I'd like to thank my beautiful husband I'd like to thank the queer community for your love and for inventing this genre. Please forgive me God did. Tim Patrice and Sam Smith had an epic night at the 2023 Grammys. Well I had to get that there crossroads last midnight to sell my soul to the devil. What did the devil give you for your soul Tommy? Well he told me to play this here guitar real good.  Well I wouldn't you I've always wondered what's the devil look like. So who all watched the Grammys who all have paid attention to all the different shows and all that I hope you didn't I really did I haven't watched it I gathered a few clips and let's just be honest this is part of the course and if you look on YouTube especially with all of the different Christian content creators all the different YouTube channels that are Christian it's like everybody's talking about it and I actually I wasn't gonna talk about it as a matter of fact I'm not gonna talk about it I'm gonna talk about an aspect of it that I think we need to focus on but everybody is singing talking about it and they're talking about how demonic this is and how outraged we should be at all these different things of course some of these are some of the same things that were around during Jesus' days matter of fact even before he physically walked the earth in his incarnation. So this isn't something that is really new shocking surprising I'm gonna get to the issue the main issue because there's somebody to blame for all of this and it ain't them which kind of lets you know who else there's left and so I want to kind of cover this issue that I don't think that we're giving enough attention to again I don't care who you look at there are all just I won't say everybody but a lot of Christian channels have covered this nothing wrong with them covered this as a matter of fact I think they ought to we ought to cover it and we need to let folks know that hey listen what they did how they're behaving it's just not godly well obviously well but the thing is though there are some people who don't think that what they did what they saw what they experienced a witness was all that bad I mean the world is what it is you've got kids you've got young adults who are growing up in this world thinking this is normal this is part for the course this is okay you look at the way that people dress specifically our young ladies young ladies listen the way you dress you might want to kind of compare it to where the Bible is kind of giving you a guide I'm not saying you have to have ankle length dresses or skirts it's not what I'm saying I'm not saying that you can't you know have wear pants I'm not saying it at all what I am saying is though the term modest is still something that the Bible requires as for women but same thing with the men we go out there and we look like any old kind of people and that should not be the case be it male or female and the issue is though that because you grew up in this then that's that's all you know you ask a fish if a fish could talk and you ask the fish say fish what's it like being wet the fish would say I don't know I'm not wet the fish just doesn't know because all he knows is being in water he can't tell you what it's like to not be wet and so a lot of kids can't tell you a lot of young folks can't tell you what is what it's like to not be in this kind of debauched society some of us have seen it a little bit better those of my parents grandparents and so forth they've seen it where people had respect and modesty and so forth with a even if they weren't Christian they acted like it they're in lies part of the issue now I want to cover this this issue from our standpoint the main thing that we ought to be looking at because the Grammys isn't it that's not that's not that big a deal it it really listen let me just say this again the Grammys show the Grammys performance is not that big a deal matter of fact I think what a lot of people getting off or getting upset about is the fact that there were some Christians who also happened to participate in now somebody who I do not agree with at all has made a statement of course he's made last check three videos four videos about this I want to get his little rant and then I want to show you I want a springboard off of his rant piggyback off of that to show you where I'm going and what I mean do that every single year they mock Christianity every single year they do demonic rituals every single year and then the Christians come over there like oh look I want my little word my little golden statue and they pat them on the back and they say here's your award cute little gospel song now we're going disrespect your faith to your face we're gonna mock Christianity to your face we're gonna do a demonic ritual in your face and you ain't gonna do nothing about it okay and you know what that part I agree with I agree with now there's a little bit of danger in what he just said can anybody guess what the danger is in Marcus Rogers giving that message I wonder if you all can can give or identify the danger in Marcus Rogers giving that message by the way hello everyone good morning good afternoon good evening I hope you all are doing well those of us who are in the United States those of us who are in those of you over in maybe Canada or South America or Africa smart Christians are all over the world so I wondered if anyone can kind of identify what might be the issue with him saying it well let me just play it again because he was spot on for that moment they do that every single year they mock Christianity every single year they do demonic rituals every single year and then the Christians come over there like oh look I want my little word my little golden statue and they pat them on the back and they say here's your award cute little gospel song now we're going disrespect your faith to your face we're gonna mock Christianity to your face we're gonna do a demonic ritual in your face and you ain't gonna do nothing about it he's absolutely correct you've got people who will sit and mock Christianity to our faces who would put on these different displays and so forth and we even got Christian artists who will go there and wouldn't have a problem you know you could not invite me to certain places because I might end up breaking the joint or get myself beat up or put in jail or both the nation of Islam guys had learned their lesson in prison never to invite Brother Corey to the black history month celebration that they would have and they would invite different black leaders on the compound there and they knew they found the hard way don't invite me you know why because what did I do I told them that their guy that they reference Allah Muhammad no disregard him and that you ought to come to Jesus he is the only true savior not master far Muhammad or Elijah Muhammad or Farrakhan and that stuff well listen I didn't get beat up but they knew if you want to talk to me this is what you're gonna get you get me you get all of me you get my heart you get my devotion to Christ and we've got leaders artists not leaders but artists Christian leaders Christian artists who go to these award shows and do not represent Christ they might get up and say we thank God or even we thank Jesus for what he's done but they don't give the gospel and now this is the issue yeah they mock God to our faces but the reason why he shouldn't say so because this is the same Marcus Rogers who did this last night we were at the church very late casting out devils out of people on pride three or four hours after the service and I had one of the most craziest experiences that I've had like cast out of them I've seen a lot of crazy stuff right but we pulled the snake out of a woman's back yeah best of point you can't mock God over here and then get upset about someone else mocking God over here in a different fashion mocking God is mocking God these people we expect them to do so because they are not Christian or they're not professing to be Christian you however are professing to be a Christian and you mock God with this foolishness about pulling a snake out of a woman's back you said that and so I need you to understand something by the way the Bible tells us this one thing let's let's go to what the Bible says this is Peter says he says in first Peter one let's start in verse 13 he says therefore prepare your minds for action that's enough right there but let's continue prepare your mind for action to keep sober in spirit fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children do not be conformed to the form of lust which you were which yours which were yours in ignorance and so the way we used to comport ourselves how we used to move and dance and this and that and go different places whatever don't don't conduct yourself in that form or fashion but look what he says but like the Holy One who called you look what he says be holy yourselves in all your behavior be holy yourselves in all of your behavior look what he says because it is written you shall be holy for I am holy you shall be holy for I am holy what does that mean what does the word holy mean one of the ways that I would now granted this is what the definition going to give you is not the absolute definition but it's a good working definition for us regular old earthbound people to kind of get it through our heads what he's talking about the Hebrew word or the Greek word whether it be the Hebrew word Kodesh or the Greek word Hagiaz means the same thing it means to be separated to be set apart but let me just give it to you a good working definition to be different we ain't like you we ain't like them when I say you I don't mean you guys of course we're like you guys because you guys are smart Christians but I mean we ain't like them Paul says I'm making it my mission to undermine them so that they're not part of us they ain't with us we're over here you're over there now we bid you we invite you to come over here we have an exclusive club it is but it's open to anyone who wants to join and what we're not going to do is we're always having a membership drive but you know we're not going to do we are not going to dumb down the interest requirements we're not the requirements are what they are the Bible says be holy for I the Lord am holy now he's not saying be perfect for I the Lord perfect people going to say well certain translation say perfect them go look at the word the word means to be complete God has never called us to be perfect now unfortunately though people will take that and run nobody's perfect no body's perfect well let me give you a couple of things that we need to remember before I kind of finish my rant because it's not just Marcus no I'm just using him to kind of make a point there's other people who think that what Marcus is about is godly but we won't use it we won't back it up with scriptures we see all this foolishness even and now the main thing is everything's a demon let's cast it out matter of fact not just us cast it out let's get the little babies involved too so we've got little kids mimicking they don't know any better bless their heart they have no idea what they're doing all they're doing is emulating what they've seen the Marcus riders of the world the Isis Alibars of the world the Daniel Adams the world now the Greg locks of the world and so forth that's all them the many hands the world that's all they're doing the Daniel David diggy Hernandez is I can't even say his name right but that's what they are emulating they think that is what is godly and they don't understand there is a price to pay I want I don't want to miss my words there is a price to pay for this sort of action let's go back to the scriptures and let's see let's go to Leviticus chapter 10 now remember we're talking about a God who is not fond of you messing with one his name or his word and we'll look at the two in just a second but God does not play God is as he say as we say sometime I'm serious about mine God is serious about his what he is all of it his name his word those that belong to him those that want to worship and follow him he is serious about what he said as matter of fact we should too do you know guys there are some people on the planet who seem to be serious about Christianity who seem to be devoted there's some people out there who really care about it who really especially us in the Western world in Western culture they make us look bad their version of Christianity is not like ours ours is comfortable ours we can we can go to our phones and we can type in stuff and look up stuff we can we we've got all these different creature comforts and there are Christians out there who are so much more serious it looks like so much more serious than we are these people they mean that when they when they said they are so much so they're willing to go to the to the point of death and died to be be headed to be tortured all these different things they mean it not us not us we'll sit and fight over goofy things and I mean absolutely goofy things this whole issue and I'm still on it though I am still on this whole issue about works and so forth and what we're supposed to do these folks actually showing works you ask the person says no we're not saved by work but do you do work yeah I do God doesn't cause to be a disciples but are you a disciple yeah I am do you have any works yes I do but what I'm supposed to foolishness absolute stupidity and silliness in the body of Christ thinking that God has called us into this marvelous wonderful life and we're not supposed to exhibit any sort of traits of it we're not supposed to resemble Christ on us we're not supposed to have the Holy Spirit run through us and move in us I'm not saying the Holy Spirit's going to move my hand and do this move his head and do that turn my head this way that's not what we're saying but there's such a thing as being sanctified grown grow in the grace and knowledge of him through his word but also let it work in us that's why we talk about the fruit of the spirits which is the carposs the result of the spirit that's what the word the word carposs is where we have the word fruit but it also means the word result what he's saying is the results of the spirit the result of the spirit are these things and it's not an inward thing it's an it starts off in when you show it how do you know that there's love what it shows up how you know there's peace it shows up how you know there's joy self control those are actions are those are those are demonstrated in their actions and so we've got this problem on this on this planet as it as it relates to Christianity or Christians because maybe we don't maybe we're going to find out what he meant when he says there are they are few that find it what do you mean few core the Bible says there's going to be a multitude that can't be number well here's what we know and he's not he's speaking figurative not up not in terms of it's so many that we've never seen there's been there are eight billion people on the planet right now seven or eight billion people there have been six to eight billion people since the beginning of time so a total of 15 to 16 billion people we literally can go out and number that we can and he didn't mean that there's nobody that can count that high we can count that high that's not this point it's going to be a large multiple the folks that are going to be saved but he also says it'll be few so in the grand scheme of things it will be few and I wonder if he means this we're talking about here those that are actually serious can I go to a passage and I want you all to see this this is this very same guy who is this serious here in chapter 10 of Leviticus let's look what he says he says now Nadab and Abihu Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took their respective incense and after putting fire in them placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord which he had not commanded them to do and fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them and they died before the Lord now we can get into different back and forth as to what what the strange fire was was it them and their attitude do they come in in a in a maybe a drunken state and said they shouldn't come at the wrong time in a fashion they should have with with some sort of incense or coals that should have been on the pan we don't know all we do know is this they did not do it the correct way as they were as they were commanded and look what God tells Aaron for tells Moses to tell Aaron look what he says in verse 3 Aaron is obviously distraught his two boys have been consumed not by some foreign enemy not by accident they didn't get run over by a runaway goat or or or bull no they were consumed by God and look what God says he says then Moses said to Aaron it is what the Lord spoke saying by those who come near me I will be treated or regarded as holy and before all the people I will be honored those of us now we've got the ability to go before the Lord he hadn't changed I the Lord is this this the one who says I the Lord do not change he says those who approach me I will be regarded I will be treated as holy I'm not like everyone else or everything else I'm different if you if if you don't know that he's different than you might not be a believer you might by those who approach him that didn't change just because of the cross it just meant that it just meant that more folks can come to him without having to go through an intermediary but he still wants to be regarded as holy now I want to also fix up a passage that sometimes we we take out of contact or we don't we don't actually see what it means and this is where sometimes that the language can actually helps it help this out in Psalms look what he says he says I will bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your loving kindness and your truth now I want you to pay attention to this next verse because some passages might have it may not translate it as properly as it should be look what he says he says for you have magnified your word according to your name some versions may say above your name that his his word is above his name that's not true his word is not above his name there's nothing higher than his name but his word and his name are right there look what it says I want to put on the screen he says your word and here it is this word I'll which is can be according to upon over above what he's literally saying is he has elevated his word according to your so what he's done he's elevated his word not above his name but he's elevated I'll which can also be translated above which is why some say that but according to his name meaning one he does not distort either neither are to be tarnished neither his word nor his name he speaks highly of his name and he speaks highly of his word and what do we do oftentimes we distorted we distorted not just to the world but even to each other we've got to the point number one where we have decided speaking of of kind of going back to the beginning portion of the conversation we've got people who want to be so much like the world who want to do what the world is doing whether it be at the Grammys or whether it be somebody's birthday party whether it be at McDonald's whether it be at the drive-thru whether it be at the grocery store no matter where it where it work we've got people who want to be like everyone else but the word says first John 215 he says do not love the world nor the things in it if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the most pride of life is not from the father but from the world the world is passing away and also it's lust but the one who does the will of God lives forever it's not my words it's his word what that means what's happening is this the world I don't know if you caught what the what the rappers were saying this is what Jay Z was saying and I don't know all the other guys that was rapping with him but this is what they were saying when they said the song God did and I just went and looked up the lyrics what they're saying God did was that you didn't trust me you didn't believe in me you didn't know I was going to be successful all this thing but God did and so it says come and be like us matter of fact let me let me play the very beginning of that I'll cut it off when it when it gets past that point let me see God did win with us but watch us win I'ma take it outside so he said he says God did more blessings more all of these things win with us God did win with us he wants us he's he's he's asking people to come and be on his side look how look how we're blessed look how we have these things God did that or or or no God blessed us I don't think he's really saying that God did that and then Jay Z makes his point that how Jesus did this now I did that I did you know his own little way either way is both blasphemes but his point is that we should be like them be like them if you want to be like them if you want to there is going to be a consequence for that but that's the point that is the point and so we've got people who simply want to be like him now what does it mean though to love him if because in order to be a believer you have to love the Lord there is no such thing as a Christian who does not love God no such thing Matthew 2237 look what Jesus says he says and he said to him you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart all your soul with all your mind you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind distorting bringing down the standard of following him that's not loving him no that's really kind of just having him your own way it's really having life with the side of Jesus he's not the main course what I want what I want to do that is the most important thing now look what he says this is love as he says this is love that we walk according to his commandments this is the commandment that you have just heard from the beginning that you should walk in it walking in his love is what we're supposed to do he left us he left us a work to do he left us a picture of how we ought to be he left a picture of how we ought to be and there are people there are Christians out there that will tell you it's okay it's okay that if you're sleeping around God knows your it's okay listen if you're gay practicing you still go to heaven doing that no problem because because you at least say that you place your faith in Christ you at least said I believe okay I can promise you that ain't the kind of belief that we're talking about that you need to have there are people that are liars are schemers that are after as much money as they can get and I'm trying to do this for the kingdom you know God wants me to be blessed okay okay it's not going to work out for you and so the issue is the issue is are you an actual believer in and you know you are by your love towards him and now your love towards him will be born out in your love towards other as well the problem that we have is we've got people that come and tell us well first of all and maybe you've heard this before and maybe this happened to you where people have literally guilted other Christians into not acting or speaking conducting themselves as Christian waiting for you to say something about the Bible or to promote the Bible but then turn around and try to hold your sin your past sins over you that's the good that's one reason why I'm open about mine as bad as it was for me and bad as I've done I listen I'll let you know about it the reason is because you can never hold it over me and the issue is this I'm not doing what I did that was the past I'm not doing that we all have done something the issue is they don't want you to tell you tell they don't want you to tell them what they're doing so they bring what you did hoping that you'll just kind of alright never mind I give up now listen you're in sin yeah corporate you do this you're absolutely right and God and God punished me and punished me severely what does that do with the fact that you are sleeping with all these different people what what does that do how does that fix that so if I'm not right and I'm going to hell well then how does that help you so are you saying you you don't mind going to hell as long as you have some company because you're gonna have a lot of company gonna have a lot of company our job though they'll tell you they use this passage obviously out of context where it says do not judge do not judge so I say do not judge so that you will not be judged well okay fine I won't judge therefore I won't be judged but guess what I do I judge every day he's really kind of speaking tongue and cheek you know why because you've never met a person you have never met a person I don't care if they can from the time they can talk up to the time they cannot they judge we judge we do it all the time and so whatever standard of judgment that you use gonna be judged back he says to for in the way that you judge you will be judged and by your standard of measure it will be measured to you why do you look at the spec that's in your brother's eye but do not notice a log that's in your eye look he says though or how can you say to your brother let me take the spec out of your eye behold the logs in your own eye you hypocrite first first take the log out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the spec out of your brother's eye his point is that oftentimes we might judge another person harsher than we judge but didn't say don't deal with that person's issue first make sure you're not you who say not to steal are you stealing make sure that that's not you and then you can how do I how does my brother know he's not in if you know he's in sin should I leave him in sin just for the sake of not of not offending him well obviously not our job is to live God before the world our God is to live God before the world so that we can win that don't believe me I'm talking about in every little small aspect of your life to even up to the most major things in your life look what he says he says whether you eat or drink this is first Corinthians 10 31 whether you either drink whatever you do do it also the glory of God whatever you're doing it should be to glorify God it should be to glorify God and then he says give no offense either to Jews or to Greek or to the church of God just as I also please all men in all things not seeking my own profit but the prophet look what he says so that they may be saved that's the point remember Jesus makes a statement Jesus makes not Jesus Paul makes a statement where he says I become like this to win them well he's not saying I want to compromise myself that's not what Paul is saying Paul is not saying I'm compromised myself he's saying that maybe some of the registrations that we have in Judaism some traditions I'm not going to hold those over when I go to the Gentiles but he but he's not going to dumb it down for the sake of getting alone two people that we want to look at if we look at Paul we look at Jesus as as a matter of fact and the other disciples their goal was to win what did Paul say so that I might win some same with Jesus to win some well Jesus hang hung out with the prostitutes the tax collectors all the sinners he didn't just hang out with him he was a listen y'all let's watch the game together his goal was to preach himself Paul's goal was to preach Christ Peter's goal was to preach Christ all of the Apostles goal was to not to go hang out with him just for the sake of hanging out but to give them the gospel and it's not just and this is the part that bothers me the most this is the part that bothers me the most that we have a tendency to focus on what the world is doing rather than focusing on what we are doing as a body because if the body of Christ was a little bit more serious about what we're doing if the body of Christ was a little bit more serious about what we're doing and hold our own people accountable if we did that if we did that we would see that folks would see one the true picture of a Christian the Bible describes what a Christian is Christians follow the shepherd sheep follow the shepherd no if and what's about it sheep follow the shepherd now do the sheep follow the shepherd in a straight line sheep do not follow the shepherd in a straight line they may try but that's the goal though with their eye on the shepherd problem is though many of us don't care about the shepherd as much we care about ourselves getting our own thing and so we will will distort the word will have people telling us that no you cannot be delivered just by becoming a believer becoming a Christian you cannot be delivered that way no you have to be delivered by first placing your faith in Christ then waiting for a second feeling of the Holy Spirit then if you have any problems in life if you don't have enough money if you're not sleeping well you got a bad back whatever that you can look to complain about come to me we're going to take up an offering by the way go ahead and register for the conference so at the end let me go ahead and once the right note of strum on the guitar once the right note is played on the piano when the drummer hits the cymbal just right then go ahead and manifest then go ahead and manifest so I can go ahead and deliver you do that that's no no we reject that we reject anything that as the Bible says it exalts itself against God we're cashing down that we're fighting that vehemently to the now it's going to look like we're in the minority as a matter of fact we probably are at this point we may very well be in the minority in the end we definitely will be in the minority there will be more of them than ours when I say them I don't mean the world I mean a professed Christians who are in a distorted doctrinal view those who are looking for some sort of outward manifestation all the time the ones who are always looking for a sign you know those people the one who he calls a wicked and adulterous generation those people there will be more of them than those who adhere to sound doctrine how do I know so well look what Paul says Paul says in one of my favorite chapters 2 Timothy chapter 4 he says I solemnly solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing and his kingdom look what he says preach the word pretty simple preach the word be ready in season and out of season well obviously that's all the time in season out of season why he said I'm sorry he says reprove that means convince someone who is wrong he says rebuke that means if they have it wrong and don't want to get rebuke them know you're wrong he says exhort that's urging them pushing them he says do this with great patience and instruction for because the time is here now they will not endure sound doctrine but one and a half their ears tickled they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires and that doesn't necessarily mean that they will be Christian teachers they'll go to the beyond say who will tell them that she's a Christian and this is the kind of Christianity that you should be because look at me I got money I got fame and so forth you got Christian that are telling them that the things of the world are the more desirous things and this is how you get that but if I ask who would rather be poor and a Christian than rich and on the way to hell everyone would raise their hand and say I'd much rather be poor and a Christian but in practicality we don't see that do we and in practice what we do see is we see people who would much rather live for this world well Paul addresses that matter of fact in this letter and this is what I want you guys to see this is the main point I want you to see what Paul gets to Paul is addressing two types of people both the people that I've talked about those who want to cozy up to the world and then also those who have bad doctrine let's look what he says and I said yes thank you so much for Super Chat he says he says so but you verse 5 be sober in all things endure hardship do the work of an evangelist fulfill your ministry which means all of our ministries are going to revolve in some way from fashion they're going to be evangelistic in nature then look what he says he says for I am already being poured out as a drink offering and the time of my departure has come I have fought the good fight I have finished the course I have kept the faith wow I have kept the faith again all Christians all Christians will keep the faith notice he says keep kept the faith I want to focus on that for a second let's go back to the scriptures he says I have kept the faith I finished it he says the faith I have kept I have guarded look what he says the faith that I have guarded this is from the from the Greek word oh which is to guard to keep he actually is not even speaking about his believing his faith he's talking about the faith the understanding the doctrine what the actual word of God is that's literally what he's talking about guys look what he says he says I moved on where did I go I'm sorry I finished the course I have kept the faith and the word for the faith is tain so the definite article let's just know that he's talking about the faith not having faith but I have kept the faith I have guarded the word of God why don't we know what he's talking about because he just said that he says he's speaking about sound doctrine and doctrine can be distorted by people who even want to go out and emulate the world it can be the lions can be blurred and we do that a lot we do that a lot oftentimes we see that in church where people are are trying to do things that look like the world maybe in our in the way we might present the gospel on stage the singing and so forth I am not opposed to lights I'm not opposed to even some sort of theatrics I really am not but oftentimes though that results in the dumbing down of the word that results in the preacher or the congregation giving it in a way to make the people want to desire a false version of the gospel when we're told not to create a God of our own doing that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a statue of God thank you Tommy it means fashioning creating a God like the one that we want if I'm in the LGBTQ community what do I want I want a God that is okay with that that is tolerant of that if I am political in my approach I want a God who sent Jesus who was a revolutionary if I am after things then I want a God who wants when he says abundant life he wants me to have things I'll fashion not a God but God the God I'll fashion him in my likeness in my likeness and we see that and so Paul is saying that I have that I kept the faith continuing he says I have fought the good fight I've finished the course he says in the future there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness wish the Lord the righteous judge will award me on that day and not only to me but to all those who have loved his a period who have loved though listen if you do not love him then you will you are not his now he loves us first that we may then love him let's continue he says make every effort to come now this is kind of like just housekeeping that Paul has but in the midst of this he says make every effort to come to me soon for demons having loved this present world has deserted me and gone with a creason that's gone to Galatia tied us to Dalmatia everybody's left me I'm here by myself you know what Paul's a man I'm by myself tell you what I want you to do he says only Luke is with me he says pick up Mark who I tried to get rid of who I tried to move on the very same person he says bring Mark he says for he is useful to me but Tychus I have sent to Ephesus when you come bring the cloak which I left with Carpus and the books especially here it is Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm the Lord will repay him according to his deeds be guard or beware of Alexander why because he vigorously opposed our teaching again he's on this issue of doctrine and on his deathbed which is kind of poor Alexander on his deathbed he's calling out Alexander and his heresy so if we value him we value his word we value his way we value his name everything there is about him remember how he said to love him with all our heart with all our mind with all our soul that's how we ought to love him not just at the moment that we need to get outraged because of what someone did at the Grammys or on TV or on the news would have you know that's to happen but you love him in such a way to where you're showing people how much you love him the bible says that because of his love his love compels us because of his love because his love and the terror it compels us to preach the gospel we want to see people come to him the same way we love somebody else love our team love a potential spouse someone that we're dating we want to tell everybody about this person got a new job we want to tell everybody about the new job got a new car the same thing well even more so about him but again but again what we need to make sure that we do in how we talk about him and how we approach him not in a hypocritical fashion not in a vain fashion not with a I don't have a problem with the shirt the Jesus the God is dope shirt okay fine but let's let us see the God is dope in you and I'm what I'm looking for this this is almost really a fight that I'm almost willing to have I'm looking to have all the people who have stated that that I'm teaching this works based salvation I love to see you we need to have a conversation I mean a friendly conversation because of what you're doing is if you're giving the impression that live how you want to live that's not it either no again we are called to live holy we are called to live holy let me say it again we are called to live holy that means we are not like this world we are not like those who say they are but are not we are not like the Mormons we are not like the Jehovah's Witnesses we are not like the Seventh-day Adventists we are not like the Hebrew Israelites the Hebrew Ruth people we are not like the people who have this social justice form of doing things where they'll cozy up and align with people who are for things that the Bible is called an abomination for people who are promoting abortion it's not us now I think you ought to know by now guys I think you ought to know by now that this world is not going to change you can conform and be like them and be friends with them they're not going to change their world view they're not going to adopt a Christian world view because a bunch of Christians are hanging out with them I don't care how many times Kirk Franklin, Mavic City or whoever other Christian person is there the world is not going to accept your world view they're not going to change you know what the only way they'll do so the only way they'll do so is if you promise they can get into heaven but still live it like they want to live that's the only way they'll cozy up but then that's not a Christian world view that is a distorted view of who God is a distorted view of the gospel that's the only way they'll do so and then what they'll try to do they'll do their very best is to convert you to their former Christian that's how this works and so you can be friends with them you can be friends with the kind of the do anything Christianity cozying up to the world or being like those folks who want to do anything in the spirit it goes both ways it goes both ways we've been given the word we approach God according to his word and the Bible says God says by those who approach me I will be regardless holy amen


What's up everybody once again is Brandon Shawn and today is Friday, which means I got to go over music resource or tool strategy that might be helpful for you guys. Today, I want to talk about something that is a tool that a lot of you guys could use you make the decision, but we're talking about automatic mastering platforms. Two platforms I want to talk about are Lander and Aria. I'm going to list a lot of other platforms in the top comment below in the description. You know, all that good stuff, but what is Lander and what is Aria? These platforms are essentially, like I said, automatic mastering platforms. Now what's useful about these platforms? Well, I've seen a lot of artists have trouble when it comes to having quality sound in their music and I get it. Mastering is a real skill. Mixing is a real skill and when you don't know how to do it yourself, it's expensive. These platforms because they're automated and you're not paying a person specifically are actually a lot more cost effective. I'm not saying that you should do this for every single song, but I'm saying these are options. This is why I'm doing the video that you guys should check out for yourselves and see if you like the sound. Lander and Aria are two of the most popular. One Aria is supposed to be analog, which is a little bit more of that old school way of doing things. I'm not going to get into those nuances. I'm not an engineer, producer, so I don't get too hyped up about those details or consider myself an expert, but a lot of the old school people I'll tell you, they love analog. Now, I've seen a lot of people say, yeah, Aria is expensive. It is the most expensive out of these automated mastering platforms that I know of, but when you consider the fact that you can get 10 songs for a lot less than it costs to get one song mastered by a real person, it's still not that expensive. Now what are those prices, $49 per month. Maybe you want to get 10 songs per month, 25 songs per month for $99 and 100 songs per month for $249. Maybe you just want to do one month and get 10 songs done and then you can cancel your subscription. You guys know how subscriptions work. That's a real thing that you can do. So basically $50 for 10 songs. That's pretty cost effective to me, but as I said, there's other platforms and there's platforms that let you do one-offs. Overall, I wanted to just make sure you guys knew about this option because no, right now these technologies are not allowing you to do it on the level and with the quality of just a single person who's great at it. But especially considering how not great a lot of these engineers are out there anyway, you can probably get at least the quality that a lot of them have. And then of course, once again, it's all going to be about the nuances that you like. Maybe you end up using one of these platforms for most of your songs just to get it to a decent quality.  You probably still need to go to an actual person. Once again, I'm going to put reviews of a few of these platforms in the description and the top comment below. Check them out. See what you think. If you liked this video, go ahead and hit that like button. If you like it, you might as well share it and if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.


new to my role at the FCC, but I am not actually new to spectrum policy discussions. As some of you may know, I come to the agency having spent some time in the private sector, in the trenches as commission staff, and up on Capitol Hill. So I count myself among the fortunate who remember the efforts of the spectrum policy task force a decade ago. Their insights into our wireless future were ahead of their time. So I'm also aware that shaping the next decade in spectrum policy is a daunting task, but it also has a lot of opportunity in it. So let's start with what we know. Let's start with some obvious things. We know that wireless services are revolutionizing the way we live. We know that wireless services are also revolutionizing the way we work. We know that the number of smart devices on our airwaves is increasing at breathtaking speed. But we need to think beyond what we know right now. Because what we face is more than the explosion of wireless phones and tablet computers. Because within the next ten years, machine to machine devices communicating wirelessly may number as high as 50 billion. The much-vaunted internet of things is around the bend, and the ways we connect, communicate, and conduct our commerce will never be the same. So the numbers telling this story may be familiar, but I think they're so impressive they bear repeating. Already, we have more wireless phones in this country than there are people. Roughly half of these are smartphones, and they generate 35 times the traffic, traditional wireless phones. Tablet computers, of course, generate 121 times the traffic. And last year, mobile data traffic in the United States skyrocketed 300%. And then last year, U.S. networks operated on average at 80% of total capacity. That's the highest utilization rate in the world. So in the simplest terms, the demand for our airwaves is going up, while the supply of the encumbered spectrum is going down. The pressure is on. This is when we innovate. Innovation is going to take a variety of forms. It will take technology from developments in smart antennas to frequency agile radios to advanced database services that facilitate dynamic spectrum access. And it will take topology, including changes in the ways the networks are deployed, especially through the big promise of increased use of small cells. And it also will take creative spectrum policy responses. We're in the early stages of one of those that are undoubtedly familiar with it, incentive options. So I want to start with that today. And then I want to follow up with some new ideas about federal spectrum, tower and facility sighting, and public safety. First, incentive options. For the only two decades, the commission's pathbreaking spectrum options have led the world. The agency has held more than 80 auctions. It has issued more than 36,000 licenses. And it has raised more than $50 billion to the United States Treasury. Not too shabby. The commission's simultaneous multiple round ascending auctions have been a model for governments and commercial wireless providers across the globe. We are now, again, poised to be the world's pioneer. We have an opportunity to show how a new kind of auction, incentive auctions, can facilitate the smart and efficient use of wireless resources. Now to be sure, hard work, big choices lie ahead. And the agency September 28th, notice of proposed rulemaking, is just a start. We are going to need broad input, including from the people in this room. But for my part, I believe there are four central building blocks for incentive auctions. Simplicity, fairness, balance, and public safety. Now simplicity is key. Incentive auctions are undeniably complicated. But in every structural juncture, a bias toward simplicity is crucial. Simplicity will yield more interest in the opportunities these auctions provide for broadcasters. And in turn, this will yield more spectrum. In short, to have converts to a crusade for more wireless opportunity, simplicity must be our incentive auction gospel. Fairness is also essential. This is especially true with regard to the treatment of broadcasters not participating in the auction. Fairness demands that we consider how to accomplish repacking, minimizing unnecessary destruction. At the same time, we are going to ask broadcasters that they make a fair assessment of the opportunities that this auction provides. By offering incentives to share channels and incentives to relocate from the UHF to the VHF band, this auction can mean new resources for broadcasters to develop new programming and deploy new services. Let us also be creative here and consider how this process can yield new models for station ownership, new funding sources for local content, and new ways to use technology to make efficient use of our airways. Balance is necessary. None of the three legs of the incentive auction. The reverse auction, the repacking, or the forward auction can stand on its own. They require balance. For instance, the interference rules we consider will not only impact broadcast services, but also how much spectrum will be available for auction, which in turn will impact the revenues raised. Balance is also going to require attention to licensed and unlicensed use of spectrum across all frequency bands. The former provides reliability and interference protection. The latter provides low barriers to entry and promotes the efficient use of limited resources. I believe that good spectrum policy requires both. Finally, public safety is fundamental. We have to remember that in the middle class tax relief and job creation act, incentive auctions are part and parcel with enhancing public safety. The auction revenues the commission raises are designated to support the first nationwide interoperable wireless broadband network for public safety and we can't forget that the success of these auctions requires that we need this funding objective. And to all of this I will add that speed matters. The commission should put all of our auctions on a timeline. We have to move at the pace of digital age wireless demand. Second, I want to talk about federal spectrum. Now federal authorities have substantial spectrum assignments and after all, critical missions throughout the government are dependent on access to our airwaves. Federal authorities use their spectrum assignments to protect us from attack, tools like early missile warning systems. They use them to manage our air traffic, to enhance our crop productivity, and to monitor our water supplies. To protect us against forest fires and to predict weather patterns and awareness of climate events like hurricane Sandy before they occur. So they are essential to our economic security and our national well-being. Nonetheless, we are on a hunt for new opportunities for commercial spectrum in order to reach that 500 megahertz benchmark for new wireless broadband use in the executive order from President Obama just two years ago. Now we're already on our way. We've got incentive auctions on the horizon. We have on deck traditional auctions of up to 65 megahertz of spectrum courtesy of the middle class tax relief and job creation act. And in recent weeks, we cleared the way for wireless broadband use of up to 30 mega hertz in the WCS band. Likewise, we are looking into more flexible use of 40 megahertz in the 2 gigahertz band currently assigned to mobile satellite service. Plus secondary market transactions will continue to be an important part of our overall effort with spectrum to use for wireless broadband. Being this mark is going to require more. So the search is on for ways to take a fresh look at federal uses. On the one hand, we have calls for the traditional process of repurposing federal spectrum. Historically, there were three essential steps clear, relocate, and auction. But this three part command that has worked so well in the past may work less well going forward. Just as in the commercial sector, more government functions than ever before are traveling over our airwaves and it is growing harder to find spectrum for federal relocation. So on the other hand, we have calls for large scale sharing of federal spectrum resources, which we see in the recent report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. This is an exercise in innovative thinking and its success depends on the development of database systems that are not yet in existence. So over the long haul I think both courses are worth pursuing. But in the near term we're going to need a new approach, one that will facilitate federal repurposing better than our old three step process while leading to faster access than the current prospects for large scale sharing. I think it's time to develop a series of incentives to serve as a catalyst for us to identify more spectrum for relocation. Now government agencies are mission focused. Once a communications network has been built, once a land mobile radio system is operational agencies don't want to change it because it disrupts their mission. This is completely rational. But what if we were to financially reward federal authorities for efficient use of their spectrum resource? What if they were able to reclaim a portion of their revenue from the subsequent re-option of their airwaves? Would they make new choices about their missions and the resources they need to accomplish them? I think so. I also believe that this idea is exploring because it is entirely consistent with the idea of synthetic currency proposed by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Moreover this is timely. Agencies across the government face funding shortfalls as Congress addresses the Lumain sequestration deadline. In this context instead of talking about a crunch maybe we should try a spectral cliff. There may be no better enticement than the possibility of revenue from a spectrum option to help alleviate the pain of impending budget cuts. Now many of you have worked in government and no first hand the power of incentives for federal organizations. We have to find ways to change the federal spectrum conversation. We must work with our government partners so they can realize the value of their spectrum and the value of using it efficiently instead of only seeing loss from its reallocation. Third I want to talk about tower and facility sighting. This is important because no amount of spectrum would result in more and better wireless services without sufficient infrastructure. So let's start again with what we know. Wireless facilities make wireless broadband possible. This supports local economic growth. The statistics actually demonstrate this pretty clearly. Studies show that delivering broadband to a community would increase its per capita income by nearly 4%. In short communities with more robust coverage from wireless services are better equipped to compete. So if we want economic growth we have to avoid the unnecessary delays in the state and local approval process. Now on this front I think we are already making some progress. Most recently President Obama issued an executive order that established a multi-agency working group tasked with unlining access to the 30% of land in the United States that is controlled by the federal government. More consistent policies on federal lands and federal roads should simplify and speed the deployment process. And then earlier this year Congress moved to ease the burdens of infrastructure deployment with section 6409 of the middle class tax relief and job creation. This law actually requires the creation of a master contract for applications to land federal property. It also relieves some of the regulatory burden for co-location if modifications to a tower do not alter its physical dimensions. Finally the commission has taken steps to speed the tower setting process by adopting 90 day and 150 day shot clocks for local government. However we need to acknowledge that last month largely as a matter of administrative law the Supreme Court decided to review the commission's tower setting order. So these are good so far but I actually think it's time for a different and updated approach. We need to tie these disparate efforts together in a single whole. The commission should start proceeding to craft its own model rules for facility setting for state and local governments. This model should be off the rack and easy for state and local governments to use. For starters it should harmonize President Obama's executive order, the developments in section 6409 of the middle class tax relief and job creation Act and then the shot clocks that we already have in our books. We can ask our intergovernmental advisory committee for input too. But above all we need to make it simple because the range of new deployments from towers to co-locations to small cells is growing more complex and the demands on state and local jurisdictions navigating these new technologies are growing. By streamlining the process we can provide a way forward for state and local governments looking to oversee new deployments within their borders. A way that respects their authority but it lets us also offer them this. Follow these streamlined model rules and investment in your community will increase, service will expand and your economies will grow and if we do it right what we will have is a more predictable set of laws all across the country. Fourth and finally I want to talk about public safety. It was just two weeks ago when Hurricane Sandy wreaked its havoc in the northeast. Now here in Washington we were spared the vulnerable storm but the pictures of flooding further north, the devastation of the shore fires at water's edge and implausible snowdrifts west are hard to forget. All communities washed out dark from lack of power and cold without feet. In some locations normal returns fast and others it will take longer and normal may never be the same. So many of our first responders are 911 operators and communications companies made herculean efforts to keep us safe and connected before, during and after the storm so we owe them our gratitude. But the commission also owes the public an honest accounting of the resiliency of our nation for the hurricane. Now improvements came as roads cleared as cellular on wheels rolled in and fuel was made available for others. Moreover wireless companies collaborated making their networks available to one another for their customers without additional charge. Still we are now a nation where over one third of households rely strictly on wireless phones. Our digital lives are downloaded onto our smartphones when the unthinkable occurs we are more vulnerable. By choosing wireless and IP networks we are choosing to go without the independent electrical source that traditionally powered copper plant. I don't believe we have to sacrifice safety in the process. So it's time for an honest conversation about network reliability and the wireless age. It's time to ask our questions about backup power and how to make our networks more dependable when we need them most. This does not have to be a carbon copy of the backup power rule the commission sought to adopt after Hurricane Katrina. The office management and budget clearly disallowed that. But this does require a comprehensive discussion that includes questions about access to fuel, priority under the Stafford Act, communications deployments for backup, maintaining backhaul, and harmonization with state and local authorities. The time we are at this conversation is right now. Before we have another rash of headlines like we just saw, post sandy wireless outages add insult to injury, and sandy exposes gaps in wireless system during emergency. We need to make progress before the next storm hits, the next disaster devastates, and the next network related outage leaves us vulnerable again. Finally there's another component to this discussion and that's consumers. We migrate so much of our lives to our wireless devices premised on the idea that they are always on. But storm events like this can take the most connected among us and turn us into wireless T-totalers. Even last week we had hordes of New York residents roaming the streets looking for places to plug in and charge. So we need to also talk about consumers preparing for the next event with longer lasting backup batteries, solar chargers, and more. So there you have it. Ten years ahead is daunting, but our charge for the immediate future is clear. We need to move faster. We need to make incentive options work. We need to build incentives into thinking about federal spectrum. We need to provide streamlined models for tower sighting to spur facilities deployment. And we need to have an honest conversation about the resiliency and reliability of our networks in the wireless and digital age. Now we're already on the right course. We are the world's leading economy when it comes to wireless services. We have nearly 70% of the world's LTE subscribers right here at home. More than 80% of the world's smartphones run on operating systems from US companies. And we can be proud that our wireless economy already generates nearly 200 billion annually and supports directly or indirectly 3.8 million jobs. But if there is one constant in the digital age, it is that disruptive forces are always on the horizon. Wireless data demands are multiplying. Machine to machine devices are growing exponentially. Maintaining our global leadership position is going to take creative thinking, smart execution and spectrum policy that is flexible and dynamic. So we need good ideas from the people in this room, from silicon flat irons from interests across the country. So that 10 years hence we have a wireless sector that drives digital age innovation, spurs job creation and grows the US economy. I look forward to working with you all to make it happen. Thank you.


Every citizen shall have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union. Decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen. These lofty words are from the Treaty on the European Union. Democratic transparency is a key principle of the European project, at least in theory. In practice, the reality is very different. In the words of Emilio Reilly, who as European ombudsman is tasked with defending the rights of citizens, it is virtually impossible for a citizen to know how a European law came into being and what the position of his or her country's government was on that law. So what is behind this veil of secrecy? The European Union is governed by three principal institutions, the European Commission, which proposes laws, the European Parliament, which quotes on them, and the Council of the European Union. The Council is made up of representatives of all 27 EU governments. It has about 3,000 members of staff and a massive complex bureaucracy, holding an average of 3,961 meetings per year. Most importantly, it has the power to approve or reject all proposed laws. And yet, this critical body convenes mostly behind doors that remain firmly shut. For a law to be approved by the Council, a qualified majority is needed. This creates a bazaar of influence, where states big and small trade favours. Meanwhile, the public can only guess at the deals being struck out of sight. Currently, more than 30 draft laws, many of them highly relevant to citizens, have been stuck with the Council for three years or more. The European Court of Justice itself has demanded more transparency, ruling in the Landmarker di Capitani case that the EU's institutions must publish decisive documents, but the Council has yet to comply. This is why Investigate Europe has launched the project Secrets of the Council. Over the coming months, Investigate Europe's reporters will work to reveal the inner workings of Europe's most powerful institution. A lot is at stake. While governments may find the Council's veil of secrecy convenient, populists use it to discredit the whole European project. But it is the people who will ultimately decide the future of Europe. And they must not be left in the dark.