"How The Mighty Have Fallen: Dealing With Moral Failures" S4 Ep23

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Welcome to Keep It 100 podcast with Sean and Christa Smith.

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Join us in this space where we take on real issues with real insight and real inspiration.

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This podcast is for those not looking for temporary relief to change circumstance, but

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revelation to forever change lives.

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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Keep It 100 with Sean and Christa Smith.

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She's Christa, I'm Sean.

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We're excited that you're joining us this week.

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This is going to be a great conversation.

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I love this episode because we just have an incredible special guest with us and he's

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just going to bring such truth.

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I'm so excited for you guys to hear the conversation that he has with Sean.

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Before we dive into that conversation, we have some really cool, exciting announcements

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of some things that are happening in the Bay that we really want to invite all of you to

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keep on our tribe to join us.

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For some of you, that's going to be getting in the room.

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For others, that might be an online virtual experience.

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We want to encourage you to get involved in what we're doing here.

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Yes, on October 20th, Friday night at 7 p.m., we're having a Momentum Night in Oakland,

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California.

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We've been doing these things pretty much monthly.

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These are free events.

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So join us.

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We have just been seeing God do some great things and the whole aspect is to gather the

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hungry to shake the Bay.

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We're just believing that God would release something that would just be mighty.

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It is a night of signs and wonders.

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It's a night of extended worship, preaching and just going for it at the altar and just

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lingering and praying for the sick, prophesying, getting people free, filled with the Holy

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Ghost.

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Come out October 20th.

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And now we also have great announcements.

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Speaking of momentum.

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Oh my gosh.

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Okay, so this past January, January 2023, we had the incredible momentum conference.

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God blew our minds.

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I mean, it was absolutely incredible.

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We kept saying it wasn't a conference and it wasn't.

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It really was a corporate encounter and it really proved to be this catalytic gathering

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where it ignited so many people with a move of God continuing for revival and carrying

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it to their region.

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We had somebody fly in from out of state to be a part of it.

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Well, we've been having so many people ask us, are you going to do a momentum 2024?

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And the answer is an absolute all caps.

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Yes, we're doing momentum 2024, January 18th through the 20th.

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And so consider this your personal invitation, your save the date, get your seat.

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All the information is on our website, momentum 2024.

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And Sean, we have a theme for it.

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We really are intentional about theme.

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Tell us about the theme for momentum 2024.

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The theme for momentum 2024 is where we've never been.

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And we're believing that many times we look back past moves, we look back at things that

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God did in a service in our lives and we're looking for God to do those things again.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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We're believing there will be some of that, but we're really asking God to do the unprecedented.

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You know, when the Bible talks about in the book of Acts, unusual miracles were taking

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place.

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Unusual means there weren't the run of the mill miracles.

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They were unusual.

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We're asking for God to do the unusual.

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We've got some phenomenal speakers, which we're going to be letting you know on them

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in some episodes to come.

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But trust me, we have a power pack lineup.

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You want to get January 18th through the 20th, 2024 on your calendar to come into the Bay

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area and join us.

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Literally, we're going to see a packed out room of people.

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So you're going to want to register early and we're just asking God to mark people.

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And as Christa and I, we love to tell folks it's a conference, but it's not a conference.

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It's a gathering.

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That's right.

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I mean, I tell you what, get in the room because it's going to be a powerful time.

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I'm so expectant because I truly felt changed.

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And that was the consistent testimony from everyone that came to Momentum 2023 that everyone's

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like, I feel so different.

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And that again is going to happen.

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Momentum 2024 will be announcing speakers, worship leaders who are going to be having

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gatherings with Sean and I help minister with Sean and I. We're of course going to be speaking

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and ministering.

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We're bringing some of our dear friends, prophetic voices that are just going to be powerhouses.

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So get in the room and get your seat today for Momentum 2024.

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Okay.

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In this episode, we're super excited, Keep 100 Tribe.

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We're going to be talking about this theme of swearing saints or salted saints.

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And this comes from the fact that we've just noticed that there has not just been a laxness

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in terms of the vocabulary used by a lot of people professing faith in Jesus Christ.

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We're here folks, just outright cuss and own it.

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It's like stuff that when I was a kid, it would get me slapped by my Southern black grandmother.

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It's coming out of people's mouth.

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I mean, stuff is coming out of Christian's mouth and Christian leaders.

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And that's why I really feel like we want to talk about it.

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There's been numerous ministers.

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There's one guy called the Swearing Pastor.

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It's another pastor that has a pretty popular podcast out of the Dallas area.

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He dropped the F-bomb on his podcast.

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And as a result of that, he's since come back and apologized, but not so much that he felt

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bad about the language, but how it's impacted other people.

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And I was thinking about this quote, Christa.

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A few years ago, there was this guy, John Lucas, who spoke on the campus of Eastern

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Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts.

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And a part of what he said, and it's featured in an issue of books and culture.

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And this is what he said, and I love this.

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He says, language is a very mysterious gift from God.

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He says, in the beginning was the word, not the fact, not the picture, not the number,

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not the image.

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It is the words that we relate to one another.

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And he goes on to say, it is through words that we can give pain or pleasure to each

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other.

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And because of this, and every historian's worth is salt, ought to know this, he said,

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the choice of the word is not only a matter of accuracy, not only a matter of aesthetic

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choice, it is a moral choice.

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So what he's saying is the words that come out of your mouth is a moral choice.

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And there's so many scriptures, for instance, Christa, Jesus taught in Matthew 12, 36.

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He says, I tell you, on the day of judgment, people will give account for every careless

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word they speak.

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So it's not just about cussing at this point, saying bad words, letting corrupt stuff come

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out of your mouth.

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But it's really a question of what should our speech be like?

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And so some people right now, I find out that there are people that are saying what's wrong

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with using the language.

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And so we want to give you some scriptures, because if you're following Christ, you got

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to follow his word.

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And the word of God says several things about that.

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And so you had some scripture in particular, Christa.

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Yeah, I think this is really powerful.

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It's James 1, 26.

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And it reads, if anyone thinks he's religious, and let me just give a little bit of definition

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to the word religious.

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If anyone thinks he's a disciple of Jesus, if anyone thinks he's a follower of Jesus,

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if anyone would say, I'm a Christian, I give him my life to Christ.

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So that's what it's referring to.

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So I want people to understand as you read this scripture.

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Let me just start from the beginning again.

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James 1, 26 says, if anyone thinks he's religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives

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his heart, this person's religion, this person's commitment to Christ, this person claiming

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to be a follower of Jesus is worthless.

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I mean, think about that.

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So it's this scripture when you understand it, because if you just read it with the word

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religious, you think, oh, well, I'm not a Pharisee.

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No, no, this is talking about being a follower of Jesus.

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You're saying if you are a follower of Jesus, but you don't bridle your tongue and you deceive

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your, this deceives your heart.

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This person's commitment to God, this person's commitment to Jesus is worthless.

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That is sobering, right?

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We have a responsibility and a moral obligation.

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I love the quote you read.

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That was just so profound because it's really true.

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Our words absolutely impact the world around us in a way where we have to understand, because

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I think there's a lot of people that go, well, it's just words.

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It's just, it's semantics.

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It doesn't mean that to me, or I don't think it's that big of a deal.

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I think we've created definitions for those words.

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Well, if society and culture defines the word as that, we have to understand it comes with

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that weight and that baggage every time it's spoken, right?

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And we know that historically the African-American community has a word that starts with an N

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that no one should be ever saying, right?

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It is a derogatory, demeaning, hateful, evil word.

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No one can just be casual with that word.

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It would be ignorant to think they could just say that word, that anyone could just say

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that word without it having massive negative impact.

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The same goes for any word in our society and culture that is defined as a derogatory,

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degrading, demeaning, filthy word.

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We all know what they are.

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And if we do not understand the weight and the responsibility, our responsibility as

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our witness of Jesus really becomes massively tainted, ultimately worthless scripture saying,

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I think we're so casual with our mouths because we live in a peanut gallery culture.

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Meaning we live in a culture where people say whatever they want, whenever they want,

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however they want, not really understand the repercussions because we really live in a

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culture where people spout off their opinions and they rant.

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And we really have to understand there is a consequence and there's a ripple effect

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and there's impact of our words.

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I think sometimes it just as simple as, and your point you made is very profound.

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I think it's simple.

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Sometimes it's just recognizing the Bible says do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

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And you got to understand, I think there are three categories of what we're talking about

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when we're talking about profane, unwholesome talk.

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Obviously number one is the Bible says do not use the Lord's name in vain.

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So obviously there's a whole category about, you know, in movies or different people in

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music industry or people just on the street wherever you're at, they'll use the Lord's

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name in vain.

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So the Bible speaks against that.

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That's obviously something.

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Do not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

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That's one of the original commandments.

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There's another category of unwholesome talk, which is cuss words.

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It's many words that we use today that are words that are usually hatred, vitriol towards

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people.

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Like you said, you know, certain racial words, they're also words for refer to their anatomy

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or something.

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But then there's a third category of unwholesome talk and that is simply using your mouth to

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tear people down.

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So it may not even be a cuss word, but the way you could begin to describe people and

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speak of people in a way that is a word that uses a malice, anger, you're slandering people.

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And a scripture for that is Colossians 3, 8.

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It says, but now you must put them all away, anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene

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talk from your mouth.

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But you know, I was thinking this scripture, and this is the one that really stuck out

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to me and it's Colossians 4, 6.

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And it says, let your speech always be gracious.

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So we're held to a higher standard than just not cussing.

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Like we're supposed to always have speech this gracious.

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Then it says, let your speech be seasoned with salt so that you may know how you ought

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to answer each person.

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And I feel like this is so important because at the end of the day, we don't go into interviews

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for jobs and start dropping cuss words.

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We don't go if we're seated and we're trying to apply for a certain college.

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We don't sit there and write profanity in our application.

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Everyone tries to present themselves in the best way possible.

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And I just think you need to understand just by honor and just by the virtue of the Holy

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Spirit and angels are taking literally a journal of every word we speak.

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Jesus said, we'll be judged for every idle word.

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So every word that's coming out of our mouth, but then the aspect of we're prophetic.

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I want to use my words to prophesy something.

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I want to call out the gold in people's lives.

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And I can't ask God to make my words carry a level of authority to raise the dead if

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I'm using gutter language day in and day out.

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And then I want, you know, it's kind of like I want hellish talk, but I want heavenly exploits.

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I mean, that's not how it works.

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And I think you have to have your tongue, your tongue has to be set apart.

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James talks about who can bridle your tongue on the day of Pentecost.

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It was flaming tongues of fire.

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They spoke in new tongues.

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What comes out of your mouth is so key.

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I love that.

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It's really well said.

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I think it's this is today, I think a sobering reminder for all of us, the importance of

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our words, what we speak and that just that reminder of every idle word is recorded in

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heavens.

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It's just, it's a powerful, powerful reminder.

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And I think today for the Keep it 100 tribe and for ourselves, it's just this sobering

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reminder that we have a higher standard that is required from our mouth and not out of

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religious duty, but out of sheer devotion to Jesus.

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Yes.

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And right now, gang, get ready.

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We're about to go into this incredible interview we have with Vlad Savchuk.

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The guy has like crazy number of following on his YouTube channel, but he, he pastors

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Hungry Gin Church in Eastern Washington.

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He's a mighty man of God.

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So go with us now to this interview with Vlad Savchuk.

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Hey, Keep it 100 tribe.

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You guys are in for an amazing treat.

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We have Vlad Savchuk here.

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So we just want to jump right in this Vlad.

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How you doing, bro?

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Well, Sean, pleasure to be here with you.

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I am doing very well.

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Thank you.

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Awesome, man.

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Now you're up in the Pacific Northwest, which my wife has her roots up in that area.

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She was born and raised in Oregon and then she went to Seattle Pacific College.

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She worked her first in of ministry and I'm forgetting it's one of those cities up there.

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But how you guys doing up there, man?

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Tell us about it.

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We're doing well.

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You know, you guys are in California.

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So I feel like sometimes Washington and California is competing.

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Who can be the dumbest?

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Sometimes I'm looking at the news and I'm like, man, Washington is winning.

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And so, yeah, I'm in Washington state.

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I'm an eastern part of Washington, so like behind the mountains.

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And then my wife is actually from Vancouver, Washington.

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So she's closer to the Portland area over there.

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And so but we're doing good.

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We're leading a local church here and God's been doing incredible, amazing things.

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We're in a small city, but, you know, salt is small.

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It still makes a very big difference when it's applied to necessary places.

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So that's why I always tell our church, you know, we're positioned here strategically.

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I love that.

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And I first became aware of you in the sense that I saw just some teachings that you'd

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put out on various different topics.

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Some of them really was piqued my heart, my interest in a sense that it just really resonated.

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You know, the things you did on deliverance, because I've been saying for a while that

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the church has lost discernment and the demonic has gotten better disguising, which has been

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a bad mix.

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If the enemy is disguising himself better and the church has lost discernment.

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But I love the fact that you do it, you do it with dignity to the people you're ministering

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to.

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And it's amazing.

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And you've just done some great teaching all around.

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And you really have been impacting the emerging generation, which is probably predominantly

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our audience on this podcast.

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I want to jump in this.

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We love to ask this question on our podcast.

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Give your 100 Vlad.

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Give us an origin story.

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Just something about either how you came to Christ, how the Holy Spirit made himself real,

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your call, just anything that you feel like man was just something that God gripped you

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and just marked you in such a way that God set you up to do the things you're doing now.

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So I come, I'm a fourth generation Christian and fourth generation actually minister on

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both my father's side and my mother's side.

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On my father's side, they became a Christian, you know, three generations ago when American

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missionaries came to the village and my grandfather had leprosy, they prayed for him and God supernaturally

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healed him and the whole family became Christian.

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And my grandfather actually became a pastor after that.

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His grandfather, his father also was a minister and that whole village was, I would say about

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80% of that village is still till this day follows Jesus goes to church.

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And so my grandfather just passed away about two years ago, 90 something years of age.

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So from my mother's side, the three generations ago, my grandma, she comes from like 16 kids.

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She has, she had 16 kids.

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And so her father, which is my grandfather, my great grandfather sat in jail for five

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years.

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He was sentenced to 10 because communists, you know, persecuted preachers.

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And so he was released after five years.

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Then they cut the story short.

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He pretty much was martyred.

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He died shortly after that.

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They beat the living lights out of him, the communists.

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And so he suffered for the cause of Christ.

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And so the persecution living for Jesus and paying the price following Jesus kind of runs

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in our family lane.

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And so a lot of things that happened to me, I would accredited to me standing on the shoulders

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of previous generations.

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You know, I talk a lot about generational curses, but I also like to talk about generational

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blessings that, you know, we can experience those things because generations before us

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paid the price.

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And so I grew up in the Ukraine.

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I was born in the Ukraine.

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I was born around the Chernobyl nuclear explosion.

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I was actually born around the time, very like within a month.

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So the chemicals and all of the stuff was still all around in the air.

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In fact, it's probably one of the things that caused the one of the birth defects along

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with the mistake of the doctor that was performing the delivery.

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And so as I was growing up in a Christian household, you know, when you're a kid, everything's

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fine.

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But then when you hit about, you know, the middle school, you start getting bullied,

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made fun of based on your appearance.

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And that's what happened to me, which I thought it was normal because I kind of accepted the

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stigma that was attached to me that I was deformed.

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Something was wrong with me.

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And my parents saw that.

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I was scheduled for first eye surgery in the Ukraine, had a second one.

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The moment I arrived in the States when I was 13, because when I arrived in the States

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at 13, I didn't speak any English.

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It was a culture shock.

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I didn't have any friends.

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It was extremely, extremely difficult.

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It got so bad, Sean, that I was actually I wasn't contemplating suicide.

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I knew better growing up in a Christian home.

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And I had a very healthy environment that I grew up in.

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And those thoughts didn't penetrate my mind.

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But I wanted to die.

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I wanted to die.

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And I prayed that God will cause some kind of a sporadic accident where only I will be

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killed and so that the world will be a better place with me not in it.

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And so I was involved in a few accidents, came out of it without a scratch.

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So I was deeply disappointed.

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And so that wasn't happening.

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And you know, I started to close myself in my freshman high school every day after high

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school and locked myself in the room for about 40 minutes.

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I was dealing with a lot of number one, I had extreme migraine headaches because optical

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nerve was damaged during birth.

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And the other stuff that I believe that happened to the nuclear explosion, I had this weird

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headaches that couldn't have a cure for it.

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They didn't have an explanation for it.

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Every time I get exposed to the sun, I have this like painful I would hit my head in the

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in the wall just to relieve pain.

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I would pop pills.

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They wouldn't work.

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And so and on the top of that, you know, I'm chronically insecure.

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I can't fit into this culture.

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I don't speak English.

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I don't have any friends.

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I'm like, it's emotional and physical problems all at once.

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And I couldn't take it anymore.

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So I would actually my outlet was crying out to God.

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It was not a prayer as more as more it was like complaining and whining to God why he

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allowed me to be born like this.

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What did I do?

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What did I deserve to all of this and stuff?

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So I would kind of like vomit that to the Lord, just kind of vent that to God for about

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15 minutes.

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And then I end up worshiping him after that.

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And so it was actually my routine as a freshman high schooler, because I was so loner that

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I found myself like in that secret place, not by choice, but almost driven into that

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by the pain of life.

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And as a teenager, trying to process all of these challenges.

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And that's what I actually found God.

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That's what I found God for myself, not just my parents, God, my grandparents, God, I discovered

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his presence.

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The first thing that happened is my headaches were gone supernaturally, no medical intervention.

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They just stopped.

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But before that, I felt the Holy Spirit lead me to make this promise.

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And I knew it was God leading me, but I made this promise.

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I said, God, if you take away all of my chronic insecurity and you take away my headache,

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I give you the rest of my life because I don't have any plans for it anyway.

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I'm just surviving here.

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So whatever you can do with it, you can do it.

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But you need to take these two things away because they will hinder me to serve you.

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Headaches and the second one is this chronic insecurity.

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I was so scared and shy of people.

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Sean, I skipped a keyboarding class when I found out I had to do a presentation in front

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of 20 students for a minute and a half.

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I was chronically scared of people.

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And so after about a year that I don't have any headaches anymore, like my self-esteem

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just kind of changed and I started to get straight A's.

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My pastor uncle starts the church and he gets me involved right away on the stage.

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And I'm like 14.

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At 16, I become a youth pastor.

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And so like all of this stuff just really gets transformed.

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And from 16 to 30, I was a youth pastor.

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And so that's when I started to get to know the Holy Spirit more and the reality of His

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presence became more real.

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And that's where a lot of the miracles started to break out in the youth group and the youth

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group started to really see salvations of people, people getting delivered from demons

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on youth services and then healings.

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And that's kind of pretty much, I would say, the origin story of how I started from my

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family to overcoming the insecurities and then meeting the Holy Spirit.

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Man, Vlad, I tell you what, man, first of all, when you talk about in your lineage,

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leprosy was healed.

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I mean, that's one of those miracles that you don't find too many people that have that

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kind of immediate testimony in their family.

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And then for you to be by Chernobyl, for you to have the battles and all the things, but

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you could totally see where God branded you with this radical, because you came to this

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point of total surrender.

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I kind of feel like part of what I'm getting from your story, and I love this, is that

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there was a sense of ultimate abandonment because there wasn't, you know, like the rich

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young ruler, right?

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He had all this stuff and all this stuff to Him represented.

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If I let go of all of that, I'm at a loss.

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So do I give all this up to follow Jesus?

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Obviously, you made the wrong choice.

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But I think sometimes maybe it's a blessing to feel like you've hit the rock bottom and

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really, you know, Catherine Coleman would often say that, you know, she didn't have

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anything or anyone but Holy Spirit.

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And I think it caused an abandonment and a velocity to go after God.

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And so your youth group started to grow and it started to multiply.

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So what do you, what's going on while you're seeing this growth?

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Because I understand it at a certain point, it even surpassed in terms of the youth group

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and those attending, those that were coming on a Sunday morning to the main church.

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Man, how did you kind of negotiate and handle those kind of things?

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That's a challenge, man.

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Yeah, it is.

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So, you know, I got filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of tongues at the age of

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14.

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But Sean, I would say I did not know the Holy Spirit as a person.

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I didn't have a relationship with Him.

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In fact, I wouldn't be able to distinguish the presence of the Father, the Son and the

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Spirit.

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I know all of just like anointing presence and I've always made a reference to that.

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But the Spirit was not somebody that I knew a Holy Spirit.

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I didn't know Him personally.

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And so because of that, I really think personally that I was like that lame man who was carried

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to the gate, beautiful, who had legs.

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They just didn't work.

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I had the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit didn't have me.

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I had the Holy Spirit.

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I just didn't walk with Him.

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I didn't know His voice.

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And so it happened on my flight to California, Sacramento.

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I was preaching already at the youth conferences.

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I had 30, 35, 40 kids in our youth group.

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And it was actually around the same amount that our church had people.

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So I was technically successful youth pastor because we had about the same amount of people

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as we had at our church.

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But I knew that this is not what God had for us.

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I knew we were not reaching people.

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I mean, we went for two years, Sean, without baptizing anybody.

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We would go for six months without seeing people getting saved.

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That's not normal.

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People are going to hell every single day and we're not seeing the breakthrough.

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Something is not right.

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And I knew that something was not right.

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I mean, and I was seeking power.

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I was seeking the breakthrough and flying to Sacramento, I sensed the Holy Spirit listening

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to actually one pastor on the podcast and he, his mom died.

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He gives $10,000 of the apartment that his mom left to him as an inheritance to the ministry

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that saw salvations and he didn't see anything like in his ministry.

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His ministry was struggling.

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And so I'm hearing this testimony and Sean, I hear this thing in my heart.

471
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:09,480
Do the same.

472
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,480
Take your savings account.

473
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,360
And I had exactly nine and a half thousand by the end of that month, it would have been

474
00:23:13,360 --> 00:23:14,360
$10,000.

475
00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:16,760
And we've been saving on the pastor's salary, youth pastor's salary.

476
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,720
I've been saving for like three months, Dave Ramsey style envelopes and not eating out,

477
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:21,800
cutting all of this stuff out.

478
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,280
So like it took, it's a big sacrifice for me to do that.

479
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:25,760
And so at first I resisted that.

480
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:26,800
I was like, that's not God.

481
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,200
God will never ask to take my money.

482
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,680
Plus, you know, anointing is not for sale.

483
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,080
The whole stuff, I brushed it off.

484
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,080
Three days later, it just, the thought would leave me.

485
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,560
So I talked to my wife, my wife agrees to do it with me.

486
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:36,740
We fly to another country.

487
00:23:36,740 --> 00:23:39,400
We take all of that money that we had, all of the money that we saved.

488
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:40,400
It represented our future.

489
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,400
It represented our past.

490
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,640
It honestly represented, it actually was harder sacrifice than to kill my life when I was

491
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,800
a teenager, because at the time I had nothing to lose.

492
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,400
Now I have something to lose.

493
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,440
And I did that for one simple act.

494
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,760
I wanted to get breakthrough from my ministry.

495
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,000
So I'm giving this sacrifice to this particular ministry.

496
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,800
A pastor looks at me and he says, you don't need breakthrough in your ministry.

497
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,240
And I was like, I do.

498
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,120
He says, you don't know the Holy Spirit.

499
00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:03,880
And I said, I'm a Pentecostal.

500
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:04,880
I'm a Semilies of God.

501
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,880
I speak in tongues.

502
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:06,880
I know the Holy Spirit.

503
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760
Tell me how to get that impartation.

504
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,520
And he says something that honestly provoked me, left me angry, a little bit upset.

505
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,400
And he said, you need to meet the Holy Spirit.

506
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,560
You need to know the Holy Spirit and your life will change.

507
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,560
And I was like, I'm not sowing 10K to get something I already know.

508
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,200
So he prays for me simple prayer.

509
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,480
I go back home and honestly, I take this instruction seriously.

510
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,280
And I started to ask Jesus, did Jesus reveal your Holy Spirit to me?

511
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,520
And next six months, my world started to change.

512
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,120
The Holy Spirit became real.

513
00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,000
For the first time in 10 years, I started to see people getting healed.

514
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,600
I started to get words of knowledge.

515
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,800
And then about four months into this, first person gets saved.

516
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:41,800
I remember it like yesterday.

517
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,040
He's still part of our church.

518
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,280
This happened about eight years ago.

519
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,520
He invites all of his coworkers.

520
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,760
So the next week, one of his coworkers gets saved.

521
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:52,000
And since that day until now, there has been not one service where somebody doesn't get saved.

522
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000
Because to me, the greatest sign of the anointing is not just a miracle.

523
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,000
It's the greatest miracle of people meeting Jesus.

524
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,760
And so three years or two years into it, my uncle, my pastor says,

525
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,320
hey, you need to step out of the youth ministry and lead the main church.

526
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,920
And so I actually had this brilliant idea to close down Sunday morning church.

527
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,080
I was like, it's not growing.

528
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,600
It's in bilingual language.

529
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,680
We could just keep the youth ministry on Wednesday night and just close Sunday morning.

530
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,040
So my pastor is like, no, you need to transition.

531
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,160
You need to raise now 15, 16 year olds to come after you and lead the youth.

532
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,680
And you need to lead the main church.

533
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,160
I was like, no, that's not what I want to do.

534
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:24,120
But I'm a submissive guy.

535
00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:28,000
So I yielded to my pastor and transitioned out of the youth ministry.

536
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000
And then in the last seven years, I've been the lead pastor.

537
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,040
And so I would say that the relationship with the Holy Spirit has really been the catalyst.

538
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,840
You know, I was seeking the power, the miracles and the breakthrough.

539
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,920
But in reality, all I needed is the Holy Spirit that I had in me.

540
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,840
I had to develop that friendship, that relationship with Him, that intimacy with Him.

541
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,920
And then the miracles, the deliverance and all of this stuff would flow out of that.

542
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,240
Jesus says you receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

543
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,120
So the power is connected to that person.

544
00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:58,280
And to me, honestly, even though somewhere in the head, I knew that he was a person,

545
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,920
because I read Good Morning Holy Spirit, I read Robert Morris's book, I've read the stuff.

546
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,960
I wasn't ignorant in that, but it wasn't a revelation.

547
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,920
I still treated him like a dove, like a wind, like an experience,

548
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:15,120
like a tingling feeling, like an anointing, a presence, an aura, an atmosphere.

549
00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:18,960
It's really how I related to him that I feel like it was a hindrance to that.

550
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,240
And so when he became the boss and the pastor of my life, things just changed.

551
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,480
Oh, I love that, Vlad. That is so powerful.

552
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:27,680
And I know you've written a book on that.

553
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,360
We're going to get you a chance a little bit later to talk about it.

554
00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:33,920
Hey, Vlad, I want to shift now because it's been an interesting phenomenon.

555
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,040
And I guess I first picked up on this.

556
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,560
It's been some years ago, maybe about five or six years ago,

557
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,080
because the people we run with are people that are really running after God

558
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,680
and they have this fire and they really are conscious to raise the bar

559
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:50,720
and raise the standard of personal consecration, holding this living like Jesus.

560
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,360
And so I remember I was someplace and I was around a contemporary Christian artist

561
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,000
and he actually wasn't speaking directly to me, Vlad.

562
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,960
He was speaking to someone else that was also going to be a part of kind of us

563
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,160
coming together for a meal.

564
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,240
And the guy just like he doesn't know me from Adam out of no place.

565
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,240
The guy says, you know what, there's nothing wrong with just dropping an F bomb,

566
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,280
except he didn't say drop that bomb. He said the word.

567
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:13,000
He says, you know, nothing.

568
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,080
Sometimes that's just the best way to describe what's going on in your life.

569
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,960
And I'm kind of like looking around and I'm thinking nobody's shocked like this.

570
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,880
And I just thought, man, what you know, what's going on with this guy

571
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,200
and what's what's happening?

572
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,880
But then I began to notice after that consistently,

573
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,240
it was like the vulgarity and the profanity of of culture,

574
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,920
whether it's the hip hop culture, whether it's motion pictures,

575
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,920
whether it's entertainment or what's just the language of what's going on

576
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,760
in the world today at schools or whatever.

577
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,400
I began to see this profaning of the language of saints to the point

578
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,600
where you got this guy out there called the cussing pastor.

579
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:54,720
He's developed a following because he just, quote unquote, keeps it real

580
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,920
and, you know, appeals to a group of people that just want to have that base

581
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,640
nature express.

582
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,840
There's another guy out of Dallas that on his podcast,

583
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,200
and he's got a lot of listeners.

584
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,760
He also dropped the bomb in some other words.

585
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,640
And I think I most recently came back and only for the purpose

586
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,120
that it offended some other believers that he kind of say that was a mistake,

587
00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:19,320
but he's not pulling back on the language.

588
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,880
I know that you've talked about this, Vlad.

589
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,920
So we want you to address first of all, maybe the first question is,

590
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,040
why do you think that all of a sudden there's this fascination

591
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,400
with profanity or why it's become such a temptation,

592
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,840
such an attraction to believers today?

593
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,080
What from your perspective, what do you think has become the appeal of that?

594
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,400
Or how do we get here to where pastors now are using that kind of language?

595
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,560
I'll share my story.

596
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,640
I was younger, like maybe 11 or 12.

597
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,320
I was actually I fell into cursing.

598
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,600
I remember it like yesterday.

599
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,160
If something came on me, it was mainly because of culture.

600
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:01,000
I was around school and so it was pretty popular at the time to use sewer.

601
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,000
I call it Goddard language, you know, the garbage language.

602
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,240
And so and I just kind of fell in love with it.

603
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:07,680
And I don't know what came over me.

604
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,040
It was a demon or was some kind of a demonic influence.

605
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,560
And I remember like yesterday, I couldn't stop cussing.

606
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,240
I would just go everywhere, anywhere.

607
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,920
And I just like a like a sailor.

608
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,640
I just cussed and cursed.

609
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,720
And of course, I grew up in a very strong, healthy Christian home.

610
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,600
So I knew that I will get in trouble as a teenager.

611
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:29,280
And my parents definitely were not afraid to use the belt to discipline their children.

612
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,000
And so, in fact, this is funny, I was milking a cow.

613
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,080
So I knew how to milk a cow.

614
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,600
So I was milking a cow and the cow with its leg hit the bucket.

615
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,000
So all the milk spilled on me.

616
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,560
And I gave that cow so much of my I mean, I just I cursed so much.

617
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,120
And I didn't know my dad was walking by the barn.

618
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,800
So my dad walks in, sticks his head in.

619
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,040
He's probably thought some kind of a demon was in the barn

620
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,000
because his son never speaks like that.

621
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000
And he's listening to me.

622
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,920
And so that day, I received double portion of spanking.

623
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,680
I never cussed after that.

624
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,760
Come on, man.

625
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,680
I was delivered, man. I was delivered.

626
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,800
I sometimes tell people, I was like, I was delivered by the with the belt,

627
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,080
with the by force and power, I was delivered.

628
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,920
But looking at what's happening in our culture and I see something in

629
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,280
in the United States, special Western culture,

630
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,720
there is the teaching on Christian liberty that I feel like has been stretched to the extreme,

631
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,720
to the point where the Christian liberty and the abuse of God's grace has become,

632
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,640
I call it greasy grace, where grace is no longer the power that enables you to walk holy.

633
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,440
Now it has become an excuse to do whatever you want.

634
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,120
And you want saved, always saved.

635
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,840
You will never lose lose your salvation.

636
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,080
It's just an expression.

637
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,680
And it's almost like we live in the generation today that have a relationship with God

638
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,040
and have no reverence for God, because to have a relationship with God,

639
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,560
you confess your sin, you pray a prayer, you know, you do you do that thing.

640
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,000
Reverence for God, Holy Spirit brings that.

641
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,160
The reverence for God, the Bible says the fear of God causes men to walk away from sin, to run from sin.

642
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,040
But when there is no reverence for God, we begin to flirt with sin.

643
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,760
And instead of asking how far can we get away from reflecting the culture,

644
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,480
we actually ask the question, how close to hell can I get without going there?

645
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,120
And it's really what I see that with young people, I see that also with pastors.

646
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:17,440
And some of them really and it scares me because it's almost like this life on the fence.

647
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,480
You know, we profess Christ, but we don't possess His character.

648
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:28,320
We have just enough of the world that we don't go to hell, that we don't enjoy Jesus.

649
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,640
And we have just enough of Jesus that we don't enjoy the world.

650
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:31,640
It's kind of like that in the middle.

651
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,760
We have both. It's the culture now has become a standard.

652
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,200
And it's really because people do that in the culture as well as it's a human nature.

653
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,560
It's like what you said, that base nature, that human nature that needs to be crucified.

654
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,720
And many times what it begins to happen with that is we satisfy that.

655
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:52,640
And so, and just because you're a pastor or a leader, it doesn't necessarily mean you stop having that human nature.

656
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,080
It doesn't mean that now you don't have those weaknesses.

657
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,120
And I think pastors, instead of submitting those things to Christ and repenting of those things,

658
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,320
renouncing those things and getting help if they cannot stop,

659
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,960
they use enough scripture to justify the Christian liberty that's been stretched to the thin.

660
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,560
And this applies to a lot of other things, alcohol and so many other things that we can touch on.

661
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,440
But today, I know we're dealing mainly with cursing.

662
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:20,120
You know, that's so right on, because I think about that, Vlad, just about that, you know, your dad helped you with that with me.

663
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,360
It was the same. I grew up in inner city Oakland, California.

664
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,680
And so it was the language of the streets. I get saved. I go to college.

665
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:31,480
But with the whole thing with profanity, it was interesting because the Lord literally knocked the taste out of my mouth.

666
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,760
I was raised by a southern black grandmother.

667
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,960
She would wash out my mouth with soap or she would give me a spanking.

668
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,840
And she heard me do that. Of course, I wouldn't do it around it, around her.

669
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,960
But it's very interesting. You know, there are various.

670
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:49,160
And I'm thinking in particular, the Welsh revival, when the revival broke out, obviously it impacted the entire community.

671
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:56,200
But it had a unique impact in the sense that many of them, the predominant occupation, if you will, in that area was coal mining.

672
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:04,400
And a lot of the coal miners had such a foul mouth that the mules were trained to respond to curse words, what your dog would read, he will come, whatever.

673
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:09,800
But they had a backup in the mine because when the coal miners got saved, they quit cussing,

674
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,720
bars shut down and Bible sold out.

675
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:22,280
And so when the power of God comes, you know, it is quite the opposite of kind of the trend of sexy hipster Christianity today.

676
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:28,640
What would you say, Vlad, to believers that feel like, well, what's wrong with cursing?

677
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,600
What's wrong with using profanity and swearing?

678
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,680
It's just a word. What's the problem, you know, with that?

679
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,400
And why is that even a big issue?

680
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,960
You know, I was thinking about apostle Peter.

681
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,840
He walked with Jesus for three and a half years.

682
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:47,040
And then when he denied Christ in Matthew 26, verse 74, it says this,

683
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:51,160
Then he began to curse and swear, saying, I do not know the man.

684
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,800
I find that interesting. Cursing and swearing.

685
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,720
Now, cursing, of course, is defined as using profanity to bring evil upon.

686
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,120
And then swearing is to make an oath or a vow to swear falsely.

687
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:09,080
And so while swearing, you know, includes curses and oaths, cursing mainly involves only curses.

688
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:19,320
And I find it interesting that Peter's fall, Peter's departure from Christ, Peter renouncing Christ involve these two characteristics, cursing and swearing.

689
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:25,640
I can't say that a person is genuinely walking with the Lord and have these two things that they practice.

690
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:31,880
And that's one thing. If a person is struggling, they just came to Christ and they're still learning how to crucify the flesh and renew their mind.

691
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:37,400
That's a different story. But when the person begins to practice these things, justify these things,

692
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:43,000
I absolutely, based on the authority of God's word, can say that this man, this woman doesn't know Christ.

693
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:49,480
They don't have Jesus said to people who practice lawlessness, not those who struggle with sin and are seeking help,

694
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:55,080
but practice lawlessness. And yet they profess Christ and yet they practice lawlessness.

695
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,880
But they still have some gifts on the side that they operate in effectively.

696
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,600
And Jesus says, I never known you. I don't know you.

697
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,000
And that's what Peter said. He says, swearing, cursing. He says, I don't know that man.

698
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,320
Now, of course, he lied about it. He knew of Jesus.

699
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:13,280
But to have that relationship, that new birth experience that I believe after the resurrection of Christ,

700
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:20,040
the experience he didn't have that. And I think that when people do that, it right away shows and their mouth betrays their heart.

701
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,640
Because whatever comes out of the mouth, their heart is filled with.

702
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:28,520
You know, you will not know my bad breath until I open my mouth and I open my mouth and you can catch a bad breath.

703
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,000
And that's exactly what happens with people.

704
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,360
What their heart is filled with that bad breath, their mouth betrays it.

705
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,800
You can hide all you want about your profession and other stuff.

706
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,640
But what you truly possess will be betrayed by what comes out of your mouth.

707
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:48,880
Man, it's so good. It's so true, man, because you see that so often that a lot of times when I think of people cursing,

708
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,640
it's usually venting like there's a rage, there's an anger.

709
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,880
They've been insulted. They want to strike back at somebody.

710
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:02,400
And then obviously after a while, it becomes such a common place in your language that, you know, it just begins to find.

711
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:12,280
What biblical passages or principles would you help lay a foundation for someone to begin to develop a conviction in that area of saying,

712
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:17,280
hey, cursing, swearing, or for that matter, just unwholesome talk in general?

713
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:24,120
I mean, actually, the standard for a believer is higher than me not dropping the whatever bomb or this word or that word.

714
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:30,200
It's like I want words that bring grace to people. I want words that incur. I want to prophesy to people.

715
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,880
I want to speak the life. I want the tongue that God has given me.

716
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,920
I want to speak and see the Lazarus come forth and the devils come out.

717
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,080
So it's obviously even higher than that.

718
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,600
But what biblical passages or principles and obviously you've you've begin to touch on some Vlad,

719
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,720
would you share to build a foundation for people in this area?

720
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:50,440
You know, Sean, I find it interesting when the baptism of the Holy Spirit happens,

721
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,560
what one thing that it changes, it's our tongue. God gives us these new tongues and so on.

722
00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,640
I find it interesting because, you know, it's one of those things that a lot of times we build with our hands what we destroy with our own mouth.

723
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:06,120
You know, because these curses that we release, cursing, it's releasing curses.

724
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,840
These curses are now coming upon people's lives. They're coming on their life and around.

725
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:18,880
Colossians 3, verse 8, it says, But now you yourselves are to put off these things, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,

726
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,520
and filthy language out of your mouth.

727
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:30,400
You know, many of the words known as cuss words are descriptions of immoral acts, filthy omissions of waste from the body or private body parts.

728
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,040
And Paul clearly states filthy language.

729
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:39,200
Matthew 12, 34, Jesus said, Brutal vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things?

730
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,200
For out of the abundance of the heart, mouth speaks.

731
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:52,080
When a Christian uses a foul language in public, in private, they waste the opportunity to set themselves apart from many unbelievers who commonly say these things.

732
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,760
Even the world knows to brand movies as this is R rated for language.

733
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,440
The world already understands this.

734
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,480
So for us to be able to justify that and to try to find loopholes, there is none.

735
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,280
The Bible says for by your words, you'll be justified and by your words to be condemned.

736
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,640
Matthew, chapter 12, verse 37.

737
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,960
In infusion, chapter four, verse 29, dealing with the grieving of the Holy Spirit, it says,

738
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:22,320
No, let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

739
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:30,480
Now, the word corrupt here is seprous, and that's the word that's used for rotten fish, rotten fruit or warm eaten olives.

740
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,560
That means that our speech should not be morally rotten.

741
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:43,200
When we use profane language, when we use profanity, when we use language that maybe doesn't have cuss words, but it doesn't have edification, it's just rotten.

742
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:44,560
It builds no one.

743
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:45,680
It hurts people.

744
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,840
That language grieves the Holy Spirit.

745
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:54,960
And in the same reference where Paul is talking about grieving the spirit, a few verses before that, he talks about open doors to the devil.

746
00:38:54,960 --> 00:39:03,720
And I really believe that when we grieve the spirit and we don't repent and one of the ways we do that is by running our mouth in a way that does not glorify Jesus.

747
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:07,440
It opens the door for demonic spirits to begin to affect us.

748
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:08,800
We grieve the spirit through that.

749
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,480
The Bible says what comes out of our mouth defiles us.

750
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,600
Matthew chapter 15 verse 18.

751
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,520
And then we see that the Bible tells us that we need to submit our mouth.

752
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:27,960
If you read the Proverbs 10 and then it goes in through verse 11, verse 13, verse 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 31, 31, 33 and 32 and 32.

753
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,240
He keeps talking about the mouth of the righteous.

754
00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:33,880
Talks about the violence that covers the mouth of the wicked.

755
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,400
The wisdom that's found in the lips of the righteous.

756
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,760
The mouth of the fool is near destruction.

757
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,960
He who hides hatred has lying lips and multitude of words sin is not lacking.

758
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,000
He who's restrained his lips is wise.

759
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,920
Lips of the righteous feed many.

760
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,440
Preverse tongue will be cut off.

761
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,000
So there's this continuous contrast.

762
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,360
And one of the things that contrast the righteous and the wicked is their mouth.

763
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,080
So to say that I'm righteous person, but my mouth is not righteous.

764
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,400
That is not biblical.

765
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,840
It's contrary to the Old Testament teaching, the New Testament teaching of Jesus and the teaching of the apostles.

766
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,440
Man, I mean, that is profound.

767
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:17,600
And those scriptures, those principles and even that revelation of Peter at that point of, if you will, Peter backsliding and beginning to use that kind of language.

768
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:27,440
And perhaps sometimes it lands for me like this and it's even more frightening because I feel like what we're really describing is that there's been a loss of awe and reverence in the house.

769
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,160
It's one thing for the world to talk like that.

770
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:38,640
And, you know, I outside of when I play hook with some dudes and they're dropping the Lord's name in vain, that's probably why I just say, hey, man, that name is so precious to me.

771
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,480
Can you? But, you know, I'm not there to police them dropping the other language and stuff like that.

772
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,560
I just try to let my light shine and witness and share with them about Jesus.

773
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,160
But we're going to be held accountable.

774
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:50,680
We're going to be judged.

775
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:56,920
And even as believers, obviously, you know, the eternal damnation has been passed over because of the blood of Jesus.

776
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:03,640
But at the beam of seat or the judgment seat of Christ, our works, our motives, our language will be judged.

777
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:10,000
And just to understand that, man, we have to take stewardship of what comes out of our mouth.

778
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:18,320
And it's funny because I feel like some of the best communicators, my observation of being in the kingdom for a while, people obviously have served the Lord way longer than I.

779
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,680
But I feel like some of the best communicators have emerged in this season.

780
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:29,120
But at the same time, I don't know, although they're able to twist phrases in words in a way that communicates well,

781
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:35,840
I don't think they understand the power of language and the principles you're talking about that we have to get back to that type of language.

782
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,440
And, you know, when I first got saved, I was influenced by reading books by Leonard Ravenhill and A.W.

783
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,640
Tozier, and I was getting David Wilkerson's newsletter.

784
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:51,480
And I really felt like that diet of the awe and the fear of the Lord were very key in a formulation of who I am.

785
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:56,120
And this generation, man, we just need that type of teaching, those kind of voices,

786
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,800
because I feel like we've gotten on this slippery slope where all of a sudden we don't realize it,

787
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:13,480
but we've kind of adopted this deluded Christianity, particularly in North America, where we've set the course and we've left this biblical worldview to we measure ourselves by ourselves.

788
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:24,680
And I think some of the cussing with some of the pastors, quite simply, is they have fallen in the trap that there is this kind of overreaction to maybe religious types that have preached,

789
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:32,880
that have been overly religious, but rather than respond to the true plumb line of truth, they've overreacted in a way that, OK, we're not going to be,

790
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,200
let's say, that ultra fundamental Bible thumping, ultra religious.

791
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,160
So we're going to prove it to you that we're not.

792
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:45,440
We're going to swing the pendulum way over here. But the truth be told is it's not a response to the Holy Spirit.

793
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,680
It's reaction to a religious spirit.

794
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:54,640
And a reaction to a religious spirit is typically a religious reaction because it's not a Holy Spirit response.

795
00:42:54,640 --> 00:43:01,280
If I can, Sean, mention also on how to deal with people who struggle with cursing.

796
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,400
Oh, do that, please.

797
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,680
Somebody is listening right now or watching and maybe you're struggling with that.

798
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,760
I would just give you just six practical things that you can take and apply today.

799
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:15,480
Number one is to take your thoughts captive, because before there are curse words, there are thoughts.

800
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,280
And these thoughts, they get formulated into our words.

801
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,040
And the Bible says there was a spiritual warfare taking place in our mind.

802
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,320
So when we take our thoughts captive, they will never become words.

803
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,440
And so that helps us to win that battle right here.

804
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,040
When you don't win the battle right here, you lose the battle with your mouth.

805
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,600
The second thing is the Bible clearly teaches us to control our mouth, to muzzle our mouth.

806
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:39,440
James 1, 26, the Bible tells us that our mouth, it's not just our thoughts we need to control.

807
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,360
There are times we need to zip the lip.

808
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,760
There's a time we need to put a border patrol over this.

809
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,800
And we need to check the papers of every word that's about to pass through.

810
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,880
OK, do you have the legal right to come out of this out of my mouth?

811
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,520
Are you going to defile me or are you going to hurt other people?

812
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,840
So we have to control.

813
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,040
We actually have to take control over our words and over our mouth.

814
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:05,520
Number three, some of us have reached that point where our tongue and our lips need healing.

815
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:06,280
Isaiah did that.

816
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,320
Isaiah, when he encountered God, what did he ask God to do?

817
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,360
He says, I'm a man of unclean lips.

818
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:12,280
Now, he was preaching.

819
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:13,280
He was a pastor.

820
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,080
He was a preacher.

821
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:14,960
He was a prophet.

822
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,080
Yet when he got close to God, he realized his lips need to be cleansed.

823
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,600
And some of us need to actually ask to the Lord, say, Lord, cleanse my lips.

824
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,200
Lord, heal my tongue.

825
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:29,920
Lord, restore the soundness in my mouth so that the words, the syllables that come out,

826
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,480
that they glorify you and that they bring you honor.

827
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,680
The fourth thing I would say is to change the environment, because a lot of times, if

828
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:42,120
you are in the environment that you are being influenced in all the time and that environment

829
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,960
uses profanity and you can instruct them, say, don't use it in front of me and once

830
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:46,960
or twice a third time.

831
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:52,160
But if that's the environment you're being influenced by or not influencing them sooner

832
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,240
or later, you will pick up like how do you get fever?

833
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,360
You don't get fever when somebody lays hands on you.

834
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,160
You get fever.

835
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:58,920
You catch it.

836
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,840
You hang out with other people who have it and then you catch it.

837
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,120
It's the way the influence work.

838
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:07,480
The word influence has this three letter there, flu.

839
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,880
Influence has a flu component to it.

840
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,120
You catch things.

841
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,840
That's why even they say anointing is, you know, is caught, not taught.

842
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,720
You hang out around people that curse a lot.

843
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:18,040
It's a matter of time.

844
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,840
You will get desensitized with it before you start cursing.

845
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,160
And then you will start.

846
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,040
It will start first.

847
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:23,960
You will start defending it.

848
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,040
You say it's not a big deal.

849
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:25,680
You won't curse.

850
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,840
But then it'll get to the point.

851
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:30,520
Once in a while, you slip one, two, three words, and then it would just be a gushing

852
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,840
water or sewer coming out of your mouth.

853
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,240
But it's really the environment.

854
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,920
That's why I always tell people, you know, bananas do not grow in Alaska

855
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,000
because of the environment.

856
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,440
There are certain characteristics.

857
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,720
You got it when you choose your environment, when you choose, you know,

858
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:45,240
to go to a local church, to go to a small group, surround yourself with godly people.

859
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:48,520
It will help you to steer toward godliness.

860
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,160
The fifth one is to season our speech.

861
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,040
The Bible clearly states that let your speech always be done with grace.

862
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,160
Colossians 4, verse 6, and it says seasoned with salt.

863
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,240
This is very important.

864
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:06,760
Something that I had to learn, Sean, is that when I was younger, I used to think that be real, be raw.

865
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,360
But the Bible says the world doesn't need you always to be real.

866
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:11,520
You need to be seasoned.

867
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,120
Yes, be real, be vulnerable.

868
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:21,000
But if everybody hears my rawness and my how I am, how everything comes in my mouth and in my mind,

869
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,280
how I think, and I release that without any filter,

870
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,680
the Bible calls it without any seasoning, I could come out as harsh.

871
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,320
I could come out as immature.

872
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:30,800
I could come out as rude.

873
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,240
People need tasty words, not raw words.

874
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:36,760
So the Bible says that seasoning takes time.

875
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,480
That means you have to take time to put that seasoning into your mouth and you can't release the words.

876
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,160
Well, I just want to be unfiltered.

877
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,000
You know, people need to hear the way it is.

878
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,240
Ah, biblically speaking, not really.

879
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,080
People need to have stuff seasoned.

880
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,480
You're salt. I am salt.

881
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:55,560
That means my speech cannot come out raw and real, it needs to come out seasoned with salt

882
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,840
because it needs to bring results to people.

883
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:02,320
That means sometimes there are certain things I want to say, it's not the right time to say those things.

884
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,080
There's an appropriate time to say those things.

885
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:09,480
And the last thing that I would encourage for people that battle with it or struggle with it is to,

886
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:14,200
after all these things are done, to really spend more time speaking in tongues.

887
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:20,440
We have to speak in tongues because that purifies also things and then brings wholesomeness to our tongues.

888
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:27,240
So that's when it comes to overcoming the cursing habit or the swearing habits that people have developed.

889
00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:31,360
When it comes to what you just mentioned about what I see happening with our generation,

890
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,680
I just preached that we just had a youth conference, we had an unashamed conference.

891
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,920
And we're currently in about six public schools and we have about eight clubs.

892
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:44,800
In fact, as I'm speaking right now, our Tuesday is our outreach in our middle schools and our high schools.

893
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,840
And our goal is to spread these clubs to all around Washington state.

894
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:54,040
We have the legal precedent from our law that we are actually able to do these clubs.

895
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:59,560
Some principals do not allow that, but we bring a little bit of attorney help and then we're able to press in.

896
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,320
We're seeing a lot of kids, Sean, give their life to Jesus in schools.

897
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:09,080
And I have a very strong burden for the next generation and for us to specifically go to schools.

898
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,360
I'm not against homeschooling.

899
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,720
I'm not against pulling kids out of high school or middle school and have private schools.

900
00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:14,360
I'm not against that.

901
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:21,080
But I believe, remember in that story in prophet Elisha where there was barren land because the water was poisoned.

902
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:26,280
And prophet Elisha said this, bring salt and put it at the source of the water.

903
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,000
The source where leaders are produced is our colleges and our schools.

904
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,760
That source is polluted.

905
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,400
That source is poisoned in the United States.

906
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:41,560
Critical race theory, evolution, all of that garbage, the woke stuff that is being pushed on.

907
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:42,680
You can choose your gender.

908
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:50,920
All of that stuff that's being pushed, the well, the source of where the future governors, teachers, pastors and leaders are being produced from.

909
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,520
The source is the school system.

910
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,040
And I have a burden and I sense the Lord is going to be moving.

911
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,040
I see this happening at our church already.

912
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:03,320
That he will take the salt, our students, and put them at the source of the problem.

913
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,680
The salt doesn't have to be big.

914
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,680
Elisha didn't dump a truckload.

915
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,360
He left just enough that the waters were healed at the source.

916
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,040
And the Bible says the land was healed.

917
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,240
And so I remember last Saturday I was even teaching to our students.

918
00:49:15,240 --> 00:49:17,480
We had hundreds of students that came out for that.

919
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:18,760
Most of them from our high schools.

920
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:23,960
And I said that God is sending you back to school to be the salt at the source.

921
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,920
So we can bring healing to our land, healing to every department of our community.

922
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:33,800
Because these students are the ones being poisoned by the demonic doctrine in our schools.

923
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:41,960
And so we have to send our students filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the authority of Christ, to heal the sick, cast out demons and preach the gospel unashamedly.

924
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,680
That's why we call the youth conference unashamed.

925
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:46,920
We want them to stand up for Christian values.

926
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:52,120
We want them to stand up for the spiritual supernatural part of the gospel without any shame.

927
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,200
And win their students for Christ.

928
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,960
Half of our youth ministry I would say today, their parents do not serve Jesus.

929
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And they just got saved at our clubs.

930
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:01,960
Now they're working on their parents.

931
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,080
So what I see happening with the next generation, I see revival happening.

932
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,480
I see God will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh.

933
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,680
I see God is going to be raising the themethies who will be studying the scriptures from childhood.

934
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:17,800
God will be raising these young girls who were telling Naaman about the prophet in Israel.

935
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:23,080
God will be raising up Samuels who will be hearing the voice of God, audible voice of God at tender age.

936
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:28,360
God will be raising up these lads who will give Jesus their lunch and he will feed masses with it.

937
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:33,800
God will be raising up these lads who led Samson to the pillars and Samson had his greatest victory.

938
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:34,760
But who led him?

939
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:35,480
It was a lad.

940
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:36,360
It was a teenager.

941
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:41,880
So I see there's an attack on the young people through the school curriculum, through the Disney agenda,

942
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,080
through the woke agenda, through the critical race theory.

943
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,280
It's to brainwash them.

944
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,520
But the reason there's an attack on them I see is because God has a specific plan.

945
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,840
He wants to use them in these last days to bring his revival through this generation.

946
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,840
That some Christians think they're victims.

947
00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,200
These guys, they won't make it.

948
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,760
Like Israelites thought in the wilderness about their kids.

949
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Our kids won't make through this.

950
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:02,440
They'll die.

951
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,400
And God says these things, these people you think are victims.

952
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,600
I'm going to raise them up as victors and they will possess the promised land.

953
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:11,800
Vlad, that is so profound, man.

954
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:16,600
I almost got up, threw off my earpieces, ran around the room, shouting, waving.

955
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,920
Hey, Vlad, you've got some projects.

956
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,160
You've got a brand new book I'm super excited about.

957
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:22,200
You got some other things.

958
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,640
We've got a lot of people listening in.

959
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,560
They're going to want to get your book.

960
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,320
And I highly recommend you guys, I started perusing this book.

961
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:30,920
This is a now book.

962
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:36,520
You literally will only go as far as your understanding of Holy Spirit and how to walk with them.

963
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,240
That's what makes you a true son and daughter of the most high God.

964
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:41,560
And just ways that we can follow you and stay in touch.

965
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:42,520
So Vlad, go for it.

966
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,160
Give us kind of a pitch on what's going on.

967
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,680
I have a host, the Holy Ghost book I just released.

968
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,760
And it's also in Russian and Spanish, Romanian, German is being translated.

969
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,160
It's an audible Kindle paperback hardcover.

970
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,000
And I am self-published.

971
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,600
It's my fifth book that's self-published.

972
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,800
So it's also available on my website for a free download.

973
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,080
No strings attached.

974
00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:04,520
I have an online school.

975
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,560
We have about 100,000 students in it right now.

976
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:08,920
It's free school as well.

977
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,360
So we have about 10 courses.

978
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,440
Courses are downloadable.

979
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,080
But if you upload them to YouTube, you'll get flagged by me.

980
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,840
So it's only downloadable to be used in churches and small groups.

981
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:20,520
But not to be re-uploaded to YouTube.

982
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,560
Because it's exclusively made for people to grow in Christ.

983
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,960
And for people to download them in parts of the world where they do not have access to internet.

984
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,120
And so it's called Vlad School.

985
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,760
So courses on deliverance, on relationship with the Holy Spirit, dating without fornicating, marriage.

986
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,120
So a lot of other things.

987
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,920
It's not just on deliverance and the Holy Spirit.

988
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,640
And I pass through a local church where we have services every Sunday in the mornings.

989
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,760
A few services.

990
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:47,160
And then in the evening we have our youth service.

991
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,800
And we're about to launch a college service here shortly.

992
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,560
And so for those people that are maybe around this area, they're welcome to come and visit us.

993
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:54,760
And yeah.

994
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,120
And what city is that?

995
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:57,320
What area you were saying?

996
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,160
I am in Pasco, Washington.

997
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,080
But this area is called Tri-Cities Washington.

998
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:04,200
Tri-Cities Washington.

999
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:05,000
Awesome.

1000
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,360
And hey, any of your socials?

1001
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,200
Because I know some people love that we get on.

1002
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,640
So I have a YouTube, Facebook.

1003
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:12,280
Pretty much any social I'm on it.

1004
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,280
YouTube is the most prevalent one.

1005
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,000
Instagram and Facebook and TikTok and Twitter.

1006
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,400
And all of them have one username.

1007
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,000
It's Vlad Hungry Jen.

1008
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,360
Vlad Hungry Jen.

1009
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,120
So I'm a church guy.

1010
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:24,840
I love church.

1011
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:25,560
I bleed church.

1012
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:30,280
Even though I have this expression on my ministry that reaches people online, books and everything.

1013
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,400
But I'm a regular dude who just loves the local church.

1014
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,160
And I believe that Jesus wants to.

1015
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,280
Jesus died for the church.

1016
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:37,080
He loves the church.

1017
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:37,960
He's building the church.

1018
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:38,600
It's his body.

1019
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:39,240
It's his building.

1020
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:39,960
It's his bride.

1021
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,840
And I have to be around what Jesus cares about.

1022
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:43,800
And that is his church.

1023
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:44,280
Wow.

1024
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,160
That is absolutely an incredible conversation.

1025
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,120
That's one of those conversations you want to go back and listen to it again.

1026
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:54,840
I think this is going to be a repeat episode for a lot of Keep It One-Hundred Tribe listeners.

1027
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,520
Because I think they would all agree that was just rich.

1028
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,320
It had just profound revelation.

1029
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,200
So my goodness, that was just incredible.

1030
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,120
Pastor Vlad, he is amazing.

1031
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:13,560
I love the way he just addresses it with such honesty, such integrity in terms of using scripture.

1032
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:14,920
And he's just straight.

1033
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:15,640
And I love that.

1034
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:21,080
Because I think part of it, you know, but we live in a time where it's seemingly become taboo for

1035
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:25,720
Christians and believers to state what you should and should not do.

1036
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,120
And as it were, as though that people are afraid to tell the truth.

1037
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:29,560
And I love Pastor Vlad.

1038
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,320
He's not afraid to tell the truth.

1039
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,160
And we've got a bunch of people walking around claiming to be Christians, but they have no

1040
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,240
root in the Word of God.

1041
00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:38,840
They're not led by the Word of God.

1042
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:40,360
They're not led by his spirit.

1043
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,840
And so they just do and say and watch what they want.

1044
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,000
And they think that they're going to be right with God.

1045
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,520
But I just want to challenge our listeners as we head off and just let you know that right now,

1046
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:55,720
we live in a day of excuses and false assumptions of right standing with God.

1047
00:54:55,720 --> 00:54:59,160
And the truth be told is that we're going to stand before the Lord.

1048
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:05,160
And I don't want to be surprised when I stand before the Lord because I lived for a small G

1049
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,520
God of my own making, not the God of the Bible.

1050
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:12,840
If you're going to serve the God of the Bible, then the Bible has to be your standard.

1051
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,960
It has to be your plumb line for what it means to serve God.

1052
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:21,640
And it's so important that we stop when we ask Holy Spirit, not only are there words that are

1053
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:26,360
obvious cuss words we should not use, but also what are the words that should be coming out

1054
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:31,480
of our mouth that could build people up that can prophesy and release God's purpose in the

1055
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:32,520
generation that we live.

1056
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,720
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1057
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:38,280
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1058
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,600
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1059
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1060
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1061
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,960
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1062
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:55,000
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1063
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:56,680
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1064
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:57,640
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1065
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1066
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1067
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,360
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1068
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:14,040
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1069
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:18,920
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1070
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:23,000
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1071
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