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Navigating the Journey
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This is a KUNV Studios original program.
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The content of this program does not reflect the views or opinions of 91.5 Jazz & More, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, or the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
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Blackball Triple-7 Productions presents the Blackball Triple-7 Productions podcast, Faith Knowledge in College Edition. This program has been brought to you by Black Ballpoint 777 Productions. And now, here is your host...
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What's going on? It's the Black Ball bouncing back in the house again. Here with my bro JoJo from the Faith and Fit Podcast. What's up bro? What's good buddy? How you been? Pretty good. So today, got an important topic to talk about because... Oh. Yes. Today we got an important topic to talk about because we are living in the last days and we need to get as many people in New York as possible, aka giving them the gospel.
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Two weeks, two or three weeks ago I came across a situation where I was giving the gospel, I was trying to give the gospel with someone but first, I got the thing up but first I want to talk about what it means to be saved. I have a couple of points on my podcast on this episode that I want to talk about. So, how do you get saved? You have to believe and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that He died on the cross for your past, present, and future sins, that He was buried, rose again on the third day, conquered hell, death, and the grave. It's simple. It is quite simple. You can literally have full assurance of your salvation. And I tell you, Joe, doesn't it feel great to have like, to know that you have
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your full assurance of salvation? You know, it feels amazing, you know. I think that when it does come to having salvation, it is something like, when you think of the word salvation, the root word is safe, one, obviously. But when you think of salvation to me personally salvation is like a force field you feel me or it's like a way of Protection so like you know how like in the armor of God it says to have a shield on you at all times that shield Of faith that that salvation to me is like when you think of it That's the whole reason of faith God is supposed to come down here
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We got Jesus was a seed planted from God to come down to save all of us, that's salvation. Like side note, Genesis three, when Adam and Eve sinned, guess what God did? He made clothes for them. He sacrificed an animal to make clothes for them so that they can be saved, technically,
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that was Jesus Christ. So like, the way salvation is important, it should be taken seriously.
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Yeah and since you mentioned that, like Jesus, a lot of people don't realize, Jesus, he paid the price for everything, past, present and future. And when he died on the cross and the thief on the cross wanted to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, he told him straight up like, he will be with me in paradise in the book. That's true. What was the verses you want me to read? We're not there yet. So we're sticking to having the full assurance of salvation. And yeah, so once you accept Christ, you are saved, sealed, and sanctified until the day of redemption. You are heaven-bound, rapture-ready, you're saved, you can't be snatched away. Romans chapter 8 verse 1 says, there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ
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Jesus.
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You know, that's interesting because I'm not going to lie, that actually was the verse of the day. Shout out to Bible.com, you feel me? That was the verse of the day, I'm not going to lie. Shout out to Bible.com, you feel me? That was the verse of the day, so shout out to Bible.com.
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Shout out to Jabrito, by the way, for real. That's tough, you feel me?
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Yeah.
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That's like one of many verses that proves that he is forever. Like you can't be snatched away. And you will receive the Holy Spirit once you're saved. So I often talk about, I often get this example, so you see the cartoons with like the angels and the angel and the devil on your shoulder So think of the angel that's the Holy Spirit, but he gets stronger stronger stronger But the devil is like no come on. I'll give an example excuse me my voice is a little bit
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I have allergies fortunately so Yeah, I'll give an example. I was at a Vegas Urban Services, I was talking to some lady and she asked me if the person I was with was my girlfriend. And the flesh in me wanted to like lose it, but the Holy Spirit in me was like,
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come on man, she doesn't even know. Just give her some credit. And she kept telling me, she kept trying to suggest some occupations for me. I'm like, not occupations, my way of life. And I was just thinking,
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my flesh in me was like, you do not know me. I'm going to work my behind my hind end off whether you like it or not. And then the Holy Spirit, the good angel on my shoulder was like, just take it easy. She doesn't she doesn't know what you're capable of. So just calm down, calm down. And another thing. I'll use other another example. Like before I got before I got saved. I mean, I wanted to party and like get lit all the time because growing up I didn't really have that a lot of Christians around me and and the angel on my shoulder be like You don't want to you don't want to do that. Come on. You're much better than that But the flesh and me would be like, oh no, you want to have friends, right? You want to live your life you want to have fun? Come on get out of your comfort zone. You couldn't get away with one one time, you know, but that's a that's a huge trap
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Can I give an example real quick? This is your life too. It's gonna be quick. Um, my example is this Now I have a lot of friends I have a lot of Christian friends and I have a lot of friends who don't believe in don't like they don't believe in God But they're afraid to like tap into like who God is and stuff like that They want to but they're afraid and so for me recently Just balancing music and the saddest all the people who listen to my music and
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podcasting, but recently, you know, like having a lot of busy things in life, you know, you kind of get distracted. And so, you know, the enemy will want you to go ahead and get distracted at all times so that you can lose yourself. So I remember this one time I went over to a friend's house and we were recording music and stuff like that.
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And you know, I was telling, I was, he was like about to smoke weed, and I was like, nah bro. We are recording a song. I'm only here for song purposes. And that whole thing, we started talking about God. And I think that a lot of people are willing to tap into who God is and be saved if and only if their hearts are open to it.
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And if and only if they can see with a pair of glasses that isn't ours, that isn't the enemy's, but it's God's alone. So yeah, you know what I mean?
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We're kind of on that one topic, what it means to be saved. It doesn't mean, and Jojo, you kind of segwayed into that topic, great way to transition into it. So what it means, it doesn't mean you're going to be bored and all of that. You're not going to feel like, oh man, I wish I'd never done that. Trust me when I tell you, I know the feeling in some ways or another but People they just want to assume. Oh just because I became a Christian doesn't mean I'm
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Boring and all that like I don't want to do what I used to do You're not gonna want to do the old get into those old bad habits anymore Like sure it may take a while to it may take you a long time may not take you a long time like get rid of them, but For everybody it's different. Like I don't want to drink anymore. Like I I That's another thing when it comes to being saved.
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People think that you gotta do stuff on your own. No. It's God who's doing stuff in you. Right. I think another thing is, what it means to be saved is to not follow the crowd. Facts, like for real. What it means to be saved is to stand your ground when you feel like you can't.
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And even when you mess up, don't even like don't like like the reason why we do have Jesus is so that like we feel guilty Is it there's a difference between be feeling guilty and having repentance? There's a different complete difference and I mean there's a difference between being a Judas the Iscariot and there's a difference between being a Peter and We talked about this like I think what is it shout out to people who went on a
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Falcon I wish I was there man, but shout out to the people who went to Falkon But there's a difference between Judas Iscariot and Peter Peter had a repentant heart when he sent When when Jesus said you're gonna deny me Judas on the other hand He just he did portray Jesus, but he let Satan inside his heart and one thing I do believe about being saved is to be able to Be mindful of what you let in who you listen to
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what you hear who you hang around is big, because spirits are transferable. And, you know, spirits are transferable. You don't know what you're getting into sometimes, and you got to stay prayed up at all times. And that's just the biggest thing right now. You know what I mean?
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Yeah. And speaking of the Fall Conference, that's something I went to. It's something that InnerVarsity meetings, go to fall conference next year, and that's kind of something I wanted to bring up because we were talking about how like knowing who God is according to the Bible versus paradigms because people will say, oh, God is this way, that way, whatever way. But when it comes to being saved, you gotta, once you're saved, you're always saved. And stick with what the Bible says, don't stick with what your denomination or what I say or what JoJo says or anybody else says.
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Stick with the Word of God. So actually, let's transfer, let's go to the next segment, false teachings. So, paradigms of how people identify God. I remember growing up, I always thought, thanks to scare tactics, but I always thought if you lie, like during a bad storm or something like that, God will come right after you.
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No, absolutely not. Where is that in the Bible? Or you could lose your salvation. Where is that in the Bible? You can't like for real like if you sin you're gonna sin period And even if you confess your sins like you're still gonna be sinning like you don't even know when you're sinning
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Sometimes you do know when you're sinning
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So
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To determine someone's salvation. That's not your job. It's not my job. Not anyone church any any church's jobs, no pastor's jobs, and another false teaching, people often say you have to work your way up to heaven, you have to do this, do that, do this, do that. But Ephesians, hold that thought real quick, Ephesians 2.8.9 says, For it is by grace, for it is by grace through faith, we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone, that it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. And later I'm going to have Jojo read Matthew 7, a couple of verses. But what were you going to say? I was going to say, I want to just give a very interesting story. This is not a diss track bro but look you
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know I I do we read the Bible for ourselves you know as you like as followers of Christ we're supposed to read the Bible for ourselves and so I just had the nerve to ask somebody at Revolution Ministries hey do you think the spiritual gifts are real because they don't think it's real and then I I look at that and I'm over here like I read the spiritual gifts I read second I read what is it in Corinthians or something like that it should be somewhere about spiritual gifts or
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Galatians or something like that about spiritual gifts it's somewhere it's somewhere in there somebody a case fact check that for me bro but they didn't believe in spiritual gifts and I was like look I I just want I just I just wanted to like ask because like I wanted to put, and they were talking to Mormons, it happened recently, they were talking to the Mormons,
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and they were sitting at a table, and I was like, hey, I just wanted to know if people believed in spiritual gifts, you know what I mean? There is, yep, Corinthians, yep. It's in First Corinthians, First Corinthians 12.
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Yeah, anyway, but I was talking to them, and I was like, bro, I just wanted to put it out there and like saying like look I just don't think that people should like I just wanted to let you know like look if spiritual gifts aren't real then how is our Lord Savior Jesus Christ real? Exactly. No disrespect to those people in those ministries. No disrespect at all.
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We're not perfect. We gotta pray for everybody.
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We're praying for everybody, but I'm just making this out clear. I'm being blunt for it right now. If you're saying that spiritual gifts are not real, then how are you saying my Lord and Savior is real? Because if that's the case, one of the spiritual gifts is prophecy. And I'm not gonna lie, in Isaiah, prophecy existed. In Matthew, prophecy existed that's why you have the book of Acts when the church started to form when he said you know what I'm gonna break this temple down and raise it up in three days what do you think happened
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he wasn't only he was talking about himself his body but guess what he was talking about raising the new temple guess what in Revelations guess what people ah man look the temple the temple that he was talking about the new heaven and the new earth that's awaiting for us ahead of time. That's prophecy. That's prophecy. That is. That's prophecy. So like, when people say that,
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like, look, when it comes to false teachings, look, it all comes down to, like, everything that we said before. Be careful who you listen to. Like, be careful what the preachers you listen to. Be careful of the stuff you read
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that's not the Word of God. Like, and be
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and read that book for yourself, the one that has all read everything, you feel me? Read Jesus' words for yourself, because I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I am not always reliable. Men are not always reliable. Only Christ is reliable.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I just had to say that for real.
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Anyway.
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And uh, if you can read those verses that I told you about from Matthew 24 no I don't know it's not 24 Matthew 7 for those who for those who think for those who think you have to work your way up to heaven please pay close attention all right can you can
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you say the verse can you say the verse the verses I don't remember the verse is Matthew 7 I can start off not everyone who says to me Lord go into uh and 21 I'll read 18 though a good tree cannot bring fruit a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can this is King James neither can a
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corrupt tree bring forth good fruit every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast down into the fire. Wherefore, by the fruits of ye shall know them, not every one of them, verse 21, not every one that say unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,
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but he that does the will of my father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and demons and in thy name does many wonderful works and then I will
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profess unto them I've never knew you depart from me ye that work in iniquity." So when it comes to those verses like that's where you guys are that's where that's what's going to happen if you guys don't put your full
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faith and trust in Jesus Christ. So please put your full faith and trust in like it doesn't work that way. You just heard it from the Bible itself, from God's Word. And a lot of people want to joke around thinking it's a competition. It is not a competition. If you're trying to compete with people to earn salvation, you're just going to discourage them and their blood is going to be on your hands. So for someone to say, oh, this person is going to hell because he or she did this or
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did that. No. God is the only one who can determine someone's heart and their salvation. So as I stated before, the only way you can be saved is if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You put your full faith and trust in him.
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It's not you who does all the good works, it's the Holy Spirit who does the good works through you. Well, the Holy Spirit does it.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Give all the glory to God.
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Give all the glory to God. And also, man, like, we are so, like, we are so, like, the fact that we are living, like, we are living human beings, organisms, like, we are really, like, have you ever heard of that, like, have you guys ever heard of like people say like we're really like close to trees like but we're really so close to trees and One thing that I actually saw today and I needed to see for myself. It actually revived me today is
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that When in in the Latin and what is it? What is it when when Jesus told the disciples? I'm getting the place that you're not going you the place that I'm going you can't go He said look he told he told the disciples look I did this so that you can believe in me I did this of that I told you exactly I came down for you guys
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So that you guys can learn from me so that you guys can teach other people That's what we're supposed to be the sower of good seed the sower of good seed is this
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Yeah, Jesus did it all he did every single one of it for you, so you don't have to struggle You don't have to worry. Oh have I have I dumped enough for any of that? No, he did it all he paid past present and future since so what being saved does not mean like as I stated before you're not just gonna Jojo kind of talked about it earlier people are afraid it doesn't mean you're under control under like a dictatorship type control No, it's like you'll feel it's a whole that's a completely different feeling like you won't feel like you have to do all of this stuff out of
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Compulsion because a lot of churches and people teach that you have to do this Like read the Bible go to church pay your tithes out of compulsion. That's not how God works. That's not how God works. Nope that's a Free free will he like he gives everybody free will like he's not out to get you like instantly like some doctrines teach But like you you have to follow the Holy Spirit sure we grieve the Holy Spirit from time to time I even grieve the Holy Spirit, and I hate it
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but he won't just like Smack you across your face for Not going to church on Sunday Because I remember a family you say God's probably extremely mad at you for not going to church or God is very mad at you he's probably gonna strike you with a lightning bolt like bam bam bam like no that ain't how
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God works no yeah and I think that you know I had a point I lost it but I'm gonna get it back you know Jesus like God in general he always wanted us to Like, he's always a forgiving God. He's always wanted us to just be like him, but he never gave us an ultimatum. He never gave us... There's a difference between somebody giving you an ultimatum and a choice.
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Meaning, it's like, if you do this, you're going to hell. That's hate. Because guess what? What did Jesus do when he wiped... Guess what? Judas betrayed Jesus and he still washed his feet.
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Like, think about that. Judas the Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, who let Satan inside of his soul, inside of his heart. Jesus said to Judas, I love you, my brother, and washed his feet still, but then said, you know what, do what you,
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he didn't even say, he didn't even say Judas' name. He just says, do what you have to do because he knew that Satan was gonna be the person to rule over for just three days only three days
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Yeah, I remember like earlier you said something about people Being afraid to accept Jesus Christ because they're enjoying the life that they're living Trust me, and I mentioned it earlier too like you're you're not gonna enjoy The stuff you used to enjoy over time depending on how long it takes Yeah, like like I said, I don't want to do what I I don't want to do what I used to do anymore You're not.
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Yeah, like I said, I don't want to do what I used to do anymore. I want to honor God. I want to honor the Lord. No matter what, I'm willing to make sacrifices for the Lord.
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And I think being, what is it? I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you will present yourselves, your bodies, as a living sacrifice, holy, which is your job. And do not be conformed by this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. That's Romans 12 and one and two.
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Like you gotta really honestly understand. I know that by heart because like, I have to remind myself that I have to be able to submit myself to God alone. It don't matter what I'm doing I could be doing music I could be doing a show but if that show is at a strip club I'm not performing at a strip club if
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that show is on if I'm making music with somebody who's cursing Jesus I'm not putting my name on that I want to be able to at least be in a place which which has darkness and at least project the light inside of me that God gave me it's not my light it's God's light because I don't have any light. Without God, I don't have light, you feel me? Which is why it's important to honor your bodies. You're a temple of the Holy Spirit to honor your body in a way that God, in the way that,
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in the way that's honorable to God, you feel me? So yeah. Yeah, and so the last part of the last point I want to make, don't wait.
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Accept Jesus Christ as soon as possible.
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Never wait.
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Yeah, that's a huge trap. That could be a death trap. You never know what will happen. Tragedy could strike you at any moment. You could get in a car crash. Someone could mess you up really badly, to put it in cleaner terms, or yeah, or the rapture could come and you're left behind
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and you have to go through the tribulation and face the Antichrist, but no, you don't want to wait. And two or three weeks ago I was with, shout out to Dr. Richard Hill, he's a Messianic Jew from Beth Yeshua, great guy, very great guy, he works for UNLV. Shout out to bro. He was, huh? I said shout out to bro. Yeah, he was uh, hanging out flyers for children who are walking around. They were taking a tour of the campus. This guy, this guy made me want to lose my mind but the Holy Spirit was like, no, hold on a second there, hold on a second, take it easy because he needs Christ too. But he was saying, don't be giving religion to kids, let them give it at home. I'm like no like a lot of parents today
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They don't pay attention to what their children are doing especially What social media and all of that around they're like easily getting exposed to ungodly stuff I'll just put it like that and a lot of children all of the children They wanted Jesus they wanted to get some no G's and a fifth grade teacher She literally made them take she took all the flyers and made him throw them in a trash. I'm like, are you freaking kidding me?
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Like what you mean like what you mean like they was it the Jesus flyers a day Yeah, she like took him all the way and throw him out. I'm like you gotta be kidding me. That's crazy I'm thinking to myself like we're taking them kids with us when the Rapture comes we're like no no No, Christ is taking them and you wonder why people just don't allow they don't want to allow the truth to be said. Some people just, some people just know the truth and they're so ignorant, but we're just gonna go ahead and just say bless your heart because I just can't. I know, you know what I told somebody earlier, I said, you know what, look, you might hate me because of this election.
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You might hate me because I'm a Christian, but guess what? Bless your heart. That's what gets people really stuck in the spirit because they don't know what to say, because guess what?
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It's all love.
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You feel me?
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It's all love you feel me it's all love we good yeah that's another thing too like we you have to put Jesus first facts like you can't you can't put anything like me for example I'm half black half Dominican but guess what I'm
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Jesus I'm a follower of Christ first black Dominican second forget about shout out about whatever obstacles like politics and stuff like that put Jesus first if you see someone is not supporting godly values it don't
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matter who it is if it's like the worst
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person living or the best person like put Jesus first like forget about their past forget personality put biblical and it's bad when people do it on purpose yeah also don't wait to get saved get saved before it's too late because tragedy can strike at any moment like you could you could be on your deathbed when you least expect you know
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without any time to accept Christ. You know what? Guess what? This is not something to tell people, like, accept Christ before it's too late because God will be done with you. Because I do not believe God is not done with anybody, even when the tribulation comes. No, I do believe... Many
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people will come to Christ during that time, but... Guess what? It's easy to accept him right now.
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Right. That way you don't have to go through it is but one thing I want to make cross is the reason why Jesus is not Done with us even during the tribulation period I believe he won't be done with us He loves us so so much is because he says you know what I have a new earth in a new heaven Awaiting for you. I have places set for you I have a a place of rest set for you And I think that so many people they're gonna come to Christ like crazy is gonna be a revival here at UNLV. It's gonna be a revival in so many places. And
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guess what? You know what? I'm ready for it. I'm ready for so many people to go ahead and accept Christ. You know what? It's gonna be a good thing.
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Yeah, they're gonna realize we were right when we disappear. They're gonna realize, oh, these crazy Jesus freaks, they're right. They were right. Like full blown 1984 on steroids. And we don't, now that we're on the subject of it, we won't know when it's going to happen. So don't ask me or anyone else when is this time going to come when the person disappears.
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Nobody knows that they are ours. That's why it's better to get saved now, that way you don't have to deal with it.
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I know. I know.
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Alright, so thank you once again for tuning into the Black Ball 777 Productions podcast. Yes, sir. You can find JoJo Fitts on Faith and Fit Podcasts on Apple and Spotify. You can follow me on BlackBall.777Productions on Instagram.
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Yes, sir.
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Thank you once again. Black Ball's gotta bounce.
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so so Bye.
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