That's all it's about because so many people ain't got the opportunity, man. So don't never take that for granted that you see another day, man. No matter your circumstances or what you got going on, man. Take advantage of it. Make the best of it. Trouble don't last always, man. I'm here to tell you, man. I can tell you, man. But like I said, man. We back in the building. We got a nice show for you, man. And you know we had to do, get you over the hump. But we're gonna get you over the hump and get you to that fourth of July weekend. Cause you know we in July, man, time moving by fast. I remember my birthday was in January, man. It's like time just flies, man. It's like, man, we in July already, but I thank God for it, man. I thank God every day, man, you know, because with so many things going on, man. It's you just gotta be grateful, man, you know, for so many things. Some people look at it as the little things, man. I thank her for everything, man. ⁓ it's truly a blessing, man. ⁓ hope you had a good weekend and a good week so far, you know. Some like me, some people got that short work week or some people on vacation. I ain't mad at you, man. You know, ⁓ it's 4th of July week. And ⁓ you know, the 4th of July of this weekend, so we off that Friday, so you know, you are Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or whatever the case may be, man. I just hope you'll be able to get out. Enjoy some time with family and friends and stuff. Or if you're doing your solo thing or if you're traveling, man, be safe. Whatever the case may be, whatever you're doing with your time off or whatever. And if you gotta work, ⁓ man. You gotta do what you gotta do. It's all good. We're gonna have a little fun for you, man. We're gonna have a little fun for you. You know, it is what it is. ⁓ I had a pretty good weekend, man. I didn't do too much. ⁓ just relax and chill out, man. ⁓ it's always A blessing and a good time just to sit back and relax sometime without doing too much of nothing, man. And the older you get, man, you realize that that rest is imperative, man, to have that rest and be able to just sit back and chill, man. You know, I'm the type of person that I realize that you ain't always gotta always be on the go. You ain't always gotta be doing nothing. And I seem like the older I get, the more it's like I'm more like that. I can just chill and be calm and be at the house. Get you a nice book, you know, I'm a jazz man. Turn the jazz on and just chill out, man, you know, and it is what it is. I don't miss being outside. I don't miss that. Not knocking nobody who go out and do whatever they do, but I'm just saying for me personally, I like that peace and quiet, man, you know, that that quietness, man, it just does something to you, man, the calmness, you know. But ⁓ yeah. Ain't did too much of nothing. Like I said, first part of the week all is well. And can't complain, you know. But like I said, man, I was ⁓ Reading some stuff and watching some stuff, man. I got a question for the people out there. Like, what in the world is going on with these fights? Like, everywhere you turn is a fight. I mean, like, I never seen, I know I talked about this before, but this is getting ridiculous. I have never seen, I mean, I guess the social media with the videos is keep putting in your face on the algorithm or whatever the case may be, but man. Every angle you turn, it's a fight. They're fighting on the cruise. They're fighting at the trail rides. They're fighting at graduation. I mean, it's a fight everywhere. They're fighting in the restaurants. I mean, it's just fights after fights after fights. And I'm asking like, and I'm asking plenty of people like, why so anger? Like, why is it so easy to get in a stance and just fight like? And then thing about it that gets me, man, like, you know, every time you see a fight video or you see something, there's people on the side like egging it on, like I said this before. And I say it again. It's like they get excited about that thing about somebody pumbling and beating a nothing out of person to lay down the unconscious or bleeding and people get excited to see that blood or to see somebody just out there acting a fool like, you know, sitting there like, yo. What's the point? What's the point, man? And I never really see nobody in the video trying to talk people off the ledge or trying to work it out. You always see people out there, handle your business, handle your business, let ⁓ go. Let them go. And just hanging it on. Like they love the violence. They love to see somebody beat up beating the heck out of the next person and kicking and whatever. And I'm like, what is is this what we coming to? Like you can't go nowhere without seeing a video in a fight somewhere. It don't matter. They can be in traffic, they can be at Bird King, they can be at the car wash. It's they're gonna be a fight somewhere. Like, I don't understand where all the anger coming from. I mean, it's just like it's crazy. I mean, men, women, children, they rolling on the ground. I'm talking about trying to tear each other apart. If I'm not mistaken, it was a story coming out of Merlin somewhere where two girls was online and They were just talking trash. I don't know how it started, whatever, but long story short, they decided that they had enough back and forth online. They needed to take it to the street and see, you know, who's gonna do what. Long story short, they got online. ⁓ I guess they wasn't too far from each other, whatever the case may be. And they got offline and they went to take it to the street. Long story short, one of the sisters stabbed the other girl, other sister. She passed away, so now and I think she was a mother. So now them kids lose their mother to death, and you going to jail for murder, manslaughter, whatever you want to call it, f over something that was said on social media. Like it's I don't get it, man. It's like it's nothing for people to wanna kill another person or just be so angry. They want to rip them apart. Like it's nothing. the flip a switch to just make a person wanna see blood or inflict pain on somebody. It's like they enjoy it, man. And I'm like I don't get it, man. Like I I I I was dumbfounded about the whole thing because I'm sitting there like, and I'm telling you, I'll be on TikTok, I'll be on those things that's just like videos after videos. I mean, they're in the air on the airplane, fighting in the middle of the airplane. Man, you can imagine you and your family save your money up to go on a vacation or whatever the case may be. You thirty, forty thousand air up in the air, feet up in the air in the airplane, and it just took off, you doing good. You might got your little joints to cover your eye, got your little air pods and listen to your music or trying to doze off, but you can't go to sleep because you hear all the noise and the commotion. They got a Royal Rumble going on in the aisle. Thirty, forty thousand feet up in the air. They in the airplane. I'm talking about throwing haymake and you like, What in the hell? You gotta think about it, man. I done fly and been on flying some places and stuff. But my thing is What possess people that then spend your hard-earned money to go on vacation or whatever you gonna do to wanna be up in the air just fighting and carrying on? Like why? You know, maybe somebody can answer this for me. Why that's the first answer to come to everything? Like it's no conflict resolution skills or nothing. Everything let's go. Let's throw them dukes. Let's throw them up or fight or shoot or whatever. Like. That's the answer for everything. It don't matter how small it is. It don't matter how big it is. We might as well let's go ahead and shoot that with us and shoot that fade or let's square up or let's do all this here. And I mean, and after you boil after it boils down and then you really peel back the layers, it comes from nothing to something very small that you done got kicked off the plane, got arrested or something, and messed up other people's vacation because you probably had to come make an emergency landing. And somebody probably has some things scheduled to do on their vacation. But because you a knucklehead and you up in the air, we want to show your butt, you out here fighting and carrying on. So now they had to make an emergency landing. Messing up other people's plans because you can't keep your crazy self still. That's crazy, man. That's real crazy. And I don't understand it. I really don't. But like I said, man, I guess everything. Amen for me to understand. Because people love it. I mean, people love it. People love it. They will sit right there and you know they gotta grab that phone for the raw footage. They need that footage and they're gonna record and and commentate and do all that while you make a fool of yourself. I say I pray to God, man, that I understand violence gonna be as a thing. And maybe it seemed amplified because of social media and how much is push out there. But my goodness, people, we gotta do better. We gotta do better, man. It has to be a better way. It has to, man. It's no way, man. There's no way we keep continue going like this. We be done damn near kill each other and cut a fool. It it it's disgusting to me. I I know y'all guys up there. I know I'm not the only one. I know y'all guys are disgusted with it. Because you're tired of seeing it and you're tired of hearing it. You know? But like I said, that just might rant about that because it it does something to me because it's like, why? Why so much anger? Why so much? Why that's the first thing you go to? Man, that it just pissed me off, man. Excuse me, y'all. I I just, you know, it's just like, wow. We're never gonna get nowhere and do better. Or get taken seriously, do anything else because that's the only thing we know how to go to. That's crazy to me. And as you know, switching gears a little bit, as you know, last month was Black Men's Mental Health Month, which is pretty cool. I seen a lot of people support, and a lot of things ⁓ were done, and a lot of people spoke on it, but I don't believe it was pushed as enough as it should have been, but it was overpowered by. Pride month and you know that's ⁓ that's a whole thing in itself that this Pride Month that so many people are taking heat for. And it's crazy because as a man of God and believing in the Bible, I don't support Pride much. You know what I'm saying? I had a good friend of mine that was cool and he married another guy and you know we were cool, you know what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, He know my beliefs and he understand and respect that. I can't, I can't, you know, support that, you know? Ain't gotta be see the thing about it with me. I don't support that. I don't believe in it. I don't support it. But I don't have to be nasty about it, you know? I can respect you as a human being, you know, whatever your life decision is or whatever you choose to do, that's something that you and God got to come up with and handle. But my thing that I have with this pride thing is that. They're trying to force it on you like it's normal. It's not normal. So don't try to force that on me. And for the love of God, please don't try to force it on my kids. Like, ⁓ they should be able to make a decision. These kids don't even know what day it is. These kids don't know whatever it is going on. But you want to say these kids have the right to say they don't want to be a boy no more, they want to be a girl. At a at a young age and make a decision like that? That's ridiculous, man. That's ridiculous. And the thing about it is that they come with force. Like they want to be like, they want to be treated like it's normal. They want, I mean, like I said, I don't go out my way when I be in the mall or anywhere else to bash nobody across their head and ⁓ you shouldn't be doing that. You shouldn't be living like that. You know, no, no, no, no, no. But like I will say, I don't agree with it. I don't support it. But I don't have to disrespect nobody because of my belief and attack nobody and tell them what they should be doing. But my thing is, I saw a video where the sister ⁓ she was in Texas or somewhere, I'm not sure. She was at a baseball game and she had Jesus over pride on her hoodie or whatever. Now I don't know what all happened in between, but she got arrested and got walked out the stadium. My thing is, we had that time, at that place like back when the early church, you know, back when the early church was coming through, man, you know, it was damn near against the law to worship in church or to even be a believer because it was times where back in the early churches, man, where when you said you was a believer, you was a target. They were killing people that believed. I mean, they were at a place in the early church to where when you said that you was a believer and you believe in Jesus Christ, man, you were pro you were ⁓ prosecuted, man. They would take your head off. They will kill you. You know what I'm saying? And it was like the hate for the believers was so strong, like they couldn't even it didn't even matter. You know, at one point you had to They had to sneak and have church like in the basements or in the garage or different places. And even then they wasn't safe because they ⁓ they had ⁓ they had people coming through just coming to tear people up and killing them just because they believe. They had so many people that died and gave their life on the line because they wouldn't debunk Jesus, you know I'm saying? They stand in their faith and they say, for Christ I live or for Christ I die. Most people these days don't have no faith that deep or nowhere near it. Because they only want to choose Christ and believe in the word when it's beneficial and when life's going good. But you had people dying and wouldn't lie down and changed their mind about what they believe and gave their life up because of it. They even had a point where they approved for them to have church in the building. Then later on they came back and changed their mind. And they burnt down the church, burnt the Bibles. I mean, burnt everything. And like I said, it was a hard time just being a believer. You know what I'm saying? But that's where we're getting to that point now, man, because we are at a place where if you are a believer. You should stand firm. You know what I'm saying? But now we got so many different things going on to like, is that a place to where you got churches supporting pride? You got so many different things supporting pride. And like I said, I'm I'm scri I'm talking strictly from the Bible. I'm not talking about my feelings. I'm not talking about my thoughts. I'm talking about what I know. But then I can say, when you say you're a believer, you have to stand firm in the faith, man. You have to stand firm, but you're going to be tested, man. And that's just what comes with it, man. You're going to be tested. Romans 1 and 16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel because it's the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes. First to the Jews, then to the Gentiles. I am not ashamed of the gospel because it brings the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who's a believer. But see, we want to be a believer when it's convenient. But I'm a believer all around. And I stand on what the words say. And this is where things start to get a little tricky for people because a lot of people are believers, but when it comes to pride and all that other stuff, they got kids that's into that life and different things. And they say, well. I ain't turning my back on my child or whatever the case may be. I'll stand up with my kid, man. You know, I'm going with kid. And I understand that. You know, that's what you choose to do. But at the end of the day, my faith comes before my kids. Now I'm I'm still a father, absolutely. But what God said and believing in the word, that comes before all that. You know what I'm saying? Because at the end of the day, my Bible says, Don't bring no abomination in your house. Unless she be cur ⁓ cursed just like it. So when it's saying that, you know, same sex marriages and stuff, that's like abomination. So when you start to get into them things like that, like I said, I don't go out here and be beat nobody across the head or you going to hell, you this, that, dirty, let's she repent, whatever. No. Wanna have conversation? Absolutely. It was a person who open to have conversation. But to openly rebuke people and go against that, nah, I'm not doing all that. You know what I'm saying? Because people gonna do what they wanna do regardless. But if you speak the truth, you don't have to go out there and beat nobody across the head. But like I said, I don't go after that, go out there and attack folks because of the lifestyle that they choose. But my whole motto is, I'm alright with you living how you live. Just be cool. We'll come with it. But my thing is, like I said before, I don't like the fact of how they try to push it on you like it's normal. Don't try to force feed me anything that ain't biblical and I know it ain't right. It's not. And how they do the kids. And I seen a story like a little while back. It was this guy that I don't know what he identified as. And I don't want to sit here and lie. But he had a dress on and he wanted to go work to a place where ⁓ I don't know what you call them stores, but ⁓ it's a store women go and try bras on and stuff. And he's a grown man, but he got an address and talking about he identified I'm sorry. I do remember he identified as a a woman, but he's a grown man, but he wanna work in a store where women go to get size for their bra and all that stuff. Bro, come on man. Come on, man. Ain't no man or nobody in their right mind who got an old lady or a daughter gonna feel comfortable sending them in that store when they're supposed to be working with women, making sure they get the right bra size for their chest or whatever the case may be. So they can walk around for whatever the case may be for for when they wearing their bra and stuff, but you a grown man dressed up as a woman, talking about they discriminate against you because they didn't give you the job. No, bro, they can't give you the job because you're gonna be in there with women trying to get their their breasts sized up and stuff. No, no, you can't do that. I don't care what you identify as, sir. What are you? What were you born with? That's who you are, not who you try to be. and and and who you wanna be tomorrow, whatever the case may be. What did God made you be when you when you when you came out? When your mama pushed you out or you got cut out, what were you? That's what you are. You know? And often time people some people say, I was born like that and I I got one I heard somebody say the most coldest line. And I picked it up and I ran with it. Let's go to the water. You can be born again, give say any man in Christ, he a new creature. All things pass away. So my thing is You got a new life, you get a new walk, then you get a new life. Go to the water. The water make you right. So at the end of the day, don't give me you born like that. You know what I'm saying? Cause that ain't gonna fly. No, sir, no way. You're not gonna get away with I was born like that. No, you wasn't. The devil is a liar. And it's getting to a place where they push this thing so hard on you, man. Like it's and they push it in the school. They try to push it on the kids. I mean, a lot of the restaurants, they they got the restroom where is I don't know, anybody, any sex can go in there. And like I said, man, you know, I pray for the excuse me, for the people that go in these restrooms with these perverts. And y'all be careful with your kids and watch your back as yourself when you go in these restrooms and going in these places for these perverts, man, because People are sick, man. And I'm not saying that everybody that's practiced that lifestyle or whatever are perverse. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying it's a lot of people disguising as that to be perverse, man. And and and that's one thing, that's a few one of the few things that grinds my gear. And as I always say it's no excuse for that pedophilia stuff, messing with little kids and going against people's willings. I don't I I know you can't get me no way, no how. To go with that nonsense because there's no excuse for that. I don't care who you are, there's definitely no excuse for that at all. Never in a million years you can tell me that a person go against somebody, well, or do some crazy stuff like that, and you're gonna tell me that that's an and it's an excuse for that? No, I can't buy that. And I won't buy that ever. Because at the end of the day, Folks are sick and they try to pass their sickness off to people like it's normal. And no, we're not doing that, man. We're not accepting that. We're rebuking that and we're not accepting that because that's crazy to sit there and think that you will be just able to do how you ever you want to do because you claim you identify with XYZ. Nah, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. We're not doing that at all. Not at all. But what I will tell you is, man, ⁓ it's it's getting crazy. It's getting crazy because people defend what they believe in one side saying this, one side saying that. And like I said, man, it's crazy out there, man. And it's gonna get worse. And it's gonna get worse. And that's just what it is, man. ⁓ I always thought that, you know, like I said, I always thought that it'd been a little different. Even though I don't agree with it, I always said that, ⁓ I always said that. You know, it could be a neutral ground that, you know, long as you stay on your side of the fence, you live your life over there, and it is what it is. But no, once you start to try to cross over and take over everything in front of them, push it on people, that's my issue coming at, man, you know. Because Kids are seeing this, man. And you thinking kids supposed to make their own decision and and you're influencing kid kids on stuff that they know nothing about and warping their minds and at a young age that little Johnny can be ⁓ Jasmine. And and and that's not cool, man. That's not cool at all. As an adult, if that's what you choose to do with your life, that's fine. Go ahead on over there. But don't be trying to coerce these kids into thinking that that's cool and that's right, man. No, we can't do that, man. We can't do that at all, man. And we just living in times where things are so wicked, man, you know, ⁓ because every time I go like on TikTok, social media in general, you'll see these stories about witches and warlocks and all these different things, man. Like, it's so many people. So many people. That's in the church, that's of the church, that read the Bible, that sit next to you in that third royal church, sing on the choir, preach for you, preach over you, pray over you, that's involving witchcraft. I hate to break it to you, but it's so many people that's involved in witchcraft. And when I tell you people are involved in witchcraft, it is crazy. It is crazy. How people are involved in witchcraft. I mean, they, I'm assuming that ⁓ being that with social media and people so blunt and so open and they talk about it like it's nothing. I mean, they talk about it like it's nothing. And I was like, wow, I remember growing up in the country, man, and You would hear people talk about these things, man, and different things to do, man, and whatever the case may be. I was like, even as a young and coming up, even into a grown man, I always was nervous and scared of them stuff, man. Like I always would pray and I pray against, you know, just to stay away. Because there's so many times, man, in the country growing up you hear different stories about, ⁓ this person didn't care for that person. Next thing put this, that and the third on them. And you sitting there like, what is going on? Like, really? They doing that like that? Come on, dude. Like, I'm like, folks don't even care, yeah? And I'm like, man, why in the world would people why in the world would somebody do that to somebody? You know what I'm saying? Like, I mean, you got so many people out here. Putting stuff on people to be with them and not to leave and all that there. ⁓ it's crazy. It's crazy. And I mean, I saw this story on TikTok. ⁓ I think it was this this morning, actually. You know, this lady, ⁓ I don't know, she paid this dude some cash or something to put a spell on this dude and To make him be with him to go on a date or something, and he did whatever he did or whatever he did. And long story short, she got the guy or whatever that she wanted that she paid for. So I guess once you do something like that, they have you at a place to where you always have to come back and re-up or something. And she he caught say he reached out to her, ⁓ like, ⁓ On the 11th month before a year or whatever, and before it was up, and they he telling her, like, hey, you know, such and such, whatever. I don't remember. Cause I would, I don't even care. But I just thought it was crazy that, you know, XYZ about to run out. And you have to tighten up because I told you, if you don't tighten up, it ain't gonna last. It's gonna work, it's gonna wear off. So basically what they're doing is they put something over you to Drop a spell or something over you, and so the person can whatever they want you to do, they get that, and then you have to re-up and it only lasts for so long before the veils come off their eyes, and then they would, you know, come to their senses, and then they go after you. You know what I'm saying? They going after you and they doing XYZ and all that there. And it's like, wow. And it's like, wow. So then it's like. Wow. So you doing all that and he said after he called her and like yours eleventh month. She know next you know, he said a little while later, a couple weeks, whatever, say he knew what's gonna happen. She called her to all they had a big fight, he pulling I mean crazy stuff. Because see the thing about these things, man, when you go out here and try to put these stuff on these folks and that stuff come back to you, it's not gonna work in your favor, man. It's not gonna it's gonna backfire on you, man. You gotta keep rein, man, you gotta keep doing that's the case, man. You probably be with somebody who wanna be with you. We gotta go through all that measurement to get somebody to be no, no, no, devil is a liar. No, I'm not doing all that. But anyway, it didn't work. And he was like, I try to tell you, so long story short, he didn't re-up. And like I said, you at these people mercy. If you don't do what they say or how they want you to do, now you're at their mercy. So why would you do that? I trust God, man. I get on my knees and ask God for for whatever. Help me, lead me, guide me. But I'll be doggone if I go out there and give anybody a red cent to do some sinful stuff to get somebody to be in my life and nah the devil is a lie. I plead the blood of Jesus over that nonsense because there's no way you finna see me go out here and and and put some chains to somebody or do this fool stuff and all this here and sprinkle this and do all that just to have somebody be with me. And then every year I gotta go re-up like a contract. I'm not doing that. Just to manipulate somebody hot that wanna be with you. You want that person that bad that don't want you that you have to do all that? That's why the Bible warns you against these stuff, man. But people always look at it as, ⁓ I hear so many different things that, ⁓ you know, the Bible and Christianity try to keep you from it because they don't want you to know your powers and all that. Man, forget all that. Because if you had all the power and you could have done all that, then why you need to go through all the extra stuff? That's surely, that clearly right there show. You don't have all the power that you think you have. And you're not as big as you think you have. But my thing is, you have to pay for these stuff, man. You cannot go around manipulating free will like like you got it like that. And it's so crazy and ironic that I saw this, man. Like I said, I grew up in the country, man. I hear people talk about this type of stuff. All my life like it's crazy. I know people talk about it and brag about it like it's nothing. And go about their day like it's nothing. Man, I could never do that to nobody, man. I could never. No sorry, Bob. I got a lot of things to answer the guard for, but that ain't gonna be one of them, man. I'm not manipulating nobody free will, man. I mean because think about it. You're at a place in life that you want somebody so bad. You have to manipulate their free will? So do they really want you or you just program them or got something over them to be with you so you paying to have somebody dang near under a spell just to be with you? That's how dangerous it is out there? And I saw this one lady and she was just talking and she was saying that people just ⁓ all she needed is a picture of a person. That's how evil these people are, man. That's how evil people are. They say all they needed is a picture of a person and it's over. And you sitting there, like, wow, is it really that serious? Is it really that serious? Because at the end of the day, I'm not doing that man. I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that man because that person is not at their right sense and at the right mind to be in a place to where they ⁓ they ⁓ just out here ⁓ Doing whatever you want them to do and all that. Nah man, them people went in their right mind. And you should feel sorry and trifling for yourself for that nonsense you pull to try to pull a fast one over somebody to like you're sorry, but that you that trifling that you had to go that route. That's ridiculous, man. That's very ridiculous, man, that you had to go that route to get somebody to be with you. It's scary times out here, family. I'm telling you, man. I wouldn't wish this on nobody, man. You gotta pray and you gotta stay prayed up, man, family. You plead the blood over these stuff and you and you understand who God is, because God is bigger than all this stuff, man. All this evilness in this world. Let me tell you something, man. One thing I heard a few of them folks say, a few of them folks, and I think it may be more than a few. A handful of them I heard them say, and they will always tell you a praying person and a person that got that relationship with the most high, they can't do nothing to them, because they protected. You see that? Even when they try to go to the higher high ram, the highest realm of witchcraft and things to do things against you, the Bible tells you no weapon formed against me shall prosper. See the weapon can form, but it won't prosper. Because you know who you got and you know who got you. That's why I tell people it's imperative to have that relationship. But we got so many people out here these days. I don't do that on do. Well that's on you. That's on you, man. I need that protection and I love it. I'm not gonna act a fool. I accept it. Will he lead me? I follow, I read my word, I pray, I do what the word says. I try my best. I'm not perfect by a long shot. But I try to line up my life with that word and live in it, meditate on it and stay covered in the blood because people are evil. We are living in evil times. And it's just that's what what it is, man. You know, because you can see it, man. People are more angry. I mean, family going at it. I mean, mama going after daughter, all that's in the word, man. Down in the book of Luke, I think the 13th chapter. If you read Luke, The 12th chapter, I think we should get around there about the 52nd, 51st verse. Probably like Luke, the 12th chapter, like up there, like in the 49th verse, would you start to read that, man? Because Christ said it gotta be a division among believers and unbelievers, man. Because that's what we get into at that place, man. At this point in time, man, sooner or later, we're gonna be to a place where we're gonna have to separate. It's gonna be a great separation because you're gonna know who is who eventually. And I hope people pick their side the right way before it's too late. You know what I'm saying? Because you know we got the scraddlers that, ⁓ I'm on this way, I'm on this, I wanna have a good time. But let me tell you something, people. It ain't gonna work, man. You're gonna have to pick a side. You're gonna have to pick a side. That narrow road or that wide road. It's plain and simple, man. It's plain and simple. The jig is up. You don't get an you don't get to play hopscotch with your life. You don't get to play hopscotch with your soul. You don't get to pick, I'm on this side today, I'm on this. No, no, no, no, no, no. You better know that you are in there. You are in there. And that's what it is. And that's what it is. You better know that you're in there. And like I said, man, I I'm grateful for my relationship, man. You know, ⁓ I know a lot of people got this thing now, see an uptick in people. So they walk away from church, they walk away from Christianity, religion, they spiritual. Whatever that's supposed to be. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not sure what that means. They got a right to say they believe whatever they believe. But one thing I do know my Bible says every knee got to bow. And every tongue will confess. Every knee gonna bow. And every tongue will confess. So you can go out there and play with them different things and get your Ouija board and your tarot cards and all them different things and calling up the ancestors and talking to dead spirit, all that other stuff. Let me tell you something, man. Only what you do for Christ last, man. All that extra stuff that people trying to say, this new age stuff, and it don't take all that. Let me tell you something. You're gonna play yourself and you're gonna lose and you're gonna lose big dealing with them folks that believe like that. Because the devil is seeking who he can devour. And every day you look around, he find new candidates because people just sign up to make a fool of themselves. All because they'd rather go. Against the word. They don't wanna go. They want the benefits of God, but they don't wanna follow his word. They don't wanna keep the commandments. They don't wanna be this. They don't wanna do that. And another thing that grinds my gear, I saw this ⁓ I didn't watch it. I saw a clip of what you call it? The BET Awards. And that brother that that hosts that show, I can't remember the brother's name. He bet ⁓ he better repent and he better change his ways and how he's going about it. Because the Bible said God will not be mocked. And he is doing a lot of mocking God and making jokes. I get that you are a comedian. But my brother, you might want to tighten that up, brother. Repent and get away from that. But that marking God and trying to make a mark of God, that's not gonna turn out good for you, brother. And I'm not here wishing harm on you and I'm not wishing nothing bad happening. But I will tell you, brother, that ain't gonna work, man. That will not work on no circumstance. And then even people that's believers that's sitting in there laughing and eating this stuff up. There's nothing funny about that, man. There's nothing funny about it at all. And you know, people might come, ⁓ man, y'all so sensitive. Jokes or jokes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now, we just cracking jokes. Okay. Okay. Keep on. You know. Galatians 6 and 7. Do not be deceived, God is not marked for whose whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also weep. Now, I like this because I want to speak on this right quick before I get up out of here. You know, a lot of people use that in a reference to karma, right? But weeping and sowing is two different things from karma. It's kind of the same concept, but you have to understand if you're a believer and you gave your life to Christ that we're under grace. So, not necessarily it means that ⁓ comma. You know, oftentimes you hear in our community, every time something happened to someone, you always hear people that's their karma, that's their comma. That's not necessarily true because we're under the law of grace. If we all, I mean, according to that, right. And according to Kama, which is a Hindu practice, that's not even Christianity, or not for the believers, that's a Hindu practice. But my thing is, if you look at it like this, if everything we did, we weep, we will so, man. You know, we will be. You ought to thank God for grace because if everything we weep, we sold, you know, we will be, including myself. So you ought to thank God for grace. Because if it wasn't for grace, Would we weep? Will we so weep we were so? Or vice versa, whoever what I misplaced it? Yes, it says whatsoever a man sowed, he will weep. So whatever weep we will sow, because at the end of the day, we thank God for grace because everything you did, it don't come back to you right then or don't come back at all because of grace coming. Now sometimes grace don't step in and you have to pay the pun pay the penalty for that decision you made. But then you gotta look at the other side of the coin. How many times you thank God for grace that you didn't see that thing back the way, or whatever the case may be, you got grace. And that grace stood for you. So you ought to be grateful for that. It says, Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? You see, right then and there, grace ain't gonna always be there. So we have to understand that. We can't keep relying on ⁓ grace, grace. No, no, that grace is gonna run out, man. We can't keep doing that. You know? You know? That ain't gonna keep working. Yeah, it is Romans 6 and 1. You know, and we have to understand that it comes a time where grace ain't gonna be gracious. It will not be. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Grace is see that's the thing about it. A lot of time we take grace and look at it like, ⁓ we got grace so we can live. How we want to live, but grace is used to empower other believers and to get other believers and other people to renounce their ungodliness and live an upright life. Grace don't mean you can go out here and just say, ⁓ man, my bad man. God ain't gonna do this no more. God, you get me out this situation. You know that one prayer we always used to have: God, if you get me out of this situation, I'll never be this again, I'll never do this again. You know you done ran that. Everybody done ran that. But Romans 6 and 1 say, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? That right there is powerful, people. So let's stop relying on grace. Not saying grace ain't good to have. But don't take advantage of grace and take God for granted. That's all I want to say, man. That's my time, folks, man. I love it, man. I appreciate the love and the support, man. I promise you I do, man. I don't take none of this for granted, I know y'all hear me say it every week. I'll be like blah, blah, blah. But I'm really grateful for the opportunity, man. I really am that I can speak and people hear me all over the world or whatever. It's always a blessing, man. I hope this message touched somebody. I mean, I hope and pray it do. ⁓ we're about to get up out of here, man. I hope and pray y'all enjoy the rest of y'all week and y'all 4th of July weekend. Hope y'all be safe out there. Don't drink and drive. Call your Uber. ⁓ get out there and enjoy yourself. Keep your eyes on your surrounding, man. Don't go places when you see crazy stuff kicking off. Don't be scared to leave, man. Drive your vehicle, whatever, get an Uber so you can leave. You know, cause sometimes you ride with folks, they don't be wanting to leave. But man, use your common sense. You pray, ask God for discernment. If something don't feel right, don't go, don't mess with it, stay home. Be safe out there, family. God willing, same time, same place next week. Peace. We're outta here, baby. Thanks for listening to this episode of Dope Discussions. Where faith isn't quiet and truth isn't comfortable. Continue on this journey with us. Like and share on your favorite podcast platform. And for more real kingdom conversations, be sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode.