Are You Doing Things to Get Accepted into Hell? On this episode, DJ Focus and Dice Gamble have a deep conversation on the consequences of sinful behavior and the importance of aligning our actions with Christian values. They also discuss the need for self-reflection, overcoming fear, and how to make conscious decisions that foster a closer relationship with God.
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[00:00:00] Real Conversations from Real, Imperfect People in Pursuit of a Perfect God. Let's jump into today's Real Talk topic.
[00:00:09] It's time for the Real Talk conversation. And yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I know y'all be like, what is going on? But yeah, we back. Maybe we took a little break, Dice, but I feel like we back. I feel like we got a little second wind already and we ain't even halfway through the year, but I feel like we got a second wind because these topics are getting good.
[00:00:29] They blessing my life. They listen, got me cracking my Bible open and looking for scriptures and looking for notes and stuff. And I said, Oh, she got my wheels rolling. So come on, Dice. What are we talking about today?
[00:00:40] We just, Hey, we're talking about, are you doing things to get accepted into hell?
[00:00:47] Yeah. Are you doing things to get accepted into hell? I mean, some people actually want to go there. So, you know, we know that the book of Revelation, yeah, they want to go. The book, the book of Revelation talks about
[00:00:59] this in chapter 21, verse eight, but for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, the murderers, the sexually immoral sorcerers, idolaters, liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.
[00:01:16] Okay. This is going to be considered the second death. So you're going to die.
[00:01:21] And then you're going to go ahead and die once again. And, uh, you know, the Bible is very clear about being not afraid of who can kill the body, but who can literally destroy the soul and the body in hell.
[00:01:34] So there are some people who they just, they want to go to hell. So they're actively creating opportunities to go. And so I just was like, let's just talk about it because we always talk about heaven.
[00:01:47] You know, this is the God thing. This is the Christian thing. This is the Jesus thing. We want to go to hell. Everybody want to go to heaven. Don't nobody want to die.
[00:01:55] That's the song I did with George Clinton and I actually have the rights to. So one day I'm going to drop that on y'all and y'all going to learn. Um, yeah. Um, everybody wants to go to heaven, uh, but they do things to go straight up to hell.
[00:02:10] So, you know, the wicked is probably promised that go ahead, go back.
[00:02:15] No, no. I just, I just want to get this. You messed my whole spirit up this morning. You talk about, yeah, you got a whole, uh, you know, the Godfather of funk.
[00:02:23] You got a whole track with the Godfather of funk and you hold on to it. What you waiting on?
[00:02:28] Cause he already in the hall of fame. I'm like, you wait for his, his name to be something different or something, or you just wait for the right time for you?
[00:02:36] It was the right time, brother. Just the right time. But I so appreciated the, like, and trust me being in the studio and everybody knows that this man did drugs.
[00:02:44] Like, so, and I don't even know if I was off drugs at that time, but to me, it was a huge moment.
[00:02:51] Thanks for being real nice. That's real right there.
[00:02:53] That's a real moment. Y'all grab that real quick.
[00:02:56] Yeah. Yeah. Take it. I mean, what am I, you know, I got witnesses at this point. So, and I, you know,
[00:03:01] I was high not in the studio with it. Was that high too?
[00:03:05] You might've been high.
[00:03:05] That's a real.
[00:03:07] I think everybody was high, but the point was it was sobering because my friend Curtis Burton, and I know we're getting sidetracked here,
[00:03:14] but he had this record label called last place on earth. And it just so happened me and comm unit, which is the chapter of madness.
[00:03:20] We were signed. And one day Kurt was like, Hey, my friend is coming to the studio. I want you guys to do a song with him.
[00:03:26] And Kurt really loved jazz and funk.
[00:03:28] And so we get to the studio and it was like, George Clinton was like, what? But for all of the drama and all the stress,
[00:03:37] and this is really at the moment where God was trying to change me, you know, he was pressing up on me and saying,
[00:03:42] Hey, it was a fact that George Clinton song, like the hook is everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
[00:03:51] And so literally in this track, we're just talking about how people want one thing, but they do another.
[00:03:57] And so I just felt like, Hey, I need to go ahead and bring that up because I'm like, people are constantly doing things that is going to take them straight to hell.
[00:04:07] But if you don't know it, you just keep doing it, you know? So it's like good grief.
[00:04:13] Like the Bible is very clear. There is a place for those who, you know, treat people wrong.
[00:04:20] There is a place for those who are sexually immoral. You know, they're immoral.
[00:04:25] You know, there is a place for those who lie, steal, cheat, like there's a place for you.
[00:04:30] But here's the thing. You can keep on kiki and and ha ha and doing the thing you do.
[00:04:34] But there will come a day. There is a day of judgment.
[00:04:38] And you can say what you want to say, you know, Hey, I don't think so.
[00:04:43] I got very, he was just so awesome when he made all of us.
[00:04:48] We all have a conscience. And here's the thing.
[00:04:52] Atheist, not atheist, Pentecostal, Baptist, Catholic, it don't matter.
[00:04:58] Everybody has a conscience. Why?
[00:05:00] God wants you to understand there is a right and there is a wrong.
[00:05:05] OK, and I'm not going to waste my time giving you that navigational system if there wasn't going to be something hinging on which one you choose.
[00:05:15] God don't operate like he doesn't operate like that.
[00:05:18] He doesn't give us useless navigation, you know, useless emotions like we we all feel what it feels like to be afraid because we need to protect.
[00:05:26] You know, we all feel what it feels like to be loved because we need to know how to love.
[00:05:31] You know, so it's like we get these things for a reason.
[00:05:34] Now, if you choose not to accept the Holy Ghost, that's on you.
[00:05:38] If you choose not to follow God, that's on you.
[00:05:40] But the Bible is very clear.
[00:05:41] Everybody will be given an opportunity before they die to hear from God.
[00:05:45] That's the promise.
[00:05:47] And so I'm just saying, like, what are we doing every day?
[00:05:51] Like, think about your day when you go about your day.
[00:05:54] Are you doing things to help you or somebody else get to heaven?
[00:05:57] Are you doing things that are going to bring you straight into Hades and be thrown into the lake of fire?
[00:06:02] Like, which one is it going to be?
[00:06:04] You know, like, are you promoting, you know, the cause of Christ?
[00:06:09] Or are you really, you know, promoting a type of music that's going to send people to hell?
[00:06:13] A type of business, a type of business that's going to send people to hell.
[00:06:17] You know what I'm saying?
[00:06:18] And like, that's why I'm like, you, this is so easy.
[00:06:22] That's why I was like, man, the Bible is very clear.
[00:06:24] I will make your burden easy, your yoke easy and your burden light.
[00:06:28] I will do it.
[00:06:30] This is through Christ.
[00:06:31] Christ will do it.
[00:06:32] You will have a yoke and you will have a burden.
[00:06:34] But through Christ, it's a lot easier because now I just get to filter it through God.
[00:06:38] God, what would you have me to do?
[00:06:39] You know what I'm saying?
[00:06:40] Is this going to get people closer to you or get people further away?
[00:06:44] That's it.
[00:06:44] That's how you judge this thing.
[00:06:46] Whatever you're doing in life.
[00:06:48] Business, relationship, you know, your coworkers, your family, your friends, whatever your side hustle.
[00:06:54] Does this bring people closer to God or does it take people further away from God?
[00:07:00] That's it.
[00:07:01] If it's taking people further away from God, why are you doing these things to get accepted into hell?
[00:07:06] Okay.
[00:07:08] Well, I'm praying for y'all.
[00:07:10] I'm praying for them.
[00:07:11] I'm praying for them because to your point, once I understood what hell was like for real, for real.
[00:07:17] It's a real place.
[00:07:18] Yeah, it's a real place.
[00:07:20] And listen, I realized that I could be separated from God on the permanent basis.
[00:07:27] I tell people all the time.
[00:07:29] My wife always laugh at me because I always say, I just want to hear him say, just go on in there.
[00:07:34] I don't want to hear him say, depart to the left and flee from me.
[00:07:36] I want him to open the gates and say, come on in.
[00:07:39] Because that scripture in Matthew 25, that just resonated with me when I realized that, listen, you got to start thinking about more than just here.
[00:07:47] A lot of people just think, okay, there is no afterlife after earth.
[00:07:51] No, there is definitely an afterlife after earth.
[00:07:54] And God has revealed himself and showed himself to us millions of times.
[00:07:59] Like you bring it up all the time when you talk about nature and you talk about, you know, just everything.
[00:08:04] Outside.
[00:08:04] Yeah, outside is.
[00:08:06] We saw the solar eclipse not too long ago.
[00:08:08] Come on now.
[00:08:08] If that wasn't a glimpse of God and showing that God is real, y'all tripping.
[00:08:12] I'm praying for y'all.
[00:08:13] So, yes, heaven is real.
[00:08:16] I mean, heaven and earth.
[00:08:17] I mean, heaven and hell are both real.
[00:08:19] And we need to get ourselves together and understand that you can be cursed from God from the actions that you do.
[00:08:27] We're just talking about it today.
[00:08:28] Are you doing things to be accepted into hell?
[00:08:32] And I know we've talked about a lot already, Dice, but we got to talk about some of this.
[00:08:37] It's, you know, the danger of people not realizing that they need to repent and turn back to God.
[00:08:44] You know, when we constantly, you know, engage in sinful behavior.
[00:08:48] Of course, you know, especially without remorse and without any change or even thinking we need to change.
[00:08:57] Let's be very clear.
[00:08:58] That leads to spiritual destruction.
[00:09:00] And a lot of us, I call it, I call us our people at times dead men walking.
[00:09:05] We are dead men walking because we're spiritually dead and we're not tapping into understanding, understanding that there is a standard and that we need to stop doing some of these things that we're caught in.
[00:09:15] I bring it up all the time.
[00:09:18] When I first rededicated my life to God, I had a list and I still got a list.
[00:09:23] Don't get to twist it.
[00:09:24] We all still are working done.
[00:09:25] But my list from 05 from when I rededicated my life to now is not the same.
[00:09:31] It has changed a lot.
[00:09:32] And it's because I had to sit down and I had to really think like, oh man, I do do that.
[00:09:37] Wow.
[00:09:38] I do do that.
[00:09:39] Wow.
[00:09:39] I do do that.
[00:09:40] Wow.
[00:09:41] I was big on too as well, saying the Lord's name in vain.
[00:09:44] You know, I would say the GD word.
[00:09:46] I would always.
[00:09:48] Yes, I did.
[00:09:49] And I was ignorant to the fact that I shouldn't be saying it.
[00:09:52] Like it was, again, culture around, you know, hip hop music at times and influences within the inner city.
[00:09:58] A lot of these curse words, a lot of these just different phrases are just said.
[00:10:02] And we say these things and we say it with no remorse and don't think that, you know, we wrong for saying this.
[00:10:07] It's like, it's slang words.
[00:10:08] This is the language that everybody talks at the corner store in the neighborhood of the stoops.
[00:10:13] So I had to reevaluate so many different things.
[00:10:18] Again, I talk about conviction.
[00:10:19] I started to, once again, once I started reading my word, praying more and I'm ushering in the spirit of God more into me.
[00:10:27] Absolutely.
[00:10:27] He was convicting me.
[00:10:28] Oh, I got to stop doing that.
[00:10:29] I can't do that.
[00:10:30] Because that's the beautiful thing.
[00:10:32] You said it, Dice.
[00:10:32] When you know better, now God holds you now.
[00:10:34] It's one thing when you're ignorant to the fact and you don't know that you're committing this sin.
[00:10:38] Now, when you keep committing this sin and you know it, let's be very clear.
[00:10:42] That's a different standard.
[00:10:44] That's a whole different standard.
[00:10:45] A whole different ballgame.
[00:10:47] Yeah.
[00:10:48] I'd like the, if you know better, do better.
[00:10:50] And it's day by day and not going to hell is super, super easy.
[00:10:55] It's just, we have to get to a place where we understand the wages of sin are death.
[00:11:00] That's it.
[00:11:01] Like God is not going to sit here and keep reiterating what sin brings us.
[00:11:06] You know what I'm saying?
[00:11:07] Especially after he sent his only begotten son so that we could receive forgiveness and
[00:11:12] could receive the same power that Christ had to overcome sin.
[00:11:16] So it's like spiritually, physically, and eternally, we will be in hell.
[00:11:23] You know, if we do not really recognize who created us, understand we were created with
[00:11:29] a purpose, learn to treat people right.
[00:11:33] You know what I'm saying?
[00:11:33] And people, this is crazy because like we brought it up before.
[00:11:37] Yes, I worked at a detention center.
[00:11:40] A lot of homeless, a lot of youth who've been treated as a type of way, whether their parents
[00:11:47] got them hooked on drugs young or had them running drugs in their diaper up and down a
[00:11:51] block at age five.
[00:11:52] Like I have so many stories and people will try to say, well, I'm a victim.
[00:11:57] I'm a victim.
[00:11:58] I'm a victim.
[00:11:58] But as soon as you realize God has given you the power to overcome everything that has
[00:12:04] ever happened to you, God has forgiven whoever did what to you.
[00:12:08] God has forgiven you for thinking to do the things you wanted to do and for the things
[00:12:13] you have done.
[00:12:14] Like you'll understand like, yeah, I can't stay stuck on stupid because that's going to
[00:12:19] put me right in hell.
[00:12:21] You know, and nobody's righteous.
[00:12:22] We get that.
[00:12:23] You know, that's why God sent his son.
[00:12:25] So we could have some power, power there.
[00:12:28] But here's the thing.
[00:12:29] Don't think nothing is not seen.
[00:12:32] Like God is omnipotent.
[00:12:33] He's omnipresent.
[00:12:34] He's everywhere all at once.
[00:12:36] Like he created the planet, the moon, the stars.
[00:12:39] Like there's no you under the covers doing something that somebody can't see.
[00:12:43] Like God sees it all.
[00:12:45] God sees your heart.
[00:12:47] But God is super forgiving and loving to the point where he gave us all freedom.
[00:12:51] And he wants to see if you will continue to choose him.
[00:12:55] You know, think about how powerful that is.
[00:12:57] Like I'm going to make something.
[00:12:59] I'm not going to control it like a robot.
[00:13:01] I'm going to give it absolute freedom.
[00:13:04] And if it chooses me, I will give it everything I have.
[00:13:10] That's us.
[00:13:11] That's all God is looking for.
[00:13:14] Look, he's looking at each and every person saying, I'm going to create them with the freedom
[00:13:19] to choose me.
[00:13:21] If they connect with me and identify and understand I created them and they came from me and they
[00:13:26] are my children, I'll give them my children anything.
[00:13:29] But for those of you who have yet to have that experience and understand like what?
[00:13:35] Yeah.
[00:13:36] Yeah.
[00:13:36] Listen, you were risking hell.
[00:13:38] And I'll be honest with you because if it'd be like, it'd be like you or I focus.
[00:13:42] And I know you, you have a daughter.
[00:13:44] I have a daughter as well.
[00:13:45] Now it's like you make her, she's here.
[00:13:49] She turns five and then says, you're not my parent.
[00:13:54] You'd be like, what?
[00:13:56] And every day she just keep telling you, focus.
[00:13:59] You ain't my daddy.
[00:13:59] You're not my daddy.
[00:14:00] You're not my daddy.
[00:14:01] You're not my daddy.
[00:14:02] It's the same thing with our daughter.
[00:14:03] Like, you know, you know, my mom, you know, my mom.
[00:14:05] Do you understand the conflict that happens in that relationship?
[00:14:08] And then when the person continues to go opposite and do total opposite of what you are asking them to do, or every time you try to protect them, they keep going the opposite way.
[00:14:17] Yeah.
[00:14:17] Trust me.
[00:14:18] Eventually, you will turn them over to a reprobate mind.
[00:14:21] Just meaning you got to take your hands off of them.
[00:14:25] You know?
[00:14:26] And unfortunately, they are choosing hell because they're not choosing to be in heaven with you.
[00:14:34] They're literally rejecting you after you created them.
[00:14:37] That's how God looks at us.
[00:14:39] Like, why would you reject me?
[00:14:41] Like, I made you perfectly to be in communion and communication and relationship with me.
[00:14:49] So it's like, it's so easy to stay out of hell, but some people are continually trying to go to hell and then they're taking other people with them.
[00:14:56] You know?
[00:14:57] Like, and I mean that from the drug game, the sex game, sex trafficking, pornography, anything that's addictive, anything that keeps people away from God.
[00:15:06] Trust me.
[00:15:07] You're going to be there first.
[00:15:09] You're going to be there holding the gates of hell open.
[00:15:12] You know what I'm saying?
[00:15:13] For all the people that you're dragging down with you.
[00:15:16] You know?
[00:15:17] Like, you continuing to be contentious and a bicker and to gossip and to create all this drama in the church.
[00:15:24] All this drama in the body of Christ.
[00:15:26] You know?
[00:15:26] Just, yeah.
[00:15:28] Yeah.
[00:15:28] This is a special place in hell for you.
[00:15:30] I mean, it is what it is.
[00:15:32] But like I said, it's easy to pick God.
[00:15:34] Easy to choose it.
[00:15:36] Easy to go to heaven.
[00:15:37] Just knowing that God really loves us and wants better for us.
[00:15:40] We just have to choose that.
[00:15:43] But we do need to check ourselves and ask, what am I doing to get accepted into hell by the people that follow me on Instagram or Facebook or in my life?
[00:15:52] Or am I just steadily trying to look cool?
[00:15:54] And, you know, why am I trying to impress the demons?
[00:15:58] Why?
[00:15:59] So, go ahead.
[00:16:02] You brought up something very important.
[00:16:05] And I know we're getting ready to get out of here.
[00:16:07] But I'm going to speak to the body right now.
[00:16:12] And I'm speaking to all my business owners within the body right now.
[00:16:15] Here we go.
[00:16:16] Kingdom business owners.
[00:16:17] We have to be careful when we talk about stewarding our resources.
[00:16:23] We have to be very careful to make sure that we are not, you know, using our resources wisely, but not using our resources for selfish gain to gain things and cutthroat people back doors.
[00:16:38] Some of y'all listening know what I'm talking about.
[00:16:40] I deal with a lot of people in this industry, the gospel industry, supposedly, who are cutthroat and do things that are not kingdom.
[00:16:49] They are not kingdom at all.
[00:16:50] And y'all know they're not kingdom.
[00:16:51] Anybody listening to me?
[00:16:52] Y'all know who y'all know?
[00:16:53] Y'all want to call me?
[00:16:54] Please call me.
[00:16:55] I'm praying for y'all.
[00:16:56] But we need to stop doing that because you brought that up when you talked about church culture, Dice, a few minutes ago and how we do people, how we treat people.
[00:17:03] And then, yeah, you know, when you freewheeling know you are looking to, you know, manipulate somebody or take advantage of a situation, especially when you talk about money's involved and resources are involved and selfish gain ambition.
[00:17:18] Yeah, I'm starting to question that now, too, as well, since we're talking about this now today, Dice, that, yeah, y'all might need to question y'all motives.
[00:17:25] And maybe God ain't pleased with y'all because that's not the way to do things.
[00:17:29] Absolutely.
[00:17:30] Do things proper and order.
[00:17:31] Do business the right way.
[00:17:32] But I'm talking about the people who manipulate situations, who hustle people in our industry because there are some hustlers in our industry and y'all need to stop.
[00:17:41] Y'all need to stop.
[00:17:42] Well, I mean, that's that's very biblical for those of you who like why it's focused going off on one.
[00:17:46] But it's like whoever causes his brother or his sister to stumble, there will be a repercussion for that.
[00:17:53] You know what I'm saying?
[00:17:54] And so, I mean, we we have everything we need literally in the Bible and the Holy Spirit reveals even more, you know, like to us as we're going along.
[00:18:06] And so, you know, this is this is a this is hurting the body of Christ to your point.
[00:18:12] Focus.
[00:18:13] So it's like when you are trying to take something from me or you're trying to get over on me.
[00:18:17] First of all, you're not setting a good example for the rest of the body, you know, but you don't you're going to land yourself in hell.
[00:18:24] So there's a few things going on there.
[00:18:27] And trust me, men and women of God, true men and women of God, like the Lord protects them.
[00:18:33] But yeah, how you how you treat people that comes back to you.
[00:18:37] I mean, my grandmother used to say that what you do comes back to you in this life or the next.
[00:18:41] You don't escape it.
[00:18:42] Maybe you maybe God gives you some grace to not have to, you know, contend with it while you're here.
[00:18:48] But you will have to answer for how you treat people and especially how you treat men and women of God, because you have hindered some of the purpose, you know, that they had on their life.
[00:18:59] So, yeah.
[00:19:00] Yeah.
[00:19:00] I'm going to put some more Bible on that thing.
[00:19:02] Yeah, I'm going to put some more Bible on that thing.
[00:19:03] Go ahead.
[00:19:03] We're going to get out of here.
[00:19:04] Go ahead.
[00:19:05] Ephesians 429.
[00:19:06] This is the message Bible.
[00:19:07] Sometimes I go to the ghetto version so y'all can hear it.
[00:19:10] Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your lips.
[00:19:14] Oh, Lord.
[00:19:15] Ephesians 429.
[00:19:16] And that talks to gossip and slander.
[00:19:19] We need to do this a little bit better, y'all.
[00:19:21] Again, if you have an issue with your brother and your sister, go to your brother and sister in love.
[00:19:26] Again, get somebody else in it as a witness, but do it in love.
[00:19:30] This gossip and slandering each other amongst the body, engaging in gossip, spreading harmful rumors that can lead to division is very hurtful for the body.
[00:19:39] Don't think this doesn't advance us.
[00:19:41] This takes us back.
[00:19:42] This pushes us back.
[00:19:44] And we talk about hypocrisy in the church so much.
[00:19:46] This is a big reason why we always in these little gossip columns because we ain't doing right.
[00:19:51] So we slandering and talking about each other instead of treating people with love.
[00:19:55] So that's it, y'all.
[00:19:57] Listen, that's that real, real.
[00:19:58] All right, y'all.
[00:19:59] We got to get out of here.
[00:19:59] But I pray y'all enjoyed that real talk conversation we had today.
[00:20:04] A couple of y'all need to tweet somebody or text somebody and just have some conversations.
[00:20:09] Now, I think if nothing else, I know a takeaway for me, Dice, that I think is very, very key when you talk about changing how you think, changing how you act is accountability.
[00:20:23] I mean, if you don't have a strong accountability circle to every now and then, you know, hey, just pull up on you, check you up.
[00:20:30] Say you kind of out of line or, you know, how you've been.
[00:20:32] Are you reading your word?
[00:20:33] Are you still praying?
[00:20:34] Are you still going to church?
[00:20:36] You know, you seem like you're starting to go back to doing some things you probably shouldn't be doing or maybe some things you haven't changed.
[00:20:43] And we're trying to figure out.
[00:20:45] It's been five years now.
[00:20:46] It's like you're still doing the same thing.
[00:20:47] So when you talk about are you doing things to be accepted into hell, y'all need to really check yourself.
[00:20:56] Check yourself now.
[00:20:57] There's nothing wrong with that either.
[00:20:59] You should always re-examine what you have going on.
[00:21:02] I remember my sister and I, we were talking about self-examination and she felt she should just endure a path that she created.
[00:21:11] And I was like, you never heard about the flood?
[00:21:15] Like, why was it a flood?
[00:21:17] Because your father said, I'm going to examine my creation.
[00:21:21] And if I don't like what I see, I'm starting over.
[00:21:24] Thanks.
[00:21:25] Okay.
[00:21:26] I don't care who got questions, concerns.
[00:21:29] I am starting over.
[00:21:30] Period.
[00:21:31] So that's what I'm saying.
[00:21:32] You got to let yourself off the hook.
[00:21:33] Sometimes you got to get in your word and read like, you know, come on now.
[00:21:36] It's not farfetched for you to say, you know, guess what?
[00:21:39] It's not working.
[00:21:39] I'm shutting it down right now.
[00:21:41] Starting over today.
[00:21:42] Okay.
[00:21:43] Whether that be a relationship, a business deal, you know what I'm saying?
[00:21:46] Like what you bought, take it back.
[00:21:48] Take it back.
[00:21:50] Oh, I bought this car.
[00:21:51] Take it back.
[00:21:52] I mean, it's your life.
[00:21:54] You know what I'm saying?
[00:21:54] We got to learn to control our life and not let fear control our life.
[00:21:58] And hey, that's what I said, man.
[00:22:00] You got to figure out.
[00:22:01] Are you doing things to get, you know, accepted in hell?
[00:22:04] Like, are you really doing that?
[00:22:07] I don't think some people think about it.
[00:22:09] Well, I'm hoping they're thinking about it now because I didn't think about it until I changed my life around.
[00:22:14] And I know I was doing a lot of stuff.
[00:22:18] I was doing a lot of stuff that was leading me down a very, very deadly, deadly place.
[00:22:24] So I'm grateful that God caught me when he did and knocked some sense into my head.
[00:22:30] That's what my grandma would say.
[00:22:31] Did Jesus knock some sense into you yet?
[00:22:33] Oh, you don't think you'll get whooped, huh?
[00:22:35] Yeah, he'll whoop you.
[00:22:36] When life hits you and he'll whoop you and he'll show you that you need him and he's the one you need, you'll realize then.
[00:22:42] So I was grateful for that conversation.
[00:22:45] But I think last thing on that topic, push through some tough trials.
[00:22:51] That's something else that God showed me when I was kind of doing the wrong things and trying to change.
[00:22:57] A lot of times it was because of stress.
[00:22:59] A lot of times it was because of, you know, culture and a lot of other things that I was blaming it on instead of just looking at myself, like you say, taking a reassessment, a reevaluation and figuring out what I need to do.
[00:23:11] So we pray that bless y'all today.
[00:23:13] As always, remember to stay focused on turning a negative into a positive.
[00:23:16] Jesus Christ is always the answer.
[00:23:19] Kingdom advancement should always be the goal.
[00:23:21] The fix is in.
[00:23:22] We out.
[00:23:23] Peace y'all.