Nephilim Death Squad - Brohemian Grove VIP Day ｜ Live from The Standard w⧸ Laura Baker, Ed Mabrie & Mattttt Hepner

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00:00:45.700 Guys, give it up for Mason.

00:00:46.920 She poured you drinks. 0.99

00:00:48.580 Isn't she the best?

00:00:50.040 Mason, turn and wave.

00:00:51.300 Turn and wave, Mason.

00:00:52.660 Wow.

00:00:53.660 Look at her. 1.00

00:00:53.960 She loves the attention.

00:00:54.880 Don't let her fool you.

00:00:55.540 Get out of here, Mason.

00:00:59.060 that's a pretty decent turnout uh ed you're there matt where is matt

00:01:03.920 uh this one is yours one two one two how y'all doing

00:01:11.620 wow everybody give it up for atma shirt okay it's a beautiful shirt actually i have a little

00:01:20.680 bit of shirt envy there's a little bit of shirt envy so we're gonna be doing a bible study and

00:01:27.020 And we have this loose outline, and it is intimacy with God, how to draw closer to God.

00:01:33.340 So we're going to be talking about that.

00:01:34.560 I don't know.

00:01:34.840 It depends on how it goes.

00:01:35.840 If we feel like it, we might take some of your questions.

00:01:39.120 You've got to raise your hands.

00:01:39.940 You can't shout out.

00:01:42.060 But I don't know how you want to start this thing.

00:01:44.180 Matt, you were supposed to prepare.

00:01:45.260 Did you prepare anything?

00:01:46.340 No.

00:01:46.660 No, I learned very vividly from hanging out with you that it's like – no, it wasn't a selfie.

00:01:54.980 He took a selfie.

00:01:56.140 It was not a selfie.

00:01:56.760 Yeah, that was a selfie.

00:01:57.660 If you have four people, you can't really do a prepared thing where you're like, I'm going to go from this to this to this to this.

00:02:06.000 Because it's going to take left field right away.

00:02:08.540 But so what I did plan was like, you know, I'm not a big fan of what happens, not just in the 501c3 system, but even in internet Christianity and stuff.

00:02:17.660 Who would have guessed that?

00:02:18.360 You don't like the 501c3 system?

00:02:19.840 No, no, but specifically this thing that like.

00:02:22.760 So-called, so-called 501c3 system.

00:02:24.680 This so-called thing?

00:02:26.040 People just are, like, arguing about, like, a lot of stuff and, like, about a lot of topics and digging into these topics.

00:02:32.940 Like, I wouldn't say I don't care or that they're not important, but just that, like, they're totally secondary or even, like, lower topics.

00:02:40.400 Like, topics that I just, you know, whether it's, like, the juice or, like, um.

00:02:45.200 That's a primary one here on Nephilim Death Squad, so you got to be careful.

00:02:48.520 But we understand it's not your favorite topic.

00:02:50.480 Pre-trip, post-trip, mid-trip.

00:02:52.120 Sure.

00:02:52.440 Sure.

00:02:52.940 Important stuff, but it's just, like.

00:02:54.460 So what's important?

00:02:55.180 The important thing is like to know the voice of God, man, like to know.

00:02:58.900 And at the end of the day, like if you're reading a Bible and it's just like win debates or you're like reading a Bible to prove your doctrine or you're just reading a Bible for like intellectual reasons.

00:03:08.660 To me, you're just missing the point.

00:03:10.600 And I and I never read it like that.

00:03:12.060 I just never had that mindset when I went to the Bible.

00:03:15.140 I always went to the Bible and was like, I just want to fellowship with God.

00:03:18.340 Like I just want to be with God and I don't know a better way and I don't really trust myself to just talk in my head.

00:03:23.980 Sure.

00:03:24.340 And so I just got into a Bible and found out, like, this is how I communicate with God, and this is what I want to do.

00:03:30.420 Like, this is the whole reason I'm in this book.

00:03:32.560 It's not to prove my own doctrine.

00:03:34.060 It's not to back up my denomination.

00:03:36.060 But it's to, like, know God and, like, start to cultivate that pattern of knowing him through Scripture so that I can hear his voice in, like, day-to-day life as well.

00:03:44.580 Like, to know the patterns of who he is, to know when it is his voice in real life.

00:03:48.540 Yeah.

00:03:48.880 So I thought we should talk through that, like how everybody here.

00:03:51.960 Sure. So can I. All right. So what you're saying, there's a lot of people, if you especially online, it's not really a surprise at all.

00:03:57.860 Right. In the online discord, there's a lot of debate bros and there's a lot of intellectual posturing.

00:04:04.820 And and I'm grateful because I'm seated up here with three people who help me.

00:04:09.580 You guys know I'm not strong reader. Right. I'm not a strong reader. I'm more of a conversationalist.

00:04:14.260 And these three individuals up here help me in my walk.

00:04:18.280 And in hindsight, it was never about intellectual posturing.

00:04:22.580 It's never been about that.

00:04:23.720 My entire experience with scripture and with God and trying to understand has always been, well, I mean, Ed Mabry primarily introduced me to this idea of knowing God, God wanting a relationship with you.

00:04:37.440 These ideas of intimacy with God, of hearing his voice, of serving, they're almost entirely absent in the online discourse.

00:04:45.700 and I don't know much

00:04:48.620 but from the outside looking

00:04:50.340 don't nod your head, that's very rude

00:04:51.920 you're agreeing with me

00:04:53.800 you chose a very particular place to agree with me

00:04:56.700 though, I feel like I was cooking 0.99

00:04:58.500 and you fucking didn't make 0.98

00:04:59.860 you made the face for like the first 0.99

00:05:02.260 and then I said

00:05:04.620 I don't know much

00:05:05.460 I'm just trying to be supportive

00:05:07.120 very rude

00:05:08.140 I'll allow it

00:05:10.740 I don't think you have a choice

00:05:13.040 I don't really have a choice in this

00:05:15.080 uh you were saying how you can't read which i which i know dude that's not i don't want you

00:05:19.540 guys to take that away carolina surely brought you a book so i got a book for raven i was like

00:05:23.920 people have bought me things with a lot of words in them lately and i do a lot of nodding and

00:05:27.900 smiling and uh not a whole lot of i don't want to explain to them i don't want to break their hearts

00:05:31.960 uh the fact of the matter is i'm not going to get through this thing you've given me so uh um but

00:05:36.440 it's never been about competition it's never been about knowing scripture so that you can

00:05:44.600 intellectualize it and then win an argument with somebody it's always been helping me shut the 0.96

00:05:51.140 fuck up siri what in the world i heard her she's talking in my back pocket um it's it's always been 0.82

00:05:56.540 about treating god as if he is a loving and faithful and patient father who genuinely wants 0.99

00:06:02.640 a relationship with you so these two worlds are are really strange to me um but all of that to

00:06:08.160 say i'm i'm really grateful and i'm hesitant to say it to matt because of that little stab there

00:06:11.940 But I am grateful to Matt, and I'm grateful to Ed Mabry, and I'm grateful to Laura Baker for helping me to understand this.

00:06:18.060 And there's really not a better crew of people that I would want for this particular thing that we've set out to do here with you guys, with the VIP members.

00:06:24.840 So if we could just have a quick round of applause for these three in particular, because I know that it's not just me.

00:06:33.220 So many people in this room have said the same thing that I've just said about you guys.

00:06:37.660 Somebody say, turn to your neighbor and say, thank you.

00:06:39.280 Turn to your neighbor and say, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:41.940 peace be with you peace be with you um so i just wanted to get that out of the way first and

00:06:47.120 foremost thank you guys so much uh and thank you guys for coming to this this is a really

00:06:51.140 stark difference from what we did last year uh raise your hand if you were here last year

00:06:55.700 i'm very surprised that we have returned people because last year was crazy as hell and it wasn't

00:07:01.960 my intention it's just what happens when you get canceled from an entire town you tend to get a

00:07:05.800 little vindictive and uh say some things you don't necessarily mean so this is i'm i'm great

00:07:10.660 I'm grateful that this is the foot that we're starting off on as we're going into this.

00:07:15.860 I made it a, believe this or not, I made it a very direct, it was intensive that I gave the glory to God in this. 1.00

00:07:27.120 Because if it wasn't for God, and it sounds so weird to say because I'm in a room full of people that call themselves, I call you guys, dangerous retards. 1.00

00:07:34.880 And we're talking about insane crap every single day on this show. 1.00

00:07:38.300 but i believe in my heart that nephilim death squad and certainly straight bible and everything 0.88

00:07:42.520 that we do has been built on a foundation that is jesus christ and so i wanted to specifically 0.98

00:07:47.520 give the glory to god i can barely read this guy is a massive asshole i don't think that we could 0.92

00:07:55.040 have gotten this far if it wasn't for god so i just want to put that out there i hope that it 0.97

00:08:01.620 pleases him i hope we do something good here today and if it doesn't please him i hope he

00:08:06.060 can at least use it to bring some people closer to him. So thank you guys for coming. Uh, and

00:08:11.240 thank you guys for helping me, uh, along the way, Matt, let's get into this, this idea of intimacy

00:08:17.180 with God. Do you have any, any, any, uh, scripture that's a good place to start that you can think

00:08:21.780 of? I do. Go ahead, Laura Baker, take it away. I'm going to tell you all where I started. I was

00:08:26.640 almost 40 years old before I went to God and now I was raised Catholic, so to speak. Peace be with

00:08:35.340 you yeah peace be with you peace be with you sit stand nil sit stand nil i think they do that stay

00:08:40.680 awake yeah but um but anyway i quit going at 16 because i could see all the hypocrisy in it

00:08:47.420 so i'm almost 40 years old i'm sitting on my bed and i said i just want to know where to go what's

00:08:56.040 the truth i want to know you what you're like i want to know what you're like and i don't know

00:09:00.060 where to go and i've asked people at work and they tell me about church that's not what i'm asking

00:09:06.920 and i look on the tv that's what i said i look on the tv and i can't trust those people they can't

00:09:15.040 trust joel olstein uh what's the other guy what's the guy full of demons kenneth uh kenneth

00:09:19.480 copeland god bless him or god rest his soul i don't know what you can tell i mean you can look

00:09:23.480 at him and you can tell like i can't trust that well his head is gigantic and i said i just want

00:09:27.160 full of demons what's the truth like what's the truth I said I don't even know if I can trust this

00:09:31.880 book and I've got a little Catholic Bible and I flip it and I flip it over and so I'm just sitting

00:09:37.040 there and I open it up and I circled my finger closed my eyes and this is where I was at I mean

00:09:44.020 you're not really supposed like they say you're not supposed to do this but it's where I was at

00:09:48.080 and he met me there and my finger landed on John 16 13 and it said the Holy Spirit is the spirit

00:09:56.720 of truth and he will guide you into all truth and I freaked out wow yeah and I said okay okay

00:10:04.200 like the creator of the universe is talking to me I'm freaking out and I said all right

00:10:08.540 I'll tell you what and I go into covenant with him and I don't even know what I'm doing and I said

00:10:14.000 I will promise to read one chapter a day in this book but you have to promise to start talking to

00:10:21.920 me like that through this book. And he did. He took me up on it. Amen. Did he ever stop? Nope.

00:10:27.220 Never stopped. And I know I'm sitting up here. I mean, I'm sitting up here. I know so much about

00:10:32.160 it now. That was 15 years ago. Wait, 16 years ago. What you just highlighted was like the exact,

00:10:39.680 I don't want to say battle. I guess it kind of is a battle that we're in right now where it's like

00:10:44.380 you're saying you found that salvation wasn't associated with a building.

00:10:48.920 no right and then God spoke directly to you specifically talking about scripture where

00:10:53.760 what was it again John 16 13 and what did it say it said the Holy Spirit who is the spirit of truth

00:11:00.080 will guide you into all truth and I was asking what is the truth that's what I was asking right

00:11:04.560 and so you had a spiritual moment you had an encounter with the Holy Spirit yes where God

00:11:10.900 is revealing himself to you directly and it's not in an institution it's not in a building and all

00:11:15.760 i wanted to know is him that's all but that's the big argument right now this big argument is this

00:11:20.100 idea that there is institutions that have strangleholds on your salvation and if it's not

00:11:24.400 a salvation issue it's just the ability to interpret scripture or to interact with the

00:11:29.120 holy spirit and if you look to scripture that says the holy spirit will teach you and and show

00:11:33.460 you truths and reveal things to you and no man need teach you then all of a sudden you are pushed

00:11:38.320 back against and the idea is like well you shouldn't be interpreting this you should allow

00:11:42.600 an expert or a teacher to interpret but it specifically says that's what you're not you

00:11:47.140 don't have to do that that's not what the bible says the bible says that he will teach you he

00:11:52.000 will matter of fact i was at a church for seven months we moved and i i don't cry i don't really

00:11:58.360 cry y'all i was crying oh my god who's gonna teach me because this pastor was so smart and god told

00:12:03.380 me right then i am your teacher and i was like oh yeah what am i worried about yeah he's wherever

00:12:09.560 i'm going so if you stay in the word and if you really want to hear from god what you're talking

00:12:15.180 about if you want to hear from god stay in the word because he talks like that and every time

00:12:20.040 you're in a situation you'll already know the answer because he's already talking about it in

00:12:24.760 there and and if you don't know the answer he'll bring up that scripture he'll remind that scripture

00:12:30.540 to you he'll highlight it in your situation to where you go oh i know what to do because it's

00:12:35.860 already in there what do you guys think about that i just want to hear from ed what exactly do you

00:12:42.700 want to hear how do i hear from god or like my song yeah yeah maybe a little bit of both man like

00:12:47.580 so i'll start with with a little bit of the story that'll lead into how i hear from god and how i

00:12:53.780 think everyone i know how everyone can hear from god as well so i was raised in a church literally

00:12:59.340 uh my my grandmother helped build the church and i was i was partially raised by her what was the

00:13:05.300 denomination? A Baptist.

00:13:07.940 Okay. Yeah. So 0.97

00:13:09.440 there was, I don't remember a time in my

00:13:11.540 childhood where I was not in church.

00:13:13.560 And inquisitive mind,

00:13:15.460 always had an inquisitive mind. That was just

00:13:17.260 how God made me

00:13:18.460 asking questions. And I remember once

00:13:21.580 the

00:13:22.200 pastor of the church would get tired

00:13:25.480 of me because I would just always ask questions.

00:13:27.620 Well, why is this? Why did God flood the earth? Why do you have to

00:13:29.620 kill everybody? What are these giants?

00:13:31.600 Why do we still have giants? 0.99

00:13:32.760 there's this woman there who 1.00

00:13:35.860 took a tin peg and drove it right through the man's skull 1.00

00:13:38.520 with one blow from a hammer

00:13:39.780 was she really strong or did the Holy Spirit guide her

00:13:42.160 why did David have five stones

00:13:44.120 to kill Goliath if he was only one person

00:13:45.640 and so finally he got tired of me

00:13:47.760 and he said you know it's not right to question God

00:13:49.960 I said oh

00:13:51.500 okay well I guess I don't want to make God mad

00:13:54.140 so I'm not going to question anything

00:13:55.660 I'm just going to believe what I'm told

00:13:57.220 so I went through my childhood

00:13:59.760 my adolescence my teenage years

00:14:01.740 never asking questions, just accepting.

00:14:04.520 So when I got to college, I got wrecked

00:14:08.380 because I went to a very liberal college,

00:14:10.880 which is basically every college now.

00:14:12.520 But when I was there, I started off pre-med,

00:14:16.420 wanted to be a doctor, and I took my first biology class.

00:14:19.040 And on the first day of the class, the professor says,

00:14:22.080 are we going to study evolution?

00:14:23.680 Oh, and by the way, evolution is true,

00:14:25.200 and I don't want to hear anything else about it.

00:14:26.420 That's very similar. That's interesting.

00:14:28.680 So I'm like, wow, I guess I can't question that. 0.73

00:14:30.440 And he took delight in tearing down Christianity. 0.68

00:14:33.660 When they found out that I was a Christian, they just loved tearing it down.

00:14:38.760 I took my first anthropology class, and we actually had five references or paper we were doing.

00:14:44.800 And one of the references I used in the other anthropology class, it was about ancient civilizations.

00:14:47.660 I used the Bible, and I got a B.

00:14:49.900 And so I went to the professor, and I said, you know, why did I get a B?

00:14:52.320 I thought I did A-level work.

00:14:53.740 She said, well, yeah, you have to have five references and use the Bible.

00:14:56.260 I'm like, what's wrong with that?

00:14:57.040 and she literally laughed in my face 0.99

00:14:59.000 and said well the bible

00:15:00.120 that's not a real book

00:15:02.380 that was cobbled together by a bunch of

00:15:04.900 Jewish people who didn't know what they were talking about 1.00

00:15:06.560 they stole their legends 1.00

00:15:08.920 from the Canaanites and I had no 0.99

00:15:11.000 defense so after four

00:15:13.020 years of just having things wrecked

00:15:14.520 my peers asked me questions well if God is good

00:15:16.900 why is there evil in the world all the classic questions

00:15:18.720 but I had no answer

00:15:19.780 but I still consider myself an intellectual

00:15:23.100 I got through college and

00:15:24.860 I just started trying to find truth 0.98

00:15:26.460 I never stopped believing in God because evolution is ridiculous.

00:15:30.200 But I did not believe what people were telling me about God in the church, 0.81

00:15:34.180 so I drifted away from the church.

00:15:36.340 And then when I got my first real job, it was during the tech boom,

00:15:40.380 and I was doing great.

00:15:41.640 Everyone was going to be a millionaire.

00:15:43.320 I was getting paid good money.

00:15:44.640 I had a really hot girlfriend who couldn't wait until my options cleared 1.00

00:15:47.920 so that I could cash them out and give her more money.

00:15:51.840 But then the dot-com bubble burst, and I lost my job.

00:15:56.460 And I was like, that's no big deal.

00:15:57.640 I'm a hot shot in this.

00:15:58.780 I'm going to get another job in no time.

00:16:00.900 I went 11 months without a job. 1.00

00:16:03.120 The hot girlfriend left.

00:16:05.180 I was in my apartment, and I was down to my last couple months of rent.

00:16:11.060 A friend of mine takes me to New Orleans.

00:16:12.620 She says, let's go to New Orleans, and let's just hang out.

00:16:14.680 I want you to have a good time.

00:16:15.360 You've been depressed.

00:16:16.060 I go to New Orleans.

00:16:18.880 Sorry, New Orleans. 0.92

00:16:21.840 New Orleans is filled with demons. 0.96

00:16:24.320 Yeah.

00:16:24.460 So I'll cut to the chase.

00:16:26.640 So I start thinking about things like voodoo and things like that.

00:16:29.360 Like, what else should I do?

00:16:30.200 Because if God's not answering my prayers of getting a job,

00:16:32.200 maybe I should turn to someone else.

00:16:33.640 And so finally, I get back to my apartment,

00:16:36.820 and I hear the voice of God saying, you need to make a choice.

00:16:40.440 You're about to go down a dark path.

00:16:42.760 So you can't just believe in me and believe in something else.

00:16:46.320 Pick one.

00:16:46.840 I say, okay, I pick you.

00:16:48.340 But I need you to say something to me because I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:16:53.380 And I said, I'm going to start a fast tomorrow, and I'm not going to eat until you speak to me.

00:16:58.180 And so I was prepared to just die of starvation in my apartment.

00:17:02.240 So I get up that morning.

00:17:04.260 Amen.

00:17:05.100 I get up that morning.

00:17:07.200 I remember waking up.

00:17:08.380 I start reading.

00:17:08.860 I don't even remember what I was reading.

00:17:09.880 I think it was the Psalms.

00:17:10.820 But I heard the voice of God say to me immediately, you hurt my feelings.

00:17:15.960 Like, what?

00:17:18.220 I said, you hurt my feelings.

00:17:19.420 I'm like, you have feelings that I could hurt?

00:17:20.900 because here's the thing and here's where we have something in common about what we were taught in

00:17:26.580 church about God I was taught that God was this distant angry guy sitting up on a cloud who could

00:17:32.960 not wait to bop me over the head who you couldn't question couldn't question him and he was just

00:17:38.020 angry and mad at me and when God showed his vulnerability to me he said you hurt my feelings

00:17:43.040 I'm like what do you mean I hurt your feelings he says because I've blessed you with so much

00:17:46.240 and you've taken so much credit for it and never given me the credit and that's when i heard from

00:17:52.360 god so to answer the question how do you hear from god you hear from god by focusing on god

00:17:59.480 there is the there's a chapter i believe it's in isaiah or jeremiah forgive me but it says you

00:18:05.020 will find god speaking you will find me when you seek me with your whole heart that's why

00:18:11.480 the voice of God is a still small voice.

00:18:14.520 We talk about this in spiritual warfare class

00:18:17.540 and other places where there are four voices

00:18:20.660 speaking to you all the time.

00:18:22.220 The world, the flesh, the devil, and God.

00:18:25.800 And one of the questions that I get asked a lot

00:18:27.360 is how do I distinguish those voices?

00:18:28.780 How do I know if that's God speaking to me

00:18:30.240 and it's not my own voice or the devil or the world?

00:18:33.640 Because those other three, they're loud.

00:18:37.160 The world screams to you.

00:18:39.020 You can have Eden without God.

00:18:40.560 You can be rich. You can have provision. You can be successful. You can be all these things

00:18:45.180 without God. Go earn a million dollars. Go find the man or woman of your dreams. Go get a big

00:18:51.200 house. That's the world screaming to you. Go be famous. The flesh wants you to be comfortable.

00:18:55.900 The flesh says, hey, lay down. Retire. Win the lottery. Get on to hang out on a beach somewhere

00:19:01.780 drinking Mai Tais. Just satisfy your flesh. Eat, drink, and be merry. It's a loud voice.

00:19:07.060 The devil is accusing you all the time, 0.99

00:19:10.240 telling you you're wrong, you're worthless, 0.97

00:19:13.260 God's not real, God doesn't love you, 0.99

00:19:15.040 God is the angry guy on the cloud who's ready to bop you over the head.

00:19:18.580 The voice of God is a still, small voice.

00:19:21.260 Why would the greatest of them all be a still, small voice?

00:19:24.000 Because you can't hear if I'm whispering.

00:19:26.460 How do you hear me?

00:19:27.000 How do you hear me?

00:19:27.880 You have to lean in.

00:19:29.020 You have to be intentional.

00:19:30.880 You hear from God by being intentional.

00:19:34.100 You hear from God by leaning in to God 0.95

00:19:37.280 and blocking all the other voices out

00:19:40.120 because it is God's will,

00:19:41.380 and this is what I had to learn,

00:19:43.080 that God's will is for us to dwell with him

00:19:46.560 and for us to have an intimate relationship with him.

00:19:49.200 That's what happens at the beginning of the book

00:19:50.760 and at the end of the book.

00:19:51.820 We start with Eden.

00:19:53.360 We end with Eden.

00:19:55.740 At the beginning of the book,

00:19:56.960 we have the tree of life, Adam and Eve.

00:19:59.180 They're given dominion over the earth.

00:20:01.500 At the end of the book,

00:20:02.320 God dwells and they will walk and talk in the cool of the day

00:20:04.900 and at the end of the book you have the tree of life

00:20:06.980 you have again another

00:20:09.020 bride and another husband Jesus and the church

00:20:11.260 and God dwells with them

00:20:13.320 God gets what he wants

00:20:14.660 but remember now I'll end with this

00:20:16.340 when Adam and Eve

00:20:19.280 sinned and they hid

00:20:20.600 what did God say? God was walking in the cool

00:20:23.320 of the day and he said Adam

00:20:24.700 where are you? It wasn't because

00:20:27.220 he didn't know where Adam was

00:20:28.260 it was a cry of despair

00:20:31.900 God was saying, Adam, where are you?

00:20:34.620 You're supposed to be here.

00:20:37.060 This is our time.

00:20:38.920 You messed up, and now I don't get what I want anymore.

00:20:42.480 And the rest of the Bible is God doing everything he can

00:20:46.620 to get back what he lost when we sinned.

00:20:50.840 And part of that is that close, intimate relationship with him.

00:20:54.120 And that's the reason why, as we sin more,

00:20:57.700 God got further and further away from us.

00:21:00.260 And that's why he became more and more difficult to hear

00:21:02.100 because we kept breaking his heart.

00:21:04.860 We kept sinning.

00:21:05.760 We kept rebelling through all the areas of the Bible,

00:21:07.900 and God kept getting further and further away,

00:21:09.440 and he said, if you want to find me,

00:21:11.260 you're going to have to come after me.

00:21:15.160 This was...

00:21:16.360 If people that are back there standing,

00:21:23.480 if there's a couple of chairs back there,

00:21:24.860 there's some room up here.

00:21:25.960 I just feel bad if people are standing right now.

00:21:28.140 Like, there's some space up here.

00:21:29.580 They got to try to, like, maneuver with chairs all the way to the front.

00:21:32.500 Well, no.

00:21:32.900 There's, like, kind of a clean path right here.

00:21:35.080 If you bring the chairs right through here and then just chill over here,

00:21:37.600 there's definitely room.

00:21:39.120 So what Ed was talking about, this idea of, like, this –

00:21:42.200 There should be some out there.

00:21:43.700 There might be some out there.

00:21:44.540 If you want to bring them in from that other area.

00:21:46.280 Yeah, yeah, you can do whatever you want.

00:21:47.200 Yeah, sorry.

00:21:47.440 No, no, go ahead.

00:21:47.900 Go mess up the show, guys.

00:21:48.660 It's fine.

00:21:49.580 Sorry.

00:21:51.460 Can I say something on that?

00:21:52.360 Go ahead, please.

00:21:53.000 Yeah, so, like, I –

00:21:53.800 I thought I was going to have to carry this.

00:21:54.700 the same thing happened to me bro like uh i was in genesis 6 man a lot of people missed this in

00:22:00.800 genesis 6 because they're so focused on the nephilim but it's like uh god was grieved at

00:22:05.100 his heart for making mankind dude i remember reading that and it kind of crushed me and

00:22:08.860 pricked me in my heart i was like wait man like there's things you can do because i think i was

00:22:12.800 kind of getting this vibe uh or you will get this vibe from people like oh there's nothing you can

00:22:17.020 do to god like everything he's good he's just got everything and there's nothing you do that

00:22:20.780 changes that but it's like that's not really what happens in the scripture like you can grieve his

00:22:25.100 heart and i never wanted to grieve his heart and i felt like that is a thing that makes you get

00:22:29.080 close to him is like to be aware of his feelings is a major part of hearing his voice so it like

00:22:34.540 sometimes we make it like way harder than uh than it has to be it's it's just like any other

00:22:39.680 relationship dude like if i wasn't aware with my wife about when i'm grieving her in her heart

00:22:44.740 i'm sorry i was almost there i've resisted i told somebody that's why i always call her jessica i

00:22:49.540 I never saved my wife anymore because of that.

00:22:50.800 I got your heartburn.

00:22:51.660 It's the first time I've done that in a while.

00:22:53.340 But it's like, if I'm not aware, I love that you're knitting, too.

00:22:56.460 I feel like that's, like, so cool.

00:22:57.640 Is she knitting?

00:22:58.200 But, you know, like, if I was like, yeah, sweetie, I don't care if I'm grieving you

00:23:02.540 at your heart, like, how is that going?

00:23:04.260 Or if she's saying, like, hey, I want to hang out.

00:23:05.640 Let's spend time.

00:23:06.200 Like, yeah, and I'm a little busy.

00:23:07.800 I just feel like people get in this mindset, and I remember tons of people saying, like,

00:23:11.260 oh, well, God knows my heart, so it's good that, like, I'm not spending any time with

00:23:14.720 them.

00:23:14.900 and then you end up in this place of just like being so busy on the facebook and tv shows and

00:23:19.200 the tweeter and then like you're not like spending time with him and thinking that you're going to

00:23:23.220 hear his voice cardashians the cardashians and justin beaver and like you're not going to hear

00:23:27.940 his voice when you're doing that like when you're so busy with all this other stuff you're you're

00:23:32.480 not going to hear his voice but it's really it's really incredibly similar to like any other

00:23:37.200 relationship in real life man like like would you neglect any relationship in real life and think

00:23:42.220 you're going to hear them and understand them and be close to them?

00:23:45.460 I don't think so.

00:23:47.260 That was something that took a long time for me to understand.

00:23:49.920 So coming from this background of, like, sort of conspiracy and New Age

00:23:53.680 and a cult and all this other stuff,

00:23:55.060 I was more comfortable with the idea of God being, like, an amorphous cloud.

00:24:00.200 If I wanted to intellectualize it, I would say, like,

00:24:03.020 the second law of thermodynamics says that energy or matter can't be created

00:24:07.860 or destroyed.

00:24:08.860 It only changes forms and whatever the different forms of matter are.

00:24:11.200 Hey, did you make that up? 0.96

00:24:11.940 where'd you hear that i actually did that right now i just made that shit up i don't think the 0.94

00:24:14.700 crowd picked up on it but i did uh but i figured maybe energy maybe consciousness is the same 0.84

00:24:21.900 maybe it comes from a source and it can't be destroyed and maybe we return to some big amorphous

00:24:27.440 energy or consciousness cloud in the and but i'm getting at is i couldn't i couldn't reflect

00:24:34.060 relationships and fatherhood or any of these things onto God, it felt silly to do. And what's

00:24:43.320 funny about that, as silly as it seemed, because you would say like, why on earth would God, 0.57

00:24:48.080 the creator of the universe, be anything like us? Why would there be anything in human beings that

00:24:54.280 you could look at and then superimpose onto God and imagine that there is some characteristics

00:24:58.660 that are going both ways? It just seemed ridiculous to me. And I don't know if that's 0.87

00:25:03.080 science and it's the materialism and it's all these different things but i was much more

00:25:06.860 comfortable with you know giant space cloud daddy of consciousness than i was with the god of the

00:25:12.540 bible and and then i thought that there was wisdom in that like i thought i knew something or i

00:25:17.400 understood something or i was saying something profound because i said something about the

00:25:22.120 second law of thermodynamics i don't know what the first laws are dude or the third one that was the

00:25:26.660 first law that was the first law keep it to yourself next time ed man i'm pretty sure i don't

00:25:32.000 know what the second one is the first time we had ed on that's what he was talking about 0.98

00:25:35.840 really yeah and you just stole it from sitting that was good shit huh that's right i knew that 0.95

00:25:42.240 was good i knew that shit sounded good when i said it but but but i you know i i thought that 0.97

00:25:50.540 there was something profound in that and then what i learned is as i started to um you know 0.96

00:25:58.280 i'm interacting with ed and it's it's about knowing the character of god and god is revealing

00:26:03.460 himself more and more and more to be a father and as a father of an 11 year old who i don't know if

00:26:08.300 you guys saw him he's walking around as a carbon copy of me i can see so much of fatherhood mirrored

00:26:16.060 in the god of the bible and it felt like this almost eureka moment where um it was like that

00:26:24.800 that how could you possibly superimpose human characteristics onto God instead became of course

00:26:32.780 that would be the nature of God of course like you could look around at your own life and your

00:26:37.000 own experience as a child and a father and living in the world and and something clicked and it just

00:26:43.620 became instead of this this pompous how could you I don't know if you guys know but I have a uh uh 0.97

00:26:50.400 I wouldn't call it a a white hot hatred is that how you put it the other day for the 501c3

00:26:54.560 i wouldn't call it a white hot hatred for uh gary the numbers guy but i don't like that

00:27:00.480 and and i know you he said something that almost it kind of made me pity him he said something on 0.99

00:27:09.920 twitter that was like why would idiot christians ever think the creator of the universe would want 1.00

00:27:16.200 a relationship with them and i was like fuck that's sad yeah that's why you look like that 1.00

00:27:22.600 Dude, that is so the opposite. 1.00

00:27:25.860 That is so counterintuitive.

00:27:27.840 Yeah.

00:27:28.360 Why would you have intelligent life if you didn't want to interact?

00:27:31.920 Right, right. 1.00

00:27:32.440 That would make God an idiot. 1.00

00:27:34.900 I'm going to create all these people, and I'm going to give them consciousness, 1.00

00:27:38.420 and I'm going to give them reason and logic and feelings and emotions.

00:27:41.560 Then I'm going to run away and hide and never talk to them.

00:27:43.300 Right.

00:27:43.920 That doesn't make any sense.

00:27:45.620 When we call God Father, and by the way, Jesus called God Father all the time in the Gospels,

00:27:50.860 and he told us to call him Father,

00:27:52.900 and he was not speaking arbitrarily

00:27:54.380 because that is a relationship

00:27:56.960 that he came to renew,

00:27:59.920 that we were adopted.

00:28:01.280 Paul says in Romans

00:28:02.060 that we were given the spirit of adoption

00:28:03.980 so that we may call him Abba Father.

00:28:06.280 Abba, it means Daddy.

00:28:08.200 When you listen to little kids speak Hebrew... 0.89

00:28:10.160 But that meant Timothy. 0.77

00:28:11.680 No, Timothy means Daddy.

00:28:13.720 It's complicated.

00:28:14.780 It's a whole thing.

00:28:15.260 Don't bring Albarino into this.

00:28:16.540 No, no, no.

00:28:16.840 Call him Daddy.

00:28:18.900 Yes, but Abba means Daddy.

00:28:19.940 If you hear a little kid walking around chasing after his father who's speaking Hebrew, he says, Abba, Abba.

00:28:25.060 So it's not just father.

00:28:26.940 No, it's daddy.

00:28:28.000 It's an intimate, colloquial idea that he is our father in that sense.

00:28:33.720 So, of course, he wants to have an intimate relationship with us.

00:28:36.280 And, like, you know, people talk about how, like, God doesn't need us.

00:28:39.860 It's like, yeah, that's a fair statement.

00:28:41.600 But, like, do I need my kids?

00:28:43.780 But then I think about it, there was, like, this certain thing with me and Jess.

00:28:47.020 It was like, yeah, we kind of need kids.

00:28:49.600 like I don't

00:28:50.640 it's not like I need them to survive

00:28:52.800 like I don't need them for food and water

00:28:54.620 and shelter but like yeah there was something

00:28:56.960 in me that needed

00:28:58.100 you need your kids to bring about the

00:29:00.640 reason that you brought them up

00:29:02.140 they can't

00:29:03.100 those of us who have kids we have them for a reason because again we want

00:29:06.820 to have a relationship with them we want to watch them grow

00:29:08.760 and see the world through their eyes

00:29:10.820 so we need them for that

00:29:12.440 if you have a kid and you just leave 0.94

00:29:14.900 then Howard do you not make a black joke 0.97

00:29:16.860 if you have a kid 0.97

00:29:18.740 and you just leave.

00:29:21.540 Ed, somebody in the audience said before

00:29:23.240 I was looking for you, I said,

00:29:24.540 where's Ed? And they said, we lost the only black dude here.

00:29:29.400 I'm circumventing you before it happens.

00:29:33.280 But if we do that, then we aren't fulfilling

00:29:35.340 our will by having the child. 1.00

00:29:37.620 Where's the fucking... 1.00

00:29:39.240 Oh my God. Okay. 1.00

00:29:43.260 Wow.

00:29:44.700 But he does need us because again, what is his will?

00:29:47.400 Well, his will is that he dwell with us, that we believe in him.

00:29:51.600 So, of course, he needs us in order for that particular part of his will, that part of his story, to take place.

00:29:58.040 He can't bring it about without us, so he does need us for that.

00:30:00.940 And he had the humility to actually have that be how he brings about his will, through us.

00:30:07.400 Because God is right now, he's at rest.

00:30:12.000 And in Genesis chapter 2, on the seventh day, God rested.

00:30:14.960 again, not because he was tired. What that phrase actually means is God ceased his activity of being

00:30:20.220 the first cause. And from after Genesis 2, God no longer initiates his will unilaterally. He only

00:30:27.040 responds. So God gave us sovereignty. God gave Adam and Eve sovereignty, and he does not impose

00:30:33.420 his will on us. So in order for his will to happen, and if he's not imposing it on us, then we have

00:30:38.640 something, we have to do something. We have to do his will in order to bring it about.

00:30:44.960 No, you first.

00:30:45.420 No, you.

00:30:45.880 No, you.

00:30:46.340 No, you.

00:30:46.900 No, so this concept of God being something other than, I don't know,

00:30:51.500 like him being energy or like you were talking about.

00:30:53.960 Space cloud, dad.

00:30:54.380 Yeah, like space cloud or whatever.

00:30:55.700 I just have no, I never had any context for that.

00:30:58.180 I wasn't ready for Jesus to be God before I started reading a Bible,

00:31:03.560 but I never ever saw God as anything other than a being that you could interact with.

00:31:09.480 And even as a kid, my grandma told me about God when I was like four.

00:31:15.260 It's basically my first memory.

00:31:16.760 I was playing with a G.I. Joe thing like this, and my grandma was like, God's here.

00:31:20.900 She was just chilling, like watching me.

00:31:23.040 And I looked at her, pretty sure I did the face, and I was like, where?

00:31:30.080 Hey, Grandma, I'm not doing this.

00:31:32.000 No, I didn't say that.

00:31:33.600 I got up and looked at her, and I said, where?

00:31:36.140 And I looked around, and she's like, he's everywhere.

00:31:38.960 he's inside you my grandma told me that when i was four they were they were baptist too they

00:31:43.320 were southern baptist yeah but uh they were black no i think california southern baptist is different

00:31:50.760 than like the south southern baptist though so uh but so then i was like and then that was it like

00:31:56.000 that was the end of the conversation i was just like playing with the gi joe again but then it

00:31:59.860 just set the wheels like going and i just always had this concept of like god being somebody that

00:32:05.180 i could communicate with and then uh you know stuff went bad i got kicked out of the house and

00:32:10.140 stuff and i was kind of like anti-god i was raised in the catholic system and i was like he's definitely

00:32:15.000 not in that dude like this is very weird they're kind of singing kind of talking kind of singing

00:32:18.840 and talking at the same time we're like doing that and i was like nah i just couldn't do it

00:32:23.840 and the rosary beads and stuff and then i told the guy in the you go to the thing for the

00:32:28.280 confession you tell the guy and he doesn't say like jesus died for your sins he's like go

00:32:31.980 pray these things on this charm bracelet say several hail hail mary's i'm like this there's

00:32:37.020 no way dude there's no way that like god's in this and even like as a kid i was like i feel

00:32:40.860 like i know god he's like not in this and then when i got kicked out of the house i like lived

00:32:44.680 on the street and just kept getting food every day dude like that was that was a major thing

00:32:49.780 that happened to me was i was like i'm not sure what's happening but i keep like not dying and

00:32:54.320 i'm on meth and i'm up for like a lot of days and i'm on hallucinogen and i'm on meth and i'm just

00:32:59.140 like sleeping on trampolines in people's backyards and sleeping in like parks in the

00:33:04.080 sand, which was kind of cozy and Cali, like on a good Cali night is like actually super

00:33:07.740 comfy.

00:33:08.480 And like, I just kept like not dying and surviving until I finally was like, dude, there's a

00:33:13.880 presence.

00:33:14.480 Like I was very aware there was a presence at some point.

00:33:16.900 I was like, like something's doing this.

00:33:19.300 There's no way that I'm finding like food and a place to stay every day.

00:33:22.980 And I could survive like out like this for so long.

00:33:27.200 But I never understood that he was a man.

00:33:29.940 I never understood that there was a man in the Godhead, right?

00:33:32.360 But the concept of him just being like some, I don't know, something just floating in the clouds, I never had that.

00:33:38.180 But that's always the staggering thing is everybody's different preconceived notions about God.

00:33:42.280 That does change things, right?

00:33:43.960 Like this idea that, in stark contrast to what Gary the Numbers Guy said, that God wants you.

00:33:51.420 that's that's a that fundamentally changes you know you you likened it to like a game of tag

00:33:57.860 where like god will pursue you and he'll you'll have this moment and he'll reveal himself to you

00:34:02.580 but then he'll back away and it's up to you to pursue him or at least that was your experience

00:34:06.180 that's what ed's saying too man he's saying like you only hear that still small voice when you lean

00:34:10.400 in it's like he's not hiding from you he's hiding for you like he's saying i'm not like hiding so

00:34:15.780 you can't get to me i'm just making you get to me yeah i i think that that outlook is um we kind of 0.96

00:34:25.100 look at ourselves as detached from god especially when you're bitter right especially when bad shit

00:34:29.460 happens you're like how could god allow this thing to happen and you're you know you're in

00:34:33.480 rebellion against him or you're you know his whole um existence is in flux because you look around

00:34:38.840 at the world and it doesn't make sense you know to our limited understanding why is this thing

00:34:42.380 happening or that thing happening if there is this God who loves us. But the opposite of that

00:34:50.640 is this idea that God wants a relationship with you. That took a long time. I think it took a

00:34:55.680 long time for me to understand, but that is now, I like to think, the place that I operate from

00:35:02.120 most often, or at least I'm trying to operate from that place most often, is like, this is a

00:35:06.840 father who wants a relationship. This is a two-way street, right? You talked about relationships in

00:35:11.340 your lives and like you have to a marriage is maintenance right if you love somebody it's a

00:35:18.000 something that you keep tending and and making sure why are you leaning around like that just

00:35:22.060 making sure jess doesn't watch him when i say yeah it's maintenance well no it's like it's good

00:35:25.680 maintenance though it's a labor of love right like you don't just let it fall stagnant and you don't

00:35:30.220 try don't do that don't wink you're on camera all right um uh but you don't just let it stagnate

00:35:36.740 and sit there this is something that it's a garden that you have to go to intend that's how a

00:35:40.880 relationship with anything is yeah anything i i you it's not a relationship otherwise it's just 0.95

00:35:45.160 existing you know in in the space of a thing if you're not tending that garden but how silly are

00:35:50.820 people going to feel when they find out like you're saying like god is intentional wanting

00:35:54.300 this relationship with you and the people whose response is like i'm a little busy with facebook 0.99

00:35:57.920 and tv shows yeah we're gonna feel like we suck it's gonna be embarrassing man i suck you know 0.98

00:36:02.460 what's interesting oh go ahead no that one of the biggest impediments to hearing from god and having 0.98

00:36:08.400 relationship with God, believe it or not, is

00:36:10.100 religion. And so, definition of

00:36:12.300 religion, man... Come on, somebody!

00:36:14.300 Where is he? 1.00

00:36:15.680 He's out here somewhere. I don't know where he is.

00:36:17.700 It's very rude to our guest, David. Well, I'm just saying, Otis is

00:36:20.160 out here, and that deserved to come on somebody.

00:36:22.000 All right, please continue. Where is Otis?

00:36:25.260 But, you know, religion 0.96

00:36:26.100 is all the man-made stuff that we put

00:36:28.200 on top of the revealed word of God because

00:36:30.040 we're trying to improve it. You know,

00:36:31.940 the first religious statement was Eve.

00:36:33.980 You know, we can't eat it, nor can we touch

00:36:36.200 the fruit. God didn't say don't touch it. She was

00:36:38.120 adding on to that to try to improve on God, which is 0.98

00:36:40.160 pride. But all this religious 0.90

00:36:42.140 stuff saying, well, we can't, when we speak to God,

00:36:44.180 we must talk like this. You don't think Adam was

00:36:46.140 like, baby, you can't even touch it?

00:36:48.560 It might have been. I feel like I

00:36:50.180 would do that. Yeah, there are two possibilities.

00:36:52.260 Don't even look at that shit. 1.00

00:36:54.120 Eve did it by herself, and maybe she could 1.00

00:36:56.080 have been poorly taught by Adam, because remember, God gave

00:36:58.140 that command to Adam. Right, right. And Adam had

00:37:00.140 to give it to Eve, so there's a possibility that

00:37:02.100 Adam didn't do his job well,

00:37:04.160 so I'm not going to, I'm not trying to blame

00:37:06.060 all the women for everything because I mean because God cursed Adam because it said that

00:37:09.440 Adam was the one who deliberately said anyway the point is that when we think that we try to make 0.53

00:37:14.920 God greater quote-unquote greater than he actually is we in order to in order for us to feel like

00:37:21.380 we're closer to him but then we say things like well you can't there's certain things you can't

00:37:24.840 say to God you can't speak to him in certain ways you have to always have this reverential tone

00:37:28.560 and you have to you can never blame him but then you read the Psalms when we talked about this in

00:37:33.920 an episode not too long ago, where if you read some of them, when David was on the run from Saul,

00:37:40.120 he was pouring out, he was complaining to God. He was saying, God, where are you? Why are you so far

00:37:45.100 from me? Why are you letting the enemies take over? Where are you? He was complaining. And God

00:37:51.760 didn't mind that. In fact, he encouraged it. He said, go ahead, say what you want. First of all,

00:37:55.860 because you're not fooling God. You can't pretend God knows the truth. If you are frustrated and

00:38:01.000 angry with God as I've been, where I'm sure many, many people have been, do you think he doesn't

00:38:04.980 know that? Do you think you can pretend that that's not happening

00:38:08.800 and he's going to say, oh, I guess he didn't know he was mad at me?

00:38:12.640 So he wants you to be real with him. Because those psalms I was

00:38:16.880 talking about, they always end with David pours his heart out. He

00:38:20.600 complains. He's just miserable. He dances. Then at the end... 1.00

00:38:24.760 He does a lot of dancing, doesn't he? He was a good dancer.

00:38:27.100 but at the very end he says you know but but god you are holy you are faithful

00:38:31.880 he had to get all that stuff out like a mini he needed to rant he needed to

00:38:37.660 we all need to just yeah god already knows your heart right he knows that he says do that with me

00:38:42.360 i can take it complain that was a weird thing i remember hearing at like in like church circles

00:38:47.500 was like people would not talk to god about like the stuff that they were like embarrassed of

00:38:52.680 And I'm just like, well, he already knows.

00:38:57.100 You're not hiding anything from him.

00:38:58.920 Whatever the thing is, however embarrassed you are of it,

00:39:01.860 you have to take it to God.

00:39:03.240 That's the one place you can take it and talk about it,

00:39:05.880 and nobody else knows.

00:39:07.040 That's the one time you can do that.

00:39:08.520 And that's relationship.

00:39:09.640 That's fellowship.

00:39:10.400 That's what he wants.

00:39:11.480 Because what you're doing, you're telling God, I think you're real.

00:39:14.520 When you say, well, I don't think you know what I really feel,

00:39:17.580 so I'm going to withhold it from you,

00:39:18.720 you're basically saying, well, I don't think you're really God.

00:39:22.220 yeah that go ahead i'm sorry i was just going to add to that in um first john 1 9 that's exactly

00:39:30.120 what he says is if you will confess it i'm faithful to forgive you and wash you clean

00:39:35.920 and that's what you want right yeah so all you got to do is confess it and that's what you sit

00:39:41.200 and talk to him about okay i did it i admit it i mean and i tell people all the time in deliverance

00:39:46.260 if you're not going to get real don't even bother just get real with him and and admit to him admit

00:39:53.200 to yourself what you're doing because we're masters at hiding what we do we are masters at hiding and

00:40:00.000 justifying well you know i'm doing it because you know and and i'm justified because and we have all

00:40:05.540 these reasons but if you just get real with yourself and go okay it's wrong it's wrong and

00:40:10.640 what they did to me was wrong but it's wrong for me to respond this way yeah and you're never going

00:40:15.900 to be able to stop the world from crapping on you and slandering you and doing all the things that

00:40:21.720 they do but what you can change is how you respond to it and he'll help you with that but you have to

00:40:27.440 confess it you have to confess it that's the first step and sometimes it is embarrassing but like to

00:40:33.860 me that's when you get like the ultimate clarity like i've just like if you've never had god be

00:40:38.100 like oh you poor baby if you've never had that then like that's an experience you just don't know

00:40:44.100 man like there's so much clarity that comes in that where you're saying like yeah the world did

00:40:47.940 me dirty like somebody at work did this or this thing happened and like i've been like being so

00:40:52.620 cool about it and i can't believe they kept and then yeah god's like oh that sounds so terrible

00:40:57.160 hey did you see what they did to me when i was down there they ripped my beard off and then

00:41:00.300 you're just like yeah and then you're just so embarrassed you're so embarrassed man you're just

00:41:04.800 like yeah you mad someone cut you off in traffic it's like yeah you know they put a crown of thorns

00:41:08.940 on my head yeah yeah and nailed me to a tree but you know tell me more about how they got your

00:41:12.520 order wrong at Starbucks. Oh, how bad were those boomers? 1.00

00:41:14.680 Yeah, it's like... 1.00

00:41:15.900 They've done me wrong. It's a little embarrassing, actually, when you put

00:41:18.520 it that way. Yeah. It is,

00:41:20.420 but that's good to be embarrassed in front

00:41:22.500 of God instead of embarrassed.

00:41:24.200 Because you're hiding it otherwise. Yeah. You're hiding

00:41:26.540 it otherwise. That's something that,

00:41:28.960 you know, so I try to

00:41:30.200 practice this talking to God normally,

00:41:32.620 which Matt does a fantastic job at that.

00:41:34.540 And I want to kind

00:41:36.600 of apologize, because I think I laughed in your face

00:41:38.580 the first time I heard you pray, because

00:41:40.400 the same way that this dude talks jarring it's a little it is he's like listen god man i just want

00:41:45.520 to like you know get with you lord and i'm like and i'm making fun of him but like anything else

00:41:50.120 would be false anything else would be what do you mean you're gonna use a different voice when you

00:41:53.800 talk to god like i don't know what that means man like he i just feel like you don't think he'd be

00:41:57.800 like bro why are you talking like that yeah like if i like if i was talking to jess like oh sweetie

00:42:02.440 so holy holy sweetie like you don't think she'd be like holy holy sweetie yeah she would just be

00:42:08.000 like bro who are you yeah like i'm not gonna do that with god like god's been with me the whole

00:42:13.160 time dude like like my entire life he's been there with me so say i start to use this like

00:42:17.440 super holy voice you don't think he's gonna be like bro did that take practice or was that like

00:42:20.760 from the job opposite of no no no but i'm saying like okay like because i'm gonna be real for me

00:42:25.060 i'll like i'll find myself praying in a way that i think i've heard specifically the way that my 0.97

00:42:29.880 my aunt has prayed before and i'll start it off that way and then i'll feel fucking stupid like 0.94

00:42:36.420 were you emulating anything no i was just asking that i never thought about it but no i never heard 0.92

00:42:55.500 anybody pray dude i just really yeah i never heard anybody pray huh i mean unless like you

00:43:00.740 know in the catholic system you'd like say the our father but that's but to me that was like

00:43:05.480 totally different than talking to god right so i didn't know how to do a fake voice and it was so

00:43:11.240 long of reading a bible and knowing god before i ever went to church so like i grew up thinking

00:43:15.420 that you could not pray unless you were on your knees yeah which that's a great way to pray it is

00:43:20.120 but it's not the only way but you know i now that i don't do it as much but i i pray when i here's

00:43:25.560 the thing god is going to speak to you and wants you to speak to him through who you are uniquely

00:43:30.440 yeah how and i hear the most from god when i've got we talked about this on the on the broadcast

00:43:36.520 earlier i'm a teacher that's what i do i teach and when i am teaching when i in teaching basically

00:43:42.220 it doesn't just mean i'm trying to teach god something that's not possible but teach we're

00:43:46.140 commentating we are just giving explanations so i'm explaining things to god about me that he

00:43:52.360 already knows i don't explain it to him and that's what i hear back from him i don't hear back from

00:43:56.300 him when i'm trying to be someone else when i'm trying to do anything else i don't hear from him

00:43:59.840 Because it's like, I don't want to hear from who you want to be.

00:44:03.340 I want to hear from you.

00:44:04.280 I'm not going to talk back to you if you are pretending to be something that you're not.

00:44:07.840 Because I don't want to talk to that guy.

00:44:09.020 I want to talk to you.

00:44:10.800 And so I hear from God when I'm on my hike every day.

00:44:15.040 You know, the area that I live in, there's hiking trails.

00:44:17.660 I go on my hiking trail, and I start hearing from God.

00:44:21.180 Because in someone else, you may need to be on your knees.

00:44:24.800 You may need to be in that position.

00:44:26.020 Because that's where you hear from God.

00:44:28.140 That's the thing, man.

00:44:29.040 for that's a clarity thing is like jesus even had a place that he went to a lot like he like he always

00:44:33.900 had a garden he went to or but he was even if he wasn't around the garden he was like getting

00:44:37.520 somewhere and getting alone like i hear god really clear in the food forest and like so whatever it

00:44:41.720 is for you it's like a good place you find a good place or even in my closet where i go like first

00:44:47.120 thing in the morning like there's certain spots where you hear him like with a lot more clarity

00:44:50.540 but he says i know my sheep and my sheep know my voice like he talks to you in a way you hear like

00:44:55.580 Like, if people say, well, I don't know how to know the voice of God,

00:44:58.080 well, he's going to talk to you a way that you hear.

00:45:00.480 Because he talks to people in Chinese, right?

00:45:02.740 But if you, like, talk to me in Chinese, I'd be like, I don't know what's happening.

00:45:06.340 Right?

00:45:06.520 So, like, he knows how to talk to people, how they hear.

00:45:09.660 I know my sheep, and my sheep know my voice.

00:45:12.080 So it's like, yeah, finding a place that where, like, you're comfortable in getting clarity

00:45:16.160 and learning how to listen the way that you listen.

00:45:19.720 Yeah, and not to keep crapping on the Catholic Church, because that's one of my favorite things to do. 0.91

00:45:22.600 Let's go!

00:45:22.980 But one of the...

00:45:23.920 But one of the problems with that is they have all these pre-manufactured prayers.

00:45:28.560 And God's like, that's not you.

00:45:30.300 That's something that some Gregorian monk wrote 100, 400, 500 years ago.

00:45:35.120 In a language that's not relatable.

00:45:36.800 It doesn't resonate with what's actually happening up here.

00:45:39.540 That is the opposite of what God wants.

00:45:42.180 God wants to talk to you. 0.94

00:45:45.240 It's like, you know, the dumbest thing to me is, like, giving people greeting cards. 0.67

00:45:49.640 Now, my mother, love her to death, but she loves getting Mother's Day cards. 0.93

00:45:53.160 and things like that.

00:45:54.420 I'm like, here you go, Mom.

00:45:55.280 She's like, oh, this is so sweet.

00:45:56.560 This is beautiful.

00:45:57.380 I'm like, I didn't write that.

00:45:59.320 Somebody in another state wrote this thing,

00:46:01.840 and you are ascribing it to me.

00:46:03.760 That's not even how I talk.

00:46:04.640 You know that.

00:46:06.260 So to me, those prefabricated prayers

00:46:09.460 are like greeting cards.

00:46:10.680 That's a good example.

00:46:11.540 Somebody else wrote it.

00:46:12.640 It's not in your voice.

00:46:14.260 It's like Cards Against Humanity.

00:46:16.160 You ever play that game?

00:46:17.540 Top hates Cards Against Humanity.

00:46:18.800 He hates it.

00:46:19.480 I love that game.

00:46:20.620 Yeah, he loves it.

00:46:21.100 Say why you hate it.

00:46:21.920 Go ahead.

00:46:22.220 i hate it because it's pre-written it's it's a game that makes unfunny people think that they're 0.55

00:46:28.620 funny we can't have it sorry what a nasty man what a nasty thing to say oh my god mr nasty everyone 0.65

00:46:38.800 that was terrible it's it's pre-written and there's like there are only a certain

00:46:44.600 there are a finite amount of jokes that you can make within this spectrum

00:46:48.420 and then like

00:46:49.940 I don't know

00:46:51.240 maybe I'm being a sister

00:46:52.300 the spectrum of

00:46:53.780 of

00:46:54.080 yeah

00:46:54.520 autism

00:46:55.080 you know

00:46:55.740 I don't know

00:46:56.320 the spectrum of jokes

00:46:59.040 where it's like

00:46:59.460 when me and David

00:47:00.580 are riffing

00:47:01.400 sometimes it goes

00:47:02.140 off the handle

00:47:02.640 because we're just

00:47:03.260 like off the top

00:47:04.020 sometimes dude

00:47:04.720 sometimes

00:47:05.700 of SS

00:47:07.000 yeah

00:47:08.240 perhaps

00:47:08.700 Cards Against Humanity

00:47:11.880 yeah yeah

00:47:12.380 it's a terrible game

00:47:14.000 I like it

00:47:14.860 I think it's fun

00:47:15.540 but Top is a comedy snob

00:47:16.460 it's like Mad Libs

00:47:18.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like Mad Libs.

00:47:19.000 It's like raunchy adult Mad Libs that I have to have quite a few drinks in me before I

00:47:23.280 start drinking.

00:47:23.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:25.320 Old fashions.

00:47:26.180 I find it funny.

00:47:26.500 Oh, yeah.

00:47:27.020 I remember one time we were at a place and I broke out Cards Against Humanity and Top 0.96

00:47:31.160 fucking left. 0.96

00:47:32.260 He actually left the room. 1.00

00:47:33.620 He said, I'm going to sleep for the night.

00:47:35.540 I was like, it's 8 p.m.

00:47:36.740 I said something like Patooey and I left.

00:47:39.180 He spit at me and left.

00:47:41.120 So, yeah.

00:47:42.700 He gets nasty.

00:47:43.860 He gets nasty.

00:47:44.200 He does.

00:47:44.560 There's a lot of Cards Against Humanity enjoyers in the audience, I'm sure.

00:47:47.220 Do the show.

00:47:47.820 All right, very sorry, very sorry.

00:47:49.480 So to wrap that up, no, it's okay, but he won't hear from you.

00:47:53.100 He doesn't want to hear a prefabricated prayer.

00:47:54.780 He doesn't want to hear a prefabricated church.

00:47:59.000 That's another thing that these organizations who claim you can't be a Christian

00:48:02.420 unless you're part of them, I'm like, no, I think you are a worse Christian

00:48:04.960 being in these organizations who have this cookie-cutter approach 0.98

00:48:07.640 that try to homogenize everything and everyone,

00:48:11.040 and they try to homogenize God, and that is the opposite of what he wants.

00:48:15.380 I think he is far from those places, and I don't think he's in them.

00:48:19.080 That's not to say that people who are in these churches are not saved.

00:48:22.460 Not my place to say it.

00:48:23.260 I don't believe it.

00:48:23.680 I believe there are sincere people there,

00:48:26.480 but I don't think that they're growing in the way they could grow

00:48:28.920 if they weren't in these institutions.

00:48:30.520 Again, my wife. 0.99

00:48:32.320 My wife!

00:48:33.120 She was raised Catholic.

00:48:34.060 You were raised Catholic.

00:48:34.860 So obviously you still have the spirit of God in you,

00:48:37.520 but my wife left that church.

00:48:38.780 I renounced it.

00:48:39.680 Yeah, I had to renounce it.

00:48:40.540 I did too. 1.00

00:48:41.100 Yeah, and she went to a non-Catholic church for the first time,

00:48:45.720 and she said, this is the first time I've ever felt the Spirit of God. 0.73

00:48:49.000 Derek Prince, They Shall Expel Demons.

00:48:50.640 Did you get it from that book?

00:48:51.740 Oh, well, yeah, I like his stuff.

00:48:53.640 Laura, Laura.

00:48:54.840 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:48:55.740 Yeah, I love his book.

00:48:57.300 Because I remember him talking about it.

00:48:58.740 I mean, I love a lot of his books.

00:48:59.520 You have to renounce the occult, like where you had it in your life.

00:49:02.560 You need to have nothing in common with what is in you,

00:49:06.640 whether it is from you or your ancestors, it must be renounced. 0.83

00:49:11.100 it must be renounced and then when you even if it's not something you do but your ancestors did

00:49:16.620 it then you confess it lay it under the blood ask the lord to forgive and wash clean and then

00:49:22.900 now you have authority we're given authority and i don't know who the church thinks they have

00:49:28.360 authority over but it's over demons we have authority over demons we don't have authority

00:49:32.220 over humans but the church don't really teach on demons but they're real and then you have

00:49:36.880 authority over that demon because you have nothing in common with it our kingdom is higher so now

00:49:42.080 you can take authority over it command it to come out like spirits of religion spirits of whatever

00:49:48.560 spirits of whatever is inside of you up and out but not until it's confessed and put under the

00:49:53.940 blood the the cross the finished work of the cross is the remedy that has to be applied first

00:50:00.640 Then you can take authority and cast it out.

00:50:03.360 Submit to God.

00:50:04.880 Step one, resist the devil.

00:50:06.520 Step two, then he'll flee.

00:50:07.940 But you got to do all three steps.

00:50:08.980 There you go.

00:50:09.760 There you go.

00:50:10.340 That was something that was really big in our discussions, Laura,

00:50:13.280 was this idea of generational iniquity.

00:50:16.360 You framed that in such a way that I don't think an episode goes by

00:50:20.220 without me saying the phrase generational iniquity. 0.95

00:50:23.220 Yeah. 0.87

00:50:23.560 I hear you.

00:50:24.580 As it applies to all of, dude, every, I have a thing.

00:50:27.700 I've got kind of a few of my favorite words,

00:50:29.940 and I say them pretty much every episode.

00:50:32.580 I don't know if you know this,

00:50:33.260 I've been a conspiracy theorist

00:50:34.120 since I was 16 years old.

00:50:36.260 So there are,

00:50:37.080 but that's one of those things

00:50:38.260 where I hold on to certain things

00:50:39.780 that I see as relevant

00:50:42.140 over and over and over again.

00:50:43.740 And generational iniquity

00:50:44.720 is one of those things.

00:50:45.920 Sometimes my wife and I

00:50:48.140 will be driving long distances

00:50:49.580 and she'll go through reading

00:50:51.900 like Reddit stories of

00:50:53.540 I've had a paranormal experience,

00:50:56.020 somebody give me some advice,

00:50:57.580 and over and over again.

00:50:58.860 I can just imagine that's like your guys' weekend, dude.

00:51:01.320 That is, well, you know, because we drive, we'll go.

00:51:03.000 It'll be like an hour, 45, two hours, wherever we're going.

00:51:05.740 Babe, babe, read the stories, babe.

00:51:07.260 Read the stories, babe, so that I can mock witches.

00:51:08.760 Did you say Palladian Jesus? 0.92

00:51:10.060 Yeah, you know what they're doing, right? 0.94

00:51:11.440 Yes, 100. 0.98

00:51:11.880 Dude, she's so sick of it.

00:51:13.080 I can't, I don't know. 1.00

00:51:14.220 She's a great sport. 0.99

00:51:15.020 My wife will continue to read these stories, but I know it is like, it's like slave labor.

00:51:18.860 Or you hit her, right? 0.57

00:51:19.640 Or I hit her. 0.63

00:51:20.200 That's right.

00:51:21.360 I don't want to say it too loud because she's actually here, and I'm not trying to get hit in front of people.

00:51:24.860 uh but um that idea of generational iniquity is like a constant it's a constant theme and

00:51:32.320 especially people that are like in the occult in paganism in witchcraft it's very foreign view in

00:51:37.180 between i think that you get into that especially as a you know as a young person without there

00:51:43.260 being like some history of it joseph jordan this is something we talk about on the show often

00:51:47.860 And MUFON investigator says that in his research with abductee victims or what would you do?

00:51:56.200 I guess they make claims to MUFON about sightings or, you know, abductions.

00:51:59.920 And he says if you investigate, for him, he had over 600 cases, I think.

00:52:03.980 600 cases where they had generational iniquity.

00:52:06.780 That's how he identified it because their parents or their grandparents were Freemasons or were in the occult or were, you know, practicing Wiccan or something like that.

00:52:16.440 Shout out Thomas.

00:52:17.340 Shout out, Thomas. Pray for Thomas.

00:52:19.480 Over 600 cases of that. 0.84

00:52:21.820 Thomas, a paranoid American. 0.95

00:52:22.840 We've been praying for him. 1.00

00:52:23.920 Yeah, dude. I think we're winning him over.

00:52:26.000 I'm going to be on the show in like a week and a half.

00:52:27.800 What's that?

00:52:28.380 Thomas is great. He would be an awesome one for the Lord.

00:52:31.660 We just got to win him over.

00:52:32.980 He's going to be here tomorrow.

00:52:34.200 So we can pray over him.

00:52:35.260 He's going to love that.

00:52:36.700 Yeah, dude.

00:52:38.300 We're going to save Thomas.

00:52:40.080 Let's go. 1.00

00:52:41.840 Saving Thomas, a paranoid American, will be the dopest shit. 0.99

00:52:44.420 but that's actually we didn't have like a tag name for bohemian growth this saving thomas 0.98

00:52:49.580 saving thomas is the tagline is no idea he's gonna be running merch we're all gonna be like

00:52:55.880 secretly praying for him as the transactions are happening when you prayed for him we were like

00:52:59.220 we're gonna be smiling at him he's driving right now laura so should we do yeah dude he he i mean

00:53:05.280 like you know he's hear it did he ever hear i don't know if he ever did but he's been in here

00:53:08.680 and he's been having like i don't know i wouldn't call them bible studies but he's been having he

00:53:12.620 We had a four-hour episode with Matt the other day where they're just going back and forth about scripture.

00:53:16.980 We lost a half hour like twice, dude.

00:53:19.160 It was really like five hours.

00:53:19.620 And he still knocked in.

00:53:20.580 He was like, no, we're doing four hours.

00:53:21.700 Yeah, even until like on hour three, Top started doing the thing, like wrap it up, and he's like, no, no, we're still going.

00:53:27.300 This is the motion.

00:53:27.780 You guys don't see this motion a lot.

00:53:28.780 They never see it.

00:53:29.280 A little inside action here.

00:53:30.720 Go show them the motion.

00:53:31.640 When the time comes, I go, David.

00:53:34.080 And he looks at me, and I give him this.

00:53:35.360 This means wrap it up.

00:53:37.160 Which I did not know.

00:53:38.520 Top is always doing the money thing.

00:53:39.980 It's time, baby.

00:53:41.340 Let's count them dollars

00:53:43.660 Let me tell you

00:53:44.220 I don't know what that is

00:53:45.900 The learning curve on that was crazy

00:53:47.600 There was like months he's just looking at me going

00:53:50.080 And I'm like

00:53:50.880 Tell me about your book

00:53:53.820 It'll be a little like this

00:53:55.960 Hands off the screen

00:53:58.560 And I'm giving him the

00:54:00.020 So I might stretch and like this

00:54:01.980 And he goes like this to me

00:54:03.360 That's the thing, he does it covertly too

00:54:04.920 I don't ever know what's coming

00:54:05.680 I've seen him do it and you talk for another 20 minutes

00:54:08.840 It's hard to bring in for a landing

00:54:10.500 he doesn't respect me but uh i didn't know what you were doing for a year for a year dude i'm

00:54:16.160 like he's threatening me it's like i'm gonna get you oh no after when the show's over i close the

00:54:22.120 laptop and i leave oh yeah that's it we talk to each other he might grunt like uh do you have the

00:54:28.080 keys yeah and then he goes yeah and i go sometimes i don't go yeah sometimes i go and that's it then

00:54:33.460 we just mosey on you're one to talk dude i'll try to talk to you about something deep and i'll be

00:54:37.280 like getting into it hey man blah blah blah and you'll be like no no here let's go on the show

00:54:40.680 like we can talk on the show no no yeah we're not talking away from work dude well i do know

00:54:45.440 that there was a a curve to the show it's a little bit more insight no guys this is good

00:54:49.160 this is good figure it out on uh what is it auditing once again shout out to scientology

00:54:53.400 we're doing some auditing here uh i know that at some point i i told you that i can't i can't keep

00:54:58.860 secrets right because um i just if you tell me a secret my i don't i this there's no filter it

00:55:05.700 just goes like whatever happens here happens here and i just dude that's so if you tell you told me

00:55:10.680 something one day and i ended up divulging some personal aspect of your life on the show or some

00:55:14.860 shit like that it's wrong that it wasn't important i give david the signal because i i want him to be 0.66

00:55:20.920 rude is that wrong yeah you could totally be rude people expect it from you they don't expect it 0.99

00:55:26.180 from me i know that's why no they don't expect it from me like do this dirty deed so you tell him 0.97

00:55:31.180 to shut up 0.82

00:55:31.680 I just want to say that

00:55:34.680 what's haunting me now

00:55:37.780 I'm very nice

00:55:40.600 Laura just admitted to having bad discernment

00:55:42.900 but now I know in my heart that

00:55:49.120 because you don't trust me now you keep secrets

00:55:51.180 from me yeah and then you get butthurt

00:55:53.160 because I don't tell you stuff but you're like don't tell me stuff

00:55:55.320 that you don't want the whole world to know I may have said that

00:55:57.300 appreciate that but it still hurts

00:55:58.800 and then you're like so offended if I don't tell you stuff

00:56:01.120 I know.

00:56:01.440 I'm not saying that even makes sense.

00:56:03.300 I'm just letting you know it hurts.

00:56:04.620 So, Laura Baker, do you have a routine?

00:56:08.600 You can't do that.

00:56:10.040 No, no, no, no.

00:56:11.740 What?

00:56:12.120 Like a solid routine for you that you do?

00:56:14.840 Do you have a daily morning routine?

00:56:17.000 Kettlebells?

00:56:17.600 Yeah.

00:56:17.840 Chin-ups? 1.00

00:56:18.760 Start off, you want to give him your first

00:56:21.080 because it's like a first fruits offering, right?

00:56:24.160 That's in the Bible.

00:56:25.400 And it allows him to consecrate the rest.

00:56:28.200 So if you give him the first of your day,

00:56:31.120 a chapter that's that'll completely transform your life one chapter a day you're talking 10

00:56:43.800 minutes amen and if you don't have 10 minutes for him you're not trying yeah but if if you need

00:56:49.520 worship put on worship music sometimes i'm like still laying in bed and i put it on the phone and

00:56:55.160 i just but before i know it i'm up i'm singing i've got my hands up but oh laura laura matt

00:57:00.920 hates worship i wasn't gonna say that we're gonna worship i love worship i'm saying you can worship

00:57:07.420 without music top gets very he's like oh no no bible study is yeah so like when i was reading

00:57:13.140 the story to top it was like abraham's going to sacrifice isaac right like the first time worship

00:57:17.080 is mentioned in the bible and like so they're on their way and they start walking and abraham

00:57:22.040 tells the servants okay go ahead you know like you guys can drop back now it's just gonna be me

00:57:25.760 and isaac going and it says that uh they worship god and top was like no dude a three-piece band

00:57:30.600 came out of the bushes like right then that's what that means yeah that's what that means and

00:57:34.500 they said how great is our god and they were like doing the thing and i was like no top there was

00:57:39.100 no music there was no music and abraham was still worshiping god like you don't know that he's like

00:57:44.900 no there has to be music i'm like okay that's a good point but worship worship is unique to you

00:57:50.260 i'll keep talking about uniqueness because of that thing god does not want you to worship in a way

00:57:53.700 that's not is that that doesn't resonate with you amen and i'm like you the music church music

00:57:58.640 does nothing for me, and I'm not

00:58:00.820 disparaging that. 0.99

00:58:03.000 I've got to take you to a black church. 0.98

00:58:05.620 I used to go to a black church. 1.00

00:58:07.660 We're all going to a black church 0.97

00:58:09.240 tomorrow morning. 0.97

00:58:11.300 But even that,

00:58:13.840 there'll be people, if you

00:58:14.740 had a camera on me when I was

00:58:16.940 growing up in church, everyone around me

00:58:19.080 would be dancing around and doing the George

00:58:20.920 Jefferson dancing and all that stuff around.

00:58:23.040 And I'm just going to face like, when is the teaching

00:58:25.120 going to start?

00:58:25.680 because that doesn't do it for me.

00:58:30.640 I praise God when, again, when I'm on my hikes

00:58:34.020 and I'm just seeing his glory, his beauty, his creation.

00:58:37.560 That's how I worship him.

00:58:39.800 Because worshiping is basically, it's a spiritual transfer.

00:58:42.160 You are saying, this is above me.

00:58:45.300 I am saying that you are above and beyond me

00:58:48.280 and I am giving you, I'm turning myself over to you.

00:58:54.200 and we all worship something

00:58:56.080 we're hardwired to worship as human beings

00:58:58.800 you're going to worship something

00:58:59.780 you're going to give something a higher place in your life

00:59:01.880 and I do that with God when I observe his glory

00:59:04.380 when I just look at

00:59:06.120 when I'm climbing up a hill

00:59:07.380 and I turn around and I see

00:59:09.320 because from my neighborhood you can see a river

00:59:12.100 you can see the bay, you can see hills

00:59:14.100 I'm like God you are amazing

00:59:15.460 do I need to top it up?

00:59:17.540 big money

00:59:18.000 see that's why it's confusing

00:59:20.080 it's a money sign

00:59:20.980 he's calling you filthy rich 1.00

00:59:22.420 He's an unrighteous mammon. 0.70

00:59:25.140 But the point of that is because you're asking how do you – what's your routine?

00:59:32.100 And my routine for God is something that we call – that I actually learned from Dr. Michael Heiser, one of my mentors, is that council meetings.

00:59:39.660 He talks about this, that we – that it started with Adam and Eve.

00:59:43.360 Adam and Eve were on the council of God.

00:59:45.420 They were – because Eden was a garden on top of a mountain.

00:59:48.980 We see this in Ezekiel when he's giving lamentation against Satan.

00:59:53.000 He says, you were in Eden, the garden of God, on God's holy mountain.

00:59:56.460 Eden was on that holy mountain.

00:59:57.680 That's where God held his council meeting with the 70 watchers, the 70 Elohim.

01:00:03.900 Adam and Eve were part of that. 0.83

01:00:04.780 They were the representatives of earth on his council.

01:00:06.860 We lost that when Adam and Eve sinned,

01:00:08.680 but Jesus gave us the ability to be back on that council.

01:00:12.580 And that council, we see examples of it in the book of Kings with the prophet

01:00:16.000 Micaiah, I'm mispronouncing his name, where he was, when it was time for Ahab to be taken out,

01:00:23.300 and he says, I saw a vision of God on his throne, surrounded by his counsel, and God said, it's time

01:00:28.320 for Ahab to get wiped out. How should we do it? And he said, one spirit said this, another spirit 0.93

01:00:33.280 said that, and then one spirit came before him and said, you know, I will be a lying spirit in

01:00:36.700 the mouth of his prophets. And God said, oh, good idea. Go do that. It'll work. What was going on?

01:00:42.440 God didn't need that, but he, God loves sharing his authority. So we are on that council. We can

01:00:49.980 enter into a council meeting with God where we can go into his council and we can ask questions

01:00:56.020 and get the answers from him. And the question I usually get after that is, well, how do I do that,

01:01:00.840 Ed? You enter his council by praise, with thanksgiving, with gratitude. And, but I can tell

01:01:08.000 you, if you feel yourself having trouble with this, and it's something we teach in our course,

01:01:11.100 the number one way to get

01:01:14.080 into the counsel of God if

01:01:15.900 you're having trouble is to do what Stephen

01:01:18.020 did. Remember

01:01:19.900 when Stephen was being stoned, what did he do? He told

01:01:22.060 God's story. He told Jehovah's 1.00

01:01:24.140 story. We don't actually have to get

01:01:26.160 like stoned, right?

01:01:27.280 We don't have to get stoned.

01:01:29.300 My point was that what Stephen was doing,

01:01:31.640 he started at the beginning and he told God's story

01:01:34.140 and at the very end when they were about to

01:01:36.020 stone him, he looked up and he said, I see

01:01:37.640 God and Jesus standing there. He got a standing

01:01:39.780 ovation from God. God's like, I love that because God wants us to know his story. That's how we are

01:01:46.500 intimate. How do you get to know someone? You get to know their stories. If you just know facts

01:01:50.580 about them, okay, if I were to tell you, here's where I live, this is my address, this is my GPA

01:01:55.600 in school, blah, blah, blah, you don't know me. But if you know my stories, if you know what I was

01:01:59.840 like as a kid, if you know the story about the first time I got my heart broken and all these

01:02:03.460 sorts of things, now you know me. We know God by knowing his story. That's what the purpose of the

01:02:08.240 Bible is to tell us his story. That's when people ask, well, why is the Bible only focused on this

01:02:13.280 little narrow strip of land in the Middle East and not, you know, China or India or Australia?

01:02:17.520 It's not because God wasn't there, not because he doesn't care about these people, but he was

01:02:20.640 telling you a story through this certain tribe of people so you could understand who he is,

01:02:26.140 how he does things, what his will is. He wants us to know his story. So if you tell God,

01:02:31.160 But you tell it uniquely through you.

01:02:33.920 Tell God about the time that he helped you in a situation.

01:02:39.240 Tell God his story through you because God's story is the same.

01:02:42.600 God blesses us.

01:02:43.720 We screw up.

01:02:44.700 We call on him.

01:02:45.780 He rescues us.

01:02:47.140 That's happened to all of our lives over and over again.

01:02:49.760 Tell him that story, and you will feel yourself in his presence

01:02:52.700 because he loves hearing that because that means, okay, you get it.

01:02:55.780 You're being intimate with me.

01:02:57.600 So that's what I do.

01:02:59.360 And then I ask questions. 0.99

01:03:01.160 Or I get mad at him and say, God, what you're doing sucks. 0.92

01:03:05.060 One of my common refrains to God is, I don't like the way you do things. 0.91

01:03:09.160 And I don't.

01:03:09.980 I'm like, why can't you just make it easy?

01:03:11.880 Why don't you do things the way I want you to do them?

01:03:13.620 I say that all the time.

01:03:15.460 I know this is right.

01:03:16.820 I know you're righteous.

01:03:17.720 I know you're just, but I really hate how you do things.

01:03:20.280 Why does everything have to be a struggle?

01:03:21.860 Why can't you just snap your fingers and make things happen?

01:03:24.140 Why do I have to learn so much?

01:03:25.280 but the point is that he wants to hear that

01:03:29.600 and he loves hearing it

01:03:31.160 and that's when I hear back from him

01:03:32.500 when I enter into that council

01:03:35.220 and you may not hear back immediately

01:03:37.780 but at some point he's going to answer you

01:03:39.540 because he said he would

01:03:40.700 that's how Job wraps up

01:03:42.340 people think that the book of Job is about

01:03:44.120 why do the righteous suffer

01:03:45.200 or all those things

01:03:46.520 if that's the case

01:03:47.900 then Job never gets that answer

01:03:49.600 Job never learns about the bargain 0.84

01:03:53.340 so to speak that God had with the Hasatama 0.85

01:03:55.220 with the Satan. Job never hears about any of that.

01:03:57.540 All he knows is one day he wakes up and all 1.00

01:03:59.220 the shit's gone. And the next day he wakes up 1.00

01:04:01.360 he's covered in boils. He doesn't

01:04:03.240 know about that whole thing. But that wasn't

01:04:05.280 the point. The point is...

01:04:07.040 It's a bad time, dude. That sucks. 0.98

01:04:08.980 Yeah, I know. 0.97

01:04:11.320 Not that I don't use profanity. I use it all the time.

01:04:13.020 I try to be good when I'm around people.

01:04:14.920 That's a good place to say.

01:04:16.280 I'm trying not to be a stumbling block. I curse like a sailor.

01:04:18.960 Other times. But

01:04:20.440 Job's conclusion after God gives him the science quiz 0.96

01:04:23.240 he says, from now on I will

01:04:24.900 ask of you, and I will expect an answer.

01:04:26.840 Because remember, Job, when all the stuff happened to him,

01:04:29.020 he asked everybody except God.

01:04:30.780 It's like, I'm the one who let this happen. Why don't you ask

01:04:32.920 me? And we want to be so

01:04:35.080 holy that we are not going to ask God

01:04:36.780 why bad things happen. No, ask him.

01:04:39.240 He knows the answer. So, yeah.

01:04:41.900 I want to do that. I think

01:04:42.980 that's a great point.

01:04:44.980 And I kind of want to do this because

01:04:46.420 typically, you know, at the end of

01:04:48.640 shows, we would give plugs, but I don't want to do

01:04:50.840 that because that's gross. I want

01:04:53.020 to do something a little bit different instead.

01:04:54.980 You want to do a quick Q&A?

01:04:57.780 Well, I was actually going to do something a little bit different.

01:04:59.460 You just want to go home, right?

01:05:00.420 You just want to leave.

01:05:00.960 Let me see.

01:05:01.540 Oh, he's hungry.

01:05:03.280 Does anybody want to ask any questions?

01:05:05.240 Let me see because not a single-hand one.

01:05:07.200 Perfect.

01:05:07.700 Look at that.

01:05:08.020 They're getting exactly what they need.

01:05:09.200 Maybe I can just make this point while everybody thinks about the questions.

01:05:11.520 No, put that down.

01:05:12.040 No, I'm just like –

01:05:12.960 What do you want to ask?

01:05:14.560 Go ahead.

01:05:16.400 So do you think there's a difference from like speaking out loud or speaking like things early?

01:05:21.460 good question

01:05:27.900 and yet there are

01:05:29.940 she asked if there's a difference between speaking out loud

01:05:32.180 just for the audio listeners

01:05:33.240 sure

01:05:36.220 well

01:05:38.020 one of the differences is if you do that out loud people will think

01:05:40.280 you're crazy

01:05:40.740 talking to someone who they can't see 1.00

01:05:44.000 but no in all seriousness

01:05:45.100 everything is done through words

01:05:48.340 in the spiritual realm

01:05:49.180 the spoken word is i think carries a different level of power it's not that when you pray you

01:05:55.960 can't do it in you know silently in your mind of course you can't and god hears you but i think

01:06:00.380 that when you want to have an effect in this realm i think that there is a difference when

01:06:05.120 you speak it out loud because you're doing what god did when he created the world he's spoken

01:06:11.240 into existence and i'm not going to get into vibrations and things like that because i think

01:06:14.580 that there's a lot of...

01:06:16.120 No, no, seriously.

01:06:16.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:06:17.440 No, the frequency of vibration.

01:06:18.400 No, the frequency of vibration.

01:06:18.980 There's something there,

01:06:19.360 but it's a whole rabbit hole.

01:06:20.120 That's what sound is,

01:06:20.860 but it's a rabbit hole

01:06:21.900 that we can talk about later.

01:06:24.660 But when you speak things out loud,

01:06:26.980 you are affecting things in the realm

01:06:29.580 because it's the whole thing.

01:06:30.940 When you speak things into one realm,

01:06:32.200 so they manifest in another.

01:06:34.040 So if you want to have an effect,

01:06:36.020 I think,

01:06:36.940 and you're not in the supermarket

01:06:38.000 where people are going to think you're crazy

01:06:39.000 and drag you out,

01:06:39.980 even if you want to do that,

01:06:41.280 you speak it out loud,

01:06:41.960 it's going to resonate

01:06:42.580 in that spiritual realm

01:06:43.780 because there are areas, there are parts of the Bible where it says cry out to God with a loud

01:06:47.400 voice. Yeah. You know, Jesus spoke out loud in a loud voice because what you're doing is you're

01:06:53.320 amplifying things. And this, you know, this is not like woo-woo stuff. It is real. When you speak

01:06:58.720 words, words are spiritual containers. And that's why we have to guard our speech and be careful.

01:07:03.880 That's when we talk about covenants that you make. Inadvertently, we're speaking things all

01:07:08.680 the time, not realizing that we could be making a covenant. When you speak something over someone,

01:07:13.780 or you speak something over your own life, and you agree with it, you just made a covenant.

01:07:18.120 And God is obligated to respect that covenant, whether it's a good one or a bad one.

01:07:25.180 So yes, speaking things out loud can have a dramatic effect, especially when you keep speaking it.

01:07:30.320 You keep speaking good things over your life, good.

01:07:32.740 But if you keep speaking bad things, nothing ever works out for me.

01:07:36.420 I'm not loved.

01:07:38.600 And bad things always happen.

01:07:40.740 I never have enough money, blah, blah, blah.

01:07:42.780 Guess what?

01:07:43.240 you've just made a covenant and you've just given the spiritual enemy a right a legal right to make

01:07:49.680 sure that bad things happen to you because you made a covenant oh i see what you're saying go

01:08:02.980 well does the i mean now now we're kind of asking the question of like how does how do

01:08:17.820 how do these entities communicate in general and some of them me and david have gone on some

01:08:23.100 tangents about like uh telepathy being able to read the mind so a lot of like thought processes

01:08:28.180 and and also the thoughts that are in your own head how how are they popping up there some of

01:08:32.240 these so i i don't know if there's going to be a main difference what are you doing matt

01:08:36.680 demon race are you making the face no no he clearly had a thing okay yeah brian brian actually

01:08:42.060 has a probably can explain if i could say something like a little uh less deep um for me 0.98

01:08:47.740 personally like if i don't pray out loud this is like super stupid i'm just gonna be honest

01:08:53.140 um i'll get sidetracked like like that's a good point yeah like not out loud 0.60

01:08:58.780 I feel like I always feel better when it's a conversation.

01:09:02.720 Yeah.

01:09:03.120 But then there are some times where I kind of find myself lately

01:09:05.520 wanting to be intimate, but then I'm like,

01:09:09.720 it's kind of a weird thing.

01:09:11.460 He's got you.

01:09:12.920 Yeah, so I think one of the significant things about the Lord

01:09:17.760 that he put into humanity is our ability to speak.

01:09:21.920 Okay, that's the definitive thing.

01:09:23.740 Just speaking is prophesying.

01:09:25.180 and it's not something you should ever be concerned or afraid of because when you are

01:09:30.140 speaking you're making declarations demons can read your mind but they cannot read your thoughts

01:09:36.320 and there's a difference so and the difference is like if i say and i know this for dealing with it

01:09:43.200 because when you deal with deliverance and you cast out demons and stuff like i've had several

01:09:47.500 times where i've spoken to something in my head and it has affected the reality of somebody when

01:09:53.320 you're dealing with demons and i do this with schizophrenic people a lot and something that's

01:09:57.120 really fascinating about schizophrenic people is like um when you're helping them because

01:10:01.860 schizophrenia is a form of demonic possession sorry guys i know if that i've ever heard of

01:10:05.620 dr jerry marzinski yeah yeah he's a good friend of mine so we've talked about this a lot and some

01:10:11.260 of the fascinating thing is when you're dealing with them is in your head if the demons are

01:10:15.800 freaking out in the schizophrenic person in my head i will bind and imagine that i'm shutting

01:10:20.720 their mouths with duct tape and the schizophrenic person will be like what did you just do and i

01:10:26.620 didn't do a thing i just thought in my head because the spiritual world is connected to 0.55

01:10:31.280 the um physically to your imagination the spiritual world is it is like in tune with

01:10:37.640 imagination that's why it says hold every thought captive so you can affect reality with your

01:10:43.840 imagination but it's never something you should be afraid of so demons like if you're thinking a 0.98

01:10:48.680 thought like who cares if they're listening who cares it's they're pathetic like who cares what 0.69

01:10:53.840 they want they want it's it's the fear that that they want you to have so it doesn't matter if you 0.95

01:10:59.880 speak and like you were saying like speaking out loud there is a there is an element to speaking

01:11:05.520 out loud that the lord cry out to the lord it is very powerful because you're prophesying into this

01:11:10.580 reality when you speak you're saying out loud something and so but yeah demons can hear your

01:11:15.340 thoughts it's not a big deal though don't even trip about it who cares it don't matter it don't

01:11:19.720 matter they can't think what they can't know what you're thinking i know this because i dealt with

01:11:23.180 somebody in a room with a bunch of weapons that i the dude manifested and i was thinking oh my gosh

01:11:28.980 there is a sword next to this demon possessed dude who is like about to attack me and i'm thinking

01:11:33.280 please don't see the sword on the wall because this dude is like manifesting fully on demonized

01:11:38.520 and he couldn't he couldn't hear my thought thinking don't grab the sword but when i when

01:11:44.060 I spoke to him in my head, he could hear my thoughts. And that's actually how a lot of demons

01:11:48.120 or aliens talk. They talk in people's minds. And people think that that's a superpower. It is not.

01:11:53.680 It is not a superpower. Demons talking with their minds, that is their weakness because they cannot

01:11:59.220 prophesy because God has given you the authority to prophesy. So you take that authority with your

01:12:05.140 words and you speak what you want. That is the essence that God has given us to

01:12:11.100 affect these things and this reality

01:12:13.340 is with your words.

01:12:14.620 So don't ever be afraid.

01:12:16.380 Anyways, that's what I thought.

01:12:17.400 Thank you, Brian.

01:12:18.400 Hell yeah, dude.

01:12:19.760 Brian of Demon Erasers, guys.

01:12:21.100 You guys know him.

01:12:23.720 Yeah, I also, I mean,

01:12:24.540 this is super less intense than that,

01:12:27.440 but I think in terms of faith,

01:12:30.220 there is maybe this additional layer

01:12:32.140 where having a thought in your head

01:12:34.580 is a lot easier,

01:12:35.660 but having the faith in the Lord

01:12:37.480 that he's going to hear you

01:12:38.600 and that you're not just speaking to nothingness

01:12:40.380 to actually verbalize it, I think, as an additional layer.

01:12:43.080 I just find a lot of the themes of the things we've been discussing lately are...

01:12:47.720 Watch this.

01:12:48.420 Watch this.

01:12:49.520 Gotcha.

01:12:50.020 Thank you very much.

01:12:51.560 Anybody have $5 for Top Lobster?

01:12:54.920 We're going to change the money thing to just the grabbler hands.

01:12:58.220 Well, yeah.

01:12:58.580 If this is a Bible study, we should be taking a donation, right?

01:13:00.980 No, no, no.

01:13:01.920 We're not taking any donations.

01:13:03.220 You guys already paid a lot of money.

01:13:04.320 I'm going to get real here.

01:13:05.960 You guys already paid their money for salvation, all right?

01:13:08.400 During the episode today, Matt threw a quarter at Owen, and he took it.

01:13:14.060 Oh, did he?

01:13:14.700 He just got here, dude.

01:13:15.660 Keep it down.

01:13:16.160 I think Matt wanted it back.

01:13:18.740 It wasn't a quarter.

01:13:20.120 It was two.

01:13:20.760 It was two quarters?

01:13:22.780 But what I'm saying is –

01:13:24.740 Can you return that, the quarters?

01:13:26.660 Who's got to be back there?

01:13:28.740 What I'm saying is additional layers of effort, like God sees that.

01:13:35.000 so it's an additional layer of effort to speak something out loud because it i mean it shows

01:13:40.300 it feels more real and more like imagine i don't know think about something crazy like a

01:13:44.700 i don't know bring up crazy stuff but just like your child dying or something

01:13:48.200 jeez dude what the i'm just saying like god i'm just saying like do am i gonna am i gonna go pray

01:13:54.480 to god like quiet anyway guys have a good night this has been real uh oh my god all right no i

01:14:00.940 No, I thought this was going to land.

01:14:04.100 It's all right.

01:14:04.680 Happens in the past.

01:14:05.200 Like imagine that there's a thing that's like that serious.

01:14:07.660 You think I'm going to go pray in my mind about that?

01:14:09.740 Sure, yeah.

01:14:10.220 I'm going to be like weeping.

01:14:11.540 I'm going to be like screaming and crying.

01:14:13.300 I'm going to be like praying and it's going to be, you know what I mean?

01:14:16.280 So I guess it kind of also depends on like, yeah, like exactly how much, what is this

01:14:21.560 prayer about?

01:14:22.320 Like I'm not, I'm not saying I don't pray in my mind.

01:14:23.960 I pray in my mind a lot as well.

01:14:25.580 But like, I guess it depends on like how serious the thing is, is like how verbal I'm going

01:14:30.000 to be about it.

01:14:30.620 And I'm not ashamed to pray in the grocery store, too.

01:14:32.800 I'm not, like, trying to do it while somebody's right next to me.

01:14:34.620 Well, I wonder if God sees that and he goes, that's a real one.

01:14:37.140 This dude is praying in the middle of the international aisle.

01:14:39.840 Like, that's crazy.

01:14:40.440 I know.

01:14:40.640 I've been in places where there's definitely humans around, and I'm like, and out loud, I'm like, Lord, what do you want to do?

01:14:46.980 Just because, like, weird, like, there's something crazy happening, I'm like, what do you want to do?

01:14:50.500 I'm not saying that.

01:14:50.920 It's like, I heard there's a special on ground beef.

01:14:52.880 You want to do that?

01:14:53.420 No, it's not about that.

01:14:55.280 No, like, instruction.

01:14:56.980 Yeah, instruction.

01:14:57.500 yeah and i mean that's what i'm saying is like some of this stuff dude i don't try to make it

01:15:01.060 like super deep and spiritual it's just like if this is so serious of a thing i'm definitely like

01:15:06.560 saying it out loud like i'm definitely communicating the same way i would in any

01:15:10.340 communication with anyone right now yeah um so i i want to do this then uh we're gonna bring it

01:15:16.420 does anybody else have any questions let me see uh hands if if not that's great keep them down

01:15:20.220 um i want to kind of go through with the three of you guys because you got the thing i don't know

01:15:25.940 if you saw the little uh italian i think we call that a miser a miser is that i've never even heard

01:15:31.080 that word um money now instead of plugs let's do this uh maybe you guys could share something each 0.51

01:15:38.220 of you something simple doesn't have to be like it's crazy it's like he doesn't understand what

01:15:42.340 i'm doing the thing and i'm telling you guys i'm trying to do the thing i'm like this sometimes

01:15:46.560 i saw it i saw it all right i know he's just gone and that is true about my life about what

01:15:51.640 because he's on us.

01:15:52.300 No, it's not a story.

01:15:52.860 It's not a story.

01:15:53.660 Something that like you do personally in your own life

01:15:57.140 that you would maybe give some advice to somebody

01:15:59.220 who's like, what are some things that I could do

01:16:00.800 to like draw closer to God?

01:16:01.940 And it's like, we know scripture, right?

01:16:03.180 We know getting scripture.

01:16:04.080 It's like read and understand the character of God.

01:16:06.280 Like what other things, little things,

01:16:07.880 maybe that you don't even think are significant,

01:16:09.500 but like you do it and it helps you to draw closer to God

01:16:12.580 and build that relationship.

01:16:13.800 Let's start with Laura. 1.00

01:16:15.360 Put you on the spot.

01:16:16.380 Have you thought of anything?

01:16:17.360 Yeah, yeah.

01:16:18.120 Cleansing your bloodline.

01:16:19.400 That's what my ministry is.

01:16:21.640 And if you spend, you know, some time going through your sins, your past sins, new sins, old sins, and then sins of the ancestors,

01:16:34.320 put them under the blood and get rid of this stuff to clean those things up and close those doors,

01:16:40.040 you're going to have a whole lot better life going on.

01:16:42.220 You're going to have better hearing of the Lord.

01:16:45.620 Also, when we're talking about hearing from the Lord, you need to look also at what's influencing you.

01:16:50.320 like TVs and phones and music and everything.

01:16:55.540 You're a temple.

01:16:56.580 You are a temple.

01:16:57.360 Justin Bieber.

01:16:58.240 And if you allow defilement into your temple,

01:17:01.040 you will not be able to hear from the most holy place very well.

01:17:06.080 So purge this stuff.

01:17:08.020 You know, do a detox.

01:17:09.520 Do a detox and clean up your bloodline.

01:17:11.540 Clean up on a regular basis.

01:17:13.380 It is a lifestyle.

01:17:15.820 That was huge for me.

01:17:17.480 It's a lifestyle.

01:17:18.220 That's right.

01:17:18.620 That was huge for me.

01:17:19.280 Yeah, you got to go to bed.

01:17:20.320 You got to sleep after we did deliverance for literally two minutes and he got to go to sleep.

01:17:25.640 It is really huge.

01:17:27.900 I think that's great advice.

01:17:29.340 I'm going to skip you, Matt.

01:17:30.280 I want to save you for last.

01:17:31.540 He doesn't want you to comment on the naps.

01:17:32.960 We're going to end it as soon as now.

01:17:34.640 Hey, do you have anything that you could say?

01:17:36.820 Yeah, I would say one thing that is that God loves, and we love it too,

01:17:42.220 and it always, no matter what you're feeling or how far you think you are from God,

01:17:46.560 this will always get you back to that, and that is gratitude.

01:17:49.980 Amen.

01:17:50.320 Gratitude to you.

01:17:51.020 When you start your day with gratitude or end your day in the middle of the day, you can always say thank you.

01:17:57.800 Because no one doesn't like hearing thank you, including God.

01:18:02.060 I know, Raven, we were talking before about when you ask God for something and should you keep asking him for it?

01:18:07.200 Right.

01:18:07.720 Repetition.

01:18:08.560 Or should you have faith that he's already done it?

01:18:10.620 You thank him.

01:18:12.360 You say, God, I want X.

01:18:14.640 And then you say every day, God, thank you for bringing X.

01:18:18.280 Every day.

01:18:18.620 Thank you.

01:18:18.860 So, because that's a different thing, because we gave the analogy for our kids.

01:18:21.500 X don't give a T. I'm sorry.

01:18:24.720 So there's nothing here that goes, it goes here, it goes right there.

01:18:27.820 I'm very sorry.

01:18:29.220 Like, you know, if your son or daughter asks you for something, and you say, okay, sure, I'm going to do that for you.

01:18:35.020 And they ask you again the next day, Dad, are you going to do this?

01:18:37.020 Dad, are you going to do this?

01:18:37.820 You're driving you nuts.

01:18:38.740 Of course, I said I'm going to do it.

01:18:39.900 But if they said, you know, Dad, thanks for saying you're going to get this for me.

01:18:43.840 I appreciate it.

01:18:44.680 Dad, thank you.

01:18:45.780 You're not going to ever get tired of hearing this.

01:18:48.480 Don't let my son hear that.

01:18:49.520 Please don't let my son.

01:18:50.340 I know he heard that.

01:18:51.320 He's going to be like, thank you for getting me a Switch 2.

01:18:53.860 Thank you so much.

01:18:54.460 Thank you for getting me the new Nintendo Switch or whatever.

01:18:56.720 Yeah, no thanks.

01:18:57.660 But, yeah, you start your day with gratitude because, first of all,

01:19:00.700 there's nothing the demonic realm can do with that.

01:19:03.500 Not a thing.

01:19:04.460 When you're thankful to God, they cannot twist that.

01:19:06.920 They can't.

01:19:08.440 You've disarmed them.

01:19:10.280 And you also have God saying, cool, I dig it.

01:19:13.560 Yeah.

01:19:14.160 Yeah, so that's what I would say.

01:19:15.360 Gratitude.

01:19:15.680 Yeah, if you're lost for what to do, just start thanking him for what you have, not for what you want or need.

01:19:21.940 You can go to that, but you start with, thank you for what I have, and, okay, here's what I need.

01:19:26.920 That's awesome.

01:19:27.540 That's a great one.

01:19:28.180 Gratitude is a great one.

01:19:29.960 Matt?

01:19:32.100 It kind of took my wand.

01:19:33.940 He's been thinking this whole time. 1.00

01:19:35.400 He's like, shit. 1.00

01:19:35.900 No, no, but I have been thinking more about it, too, just while he's talking. 1.00

01:19:40.480 It's a very common thing for me to say, Lord, you don't owe me anything.

01:19:43.840 Just to mean you're on the same page.

01:19:45.680 And yeah, like communicating of like how far we've come, like everything we've been through, like just saying like, God, this is this crazy story, man.

01:19:53.360 Like, I don't even know how I'm still here.

01:19:55.000 And then like we did all this stuff and here we are now.

01:19:57.580 And like the kids are good and healthy, like everything's good and like I'm alive and like communicating to him that I'm grateful for that.

01:20:04.180 But like specifically to bring me into this place of where I'm looking at my life in light of like me and God.

01:20:09.320 Like that's been like a big thing for me, especially, I don't know, maybe it's been a year or so.

01:20:13.760 i don't know but just looking at like the reality of my life is the story of me and god it's not the

01:20:18.800 story of me and my job it's not the story of like me and my house it's not the story of like me and

01:20:24.280 my podcast or like it's like my life is a story of like me and god and just trying to look at things

01:20:31.200 in light of that but that's kind of still in the gratitude thing like my number one thing

01:20:35.840 is really like setting the alarm clock an hour early to read the bible like i like i don't i

01:20:40.820 don't think i've had any greater blessing in my life than the day i started doing that like to

01:20:46.680 set an alarm clock like it's what's going on for like a long time now so if i used to have to get

01:20:50.360 up at seven i'd set it for six and just read scripture for an hour with coffee like with

01:20:53.780 coffee i'm not superman so it's like you get up and like you get the cough like you get jacked up

01:20:58.360 and that's like a good time to give to god like you said the first fruits that's like a good time

01:21:02.960 to give to god because it's like the best of you like right then and you're so clear and that's

01:21:07.740 i've had the most time of clarity on scripture is when it's just like i just wrote it i feel like i

01:21:11.800 just wrote it can i give you one more thing yeah i just remembered that that a prayer that god

01:21:16.340 always answers that take because it takes humility to ask it just ask this god where where am i wrong

01:21:23.740 what what do i believe that's wrong god loves that because he he wants you to be righteous but

01:21:30.740 the only way to be more right is to see where you're wrong so you can correct it and god wants

01:21:35.920 you to be righteous and he will always answer that prayer that's another thing i pray regularly is 0.57

01:21:40.540 tell me where i'm wrong oh those are bangers guys or take take this out of me like you're not allowed

01:21:47.460 to have to i don't like this like will you take this out he's trying to get another one no i'm

01:21:51.180 just saying like that's a prayer he always answers to man it's like it's not really wonderful because

01:21:55.240 then a week later like what's going on and then i know you saw that don't you remember it's all

01:21:59.620 right all right let's wrap it up let's do a hard close it's gonna be like actually i have another

01:22:03.080 So this has been awesome.

01:22:06.400 I'm really grateful for not only you guys, and I'm grateful to God for helping us to build this, allowing us to build this.

01:22:13.000 But I'm grateful that this is how we got to kick this off.

01:22:16.020 This is meaningful to me because I was real worried after the last one that I didn't know exactly how this was going to go.

01:22:22.400 But I thought that if I gave it up to the Lord and I glorified God, that this would be a good foundation to build whatever the hell is going to happen tomorrow on top of.

01:22:33.440 So I just want to thank you guys for coming out.

01:22:36.680 And we have a round of applause for Matt, Ed Mabry, and Laura Baker.

01:22:41.280 I know.

01:22:49.240 We're going to hang out for a little bit longer.

01:22:51.020 later on i don't know if any of you guys caught the announcement there's a place called spanish

01:22:54.280 springs it's about three minutes away down the road 441 so after we close this i got the thing

01:22:59.260 i know the thing uh we're gonna head over there and we'll hang out for a little bit it's not

01:23:03.840 raining is it does anybody know if it's raining okay cool so then they should be playing live

01:23:09.020 music over there till 10 p.m uh we're not gonna kick you guys out on the streets probably till

01:23:13.200 like eight uh so hang out you know get to know each other talk and just look at his face right 0.93

01:23:19.060 now dangerous retards that's right eight o'clock he said eight and i saw the pain 30 you know what 0.98

01:23:24.780 let's get crazy now we'll do we'll do eight uh but enjoy the company of other dangerous retards 0.95

01:23:29.100 and all the people that help build this thing and uh thank you guys so much for coming out 0.95

01:23:32.540 and we'll see you later on at spanish springs

01:23:35.000 oh you want to do yeah let's do 0.99

01:23:44.160 They bred with daughters of men 1.00

01:23:48.160 And they will do it again 1.00

01:23:52.160 The end is written in the book

01:23:56.160 In the pages they foreseen

01:24:00.160 Death Squad!

01:24:04.160 Death Squad! 0.52

01:24:08.160 Death Squad! 0.96

01:24:10.160 When the last trumpet sounds 0.64

Nephilim Death Squad - August 19, 2026

Brohemian Grove VIP Day ｜ Live from The Standard w⧸ Laura Baker, Ed Mabrie & Mattttt Hepner

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